The document discusses HyperCat, an open specification that makes IoT services and devices machine-readable through a simple RESTful API. It allows applications to discover resources and understand capabilities without prior knowledge of specific devices or services. HyperCat was developed by a consortium to address the problem that sensors and services are currently not machine-browsable, and to enable applications to find information from any participating devices or services through a standardized metadata tagging system. It demonstrates how HyperCat is being used to integrate different IoT data sources and make them available to applications in Manchester through services like Manchester-i and Corridor-i.

1. 10

2. 2000 2050
4
10
Connected
devices
increasing
tenfold
every
decade
Internet 2
is coming

3. Real world
Unique ID, sensors, actuators
Gateways
Cloud services
Today’s closed systems
Client apps

4. Real world
Unique ID, sensors, actuators
Gateways
Cloud services
Connetivity challenge
Client apps

5. The problem
Real world
Unique ID, sensors,
actuators
Gateway
s
Cloud
services
Client apps
Sensors and services are
not machine browsable
We need a language that allows applications to
discover any services’ resources automatically

6. HyperCat makes services
machine browsable
What can
you tell me?
Check out my
resource
catalogue

7. • Very simple specification
http://www.openiot.org/apis
• Builds on existing open software standards
– HTTPS / RESTful JSON
• Growing set of tools for client and services
What is it?

8. • Enables applications to find out
things they can understand
from any participating devices
/ services
What does it do?

9. • GET https://cat
• Returns a catalogue containing resource items
• Each resource item has HREF pointer and is tagged
with metadata
• The only defined metadata tag is for the catalogue
itself
• There’s a security model and a basic search
How is it used?

10. Who developed it?
• HyperCat was developed by a consortium including 1248.io, Aimes
Grid Services, AlertMe, Amey, ARM, Avanti, Balfour Beatty, BRE, BT,
Carillion, Critical Software, Ctrl-Shift, EDF, Enlight, Explorer HQ,
Flexeye, Guildford Borough Council, IBM, Intel, Intellisense.io, Intouch,
LivingPlanIT, London City Airport, Merseyside Transport, Milligan
Retail, Neul, Open Data Institute, Placr, SH&BA, Stakeholder Design,
Traak, UK Highways Agency, Westminster City Council, Xively,
Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge, Lancaster, Surrey, UCL and
Open University.
• It was funded by Innovate (UK Technology Strategy Board)

11. IoT in Manchester
• Manchester – i …. Data Curation supporting Platform of Platforms
• Data Driven Innovation
• City Verve IoT Demonstrator
• Hypercat in practice

12. Manchester-i is an essential integrating service that sits in the middle of a many-to-
many relationship.
“There can be only one Manchester-i”
• Diverse collections of data
• Various different stakeholders who own
or produce this data
• Variety of levels of quality
Authoritative
Sources
• Numerous potential Users and uses or
the data
• Include app / service developers, as well
as Citizens and other city stakeholders
Users Many
Many
OneManchester-i
• An integrating service providing (in
theory) access to any and all data and
for any and all Users
• It’s like an AirBnB for city data

13. Extend to Corridor-i
Triangulum Project is demonstrating the concept of Manchester-i by
integrating the Triangulum Project data with +1 other source – DIMMER in
the example below ; this is extended to City Verve as Corridor-I (Hypercat)
OSISoft – Triangulum
Project Data
Mobility Data
Visualisation
Platform
DIMMER data
Data from DIMMER SourcesEnergy Data Other Data
Triangulum-i (proof of
Manchester-i concept)
CityVerve data
IoT Apps
Data from City Verve Sources
Hypercat

26. www.hypercat.io