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Workshop with R&D Research CentresWorkshop with R&D Research CentresBrussels, 8 January 2010Brussels, 8 January 2010

Future InternetPublic-Private Partnership

Technological Orientations

Bernard BaraniEuropean Commission - DG INFSOConverged Networks and Services

Presentation made on behalf of DG INFSO Directorates D and F

““Digital” OpportunitiesDigital” Opportunities

Leveraging the value of

“networked”

Leveraging the value of

“networked”

Getting green and

sustainable

Getting green and

sustainable

Turning data into value

Turning data into value

How to make organization and systems just as dynamic as today’s most innovative businesses?

How to take advantage of the wealth of information available real-time from a multitude of sources to make more intelligent choices?

How can we face our collective responsibilities:- Traffic jams costs Europe 135 B€/yr-40 to 70% of electricity is lost in inefficient grids-……

More INTELLIGENCEMore INTELLIGENCE More FLEXIBILITYMore FLEXIBILITY More EFFICIENCYMore EFFICIENCY

Opportunity: making key societal infrastructures and business processes more intelligent and sustainable through tighter integration with the Internet.

The Future Internet can be seen as an opportnuity to satisfy key requirements applying to infrastructures and business processes emerging from dominant “megatrends” towards:

Future Internet: Towards a ‘smarter’ WorldFuture Internet: Towards a ‘smarter’ World• Supporting applications of high socio-economic value, such as in the

areas

– Smart energy grids - Energy grids will increasingly face risks of congestion and blackout. Internet connectivity, computing power, digital sensors and remote control of the transmission and distribution system will help to make grids smarter, greener and more efficient,

– Smart environmental information systems - the use of sensor networks for collecting real or near real time environmental data is a growing field of application. It requires Internet connectivity for data management, dissemination and integration in complex information systems,

– Smart systems for transport and mobility - Putting ‘intelligence’ into the roads and cars with Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)– with e.g. sensor networks, radio frequency tags, and positioning systems offer a promising alternative. The internet provides a solution to interconnect these diverse technologies and bring more efficiency to mobility through real-time management of public and private transport resources, traveller information and decision-making tools, way beyond the capability of current solutions,

– Smart healthcare systems - Current research experiments aim to develop technologies for ‘ambient’ environments capable of assisting patients and satisfying their information and communication needs. These technologies combine devices (sensors, actuators, special hardware and equipment), networks and service platforms to harness information about medical conditions, patient records, allergies and illnesses.

Towards the future “internet-enabled” infrastructures

Application Potential…Application Potential…

…virtually unlimited

Piggybacking on multiple technologiesPiggybacking on multiple technologies

• Devices

– Smart Phones

– Sensors

• True Mobile Broadband

– LTE,

• Enabling Capabilities

– Real Time Context Based analytics

– Real Time Social Networking communication and analytics

– Complex representation (3D)

• Pervasive ‘cloud’ services

• Secure and Trusted environments

• New Business Models

• New social opportunities

• A plethora of end user (consumer and enterprise) created personalized applications with an increasing focus on mobile

• Users empowered

• New ways of enterprises relating to their customers, employees and partners (new Business Processes)

Multiple Future Internet Technologies not yet fully mature but whose application

to smart systems/infrastructures is very promising virtuous tech/appli circle

“Real Time Rome”, the power of “Crowd-sourcing”

Example, Smart Mobility ApplicationsExample, Smart Mobility Applications

Rome, bus traffic vs. population distribution

Rome, density of tourists vs. location (3D)

1. Result: (a) generic, open and trusted communication and services platform… (standardised and) providing cross sector services through common enablers…

2. Multiple use case scenarios. It is anticipated that Internet-enabled smart infrastructures and processes require at least to capitalise on: Sensor Networks Cloud like service infrastructures Wireless capabilities Information “search/find” type capabilities ….

3. Open to “user” driven innovation through multiplicity of Use Cases – SME Innovation platform.

PPP Implementation DriversPPP Implementation Drivers

Cross Sector and Sustainable Cross Sector and Sustainable **• Stand alone solutions developed in any one sector, will not

provide the efficiency and productivity gains that a networked solution will be able to provide and that the market can support.

• A multidisciplinary and integrated approach, where massively distributed services and applications are run over large scale and secure internet infrastructures is targetted to deal with the increasing complexity of intertwined application and service demands.

FutureInnovative NetworkedUse Cases

* Slide courtesy of the group of 16

Future InternetFuture Internet

Smart Energy Smart Living

Smart TransportSmart Health

General-purposeCommunication

and Service (Core)

Platforms

Domain-specific

Domain-specific

Domain-specific

Domain-specific

Domain-specific

Domain-specific

Domain-specific

Domain-specific

Domain-specific

Domain-specific

Focus on “Smart”Focus on “Smart”

Architectures Available information Open to integration, evolution

(possibly by 3rd parties)

Standards Understandable, shared definition Accepted by the various actors Public and open definition process

Markets Open to several possible implementations

(including OSS and proprietary) Open market for products and services

Implementationapproaches

Application domains

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specifications

OPEN

Openness: Multiple DimensionsOpenness: Multiple Dimensions

■ Interoperable, open communication and service

platform(s)

■ Enable the discovery, creation, manipulation,

integration, sharing or delivery of multiple types of

services or experiences

■ Underpin secure and trusted service provisioning

■ Based on optimised combinations of the Networks,

Services, Contents, Things..

■ Address the massive scalability, complexity,

reliability and usability perspectives

■ Open to large scale trials

In a NutshellIn a Nutshell