1) Dr. Maurizio Pilu discusses his experience managing a £9m innovation program on the Internet of Things (IoT) at the UK's Technology Strategy Board (TSB). 2) He then explains his new role leading partnerships at the Connected Digital Economy Catapult, a £10m per year applied research center established by the TSB to help UK innovators in the digital economy. 3) The Catapult focuses on making specific capabilities and platforms openly available to benefit UK innovators working in areas like cities and communities, data, and next generation infrastructure relevant to IoT like machine-to-machine communication and whitespace networks.

1. Catapult is a Technology Strategy Board programme
Deconstructing my experience @ #tsbiot
and how can @cdecatapult help
3 July 2013
Dr. Maurizio Pilu
Connected Digital Economy Catapult
@maurizio_pilu

2. Overview
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• #tsbiot  I will deconstruct my personal experience
in designing, setting up & managing a £9m innovation
program in #iot while @ the Technology Strategy
Board
• @cdecatapult  How my new organization can help
drive this agenda forward

3. (OLD) TSB IOT HAT ON 3

4. WATCH OUT: STRATEGY AT WOK!  4

5. January 2011: IoT is hot! Really? 5

6. OK, Let‟s look into it …. Hmmm …

7. BTW, it‟s not as if it‟s new …. 7

8. Pervasive Internet
Connected Environments
Smart Places
Smart Cities
Connected Cars
Ubiquitous
Computing, Everyware
Connected World
Physical Internet
Smart Homes
Smart Meters
Wireless Sensor Networks
Ambient Intelligence
Machine to Machine
Web of Things
The Future Internet
............
... and it has many identities ….

9. So we started a conversation…..
• 6 events across various sectors
• Engaged Energy, Transport, Built
Environment, Health, Creative
• >400 businesses and academics
participated
• All run with the same format
• Output summarized in a report
• Seeded a “UK community” (now 1700
practitioners)
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10. … and it was fun & useful … 10

11. …but still lots to do ….….


12. Many perspective! 
It‟s about sensors & devices
It‟s about M2M
It‟s about a big IT system that controls stuff
It‟s all about data value chains
It‟s about new services
It‟s the Internet – no such thing as IoT
It‟s about the user experience
It‟s about growth-opportunities
It‟s about new business models
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13. … and uncertainty about where value is 13

14. …but patterns were emerging … 14
Fixed Telephony / networks
Mobile Internet Internet / broadband
Internet of Things
Reach
Mobile telephony
M2M
Cloud
Time
Open data and objects
Applications
SaaSSmart Silos
Foundation
Today
The future
Smart Everything
Internet
of
Silos
Sensor and actuators networks
Courtesy of Stuart Revell, ICT KTN & #tbiot SIG

15. Fast forward a few months …. 15

16. £5m (£9m) innovation support programme 16
Preparatory
Studies (£500k)
Ecosystem
Demonstrator
(~£8m)
R&D Roadmap
Community building
Events
Engagement
Consultation
Investment

17. … and that‟s the focus … 17
• Support building a UK community looking
at shared perspective IoT
• Adoption, applications and services
development
• Focus on the enablers of and barriers to
the ecosystem of applications and
services of the Internet of Things
• Take a “data value chain” perspective

18. Preparatory studies 18
https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/iot-convergence-preparatory-studies-2012/
10 business-led projects looking into
ecosystems in 10 different IoT application
areas/sectors.

19. Follow on: £6.2m IoT demonstrator
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• Develop a network of
Internet of Things
clusters
• Incentivize more accessibility
to IoT data
• Adoption of „information hubs‟
• Help drive interoperability
• Become a platform for
collaboration

20. The Internet of Things Demonstrator
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• Results of £6.2m investment
announced by David Willetts on
11 March 2013
• Investing in 8 IoT clusters to
demonstrate ecosystems in
specific application areas
• >40 organizations
involved, including
Intel, ARM, BT, IBM, NEUL, Cisc
o, EDF, Carillion, LivingPlanIT, an
d many SMEs

21. Example: London City airport IoT cluster 21
https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/internet-of-things-ecosystem-demonstrator

22. Fast forward again …. 22

23. Some personal learning …. 23
More questions, really ….

24. Disruptive? Possibly …. “Telegraph of things” 24
McKinsey Qtly: how data and the telegraph in 1854 shaped the
organizational chart of NY Railway

25. Revolution? Not sure
Evolution? More like it?
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Seen any of these? Been around for 20-30 years!

26. Hype? Reality? Where are we? 26
$1t
$10t
$14t

27. Reasons to invest have to be clear ….
But are they from a £ perspective?
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28. #iot: Three broad ranges of players
• Those providing the “plumming”
• Those in large verticals (e.g. health)
• Those who don‟t need and/or can‟t
wait for the above (typically SMEs)
• Different dynamics, ROI, time to
market, £££, etc.
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29. ???
???
Out window of
visibility today
Do we really know where it‟s going to go?
And how?

30. Growth: Innovation, new
applications, services
Core foundation of the IoT
to drive designs, strategies,
investments
… the evolution will unfold in the coming years

31. Vertical vs Horizontal play?
• 1-1 full time … 
• Sectors and actors can and should
agree a common horizontal vision ….
• But IoT goes deep into the guts of
sectors: people, processes, biz
models
• Can both co-exist? If not now, when?
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32. Cost + tools key to adoption ….
but who‟s going to get there first or drive it?
• High cost  slow rate of adoption
• Low cost  more biz cases stack up
• No tools  hard for innovators to experiment
• Open Source, abstraction layers, APIs, data,
privacy, Dev Kits  Ecosystems
• Arm: “IoT need an Android”
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33. IoT is not a technology – it‟s an ensemble of
things ….
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- Collaboration is key
- Creative, technologists, sectors players
- Technology disciplines coming together
- Open source / open access approaches
- Federation and APIs
- The importance of “integrative” demonstrators
with clear use cases
- Innovation, innovation, innovation

34. ...and …
DOT DOT DOT
many more questions
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35. Fast forward one more time …. 35

36. NEW HAT ON 36

37. Connected Digital Economy Catapult
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• Set up by the Technology Strategy Board
• Applied R&D&I centre in the digital economy
• Based in London, national remit
• Centre with critical mass to help UK innovators
• £10m p.a. of core investment from TSB
• Overtime co-funded by businesses and grants
• Total revenue ~£20-30m pa, 200 staff; £10-15m
pa from businesses

38. The digital data value chain – our „field of play‟
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39. Connected Digital Economy Catapult
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• CDEC is not a funder
• We run R&D&I projects with industry and
academia
• Focussed on helping commercialization by
• … making specific capabilities & platforms
openly available...
• .. for the benefit of UK innovators

40. Our #IoT angles
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• Cities & communities – it‟s where lots of data,
verticals, people come together, in high density
• Data, data, data - #IoT will generate huge
amounts of data (e.g. “cities generate more data
they know what to do with”)
• Next generation infrastructure, in particular
• M2M
• Whitespace communication
• Connecting & supporting existing investments
(e.g. from TSB, EU, RCs)

41. Questions
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• What capabilities & facilities UK‟s innovators need
that they cannot get from “the market”.
• What strategic (i.e. for wider benefit) industry-led
projects does the UK need to move forward
• Is the #tsbiot investment enough?
• What else?
• Please get in touch.

42. Catapult is a Technology Strategy Board programme
Thank you!
Dr. Maurizio Pilu
Partnerships Director
CDE Catapult
Maurizio dot Pilu at cde.catapult.org.uk
@maurizio_pilu
@cdecatapult
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