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Universal Integration of the Internet of Things through an IPv6-based
Service Oriented Architecture enabling heterogeneous components
interoperability
Grant agreement for: Collaborative project
Grant agreement no.: 288445
Start date of project: October 1st, 2011 (36 months duration)
Deliverable D8.2.3
Dissemination Activities
Contract Due Date 30/09/2014
Submission Date 30/09/2014
Version 1.0
Responsible Partner University of Luxembourg
Author List M.R. Palattella (UL), S. Ziegler (MI), L. Ladid (UL),
Stefanie Oestlund (UL), All partners have contributed.
Dissemination level PU
Keywords Internet of Things, IPv6, Dissemination
Project Coordinator: Mandat International (MI)
Sébastien Ziegler <[email protected]>
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Abstract
This Deliverable describes the dissemination and promotions activities and initiatives carried out
during the 3rd
year of the project and takes into account the recommendations by the reviewers to
promote the essential work and findings of the IoT6 project,
The dissemination was based on the IoT6 project results, and on-going feedback collected from
different target audiences and stakeholders from the IPv6 community, IoT research community,
related ICT projects, and national and international initiatives.
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Table of Contents
1. Executive Summary .................................................................................................................... 5
2. Dissemination Activities and Efforts ......................................................................................... 6
2.1. IoT6 Web Portal ........................................................................................................................................ 6
2.2. IoT6 Handbook for SMEs ......................................................................................................................... 8
2.3. Disseminating Knowledge in Year 3 ........................................................................................................ 9
2.3.1. Main Conferences and Workshops in Year 3 .................................................................................... 9
2.3.2. Publications in Year 3 .................................................................................................................... 27
2.3.3. Publications in Year 3 .................................................................................................................... 31
2.4. IoT6 in the Press ..................................................................................................................................... 32
3. IERC Collaboration Plan ......................................................................................................... 33
3.1. IERC Book 2014 ..................................................................................................................................... 33
3.2. IoT Pilot with EU-China FIRE (ECIAO) Project ................................................................................... 34
3.2.1. IPv6 Pilot at Orange in France ...................................................................................................... 34
3.2.2. IPv6 Pilot at Mandat International, Switzerland ............................................................................ 35
3.2.3. IPv6 Pilot at BII .............................................................................................................................. 39
3.2.4. IPv6 Pilot at BUPT ......................................................................................................................... 41
3.2.5. IPv6 Pilot at Orange in China ........................................................................................................ 44
3.2.6. EU-China IPv6 IoT Common Pilot and Testbed ............................................................................ 45
3.2.7. IPv6 Green IoT Common Pilot and Testbed ................................................................................... 47
4. New Initiatives for Sustainability and Future Work ............................................................. 50
4.1. Future Participation in Conferences ........................................................................................................ 50
4.2. Creation of the ETSI Industry Specification Group IP6 (IPv6 ISG) ....................................................... 50
4.3. IEEE ComSoc 5G Subcommittee ........................................................................................................... 51
4.4. IEEE ComSoc SDN-NFV Subcommittee ............................................................................................... 52
5. Conclusion ................................................................................................................................. 53
Table of Figures
Figure 1: Snapshot of the IoT6 Website Homepage ............................................................................ 6
Figure 2: IoT6 Postcard........................................................................................................................ 7
Figure 3: Cover page of the IoT6 Handbook for SMEs ....................................................................... 8
Figure 4: Demonstration team (MI, Ericsson, HESSO) ..................................................................... 14
Figure 5: Future Internet Assembly in Athens ................................................................................... 14
Figure 6: Dejan Drajic of Duvanet ..................................................................................................... 19
Figure 7: IPSO Challenge, Judgement ............................................................................................... 24
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Figure 8: Sensor Expo Demonstration (Markus Jung, VUT) ............................................................ 25
Figure 9: IPSO Challenge, Organizers, Team Winners and Judges .................................................. 25
Figure 10 : Antonio Jara with Geoff Milligan, Chair of IPSO Alliance ............................................ 26
Figure 11: IERC Cluster Book 2014 .................................................................................................. 33
Figure 12: Orange’s Dual Stack Architectural Design (Network View) ........................................... 35
Figure 13: HEPIA Building and part of the Mandat International Lab ............................................. 38
Figure 14: Champ-Baron Smart Office Testbed ................................................................................ 39
Figure 15: WSN Management System Network Structure ................................................................ 41
Figure 16: Software Stack .................................................................................................................. 41
Figure 17: Result of measurement ..................................................................................................... 42
Figure 18: Transition Technology Testbed ........................................................................................ 43
Figure 19: IPTV in BUPT .................................................................................................................. 44
Figure 20: Real time video broadcast BUPT ..................................................................................... 44
Figure 21: IPv6-Based RPL-Enabled WSN Design for Temperature Metering ................................ 45
Figure 22: IPv6 Routing Computation Scheme for Battery Powered Sensor Avoidance ................. 45
Figure 23: The EU-China IoT over IPv6 Pilot ................................................................................... 46
Figure 24: Multiple testbed integration model ................................................................................... 47
Figure 25: IEEE 1888 Test Agriculture Deployment ........................................................................ 48
Figure 26: Sensors and controllers in deployment using IEEE 1888 for communication ................. 48
Figure 27: First connectivity test results from BII to Europe were successful .................................. 49
Figure 28: First connectivity test results of IPv6 IoT devices were successful ................................. 49
Figure 29: Description of the IoT over IPv6 Pilot on the ECIAO Website ....................................... 49
Figure 30: Logo of IPv6 ETSI ISG .................................................................................................... 51
Table of Tables
Table 1: Dissemination Activities: Conferences and Workshops (Y3) ............................................. 31
Table 2: Dissemination Activities: Publication (Y3) ......................................................................... 32
Table 3: The RESTful Interfaces of the Testbeds .............................................................................. 37
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1. Executive Summary
The reviewers strongly encouraged the consortium to spend significant efforts in spreading the right
messages about the results of this project. Therefore, one of the main objectives of the IoT6
consortium during the last year has been to promote the project and disseminate its knowledge,
experiences, and project results to: researchers, people working on projects facing similar research
issues, practitioners, experts, SMEs and the industry at large.
IoT6’s achievements have been made public through deliverables which are accessible to everyone.
The consortium has disseminated its innovative outcomes to the research community through
articles in international peer-reviewed scientific journals, magazines, books, workshops and
conferences.
In order to reach the non-academic community (i.e., SMEs, and industry), IoT6 has also published
white papers summarizing the main use cases developed in the context of the project and produced
an SME Handbook providing advice and guidelines on how to integrate IPv6 and IoT.
The IoT6 consortium has been actively involved and taking the leadership in chairing and
organizing peer-reviewed, well-known, international conferences and workshops such as the IoT6
project conference “Extending Seamlessly to the Internet of Things” (esIoT 2014), the 2013 IEEE
Globecom IoT Symposium in Atlanta, the IoT Forum 2014 sessions and workshop in London, the
2014 IEEE IoT World Forum in Seoul and the 2014 IPv6 Forum Summits in Paris and Beijing.
In addition, the IoT6 consortium has taken part in events, such as FIA2014, the European Summit
on the Future Internet 2014 and other initiatives gathering researchers and experts involved in other
projects facing similar challenges (which can be overcome by using IoT6 solutions.
The IoT6 consortium has also approached the industrial community (including SMEs), and put
effort into spreading the knowledge and project achievements through the standardization bodies
(IETF, ETSI) as they involve leading industry players: The IETF attracts about 1000 experts to its
meetings and ETSI has some 600 industry members. By being active in these bodies, IoT6 seeks to
interest the industry with its project solutions and impact the standardization process (mainly in the
IETF 6LoWPAN, 6lo and 6TiSCH, and in ETSI ISG). At the same time, the participation of IoT6
partners in standardization bodies provided the opportunity to monitor current market trends and
expectations of the industry. The industrial community has been also approached through
participation in business/industry events, such as ICT Spring 2014 in Luxembourg with 2000
influential participants.
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2. Dissemination Activities and Efforts
In order to approach a broad technical and non-technical audience, as well as the Future Internet
research community, the IoT6 consortium used the project Website, and social networks. Following
the feedback/requests of the reviewers, received during the 2nd
year review, the project Website has
been completely redesigned, and all the dissemination material has been made available there.
2.1. IoT6 Web Portal
To ensure a professional communication on the Internet during Y3, the IoT6 consortium decided to
follow the reviewers’ recommendations and look for a professional Web designer for entirely
reshaping the IoT6 Website to look like a business Website instead of a technical or project site.
The revised site is available at http://www.iot6.eu and can also be accessed through www.iot6.com
and www.iot6.org.
Figure 1: Snapshot of the IoT6 Website Homepage
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The IoT6 Website (whose homepage is shown in Figure 1) has been organized into three main
sections: “About IoT6”, “IPv6 for IoT” and “News and Documentation”.
