Consortium description

A European Integrated Project supported through the Seventh Framework Programmefor Research and Technological Development.

Contract number: 215923

Project Coordinator: Laurent Herault, CEA-LETIlaurent.herault@cea.fr

Technical Manager: Alexander Gluhak, UniSa.gluhak@surrey.ac.uk

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Integrating the Physical with the Digital World

of the Network of the Future

The integration of the physical world, using WSANs, into the Future Internet on a global scale is a very ambitious objective and its complexity spans a variety of technological and socio-economic problem domains:

The consortium consists of 8 industrial partners; many of them are global leaders in their market area. They are complemented by 2 rapidly-developing European SMEs, 2 research centres, 6 universities and 1 management company.

Nokia and Ericsson Ireland were also part of the consortium during the first year of the project.

(Coordinator)1. Commissariat à l’énergie atomique - LETI

(CEA-LETI) - FR

The University of Surrey 2. (UNIS) - GB

ALMA Consulting Group 3. (ALMA) - FR

Ove Arup and Partners International 4. (ARUP) - GB

Ericsson AB 5. (EAB) - SE

NEC Europe Ltd. 6. (NEC) - GB

SAP AG 7. (SAP) - DE

Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo8. (TID) - ES

Thales Research & Technology (UK) Limited 9. (TRT) - GB

Ambient Systems B.V. 10. (AMB) - NL

Sensinode 11. (SEN) - FI

Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche 12. (CFR) - IT

Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich 13. (ETHZ) - CH

University Politehnica of Buchares 14. (UPB) - RO

University of Oulu 15. (UO) - FI

16.Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble II (UPMF) - FR

17.University of Twente (UT) - NL

Ericsson d.o.o. for Telecommunications LLC 18. (EYU) - RS

Telenor ASA 19. (TNOR) - NO

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• Research centreCEA-LETI, CFR

• Higher educationUniS, ETHZ, UPB, UO, UPMF, UT

• SMEAMB, SEN

• Industrials, Operators and Industrial-Users

EAB, NEC, SAP, TID, TRT, EYU,

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The SENSEI consortium involves the required multi-disciplinary expertise split among 19 partners from 12 European countries: France, United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Romania, Serbia and

Norway. The especially strong industrial commitment in the project is expected to help produce real-world results and facilitate the commercialisation of the project’s efforts.

www.sensei-project.eu

Administrative Manager:sensei-alma@myndsphere.com

Socio-Economic Requirements

Information ServicesEfficient Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks and Communications

PnP Framework and Future Internet

In order to realise the vision of Ambient Intelligence in a future network and service environment integrating wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSAN) efficiently into the Future Internet is a MUST:

The explosion of the world population (2050’s earth population up to 9 billion) and its accumulation in urban area is a major challenge for our future societies. As cities continue to grow, more effective and ‘smarter’ infrastructures are needed. Cities become increasingly complex while people require better quality of life through networks and context aware services. Moreover environmental issues become crucial in our society: urban areas may provide an appropriate answer to preserve natural areas while populated cities are also vulnerable to natural risks.

SENSEI technologies can support solving the equation of our future societies which consists in enabling people to live together, better and safer in greener cities. Wireless technologies sensor and actuator networks can enable societal changes and smarter citizen and organisational behaviors.

• Better city’s connectivity and interaction between individuals and organizations;

• Smarter transportation and security networks;

• Minimized impact on earth through monitoring of real-time carbon emission;

• Continuous energy monitoring to save money while protecting the environment.

SENSEI application scenarios picture how “connecting the physical world to the Future Internet” will contribute to the convergence of the technology, demography and climate revolutions into the evolution towards future society and economy.

Figure 1: Concept and scope of SENSEI.

SENSEI Motivation

• The growing importance of context-awareness as an enabler for more intelligent, invisible and autonomous applications and services has highlighted the need for a greater integration of the physical with the digital world;

• The lack of an open framework for WSAN is leading to the emergence of closed vertically integrated WSAN deployments that will prevent re-use of context information for new applications and services;

• The observation that embedded sensors and actuators will make up the majority of connected devices in the Future Internet and their specific requirements will have a strong impact on the design of the Future Internet.

