Maja Pokrić, Sébastien Ziegler, Theofanis Raptis, Valerio Veglio, Orestis Evangelatos, João Fernandes, Annika Sällström, Michele Nati

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1 Researching crowdsourcing to extend IoT testbed infrastructure for multidisciplinary experiments, with more end-user interactions, flexibility, scalability, cost efficiency and societal added value Grant agreement for: Collaborative project Grant agreement no.: Start date of project: October 1st, 2013 (36 months duration) D8.1 Dissemination, Strategy and Collaboration Plan Contract Due Date 1 st October 2016 Submission Date 1 st April 2014 (M6) Version 6 ( ) Responsible Partner Author List Dissemination level Keywords DNET Maja Pokrić, Sébastien Ziegler, Theofanis Raptis, Valerio Veglio, Orestis Evangelatos, João Fernandes, Annika Sällström, Michele Nati PU Internet of Things, Crowd sourcing, Lab

2 Table of Contents 1 Introduction Dissemination Strategy Dissemination Activities... 8 IoT Lab Logo... 8 IoT Lab Website... 8 Wikipedia Page Social Networks IoT Lab on Twitter IoTLab on LinkedIn IoT Lab on Facebook...12 Strategy for Outreach Meetups YouTube Videos IoT Lab Flyer Press releases Newsletters Templates Disseminating Knowledge in Year 1 and Year Conferences & Workshops in Year Conferences & Workshops in Year Potential International Conferences & Workshops...20 Publications in Year Internal Dissemination Activities...22 Face-to-Face Meetings Project File Repository Regular Phone Conferences Mailing Lists Collaboration Plan...23 Collaboration through IERC Collaboration through FIRE AmpliFIRE...24 Fed4FIRE...24 CI-FIRE...26 SUNRISE...26 CONFINE...27 EAR-IT D-LIVE

3 IES Cities...30 Radical...30 City SDK...30 SocIoTal...31 Open IoT...33 IoT Elliot...35 ENOLL...36 ABC4Trust...36 Collaboration with other Organizations Collaboration through the IoT Forum...37 Collaboration with the ITU...37 Collaboration with the IEEE...37 Collaboration with the IPv6 Forum...37 Collaboration with the CPS in Serbia...37 Synthetic collaboration matrix List of Figures Figure 1: IoT Lab Logo... 8 Figure 2: IoT Lab web site... 8 Figure 3: IoT Lab WPs... 9 Figure 4: IoT Lab twitter Figure 5: IoT Lab on LinkedIn Figure 6: IoT Lab Facebook profile Figure 7: IoT Lab flyer Figure 8: IoT Lab file repository - DropBox Figure 9: FIRE projects Figure 10: Collaboration matrix

4 1 Introduction The Internet of Things (IoT) is often considered to be fundamental in changing the business paradigm and increasingly being integrated within organizations. Fitting sensors and tags to products will generate even more data than currently being created and captured. Companies feel confident in their ability to handle this explosion of information, but prior experience of storing and analyzing large amounts of big data may lead them to underestimate the additional talent and skills needed to identify new uses and revenue streams emerging from it. Data mining is an interactive and dynamic data-driven approach that can discover useful hidden knowledge from enormous databases. It has been considered a very useful and relevance methodology for data analysis in every sector and industry. Due to the big lack in literature about the relationship between IoT and business performance, the research analyzing the opinion of entrepreneurs and managers regarding the strategic importance of IoT technology investment within their organizations is of great importance. Particular attention has to be paid to role of IoT in both products and services (embedding sensors in products, developing services utilizing data generated by IoT technology) and in internal companies operations (to reduce energy consumption, monitor status or plant and equipment) as a business technology tool to arise the companies profitability. IoT Lab aims to research the potential of crowdsourcing to extend IoT testbed infrastructure for multidisciplinary experiments with more end-user interactions. The overall objective of WP8 package is to increase the outreach of the IoT Lab project. Specific objectives are the following: To proactively raise awareness of the project results through web and social media, publications (conferences and journals), organization of workshops, summer schools and participation at the IoT cluster meetings To contribute to IoT activities and events To develop individual exploitation plans and analyze feasibility of joint exploitation To develop a support pack for European IoT interested to use IoT Lab results and tools To monitor and, where appropriate, contribute to standardization process, in particular with the ITU. The project s WP 8 is organized in 3 tasks: T8.1: Dissemination and communication M1-M36 (Task Leader: DNET) T8.2: Liaison with the ITU and other research projects M3-M36 (Task Leader: MI) T8.3: Exploitation plans M13-M36 (Task Leader: DNET). 4

5 The D8.1 Dissemination, Strategy and Collaboration Plan deliverable deals with set-up of the project communication tools, and throughout the project, this task will ensure regular communication of the project results. The main activity to achieve effective dissemination will be through participation at relevant conferences and events (including FIRE, IERC and FIA), publishing papers in adequate journals as well as by regular publication of press releases, an online newsletter and social media updates. This document gives an overview of all planned activities within T8.1 Task. 5