The first section “About IoT” provides an overview of the project, its aims and objectives, and it
presents the consortium (with links to each partner’s homepage). Beyond this general information,
it describes the WP structure, and the main achievements of the project. In the menu area, visitors
can access all the public deliverables.
In the second section “IPv6 for IoT”, useful information about the evolution of the IPv6 standard
and other emerging IPv6-related protocols is provided, in addition to the advantages that IoT can
gain by using IPv6. Technical details about the IoT6 architecture and use cases developed in the
context of the project are also available. Finally, in this section, visitors can fill in an IPv6 survey
proving their feedback (based on their own experience), about the use of IPv6 for IoT applications.
In the third section “News and Documentation”, all the news related to the project and a list of
useful links (related to IPv6 and/or IoT) can be found. Moreover, all the main outcomes of the
dissemination activities are also available, such as the list of IoT6-related publications, the
Handbook for SMEs (refer to Section 1.2), IoT6 postcards (shown in Figure 2) and posters. Finally,
in this section, visitors to the Website can be informed about all the events attended and/or
organized by the IoT6 consortium. Also, for those willing to get started with IPv6, a link for
checking their IPv6 connection is available.
(a) Manageability with IPv6 in IoT (b) Scalability with IPv6 in IoT (c) Scalability with IPv6 in IoT
Figure 2: IoT6 Postcard
The new Website has been kept up-to-date, and reflects all the events related to the project, and
especially the IoT6 outcomes. It highlights the tangible and quantifiable results of the project that
are of interest for various industries, SMEs, researchers, etc.
The most important news and events related to the projects have also been advertised through
Social networks, i.e., Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, which are also accessible from the IoT6
Website homepage.
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2.2. IoT6 Handbook for SMEs
Following the dissemination plan and strategy, IoT6 approached SMEs as well as researchers and
members of Academia (by means of international conference papers and journals, refer to Section
2.3). One of the main project outcomes during Y3 has been a Handbook written to support SMEs in
the unavoidable transition from IPv4 to IPv6, and in the use of IPv6 in IoT applications. Figure 3
shows the cover page of the Handbook.
Figure 3: Cover page of the IoT6 Handbook for SMEs
The Handbook has been organized in three main chapters: Chapter 1 provides an overview of the
main benefits that the Internet of Things can gain by using IPv6, and describes some potential area
of applications, such as cloud, mobile word, and building automation. Chapter 2 details for the
SMEs, the main benefit of integrating IPv6 and IoT. As an example, some of the use (and business)
cases developed in the context of the IoT6 project are presented, such as the Smart Office and the
Safety Alert scenario. Chapter 3 provides some practical advice and several technical details about
how SMEs can set up IPv6, and how different services (mail and Web server, DNS, etc.) can be
enabled with IPv6.
Several IPv6-experts, namely, Bill Manning, Staff Researcher at USC ISI, Eric Vyncke, Co-Chair
of the IPv6 Council of Belgium, Distinguished System Engineer at Cisco Systems, Adjunct
Professor at the University of Liege, and winner of the Jim Bound IPv6 Deployment Award 2014,
Mikael Lind, CTO at gogo6, and Lawrence E. Hughes, CTO, Sixscape Communications Ltd, have
provided contributions to Chapter 3. Given their great experience and deep knowledge of the IPv6
technology, their input has given tremendous value to the book. The Handbook has been
disseminated during several events, either attended or organized by members of the IoT6
consortium. It was presented for the first time at the Danube-IT conference in Novi Sad. The
Handbook was also widely spread to SMEs, during the ICT Spring conference in Luxembourg.
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2.3. Disseminating Knowledge in Year 3
The IoT6 project has further increased its efforts to disseminate its key messages and achievements
at strategic events and workshops that play an important role in the project's engagement with a
wide range of stakeholders.
2.3.1. Main Conferences and Workshops in Year 3
The following events were the major focus of the project in Year 3:
2.3.1.1. Globecom 2013, Atlanta, December 9th
- 13th
, 2013
The IoT6-led IEEE ComSoC IoT Subcommittee won a session for an IoT Symposium track with a
CFP that has attracted over 55 papers worldwide, from which 13 were selected for the 3 sessions.
The three sessions were as follows:
Two Industry Forum sessions were also won by some members of the IoT6 IIAB for Globecom 2013:
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2.3.1.2. IoT6 Korean workshop, March 3rd
-6th
, 2014, Korea
IoT6 organized a workshop in Korea with the support of its Korean consortium member KAIST. It
was collocated with a technical meeting of IoT6 by KAIST, and with the IEEE Wolrd Forum on
IoT. The workshop was an opportunity to disseminate IoT6 main outcomes, to know more about
Korean IoT-related research, as well as to explore potential cooperation between Europe and Korea.
The programme included, among others:
Visit of KAIST and discussion on future collaboration
Visit of Songdo smart city, including the Cisco entre and the smart city control room.
An IoT6-ETRI half-day session to explore synergies and cooperation links
A visit of Samsung city and meeting with the IoT research team of Samsung
A visit of SK Telekom future IoT showroom
2.3.1.3. IEEE World Forum on IoT 2014, March 6th
-8th
, 2014, Korea
The IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things 2014 was held in Seoul, South Korea in March 2014.
This flagship conference featured a comprehensive technical program including numerous sessions,
tutorials, and an industrial exhibition. The program featured prominent keynote speakers and vendor
exhibits. Proposals for tutorials and industry exhibits were also invited. Extended abstracts
describing research at the initial stage or relevant industrial results were also invited.
The IoT6-led IEEE ComSoc IoT Subcommittee, endorsed this event with its IoT logo and was in
the TPC of the overall conference. This group also organised an IoT6 Korean Workshop and the
IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things 2014 in Seoul, Korea on March 6th
- 8th
, 2014 with the
following programme of presentations from IoT6 partners:
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IoT6 organized a second workshop in Korea together with its Korean partner KAIST. The
workshop was held a few days before the IEEE World Forum on IoT in Seoul. The Korean
workshop programme included, among others: a half-day workshop with ETRI to explore potential
opportunities of cooperation between IoT6, European partners and Korean research partners. It was
agreed to explore synergies and cooperation links in the area of standardization; to explore potential
cooperation on H2020 calls, to invite ETRI to join the IoT Week and to keep contacts and continue
exploring links for future cooperation.
2.3.1.4. V6 World Congress 2014, March 19th
, 2014, Paris
The V6 World Congress brings together ISPs, Enterprises, equipment vendors, and industry leaders
to share their experiences, skills, and knowledge of deploying IPv6 worldwide.
IoT6 organised a session to promote the results to the IPv6 focused community in their yearly IPv6
Summits in Europe:
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The IoT6 Project Officer, Dr. Jorge Pereira was invited to make a remote opening speech from FIA
Athens to convey his message on IPv6:
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2.3.1.5. FIA Athens 2014 Demonstration, March 18th
- 20th
, Greece
FIA Athens 2014 constitutes the 11th consecutive conference of the Future Internet Assembly,
which is a collaboration of more than 150 projects, aiming at strengthening European activities on
the Future Internet to maintain European competitiveness in the global marketplace.
An IoT6 demonstration was set up for the FIA conference. The demonstration illustrated several
outcomes of IoT6:
The potential of IPv6 to integrate heterogeneous components of the Internet of Things together,
including:
Local sensors and actuators
Digcovery service (based in Spain)
Smart Things Information Service (based in Korea)
Software as a Service (SaaS) (based in Paris)
Remote integration of smart buildings/offices (based in Geneva)
The demonstration included several sensors and actuators enabling local interactions, including
multi-protocol interactions. The whole deployment was connected through IPv6 to the remote
resources (DigCovery, STIS, SaaS, Smart Office).
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Figure 4: Demonstration team (MI, Ericsson, HESSO)
The Project Officer ensured that IPv6 was enabled on the conference network and WiFi during the
event. The conference network was operated by GRnet, which deployed IPv6 around ten years ago,
through the EC 6NET project. An interesting finding from the event was that, out of 768 delegates,
587 were using IPv6 - most of whom probably did not know it!
Figure 5: Future Internet Assembly in Athens
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2.3.1.6. Future Internet Summit 2014, June 12th
-13th
, 2014, Luxembourg
Hosted by SnT, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security and Trust, the 5th
Summit on the Future
Internet offers a series of crucially important debates with the participation of key policy makers,
business leaders and academics. It was the event for discussing lessons learnt and for driving key
Future Internet developments. With specific focus on the European dimension, the debates set the
scene for the forthcoming R&D landscape in the context of H2020, for the broader perspectives that
need to be taken by industry to reap the benefits of the future and for a balanced and innovative
regulatory and policy reform.
IoT6 participated in this Summit by organising the conference and moderating a number of
Sessions. The Conference Organiser was Latif Ladid of UL http://future-internet.uni.lu/.
