Internet Connected Objects for Reconfigurable Eco-systems

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Dr.-Ing Abdur Rahim Biswas/ Prof. Kalus Moessner

iCore Project Number: 287708

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OutlineConsortium IntroductioniCore frameworkTechnical approachWork organizationApplicabilityPotential synergies with Butler

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Project outline- Project type: Integrated Project- Duration: 36 months- Total cost: €13.4M (59% industry)- EC requested funding: €8,5M - Resources: 1,332 PM (111 FTEs)

Consortium- Coordinator: CREATE-NET (Italy)- 20 partners ( including NTT)- Strong industry participation (12 companies) - 12 countries (including China/Japan- External stakeholders group (use cases)

Project Outline/Consortium

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Empowering IoT through Cognitive TechnologiesFuture iCore worlds of IoT

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What are “things”? “Things”= Real objects + Digital devices

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Yes Maybe

Real

Digital

SensingGPS

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Reusability of IoTQ1: Can we reuse IoT outside the scope in

which they were originally deployed“A kitchen knife daily used to cut food.

What about if it could act as a screwdriver, and it could also be an envelope opener”.

Q2: Can we combine various objects and

use for new applications “temperature sensor” ( indoor

temperature monitor/control) + “humidity sensor” ( adjust cooling) = > city weather forecasting, city temperature mapping

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Virtual representation and cognitive …

virtual representation of real and digital objects

……without the virtual mind

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Empowering IoT through Cognitive TechnologiesiCore concept

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Open cognitive framework for the Internet of Things (IoT) addressing three levels: i) Virtual Objects (VOs): Virtual representations of real-world objects ii) Composite Virtual Objects (CVOs): Cognitive mash-ups of multiple VOs iii) Users/stakeholders perspectives

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Overall framework

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Empowering IoT through Cognitive TechnologiesiCore technical challenges Addressing interoperability issues through

VO/CVOs Increase the reusability of objects outside the

scope in which they were originally deployed Increase reliability and availability of services Increase energy efficiency Allow Business integration on the view of

multiple stakeholders in the composition of services

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VO and CVO: Cognitive mechanisms (self-management and

learning capabilities) Sensing and context/resources extractions

(computing, storage, profile, etc.) Offering access to information and knowledge on

the RWO/DWO context from service point of viewSemantic descriptions of the virtual and composite

virtual objectsThe possibility of sharing data and resources in the

IoT, which through iCore becomes application domain and initial context agnostic

Technical approach

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RWO

DWO

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• Cognitive mechanisms are used to create the service logic based on the user/application requirements and preferences

• Service logic instantiates the reconfigurable application on the CVO fabric

• CVO fabric looks up and discovers appropriate VO/CVO or deploys mechanism for composition of new CVO

• VO fabric creates and manage the semantic description of VOs

• Cognitive mechanisms in VO factory are used for objects awareness and maintain the handled to VO

Technical approach

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Semantic technologiesfor maintaining the handle to Virtual Objects

Complex event prosessing, servicecomposition technologiesCognitive

management and controlframework

Architecture reference model

Context awareness,cognitive processtechnologies

Alignment with EU IoT activities,Overall cognitive process optimization,iCore security

CVO

VOVO

VO

VO

CVO

VO registries

CVO registries

Usercontextregistries

Service logicfactory

VO level cognitiveprocesses

CVO level cognitiveprocesses

User level cognitiveprocesses

Semantic technologiesfor maintaining the handle to Virtual Objects

Complex event prosessing, servicecomposition technologiesCognitive

management and controlframework

Architecture reference model

Context awareness,cognitive processtechnologies

Alignment with EU IoT activities,Overall cognitive process optimization,iCore security

CVO

VOVO

VO

VO

CVO

VO registries

CVO registries

Usercontextregistries

Service logicfactory

VO level cognitiveprocesses

CVO level cognitiveprocesses

User level cognitiveprocesses

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Vertical iCore frameworks iCore frameworks can be used by many parties and type of users and

stakeholders ( across vertical application/usage areas)

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• A real world (RO) or digital world (DW) may be owned (controlled) by a particular stakeholders

• Virtual object ( VO) may be owned or controlled by particular service provider

• Composite virtual object (CVO) may be owned (controlled) by yet another service provider

Stakeholders/service providers roles

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iCore application domains

This virtual objects framework will be defined independent of a particular application domain or use case

iCore Framework

and mechanisms

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Vertical/Domain specific

Use cases

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To show the applicability of the concept four use cases have been selected for demonstration Smart city/transport-Personalization

of carSmart home-Living assistantSmart office- Easy meetingSmart business-Supply chain

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External Stakeholders Group

Stakeholder engagement in use cases:iCore stakeholders involvement into two fold-

use case definition (TNO, TI, DoComo, WuXI, Atos, etc); use case implementation -ALU, CRF, Siemens, Atos, etc.

iCore external stakeholders group to provide the business and technical requirements for each of the use cases and later validation of the use cases

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