1. CECIIS 2012 September 19-21, 2012, Varaždin, Croatia
Events Processing and Device Interoperability in a Smart Office IoT Application
Karol Furdík, Gabriel Lukáč
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Technical University of Kosice, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Košice, Slovakia,
InterSoft, a.s., Košice, Slovakia, 1 1

2. Contents Context of FP6 & FP7 projects ebbits project ELLIOT project
HYDRA, LinkSmart system, ebbits, ELLLIOT
ebbits project
basic facts, concepts, pilot applications
LinkSmart structure, events processing
ELLIOT project
basic facts, EEU extension of the project
Living Lab approach to IoT app development, KSB-KPI approach
Smart Office pilot application - scenarios, structure of devices, implemented prototype, experiments
Conclusions
summary of achievements, future work
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3. Context of FP6 & FP7 projects
FP6 HYDRA
objective: development of a semantic middleware for IoT applications
FP7 ebbits
objective: enhance LinkSmart and apply it in real business environment
LinkSmart
Open Source semantic middleware for IoT
FP7 ELLIOT
objective: co-design of IoT applications in a Living Lab
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4. EBBITS project – basic facts
ebbits: Enabling Business-Based Internet of Things and Services
Integrated EU project, FP7 ICT, Activity ICT “Internet of Things and Enterprise environments”, Contract no.:
Duration: 09/2010 – 08/2014 (48 months)
Web:
Coordinator: Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Project consortium: 9 partners (universities, research institutes, private companies) from 5 countries (GE,SWE,DEN,IT,SK)
2 pilot applications - Italy and Denmark
Main project objective:
To develop architecture, technologies and processes, which allow businesses to semantically integrate the Internet of Things into mainstream enterprise systems and support interoperable real-world, on-line end-to-end business applications
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5. The concept of ebbits The ebbits platform:
1. a bridge between enterprise and public information systems, between human users and “things” in the physical world
2. a communication infrastructure that, by means of SWS, automatically and dynamically connects to sensors and devices in the physical world - in manufacturing facilities, retails, smart homes, etc.
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6. Outcomes and pilot applications
Expected project outcomes:
enhanced LinkSmart semantic middleware, optimized for real-world business applications
toolset for development of semantic models and semantically annotated business rules / processes
interfaces to new types of devices
methodology for building a LinkSmart-based IoT solution
Pilot #1: Deployment in the manufacturing stage:
to manage production optimization with special emphasis on energy savings and CO2 reduction;
automotive industry, assembly processes;
data collected from sensors in the assembly line, semantically annotated and processed towards the optimization criteria.
Pilot #2: Deployment in the consumption stage:
traceability throughout the food chain, from “farm to fork”, across the life-cycle history of the food;
collecting data automatically from various actors, sensors and systems, indexing and intelligently registering it in public databases.
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7. LinkSmart: structure, eventing
Enhancements in ebbits:
new types of devices and services,
semantic sensor fusion, more advanced events processing,
business rules and business process models,
pilot applications in automotive industry and agriculture
Events processing in LinkSmart:
Publisher/Subscriber model
P2P network infrastructure instead of the service bus
events are wrapped by WS, semantically annotated, then fused and combined to business rules elements
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8. ELLIOT project - basic facts
ELLIOT: Experiential Living Lab for the Internet Of Things
Framework Programme 7, ICT Call 5 : FP7-ICT
Objective ICT : Internet of Things and Enterprise environments
Project type: STREP / Collaborative research, Project No:
Duration: 30 months (September February 2013)
Web:
Coordinator: TXT Polymedia S.p.A., Italy
Partners: (Italy, Germany, France, UK, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia)
Aims of the project:
the development of an Internet of Things experiential platform,
to directly involve users (customers, citizens) in co-creating, exploring and experimenting new ideas, concepts and technological artefacts,
to study a potential impact of IoT and the Future Internet in the context of the Open User-Centred Innovation paradigm and of the Living Lab approach.
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9. Living Lab approach to IoT
Objectives, principles of the approach in ELLIOT:
Explore the potential of user co-creation techniques and tools, such as serious gaming, participative requirements engineering and verification/validation, in the context of IOT.
Study and develop a set of KSB (Knowledge-Social-Business) Experience Models integrating social, intellectual-cognitive, economical, legal and ethical aspects related to the use of IoT technologies and services into a single, “holistic”, meta model.
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10. ELLIOT-EEU extension Focus of pilots:
Extension to the Enlarged European Union (EEU):
Duration: 18 months (September February 2013)
3 new use cases - pilot applications: Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, as complements to former ELLIOT pilots
Focus of pilots:
Logistics PLM: Logistics Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) supported by IoT and RFID technologies
BIBA LogDynamics Lab, Bremen, Germany
SafePay Systems Ltd., Hungary
Extended concept of “Well Being” in a hospital environment
San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
Virtech Ltd., Bulgaria
Green ICT Usage Lab
INRIA (Sophia Antipolis), France
InterSoft, a.s., Kosice, Slovakia
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11. ELLIOT Living Lab in Slovakia
Pilot name: ECOffices - Ambient Intelligence in energy saving
The Smart Office use case:
Integrates AmI-IoT & semantic technologies, with respect to the KSB (knowledge-social-business) aspects of user interactions
Targets the optimization of energy consumption in offices
Focus, goals:
experiment the ELLIOT outcomes and the new semantically enhanced AmI technology in the Energy test case in Slovakia
demonstrate the platform capabilities towards a positive impact on environment (energy consumption, CO2 footprint)
Technology:
AmI-IoT: based on LinkSmart middleware, using outcomes of the FP7 project ebbits.