June 12th
, 2014
Session 1: Future Internet in European Research: Promises and Accomplishments
Moderator: Dr. Joao da Silva, Research Fellow SnT
11:20 – 12:50 | Panel Discussion
Martin Potts, Director of Martel Switzerland
Ilkka Lakaniemi, Chair, EU Future Internet PPP and Vice President, Digitalization, Finland
Chamber of Commerce
David Kennedy, Director of Eurescom
Jesús Villasante, Head of Unit, DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology
Session 2: Communications – Networking
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Luis M. Correia
14:00 - 15:30 | Panel Discussion
Dr. Werner Mohr, Head of Research Alliances, Nokia Siemens Network
Prof. Dr. Luis M. Correia, Prof. in Telecommunications, University of Lisbon
Gerald Oberst, SES, SVP, Regulatory and Government
Jean-Marie Spaus, POST, Director of the Telecommunication Division
Prof. Dr. Peter Kirstein, Head of Department of Computer Science, University College
London
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Session 3: Smart Cities
Moderator: Sébastien Ziegler, Founder and Director General of Mandat International
16:00 – 17:30 | Panel Discussion
• Prof. Dr. Luis Muñoz, University of Cantabria, Spain
• Prof. Khaldoun Al Agha, LRI
• Animesh Pathak, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt
Session 4: Data Centres, Open Data, Big Data
Moderator: Latif Ladid, Research Fellow SnT
11:20 – 12:50 | Panel Discussion
• Robert Jenkins, Co-Founder and CEO of CloudSigma
• Alberto Abella, Partner of Smart Cities, Open and Big Data, Rooter
• Stephane Grumbach, Principal Investigator, IXXI ENS Lyon, INRIA
• Dr. Malte Beyer-Katzenberger, Policy Officer at European Commission, Directorate General
for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
• Dr. Radu State, SnT Research Scientist
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2.3.1.7. IoT Forum and IoT Week, June 16th
- 20th
, 2014, London 2014
The Internet of Things International Forum aims at the development of a worldwide interoperable
Internet of Things, addressing technology barriers, business and societal challenges to create the
conditions for a truly worldwide Internet of Things ecosystem and market. It does this through
promoting international dialogue and cooperation on the Internet of Things between diverse actors
from industry, research and government and across sectors.
MI is a Founder and Board member and host of the IoT Forum and played a leading part during the
IoT Week programme. IoT6 took part in the Technology WG session of the international IoT
Forum (London, June 2014) and presented the IPv6 vision in IoT. Moreover, MI organized with the
other IoT6 members, special sessions on IoT and IPv6 which strengthened the links and aligned the
visions on IPv6 potential for IoT related projects.
During IoT Week 2014, MI organized two IoT6-related sessions including:
IoT Emerging Standards
Chaired by Sébastien Ziegler (MI), Coordinator of IoT6 project, with:
Latif Ladid, Chair of the IPv6 Forum and IEEE IoT Subcommittee, SnT/UL
Marco Carugi, ITU
Patrick Guillemin, ETSI
Pascal Thubert, Chair of the 6TiSCH Working Group at the IETF
Denise McKenzie, OGC
The Internet of Things success will be driven by the integration and harmonization of all
communication systems federating our work and life. Therefore, the systems can provide ubiquitous
communication and computing with the purpose of defining a new generation of services. This
session explored the recent development in the area of standardization related to the Internet of
Things. It discussed the potential of emerging standards to provide a global access and better
integration of a highly fragmented Internet of Things. This addressed the issues regarding emerging
communication requirements in terms of lightweight versions of IPv6-related protocols, emerging
semantics, platforms, and application requirements. The speakers and panelists were leading experts
from various standardization bodies and shared their views on the most promising on-going
developments in terms of standardization for the Internet of Things.
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IoT - IPv6 – Towards a Global Convergence
Chaired by Sébastien Ziegler (MI), Coordinator of IoT6 project with:
Latif Ladid, Chair of the IPv6 Forum, SnT/UL
Jorge Pereira, European Commission
Srdjan Krco, Ericsson
Bruno Smets, Philips Lighting
Antonio Skarmeta, University of Murcia
Pascal Thubert, Chair of the 6TiSCH Working Group at the IETF
Veronika McKillop, Cisco and President of the UK IPv6 Council
“Take the Internet where no other network has been before” states Dr. Vint Cerf, one of the
Founders of the Internet and Honorary Chairman of the IPv6 Forum. Indeed, the Internet of Things
(IoT) is taking the Internet where no network has been before with expected 50 billion connected
devices. The Internet of Things success will be driven by the integration and harmonization of all
communication systems federating our work and life. Thereby, the systems can provide ubiquitous
communication and computing with the purpose of defining a new generation of services. In this
context, IPv6 is a key enabler in terms of scalability, interoperability and reliability. The panel
presented and discussed recent trends related to IPv6 and Internet of Things convergence, by
gathering research and industrial perspectives with a paradigm shift in defragmenting the Internet of
Things through IPv6. The session addressed the issues regarding emerging communication
requirements in terms of lightweight versions of IPv6-related protocols, emerging semantics,
platforms, and application requirements. The IoT impact on security and privacy requirements was
also taken into account since it is one of the major pending challenges for the IoT. Finally, the
definition of new advanced architectures and models for the IoT integration with the Cloud
Computing, and Big Data frameworks was also considered.
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2.3.1.8. ICT Spring 2014, July 3rd
- 4th
, 2014, Luxembourg
The ICT Spring Europe event is an influential voice in the worldwide Tech Community whose aim
is to encourage conversations and the sharing of opinions on innovations and trends as well as
providing an excellent networking opportunity for business decision makers, innovation managers,
start-ups, researchers and venture capitalists, on a European-wide scale.
The IoT6 project organised a workshop and a demonstration during this event on July 3rd
- 4th
, 2014.
http://www.ictspring.com/
The agenda was as follows:
Moderator: Latif Ladid, UL/IPv6 Forum President
IPv6 and IoT Services: Sébastien Ziegler, Coordinator IoT6 Project, President & CEO,
Mandat International, Switzerland
IPv6, Security & Privacy in IoT: Prof. Antonio Skarmetta, IoT6 Project, UMU, Spain
IPv6 in the Mobile World: Dr. Srdjan Krco, Co-founder and CEO at DunavNET
The demonstration was led by Dejan Drajic (Duvanet), Maria Rita Palattella (UL) and Cedric
Gretaz (MI).
Figure 6: Dejan Drajic of Duvanet
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ICT Spring session introduction
The public IPv4 address space managed by IANA (http://www.iana.org) has been completely
depleted by February 1st, 2011. This creates by itself an interesting challenge when adding new
things and enabling new services on the Internet for the banking sector and for SMEs. The IoT
capabilities would be greatly reduced without public IP addresses. Most discussions about IoT have
been based on the illusionary assumption that the IP address space is an unlimited resource or it is
even taken for granted that IP is like oxygen produced for free by nature. However, IPv6 is ready to
take on this challenge.
In the early 90s, IPv6 was designed by the IETF IPng (Next Generation) Working Group and
promoted by the IPv6 Forum since 1999. Expanding the IPv4 protocol suite with larger address
space and defining new capabilities restoring end-to-end connectivity, and end-to-end services,
several IETF Working Groups have worked on many deployment scenarios with transition models
to interact with IPv4 infrastructure and services. They have also enhanced a combination of features
that were not tightly designed or scalable in IPv4. These features were IP mobility, ad hoc services,
etc. catering for the extreme scenario where IP becomes a commodity service enabling lowest cost
networking deployment of (for example) large scale sensor networks, RFID, SmartGrid, IP in the
car or to any imaginable scenario where networking adds value to the commodity.
This expert session had the goal to restore some sanity in this area by discussing the open and
scalable architecture model and showcase with examples on how the banking sector and the SMEs
could exploit the new features provided by IPv6 and IoT.
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2.3.1.9. esIoT 2014 Conference, July 2nd
- 4th
, 2014, Birmingham, UK
Extending seamlessly to the Internet of Things (esIoT) is an international workshop focused on the
integration aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT). This workshop provides a forum to elaborate on
ideas and approaches to adapt, extend, or bridge the existing IoT building blocks, such as ETSI
M2M, ZigBee, IPv6/6LoWPAN, RFID, and legacy networked embedded systems. In addition, the
impact of the IoT on industry, business, and society, including security and privacy requirements,
are discussed.
IoT6 Project Partners, Antonio F. Skarmeta (Univ. Murcia, Spain) and Antonio J. Jara (Univ. of
Applied Sci. Western Switzerland (HESSO) were Workshop Chairs, as show in the following
programme.
