Pervasive nation

2. CONNECT IS A SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND
RESEARCH CENTRE
ONE STOP SHOP FOR NETWORKS &
COMMUNICATIONS
10 institutions, 200 researchers, 35 Companies

3. Unit 16
Pervasive Nation
Headquarters
HQ TEAM:
D. Christie
B. Murphy
M. Guerin
T. Farrell
D. McDonald
T. Forde
F. Smyth

4. INTERNET of THINGS
MAKING MEANING FROM AN INSTRUMENTED WORLD

5. YOU NEED TO INSTRUMENT THE WORLD TO EXTRACT DATA
YOU NEED THE DATA, TO MAKE MEANING
YOU NEED TO MAKE MEANING TO MAKE MONEYMAKE MONEY
EFFECT CHANGE

6. THE WORLD IS INSTRUMENTED BY
EMBEDDING SENSORS IN THE BUILT
& NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND
CONNECTING THOSE SENSORS TO A
NETWORK.
BUT THERE THERE ARE LOADS OF
DIFFERENT NETWORKS THAT CAN BE
USED. TODAY IS ABOUT ONE
NETWORK OPTION.
ONE IMPACTFUL OPTION.
In 2017, teams will
search through more
that 20 wireless
connectivity choices and
protocols to support a
company’s diverse set of
IoT devices (Forrester)

7. Source: Qualcomm
MASSIVE
INTERNET OF
THINGS
OUR FOCUS

8. Small messages
Low Power
Long battery life
Awkward spots
Low cost points
=> LowPowerWideAreaNetwork
Massive IoT =>

9. LOADS OF LPWAN OPPORTUNITIES
https://www.i-scoop.eu/internet-of-things-guide/iot-spending-2020/wireless-iot-lpwan-forecasts-predictions-2017/
The total number of IoT
devices connected over
LPWANs will reach 700
million by 2021
(Business Insider)
The LPWAN services
market will reach $75
Billion by 2025 (ON
World)
MarketsanMarkets
predicts the global Low
Power Wide Area
Network market to grow
to USD 24.46 Billion by
2021

10. An LPWA network for IoT & an Ecosystem

11. The network bit ...
A national scale infrastructure that allows all stakeholders
in the IoT LPWA market and user base, to engage, learn,
interact, innovate, speculate, explore, test-at-scale, make
mistakes, evolve, find business models, and prepare at
home for global markets.

12. A bit more about the network
PN is an LPWAN network based on the LoRa
standard.

13. LORA
SIGFOX
-----
------
--
NB-IOT
MANY FLAVOURS OF LOW POWERED WIDE AREA NETWORKS – ALL WITH
DIFFERENT PROS AND CONS – PN USES LORA

14. SOME LORA FEATURES
Data rate = 290bps to Kbps
Payload = 51- 222 bytes
Encryption = AES128
Modulation = SS Chirp
RX bandwidth = 500-125 KHz
Link budget = 145 dB
Frequency of operation = ISM band
Interference Immunity = very high
Localization = yes
✖
✔

15. THE CELLULAR NETWORK
HUMAN
PHONE
BASESTATION

16. THE LORA NETWORK
THING
EMBEDDED SENSORS / LORA RADIO
GATEWAY
KERLINK
MULTITECH
CISCO

17. LORA
PERMISSIONLESS
ANY ONE CAN BUILD A NETWORK

19. CURRENT PN
COVERAGE

21. THE LORA NETWORK
THING
EMBEDDED SENSORS / LORA RADIO
GATEWAY
KERLINK
MULTITECH
CISCO

22. WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE DATA HITS THE GATEWAYS?
DATA
DATA
FORWARDED, PROCESSED & STORED

23. The intelligence and
complexity is in the network
SERVER, which manages the
network and will filter
redundant received packets,
perform security checks,
schedule acknowledgments
through the optimal
gateway, and perform
adaptive data rate, etc.
The Application Enabling
Platform makes sense of
the data - i.e. it decodes
the data.
It contains all the hooks
which are needed to
build applications.
It also allows us to
manage all the end
devices.
davra networks
Each gateway will
forward the
received packet
from the end-node
to the cloud-based
network server via
some backhaul
(either cellular,
Ethernet, satellite,
or Wi-Fi).
CLOUD

24. THE NETWORK SERVER AND THE APPLICATION
ENABLING PLATFORM ARE HOSTED IN WITs
DATACENTRE
YOUR DATA CAN BE STORED ANYWHERE YOU WISH

25. MAIN MESSAGE - THERE IS A PROFESSIONAL
RELIABLE BACKEND THAT CAN SUPPORT LARGE
SCALE OPERATION

26. GATEWAY
SENSORS /
DEVICES
NETWORK
SERVER
DATA
WIT DATA CENTRE
Other
Third-
Party
Open
Source
davra networks
Other
Third-
Party
Custom
In-house
APPLICATION
ENABLING
PLATFORM
BACKHAUL

27. An LPWA network for IoT & an Ecosystem

28. The ecosystem bit ...
CONNECT
+ 130 COMPANIES
+ OTHER SFI CENTRES
+ AGENCIES
++++

29. ACTUATE
PERVASIVE NATION THE NETWORK
PERVASIVE NATION THE ECOSYSTEM
RESPOND
MAKE
MEANING
BUSINESSMODELS

30. PLAYING OUR PART IN OTHER
ECOSYSTEMS…
SMART DUBLIN
DOCKLANDS SMART DISTRICT LED
BY DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL

