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Contact person
Name
Costas Davarakis
Organisation
MyOmega System Technologies Gmbh
Address
NeumeyerStr. 46 90411 Nuremberg
Telephone
+499112526436
email
Costas.davarakis@myomegasys.com
Project information
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Project idea,
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FoF 2016 11 8 Digital Automation Novel Architecture for
factory automation based CPS IOT
CAPILLARY heterogeneous LOw power computing
systems; enabling mobile multimodal & multisensory
Wearable
IOT
ecosystems
with
semantic
interoperability for smart X services: CAPILOW
Connectivity Technology is still a little expensive, the price of a simple wireless
sensor will soon be as low as €1, a price point at which this could become a massmarket proposition. However other parts of the kit, including communications
and battery modules, might still come in at €20 to €50, which is too high. The
price needs to become closer to €3 to €4, only then will the business case begin
to make sense. Telecoms networks have to change to meet the requirements of
billions of low-power devices that need to connect constantly to the internet to
transmit small amounts of data. The cost of sending such data over the network
will have to come down. ‘It is not scalable for a low-cost device to pay several
euros/dollars a month just to have connectivity’ (c.f. Zach Shelby, Arm).
Security will need to be improved to ensure that internet-connected objects
cannot be hacked and hijacked. Physical attacks over the internet are happening.
At the end of last year the German federal office of information security revealed
that machinery at a German steelworks was severely damaged when hackers
gained access to control systems via the Internet (Financial Times Jan. 2015).
When everything from traffic lights and cars to home heating systems are linked
online, the potential for harmful hacks increases further. However, the simple,
low-power devices used for the Internet of Things might not be able to handle
heavy encryption, or may not be patched and updated if a security flaw is
discovered. ‘There are big security holes and quite a lot of work needs to be done
to fix them’ (Jim Tully, Gartner).
CAPILOW will implement and demonstrate a novel ecosystem able to act as a
catalyst towards reducing the cost for low-power devices to connect to the
internet to transmit and process raw sensed data and moreover to overcome
security flaws and harmful hacks. A configurable ecosystem of customized
heterogeneous low-power computing (lpc) systems; effectively delivering highperformance functionality on user driven ‘smart X’ applications and services; for
several and diverse market and societal sectors that demand secure end to end
capillary networks involvement; is the overall goal of this project.
To achieve the overall goal, CAPILOW builds a novel lpc enabling platform (Cplatform) to address problems existing in the present state of the art, such as
security, real-time and mixed criticality constraints. This C-platform will be
evaluated with consistent and complete application experiments for
maintenance and repairs operations; connected vehicles & retail operations
management; and environmental monitoring; thus contributing with use-case
driven reference implementations that activate consensus building not only in
e.g. the areas of smart manufacturing, smart logistics/retail, smart
monitoring/metering but also well beyond. Therefore CAPILOW proposes an lpc
ecosystem of heterogeneous low-power computing networks of cyber-physical
systems (C-ecosystem), while at the same time it demonstrates its relative
merits on a discrete application market & societal domains. CAPILOW will
evaluate the performance and cost effectiveness of the proposed C-ecosystem
to support the concept of scalable advanced computing that is reflected by the
clustering of micro-cloud applications (on thematic small data centres) and the
potential to develop large scale Cloud Big Data analytics to semantically &
contextually correlate clustered information to produce problem driven
knowledge as a service (lpc as a Service, Context as a Service, Security as a Service
etc).
In the light of the above, the major objective of the project is to:
Design, develop, implement, demonstrate and validate a prototype of a
service platform that physically bridges devices with the cloud but also
virtually federates computation nodes to a single abstract pool of
computation capacity.
The platform will be capable of (i) providing plug n play connectivity to
heterogeneous devices/sensors/actuators, User Equipment (UEs) and
Wearables, (ii) aggregating mass amounts of real-time information from the
devices through numerous sources, running harmonization corrections, (iii)
transforming this information into unified metadata-form capable of further
knowledge processing, (iv) directly transferring it to the cloud using secure
bootstrap authentication through mobile communication technologies and
(v) employing self-x1 decision making systems for the autonomous operation
and management of the devices.
Fundamental project baselines are defined by the MYNXG® Platform System
Architecture prototyped by MyOmega System Technologies Gmbh (TRL5)2.
Ultimately, the project will provide a complete framework for enabling low
power computing as a Service (lpcaaS) by involving all relevant stakeholders in
the creation of innovative services and applications that require the autonomic
operation of heterogeneous, potentially previously internet-agnostic devices
and accordingly the creation of innovative Internet ecosystems.
In order to achieve this major objective, the project will address the following
lateral objectives:
 Define and elaborate on scenarios and requirements for the plug n’
play, low power communication among heterogeneous devices;
becoming internet – enabled; (including industrial sensors, devices,
capillary networks, wearable devices, virtual sensors); evaluation
scenarios will target discrete demonstrations for e.g. smart
manufacturing, smart logistics/retail, smart environmental monitoring.