Workshop Chairs
1. Antonio F. Skarmeta (Univ. Murcia, Spain)
2. Antonio J. Jara (Univ. of Applied Sci. Western Switzerland (HESSO), Switzerland)
Tracks & Topics:
Extending things to Internet through IPv6
o Architectures and Middlewares for Internet of Things integration
o Global connectivity
o End to End / Machine to Machine (M2M) protocols
o Protocols for smart things: 6LoWPAN / DASH7 / ZigBee IP
o Mobility management
o Cloud computing and things internetworking
o Standardization and regulatory issues
Web of Things
o Lightweight RestFul / CoAP / Lightweight SOAP
o Lightweight data structured (EXI)
o Resource Directory approaches
o Semantic description of things and services
o New patterns to communicate with things Blockwise, Observe etc…
Security, trust and Privacy
o Lightweight implementations of cryptographic stacks
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o End to end security capabilities from the things
o Security for CoAP and ZigBee IP (DTLS, TLS etc.
o Bootstrapping techniques (PANA, EAP, HIP DEX …)
RFID and end-devices Identification
o EPC to IPv6 approaches, and ONS and EPCIS for things
o NFC integration in the Internet of Things
o Human-device interactions based on RFID/NFC
o Protocols and algorithms for the massive identification of things
o Naming, address management and addressability issues
Performance modeling and network technologies
o Performance analysis (QoS, scalability, reliability, etc.)
o Channel and traffic models
o Routing protocols for the Internet of Things (RPL…)
o Sustainable design and technologies (e.g. energy-efficiency)
Use Cases and Applications
o Mobile applications (Android OS, iOS, Windows mobile, etc.)
o Real-time data management / Critical Environments
o Smart cities / Home Automation / Building Automation
o Industrial solutions
o Business models
o Testbeds and field trial
Special Track: AAL and e-Health
o AAL and e-Health applications and solutions
o Medical communications, protocols and standards
o NFC and RFID in healthcare
o Living labs and field trials
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2.3.1.10. TEMU 2014, July 28th
-29th
, Greece
http://www.temu.gr/
The International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia (TEMU) provides a forum
for discussion on recent advances in wired and wireless communication systems, audio-visual
applications and content creation/delivery technologies, Internet services and interactive
applications, as well as on tools and techniques for their performance evaluation and QoS/QoE
validation under simulated and real conditions environments.
IoT6 partners participated as a keynote speaker and in the panel discussion as follows:
July 29th
, 2014
Keynote by Latif Ladid: The role of IPv6 in IoT, SDN, CC and 5G
11:00 - 12:30 Panel Discussion on "Internet of Things Perspectives"
Latif Ladid, University of Luxembourg
Sébastien Ziegler, Mandat International, Geneva, Switzerland
Prof. Peter T. Kirstein, University College London, UK
Prof. Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras, Greece
Dr Srdjan Krco, Ericsson.
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2.3.1.11. IPSO Challenge Competition, Sensors Expo 2014, June 2014,
Chicago
The IPSO CHALLENGE 2014 competition is initiated and organized by the IPSO Alliance. IPSO
can be followed on https://twitter.com/ipsoalliance.
The purpose of this competition is to promote concepts and benefits of the Internet of Things and
Internet Protocol based Machine to Machine (M2M) applications. The competition seeks innovative
applications that can be utilized and commercialized in the open market. All submitted solutions
aree judged, with the ten best ones receiving official awards.
Markus Jung and Jürgen Weidinger of VUT submitted IoTSyS – Control Logic Editor to the
IPSO CHALLENGE 2014 competition, based on IoT6’s integration middleware, which has been
developed and released as open source under the title IoTSyS (www.iotsys.org). The entry was
selected as a semi-finalist through a closed judgement of the entries, performed by international
industry IoT experts This provided the opportunity to present the practical research project results to
an international industry audience at the Sensor Expo 2014 in Chicago and, furthermore,
participation at the IoT pavilion organized by the IPSO Alliance. The event raised great attention
and interest on the practical research outcome of the IoT6 project.
Figure 7: IPSO Challenge, Judgement
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Figure 8: Sensor Expo Demonstration (Markus Jung, VUT)
Figure 9: IPSO Challenge, Organizers, Team Winners and Judges
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2.3.1.12. IPSO Challenge Competition Award to Antonio Jara
Antonio Jesús Jara Valera (HESSO) and his team received the People’s Choice Award Winner and
were awarded a Dc900B SmartMesh IP Starter Kit, Courtesy of Linear/Dust Networks for their
work entitled “HOP into the IoT with IPv6-Ready Tiny and Wearable Bluetooth Smart Devices”.
Figure 10 : Antonio Jara with Geoff Milligan, Chair of IPSO Alliance
2.3.1.13. IPSO Awarded Jim Bound Award
As part of our IoT6 dissemination efforts, Geoff Mulligan the inventor of 6LoWPAN was
recognised and awarded the Jim Bound Award. Our project is linked to him, since IoT6 is based on
6LoWPAN which all other IoT projects are not using. Geoff Mulligan has also recognized Antonio
Jara (HESSO) and Markus Jung (VUT) for their IoT6 implementations.
After receiving the award, Geoff Mulligan stated on his Facebook page: “I keep going back to this
and saying "Wow". I would like to share the incredible message that was included with the award -
it is not just an honour to be recognized but to be recognized in the memory of such a great friend
and colleague, Jim Bound. Thank you to Latif Ladid and the IPv6 Forum”.
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2.3.2. Publications in Year 3
The full list of Conferences and Workshops in Year 3 is listed below.
Dates
Event Name Role Type of
Audience
Countries
Addressed
~ Size of
Audience
Partner
Involved
October 29th
- 31st,
2013
IoT World Forum,
Barcelona
Networking Industry International 2000 MI
November 6th
- 8th
,
2013
EC ICT
Conference
Vilnius
Panel Research International 2000 UCL
November 10th
-
13th
, 2013
39th
Annual
Conference of the
IEEE Industrial
Electronics
Society, Austria
(IECON-2013)
Conference
Presentation
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 2000 VUT
November 18th
-
21st, 2013
ITU Telecom
World 2013,
Bangkok
IoT6
presentation
Industry,
Governments
International 2000 MI, UL
December 11th
-
13th
, 2013
Globecom
IoT SaC Track,
Atlanta, USA
Session Chair
Presentation
“Internet
Gateways – an
old problem re-
visited”
Researchers Researchers 100 UCL
December 11th
-
13th
, 2013
Globecomm IoT
SaC Track,
Atlanta, USA
Presentation:
“Lightweight
Mobile IPv6: A
mobility
protocol for
enabling
transparent IPv6
mobility in the
Internet of
Things”
Researchers International 100 UL,
UMU,
MI,
UCL,
HESSO
December 11th
-
13th
, 2013
Globecomm IoT
SaC Track,
Atlanta, USA
Session Chair
SA-IoT2:
“Extending the
Internet of
Things through
Social, Mobile
Networks and
Cloud”
Researchers International 100 MI,
UL,
UMU,
UCL,
HESSO
December 11th
-
13th
, 2013
Globecomm IoT
SaC Track,
Atlanta, USA
Session Chair
SA-IoT3: “
Enabling a
Secure and
Trustable
Internet of
Things”
Researchers International 100 UL,
UMU,
MI,
UCL,
HESSO
February 17th
-
21st, 2014
GS1 Global
Forum, Brussels
Belgium
Presentation on
the IoT6 project
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 100 KAIST
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March 5th
, 2014 Invited Lecture
KAIST, Daejon,
Korea
Presentation:
“The Internet –
Past and Future”
Academic Korea
200
UCL
March 2nd
- 7th
,
2014
IETF89 London 6TiSCH WG
meeting
International
researchers,
industry,
academics
International 50 UL
March 8th
- 10th
,
2014
IoT6 Korean
workshop, Korea
Session
organizer and
meetings with
Korean
stakeholders
Korean
industry and
researchers
Korean
50 MI
All
partners
March 6th
- 8th
,
2014
IEEE World
Forum on Internet
of Things (WF-
IoT), Seoul,
Korea
Conference
presentation: "A
Scripting-Free
Control Logic
Editor for the
Internet of
Things"
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 100 UL,
UMU,
MI,
UCL,
HESSO,
VUT,
RMP
March 6th
- 8th
,
2014
IEEE World
Forum on Internet
of Things (WF-
IoT), Seoul,
Korea
Poster: "oBeliX:
Scripting-free
Control Logic
Editor for the
Internet of
Things"
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 100 VUT,
HESSO
March 6th
- 8th
,
2014
IEEE World
Forum on Internet
of Things (WF-
IoT), Seoul,
Korea
Presentation:
"Designing IoT
Architecture(s),
a European
perspective"
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 100 Ericsson,
UNIS
March 6th
- 8th
,
2014
IEEE World
