Workshop with R&D Research Centres Brussels, 8 January 2010

1. Future Internet Public-Private Partnership Technological Orientations Workshop with R&D Research CentresBrussels, 8 January 2010 Presentation made on behalf of DG INFSO Directorates D and F Bernard Barani European Commission - DG INFSO Converged Networks and Services 1

2. “Digital” Opportunities The Future Internet can be seen as an opportnuity to satisfy key requirements applying to infrastructures and business processes emerging from dominant “megatrends” towards: More INTELLIGENCE More FLEXIBILITY More EFFICIENCY How can we face our collective responsibilities: - Traffic jams costs Europe 135 B€/yr • 40 to 70% of electricity is lost in inefficient grids • …… How to take advantage of the wealth of information available real-time from a multitude of sources to make more intelligent choices? How to make organization and systems just as dynamic as today’s most innovative businesses? Turning data into value Leveraging the value of “networked” Getting green and sustainable Opportunity: making key societal infrastructures and business processes more intelligent and sustainable through tighter integration with the Internet.

3. Future Internet: Towards a ‘smarter’ World Supporting applications of high socio-economic value, such as in the areas Smart energy grids - Energy grids will increasingly face risks of congestion and blackout. Internet connectivity, computing power, digital sensors and remote control of the transmission and distribution system will help to make grids smarter, greener and more efficient, Smart environmental information systems - the use of sensor networks for collecting real or near real time environmental data is a growing field of application. It requires Internet connectivity for data management, dissemination and integration in complex information systems, Smart systems for transport and mobility - Putting ‘intelligence’ into the roads and cars with Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)– with e.g. sensor networks, radio frequency tags, and positioning systems offer a promising alternative. The internet provides a solution to interconnect these diverse technologies and bring more efficiency to mobility through real-time management of public and private transport resources, traveller information and decision-making tools, way beyond the capability of current solutions, Smart healthcare systems - Current research experiments aim to develop technologies for ‘ambient’ environments capable of assisting patients and satisfying their information and communication needs. These technologies combine devices (sensors, actuators, special hardware and equipment), networks and service platforms to harness information about medical conditions, patient records, allergies and illnesses. Towards the future “internet-enabled” infrastructures

4. Application Potential… …virtually unlimited

5. Piggybacking on multiple technologies Multiple Future Internet Technologies not yet fully mature but whose application to smart systems/infrastructures is very promising  virtuous tech/appli circle • New Business Models • New social opportunities • A plethora of end user (consumer and enterprise) created personalized applications with an increasing focus on mobile • Users empowered • New ways of enterprises relating to their customers, employees and partners (new Business Processes) • Devices • Smart Phones • Sensors • True Mobile Broadband • LTE, • Enabling Capabilities • Real Time Context Based analytics • Real Time Social Networking communication and analytics • Complex representation (3D) • Pervasive ‘cloud’ services • Secure and Trusted environments

6. Example, Smart Mobility Applications “Real Time Rome”, the power of “Crowd-sourcing” Rome, bus traffic vs. population distribution Rome, density of tourists vs. location (3D)

7. Result: (a) generic, open and trusted communication and services platform… (standardised and) providing cross sector services through common enablers… Multiple use case scenarios. It is anticipated that Internet-enabled smart infrastructures and processes require at least to capitalise on: Sensor Networks Cloud like service infrastructures Wireless capabilities Information “search/find” type capabilities …. Open to “user” driven innovation through multiplicity of Use Cases – SME Innovation platform. PPP Implementation Drivers

8. Cross Sector and Sustainable * Stand alone solutions developed in any one sector, will not provide the efficiency and productivity gains that a networked solution will be able to provide and that the market can support. A multidisciplinary and integrated approach, where massively distributed services and applications are run over large scale and secure internet infrastructures is targetted to deal with the increasing complexity of intertwined application and service demands. FutureInnovative Networked Use Cases * Slide courtesy of the group of 16

9. Domain- specific Domain- specific Domain- specific Domain- specific Future Internet Domain- specific Domain- specific Domain- specific Domain- specific Domain- specific Domain- specific Focus on “Smart” General-purpose Communication and Service (Core) Platforms Smart Energy Smart Living Smart Health Smart Transport

10. Application domains Architectural features Standard specifications Implementation approaches Openness: Multiple Dimensions • Architectures • Available information • Open to integration, evolution(possibly by 3rd parties) • Standards • Understandable, shared definition • Accepted by the various actors • Public and open definition process • Markets • Open to several possible implementations (including OSS and proprietary) • Open market for products and services OPEN

11. In a Nutshell • Interoperable, open communication and service platform(s) • Enable the discovery, creation, manipulation, integration, sharing or delivery of multiple types of services or experiences • Underpin secure and trusted service provisioning • Based on optimised combinations of the Networks, Services, Contents, Things.. • Address the massive scalability, complexity, reliability and usability perspectives • Open to large scale trials