Recent ICT advances are bringing to reality a world where sensors, actuators and smart portable devices are interconnected into an Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystem reaching 50 Billion devices by 2015. The IoT major challenges are, from a systemic viewpoint, smart resource management and digital security; and from a user/service perspective, the pervasiveness (uniformity of performance anytime and anywhere) and awareness (inversely proportional to the degree of knowledge required from users). BUTLER will be the first European project to emphasise pervasiveness, context-awareness and security for IoT. Through a consortium of leading Industrial, Corporate R&D and Academic partners with extensive and complementary know-how, project BUTLER will integrate current and develop new technologies to form a “bundle” of applications, platform features and services that will bring IoT to life. For this purpose, BUTLER will focus on: a) Improving/creating enabling technologies to implement a well-defined vision of secure, pervasive and context-aware IoT, where links are inherently secure (from PHY to APP layers) applications cut across different scenarios (Home, Office, Transportation, Health, etc.), and the network reactions to users are adjusted to their needs (learned and monitored in real time). b) Integrating/developing a new flexible smartDevice-centric network architecture where platforms (devices) function according to three well-defined categories: smartObject (sensors, actuators, gateways), smartMobile (user’s personal device) and smartServers (providers of contents and services), interconnected over IPv6. c) Building a series of field trials, which progressively integrate and enhance state-of-the-art technologies to showcase BUTLER’s secure, pervasive and context-aware vision of IoT. In addition to these R&D innovations, BUTLER and its External Members Group will also aggregate and lead the European effort in the standardisation and exploitation of IoT technologies.

1. PROJECT PRESENTATION
19th January 2012

2. uBiquitous, secUre inTernet-
of-things with Location and
contEx-awaReness
FP7 call: FP7-ICT-2011-7
Integrated Project
October 2011  September 2014
15 M€
1234 man.months
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3. BUTLER Story A day in
SmartHealth the life of …
SmartHome
Smart Preventive Care:
Ex: Elder people have their day-to-day
Smart Shopping-List: activities monitored, triggering automatic
Ex: As you leave home, a shopping list on responses when needed…
your mobile is automatically updated…
Smart Case Sheet:
Smart Energy Savings: Ex: Medical personnel are given
Ex: As the last person leaves home, the contextualized information on patient’s
thermostats in the bedrooms are tuned conditions … 7:30 …
down… …
…
!
7:00 … 16:30 …
SmartCity SmartTransport
13:00…
!
Smart Event Management: Smart Navigation:
Ex: Traffic information such as the
Ex: Information about occurring and
approaching of an ambulance is
future events are automatically available
broadcasted to vehicles on the route…
to patrons and citizens
Smart Parking: Smart Updating:
Ex: Your peers (office, clients, family,
Ex: Parking information and suggestions
etc.) are informed of significant
are made available real-time events.
delays…
… …
17:00… SmartShopping
Smart Sales/Advertisiment:Ex:
The shop offers you personalized
Horizontal, discounts on items outside your list but
you are likely to buy
Delayed: 20min
Smart Cross-referencing:Ex:
seamless Scenarios Your wife is informed of the items you
are buying and their prices…
16:50…
…
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4. Awareness
Inversely proportional to the degree of knowledge required
from users
BUTLER’s concept is one of
active, pervasive, continuous,
real-time and progressively
personal context-awareness
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5. Expectations
Crimes Privacy violation Squandering
Congestion
Stress
Diseases
Latency inefficiency
Pollution
Poverty
SmartHealth
SmartShopping SmartTransport
SmartHome SmartCity
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6. Today: Domain-centric smart solutions
SmartHome SmartHealth SmartTransport SmartCity SmartShopping
- Monitoring and - Monitoring medicine - Promoting - Managing parking - Managing
controlling intake carpooling space sparkdeals
- Saving Energy - Personalized - Minimizing taxi - Lighting up a city - Getting advice on
comfortably diabetes assistance delays efficiently buying goods
- Interacting with - Providing training - Avoiding traffic - Watering - Retrieving
appliances tips jams orchards & discount
- Finding things - Monitoring health - Reporting traffic gardens - Buying a second
Easily parameters incidents - Monitoring Air hand product
- Consuming media - Monitoring activity - Monitoring metro QUality - Purchasing with
everywhere - Visiting a doctor platforms - Monitoring smart carts
- Getting notified - Enhancing social - Rewarding Eco- Electricity/Water - Purchasing using
- Leaving the home contacts driving - Discovering self service
safely - Protecting falls - Smart beaconing emergency routes - Updating
- Detecting - Living - Monitoring - Charging electric consumer profiles
emergencies independently incoming trains
! vehicles -…
- Preparing trips at -… -… - Accessing
home locally-wise apps
-… -…