6 2 Dissemination Strategy The IoT Lab project explores the potential of crowdsourcing to extend IoT testbed infrastructure for multidisciplinary experiments with more end-user interactions. Therefore the dissemination strategy will reflect the fact that the crowdsourcing is the pivotal project foundation. Communities will be encouraged to promote the IoT Lab model of open collaboration and to engage with the project in order to exchange information through widest range of Future Internet research activities at European and national levels. Targeted public: - Research community - Potential users and participants - Public and medias Key messages: - Presentation of IoT Lab as a research project - Presentation of the planned and performed experiments - Communication on IoT Lab privacy and personal data protection policy - Dissemination of IoT Lab public deliverables and results Tools: Primary dissemination mechanisms The following is a sample of the primary dissemination mechanisms which will be utilised by the IoT Lab project, that are more dynamic and can be easily distributed to wider public: o IoT Lab Website: The project web portal, with the latest project news; the website will be a key element of the communication strategy, as well as the entry point to access and use the IoT lab application. The consortium will develop an active promotion of the website. Links from IoT Lab partners websites to the IoT Lab site will be made as well. o Social Networks: create profiles and disseminate information and engage in crowdsourcing through social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin o Meetups: Regular informal meetups of people from different walks of society (i.e. stakeholders) interested in developing or using IoT technology. o YouTube videos: Promote project ideas and results through YouTube videos o Press Releases and other media coverage: Press releases will be used to disseminate IoT Lab project results to wider audience. Also, local or global TV networks, where possible, will be informed about the project activities. 6

7 Secondary dissemination mechanisms The secondary dissemination mechanisms which will be utilised by the IoT Lab project, targeting more specific audiences, are: o Participation at Conferences and Workshops: These events will be important in disseminating IoT Lab results and getting inputs to the project s strategic actions from interested stakeholders. o Publications, Presentations, Posters: The IoT Lab partners will identify suitable events to disseminate the projects results. This will be via presentations and posters, and will include industrial and scientific events, conferences, workshops, invited presentations, presentations to companies, etc. Sample events include: Future Internet Assembly events Digital Agenda Assemblies Future Networks Concentration and Cluster meetings (FIRE, IERC etc.) o IoT Lab A6 flyers: An A6 flyer will be used as an economic way to promote IoT Lab tool in conferences. o IoT Lab Newsletter: The bi-annual newsletter will be used to provide an update on IoT Lab activities. IoT Lab will also contribute to other newsletters. 7

8 3 Dissemination Activities IoT Lab Logo The IoT Lab logo was developed to provide the project with a clear visual identity. It is shown below: Figure 1: IoT Lab Logo IoT Lab Website Project URL has been registered, and a web site designed and published: The web site is regularly maintained and updated. As an initial contact point for both general public and IoT Lab users and stakeholders, the project website presents an overview of the work being carried out by IoT Lab. Figure 2: IoT Lab web site 8

9 The web site contains the following basic information: About Objectives Architecture Crowdsourcing Consortium WPs Deliverables Ethics The most of the project deliverables are public and will be promoted through this web page as well as twitter and linked in profile. Also, the web page provides links to relevant events, publications related to the project, other links, and contacts to the project partners. The section Architecture gives an overview of the system which implements the concept of crowdsourcing-driven research, which allows wider community to propose and participate in IoT based systems, and ultimately result in IoT Lab testbed as a service. The section Crowdsourcing explains the concept of crowdsourcing in IoT framework. The section WPs outlines what different workpackages are about and how are they interconnected. Figure 3: IoT Lab WPs The section Deliverables contains the documents that are in public domain describing the IoT Lab progress. In addition the content of the web page will be dynamically updated to reflect project progress, and other information that might become relevant to the project. The News section will be used to communicate the latest news on the project, and upcoming meetings, events, conferences, etc. Social networks, such as Twitter, LinkedIN and Facebook will be used to disseminate the latest news and crowdsourcing for the purpose of extending IoT testbed infrastructure for multidisciplinary experiments. 9

10 Wikipedia Page A specific strategy of dissemination has been initiated to include IoT Lab in Wikipedia. The objective is to develop a Wikipedia page for the project, either as a separate page or added to Internet of Things wiki page under sections Frameworks or Applications. An initial article has been submitted in January and has to be reworked with more references to be published. The following text shows the initial draft of the wiki page for the IoT Lab project. Wiki IoT Lab is a European Research project which aims at the potential of crowdsourcing to extend IoT test bed infrastructure for multidisciplinary experiments with more end-user interactions. The research is led by a consortium of several European universities and research centers. IoT Lab intends to explore new forms of IoT experiments with closer interactions between the researchers and the society in order to better address societal needs and challenges, including end-user acceptance. IoT Lab research is structures around 7 main objectives: 1. Crowdsourcing mechanisms to integrate and use third parties resources (such as mobile phones) with the European test bed infrastructure, and to interact with distributed users (the crowd). 2. Virtualization of crowdsourcing components. 3. Ubiquitous Interconnection and cloudification of the test beds resources to provide an on-line platform of Test bed as a Service (TBaaS). 4. End-user and societal value creation through crowdsourcing. 5. Crowdsourcing-driven research as a new model in which the research can be initiated, guided and assessed by the crowd. 6. Economic dimension of crowdsourcing test bed. 7. Performing multidisciplinary experiments with crowd-sourcing to assess the added value of such approach. Participatory process IoT Lab is exploring a crowd-driven research model, enabling unknown participants from the crowd to interact with the researchers at each stage of the research cycle. 10

