Final Conference Presentations

The CASAGRAS Goal – Ian Smith and Prof Tony Furness (Technical Co-ordinator)

CASAGRAS - the vision - and the international collaboration. These International presentations will highlight how national policy from these various regions support the CASAGRAS concepts and definitions on the Internet of Things.

CHINA: WENFENG WANG, CESI: China Electronics Standardization Institute

JAPAN: CHIAKI ISHIKAWA, YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory, Tokyo

KOREA: YONG-WOON KIM , ETRI, the Government funded Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute

USA: BERT MOORE, AIM, Director, Communications and Media Relations

Today's European Dimension : Speakers from a range of EU or associated global projects demonstrate the importance of RFID and the Internet of Things.

RACE -networkRFID – an EU Thematic Network, Laurent Gonzalez, fil rfid, France.

The Lighthouse Initiative – co-operation between Europe and the USA, Florent Frederix, Project Officer, DG INFSO.

Future Internet Enterprise Systems - Christina Martinez, Project Officer, DG INFSO.

CERP- IOT – the Cluster of European Research Projects - Strategic Research Agenda Patrick Guillemin, Cluster Co-ordinator, ETSI

Future benefits of AIDC technologies to Business & Society - Nigel Rix (Electronics KTN)

RFID applications in retail stores and their significance to the Internet of Things - Katerina Pramatari, Assistant Professor, SMART project scientific coordinator

Real World Awareness - Stephen Haller - SAP

Using Identifiers to link objects to the Internet of Things – presenting an incisive consideration of identifiers as a basis for an Internet - integrated approach to linking objects to the Internet of Things using an identifier resolver scheme. PAUL CHARTIER, Praxis Consultants

Standards and regulations – providing a comprehensive review of existing, and in-progress, RFID standards and regulations relating to the CASAGRAS model and IOT definition, together with a view and recommendations for other standards and regulatory developments (including privacy and security regulations) considered necessary for realising the IOT. DAVID ARMSTRONG, RFIP Ltd

Interfacing with the physical world – distinguishing the range of ‘edge’ technologies and interfacing requirements considered necessary in realising the IOT, addressing too the need for standardised protocols and application programmable interfaces (APIs) and how they relate to a layered open systems interconnect (OSI) model and service oriented architecture (SOA). TONY FURNESS, Technical Co-ordinator

Networking and Communications – providing a review of networking and communication developments relevant to the inclusive model for the IOT, including issues of ubiquity, scalability and integrity, fixed and mobile networks, ad-hoc networks, sensor networks, network self-configuration, context awareness, distribution and intelligence issues, interoperability, look-up and discovery requirements, environmental issues, network federation and the potential business model for such a structured IOT – YONG-WOON KIM, ETRI, Korea.

Governance – addressing the international political, social, technical and locational issues for governing an IOT, funding considerations and the issues of registration and management of global coding requirements. TREVOR PEIRCE, ETSI, France

Applications and services framework – defining the prospective framework for IOT applications and services, particularly with respect to SOA structures and Internet usage. This will be illustrated with application and service scenarios that exploit functional attributes unique to the concept of IOT and provide a migratory route to future developments predicated upon the enterprise and innovation potential presented in the formative concept. CHIAKI ISHIKAWA YRP, Japan

Recommendations for EU goals – presenting proposals and a ‘road-map’ for realising the IOT, and the role that RFID will play in such a development. These proposals will provide coverage of issues relating to the infrastructure for the IOT – drawing upon the basic and inclusive models for IOT to propose a model and migratory pathway to realisation, including requirements for research and development, standards and regulations, and an Internet experimental platform for applications and service developments. The recommendations will also relate to the initiatives in place and in prospect for promoting RFID and IOT, including the Cluster of European Research Projects (CERP-IoT) and the Thematic Network for promoting RFID in Europe.

CASAGRAS Recommendations for EU Plan of Action – Ian Smith and Tony Furness This will take the CASAGRAS recommendations and roadmap as the basis for an inclusive plan for developing, promoting and exploiting the IOT. Distinguishing a migratory pathway of research and development geared to realising a progressive, scalable IOT initiative capable of responding to change and initiating change for the betterment of services and support and for the benefit of human-kind.