IoT Lab - Crowdsourced Experimental Environment

1. IoT Lab
Crowdsourced Experimental Environment
Aleksandra Rankov,
Srdjan Krčo,Stevan Jokić
DunavNET, Serbia
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2. Explore the power of the crowd

3. Exploring direct interactions with the
crowd (with smart phones) and enabling
the crowd to be at the core of the
research cycle. This would enable a
Motivation
research cycle. This would enable a
better alignment of the research with the
society and end-users needs and
requirements.

4. Aim
Economic Research
IoT Lab
To research the potential of crowdsourcing i.e. crowd participation in sensing and actuation
to integrate the crowd smart phones with existing FIRE testbed infrastructures or any general
statically deployed IoT resources in order to enable a wide range of multidisciplinary experiments
with more end-user interactions, flexibility, scalability, cost efficiency and societal added value.
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Societal Research
Technological Research
IoT Lab
Testbed
as a
Service

5. IoT Lab project
FP7 3-years project (No 610477) commenced 1 Oct 2013
Switzerland Serbia
Greece
Coordinator
Denmark
CONSORTIUM
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Sweden UK UK
Switzerland
CONSORTIUM
FIRETESTBED
INFRASTRUCTURES
Hobnet
CTI TB
WISEBED & Hobnet
University of
Geneva TB
Hobnet & EAR-IT
Mandat
International TB
Smart
Santanders
University of
Surrey TB

6. Voluntary participants will be able to INITIATE,
RUN or JUST TAKE PART in a selected experiment
and thus contribute to the new research.
CROWDSENSING CROWDSOURCING
Privacy by Design –
Built-in anonymity
+ Data protection
+ Incentive and
rewarding schemes
Acceleration
Gravity
Gyroscope
Light
Linear acceleration
Magnetic field
Orientation
Pressure
Proximity
Rotation
Temperature
Battery level
Camera GPS location
Microphone
Sensory data
Crowd knowledge
Surveys/Questionnaires
Market analysis
Public opinion/polls
Testing of a product

7. Crowdsourcing
Driven
Initiate,
guide,
assess
research
1. Submit,
assess, rank
research
3. Suggest
adaptations
and
Research model –
Crowd-sourcing
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Driven
Research
research
topics
2. Test/assess
results
and
improvements
Leverage the “wisdom of the crowd” and collective intelligence potential to enable
truly end-user driven research processes.

8. Objectives - IoT Lab in a nutshell
Crowdsourcing
mechanisms and tools
• To enable testbeds to integrate and
use third party resources (smart
phones) and interact with the
distributed users.
Virtualization
• of crowdsourcing and testbed
components facilitating the
integration and interaction with
heterogeneous components,
including physical, mobile and virtual
ones.
Ubiquitous
Interconnection and
Cloudification
• of the testbeds resources to provide
an on-line platform of Testbed as a
Service (TBaaS).
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9. Objectives cont’ - IoT Lab in a nutshell
End-user and societal
value
• researching potential crowdsourcing
participants interests, drivers and barriers
to adoption, in order to propose an
optimized model for end-user adoption
and societal value creation.
“Crowdsourcing-driven
research”
• as a new model in which the research can
be initiated, guided and assessed by the
crowd.
Economic dimension of
crowdsourcing testbed
• by analyzing the potential markets and
business models in order to optimize the
exploitation, costs, profitability and
economic sustainability of such testbeds.
Performing
multidisciplinary
experiments
• including end-user driven experiments
through crowdsourcing, to assess the
added value of such approach.
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10. IoT Lab Mission
To extend existing testbeds
through crowd sourcing,
enabling richer and more
distributed experiments
Bring the researcher and the
end-user together, with closer
interactions between the
experiments and the society
A new approach for
Support multidisciplinary
experiments
Increase testbed economic
sustainability
A new approach for
experimentation
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11. Virtualization of existing testbeds
through Fed4FIRE and integration
Challenges
A large number of testbeds with different functionalities,
architecture and interfaces
through Fed4FIRE and integration
with crowdsourcing IoT resources
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Testbed as a Service
Unification of the resource discovery and reservation process
A wide range of heterogeneous devices as well as testbeds
under different authorities, with different tools and from
different application domains are accessible through IoT Lab
platform in a unified way!

12. Platform Development Approach
IoT Lab Platform
Architecture
State of the Art analysis
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13. IoT Lab Platform
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14. IoT Lab General Use Case Diagram

15. Platform Requirements
User profile management
• for both participants and
investigators
• Security for AAA control
• Built-in reputation
Experiment
Configuration
• Detailed experiment
description (resources,
objectives, timeline ,
privacy)
Testbed Resources
Management
• interface that allows
testbed managers to
configure and make their
resources available for
experimentation
Privacy and Ethics
Crowdsourcing and
Crowdsensing provisioning
• Capability of crowd and testbed
resources to provide sensory and/or
crowd knowledge data
Experiments
Management
• Browsing and
evaluation of
experiments
Privacy and Ethics
• PRIVACY BY DESIGN
concept:
• users are requested
minimal information
• a clear description of the
required data (user and
device)
Support for incentives
• for crowd and
investigators incentive.

16. IoT Lab accounts
manager
IoT (testbed)
resources
management
interface
Crowd interaction
management
interface
IoT Lab Platform as a Service
high level architecture
MAIN COMPONENTS
Setup and
management of
participants accounts,
including the
researchers/experime
nters access and
personal accounts.
Use of Fed4FIRE
enablers to enable
interactions with IoT
components from the
testbeds and the
smart phones.
Handling the interaction
with the participants

17. Project Plan
Y1
IoT Lab
platform fully
defined;
Y2
Finalizing and
fine tuning the
tools
Y3
Scaling up the
IoT Lab
platformdefined;
Testbeds fully
integrated
Initial
components
developed
tools
Testbed as a
Service fully
operational
Experiments
started
platform
Large outreach
Experiments
results and
analytics

18. Explore the power of the crowd
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