11 Social Networks IoT Lab on Twitter Events and breaking news related to the IoT Lab project will be published on Twitter. The online repository will contain information about the project, training events, links to upcoming events. It will be accessible to everyone, all the time. People can instantly connect to the most important feeds, follow experts, favorite celebrities, and breaking news in the areas of IoT. Figure 4: IoT Lab twitter IoTLab on LinkedIn A IoT Lab LinkedIn group has been created. The group on LinkedIn allows registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people in the area of IoT. The contact network consists of direct connections, the connections of each of their connections and also the connections of second-degree connections. 11

12 Figure 5: IoT Lab on LinkedIn IoT Lab on Facebook IoT Lab project has a facebook profile which aim is to promote the project ideas and enable crowdsourcing through social networks. In this way different stakeholders can be notified of certain events, or different ideas can be targeted at certain groups which are already present on the Facebook. Also, the personal IoT Lab open group on Facebook allows adding other users as members, and exchanging messages, including automatic notifications when members update their profiles. Figure 6: IoT Lab Facebook profile 12

13 Strategy for Outreach For IoT Lab it is of a key importance to reach a wider crowd throughout the project both for IoT Lab sustainability and to have their involvement to influence the platform under development. Target groups strategy The following key actors have been identified at the first stage of the project, with some key objectives: Target group Public / citizens Researchers / experimenters IoT Lab participants Public administrations Ethical and personal data protection authorities Testbed owners Potential customers (SMEs, public administrations, etc.) Media Main concerns and interests Societal benefit Economic impact Personal data protection Proposed services / benefits IoT Lab functionalities Data management Cost IoT Lab presentation Proposed services / benefits Usefulness and societal benefit Personal data protection News on IoT Lab Proposed services Personal data protection Personal data protection policy Proposed services / benefits Technical constraints Proposed services / benefits Cost Nice story to tell Polemic (= risk) Communication means Media Website Conferences Specialized networks Website Social networks Website IoT Lab application Direct information Website Direct contacts Conferences Specialized networks Website Mailings Conferences / fairs Specialized networks Website Direct contacts Mailings Press releases Direct contacts Each segment will be further analyzed with more granularity. For instance, Researchers can include: - Research teams (with their own budget), more interested in the technicality and added value of the tool - PhD student who may be more sensitive to the cost factor. Similarly, participants may have different profiles and drivers that will be analyzed in detail by WP5 and WP6. Their outcomes will be used to refine the dissemination and outreach strategy. 13

14 Time strategy For the outreach we plan to adopt a sequential strategy, by implementing different actions following the timeline of the overall progress. Each actor will have their individual activities and messages. (See Annex 1 with a first plan for outreach for Year 1 including key messages, assets for outreach etc). The strategy is built around different campaigns targeting specific audiences. The overall strategy timing is: Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 - To set up the strategy - To develop all the communication tools - To make the project public and visible. - To focus on the outreach - To build a community of followers and potential users - To mobilize the users - To perform experiments - To get large media outreach An outreach team is responsible for the implementation of outreach actions. The Team consist of the following key-persons: Annika Sällström LTU (WP5 leader) Team coordinator Maja Pokric DNET (WP8 leader) Valerio Veglio SOTON (WP6) Sebastien Ziegler Project coordinator Mia Rasmussen Alexandra Institute To be able to implement outreach strategy, detailed plan is made with proposed campaigns: Stakehold Campaign er to s Year 1 reach IoT Lab at FIAReseach in Athens community, Industry, SME s Social media booster week 1 IoT Lab4Industry Mainly the research community and industry incl EC Business managers Tools for outreach Questionnaire s, Poster, Stickers, IotLab.eu Social media, Questionnaire s, IoT Lab.eu Questionnaire s and individual contacts Responsible IoT Lab partner for coordination March April WP5 with support from WP6 The outreach team incl WP 5,6 and 8 WP / /4 25/3-10/4 Ma y June 14

15 Social media booster week 2 IoT Lab at DanubeIT Conference and Matchmaking event Social media booster week 3 IoT Lab at the IoT week Social media booster week 4 Mainly the research community and industry incl EC Business managers and SME s Mainly the research community and industry incl EC and the crowd Reseach community, Industry, SME s Social media, The outreach team incl Questionnaire WP 5,6 and 8 s, IoT Lab.eu Questionnaire s and individual contacts The outreach team incl WP 5, 6 and 8 Social media, The outreach team incl Questionnaire WP 5,6 and 8 s, IoT Lab.eu Questionnaire s, Poster, Workshops, Stickers, IotLab.eu The outreach team incl WP 5,6 and 8 Table 1: Outreach campaigns in Year 1 5-9/ /5 9-13/ /6 To follow the progress an outreach chart will be used: Table 2: Outreach monitoring chart for Year 1 Meetups Meetups are great way to exchange knowledge and create network of people which 15

