Internet of Things: Our programme and investments

DPA SeminarLondon 16/04/2013

Dr. Maurizio Pilu

@maurizio_tsb

What is the Technology Strategy Board?

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• We are the UK’s Innovation Agency• A national body set up in 2007 to invest in

business innovation• We work across business, universities and

government• We mostly come from business • We have a budget of over £300m/year (£390m

for 2012/13)

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Some facts and figures

• Invested – with partners - >£2.5b in innovation• Every £1 invested returns £7 in GVA• 50 new competitions in 2011/12 (~60 this year)• Invested in over 3000 projects• Working with 4000 companies, 110 universities• ~50% of funding to SMEs this year• >£60m invested in small business in SBRI• 50,000 businesses on our _connect innovation platform • >9000 people participated at TSB events

“Telegraph of things”

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McKinsey Qtly: how data and the telegraph in 1854 shaped the organizational chart of NY Railway

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Fixed Telephony / networks

Mobile Internet Internet / broadband

Internet of ThingsR

each

Mobile telephony

M2M

Cloud

Time

Open data and objects

Applications

SaaSSmart Silos

Foundation

Today

The future

Smart Everything

Internet of

Silos

Sensor and actuators networks

IoT: The next growth wave

Courtesy of Stuart Revell, ICT KTN & #tbiot SIG

$200b market

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Our objectives

• Help the UK gain an early advantage in Internet of Things adoption, applications and services development

• Focus on the enablers of and barriers to the ecosystem of applications and services of the Internet of Things

• Take a “data value chain” perspective

Programme in a snapshot

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PreparatoryStudies (£500k)

Ecosystem Demonstrator

(£6.2m)

R&D Roadmap

Community building

Events

Engagement

Consultation

Investment

Preparatory studies

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https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/iot-convergence-preparatory-studies-2012/

10 business-led projects looking into ecosystems in 10 different IoT application areas/sectors.

Objectives of the IoT demonstrator

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• Develop a network of Internet of Things clusters

• Incentivize more accessibility to IoT data

• Adoption of ‘information hubs’ • Help drive interoperability• Become a platform for

collaboration

The Internet of Things Demonstrator

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• Results of £6.2m investment announced by David Willetts on 11 March 2013

• Investing in 8 IoT clusters to demonstrate ecosystems in specific application areas

• >40 organizations involved, including ARM, BT, IBM, NEUL, Cisco, EDF, Carillion, LivingPlanIT, and many SMEs

Example: London City airport IoT cluster

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https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/internet-of-things-ecosystem-demonstrator

Roadmap for R&D in IoT (March 2013)

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• Collaboration of 4 Research Councils & TSB• Led by Prof. Tafazolli and 4 other leading academics• ~100 UK leaders, academic and industrial, collaborated in the initiative• Discussing follow on with Research Councils

Key recommendations

- Multidisciplinary research essential- Invest in demonstrators - Develop a coordinated R&D programme- Agile service innovation spaces

... and much more ...

• Catapult networks– Especially Connected Digital Economy Catapult– IoT one of the initial priorities

• The £24m Glasgow Future Cities demonstrator• Investment in Energy Harvesting• Dallas (Assisted Living) investment• EU programmes such as IoT-A, IoT-I and Future

Internet PPP• ....

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THANKS

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