Linda Doyle, CONNECT Director,

Professor of Engineering and The Arts

CONNECT

• CONNECT is a National Research Centre which undertakes research into the telecommunications Networks of the Future.

• SCOPE: Services & Applications, Fixed & Mobile Networks, IoT

• 60% Targeted Projects: Collaborative Research Projects (with Industry Partners)• 40% Platform Research: Blue Skies Research

• CONNECT consists of 10 Institutions and >35 Industry partners.TCD is the Lead Research Partner

• Centre Fundingo 50%: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) as the agency responsible for the administration

of PUBLICALLY FUNDED RESEARCH IN IRELAND provides ~50% of the centre funding o 50%: The other ~50% is provided by industry partners (cash & in-kind).

• All collaborative projects with industry partners must comply with EU STATE AID RULES

TCD (Wireless/Optical Networking/ Cognitive & Software

Radio/ Thermal for RF /Media Applications)

DIT (Antennas)

DCU (Optical Systems)

NUIM (RF Design/Networking/ Privacy)

UCD (RF Design Microelectronic Design)

UCC (Mobile Communications/Sensor Networks/

Network Security, Network Optimisation)

Tyndall (Smart Sensors & Microelectronics/

Communications)

CIT (IoT Services/ Sensor Networks/

Telecommunications)

UL (Thermal)

TSSG (Network Management/ SDN/ Cloud Computing)

Start date: 2015 / value: 50 Million ++ / duration: 6 years

10 ACADEMIC Institutions10 Principal Investigators35 Funded Investigators120 RESEARCHERS (Post Doc + PhD)

• Future Apps & Services

• Future Fixed & Mobile Networks

• Internet of Things

10THE CONNECT Institutional TEAM

“PERVASIVE NATION”CONNECT’s IoT TESTBED

The objective of Pervasive Nation is to build

an IOT Testbed of Scale which will become a

crucial resource for industry, government and

academia, and which will act as a catalyst for

innovation in the IOT space.

What do we mean by scale?

GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE(Ireland)

DENSITY PER SQUARE KM(20K PER SQUARE KM?)

What do we mean by crucial resource for industry, government and academia?

• The network, though a research infrastructure, is robust.• It is professionally run. • It is a crucial step in proof-of-concept for an

application/service/product rather than just a nice to have. • It is possible to experiment/evaluate/play in any part of the end-to-

end infrastructure we provide. • Meaningful evaluations that go beyond the connection of a few

sensors for sporadic periods of time are possible.• The scale leads to uncovering new insights. • It is sustainable.

PERVASIVE NATION

Being a crucial resource for industry, government and academic is also about working at the right

technology readiness levels

What do we mean by a catalyst for INNOVATION?

• Ensure that plenty of ideas work through TRL4-7.

• Promote PN to CONNECT partners and industry at large.

• Create a suite of programmes/opportunities/events/hackathons around Pervasive Nation for interested parties to develop independent ideas.

• Use our interdisciplinary insights to provide wider insights around the types of companies and initiatives that are possible in this space

IOT design thinking

IOT Data Management

IOT Virtual Operator IOT Virtual Operator

IOT sensors IOT sensor integrator

IOT APP IOT APPIOT APP IOT APP IOT APP

IOT Network Infrastructures

IOT Data Analytics

IOT Data Social Entrepreneurship

IOT …………………………………………………………

TYPES OF COMPANIES THAT MIGHT EMERGE

IN SUMMARY

1.BLANKET IRELAND IN IOT INFRASTRUCTURE

2.OPEN UP OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXISTING COMPANIES

3. SEED 200 NEW COMPANIES

4.CONNECT A MILLION THINGS

5.MAKE IRELAND THE DEFINITIVE IOT TEST ISLAND

Find out more….Get in touch…….

Come and talk to us

Backup

LPWAN and IOT?

The main part of the testbed will be based on low powered wide area networks – LPWAN

The IOT application space in large with many verticals – health, agriculture, cities, education, transport, automation, …..

In each of the verticals there are wide area network applications that need rich flows of data and for which power is not an issue and there are wide area network applications that only need short messages and for which power is a major issue – it is these latter applications that are suited to LPWAN.

LPWAN

A technology that supports small messages with specific duty cycles.

A technology that supports low power end nodes and hence long battery life.

A technology that is suited to accessing sensors in awkward spots.

A technology that has a cost point that suits the end applications.

WE NEED TO EVOLVE to be crucial resource for industry, government and academia ..

IoT is still emerging – hence aspects of our testbed will allow us to compare behaviours and look at enhancements – the software radio subsection.

THE IOT TESTBED

LPWANUsing an emerging standard LoRa

Software Radio Defined – subsection for exploring enhanced options and for comparing different standards

can evaluate sensors/ radios

can evaluate basestation characteristics

can evalu

ate service d

esign

can evaluate data centre related issues –and business models

can evaluate management & control

can evaluate overall performanceInterference etc…...

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