7. BUTLER’s future vision SmartLife
SmartHome SmartHealth SmartTransport SmartCity SmartShopping
- Monitoring and controlling - Monitoring medicine intake - Promoting carpooling - Managing parking space - Managing sparkdeals
- Saving Energy comfortably - Personalized diabetes assistance - Minimizing taxi delays - Lighting up a city efficiently - Getting advice on buying goods
- Interacting with appliances - Providing training tips - Avoiding traffic jams - Watering orchards & gardens - Retrieving discount
- Finding things Easily - Monitoring health parameters - Reporting traffic incidents - Monitoring Air QUality - Buying a second hand product
- Consuming media everywhere - Monitoring activity - Monitoring metro platforms - Monitoring Electricity/Water - Purchasing with smart carts
- Getting notified - Visiting a doctor - Rewarding Eco-driving - Discovering emergency routes - Purchasing using self service
- Leaving the home safely - Enhancing social contacts - Smart beaconing - Charging electric vehicles - Updating consumer profiles
- Detecting emergencies - Protecting falls - Monitoring incoming trains - Accessing locally-wise apps -…
- Preparing trips at home - Living independently -… -…
-… -…
!
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8. Today: Infrastructure-centric
Networks
Personal Area
Network
Body Area
Network
Vehicle
Navigation
Local Area
Network
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9. BUTLER’s future vision: User-centric
Network of Networks
Network of
Personal Area
Networks
Network of
Body Area
Networks
Network of
Vehicles
(Cooperative
Network of Navigation)
FUTURE CYBERSPACE:
Local Area
Networks Personalized, Global
Network of Networks
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10. Challenges
1. Personalized and Dynamic Demands
2. Transparency, Privacy and Security in
Heterogeneous Systems
3. Collective Behaviour Modelling to Maximize
Efficiency
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11. PROJECT OBJECTIVES

12. High level objective
Design and demonstrate prototype of a
comprehensive, pervasive and effective Context-
Aware information system, which will operate
transparently and seamlessly across various
scenarios towards a unified smartLife environment.
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13. Technical and Technological objectives
• Modelling context and behaviour
– Contextualized Navigation
– Contextualized Advertising/Warning
– Contextualized Crowd Management
• Middleware architecture
– Service-oriented approach for dynamicity, interoperability
and modularity
– Complex event processing
• Security and privacy
– Contextualized security and privacy
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14. Operational objectives
• Integrate the requirements from 5 use cases: Smart
Mobility/Transport, Smart Healthcare/Wellness,
Smart Shopping, Smart Home/Office and Smart City
• Involve users: evaluate novel IoT applications and
their associated business models from a minimum
of 10 field trials based on BUTLER architecture.
• Develop and publish an open networked
architecture integrated with existing business
platforms
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15. OVERALL WORKFLOW AND MAIN DELIVERABLES
OF THE PROJECT

16. D2.1, D2.2, D2.3 - Security, context, behaviour requirements and D5.2 - Final
D3.2 - Integrated architecture
specifications platforms
and proofs of concept
D3.1 - Initial BUTLER architecture and proofs of concept and field trials
1 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36
Oct 2011 Jan 2012 May 2012 Sep 2012 Jan 2013 May 2013 Sep 2013 Jan 2014 May 2014 Sep 2014
D1.2 - Refined trial spec. D4.1, D4.2, D4.3 - Smart D5.1 - Integrated
D1.1 - Use cases and requirements
D2.4 - Selected technologies Server/Mobile/Object Platforms platforms
Vertical and Functional and Specification and Integration and
horizontal use-cases Non Functional development f1 testing
Requirements Specification and
analysis development f2
Specification and
• Domain specific
Final field
development f3
enablers
• • Technological
Generic enablers trials
o Security
choices
• Refined
o Localization
Smart •Smart Server
o Context,
specification of
• Trials
behavior)
• •Smart Mobile
Integrated
Life •Smart Object
middleware
architecture
•• 2nd proofs of
Initial Integrated
Vertical architecture
concept platforms
•
• Prototyping of
First proofs of
Scenarios concept
enablers
Horizontal • Testing with
measurable
Scenarios goals

17. PLANNED SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES

18. Behavioural modelling and mining
Recognize context-aware intent through external observation
• Behavior
• Decisions
• Typical course of actions
• Corresponding events and context
Extract meaningful information from distributed event streams
• Purposeful and meaningful abstractions for daily life activities
• Interactions between a few individuals and mass behavior
• Algorithms and software components for aggregation,
classification, learning, predicting and anticipating users’
behavior and activities
• Metrics to assess quality or trustworthiness of information

19. Behavioural modelling and mining
events events
1. Model
events Actions
Profile &
Preferences
Context Intentions Behavior
3. Anticipate
Tasks 2. Observe and learn