Based on industrially led business cases, scenarios and socio-economic analysis, SENSEI achieves its goal and vision by:

- Investigating and researching sensor information services to intelligently and profitably generate sensor based context information as well as provide actuation functionalities, both at the necessary level of quality while maintaining scalability and supporting adaptability;

- Researching and developing a scalable sensor and actuator networking framework that enables information to be used globally and heterogeneous sensors and networks of sensors to be interoperable, efficiently managed and easily added to the framework through Plug & Play tools (PnP);

- Researching and developing efficient and flexible solutions for WSANs for environmental, object and body sensor networks based on a common architectural framework;

- Developing and prototyping solutions for efficient WSAN Islands and test platform of the SENSEI concept;

- Disseminate its results, contributing to the Future Internet definition and Standards.

A 1. highly scalable architectural framework with corresponding protocol solutions that enable easy plug and play integration of a large number of globally distributed WSAN into a global system – providing support for network and information management, security, privacy and trust and accounting;

An 2. open service interface and corresponding semantic specification to unify the access to context information and actuation services offered by the system for services and applications;

Efficient WSAN island solutions consisting of a set of 3.cross-optimised and energy aware protocol stacks including an ultra low power multi-mode transceiver targeting 5nJ/bit;

Pan European test platform,4. enabling large scale experimental evaluation of the SENSEI results and execution of field trials - providing a tool for long term evaluation of WSAN integration into the Future Internet.

Tangible results of the SENSEI project will be:

Future Internet(mobile and fixed)Future

NetworkComponents

ContextAware

Services

PnP WSANIsland Interface

SENSEI ServiceInterface

Network SupportInterface

WSANIsland

WSANIsland

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Technology developed by SENSEI will play an essential part in transforming the existing Internet, Mobile Networks and Service Infrastructures into a Future Internet that is capable to deal with the challenging demands of a Future Networked Society.

WP1(Industrially led Business Cases, Scenarios and Socio-Economic Analysis) The objectives of the WP are to address the following research challenges:

• A Scenarios Portfolio for Enterprise and Open solutions supported by both industrial interest and business viability for enterprise solutions and public needs/wants;

• Functional and technical requirement for the SENSEI system extracted from these scenarios;

• Analysis of the end-user requirements for a selected set of SENSEI application demonstrators;

• A ranked list of potential applications and services based on user expectations and acceptance and recommendations for the viability and the development of meaningful and useful applications;

• Business models of the most business viable scenarios, and value chain identifying the main stakeholders, their roles and interfaces;

• Audio Visual Show Cases illustrating the scenario portfolio in terms of their benefits to individuals, groups of individuals or businesses/enterprises, and user, social and business acceptance studies.

WP2 (Sensor information services) will address the following challenges:

• Defining interfaces for retrieving context information and managing actuation tasks;

• Modelling context information and actuation tasks on suitable abstraction levels;

• Identifying Quality of Information and Quality of Actuation metrics;

• Developing context processing mechanisms to derive appropriate level of abstraction.

WP3 (Global and Pluggable Sensor and Actuator Networking Framework) aims at:

• Providing a global service and networking framework for Sensors and Actuators;

• Providing solutions for access control to sensor and actuator services, such as authentication and authorization of WSAN islands and their service consumers;

• Designing networking protocols for the SENSEI

framework and for the management of WSAN islands. In the WSAN world there must be support for multiple proprietary and legacy naming schemes and a large number of communication paradigms: periodic, streaming, multicast, etc;

• Ensuring that scalability requirements are verified and analyzing potential bottlenecks.

WP4 (Efficient wireless sensor and actuator systems) aims at:

• Designing and developing low-power, low-cost radio transceivers and cross-layer optimized MAC, routing, and transport protocols;

• Developing a novel distributed processing middleware that comprises means for collaborative processing and context-awareness support, for in-network processing to distribute the data processing load over the network, and for data-centric communication;

• Designing efficient management functions and schemes for dynamic reconfiguration of the protocol stack in sensor nodes, adaptive network topology control, flexible node and service discovery, and mobility control to manage moving sensors;

• Designing mechanisms and protocols, which ensure a secure access to context information and provide a trustable actuation service without violating the information privacy of individual and corporations.

Figure 2: Workpackage (WP) breakdown

WP7Project

Management

WP6Dissemination, Standardisation

and Exploitation

WP1Industrially led Business Cases, Scenarios

and Socio-Economic Analysis

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WP3Global and Pluggable Sensor

and Actuator Networking Framework

WP5Prototyping and Evaluation Platforms

WP2Sensor Information

Services

WP4Efficient Wireless Sensor

and Actuator Systems

A vision of the Smart City application space

Figure 3:Smart City scenario