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Towards EU-US Collaboration on the Internet of Things (IoT) & Cyber-physical Systems (CPS)

Drivers, Needs, Barriers, and Opportunities

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Christian Sonntag Senior Scientist & Project Manager, TU Dortmund, Germany

Outline

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Cross-domain Drivers and Needs

Enabling Technologies

EU and US RDI Priorities for CPS and the IoT

Application Sectors

Technology Themes for EU-US Collaboration

Barriers

Collaboration Opportunities and Proposals

Christian Sonntag, TU Dortmund, Germany

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PICASSO IoT/CPS Opportunity Report: Sources

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Strategic documents and roadmaps

PICASSO data collection and analysis efforts • In particular the report Analysis of Industrial Drivers

and Societal Needs - Towards New Avenues in EU-US ICT collaboration

• Based on interviews with > 100 experts


Discussions within the Expert Group

1st Joint PICASSO Expert Group Meeting, May 2016, Washington D.C.

Funded IoT and CPS projects

• EU funding programmes FP7, H2020, EUREKA/ITEA, ECSEL, ARTEMIS

• 46 CPS projects

• 32 IoT projects

• US funding agencies NSF, NIST, DoE • 23 CPS projects

• 23 IoT projects


Feedback collection from leading experts • In-depth 30-minute personal interviews with

agencies and major IoT/CPS initiatives

• Interactive webinar on IoT/CPS

• Wide dissemination and public consultation


Cross-domain Drivers and Needs

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Vulnerability, trust, privacy, (cyber-)security, safety

• Seen as essential in the US and the EU

Advancing climate and environmental sciences for sustainability, and the provision of clean, efficient energy

• Major demand by customers and governments, companies see a large opportunity and are seeking to satisfy needs with both products and services

Globalization and urbanization

Increases in connectivity and autonomy in all domains

• The advent of smart and connected devices

Systems-of-systems integration applied in industrial environments - the Industrial Internet of Things




Enabling Technologies

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Information technology and high-performance computing • Cloud computing, (mobile) edge and fog computing • Move toward distributed systems and more heterogeneity • Advances in data and signal processing

Communication and network technologies (e.g. broadband, 5G EG)

Advances in data analytics (Big Data EG), cognitive technologies, AI

Connecting and powering the “hyper-connected society”, e.g. • Ubiquitous connectivity schemes, M2M communication • Reliable electricity to power the billions of IoT devices, energy harvesting

The “Tactile Internet” (covered by 5G EG)

Pervasive sensing and sensor technologies




Comparison of EU and US RDI Priorities for CPS

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Significant overlap between the EU and the US




Comparison of EU and US RDI Priorities for the IoT

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Significant overlap between the EU and the US




Application Sectors

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All analyzed sectors will profit from IoT/CPS advances and collaborations




Technology Themes: Overview

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Promising technology

themes for EU-US collaboration




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Closing the Loop in IoT-enabled Cyber-physical Systems • System-wide, cloud-supported control via IoT-connected devices

• Data-based operation

• Control architectures for IoT-enabled CPS

• Performance and stability in the face of unpredictability (outages etc.)

Integration, Interoperability, Flexibility, and Reconfiguration • Semantic interoperability and semantic models

• Openness and open standards, harmonization of standards

• Automatic (re-)configuration and plug-and-play of IoT and CPS components

• Shared infrastructure access and large-scale pilots for CPS and IoT systems

• IoT and CPS architectures and cross-domain infrastructures


Technology Themes (1) Christian Sonntag, TU Dortmund, Germany


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Model-based Systems Engineering • Integrated, virtual, full-life-cycle engineering & system-wide design

• High-confidence CPS, validation, verification, risk analysis and risk management

• Models of heterogeneous large-scale systems Stochastic models, open simulation/integration, model maintenance, grey-box models

Trust, (Cyber-)security, Robustness, Resilience, and Dependability • Exception handling, fault detection and mitigation

• Trustworthyness of technical systems

• Behavior-based methodologies to establish trust (intrusion detection and prevention, resilience to cyber attacks)

• New engineering perspectives for safety, security, resilience, reliability, privacy

• Secure real-time and mixed-criticality systems




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Autonomy and Humans in the Loop • Autonomy in large-scale, complex, open systems that are not

domain/knowledge-“contained”

• Models of autonomous CPS systems and humans

• Humans in the loop and collaborative decision making

• Analysis of user behavior and detection of needs and anomalies

• Analysis, visualization, and decision support

Situational Awareness, Diagnostics, and Prognostics • Large-scale real-time data analytics and data management

• Machine learning, learning methodologies, adaptive behavior

• Predictive condition monitoring and maintenance

• Self-diagnosis tools




Potential Barriers for EU-US Collaboration

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Structural differences in funding environments • Centralized EU funding vs. decentralized US funding, different spans of TRLs targeted, long

time between application and funding can be problematic for companies, implementation time differences between EU and US funding initiatives

Administrative overhead and legal barriers • Heavyweight mechanisms not promising, too much overhead and political resistance • Legal requirements (e.g. signing of CA, GA) problematic, lightweight MoA/contracts needed

(new Implementing Arrangement seen as positive)

Lack of clarity of the benefits of EU-US collaboration Restrictions due to Intellectual Property protection

• Collaboration difficult on topics of high near-term commercial importance

Lack of joint EU-US funding mechanisms and policies Export control and privacy restrictions Lack of awareness and knowledge




Enhancing Collaboration

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Roadmapping and benefit assessment, e.g. via joint, thematic EU-US workshops to • Bring together a diverse group of experts from academia, industry, and government, foster

government-to-government discussions about collaboration opportunities • Identify and discuss specific R&I topics and concrete technology and application scenarios • Clarify benefits that justify the additional effort of collaboration actions

Facilitation of collaboration initiatives • Establishment of mechanisms/organizations that serve as central contact points,

coordinators, and facilitators for EU-US collaboration actions and that provide support to potential partners (e.g. universities, companies, industry associations)

Lightweight joint research and innovation • Joint calls, joint funding seen as infeasible, but coordinated calls / twinning promising → Set-up of a joint, targeted EU-US collaboration work programme, encouraging (lightweight) collaboration items (exchanges, knowledge transfer) • Use of fellowship and exchange funding programs • Launch of synchronized initiatives to support joint experimentation, new testbeds and

demonstrators, and industrial standardization activities Encourage contributions by companies, industry associations




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