20. Behavioural modelling and mining
New event-based modeling abstractions
• Represent both individual and group behavior
• Explore feasibility of hybrid models combining statistical and
relational models, task trees, workflow and markov models,
dynamic bayesian networks, …
• Semantic modeling abstractions to describe domain knowledge in
relevant (patterns of) events
New processing and synthesis techniques
• Context-aware and semantic event pattern recognition
• Causality detection to anticipate human behavior
• Learning and data stream mining based on complex event
processing techniques (CEP)

21. Geo-Temporal Contextualization (1/2)
Aim to develop algorithms for the seamless acquisition of
geo-temporal information in heterogeneous networks, clearly
defined as following objectives.
Objectives
– Identification of the forms of geo-temporal context information
– Tracking and localize the context information securely
– Simultaneous localization and mapping through cooperative P2P links,
with new location-dependent security mechanisms
– Energy/time-efficient indoor localization within heterogeneous
networks
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22. Geo-Temporal Contextualization (2/2)
Workflow
– Concrete algorithms be developed to enhance acquire geo-temporal
context with the help of objects, topology, etc…
– Development of corresponding algorithms on real platforms
Domain Specific Objectives
– Provide ambient information about metro platforms when the user
reaches the station entrance, for users located on station platforms.
– Schedule planner - plan the user departure according to user's
agenda, traffic conditions and parking availability.
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23. Contextual networking
Aim is to develop algorithms to provide contextual information at a macro-
perspective, focusing on contextualized networking strategies, behavior
synthesis (crowd management, incentives) and “contextual games” model
to predict users’ behaviors.
Generic workflow
– Cooperate with the other tasks and create the use cases for the
applications and services;
– Create concrete algorithms to be utilized in such use cases;
– Algorithms brought forward to the implementation tasks;
– Results validations by using the prototypes generated in the
implementation tasks
Domain specific objectives
– Shopping environment related modelling of consumer groups
– To be able affect consumer behaviour via context based targeted
advertising and offers
– Other objectives: to be further studied
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24. INTEGRATION AND FIELD TRIALS

25. Two steps field trials
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26. Smart
mobile
platform
Smart
server Unifying
platform BUTLER
Architecture
Secure, private, trustworthy
context capture
Smart OSGi Zigbee DPWS
FreeRTOS
TinyOS
Contiki
object/gateway CoAP
platform RPL 6LowPAN
IEEE 802.15.4

27. FROM USE CASES TO REQUIREMENTS AND NEW
BUSINESS MODELS

28. Eco System of a Business-driven Project
Experience Exploitation
Outcomes Prototype
Design Strategy
Vertical Horizontal Business
Use Cases Use Cases Requirements
Customer Personas + Stories
Experience
Expert Customer Insights Trigger, Needs &
Barriers
View Market Research
Business
Business
[Mega-]
Model Model
Trends
Outline

29. From Vertical Use Cases to Smart Life Concept
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SmartMobility SmartHealth SmartHome /
SmartShopping SmartCity
/ Transport / Wellness Office
Horizontal Horizontal Horizontal Horizontal Horizontal
UCs UCs UCs UCs UCs
Aggregate results from Verticals
Smart Live Concept: Horizontal Story Line incl. Personas Customer Insights
Experience Design
Business Requirements IoT Butler Prototype
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30. Human Centric Approach
• Consistently using human centric design elements for documentation (throughout
the project)
– Personas, needs, customer use cases
– Story telling and visualisation (prototyping) to enhance communication with customers
• In depth customer insight interviews with selected customers (beginning of 2012)
– to verify needs from the use cases and story line and extract additional needs
– also find out about triggers and barriers
• Market research (e.g. with questionnaires) (end of 2012)
– to widen customer base
– to cover different topics like price sensitivity or general acceptance likelihood
• Map the ecosystem (2013)
– looking at the customer life cycle and possible business partners or stakeholders
– to develop the value proposition, exploitation strategy and possible business models

31. Sample Persona Description
Julia Solo
• Description: Single parent, mother of Carla,
hardworking business woman,
• Age: 35 years old
• Job position: Julia is working at executive level and
spends a lot of time at work, she leaves early and
comes back late.
• Hobbies: soul music
• Characteristics: dynamic, creative, goal oriented

32. Sample Result of
Customer Insight Interviews
Barriers
• Small monthly budget
• Afraid of technique
• Wants to appear strong
• Things can get quickly “to much”.
Needs • “I didn´t need it in the past, why should
I need it now?”
• Stay in contact with family members
• Customized care Triggers
• Support and safety in daily life
• Help and explanation in usage of technique • Wants to keep up with the younger
• Trustable service providers, simple service generations
packages • Stay in contact with family
• All services from one supplier • No stagnating, learn new things
• Support for her children

33. GETTING MORE

34. Connect with BUTLER
• www.iot-butler.eu :
– Learn about BUTLER
– Follow progresses
– Partnerships
• BUTLER on social networks :
– Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/IoTBUTLER
– LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/BUTLER-
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35. THANK YOU !