16 can share ideas in informal setting. Also, they can be used to disseminate the project results as well as for crowd sourcing. It would be of great benefit to the project if partners from different countries can attend or organize meetups in their cities or countries. The following table gives just a short list of meetups that will be held in Europe. Meetup Date Place (some meetups are listed below) link 09 April 2014 Barcelona link 18 March 2014 London link 09 April 2014 Zurich YouTube Videos It is planned to create a YouTube video presenting concepts of the IoT Lab project, especially introducing the concept of crowdsourcing within IoT framework, which is relatively new and requires more promotion and description. IoT Lab Flyer IoT Lab project flyer has been created and is available for the download on the project website ( The flyer will be used as promotion and dissemination material which in clear and brief manner outlines what is the project about, presents members of the consortium, and explains the system architecture. 16

17 Figure 7: IoT Lab flyer In due time, a complementary and simple A6 flyer may be used to promote the IoT Lab tool in relevant conferences. Press releases Press releases will be used to contact the media to promote IoT Lab concept and results. It is anticipated that press releases will be mainly concentrated during the experimentation phase. Newsletters It is planned to disseminate IoT Lab project results, and crowdsourcing concept within IoT framework, in Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) newsletter ( Templates Project templates have been generated for presentations (.PPT) and deliverable reports (.docx). In this way IoT Lab logo will become recognizable and project visibility will be further expanded. 17

18 Disseminating Knowledge in Year 1 and Year 2 Conferences & Workshops in Year 1 Dates YEAR 1 Event Name Role Type of Audience Countries Addresse d Size of Audienc e Partner Involved Nov 2013 FIRE FIA Board, Ghent, October 2013 ACM/IEEE MSWiM KNX-City Workshop FIRE 2014, Brussels ITU, JCA- IoT May July 2014 IoT6 Workshop in Korea Upperside V6 conference FIA 2014, Athens FIA 2014, Athens DCOSS 14 USC invited talk Future Internet Summit Representation of IoT Lab in the FIRE community Paper presentation Presentation: IoT crowdsourcing technologies for energy efficient buildings Presentation of the project Presentation of IoT Lab Presentation of the project IoT Lab Poster European Research Community International Researchers, Industry, Academics Architects and civil engineers European Research Community Europe 60+ MI Internation al 100+ CTI Europe 200+ CTI, UNIGE Europe 50 DNET International International 50 MI Research industry Research industry Research Community Development of bothresearch questionnaire (in Community collaboration with WP5) and in-deep interviews. Committee members Presentation: IoT and crowdsensing Presentation of the project IoT week Supporting 2014 organization London a session NTU Singapore invited talk Presentation: IoT-Lab and IoT in Smart Buildings Research Community Research Community Research industry Research of business community Research Community and and and and Korea 30 MI Internatio nal 200+ MI Europe 100+ MI, DNET Europe 100+ University of Southampton World 100+ CTI, UniGe USA 50+ CTI World 100+ MI World 300 MI, LULEA, DNET, Alexandra Singapore 50+ CTI 18

19 Summer TEMU senzations 14 ENoLL Summerschoolss Presentation of the project Supporting organization Crowd-driven methods Research business community and Young researcher, IoT and business European Research Community + practicionaire World 50+ MI World 50 DNET, MI, UNIS Europe 50+ LTU ALGOSEN SORS 14 Committee members Research Community World 50+ CTI, UniGe Table 3: Conferences & Workshops (Year 1) Conferences & Workshops in Year 2 Dates YEAR 2 Event Name Role Type of Audience Partner Involved Globecom 2014 IoT Lab presentation and session chairing May 2015 Desrist Presentation of publication on Design science (tbd) June 2015 ICIS Presentation of publication on Crowdsourcing(tbd) June 2015 ISPIM Presentation of publication on Crowd-sourcing (tbd) Research and industry Research Research Research and industry June 2015 IoT Week MI, DunavNET September 2015 Senzation DunavNET, MI Table 4: Conferences & Workshops (Year 2) MI LTU LTU LTU 19

20 Potential International Conferences & Workshops The following list, in addition to above tables (for year 1 and year 2), gives an overview of potential conferences that can be attended throughout duration of the project: 1. Globecom Academy of Marketing Conference 3. Academy of Management Conference 4. European Marketing Academy Conference 5. European Conference of Knowledge Management 6. Small Business - Word Conference of Entrepreneurship 7. AnnualEntrepreneurship Conference 8. International Entrepreneurship Conference (McGill) 9. Academy of International Business 10. International Business Conference 11. European International Business Academy (EIBA) A workshop is planned to be organized with the International Telecommunication Union, in relation with the task T8.2 (year 3). The following table gives an overview of various IoT related sites where information can be found on events, conferences and workshops, so that future dissemination can be planned as more information become available: Web Sites links Content FIRE Events IERC Events, newsletters Internet of Things Europe Events, newsletters IoT Forum Events, newsletters Internet of Things Events Events, meetups A WIKI call for papers net%20of%20things Conferences Table 7: List of key IoT websites 20