Semantics: device ontology, fusion of generated events, business rules
Devices: energy consumption, environment conditions, and occupancy sensors - Plugwise, Arduino, …
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12. The Smart Office concept
From “Smart Houses” to “Smart Offices”
Smart House:
a house that has advanced automatic systems for lighting, heating, air-conditioning, window and door operations, security etc.
many solutions, both commercial and research
Smart Office:
to employ the paradigm of the smart house in a business environment,
inclusion of / integration with business processes,
optimization of existing processes in an organization (or office),
ability to implement new and more efficient business processes,
expected benefits on the user level regarding to more organized and coordinated social interactions.
Challenges:
correspondence of AmI-IoT with business processes,
acceptance and support from the side of employees (and management),
possible solution: AmI-enhanced services and processes should follow the recommendations of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL, and the related standard ISO/IEC 20000:1-5.
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13. Application partner : RWE IT
RWE IT Slovakia,
belongs to RWE group, leading energy (gas, electricity) distributor in Eastern Slovakia
daughter company of RWE IT GmbH, IT services provider for RWE
ECOffices pilot is implemented in the premises of RWE IT:
office type: open space room
8 employees in the office (administration department)
central heating, air conditioning individually controlled within the office
equipment: computers, monitors, phones, 2 x printers, 1 x scanner / copier
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14. ECOffices : the Living Lab concept
General Goal: a systematic and iterative user co-creation approach integrating research and innovation processes towards the energy efficiency in business environment, using AmI-IoT technologies (enabled by the LinkSmart system).
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15. Living Lab scenarios
Scenario #1: Exploration of a suitable occupancy sensing device
4 different types of occupancy sensors identified by IoT experts
Goal: Users exploring, experiments and evaluation; Focus: to find a balance between:
Comfortable environment
Amount of saved energy / CO2 emissions
Privacy loss
Scenario #2: Process-based adaptation of the working environment
Uses occupancy sensor as an output of scenario #1.
Template process model given, e.g. predefined work hours, seasonal settings of environment
Adaptation of working environment according to user preferences
Goal: Adapted process model as an explicit representation of the working environment settings in a given time scale
Scenario #3: Competition on energy savings in the office
Users playing a “game” saving real energy
A visualization showing actual consumption and CO2 footprint data, overall ranking given
Ranking provided to decision makers -> e.g. awarding of winners?
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16. Pilot implementation (1)
Schedule of the pilot:
1st round: May 18th (completed)
2nd round: end of August
evaluation: end of 2012
Technology:
Devices installed (see figure)
Data monitored and collected from the 1st round, evaluation is ongoing, use of the data in occupancy sensing
Interface to ECOffices system is a web portal
Arduino-based prototypes (see next slide)
Involvement of users:
Initial user requirements and information about user habits collected by a questionnaire
Smart Office Portal - Web application for gathering user experiences was developed
Success factors and KPIs (focused on KSB aspects) were specified and provided for analysis into ELLIOT platform
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17. Pilot implementation (2)
Arduino-based open HW
Xbee, Thermometer, Ambient light sensor
SmartOffice Portal – the main user interaction tool
Data - log example:
power usage: 46.00W on 000D6F000072AF09 at :17:17
power usage: 42.00W on 000D6F0000D33655 at :17:17
power usage: 3.00W on 000D6F D at :17:17
power usage: 36.00W on 000D6F CB at :17:17
Log format: [Immediate power consumption in watts] [ID: MAC address of sensor] [timestamp]
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18. Summary, future steps Work done so far: Next steps: 18
LinkSmart middleware adapted for the ECOffices Living Lab
pilot prototype implemented
1st round of experiments on Scenario #1 accomplished
Occupancy sensing: simple motion sensor - precision 45-50%, combination of motion sensors, RFIDcards, and energy consumption monitoring - precision 94%
data from sensors collected and provided to the ELLIOT platform for KSB analysis
Next steps:
new types of devices - actuators: air conditioning control, light switches
business rule / process engine, based on Drools framework,
template process model for Scenario #2 will be developed
Scenario #2 experiments, evaluation
the Smart Office portal will be enhanced to enable the “game” on energy savings
Scenario #3 experiments, evaluation
ECOffices Living Lab has an ambition to join the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL, in its next wave.
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19. Thank you for your attention!
Questions, suggestions, ...?
Contact:
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Acknowledgements: The presented work was supported by the ELLIOT project ( and the EBBITS project ( co-founded by the European Commission within the contracts No and No , respectively.
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