Forum on Internet
of Things (WF-
IoT), Seoul,
Korea
Session Chair International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 100 MI
March 9th
- 13th
,
2014
4th
International
Conference on
Information
Society and
Technology,
Serbia
Poster: “CoAP
communication
with the mobile
phone over
IPv6“
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 100 Ericsson
March 17th
- 19th
,
2014
V6 Conference,
Paris
Session
organizer and
IoT6
presentation
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 200 MI,
UL,
UMU,
UCL
March 18th
- 20th
,
2014
FIA Athens Demonstration
of the IoT6
project - Posters
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 200 MI,
Ericsson,
TUV,
HES-SO,
UL
March 18th
- 22nd
,
2014
GS1 Standards
Event, Dallas US
Presentation on
the IoT6 project
to GS1
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 100 KAIST
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May 13th
- 16th
,
2014
PITSaC 2014,
IEEE 28th AINA,
Victoria, Canada
Paper "IPv6 as a
global
addressing
scheme and
integrator for
the Internet of
Things and the
Cloud"
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 200 RMP, MI
May 13th
- 16th
,
2014
PITSaC 2014,
IEEE 28th AINA,
Victoria, Canada
Invited Talk
"Everything is
Digital – How
the Web is
Eating the
World"
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 500 RMP
May 29th
- 30th
,
2014
Danube-IT
conference, Serbia
Project
presentation
Industry International 150 MI,
Ericsson
June 12th
- 13th
,
2014
5th
European
Summit on the
Future Internet,
Luxembourg
Presentation
“Identifiers and
end system
Properties in the
Future Internet”
European
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 150 UCL
June 12th
- 13th
,
2014
5th
European
Summit on the
Future Internet,
Luxembourg
Invited Talks,
session chairs
European
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 150 UL,
MI,
UCL,
UMU
June 16th
- 20th
,
2014
IoT week London 2 sessions
organizer and
chair and IoT6
presentations
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 500 MI
June 16th
- 20th
,
2014
IoT week London IoT6
presentations in
sessions
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 500 MI,
UL,
Ericsson,
UMU
June 16th
- 20th
,
2014
IoT week London Presentation
about IoT6
Architecture
within the IoT6
session
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 500 Ericsson,
UMU
June 16th
- 20th
,
2014
IoT week London Presentation
“A digital
Object
Approach to
IoT”
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 500 UCL
July 2nd
- 4th
, 2014 esIoT2014, UK Conference:
Extending the
EPCIS with
Building
Automation
Systems: a New
Information
System For the
Internet of
Things
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 500 KAIST,
VUT
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July 3rd
- 4th
, 2014 ETSI-EC
Workshop on
Standards for IoT
Presentation
“Handle and IoT
Security
Researchers European 100 UCL
July 3rd
- 4th
, 2014 ICT Spring 2014
Luxembourg
IoT6 session,
IoT6
presentation,
IoT6 booth with
demo and
Handbook
dissemination
Industry,
SMEs
International 4000 UL,
MI,
Ericsson,
UMU
July 28th
- 30th
,
2014
TEMU
conference,
Greece
IoT6 session
and IoT6
presentation
European
research
community
international 300 MI, UL,
UCL
July 28th
- 30th
,
2014
TEMU conference IoT6 session
and IoT6
presentation
“A Digital
Object
Approach to IoT
European
research
community
international 300 UCL
August 31st -
September 6th
,
2014
Senzations
Summer School
2014 Biograd,
Croatia
Session and
programme
organizer
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 50 Ericsson,
MI
August 31st -
September 6th
,
2014
Senzations
Summer School
2014 Biograd,
Croatia
Presentation
“The role of IoT
in IPv6”
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 50 MI
September 29 –
October 1st, 2014
EC consultations
on ICT research
programme and
FIRE
Representing
IoT6 consortium
EC and
research
community
European 200 MI
October 6th
- 8th
,
2014
IoT 2014, USA Conference
Presentation:
“The relevance
and impact of
IPv6
multicasting for
Wireless Sensor
and Actuator
Networks based
on 6LoWPAN
and Constrained
RESTful
Environments”
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 500 VUT
October 6th
- 8th
,
2014
IoT 2014, USA Demo:
“IoTSyS: an
integration
middleware for
the Internet of
Things”
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 500 VUT
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September 16th
-
19th
, 2014
ETFA 2014,
Barcelona
Conference
Presentation:
Building
Automation
Systems
Integration into
the Internet of
Things, The
IoT6 approach,
its realization
and validation
International
Researchers,
Industry,
Academics
International 500 VUT
Table 1: Dissemination Activities: Conferences and Workshops (Y3)
2.3.3. Publications in Year 3
Dates
Year 3
Publication Title
Authors
2014 Book Chapter of IERC
IoT Book 2014
“Scalable integration framework
for heterogeneous smart objects,
applications and services”
S. Ziegler, M. R. Palattella,
L. Ladid, S. Krco, A.
Skarmeta
2014 Handbook IoT-IPv6 Integration Handbook
for SMEs
M. R. Palattella, L.Ladid, S.
Ziegler, W. Kastner, M. Jung,
M. Kofler, Dejan D. Drajic,
S. Krco, G. Nam, R. M. Perez
2014 Proc. of ICACCI
conference
“Towards a New Way of Reliable
Routing: Multiple Paths over
ARCs”
F. Melakessou, M. R.
Palattella, T. Engel
2014 IETF draft “Terminology in IPv6 over Time
Slotted Channel Hopping", draft-
ietf-6tisch-terminology-01
M.R. Palattella, P. Thubert,
T. Watteyne, Q. Wang
2014 IETF draft "Using IEEE802.15.4e TSCH in
an LLN context: Overview,
Problem Statement and Goals”
T. Watteyne, M.R. Palattella,
L. A. Grieco
2014 IETF draft “6TiSCH On-the-Fly Scheduling,
draft-dujovne-6tisch-on-the-fly-
02”
D. Dujovne, LA. Grieco,
M.R. Palattella, N. Accettura,
2014 IETF draft IPv6 mapping to non-IP
protocols”, draft-rizzo-6lo-
6legacy-00
G. Rizzo, A.J. Jara, A.
Olivieri, Y. Bocchi, M.R.
Palattella, L. Ladid
2014 IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed
Systems
“Neighbor Table based Shortcut
Tree Routing in ZigBee Wireless
Networks”
Taehong Kim, Seong Hoon
Kim, Jinyoung Yang, Seung-
eun Yoo, and Daeyoung Kim
2013 IEICE Transactions on
Communications
“Time-delayed Collaborative
Routing and MAC protocol for
Maximizing the Network Lifetime
Woncheol Cho and
Daeyoung Kim
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in MANETs”
2014 IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed
Systems
“A Location-free Semi-
Directional-Flooding Technique
for On-demand Routing in Low-
rate Wireless Mesh Networks”
Seong Hoon Kim, Chong Poh
Kit, and Daeyoung Kim
2014 International Workshop
on Extending
Seamlessly to the
Internet of Things
(esIoT), Birmingham,
UK, Jul. 2014
“Extending the EPCIS with
Building Automation Systems: a
New Information System For the
Internet of Things”
Nam Giang, Seong Hoon
Kim, Daeyoung Kim, Markus
Jung,
Wolfgang Kastner
2014 11th IEEE International
Conference on Services
Computing (SCC
2014), Anchorage, AK,
USA, Jun. 2014
“Lilliput: Ontology-based
platform for IoT Social Networks:
Towards socialized people,
objects, and places”
Jaewook Byun, Seong Hoon
Kim, Daeyoung Kim
2014 The 4th International
Conference on Internet
of Things (IoT 2014),
MIT, USA, Oct. 4-8,
2014
“The GS1 code based Web of
Things Service Architecture with
Healthcare Scenario(Demo
Paper)”
Jongseok Choi, Minkeun Ha,
Nam K Giang, Wondeuk
Yoon, Kiwoong Kwon, and
Daeyoung Kim
2014 Ottawa Linux
Symposium 2014,
Ottawa, Canada, May
2014
“Policy-extendable LMK filter
Framework for Embedded
System”
K. Baik, J. Kim, J. Huh, D.
Kim
2014 Book Chapter of IERC
IoT Book 2014
Global Standardisation Chapter of
the IERC Book 2014.
L. Ladid
Table 2: Dissemination Activities: Publication (Y3)
2.4. IoT6 in the Press
ICT Spring 2014 which took place in Luxembourg was publicised in the Chonricle.lu,
Luxembourg’s leading English newspaper and also an interview with the main journalist of ICT
Spring.
Interview with the main journalist of ICT Spring: http://www.executive-
people.nl/executive_people/2/12715/reportage__de_ict_ambities_van_luxemburg.html
Coverage by the Chronicle.lu:
http://www.chronicle.lu/categoriesworkingconferencesfarvest/item/7785-ict-spring-europe-awards-
themed-on-film-production
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3. IERC Collaboration Plan
The task of the IERC is to streamline the standardisation strategy for IoT technology and
applications, to propose priorities and, eventually a standardisation strategy. The goal is to identify
IoT pre-normative research work at European and International level. The IoT Standardisation
requirement positions will be reviewed by the IERC Coordinators and potentially by an IoT
Industry Specification Group in order to couple research and standards which in the end will benefit
the European industry that will market the products and the services.