21 Publications in Year 1 The following table gives the overview of papers published upto 13 th March Table 5: Papers published in project s first year Dates Year 1 Publication Title Authors November 2013 ACM/IEEE MOBIWAC 2013 Adaptive, limited knowledge wireless recharging in sensor networks C. Angelopoulos, S. Nikoletseas, T. Raptis November 2013 ACM/IEEE MSWiM 2013 Efficient, Distributed Coordination of Multiple Mobile Chargers in Sensor Networks A. Madhja, S.Nikoletseas, T. Raptis September 2014 Senzations Summer School Internet of Things, Business Performance and Data Mining: A Strategic Entrepreneurial Vision in Global Business Valerio Veglio, et. al. The IoT Lab consortium plans to write about 40 papers in the lifetime of the project of which 50% will be co-written by the consortium partners to stimulate cross-partner integration and closer interworking. 21

22 4 Internal Dissemination Activities Face-to-Face Meetings Face-to-face meetings will be organized throughout the project depending on project needs (about four times a year), while participation of projects partners at various IoT events will also be used as an opportunity to meet, exchange information and make future plans (e.g. FIA 2014 in Athens, IoT week 2014 London etc.). Project File Repository Project files are stored on the Dropbox, so that they can be easily accessed by all partners. In this way all results can be quickly internally disseminated. The folder structure is expandable and can accommodate all documents that will be produced throughout the project lifetime. Regular Phone Conferences Figure 8: IoT Lab file repository - DropBox The Coordinator has purchased a GoToMeeting license to arrange regular meetings between the project partners. Skype is used as a complementary way of communication per needs basis (several skype phone conferences regarding technical and architectural issues of the IoT Lab have been held). Mailing Lists Mailing list for the project is iotlab@genevaproxy.com which is actively used on daily basis. A complementary list has been set up for technical integration of the testbeds. 22

23 5 Collaboration Plan Collaboration through IERC The aim of European Research Cluster on the Internet of Things is to address the large potential for IoT-based capabilities in Europe and to coordinate the convergence of ongoing activities. A wide range of research and application projects in Europe have been set up in different application fields. Communication between these projects is an essential requirement for a competitive industry and for a secure, safe and privacy preserving deployment of IoT in Europe ( Even though the IoT Lab is under the scope of Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) umbrella of projects potential collaboration with related IERC projects can also be explored. MI will represent IoT Lab in the IERC and all the partners of IoT Lab will be invited to join the various activity chains. Collaboration through FIRE Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) ( addresses the emerging expectations which are being put upon the Internet, by providing a research environment for investigating and experimentally validating highly innovative and revolutionary ideas. For FIRE collaboration we foresee the following opportunities in Year 1: 1. With Fed4FIRE, we foresee a very close cooperation in order to make IoT Lab a fully Fed4FIRE compliant architecture. 2. With the AmpliFIRE coordination action 3. To share the experience and potential with IoT testbeds to attract a wider interest of FIRE IoT testbeds. 4. A workshop is foreseen during the IoT week in London in June A proposal has been submitted to the organizing committee 5. To share the IoT Lab collaboration model for FIRE exploitation 6. Dissemination activities with other FIRE projects With several IoT-projects in FIRE (Trescimo, SUNRISE, Social&Smart, RelyonIT, EAR-IT), Collaboration is foreseen within areas of standards, data-management, IoTtestbed federation etc. The FIRE Forum: With all ongoing FIRE projects there are also a common interest on collaboration around sustainability, testbed as a service, experimentation methodologies etc. Several FIRE projects belonging to these two specific areas are considered here for potential collaboration with the IoT Lab project. IoT Lab positioning in the context of FIRE projects is illustrated in Figure 9, on the next page. 23

24 Figure 9: FIRE projects The IoT Lab project as a FIRE project itself covers following subject areas (Figure 9): Sensors/Internet of Things/Web of Things Content-centric/Social Networking/eLearning AmpliFIRE The objective of the AmpliFIRE Support Action is to prepare FIRE for year 2020, in strengthening the exploitation and impact creation capacities of Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) facilities. It brings the concept of open innovation into the world of FIRE, involving beneficiaries across the range from infrastructure technologies to new modes of interaction, collaboration and empowerment. Link: Proposed list of actions: The objective of the AmpliFIRE Support Action is to prepare FIRE for year 2020, in strengthening the exploitation and impact creation capacities of Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) facilities. It brings the concept of open innovation into the world of FIRE, involving beneficiaries across the range from infrastructure technologies to new modes of interaction, collaboration and empowerment. Identified interest for collaboration includes: - Testbed as a service in the future - User engagement in FIRE testbeds to reach a wider stakeholder-group of FIRE testbeds First action is to interact with AmpliFIRE WP3 (T3.2) on the FIRE service offer portfolio. Also T 3.1 on FIRE future collaboration models is closely linked with IoT Lab and the ambition to expand IoT testbeds with crowdsourcing capacity and by this extend FIRE use to a wider stakeholder group. Responsible Partners for Cooperation: LTU Fed4FIRE Fed4FIRE is an Integrating Project under the European Union s Seventh Framework 24

