Forum on Internet of Things:

Empowering the New Urban Agenda

Geneva, Switzerland, 19 October 2015
Empowering Urban Innovation Through Convergence of IoT-Big
data and Cloud
Dr.-Ing. Abdur Rahim,
Project Coordinator; Create-Net
abdur.rahim@create-net.org

Convergence in
EVERYWHER
Convergence of
technology
Convergence of
business and
ecosystem
Convergence of people,
application, things,
data, devices, etc.
Source: IDC

Convergence of IoT, big data and

cloud

For IoT, number of billions of connected devices is

an indicator of IoT. The connectivity is just an
enabler but the real value of IoT is on data
(business insight/data-driven economy)
For Big Data, data collection is one of the main
concern, and IoT can play an important roles for
data collection and data sharing
For Big Data, data is nothing without real business
value insight
Cloud offers Everything as a Service business
model for IOT and big data.
IoT is a King, Big data is a Queen and Cloud is
a Palace

Cloud-based IoT Big Data

applications
Prescriptive
and
descriptive

Massive
monitoring
Real-time
actionable
insight

Proactive and
predictive

Observation
Performance
and
optimization

Key requirements of IoT-Big data

platform
Security and
privacy

Scalable

Intelligent and
dynamic

Real-time

Distributed and
decentralized

iKaaS-EU-Japan IoT big data

platform
Stora
ge

Global Cloud
Knowledge
Knowledge

The goal of this project is to combine ubiquitous and heterogeneous

sensing, smart objects, semantic, big data and cloud computing
technologies in a platform enabling the Internet of Things process
consisting of continuous iterations on data ingestion, data storage,
analytics, knowledge generation and knowledge sharing phases,
as foundation for cross-border information service provision.

Smart city opportunities and

challenges
Smart City is a concentration of
people and devices
Currently 72% of the EU population
lives in urban areas, using 70% of our
energy.
Most of the data is generated by
people/citizen and
process/machine
IoT/ big data can offer value to
energy systems, mobility, climate
change, and water and air quality,
crime, autonomic car.

Madrid CityEnvironmental Health

Environmental health use case focusing on pollutants, pollen, airborne

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

Sendai Smart Village in

Japan

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

health services
Offering personalize and context aware services, considering the data
from energy-consumption of each of the house, weather, wearable, etc.

OPEN INNOVATION PLATFORM

FOR IOT-BIG DATA IN SUBSAHARA AFRICA
Smart Applica ons

Lower entry level for SMEs and

application developers
Improve living and working
condition of African rural
community
Technology
Long-distance remote monitoring,
control and users notification
Prediction, forecasting, optimization
and big data analytic applications

Openness and applica on development of third par es

(Monitoring, control, predic ve

of systems, no fica on of users)

Usersmanagement

(Users authen ca on, privacy,

log-in, persona;ize users )

Interoperable Service and DynamicWorkflow

(Service deployment, APIs, dynamic composi on)

Processingand Analy cEngine

(Streamand batch processingand Bigdataanaly c capabili es)

IoT Broker and Management

(connec vity, device registra on and management, data

management

Connec vity
Network communica on (long-range/short range
single hop, MAC)

Device
Embedded So ware (Signal processing)
Hardware (embedded sensors, connec vity)

WAZIUP application
domains

Irrigation

Livestock farming

Fish farming

Storage and
logistic

Mobile health

Fresh water

Sense of connection!
Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in
relation to everything else- Buddha
One more from Advaita Philosophy; its also called
non-duality
It says
"the sense that all things are interconnected
and not separate, while at the same time all
things retain their individuality".

Conclusion
Convergence is everywhere, it is just
starting
Think on the how your business will
convergence and scale-up
Need for more large-scale IoT and big data
testing and experimentation
In developed counties majority people are
living in City whereas in developing countries
still living rural area
IoT, Big data and Cloud are the future of the
world