Presentation of the symbIote approach during the InterOSS-IoT 2016 workshop, collocated with IoT 2016, 7 Nov. Stuttgart

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IoT Platforms Interoperability
and the symbIoTe vision
Sergios Soursos, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions
InterOSS-IoT workshop, 07 November 2016

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• Increase of connected smart devices
• Estimated growth of IoT business
• Vertical, specialized IoT platforms Þ barriers
• Need for cross-domain apps
– Strategic partnerships, federations, etc..
• Collocation of platforms Þ inefficiencies
• Maintenance of e2e solutions Þ market barriers
• Will a single standard/
technology/ protocol prevail?
IoT landscape & Motivation

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Sharing of
IoT
Resources
IoT
Platform
Federations
Domain
Enablers
New
Business
Models
Beyond Vertical Solutions - Challenges

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• symbiosis of smart objects across IoT environments
• interoperability and mediation framework
• aims at the collaboration of vertical IoT platforms
towards the creation of cross-domain applications
The symbIoTe Approach

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symbIoTe in a Nutshell
• not yet another IoT platform
• a middleware that offers a unified way for
– exposing of IoT resources to third party applications
– sharing IoT resources between federation members
– trusted discovery and secure access to IoT resources
– flexible integration of smart space infrastructure
• addresses the needs of
– developers for rapid cross-platform application
development
– small IoT platform providers for optimal collaboration
and cooperation on top of the available often fallow
resources
– SMEs for overcoming IoT market barriers

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Use Cases
1. Smart Residence
Access and manage functions across available devices, from automation devices, media
players, and personal health sensors, collocated devices belonging to different subsystems.
2. EduCampus
Integrate information containing structural data, live sensor data and social collaboration
scenarios, to establish an open ecosystem for campus services across various IoT platforms.
3. Smart Stadium
Enable the “beacon cloud”, an indoor geo-location service aiming at an effective beacon
management by infrastructure providers and create innovative applications.
4. Smart Mobility and Ecological Routing
Bring together existing city-wide air quality measurement infrastructures with wearable
sensors and traffic management systems to create ecologically preferable routes for users.
5. Smart Yachting
Automate the information processes between a boat and the mainland and allow users to
identify various land information.

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• Incremental architecture design
• Definition of domains and interoperability
aspects (symbIoTe compliance levels)
Architecture & Semantic Interoperability
Application
Domain
Cloud
Domain
Smart Space
Domain
Smart Device
Domain
Enablers’ space
Domain-specific API
IoT Applications
Gateway
Smart DevicesSmart DevicesSmart DevicesSmart Devices
Platform Backend
Interworking API
Level 4: roaming devices
Level 3: dynamic
smart spaces
Level 2: platform
federations
Level 1: syntactic
and semantic
interoperability
IoT
Platform
symbIoTe Core Services
Core API

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symbIoTe
• symbIoTe
– does not interfere
with the transfer of
resource data
– establishes trust
– enables the secure
exchange of
authorization tokens
• light footprint on IoT
platforms
Security Implications
IoT Platform
Application
resource
registration
resource
search
resource
&token
token
data

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The symbIoTe Consortium
EduCampus
Smart Mobility and Ecological Routing
Smart Stadium
Smart Residence
Technical Foundations
Smart Yachting

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• 1st Open Call
– launches on Nov 30, runs for 3 months
– targets for Level 1 compliant IoT platforms
– objective: attract IoT platforms
– budget: €100.000,00
– ~3-4 proposals to get funded
Let’s work together!

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Thank you!
Questions?
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