25 Programme (FP7) addressing the work programme topic FIRE. Experimentally driven research is considered to be a key factor for growing the European Internet industry. In order to enable this type of RTD activities, a number of projects for building a European facility for Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) have been launched, each project targeting a specific community within the Future Internet ecosystem. Through the federation of these infrastructures, innovative experiments become possible that break the boundaries of these domains. Besides, infrastructure developers can utilize common tools of the federation, allowing them to focus on their core testbed activities. Recent projects have already successfully demonstrated the advantages of federation within a community. The Fed4FIRE project intends to implement the next step in these activities by successfully federating across the community borders and offering openness for future extensions. Fed4FIRE objectives are: o Open, accessible and reliable facilities supporting a wide variety of different Internet research communities o Simple, efficient, and cost effective experimental processes o Increased trustworthiness of facilities o Sustainability of the experimental infrastructures Fed4FIRE Technical Approach o To establish a common federation framework by developing, adapting or adopting tools that support experiment lifecycle management, monitoring and trustworthiness. o A large number of existing experimentation facilities in Europe will be adapted to seamlessly integrate in the federation. o Such facilities typically focus on different kinds of networking related research or on different communities regarding services and applications. o Example domains are optical networking, wireless networking, software defined networking, cloud computing, grid computing, smart cities, etc. o The federation will have to support a very heterogeneous set of requirements. o To guarantee that the federation framework meets all of them, representatives of all these FIRE research communities will be actively involved in the definition of the federation architecture. Proposed list of actions: IoT Lab has initiated a close cooperation with Fed4FIRE in order to align its architecture with the Fed4FIRE one. Several Fed4FIRE enablers will be used by IoT Lab, while developing complementary enablers for crowd sourcing and smart phone integration. Responsible Partners for Cooperation: UniGE and CTI 25

26 CI-FIRE The CI-FIRE project will support a broader and deeper coordination and integration of Future Internet Research Experimentation (FIRE) activities on EU and Member State level in order to enable the sustainable use of FIRE facilities. To this purpose, CI-FIRE will analyse the sustainability potential of European FIRE facilities, develop an innovation business framework template, and perform a feature mapping and benchmarking analysis of FIRE facilities. In addition, CI-FIRE will analyse different collaboration models for making FIRE facilities sustainable. Based on this analysis and the selection of a suitable collaboration model, CI-FIRE will facilitate the collaboration between FIRE and EIT ICT Labs as an exemplary case for achieving FIRE sustainability. Based on the insights from this concrete collaboration model implementation, CI-FIRE will develop a 'blueprint', i.e. a process standard, for similar collaborations of FIRE facility providers with other initiatives and organisations in order to open further paths to sustainability. Link: Areas of potential cooperation and synergies with the list of IoT Lab tasks concerned WP6 will liaise with CI-FIRE and investigate how to use existing testbeds as strategic tool to improve business performance Proposed list of actions with proposed deadlines: Start discussions with the project coordinator and propose collaboration roadmap. Deadline: before the IoT week, London (16th June 2014). Responsible Partner for Cooperation: SOTON SUNRISE Sensing, monitoring and actuating on the Underwater world through a federated Research InfraStructurE The SUNRISE objectives are to develop: Five federated underwater communication networks, based on pilot infrastructure already designed, built and deployed by consortium partners, in diverse environments (Mediterranean, Ocean, Black Sea, Lakes, Canals), web-accessible and interfaced with existing FIRE facilities to experiment with Future Internet technologies. A software-defined open-architecture modem and protocol stack that will empower open collaborative developments. Standard platforms for simulation, emulation and replay testing to estimate underwater communication networks at a fraction of time, cost, complexity of current at-sea experiments, validated by tests conducted on the SUNRISE networks over a variety of applications and environments. A user-friendly interface for diverse users to interact with SUNRISE systems to conduct trials and benefit from databases of underwater Internet of Things performance data gathered over long periods from the SUNRISE infrastructure. SUNRISE directly addresses FIRE objectives by combining technology with novel paradigms in new, open experimental facilities, integrating physical systems with software development into the Internet of Underwater Things. SUNRISE will also provide a way to select underwater Internet of Things standards based on objective measures of performance, strengthening in its facilities as more 26

27 sites are added in the future as a result of the two envisioned open calls. Link: Areas of potential cooperation and synergies with the list of IoT Lab concerned tasks The SUNRISE project adds an interesting dimension to the Internet of Things and the FIRE community. Although the support for a different level of experimentation is envisioned by the SUNRISE project, and it mainly focuses on physical and communication aspects, with developed tools reflecting this perspective, never the less some of the data generated by their observation might be useful. Integration at WP4 level with their testbeds could add an interesting dimension which can be exploited in advanced use case to be investigated at WP1 level. It is worth to notice that 90% of the people live close to the water and integration of maritime and city testbeds, enhanced by crowd moving from one to the other is an interesting scenario which needs to be explored further. Proposed list of actions with proposed deadlines: Start discussions with the project coordinator along the identified lines, and then propose collaboration roadmap. Deadline: before the IoT week, London (16th June 2014). Responsible Partner for Cooperation: UNIS CONFINE Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet The scientific and technical objectives of the project can be drawn from the need to explore models for the Future Internet that are socially, economically, and technically sustainable. The CONFINE project targets the exploration and advancement of the community networking model, towards providing the right quality of experience and sustainability of community networks by looking at the social, technical, economic and legal implications. That requires contributions from all societal groups. This testbed aims at researchers from academia and industry to perform experimentally-driven research on obstacles and limitations in community networks, addressing: Scale, heterogeneity and limited resources in the infrastructure The need for cross-layer interactions and optimizations, such as QoS for a variety of real-time and non-real-time services for heterogeneous networks. The definition of global parameters concerning the usability of the infrastructure and user-friendliness as seen from the user perspective. Self-management: self-configuration and self-optimization Creation of open data sets for experimentation Development of a benchmarking framework to ensure repeatability, reproducibility and verifiability of experiments with stable configurations. Best practices: documenting the different experiments performed on the experimental facility. Contributions to standardization of different key specifications for community networks. Contributions to open-source implementations of reference software components and services for community networks. Socio-technical-economic-legal evaluation and sustainability model based on 27

