Forum on Internet of Things: Empowering the New

Urban Agenda
Geneva, Switzerland, 19 October 2015

Empowering Urban Innovation Through

Convergence of IoT-Big data and Cloud

Dr.-Ing. Abdur Rahim,

Project Coordinator; Create-Net
abdur.rahim@create-net.org
 Convergence in EVERYWHER
Convergence of
technology
Convergence of
business and ecosystem
Convergence of people,
application, things,
data, devices, etc.
Source: IDC
Convergence of IoT, big data and cloud
For IoT, number of billions of connected devices is an
indicator of IoT. The connectivity is just an enabler but
the real value of IoT is on data (business insight/data-
driven economy)
For Big Data, data collection is one of the main
concern, and IoT can play an important roles for data
collection and data sharing
For Big Data, data is nothing without real business
value insight
Cloud offers Everything as a Service business model
for IOT and big data.
IoT is a King, Big data is a Queen and Cloud is a Palace
Cloud-based IoT Big Data applications
Massive
monitoring
Prescriptive and
descriptive Real-time
actionable insight

Proactive and
predictive Observation

Performance and
optimization
Key requirements of IoT-Big data platform
Security and
privacy

Intelligent and
Scalable dynamic

Distributed and
Real-time decentralized
 iKaaS-EU-Japan IoT big data platform
App. App.

Query

Storage KaaS
Global Cloud
Data
Data
Knowledge Knowledge
Security Security
GW GW

Query Query

Local Cloud Local Cloud

Storage Storage
Data Data

Sensors Sensors
/IoT Devices /IoT Devices

The goal of this project is to combine ubiquitous and heterogeneous sensing, smart objects,
semantic, big data and cloud computing technologies in a platform enabling the Internet of
Things process consisting of continuous iterations on data ingestion, data storage,
analytics, knowledge generation and knowledge sharing phases, as foundation for cross-
border information service provision.
 Smart city opportunities and challenges
Smart City is a concentration of
people and devices
Currently 72% of the EU population
lives in urban areas, using 70% of our
energy.
Most of the data is generated by
people/citizen and process/machine
IoT/ big data can offer value to
energy systems, mobility, climate
change, and water and air quality,
crime, autonomic car.
 Madrid City-Environmental Health

Environmental health use case focusing on pollutants, pollen, airborne

contaminants, precise detection to offer improve accuracy of information to
citizen
Install number of environment city sensors on-board public transportation, to
correlated with historical environment health data
 Sendai Smart Village in Japan

Tago-Nishi is build as a smart city, including town management and health

services
Offering personalize and context aware services, considering the data
from energy-consumption of each of the house, weather, wearable, etc.
 OPEN INNOVATION
PLATFORM FOR IOT-BIG
DATA IN SUB-SAHARA
AFRICA
Smart Applica ons Users management
(Monitoring, control, predic ve (Users authen ca on, privacy,
of systems, no fica on of users) log-in, persona;ize users )

Openness and applica on development of third par es

Interoperable Service and Dynamic Workflow
(Service deployment, APIs, dynamic composi on)

Processing and Analy c Engine

(Stream and batch processing and Big data analy c capabili es)
Lower entry level for SMEs and IoT Broker and Management
application developers (connec vity, device registra on and management, data
management

Improve living and working condition

of African rural community Connec vity

Technology Network communica on (long-range/short range

single hop, MAC)
Long-distance remote monitoring,
control and users notification Device
Prediction, forecasting, optimization Embedded So ware (Signal processing)
and big data analytic applications
Hardware (embedded sensors, connec vity)
 WAZIUP application domains

Irrigation Livestock farming Fish farming

Storage and logistic Mobile health Fresh water

 Sense of connection!
Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation
to everything else- Buddha

One more from Advaita Philosophy; its also called non-

duality
It says
"the sense that all things are interconnected and not
separate, while at the same time all things retain their
individuality".
 Conclusion
Convergence is everywhere, it is just starting
Think on the how your business will convergence
and scale-up
Need for more large-scale IoT and big data testing
and experimentation
In developed counties majority people are living
in City whereas in developing countries still living
rural area
IoT, Big data and Cloud are the future of the
world