Introduction of the Internet of Things

13th February 2019
Peter Karney, Head of Product Innovation peter.karney@digicatapult.org.uk
Digital Catapult
Introduction to the world of IoT & Our experiences from national IoT
innovation programmes
© Digital Catapult 2019

Digital Catapult Activities in this
space

A question:
What happened in 2100 BC?

The first digital optical communication
Ancient China, soldiers stationed along the Great Wall
would alert each other of impending enemy attack by
signalling from tower to tower.
In this way, they were able to transmit a message as far
away as 750 kilometres in just a few hours

1897
On 13 May 1897, Marconi sent the world's first ever
wireless communication over open sea.
The experiment, based in Wales, witnessed a message
transversed over the Bristol Channel from Flat Holm
Island to Lavernock Point in Penarth, a distance of 6
kilometres (3.7 mi).
The message read "Are you ready". © Digital Catapult 2019

1985
The first official UK mobile phone call was made by
comedian Ernie Wise on New Year’s Day 1985.
But an earlier call was made that day to Sir Ernest
Harrison, chairman of what was then Racal Vodafone, by
his son Michael, who said: “Hi, it’s Mike. Happy New
Year.
This is the first-ever call on a UK mobile network.” © Digital Catapult 2019

1985 or 1999
The concept of the Internet of Things was invented by
and term coined by Peter T. Lewis in September 1985 in
a speech he delivered at a U.S. Federal
Communications Commission.
Kevin Ashton supposedly coined the phrase "Internet of
Things" while working for Procter & Gamble in 1999.

2015
Working with BT, the FCC, Milton Keynes Council and
the Open University the Digital Catapult contributes to
the Launch of MK-Smart.
MK Data Hub supports the acquisition and management
of vast amounts of data relevant to city systems from a
variety of data sources © Digital Catapult 2019

The Old ay
• Place Trap
• Check 24 hours later
2017
Digital Catapult launch Things
Connected.
We will discuss this a bit later.

IoT
Changing the way we do business
“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse
gets the cheese.” ...

The Old Way
• Place Trap

The Old Way
• Place Trap
• Check and reset
• Check and reset

The Old Way
• Nearly
• Check and reset

The Old Way
• Success
• Remove mouse and
reset

The connected mouse trap
• 6 months of battery
• 3 states
• Immediate action
• New service
• PPC – pay per catch

Where do you want to be?
Sort of depends if you are the mouse© Digital Catapult 2019

Question
What one thing will ALL IoT devices
need?

A way to communicate
Without exception ALL IoT devices will need a
way to communicate with other devices or
services

The components of a Thing

4 basic components of a Thing
Thing
Comms
Actuator
Intelligence
Sensor

Thing Another
Thing Machine to Machine
Thing
2 classes of Thing

IoT landscape
Devices
(tags, sensor nodes, mobile
and wearable devices)
Machines
(home appliances, security
systems, vehicles, etc.)
Environments
(smart homes, buildings,
cities)

Trivial More Useful
Really
Impactful
Impact of IoT

Typical IoT system architecture

IoT Device
Basic processing
Short/wide comms
Sensing/actuation
IoT Gateway
Edge analytics
Short/wide comms
Local storage
Typical IoT system architecture
IoT Cloud
Service hosting
Visualisations
Advanced analytics
Data storage

Communication Ranges

Communication ranges
Wide area
network (WAN)
1 km – 50 km
• GSM (2G) / 3G / 4G / 5G
• LPWAN
(LoRaWAN, Sigfox, NB-IoT, …)
Local area
network (LAN)
50 m – 1 km
• WiFi
(802.11x)
Personal area
network (PAN)
1 m – 50 m
• Bluetooth / BLE
• 802.15.4
• Zigbee
Near field
< 10 cm)
• RFID
• NFC
• QR codes

The market we are after

Things Connected NI Consortium

The growth and Things
and the market for them

Things can be anywhere
Things
2008
Humans
1 million
0.5 billion
8.7 billion
50 billion

Estimated LPWAN market size
Fixed & short range
LPWA
Cellular

So why are we (The Catapult) doing this?

UK is falling behind in terms of LPWAN solutions on the market
Country of origin of solution providers providing certified Sigfox and LoRaWAN solutions (March 2017)

What does IoT (Internet of Things)
mean to you?