31. INTERNATIONAL LINKS
ALLIANCE
CONNECT HAS LARGE NUMBERS OF INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

32. WAYS TO USE
PERVASIVE
NATION

33. 1. Use PN to gather data of interest from sources
of interest

34. GATEWAY
SENSORS /
DEVICES
NETWORK
SERVER
DATA
WIT DATA CENTRE
Other
Third-
Party
Open
Source
davra networks
Other
Third-
Party
Custom
In-house
APPLICATION
ENABLING
PLATFORM
BACKHAUL

35. TYPES OF QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE
 Does the idea work in general? / Does the idea work on LoRa?
 How accurate are these sensors?
 What density do I need?
 Can the sensors in the basement connect? (i.e. propagation issues)
 Is there interference from other sources?
 How often do I need to take readings?
 How difficult is the reality of installation?
 Are there opex issues?
 How cheaply can I do this?
 How easy is it to access my data?
 How secure is this?
 Am I collecting the right kind of data to make the meaning I need?
 Would this be a service someone would pay for?

36. EXAMPLE OF THE
RANGE OF SENSORS
ON OFFER.
PN TEAM HAS LOTS OF
EXPERIENCE WITH
DIFFERENT TYPES

37. 1. Stuff that can be sensed
using off-the-shelf low cost
sensors
1.Register your devices on PN
2.Use & collect your data
DEMO LATER WILL SHOW HOW
2. Stuff that needs more
expensive bulky sensors,
not yet ready for large
volumes
1.Register your devices on PN
2.Use & collect your data
WHILE YOU
3. Carry out further research to
reduce size and cost via CONNECT or
other sources
3. Stuff you want to sense,
for which no sensors exist
1. Carry out fundamental research
with for example Tyndall@CONNECT
OPTIONS FOR SENSORS

38. 2. Bring your own network (BYON) to PN

39. GATEWAY
SENSORS /
DEVICES
NETWORK
SERVER
DATA
WIT DATA CENTRE
Other
Third-
Party
Open
Source
davra networks
Other
Third-
Party
Custom
In-house
APPLICATION
ENABLING
PLATFORM
BACKHAUL

41. TYPES OF QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE
 How does the PN backend enable my work?
 What restrictions, if any, exist?
 Are my gateways up to the task – how do they compare with
the ones in use in PN?
 How does different backhaul scenarios effect the situation?
 What kind of new business models can I build in this context?
 Does this offer me a different kind of security?
 Are there other things I can do at the edge?

42. NETWORK OF NETWORKS

43. 3. Bring your own backend (BYOB) to PN

44. GATEWAY
SENSORS /
DEVICES
NETWORK
SERVER
DATA
WIT DATA CENTRE
Other
Third-
Party
Open
Source
davra networks
Other
Third-
Party
Custom
In-house
APPLICATION
ENABLING
PLATFORM
BACKHAUL
PACKET
FORWARDER
PACKET
FORWARDER
PACKET
FORWARDER
PRIVATE DOMAIN

45. TYPES OF QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE
 The questions you have here could, for example, be
about other protocols outside of the LoRaWAN
framework. They will tend to be of internal
relevance to your organisation.
 This approach essentially cuts down on your need
to build infrastructure. You reuse infrastructure that
already exists.

46. 4. Develop next generation gateways on PN

47. GATEWAY
SENSORS /
DEVICES
NETWORK
SERVER
DATA
WIT DATA CENTRE
Other
Third-
Party
Open
Source
davra networks
Other
Third-
Party
Custom
In-house
APPLICATION
ENABLING
PLATFORM
BACKHAUL
NEXT
GENERATION
GATEWAY

48. Testbed @ CTVR - TCDSoftware Radio
@ CONNECT
Trinity College Dublin

49. INTERESTING ARTICLE BY MARCUS KIRSCH https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lora-phone-deconstruction-paradigm-marcus-
kirsch/?published=t

50. 5. Use PN to develop new backend solutions

51. GATEWAY
SENSORS /
DEVICES
NETWORK
SERVER
DATA
WIT DATA CENTRE
Other
Third-
Party
Open
Source
davra networks
Other
Third-
Party
Custom
In-house
APPLICATION
ENABLING
PLATFORM
BACKHAUL

52. STAGING PRODUCTION
NEXT GEN NEXT GEN

53. 6. Use PN to explore backhaul options

54. GATEWAY
SENSORS /
DEVICES
NETWORK
SERVER
DATA
WIT DATA CENTRE
Other
Third-
Party
Open
Source
davra networks
Other
Third-
Party
Custom
In-house
APPLICATION
ENABLING
PLATFORM
BACKHAUL

56. USING PN
STRATEGICALLY

57. USING PN as part of a research proposal
 Many research proposals call for testbeds –e.g.
large EU proposals, small SBIR proposals etc.
 We are happy that PN be included in any proposal
 Proposal needs to cover access charges
https://connectcentre.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Pervasive-Nation-Access-
Charges_April2017.pdf
 Can furnish any other details needed.

58. PARTING
COMMENTS

59. ACTUATE
PERVASIVE NATION THE NETWORK
PERVASIVE NATION THE ECOSYSTEM
RESPOND
MAKE
MEANING
BUSINESSMODELS
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