Smart metering etc.
1
2
Self-X: Self-Optimization, Self-Coordination, Self-Healing, Self-Repair and more.
http://www.ericsson.com/news/150302-ericsson-showcasing-security-solutions-at-mwc-2015_244069647_c
 Design, develop and demonstrate a novel mobile platform attributing
low power computing to heterogeneous devices with lightweight
connectivity, aggregating data from various sources in a real-time
fashion, and transferring harmonized raw data to the cloud for further
processing; the platform delivered will constitute a TRL6/7 prototype,
based on partners’ existing assets, integrating partners’ mature TRL5/6
prototypes, brought in the project as a result of relevant previous work
in the context of private (MYNXG©3) and/or H2020/FP7 project
activities, components and innovation enablers (e.g. FI-WARE generic
enablers4).
 Employ knowledge models and reasoning algorithms enhanced with
autonomic, self-x capabilities for the opportunistic operation of low
power devices and their management and decision making in the
cloud. This involves formulating the necessary algorithms to enable
opportunistic networks, through the management tasks opportunistic
network suitability (strongly relying on information and knowledge on
context, profiles, policies), creation (including spectrum decision, and
routing), maintenance (e.g., as node status will change, or the amount
of necessary resources will vary, according to the characteristic of
applications), and forced termination handling.
 Realize integration, as well as validation activities, so as to showcase
the project’s findings, in line with defined and managed key
performance indicators, such as the level of satisfaction of generic
goals to develop cloud based forecasting algorithms and technoeconomical tools, based on the utilization of the underlying CAPILOW
platform and ecosystem.

The performance of the system will be benchmarked by a set of
Demonstration use cases (CAPilow Use Cases CAPUCs) respectively defined by
industrial end users. E.g.:
o A Demonstration of how the CAPILOW platform can be deployed to link
mobile computing device users to manufacturing enterprise asset
management/ maintenance and repairs operations (EAM-MRO)
processes. Users shall be empowered to get access to relevant data
from machines. Support systems will provide the needed information
to allow timely decision making based on ontological and knowledge
based data. Security and safety is implemented through the entire
chain from field data collection to ERP systems.
o A Demonstration of how the CAPILOW platform can be deployed for
for retail and logistics management scenarios (RM) processes. The
challenge is to build autonomous retail management services provided
by IP operators and Retail Technology Suppliers also provided to third
party organizations in a secure and measurable fashion. The underlying
low power computing platform may also interface connected vehicles
and retailers’ shops and build end to end Internet of Things (IoT)
connectivity from vehicles and their retail logistics to the cloud
services.
o A Demonstration of how the CAPILOW platform can be deployed for
the provision of lpc services in smart Environmental Pollution
Monitoring/metering scenarios (e.g. via organizing virtual sensors) at
agro-intensive areas (e.g. for precision agriculture, c.f. MyOmega
Tracovino Wine generation monitoring system) both at micro-cloud
and cloud Big Data contexts.
o A Demonstration of smart metering services for energy harvesting
forecasting and quality via nurturing Big Data analytics forecasts.
3
Mobile World Congress 2015, MWC Barcelona, MyOmega System Technologies Gmbh Bavarian Booth & ERICSSON® Booth
demonstrator.
4 http://catalogue.fiware.org/enablers, accessed April 2015
In the light of the lateral objectives, The central evaluation goal of CAPILOW is
to assess the level of performance improvement due to the design, development
and application of the C-platform and C-ecosystem and the respective low
power computing enablers (lpces). Moreover this innovation action will evaluate
how lpces will impact the CAPILOW evaluation markets (CAPEMs) i.e.
manufacturing industries, mobile operators, retail management, transportation
logistics, the environment and precision agriculture markets and beyond56.
The current consortium is based on ongoing work and research on
behalf of:
-MyOmega System Technologies Gmbh (DE)
-EPFL (SW)
-VTT (FI)
Partner search description
Type = Company/SME/Research organisation/university
+ desired skills/knowledge
Partner 1
Manufacturing Company willing to evaluate MYNXG Gateway and
custom IoT application scenarios. The company is required to specify
in detail a use case of own interest relevant to CAPILOW (e.g.
Industrial Process Improvement, Operations and Repair, Enterprise
Asset Management etc).
Partner 2
5
6
Manufacturing Company willing to evaluate MYNXG Gateway and
custom IoT application scenarios. The company is required to specify
in detail a use case of own interest relevant to CAPILOW (e.g.
Industrial Process Improvement, Operations and Repair, Enterprise
Asset Management etc).
Installed Base Of Connected Devices in 2020: 28.1 Billion, 17.5% CAGR, Global Revenue Forecast: $7.1Trillion, IDC 2014
Gartner Says the Internet of Things Installed Base Will Grow to 26 Billion Units By 2020”. Retrieved 2014-02-26.