Internet of Things for Smart Cities

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Stockholm, November 2-3, 2016

Carlo Fischione

Associate Professor of Sensor Networks

KTH Royal Institute of Technology
e-mail: carlofi@kth.se
http://www.ee.kth.se/~carlofi/
What is a Smart city?
Sensing + Networking + Analysis + Control

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 IoT in Smart Cities

Internet of Things (IoT)

Connects physical objects
Allows to sense phenomena and control them
IoT will be a fundamental technological infrastructure for smart cities 3
 The basic infrastructure of IoT:
Wireless Sensor Networks

Smart cities thanks to IoT

IoT = Sensor and actuator networks

Sensing, networking, data analysis, and control for any physical

thing
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 Stockholm, a growing Smart City

Digital Demo Stockholm: exhibiting one of the most technological

urban districts in the world

KTH LivIn Lab: KTH Royal Institute of Technology Campus

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 IoT Smart Citys research at
my group in KTH

We perform applied math research including

Smart buildings
Smart vehicles
Smart energy grids
Environmental monitoring
Water distribution lines
Wearable sensors
Security and privacy
... and much more

Lets now give some detail about the basic research challenges that
still need investigations
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 Smart buildings

How schedule the control of the home appliances?

How to reduce electrical energy consumption?

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 Autonomous Cars

Autonomous or semi-autonomous driving

How to control autonomously vehicles?

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 Drones: Unmanned Air Vehicles

Flying robots on can accomplish many tasks in cities and buildings

How to control autonomously flying robots?

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 Smart Grids

Ho et al., Challenges and Research Opportunities in Wireless Communication Networks for Smart Grids,
IEEE Comm. Mag. 13

How to sell, buy and distribute optimally energy over a network of

agents having limited collaboration?

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 Environmental Monitoring

IoT can give an infrastructure for monitoring the pollution in urban

environments
How to control traffic in smart cities to reduce pollution?

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 Contamination of Drinkable Water

water contamination in Lanzhou

Greater London Authority, The water London strategy

BBC News, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27002602

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Connected Water Project Digital
Demo Stockholm

Digital monitoring of the quality of Stockholms water supply

Demonstrate the benefits with Internet of Things from a

technological, social and sustainability perspective

Collaboration between the City of Stockholm, KTH,

Stockholm University, Ericsson, and ABB
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 Wearable sensors

We have sensor networks to detect the brain activity

How to control cars, robots or home appliances directly by the brain?
Many other wearable sensors to monitor and control our health

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 MIND Music Labs
Internet of Musical Instruments

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www.mindmusiclabs.com
 Privacy and Security

1. Wireless devices
2. Hospitals
3. Companies
4. Social networks
5. The cloud
6. ...

Need of a fundamentally new theory for parties that are unwilling to

share their data and that yet would receive much benefit by the
collaboration

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Need of Basic Research for IoT

Machine Learning

IoT P

Networks Systems and Control

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 Our research group at KTH
Network Optimization Theory and
Internet of Things

Hossein Shokri Mairton Junior Othmane Mazhar

PhD Student PhD Student PhD Student

Rong Du Xiaolin Jang

Pian Yu Sindri Magnsson
PhD Student PhD Student
PhD Student PhD Student

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