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Orchestrating a ‘Developers & Drone as a Service”

Platform Based Business Models for SDN/NFV with

Open APIs

Dr. Lester Thomas,

Head of Systems Architecture Center of Excellence

Vodafone Group

Sailaja Pramidi,

Senior Principal Architect

Infosys

David Warnock,

Director Europe

Centina

Alan Byrne,

SPO Innovation Center Leader

Huawei

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Gigabit Society Roadmap

Enabling fully automated Drones is a key Robot test case

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Netw

ork

Devic

es

Key a

pplic

ations

High frequency

tradingSmart grid MOOCs

Ambient

experiences

Autonomous

vehicles

100 dollar electronic

genome

Remote surgical

robots

Artificial

intelligence

Smartphones Tablets HD TV Smart sensors Google glasses Google car 4K TV VR goggles 8K TV

2G 3G 4G 5G

www. Vodafone.com/gigabitsociety

Wireless network

Fixed network

Copper dial-up ADSL FTTC Docsis 3.0 FTTH Gigabit network

Drones

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Drone as a Service Use Cases

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Precision Farming Search and RescueSmart Drone Inspection

Vodafone exploring use cases that demand advances in connectivity

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Vodafone Gigabit Society enables the opportunity

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Guaranteed Connectivity LTE, 5G

• High Bandwidth, High

resilience connectivity

• Programmability of the

network

Autonomic Operation

• Orchestration & Assurance for

policy driven autonomic

operation for Machines & IOT

• Machine friendly API’s for

robotic operation

Regulatory driven compliance

• Dynamic flight

compliance & control

• eSIM’s in every Drone

Vodafone Open Platform enabled by IOT, Connectivity & Operations

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Drone as a Service

Open IOT Platform

A few Insights . . . Platform as the Enabler

Machine Friendly, Developer Centric, Registration, Artificial Intelligence & environment

Requirements

Value is in the Data Analytics and ConnectivityCollecting, Quality, Storage, Sharing, Learning

More connected sensor provides more semantic data leading to greater valueCamera, Infra Red, Air Filter, EMF, Transponders

Ecosystem Driving Use Case Requirements

New ecosystem and partnership opportunities

Sources: CloudOpera IES, Drone & University ecosystem communities

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Smart Drone Inspection with LTE Advanced/5G

Drone OperatorDrone Application

Developer

Amazon

Google,Microsoft

IOT / VR / Drone/

UAV Developers

Drone InsuranceDrone Data Analytics

Managed Connectivity:

High Bandwidth, Low Latency

Drone Manufacturer

eSIM

EMF Mast

Inspection

Power Line

Inspection

Agriculture

Inspection

Managed Connectivity:

Hybrid / Public CloudSmart Drone Inspection

Unified ICT Orchestrator

Open Ecosystem

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Platform model enable Digital Providers sell e2e services & applications

Role of APIs in Platform business model

Insurance Provider

Drone Provider

Operator(NaaS)

Weather Info

Provider

Analytics Provider

Ultra High

Bandwidth

Slice

Operator Ecosystem

• APIs are foundations for digital businesses and

enablers to extend business model with partners,

developers

• Various players plug their assets/ capabilities

through APIs in the ecosystem to create value

• TM Forum Open APIs & Platform tools allow

creation of standards based ecosystem

• To accommodate new models in Digital Eco System

for cross industry solutions – interoperable,

hypermedia APIs, with other domains are

necessary next step

• Catalyst use and extend APIs for platform model

• Service Qualification

• Show horizontal extensions of Open APIs

API

API

API

API

Weather Info

Drone Pilot

Real time

Image

Processing

Crop

Inspection

Insurance

Low Latency

Slice

API

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Benefits of Strategic Assured IoT

Service differentiation = increased revenues and market share

▪ Customers can see real-time performance and SLA metrics associated with their service within minutes of ordering

Key differentiator and a value-add service that can be monetised

▪ CSP can identify premium customers and can target up-sell

▪ Customers understand their own usage profile and choose most appropriate service

▪ CSP NOC understands SLA impact: can prioritize troubleshooting

▪ CSP NOC understands which services are live: can prioritise premium customers

▪ Cross-domain root cause analysis: isolate and repair problems faster

▪ Customer satisfaction/retention is improved

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Challenges of Assuring IoT Services

IoT SLA is different

1. Traditional CSP SLAs contain metrics such

as Availability, Latency, Packet Loss, Jitter

2. The IoT device, or Thing SLA may:

a) Operate within a specified area (e.g.

drone must operate within a geo-

spatial area)

b) Follow a predefined route (Drone

flying a mission)

c) Deliver multiple packages in a

consignment to multiple destinations

using the most efficient delivery

route

Challenges of Assuring IoT

1. Can existing Orchestration/Assurance

systems and APIs support the policy

enforcement of the above IoT services?

2. Can existing Assurance systems and APIs

support the KPIs and thresholds required

for monitoring purposes?

3. The current SLA definitions are

value/threshold combinations

4. To support the above scenario, they now

need to support arrays of data instead of

values and apply algorithms to those

arrays

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Video Demo on Smart Drone Inspection

Smart Drone Inspection Use Case

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