Man-Sze Li presented "Translating Knowledge into Growth: Views from ICT Research to Support Future Business Innovation" (FInES Workshop at Aalborg)

1. FInES Workshop
Translating Knowledge into Growth: Views
from ICT Research to Support Future
Business Innovation
Panel 2: The Sensing Enterprise
9 May 2012
Aalborg
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2. Panel Introduction
Man-Sze Li
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3. Panel description
This panel provides a strategic overview of business,
technical and governance issues relating to the
Sensing Enterprise.
• What benefits does the Internet of Things bring
about for businesses?
• Are European enterprises in general, and
manufacturing enterprises in particular, equipped
and ready for the challenges ahead?
• What does the Sensing Enterprise mean and why is
it important?
• What are the opportunities, barriers and risks? Who
should be tackling them and how?
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4. “Sensing Enterprise” - origin
• The Sensing Enterprise is a concept
created by the FInES community in the
context of the advent of the Augmented
Internet. It refers to an enterprise
anticipating future decisions by using
multi-dimensional information captured
through physical and virtual objects and
providing added value information to
enhance its global context awareness.
Source: Future Internet Enterprise Systems (FInES) Position Paper, 2011
“The WhatYouSenseIsWhatYouGet Enterprise”
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/enet/documents/fines-position-paper-fp8-orientations-final.pdf
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5. Sensing Enterprise
• A complex smart entity capable of
sensing and reacting to a wide ranging
set of (business) stimuli
• Characteristics:
– “global” context awareness
– decentralised intelligence
– dynamic configurability
– multi-identity oriented
– “fusion” between the virtual & the real
– Self-*, self-re-invention?
Source: Future Internet Enterprise Systems (FInES) Position Paper, 2011
“The WhatYouSenseIsWhatYouGet Enterprise”
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/enet/documents/fines-position-paper-fp8-orientations-final.pdf
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6. Sensing as a Capability of Enterprises
some elements to consider …
Object Physical
Virtual
Device Any
Information Multi-media
Multi-form
Multi-dimensional
Context Global
Situated
Individuated to objects
Individualised for people
World Physical
Virtual
Merged
Persistence Event triggered vs “Permanence”
Source: Man-Sze Li, presentation at the IoT Conference @ Poznan, 26 October 2011
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7. References on the Sensing
Enterprise
• FInES Position Paper on Orientations for FP8, 2011
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/enet/documents/fines-position-paper-
fp8-orientations-final.pdf
• FInES Research Roadmap (under finalisation)
http://www.fines-cluster.eu/fines/jm/Publications/Download-
document/297-FInES-Cluster-2012-Research-Roadmap-2025-
v2.0.html
• IoT Conference @ Poznan, Panel on The Rise of the Sensing
Enterprise, Proceedings, 26th October 2011
– Presentation of Man-Sze Li
– Presentation of Rikardo Bueno
http://www.week.fi-poznan.eu/online/?view=session&session_id=213
• Keynote of Gérald Santucci, I-ESA Conference, Valencia, 22-23 March
2012
• Forthcoming: Paper in FInES Cluster Book 2012
Report of this workshop …
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8. Agenda
• Oscar Lázaro (Innovalia Association)
• Jochen Rode (SAP)
• John Soldatos (Athens Information Technology)
• Rob van Kranenburg (Council, IoT Forum)
• Q&A / Open Discussion
Moderator: Man-Sze Li (IC Focus)
Rapporteur: Chris Decubber (EFFRA)
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10. Topics for debate
1. The value added of and by applications
2. Sensors and new information objects
generated through IoT
3. New business opportunities (for SMEs);
openness & competition on the market;
new business ecosystems
4. The boundaries of IoT – open/closed,
public/private, collective/individual
5. Investment in potential promising areas
especially applications
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