1. PRESENTERS: MAN-SZE LI
IC Focus
FInES Cluster MeetingFInES Cluster Meeting
Brussels, May 6Brussels, May 6thth
, 2013, 2013
Sensing Enterprise

2. Definition: “a complex smart entity capable of sensing and
reacting to a wide ranging set of (business) stimuli”
Characterised by decentralised intelligence and fusion
between the physical world of atoms and the virtual world of
bits
Opens up the possibility of a third world - the digital world:
enable the enterprise to acquire new capabilities, new
properties, and new and multiple identities
Sensing (enterprise) system will acquire a multiplicity of self-*
properties that can be summarised as “self-reinvention”
Europe needs to develop a new generation of sensing
networked systems to fully exploit the potential of the next
generation Internet and its capacity to support new notions of
business behaviours, forms, and values
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3. Transformation of the way that:
business is created
business activity is transacted
business inputs are gathered, processed and factorised;
the outputs of business generate values for customers, business
partners and other stakeholders
Shifting the focus and prioritisation of enterprises resources
and activities
The Internet as the Universal Business System
Open & Linked data for Open & Linked Future Enterprises
"Sensing capabilities" to provide enterprises with new
capabilities to more rapidly adapt to market changes and local
specificities
Opportunity may vary according to economic and industrial
sectors; especially attractive in relation to support for SMEs
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4. Functional-technical challenges
data, objects and services: a large list!
Architecture-related challenges
from IoT boundaries
Middleware
Interoperability of sensor networks
Integration with other IoT platforms and ecosystems
“Who talk to who and who control what”
Business and Policy challenges
business assets and business values
business model innovation
Relationships, balance of power and control between people and
objects in enterprises and enterprise networks
Critical issue: governance of intelligent things for an intelligent
civilisation to serve people

5. Support research, application, demonstration and deployment of IoT and
associated cyber-physical systems & platforms for development & large scale
uptake of novel value-added enterprise applications, services & systems
Support Sensing Enterprise scenarios for the demonstration and deployment
of FI-PPP generic enablers and platforms
Target strategic industrial sectors for Sensing Enterprise research, innovation
and uptake
Investigate the business case and economics for the Sensing Enterprise
Investigate governance of smart objects including their cyber identities in the
context of business operations and enterprise networks
Investigate new business forms and models for human-object interaction and
partnership in the Sensing Enterprise and the associated transformation of
enterprise networks
Facilitate and nurture a Sensing Enterprise community of stakeholders in the
context of the FInES Cluster community
The Sensing Enterprise is a major area in which the IoT potential can be
concretely supported, further developed and realised, making a real impact
on especially European businesses in the years to come.
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6. PRESENTERS: MAN-SZE LI
CONTRIBUTORS: OSCAR LAZARO, LUIS CAMARINHA-MATOS

7. PRESENTERS: MAN-SZE LI
CONTRIBUTORS: OSCAR LAZARO, LUIS CAMARINHA-MATOS