1. RCUK/TSB
Towards a Shared Agenda for IoT
Professor Rahim Tafazolli
Director, CCSR
University of Surrey, UK

2. UK focus
RCUK (ESRC, AHRC, EPSRC, Digital Economy)
TSB
Most Catapults
(CDE, SatAPPs, High Value Manufacturing, Offshore energy, Future Cities?)
Industry
Academia

3. IoT
What is it?
Inter-networking [1] of every things[2] that make sense
• Economic value [3]
• Help solving societal problems
 [1] Inter-networking: connected, not standalone
 [2] Things: Objects (including machines), Humans, Animals, vegetables
 [3] Value theory concerns the value of objects. When it concerns economic value, it generally deals with
physical objects. However, when concerning philosophic or ethic value, an object may be both a physical
object and an abstract object (e.g. an action). source: wikipedia

4. The Internet of Things
Why Important
 Efficiency; Management of scarce resources
 Simplicity; Managing complexity on our behalf and improve our quality of life
 Fundamental in tackling the Societal Challenges
 Health, Inclusion and Assisted Living
 Intelligent Transportation Systems
 Smart Energy and Environment
 Security, safety,….
 Applications
 Industrial applications, Smart cities, Smart homes, creative industry, business
intelligence gathering, as well as help in smart communication systems …
 Real and Digital World integration
 only limited by own imagination

5. IoT theme (s)
 Convergence of many scientific themes, including:
 Pervasive computing
 Ubiquitous networking
 Cloud computing
 Ambient intelligence
 Machine 2 Machine
 Sensors devices
 Actuators devices
 Identification
 Internet
 Web
 Arts, sports ..
 ……….and different disciplines
 Main justification for Future Internet Research

6. Important applications
easy to justify business case
 E-Government
 Health, Inclusion and Assisted Living
 Intelligent Transportation Systems
 Smart grids, Energy Efficiency and Environment

7. Can IoT change human behaviour?

8. Question: Can we use “IoT” to persuade users for
more energy efficient attitude
Multidisciplinary research problem
Influence Observe human
human behaviour
behaviour
Understand
human
behaviour

9. Persuasive utility networks
Optimised resource utilisation
by behavioural change
Persuasive technology 5. Provide
1. Measure Automatic Meter
behavioural Reading, data mining
Multi-modal feedback feedback
consumption
Optimised resource Understanding of
utilisation for situations consumption
not requiring consumer patterns
intervention
4. Automate 2. Understand WSAN,
WSAN, where consumption context
control loops appropriate context composition
A set of actions Understanding of
leading to increased consumption context
3. Choose and consumer intent
resource efficiency appropriate
actions
Reasoning, autonomous decision making

10. Major General Issues
 Technology
 Heterogeneous systems and networks-
 No single standard
(e.g., different sensor and actuator technologies, and wireless and wired interfaces)
 Billions of devices
 Resource constraint (most often)
 Often low information integrity
 Questions…….
 Who/how to make money?
 What should be network architecture?
 How to handle so much data?
 How to energise them? How much energy required?
 How to manage them?
 Incl: Privacy, ethical issues?
 Numbering and identifications, Internet Governance models appropriate?
 …

11. Tsunami of Data

12. IoT – Current UK Scene
 Fragmented domains
 Many domains see, and seek, the benefits of interconnected devices
 However, they tend to look only within their domain
 Diverse Technologies
 Different interpretations of the research area result in highly fragmented and heterogeneous
technologies
 Developers are driven to develop independent solutions to meet the short term need
 Uncoordinated research activities
 Many research projects deal with IoT applications and technologies
 Many research teams are involved in IoT world-wide
 No clear ideas on market size, business opportunities, ethical implications
 Benefits of IoT are still to be “sold” to the end-users
» There is a need for an inclusive UK debate on all aspects of IoT

13. Inter-relation
Culture, Technology
Creative and
Design Science
Social,
Economics,
Legal and
Business
Ethical

14. IoT Roadmap Workshop
 Not to provide solutions
 Grand Challenges and Future Directions
But identify opportunities for the UK (plc and citizens)
Research, Technologies, applications, ethical/regulatory issues and Business
 Short term: < 10 years …..TSB, Catapults
 Long term: >50 years …..RCUK
 EPSRC themes:
 Towards an intelligent information infrastructure (TI3)
 Many-core architectures and concurrency in distributed and embedded systems,
 Digital Economy: “IT as a utility”
 ESRC Theme: True economic models of new technologies
 AHRC Theme: Creative Economy, include design and creative arts communities - Future directions. Feed into 4 Knowledge
Transfer Hubs.

15. Breakout Themes
 Technology and Science
 Information, Communications, Networking, Infrastructure
 Cloud Data
 Future Internet implications
 Social, legal and ethical
 Economics, Business
 Culture, Creative Design

16. Breakouts
 Breakout 1: Technology and Science
 Hamid Aghvami Hamid.Aghvami@kcl.ac.uk
 Breakout 2: Culture, Creative Design
 Rachel Cooper r.cooper@lancaster.ac.uk
 Breakout 3: Economics, Business
 Colin Upstill cu@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk
 Breakout 4: Social, legal and ethical
 Bill Dutton william.dutton@oii.ox.ac.uk

17. Outputs
 One white paper from each Breakout
 Each white paper will be limited to less than 10 pages
 Structure of White papers
 List of Contributors
 Executive Summary
 Rationale
 Research and Development priorities
 R&D Roadmap
 Summary and Conclusions
 Recommendations
 UK Strategic Research Agenda
 One consolidated report, edited from all White Papers
 Same structure as the white paper

18. July 11th-12th Programme
14:00-16:00 Breakout Sessions – in parallel
 Inspiration talks and Brain storming on grand challenges and opportunities
Break & Networking
16:30 Breakout Sessions-in parallel
 Field work-mixing with different groups and share experience with own group
17:45-18:30 Plenary Session
 Academic leads’ brief presentations on highlights of breakout sessions
Networking and Dinner

19. 12th July
08:30 Breakout Sessions- in Parallel
 Report back on field work and preparation of final presentations for the plenary
10:30 Coffee break
11:00- 12:00 Plenary Session
 Academic leads’ brief presentations on highlights of breakout sessions
12:00-13:00 Lunch and Departure
 End of workshops
12:30-14:00 Next Steps
Only academic leads and stake holders
 White papers Contents
 Strategic Research and Roadmap Agenda Report
 Timeline

20. Wish you good debate
Professor Rahim Tafazolli
CCSR
University of Surrey
Guildford,
Surrey GU2 7XH
UK
r.tafazolli@surrey.ac.uk