28 the results of the testbed's provision, usage, and operation. Link: Areas of potential cooperation and synergies with the list of IoT Lab concerned tasks Confine project is relevant for the objectives and tasks set in WP6 of IoT Lab project: -Economic and business opportunity analysis (T6.2, T6.3, T6.4) Proposed list of actions with proposed deadlines: Start discussions with the project coordinator along the identified lines, and then propose collaboration roadmap. Deadline: before the IoT week, London (16th June 2014). Responsible Partner for Cooperation SOTON EAR-IT The EAR-IT project is working on the exiting challenges of using acoustic sensing in smart cities and smart building. With innovation and research in this area, the project will experiment in the city of Santander (Spain) and for intelligent building in Geneva, applications improving security, energy saving, traffic management and more. The project idea is to conduct a large-scale real-life experimentation of intelligent acoustics for supporting high social value applications fostering innovation and sustainability in two existing test beds (also known as FIRE) with the FP7 projects SmartSantander ( and Hobnet ( Concept: Distributed Acoustics for High-social Value Applications Intelligent Acoustic Solutions for large-scale Sensor Networks Qualified FIRE Acoustic IoT Installations for Applications User- and Market-accepted adoption of EAR-IT research and technologies Link: Areas of potential cooperation and synergies with the list of IoT Lab concerned tasks As the project owns the federation of an interesting subset of IoT testbeds, most of them providing some functionality for crowdsourcing techniques on mobile phones, it would be interesting to establish synergies and collaborations on these aspects. At WP1 level some enhanced use case scenarios could be investigated. At WP2 level the co-presence of such enhanced of the EAR-IT testbed nodes and mobile phones, performing similar sensing tasks, could be used to create and validate a reputation framework, in order to assess the reputation of some participants with respect to task that can be measured from different sources. At WP3 level, the same information could be used to efficiently virtualize mobile phone resources, for specific tasks, when they are not available, while EAR-IT testbed are available or vice-versa. Finally federation of the EAR-IT testbeds could be explored at WP4 level. To this purpose more detailed discussion should take place in order to better understand the project scope and clearly identify synergies. Proposed list of actions with proposed deadlines: Start discussions with the project coordinator along the identified lines, and then propose collaboration roadmap. Deadline: before the IoT week, London (16th June 28

29 2014). Responsible Partner for Cooperation MI as a partner of EAR-IT project will be the main liaison. UNIS and CTI will also support the liaison with EAR-IT. 3D-LIVE Experience the Twilight Space The 3D-LIVE project aims to develop and experiment a User Driven Mixed Reality platform connected to EXPERIMEDIA testbeds in order to investigate on the Quality of Experience (QoE) and Quality of Services when users are fully immersed into mixed environments. In the context of Augmented Sports, it is intended to allow several users to be virtually immersed in one shared environment called the Twilight Space. In this mixed reality environment, they will be able to see, communicate and play with one another in real time taking advantages of the latest research in 3D Reconstruction of moving humans. This platform will be adapted to three use-cases: the Golf, the Ski and the jogging activities. Link: Areas of potential cooperation and synergies with the list of IoT Lab concerned tasks Defining and enabling the crowdsourcing services in a mixed reality environment as developed by 3D-LIVE project, could bring a new dimension to the IoT Lab platform which would potentially attract more users and ensure a higher quality of service. Proposed list of actions with proposed deadlines: Initiate discussions with the project coordinator to better understand possible synergies between the two projects Discuss a possible implementation of the mixed reality environment functionalities within the IoT Lab platform in order to attract more users, increase their satisfaction (as service/data providers) and ensure a better quality service. Responsible Partner for Cooperation DunavNET 29