3.1. IERC Book 2014
During Y3, the collaboration between IoT6 and IERC Cluster was focused on contributing
to two chapters: IERC IoT 2014 Book with a Chapter entitled: “Scalable integration
framework for heterogeneous smart objects, applications and services”.
Global Standardisation Chapter of the IERC Book 2014.
Figure 11: IERC Cluster Book 2014
http://www.internet-of-things-research.eu/pdf/IoT-
From%20Research%20and%20Innovation%20to%20Market%20Deployment_IERC_Cluster_eBook_978-
87-93102-95-8_P.pdf
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3.2. IoT Pilot with EU-China FIRE (ECIAO) Project
This IoT Pilot was selected for its practical contribution to the IoT6 project by facilitating and
supporting the set-up of common pilot(s) between EU and China.
With the consortium partners active in IoT6 and ECIAO, it was decided to develop a common EU-
China IPv6 Pilot in the area of Internet of Things (IoT) using IPv6 in order to demonstrate the
control of objects in one region from the other, using IPv6 connectivity. Internet of Things is a
worldwide hot market topic and also one of the top topics identified in regular EU and China
policies dialogues.
In Europe, Orange has contributed with its IPv6 programme that aims at defining Orange’s global
IPv6 strategy and assisting Orange affiliates in enforcing such strategy, thereby covering both
residential and corporate markets, both wired and wireless/mobile infrastructures. Mandat
International has extended its testbed to include both IPv6 and related protocol deployments
(6LoWPAN, CoAP, etc.), as well as non-IP protocols deployment (KNX, ZigBee, X10, etc.).
In China, the Beijing Internet Institute (BII) has outlined in this phase its IoT pilot to develop an
SDK interface for the IEEE1888 devices, test the protocol and this implementation in IPv6 testbed.
The Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) is one of the leading research and
development institute in the field of IPv6 in China, actively involved in the research of IPv6 based
platform and application development. It has outlined its IoT Platform and its IPv4/IPv6 Transition
testbed. Orange China has outlined its IPv6 IoT pilot jointly with Orange in France.
3.2.1. IPv6 Pilot at Orange in France
The Orange IPv6 programme started in 2008 and led to the organization of many pilots since then,
including in France. The majority of these pilots are meant to validate the design recommendations
and operational guidelines that have been documented as the Group’s Global IPv6 Strategy, for the
sake of IPv6 connectivity service delivery in various contexts – wired and mobile/wireless,
residential and corporate markets.
In France, the IPv6 VPN service offering is commercially available since 2009, while several pilots
have been conducted since 2010 to assess the design of IPv6 Internet access services for both wired
and mobile customers. As such:
The French IPv6 backbone is operational and several thousands of pilot users (Orange
employees) have been invited to test the IPv6 connectivity service as per the Dual Stack
architectural design summarized in Figure 12.
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Figure 12: Orange’s Dual Stack Architectural Design (Network View)
An IPv6 APN has been deployed in 2010 to not only validate the Dual Stack design of Orange’s
mobile networking infrastructures, but also to test IPv6-ready mobile terminals from various
vendors. A specific pilot for 4G/LTE customers is currently underway.
The WSN environment deployed by Orange Labs Beijing could be further expanded so that
controllers connected to the French network could remotely access and control IPv6 sensors, but
this needs to be further investigated depending on the network connectivity conditions in China,
among other considerations.
3.2.2. IPv6 Pilot at Mandat International, Switzerland
Mandat International has built up a distributed testbed gathering heterogeneous sensors and
actuators in two main locations:
A Smart Office testbed in Geneva with end-users. This environment enables
experimentations in real conditions, addressing the multidimensional nature of the Internet
of Things.
A university lab in Geneva with more technically focused experimentations.
The testbed has been used in several European research projects, addressing research topics such as
energy efficiency, safety, smart buildings, WSN deployments and comfort. It intends to gather all
kinds of devices, reflecting the inherent heterogeneity of the Internet of things. The deployed
sensors and actuators are heterogeneous and can be split in three main categories:
IP/6LoWPAN and CoAP based devices
IP but non-CoAP based devices
Non-IP devices
The non-IP sensors and actuators are integrated to the IPv6 environment through the UDG
technology, enabling multiprotocol interoperability and legacy protocol integration into IPv6.
The described pilot was focused on a subset of CoAP and 6LoWPAN sensors, accessible through
global public IPv6 addresses.
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The main objective is to test and validate the possibility to enable a testbed of sensors and actuators
distributed across Europe and China. The experimentation should be able to access the various
sensors regardless of their effective location. The first step of joint pilot intends to demonstrate
direct end-to-end access to distributed sensors located in Beijing and Geneva through IPv6.
The integration concept relies on a triple levels of integration effort:
At the sensor level, we have adopted a common interface and environment, by using
6LowPAN and CoAP. This enables the sensors to provide a RESTful interface, with a large
scale capacity potential.
At the network level, we have decided to use direct and secured IPv6 connection between
both testbeds. IPv6 provides a flexible and highly scalable network environment. A major
concern was to enable a transparent interconnection from the sensor to the application
wherever each one was located.
At the application level, applications have been developed to interact with the CoAP enabled
sensors. In order to demonstrate the integration, two Websites are being implemented in
each site with direct on-line access to sensors from both sides.
RESTful Architecture approach
The RESTful architecture approach is designed for Web applications, whose purpose is to reduce
the complexity of the development and improve the scalability of the system. The RESTful
architecture interfaces are designed according to the following principles:
All the things on the Internet can be abstracted as resources
Each resource is corresponding to a unique resource identifier
Resources can be operated through generic connector interface
Various operations for resource will not change resource identifier
All operations are stateless
The testbed of BUPT has implemented the RESTful architecture approach. The data which is
collected by wireless sensors can be accessed by restful architecture interface. However, the private
data which users do not want to make public will be protected by the WSN management system.
Data in the testbed is abstracted as resources which users can call through IPv6/IPv4. No matter
what kind of system environment or the development environment that users use, they can easily
have access to these resources. Data in the testbed will be presented with XML format and JSON
format.
According to data of the testbed, resources can be divided into 4 different types:
A list of gateways
Lists of sensors which are managed by gateways
Real time data which is collected by sensors
History data of sensors which is stored in the database of WSN management system
According to the types of resources, the interfaces are designed into 4 types. The following Table
shows RESTful interfaces which are used to share with the 3rd
party:
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URL /interface/gatewaylist.json(xml)
Method Get
Function To get a list of gateways.
Output Entity A list of gateways.
Status Success
Failure
URL /interface/{gateway name}/sensorlist.json(xml)
Method Get
Function To get a list of nodes which are managed by gateway named
{gateway name}.
Output Entity A list of nodes which are managed by gateway named
{gateway name}
Status Success
Failure
URL /interface/{sensor name}/realtime.json(xml)
Method Get
Function To get real time data which is collected by node named {sensor
name}.
Output Entity Real time data which is collected by node named {sensor
name}
Status Success
Failure
URL /interface/{sensor name}/{from time}/{to time}/history.json(xml)
Method Get
Function To get history data of the node named {sensor name} between {from
time} and {to time}.
Output Entity History data of the node named {sensor name} between
{from time} and {to time}
Status Success
Failure
Table 3: The RESTful Interfaces of the Testbeds
Initial tests and validation
A first step has been to deploy a joint IPv6 network between Beijing and Geneva. The IPv6 network
has been tested and validated and can now provide direct and transparent interconnections. The
connections can use SSL and can be tunneled and secured with IPSec, if needed.
A first set of sensors have been connected on each site. They are remotely accessible and enable
distant interactions from each site. In the Geneva site for instance, wireless senor motes, including
temperature and humidity sensor, as well as some actuators, including a heating valve and a light
switch are permanently deployed and accessible to the Chinese partners through their IPv6 address
and CoAP interface.
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A first set of sensors and actuators have been successfully integrated into a common network
enabling European and Chinese researchers to use them. They are remotely accessible and are
paving the way to larger scale integration efforts. This initial pilot demonstrates the potential of
IPv6 and CoAP for such integrations.
The current effort is oriented in three main directions:
The extension of the testbed with additional sensors and actuators;
The integration of other academic and industrial partners in view of addressing scalability
requirements;
The development of two Web applications: one in China and one in Europe, providing and
demonstrating simultaneous access to sensors deployed in both locations (Geneva and
Beijing).
HEPIA Testbed
Mandat International has a research laboratory at the HEPIA (Haute École du paysage, d'ingénierie
et d'architecture de Genève), which is a part of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western
Switzerland (HESSO).