IoT applications
Only limited by your imagination

Predictive
maintenance
Equipment
monitoring
Construction
site monitoring

Question
Why is this happening now?

Capability
Size and
Price
But why is this happening now?

Focussing in on our Thing

Intelligence
Thing
Comms
Actuator
Intelligence
Sensor

System on a Chip
Intelligence

Actuator and Sensor
Thing
Comms
Actuator
Intelligence
Sensor

Sensors and actuators

Question
When thinking about making IoT
devices, what’s important to
consider and why?

What's important to consider?
Thing
Cost
Battery
Coverage
Reliability
and QoS
Security
Bi-
directional
Data
Position
Performance

Some of the LPWAN technologies
available today

Low Power Technologies
LoRa
Thing
SigFox
WeightlessNBlot
NWAVE

Bandwidth
Rang
e
LPWAN Attributes
• Long range, low
bandwidth, low power
• Deep indoor
penetration
• Very cheap radio
modules
Connectivity comparison

The LoRa ecosystem

500+
companies
LoRa Alliance ecosystem

National IoT Innovation Programmes

@IoTUKNews
£10m - £5m Public & £5m
Private Investment x 2 testbeds
Diabetes & Dementia
£23m - £10m Public &
£13m Private Investment
Approx. £2m - £1m Public
& £1m Private Investment
x 2 testbeds
£20m - £10m Public &
£10m Private Investment
Smart City at scale

@IoTUKNews
IOT UK RESOURCES
• Insight reports
• Blogs
• Case studies
• Films
• Good practice guides
• Open calls
• Academic research dissemination

The UK’s National Internet of Things Smart City
Demonstrator
J
To show how the large scale deployment of IoT can benefit
citizens by offering…
• environmental improvements;
• economic opportunities; and
• the more efficient and effective delivery of public service

THEMES
TRANSPORT
& TRAVEL
HEALTH &
SOCIAL CARE
ENERGY &
ENVIRONMENT
CULTURE &
PUBLIC REALM

USE CASE DEVELOPMENT
60
TRANSPORT & TRAVEL
Bus Stops & Road Safety
• Converting bus stops through location-based
services, sensors, mobile apps and intelligent
digital signage
• Improving road safety amongst high risk
groups to maintain a highly mobile economy
and inclusive society
• Deploying telematics devices to assess
individual drivers and identify opportunity for
interventions
• Over 1.5 million miles of driver data collected
City Concierge
• Digital way finding
• Augmented Reality visitor experiences at
major city events e.g. Chinese, New Year,
Pride and Christmas Markets. Our Buzzin
app experiences have been downloaded
over 6,000 times
Next Generation Cycle Sharing
• IoT enabled bikes investigated through use
of smart locks, smart bike lights and
enhanced telematics
• 140 bike lights deployed

Chronic Condition Management
• Focused on COPD – the UK’s 5th biggest
killer - testing the ability of IoT
interventions to improve self-care,
medication adherence and physical
activity
• Providing individuaised patient feedback
for better care and early warnings
detection
• 120 patients are involved in trialing smart
inhalers
Community Wellness
• PlaceCal – A shared online calendar of
very local community events aimed at
combating social isolation amongst
seniors
• BeeActive – A smartphone application
designed to encourage people to become
more active through digitally delivered
context aware “nudges”
Neighbourhood Teams
• Smart Homes – Monitoring 20+ vulnerable
residents’ homes for cold and damp to reduce
hospital admissions
• Smart Logistics – Provision of just-in-time
equipment and supplies for neighbourhood
nursing teams
• Smart Video – Video link between nursing
homes and local GP surgery to provide
individual consultations to reduce hospital
admissions
61
HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE

62
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Smart Lighting & Parking
• An intelligent, dynamic lighting network
for off-street lighting on private estates
• Trialing different smart parking technology
options including in bay sensors and
cameras
Next Gen BMS and Building Retrofit
• Using sensors to improve the energy
efficiency in buildings
• Smart use of building spaces
• Energy storage and management
within estates and the Grid
Smart Facilities Management
• Smart use of building spaces with 11
Workplace Occupancy monitoring
sensors
• Smart Cleaning – 18 sensors monitoring
when facilities need to be visited and
informing rotas
• Water monitoring – 211 sensors reducing
costs of testing water in buildings

