In this Greening Government Speaker webinar, Dr. Steve Liang presented an open standard-based Internet of Things architecture enables 10X faster development and instant on-demand integration. Several real-world smart cities use cases were presented as well. Video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLbvz6f4qb0

1. Open Internet of Things for SmartCities
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@sensorup
Dr. Steve Liang, P.Eng.
Founder and CEO, SensorUp Inc.
Associate Professor, University of Calgary
steve.liang@sensorup.com
@steveliang

2. About Dr. Steve Liang
๏ Founder and CEO of SensorUp
๏ Associate Professor, Geomatics Engineering, Uni. Calgary
๏ AITF-Microsoft Industry Research Chair on Open Sensor Web
๏ Chairs of OGC and UN’s ITU-T working groups
๏ Expert Panel on Greening Canada with ICT, and State of S&T and
IR&D in Canada
๏ Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40

3. SensorUp IoT cloud
platform enables any
organization to develop
IoT applications 10X
faster.
Develop IoT 10X Faster

4. Develop IoT 10X Faster
connected
buildings
networked
sensors
connected
vehicles
connected
machines
networked
video
cameras
drones
networked
assets
Enable instant on-demand
integration of different IoT systems
with open standards.
OGC
SensorThings API

5. Some of SensorUp Users

6. Think about some Thing

7. Your Garbage Cans

8. Your
Parking

9. Your Airport

10. Your Airport cont.

11. System of Systems
๏ The real potential of the Internet of Things
Network Effect:
The value of a network is
proportional to the square of the
number of users of the system
(n²).

12. Efficiency gain by inter-
connecting systems

14. Today’s IoT/Smart Cities Silos
Network A
Application A
Thing A
Network B
Application B
Thing B
Network C
Application C
Thing C
Network D
Application D
Thing D

15. Some cities felt the pain already….
Academia
SinicaASUS Edimax ThingSpeak AirMap
Two different TIME formats!!

16. Smart Garbage Cans
Big BellyVictor Stanley

17. Smart Garbage Can Silos
Network Internet
Dashboard #1
Dashboard #2

18. IoT in a nutshell
Collect Connect Compute
1 2 3

19. IoT Value Chain
Sensor
and
Actuator
Smart
Things
Network
Operator
Device-
Cloud
API
Data and
Analytics
APP-
Cloud
API
System
Integrator/
Application
Provider
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
LoRA
SigFOX
NB-IoT
3G/4G
Internet

20. Standard-based Common Platform
Internet of Things
Devices
Applications / Analytics
Analytics, Real-time
Dashboards, GIS, CRM,
ERP, etc.
smart cities, environmental
sensing, smart buildings,
networked cameras, etc.

21. Reference implementation ensure the highest
degree of interoperability!
SensorUp is the Reference Implementation
of OGC SensorThings API

22. • One coherent API and data model integrate all
your sensors (mobile or stationary, remote or
in-situ)
• Add more sensors of any type in the future
• Design for not only today’s but also tomorrow’s
application
Future Proof
SensorUp Benefits

23. Reduce Dev time by 10x
• Reduce dev time by at least 10x
• you can innovate based on world-
class R&D efforts
• you can leverage existing libraries,
SDKs, developer documentations,
developer training materials,
knowledge bases, etc.
SensorUp Benefits

24. A vibrant ecosystem and open
community
SensorUp Offers…

25. High quality training and supports
SensorUp Offers…

26. High quality documentations
SensorUp Offers…

27. OGC SensorThings API
User Stories
Develop IoT 10X Faster

28. Case Study #1
• A pilot project funded by Department of Homeland Security and IJIS
Institute
• Problem:
• lacking a Common Operating Picture (COP) for various first responder
groups and disaster managers
• Solution:
• SensorUp platform allows various group to access heterogeneous
sensing systems

29. Department of Homeland Security
Next Generation First Responder

30. OGC
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30
wearable cam
heart beat,
breathing rate
location,
acceleration,
headings
equipment status

31. I was impressed with the ‘state of the
practical’ where these various industry
sensors can be integrated today using
open standards that remove the stovepipe
limitations of one-off technologies.
“
“Dr. Reginald Brothers
Under Secretary for Science and Technology

32. Demo at Capitol Hill

33. Develop IoT 10X Faster
Smart Citizens

34. Invited by US EPA to share experiences

35. SensorUp Smart Citizens Board

36. Expanding to 500 sensors across 10
Canadian cities
•Jul 08 - St. Albert
•Aug 12 - Edmonton
•TBD, Toronto
•TBD, Ottawa
•TBD, Halifax

37. Expanding to other countries
India

38. Develop IoT 10X Faster
CloudUAV

39. Develop IoT 10X Faster
Taipei Smart Cities Platform
• City of Taipei is
going to establish a
city-wide testbed with
OGC SensorThings
API
Computex 2017

40. Develop IoT 10X Faster
Singapore CXA Smart Cities Challenge
• 100+ teams
• 200+ programmers received
SensorThings API training
• July 14th 2017
• 24 hours to finish an APP

41. - Do not build silos.
- Use open standards.
- SensorUp enable you
to develop smart cities/IoT
10X faster.
Develop IoT 10X Faster