This testbed includes various types of sensors and actuators used to test all kinds of building
components and use cases. An advanced network based on IPv6 and several servers have been
deployed to test in real conditions the different components developed during the different
European projects. The deployment includes all sets of sensors and actuators, as well as energy
meters.
By the nature of the building, this testbed provides the possibility to test a modern façade of a
building. It is particularly interesting to research and fine tune façades and blinds related algorithms
for smart buildings. The testbed has also given the possibility to associate HEPIA students to some
of these developments.
The following pictures give an overview of the HEPIA testbed:
Figure 13: HEPIA Building and part of the Mandat International Lab
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Champ-Baron Testbed
The Champ-Baron testbed is an office space of Mandat International and has been equipped to
serve as a “Smart Office” testbed. It gathers several functionalities including:
Desks and workstations
A meeting area
A small lounge area
A water-closet
A small kitchen
A server rack
This testbed is a typical office in which we can perform various use cases with a real end-user
environment. It is actually used in European research projects as a “Smart Office” testbed.
The following pictures provide an overview of the Champ-Baron testbed:
Figure 14: Champ-Baron Smart Office Testbed
3.2.3. IPv6 Pilot at BII
China is facing serious energy challenges during its rapid development where energy savings has
become a hot topic. Every year, the total consumption of construction energy is increasing fast. The
answer to this problem is IEEE 1888.
A team at BII is focusing on IPv6 experiments and pilots of IEEE1888 implementation and its
energy-saving applications. The applications include smart meters, information collection and
control for electronic appliances and an energy management system which can be wildly used in the
modern green-energy buildings and other IoT applications. The short goal of this team is to develop
a SDK interface for the IEEE1888 devices, test the protocol and this implementation in an IPv6
testbed.
IEEE1888 is an IEEE standard called ubiquitous green community control network protocol. This
standard is proposed and maintained by BII Group, the University of Tokyo, China
Telecommunications, Inter, Cisco and Beijing Jiaotong University. Mr. Liu Dong from BII Group is
the Chair of IEEE1888 working group.
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The standard identifies gateways for field-bus networks, data storages for archiving and developing
data sharing platform, and application units to be important system components for developing
digital communities: i.e., building-scale and city-wide ubiquitous facility networking infrastructure.
The standard defines a data exchange protocol that generalizes and interconnects these components
(gateways, storages, application units) over the IPv4/v6-based networks. This enables integration of
multiple facilities, data storages, application services such as central management, energy saving,
environmental monitoring and alarm notification systems.
Facility networking in buildings, houses and factories is now considered to be a promising tool for
energy management or energy-savings, and networking of facilities with TCP/IP protocols has
certainly enabled building-scale or city-wide energy management. However, most of the systems
are proprietarily and independently developed, deployed and operated, which made the installation
and running costs quite high.
It is a communication infrastructure that aims to construct a new network for the renewal of the
facilities, next generation’s facility management, and the energy conservation including small- and
medium-sized facilities. This aspect is expanded from a past facility management to the operation
management that targets energy conservation and the integration of the management platform. This
infrastructure will be used for some system-level collaborations in addition to the energy
conservation.
The standard describes remote control architecture of digital community, intelligent building groups
and digital metropolitan networks; specifies interactive data formats between devices and systems;
and gives a standardized definition of equipment, service services, signals, and interactive messages
in this digital community network. The digital community remote control network opens
application interfaces for public administration, public services, property management services, and
individual services, which enables intelligent interconnection, collaboration service, remote
surveillance and central management to be feasible. Surveillance network, consumer electronics,
remote service systems, public administration systems, security linkage systems and emergency
reaction systems will be integrated into the community network seamlessly. Based on TCP/IP open
systems, the network architecture adopts active and emerging technologies, supporting diverse
access technologies in physical layer, supporting IPv4/v6 in network layer, integrating well with the
next generation converged networks. The standard aims to provide proper remote control and
collaborating management solutions for operators, community administrators, public service
provider, government departments and individual users, so as to use and control facilities in
community and building groups effectively, such as sensors, surveillance monitors, HVAC, lighting
systems, fire-fighting systems, CEs, and so on; Public environment monitor mechanism is setup to
ease energy shortage and environment degradation through remote surveillance, operation,
management and maintenance, leaving a secure, comfort and convenient living environment;
Energy, environment and security are taken into consideration to realize reasonable plan and remote
control in community networks.
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3.2.4. IPv6 Pilot at BUPT
Network and Information Center at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) is
one of the leading research and development institute in the field of IPv6 in China, actively
involved in the research of IPv6 based platform and application development.
IPv6 Based IoT Platform
Currently, the group has built up one 6 LoWPAN based monitoring system, which is already
deployed at the BUPT campus. Moreover, CoAP based platform is developing to support IoT
application development and resource management.
As illustrated in Figure 15, the system is composed of three main parts: wireless sensor network
(WSN) management system, WSN gateway (router) and wireless sensor nodes. The system can be
used for collecting information, sending the alarm information and sharing data to the 3rd
party.
Figure 16 shows the software stack of the sensor network.
Management
System
IPv6 router
Sensors
IPv6 Router
终端
终端
终端
Figure 15: WSN Management System Network Structure
Figure 16: Software Stack
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Since the BUPT IoT platform is a dual-way system both for collecting measurement data and
sending control commands, it is possible to do both remote and wireless monitoring and control in
real time. Figure 17 shows a screen shot of real-time measurement result inside the campus.
Figure 17: Result of measurement
The testbed is implemented based on RESTful architecture approach. The data that is collected by
wireless sensors can be easily shared with a 3rd
party with RESTful architecture interface.
Meanwhile, this platform also provides secured mechanism to protect the private data which users
do not share. All the data in the testbed is presented by XML format and JSON format.
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IPv4/IPv6 transition testbed
In order to test different transition technologies, BUPT build up a transition technology testbed,
which is shown in Figure 18. The testbed is able to support different tunnel, dual stack and
translation based transition technologies, and it can support various IPv4, IPv6 or dual stack
services. So far, several services are already run in this testbed, including HTTP, Telnet, SSH,
MMS, SMTP, PoP3 and RDP.
Figure 18: Transition Technology Testbed
IPv6 based services
BUPT is actively promoting different traditional services in IPv6. Now WWW, DNS, Email, FTP,
BBS, Video conference, IPTV and some other services are based on IPv4/IPv6. Students can easily
access these services inside and outside campus. In these several years, the IPv6 traffic in BUPT is
the top among all the universities in CERNET2. The most popular IPv6 services are IPTV, BBS
and real time video broadcast.
Figure 19 shows the screenshot of IPTV in BUPT and the hottest BBS in BUPT. After receiving
permission, major CCTV TV channels have been streamed over IPv6. Figure 20 shows the real time
video broadcast of lectures.
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Figure 19: IPTV in BUPT
Figure 20: Real time video broadcast BUPT
3.2.5. IPv6 Pilot at Orange in China
The Beijing labs of Orange have been actively contributing to the IP programme that aims at
defining Orange’s global IPv6 strategy and assisting Orange affiliates in enforcing such strategy,
thereby covering both residential and corporate markets, both wired and wireless/mobile
infrastructures.
More precisely, Orange Labs Beijing have developed an expertise in the area of IPv6-based sensor
networking, that yielded the organization a first pilot back in 2011, taking the opportunity of the
ISOC-sponsored IPv6 Day on June 8, 2011 .
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Since then, Orange Labs Beijing has deployed a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) that runs the
Routing for Low Power and Lossy networks (RPL, RFC 6550) dynamic routing protocol in their
premises.
The WSN is used for temperature metering purposes and also serves for the organization of
evaluation campaigns that aim at assessing the performance and the scalability of such RPL
networks under various conditions (Figure 21).
Figure 21: IPv6-Based RPL-Enabled WSN Design for Temperature Metering
These conditions are mostly inferred by the definition and the design of the so-called Objective
Function, which aims at reflecting the routing objectives that should be achieved by the
enforcement of the adequate RPL routing policy (e.g., computation of low latency links or selection
of routes that avoid the use of battery-powered sensors, Figure 22).
Figure 22: IPv6 Routing Computation Scheme for Battery Powered Sensor Avoidance
3.2.6. EU-China IPv6 IoT Common Pilot and Testbed
Mandat and BUPT showed interest in having joint IoT testbeds, in particular in the context of:
Smart Cities
IPv6-based IoT Network
Environmental monitoring
Further issues were identified on integration, scalability and deployment, following an interesting
presentation on the various testbeds supported by China Telecom and CATR (IoT Lab). An
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additional discussion point circulated around the importance of having an open IoT platform.