30 IES Cities Internet Enabled Services for the Cities across Europe Main Goal: to facilitate the use of an open technological platform in different cities across Europe, allowing the citizens providing and consuming internet-based services based on their own and external linked data related to the cities. Link: Areas of potential cooperation and synergies with the list of IoT Lab tasks concerned The project aims to define new City services using crowdsensing techniques. Synergies with the IoT Lab projects can be seen in terms of identifying requirements for WP2 Crowdsourcing tools, which potentially can be used by other projects. Knowledge of their planned scenarios could be useful to enrich the use case portfolio at the WP1 level. To this purpose more detailed discussion should take place in order to better understand project scope and clearly identify synergies. Proposed list of actions: Initiate discussions with the project coordinator to discuss in more detail the project scope and clearly identify the synergies and collaboration roadmap. Deadline: Before IoT Week Responsible Partner for Cooperation: UNIS Radical Rapid deployment and adoption of sustainable socially-aware and intelligent sensing services for emerging smart cities Main Goal: RADICAL will enable the development and deployment of interoperable pervasive multi-sensory and socially-aware services, by leveraging Internet of Things, Social Networks and Living Labs; emerging from leading edge R&D results from the SmartSantander, BonFIRE, SocIoS, and +Spaces projects. Areas of potential cooperation and synergies with the list of IoT Lab tasks concerned Crowdsourcing tools could be useful when RADICAL has to interact with the community, to derive requirements and validate effectiveness of proposed solutions. Due to the living lab nature of approach, synergies could be established in terms of co-operation in user engagement (WP5) and to validate and eventually derive new requirements for the creation of crowdsourcing tools, based on mobile app tools developed by WP2. Proposed list of actions: Initiate discussions with the project coordinator to discuss in more detail the project scope and clearly identify the synergies and collaboration roadmap. Deadline: Before IoT Week Responsible Partner for Cooperation UNIS and Alexandra will support this collaboration. City SDK Service Development Kit and a city-led innovation ecosystem Main Goal: Helping cities to open their data and giving developers the tools they 30

31 need, the CitySDK aims for a step change in how to deliver services in urban environments. With governments around the world looking at open data as a kick start for their economies, CitySDK provides better and easier ways for the cities throughout the Europe to release their data in a format that is easy for the developers to re-use. Taking the best practices around the world the project will foresee the development of a toolkit CitySDK v1.0 that can be used by any city looking to create a sustainable infrastructure of city apps. Link: Areas of potential cooperation and synergies with the list of IoT Lab tasks concerned The project mainly aims to create SDK to access City Data with open APIs and standard formats. It would be interesting to explore collaboration in order to enrich the Crowdsourcing tools; at WP2 level the information should be used to enrich the Resource Selection tools. Additionally, as crowdsourcing tools will allow generating user data, federation of this data with data exposed from CitySDK could be also investigated in order to identify a common model and to establish synergies at the level of testbed as a service (WP4). To this purpose more detailed discussion should take place in order to better understand project scope and clearly identify synergies. Proposed list of actions: Initiate discussions with the project coordinator to discuss in more detail the project scope and clearly identify the synergies and collaboration roadmap. Deadline: Before IoT Week Responsible Partner for Cooperation CTI, Alexandra and UNIS will support this collaboration SocIoTal SocIoTal: Creating a socially aware citizen-centric Internet of Things SOCIOTAL addresses a crucial next step in the transformation of an emerging business driven Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure into an all-inclusive one for the society by accelerating the creation of a socially aware citizen-centric Internet of Things. Project objectives are: To design a socially-aware citizen centric architecture for an IoT eco-system providing services for cities, citizens and their communities To explore a robust and distributed IoT governance framework based on IoT identity models that encompasses the notion of dynamically changing communities and take into consideration their impact on privacy and trust relation To enable more automated forms of discovery and specification of trust relationships between humans and a translation of those to their devices as well as the establishment of reputation of IoT devices/data providers Enabling secure, context-sensitive, privacy-preserving communication between IoT devices through a framework and novel security enablers. To investigate mechanisms and corresponding tools to empower citizens to manage and share their IoT devices with others in different circles of trust and to provide them with an increased awareness and control. To understand the technological and socio-economic barriers for a citizen participation in the Internet of Things and the nature of incentives that would 31

32 encourage an increased citizen engagement To realise and trial innovative services of high societal value based on citizen/city centric IoT infrastructure with clear benefits for communities and their citizens. Link: Areas of potential cooperation and synergies with the list of IoT Lab tasks concerned The SocIoTal project objectives as listed above indicate that the socially driven services that will be created by citizens and for citizens will focus a lot on the following aspects: o o o Privacy preserving communication between IoT devices Security and trust mechanisms for mobile phones generated data Encouragement mechanisms and incentive schemes for an increased citizen engagement/participation in IoT These functionalities of the developing SocIoTal platform are also relevant for the IoT Lab project: WP 1 Socially-aware citizen centric architecture and community APIs Platform selection analysis of existing platforms in terms of their usability, openness and extensibility that could possibly be used in both projects WP 2 Decentralised governance and trust framework Platform Architecture: o Security and Trust component: Authorizations and trust mechanisms for sensor based readings o Reputation framework: Implementation of a reliable and efficient method for calculating the reputation score WP 3 Privacy-aware communication Privacy-preserving communication between IoT devices (participant privacy) Proposed list of actions: On-going IoT Platform analysis: consider the IoT Platform suitable for both projects Initiate discussion/meeting on aspects of privacy, security and trust that are common for both projects Initiate the meeting to discuss the most promising methods for calculating the reputation score Initiate discussion to better understand possible service with added value for citizens that could be implemented as core functionalities of the IoT Lab mobile app and work as incentive for crowd participation and its continuous engagement (i.e., citizen forum and priority list) Responsible Partner for Cooperation DNET, UNIS (both partners are involved in SocIoTal 32