Catapult is a Technology Strategy Board programme

IOT: A Digital Catapult Perspective

Cisco IoE DayLondon10 April 2014

Dr. Maurizio PiluPartnerships Director

@Maurizio_Pilu @cdecatapult

Connected Digital Economy Catapult 2

• National centre to advance UK’s best digital ideas• Set up & backed by Technology Strategy Board• Independent, non-for-profit, based in London• Focussed on “data value chain”• Centre with critical mass

• 100+ staff & technologists• £10m p.a. of core investment from government + over

time £20m p.a. of external funding

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Collaborate > Unlock > Accelerate3

• Our role is to enable digital innovation by …

• …collaborating with partners to …

• …develop a portfolio of openly accessible demonstrators, platforms & capabilities …

• …which unlocks clearly identified industry challenges in the data value chain

• … for the benefit of digital innovators

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Innovator challenges

• Integration & access to diverse data sets

• Privacy and trust

• Content innovation

• Next generation connectivity / IoT

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Digital Catapult: Our IoT / IoE angles

• Open access demonstrator & pilots• Cities & communities• Privacy & Trust• Next generation infrastructure, in

particular• 5G• M2M

• Connected product studio

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Data waves into the digital economy 6

Open data

Personal data

IoTEach wave adding opportunities for innovation and value into the digital economy

Govmnt data

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In the future …

Paraphrasing Clarke:

Any sufficiently advanced IoT/IoE solution

will be indistinguishable from the

Internet

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IoT ecosystem & innovation enablers

DOING THINGS “INTERNET STYLE”

• ACCESS TO DATA

• OPEN SOURCE

• OPEN APIs

• INTEROPERABILITY

• STANDARDS

• RAPID PROTOTYPING

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Interoperability is intrinsic to the Internet …

Computers!

Interoperability references in literature (Philip Parker, INSEAD)

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Example of data interoperability agenda in #iot#hypercat (Technology Strategy Board)

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“Internet style” interoperability exampleIFTTT tools

• Connect different web services from competing organizations

• Based on publishing metadata catalogues and APIs to data

• Simple rules: If This Then That (IFTTT)

• Example used here: Zapier

• Example of service construction: Email me every time a note is created in Evernote with the tag #iot

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e.g. Zapier: Select actions

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Zapier: service directory …

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Low moisture in my flower pot? Send me a whatsapp message and turn down heating

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The Must Have ??? 15

“Internet style” interfacesand interoperability for IoT/IoE