Possible cooperation points were presented as:
• IoT Middleware
• RESTful interface
• Smart Agriculture Open IoT Platform
• ICT joint / interconnected testbeds
Since BUPT has already been involved in the EU-China testing cooperation, Ms. Xionghong
Huang, Associate Professor at BUPT has been proposed to be one of the contacts while Mr
Sébastien Ziegler from MI has been designated as central focal point for the European side.
The joint testbed scenario outline is shown in Figure 23.
Figure 23: The EU-China IoT over IPv6 Pilot
Detailed layer explanations are given below:
1. Network/ Protocol layer interconnection and interworking
• Already complete between BUPT network in China and the Geneva network in
Switzerland, via CERNET and RIPE.
• CATR and Orange could also be connected if needed.
2. Application layer
• BUPT, China Telecom and CATR provide an open platform. EU application can access
and get sensor data from the China side.
• MI, Orange and UL provide open platform. China can access and get sensor data from
European side.
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• Based on RESTful (HTTP, COAP), Open API (Middleware).
• Possible extension towards SOAP interfaces and oneM2M.
• Service open platform in China side access sensor data in EU side.
• Service open platform in Europe side access sensor data in China side.
3. Common Web pages:
• Chinese version hosted in Beijing (BUPT)
• English version hosted in Geneva (MI)
Both pages demonstrate direct IPv6 Web access to IoT sensors from both regions:
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Figure 24: Multiple testbed integration model
3.2.7. IPv6 Green IoT Common Pilot and Testbed
IEEE 1888 is the first standard in IoT led by Chinese companies. It combines green ICT, IPv6, and
smart energy to form a new innovative international standard. Using standard communication, data
collected from every sensor can now be transmitted to storage and application instantaneously.
We have carried out field testing to demonstrate IEEE 1888 advantages in applications in
agriculture by installing numerous sensors to measure temperature and humidity, etc., so that power
consumption can be calculated and that we could have live data on soil analysis as shown in Figures
25 26. With centralized management, these data can be collected and stored in the same place. With
connection to Cloud, we can publish these data on the go, so every party involved can obtain these
data for their specific needs.
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Figure 25: IEEE 1888 Test Agriculture Deployment
Figure 26: Sensors and controllers in deployment using IEEE 1888 for communication
The test deployment in agriculture is a good example of future enabled by IPv6 and IoT. It is a
showcase of integration of modern technologies, Big Data, Cloud Computing, IoT, etc. When all of
these technologies are put into applications in agriculture, a better solution can be achieved. The
Future of IoT in application is promising where IEEE 1888 can be the standard to move this
potential to where it is expected.
First connectivity test results were successful, as shown in Figures 27, 28, and 29:
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Figure 27: First connectivity test results from BII to Europe were successful
Figure 28: First connectivity test results of IPv6 IoT devices were successful
Figure 29: Description of the IoT over IPv6 Pilot on the ECIAO Website
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4. New Initiatives for Sustainability and Future Work
IoT6 partners will continue to represent the project in the following future initiatives, thereby
helping to sustain the IoT6 work beyond the project lifetime:
4.1. Future Participation in Conferences
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2014: The IoT6 project has won an Industry Forum Session for
December 10, 2014 in Austin, Texas: http://www.ieee-globecom.org/
• ITU Telecom World 2014: The IoT6 project has won a session on IPv6 and IoT at the
ITU 2014 World Conference during December 7th – 10th, 2014 in Doha:
http://telecomworld.itu.int/
• IEEE ICC 2015: The IoT6 project is chairing the IoT Symposium Track at the ICC 2015
in London in June 6th
- 8th
, 2015, themed “Smart City & Smart World,”
http://icc2015.ieee-icc.org/
• IPv6 Congress Paris 2015: The IoT6 project is chairing this event in March 2015.
http://www.uppersideconferences.com/v6world2015/v6world2015intro.html
• ICT Spring 2015: The IoT6 project has been invited to participate in the 2015 event:
http://www.ictspring.com/
• IEEE World IoT Forum 2015: The 2nd
IEEE IoT World Forum 2015 will be chaired by
the Chair of the IEEE IoT subC under the request of the IEEE IoT Initiative. The
preparation is taking place to organise it in Barcelona but discussion are still going on as
the London and Copenhagen IEEE chapters are lobbying to organise it.
• IoT Week 2015: IoT6 consortium will be represented by MI as Board member and co-
chair of the programme committee who will ensure that IPv6 is properly addressed by the
conference.
4.2. Creation of the ETSI Industry Specification Group IP6 (IPv6 ISG)
After an evaluation of the IoT6 standardisation efforts from the Y1 and Y2, we have decided to
create a new Industry Specification Group at ETSI called IP6.
Latif Ladid, a 3GPP Board Member since 1999, has been asked by ETSI to convene a first meeting.
Latif had already established back in 2009 the very first ETSI ISG for Autonomics called
Autonomic Future Internet (AFI), which was formed from the FP7 project EFIPSANS and
concluded its work with industry-oriented recommendations.
The first meeting with the ETSI management for the discussion and application of the ETSI ISG
took place on February 18th
, 2014. The application was submitted four weeks later and then many
re-iterations occurred. The application was then presented and submitted to the ETSI Board at the
end of June. The board then asked for a more-detailed definition of the precise objectives and tasks
which were resubmitted at the end of July for the next ETSI Board Review meeting at the end of
September 2014. The Board’s acceptance will enable the start of the work to begin in October and
we have reassurance that this ISG will go through from our ETSI representative on the IoT6
Advisory Board who has keen interest in seeing this coming through.
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Figure 30: Logo of IPv6 ETSI ISG
The IP6 ISG has the ambition to define some best practices and garner support and create awareness
of the impact of IPv6 on critical infrastructures in the first round and then on hot topics such as IoT,
Cloud Computing, SDN-NFV and 5G which are making an abstraction of IPv6.
The “IPv6 Integration” Industry Specification Group (IP6 ISG) is a best practice working group
whose focus is on investigation and the study of requirements and use cases identifying thereby,
what and where pre-standardization consensus and harmonization could be reached.
4.3. IEEE ComSoc 5G Subcommittee
Following the highly successful IEEE ComSoc IoT Subcommittee in 2013 started by the IoT6
partners, two new IEEE ComSoc initiatives have been started: 5G and SDN-NFV.
IEEE ComSoc 5G subC:
http://committees.comsoc.org/5gmwi
The IoT6 project has taken here again a strategic step in applying at the end of 2013 for the IEEE
COMSOC 5G Subcommittee and won it in order to build a set of best practices for the industry
deployment in enabling IPv6 as well as IoT on 5G. This 5G subC started in January 2014.
A number of experts from academia and “industry-oriented” have been invited to support this work,
such as but not limited to:
• Latif Ladid, Chair of 5G subC: 3GPP PCG Board member, Founder & President of the
IPv6 Forum
• Patrick Guillemin, Member of the ETSI standardization Group and the Industrial Forum
about M2M/IoT
Work by leading vendors:
• Fredrik Garneij, 3-4-5G and IPv6 Specialist at Ericsson.
• Pascal Thubert, IoT and IPv6 Expert at the IETF, designer of 6LoWPAN/6TiSH, Cisco 5G
Mobile Wirless Internet Web site: http://committees.comsoc.org/5gmwi
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4.4. IEEE ComSoc SDN-NFV Subcommittee
http://www.comsoc.org/about/committees/emerging#sdnnfv
The Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) ComSoc
Emerging Technology sub-committee focuses on exploring next generation networking
technologies and their interaction with the other major IT inflexion points: IPv6, Cloud and
Mobility. They also focus on enabling software defined service delivery, network virtualization,
network function virtualization, and the enablement of mobility. The Subcommittee will analyze
and drive integration around the touch points with all the other major IT inflexion points such as
next generation IP, compute and storage virtualization, cloud, mobility and the next generation
applications. The key challenge to be addressed is to support multivendor networks in a software
defined infrastructure that meets the demands of the next generation IT environments.
Chair: Ciprian Ciprianou, Founder & CEO of Nephos6
Vice-chairs:
Adam Johnson, General Manager Midokura
Dan Torbet, Technology Lead Arris
Latif Ladid, Founder & President, IPv6 Forum, Senior Researcher, University of
Luxembourg
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5. Conclusion
The IoT6 project can clearly state that all dissemination objectives have been achieved in a major
way, as follows:
Proactively raised awareness of the project results through publications and leading
conferences, yearly workshops and IoT cluster concertation meetings.
Contributed to the IoT standardisation process in ETSI and IETF with active
participation in the selected WGs in these bodies and maintaining a continuous study of the
technological and regulatory-standards developments affecting IoT6 and their impacts on
architecture design and project requirements.
SME Handbook with practical implementation scenarios for actual industry exploitation.
Leadership in all essential bodies such as IoT Forum, IPv6 Forum and IPSO alliance
establishing an excellent ground to promote and continue the development of the IoT6
architecture
Encouraged European and international cooperation and integration in the relevant
research areas.