USE CASE DEVELOPMENT & CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT
63
CULTURE & PUBLIC REALM
Citizen Engagement
• Citizens sit at the heart of CityVerve
• A citizen forum reviewed use cases and input to
development, usage and refinement
• Schools Programme & Citizen Journalists
• Designed to simulate citizen-centric innovation
and drive community adoption of CityVerve
• Plinths – 8 ‘Virtual Galleries’ across the city
showcasing art and history
Local Communities Platform
• Providing frictionless Wi-Fi through a ‘5 swipes’
landing page
• Delivering location specific content around the
interests and activities on the Corridor
IoT Art Installations
• 2 large scale IoT public realm installations (which
over 12,000 people have engaged with)
• ‘every thing, every time’ – Real-time data installation
that saw the City talking back through poetry
• ‘SUPERGESTURES’ – Using wearable technology
to communicate young people’s concerns about the
city
• Designed to engage communities in the potential of
IoT

LPWAN innovation programme
Things Connected- National innovation programme around LPWAN testbeds in
different UK regions to strategically support local IoT sector growth
× =+LPWAN
Network
Innovation
Support
Real life
business
challenges
New scalable
IoT products &
services sold
by UK SMEs

Examples of companies graduating from Things Connected
Smart bike light with
environmental sensors
Flexible sensing platform,
AQ monitoring
People counter for
space management
Facility management
for social housing
Pilot in Belfast involving
200 hire bikes
Doubled in size and then
acquired by ARM
Pilots in NHS trusts,
5+ contracts
Pilot in 600 flats with
Camden council

Council led innovation challenges – Supporting 5 Local Authorities in the
UK to engage with innovators around their challenges to develop, deploy
and pilot LPWAN solutions for these.
Challenge led programmes: Example city councils

T§
Innovation challenge: Watford
70 controlled
parking zone
~400 BLE permit
beacons
15 taxi rank
LoRaWAN + BLE +
Magnetometer
Challenge 1: Parking in designated bays for taxis and permit holders
Develop technology that identifies if a specific vehicle is in a particular parking bay and then generate an alert
detailing when it arrives and leaves.
Winning pilot solution

T§
Innovation challenge: Watford
LoRaWAN enabled Wifi people counter
Challenge 2: Footfall on high street
Develop technology that can provide footfall and visitor flow information to the same or better standards than
existing camera type methodologies.

t
Innovation challenge: Croydon
Croydon growth zone- £5.25 Bio regeneration
Fixed AQ monitoring and mobile on vehicles
Challenge: Impact monitoring of construction work in cities
Identify a solution for measuring the impact of construction sites on air pollution in the surrounding area

t
Innovation challenge: Sutton
BLE enabled wearable device with app
Challenge: Independent travel
How can we promote independence and participation through enabling young adults with learning disabilities to
travel independently and spontaneously? Provide assistance on the way and reassurance to carers/parents

t
Innovation challenge: Thurrock
Challenge: Digitised Tip
Understand the number of visitors/ week/vehicle etc. in order to stop commercial customers disposing of trade
waste disguised as domestic waste which comes at a great cost.
ANPR, traffic length, wind speed, skip activity

t
Innovation challenge: Suffolk - Felixstowe
Bscanner
3DCamera
WiFi
Sonar
LORA
Smart Places
Multi-technology people counter
Challenge: Visitor tracking
Provide a solution to identify how many people are visiting, track how visitors are moving around the town and
how long they stay and determine peak movement and footfall.

University campuses are in many
aspects mini cities and as such are an
ideal environment to initiate, foster,
test, develop and utilise the latest IoT
technology and solutions.
We look forward to working with you.

Thank you
Digital Catapult
101 Euston Road
London, NW1 2RA
0300 1233 101
info@digicatapult.org.uk
peter.karney@digicatapult.org.uk
Peter Karney, Head of Product Innovation
Contact Details

Introduction of the Internet of Things

More Related Content

What's hot (20)

Similar to Introduction of the Internet of Things (20)

More from Jisc (20)

Recently uploaded (20)

Introduction of the Internet of Things