Forum on Internet of Things: Empowering the New
Urban Agenda
Geneva, Switzerland, 19 October 2015
Empowering Urban Innovation Through
Convergence of IoT-Big data and Cloud
Dr.-Ing. Abdur Rahim,
Project Coordinator; Create-Net
abdur.rahim@create-net.org
Convergence in EVERYWHER
• Convergence of
technology
• Convergence of
business and ecosystem
• Convergence of people,
application, things,
data, devices, etc.
Source: IDC
Convergence of IoT, big data and cloud
• For IoT, number of billions of connected devices is an
indicator of IoT. The connectivity is just an enabler but
the real value of IoT is on data (business insight/datadriven economy)
• For Big Data, data collection is one of the main
concern, and IoT can play an important roles for data
collection and data sharing
• For Big Data, data is nothing without real business
value insight
• Cloud offers Everything as a Service business model
for IOT and big data.
• IoT is a King, Big data is a Queen and Cloud is a Palace
Cloud-based IoT Big Data applications
Prescriptive and
descriptive
Massive
monitoring
Real-time
actionable insight
Proactive and
predictive
Observation
Performance and
optimization
Key requirements of IoT-Big data platform
Security and
privacy
Scalable
Intelligent and
dynamic
Real-time
Distributed and
decentralized
iKaaS-EU-Japan IoT big data platform
App.
App.
Query
KaaS
Storage
Global Cloud
Data
Knowledge
Security
GW
Data
Knowledge
Security
GW
Query
Query
Local Cloud
Storage
Local Cloud
Storage
Data
Sensors
/IoT Devices
Data
Sensors
/IoT Devices
The goal of this project is to combine ubiquitous and heterogeneous sensing, smart objects,
semantic, big data and cloud computing technologies in a platform enabling the Internet of
Things process consisting of continuous iterations on data ingestion, data storage,
analytics, knowledge generation and knowledge sharing phases, as foundation for crossborder information service provision.
Smart city opportunities and challenges
• Smart City is a concentration of
people and devices
• Currently 72% of the EU population
lives in urban areas, using 70% of our
energy.
• Most of the data is generated by
people/citizen and process/machine
• IoT/ big data can offer value to
energy systems, mobility, climate
change, and water and air quality,
crime, autonomic car.
Madrid City-Environmental Health
• Environmental health use case focusing on pollutants, pollen, airborne
contaminants, precise detection to offer improve accuracy of information to
citizen
• Install number of environment city sensors on-board public transportation, to
correlated with historical environment health data
Sendai Smart Village in Japan
• Tago-Nishi is build as a smart city, including town management and health
services
• Offering personalize and context aware services, considering the data
from energy-consumption of each of the house, weather, wearable, etc.
• Lower entry level for SMEs and
application developers
• Improve living and working condition
of African rural community
• Technology
– Long-distance remote monitoring,
control and users notification
– Prediction, forecasting, optimization
and big data analytic applications
Openness and applica on development of third par es
OPEN INNOVATION
PLATFORM FOR IOT-BIG
DATA IN SUB-SAHARA
AFRICA
Smart Applica ons
Users management
(Monitoring, control, predic ve
of systems, no fica on of users)
(Users authen ca on, privacy,
log-in, persona;ize users )
Interoperable Service and Dynamic Workflow
(Service deployment, APIs, dynamic composi on)
Processing and Analy c Engine
(Stream and batch processing and Big data analy c capabili es)
IoT Broker and Management
(connec vity, device registra on and management, data
management
Connec vity
Network communica on (long-range/short range
single hop, MAC)
Device
Embedded So ware (Signal processing)
Hardware (embedded sensors, connec vity)
WAZIUP application domains
Irrigation
Storage and logistic
Livestock farming
Fish farming
Mobile health
Fresh water
Sense of connection!
“Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation
to everything else”- Buddha
One more from Advaita Philosophy; it’s also called nonduality…
It says …
"the sense that all things are interconnected and not
separate, while at the same time all things retain their
individuality".
Conclusion
• Convergence is everywhere, it is just starting
• Think on the how your business will convergence
and scale-up
• Need for more large-scale IoT and big data testing
and experimentation
• In developed counties majority people are living
in City whereas in developing countries still living
rural area
• IoT, Big data and Cloud are the future of the
world