TelefónicaR&D in Smart Cities_

Telefónica I+D

22.10.2013

Carlos DomingoCEO Telefónica I+D

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Telefónica leads the European R&D effortsin the field of Smart Cities

• Telefónica is the second Telco Operator in R&D effort and the second ICT company by participation in the 7th Framework Programme promoted by the European Commission

• Telefónica foresaw the huge potential of Smart Cities and embarked in one of its earlier initiatives, Smart Santander project, with the initial focus on populating the city with sensors as a first step towards creating a Smart City

• The next step was being able to obtain value from the sensors’ data and at this stage, the platform becomes the key element, therefore Telefónica promoted FI-WARE, lead by Telefónica and engaging many stakeholders (as seen last week in FI-WARE event in Santander)

• And finally, we are working in innovation projects to help democratize the Internet of Things, by expanding to other customer segments, aside from Smart Cities, so that the ecosystem becomes complete and new applications can leverage data from many sources

01. Smart Santander_

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Smart Santander project - winner of the Future Internet Award!Smart Santander aims at providing an European test facility for the research and experimentation of architectures, key enabling technologies, services and applications in the context of the Smart City

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Over 20 thousand sensors already deployed

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The European Commission believes Santander isOne of the Smartest Cities in the World!

02. FI-WARE_

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Telefónica leads FI-WARE, the core platform for Future of Internet PPP

• The FI-PPP is the biggest ICT project promoted by the EU.

• It’s aim is to position Europe in the Internet Economy, allowing us to capture new opportunities in the Future Internet, derived from digitalization of a wide set of economy sectors

• The project comprises an open and standard platform (FI-WARE) and a series of use-cases that use the platform as the main foundation.

• FI-WARE integrates a number of components from several enabling technologies: Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Big Data, Security…

• These enablers are already available for developers for the creation of new services

• Over the next months, EC will devote 100 € million to fostering this ecosystem

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FI-WARE has already produced early results

• Open experimentation environment FI-LAB launched at Campus Party in London with Neelie Kroes

• FI-WARE & Smart Cities event at Santander, October 16-18th

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And the European Commission considers FI-WARE as the technology of reference for Smart Cities in Europe

03. Our innovation projects: the Internet of Things democratization_

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The challenge

Aside from the Smart Cities, we need to find a solution for the niche markets

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A two-sided solution: #1) sensor building blocks

To democratize the Internet of Things, hardware development costs will disappear by providing ready to use building blocks for sensors and actuators

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A two-sided solution: #1) sensor building blocks

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A two-sided solution: #2) business building blocks

Leveraging business-related information, we are building visual tools to configure business rules (no need for programming skills)

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A two-sided solution: #2) business building blocksOff-the-self business rule customizations are usually enough for

the long tail of our would-be customers