GRIGORIS CHATZIKOSTAS

Internet of Things

Building symbiotic ecosystems with

the support of FIWARE community
Grigoris Chatzikostas
Business Development Manager
BioSense Institute

Sarajevo, 21st May

Overview

Business Opportunities in
IoT and IoE
How Europe responds to
challenges (FIWARE and
AIOTI)
FRACTALS: Building a
regional ecosystem in
Balkans

Business Opportunities in IoT

and IoE
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Internet then and now

Development of Internet - Internet of

Things
Wireless network between
objects, usually the network
will be wireless and selfconfiguring.
Wikipedia

Number of technologies and research

disciplines that enable the Internet to reach
out into the real world of physical objects.
IoT 2008

By embedding short-range mobile

transceivers into a wide array of additional
gadgets and everyday item, enabling new
forms of communication between people
and things, and between things
themselves.
WSIS 2005

Things having identities and virtual

personalities operating in smart spaces
using intelligent interfaces to connect
and communicate within social,
environmental, and user contexts
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IoT in 2020

Internet of Things: a glimpse into the

future
Estimation is that by
2020 there will be 50
billion connected
devices!
There will be 40 times
more devices than
people on the Internet
in 2020.
Anything that will be
benefit from being
connected will be
connected!

Internet of Things and economy sectors

Internet of Everything

From Newtons Cradle

In an IoT environment,
conventional value chains
reach their limits: the balls
hit each other in a linear
way, and if one fails, all will
fail. Energy is needed from
the outside to get and keep
the balls going.

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to a Coral Reef
Abundance of species,
symbiosis,
and co-evolution.
A reef is not always a cozy
place, as there are
hunters and prey.
But it allows the species
present to help keep each
other alive and adapt to
change.
Decisions are shared,
competitors are also often
partners
sharing
Key message: The current approach,
which
sees similar
every
values, and
shared fate
start-up and every big company creating
itsa open
contributes
to sustainability
platform instead of joining existing
ecosystems,
might
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rather than volatility.

How Europe responds to

challenges (FIWARE and
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The response from Europe: FIWARE Open APIs

for open minds

Driven by
implementatio
n

Sustainability
ensured

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FIWARE Programme
Goal: capture opportunities derived from the new wave of

tourism

digitalization of life and businesses

Strategy: Build an ecosystem that will work as catalyst for

capturing the opportunities. Lead standardization in Smart
Cities and IoT (Internet of Things)

Pillars:
FI-WARE

: a generic, open standard platform which serve

the needs of developers in multiple domains

Transport,
Mobility
and
Logistics

e-government

Smart
Energy
Grid

AgriFood

eHealth

FIWARE Lab : a meeting point where innovation takes place,

an opportunities can be incubated

: a program that funds developers and

entrepreneurs, and ignites roll-out of the ecosystem

FIWARE Ops : the suite of tools easing deployment and

operation of FI-WARE instance nodes

FIWARE mundus: target a global footprint, open the initiative to

regions sharing the goals and vision

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FIWARE: Platform and ecosystem

Open Standard
Platform

ecosystem
open sustainable global

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What makes an open platform so important?

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What is a Generic Enabler (GE)?

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Generic Enablers organized in chapters

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From a project to an ecosystem

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Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI)

AIOTI

The Alliance:
supports the policy
and dialogue within the
Internet of Things (IoT)
ecosystem and with the
European Commission;
helps the Commission to
prepare future IoT
research and
innovation,
standardization and
policy;
It is an instrument in
the definition and
design of IoT Large Scale
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AIOTI governance
WG 1: IoT
EuropeanResearchCluster
WG 2: Innovation Ecosystems
WG 3: IoT Standardization
WG 4: Policy issues (trust, security,
liability, privacy)
WG 5: Smart living environments for
ageing well (e.g. smart house)
WG 6: Smart farming and food
security
WG 7: Wearables
WG 8: Smart cities
WG 9: Smart mobility (smart
transport/smart vehicles/connected
cars)
WG 10: Smart environment (smart

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FRACTALS: Building a
regional ecosystem in
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Why Agriculture?

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Meanwhile in America.

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Again, why Agriculture?

23 million
people in
Europe were
employed in
the agrifood
chain, (10%
of total EU
Employment
)

Low uptake of
advanced
ICT services
20%80% USA
0%24% Europe

In the Balkan
region agriculture
plays a
predominant role,
as compared to
the majority of
more developed
European
countries
and EU on
average.

FRACTALS Open Call in numbers

Around
40
grants
allocate
d to
SMEs

Grant
size:
50150k

Open for 3
months
Launch:
30/11/201
4,
Deadline:
28/02/201
5

NO
FIWARE
=
NO
FUNDING
5.52
m to
SMEs
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Duration
of
projects:
4-9
months

Who is behind FRACTALS?

FIWARE

Capacity
Building
for
SMEs

DFV
ICT for
Agricult
ure

Open
Call
Mgt.

Business Mentoring Services for

SMEs

Open
Innovation in
Agriculture
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How farmers are involved?

300 Lead Users
Recruited
Lots of
lessons
learnt!

100 participants in
B2B
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Response to FRACTALS Open Call

269
submitt
ed
proposal
s, 257
eligible

Propos
als
from
26
countri
es
Around
30
million
EUR
request
ed
budget
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Distribution in countries (submitted)

Countries

Latvia;
Finland;
France;
Denmark;
Austria;
1 11 1
Albania
UK;
22 ; 1
Cyprus;
Belgium;
2
Turkey;
Poland;
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Germany; 4
FYR Macedonia; 4
The Netherlands; 5
Czech Republic; 5

Serbia ; 68

Romania; 6

Portugal; 9
Bosnia and Herzegovina; 6
Croatia; 11

Slovenia; 12

Greece; 37

Hungary; 18

Spain; 20
Bulgaria; 23
Italy; 23

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Distribution in countries (successful)

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Whats next-short term? Supporting the teams

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Whats next - long-term? A regional ecosystem for

ICTs in Agriculture

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Thank
you!
Grigoris
Chatzikostas
chatzikostas@biosense.rs