the UK IoT journey Richard Foggie The Knowledge Transfer Network

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First thoughts on UK IoT community in Looked at the growth of RFID sector as an anolgy. There was no network in place but a lot of enthusiasm, so …

IoT Special Interest Group The IoT SIG supported Innovate UK in delivering on its ambitions through two interconnected objectives: – Build awareness and understanding of the opportunities for, and barriers to, UK business through cross-sectoral IoT applications and services – Promote the exploitation of those opportunities and stimulate cross- sectoral collaboration and innovation. The IoT SIG continues as a group managed the Knowledge Transfer Network.

Research R&D Innovation Demonstration

Though Leadership outputs

Roadmapping Methodology – Innovate UK and Research Councils UK collaboration Cross-disciplinary planning group 100 attendees split into 4 groups Inter-disciplinary ‘field work’ 4 White Papers Single overview report and recommendations

Research themes covered

Main recommendations 2012 Develop a coordinated national research and innovation programme; Fund and sustain open experimental research spaces; Fund the development and deployment of open experimental IoT platforms; Fund interdisciplinary research.

Driving Innovation Innovate UK IoT Programme IoT Preparatory Studies, £500k –10 x £50k 4 month studies IoT demonstrator projects, £4m –Phase 1 - £2.4m (4 x £800k projects) –Phase 2 - £1.6m project ( 1 project)

Driving Innovation IoT Preparatory Studies Oct 2011 TSB launched a competition to fund 10 x £50k preparatory studies to develop scenarios and strategies designed to understand more clearly the route towards an open application and services marketplace for the Internet of Things. The studies ran for four months from March 2012, were rooted in specific actual use cases in a variety of sectors and the looked at the following: –the nature of the opportunity and the barriers to an IoT ecosystem –the applications and services that could be developed with business models and costs-benefit analyses –the challenges in improving access to data from ‘things’ and how they could be overcome –practical approaches to overcoming barriers and realising the opportunities –suggestions for demonstration facilities to support experimentation

Driving Innovation IoT Ecosystem Demonstrator Programme As part of an integrated programme, in October 2012 the Technology Strategy Board launched a competition for funding to stimulate the development of an open application and services ecosystem in the Internet of Things (IoT) Initial planned investment of £2.4m –4 demonstrators –12 month projects Followed by single investment of £1.6m –1 project –12-18 month delivery period

Driving Innovation Launched competition in Oct 2012 Funded 8 x £800k projects £6.4m actual investment Started April 2013 Reporting back in April 2014 Ran Phase 2 in June 2014 £1.6m available Scaling up demonstrator

Driving Innovation Phase 1 resulted in.. Funding 8 business-led projects to deliver and launch ‘Internet of Things clusters’. Each cluster has an application scenario and is an ‘open zone’ for experimentation and innovation. This will help industry address issues such as ecosystem development, validating business models, data availability, trust and cost. One of the exciting opportunities ahead for the portfolio, with potential for considerable wider impact came from the requirement to make the clusters interoperable which resulted in Hypercat.

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Phase 2 won by consortium – partners drawn from 4 Phase 1 projects. £1.6m Innovate UK contribution, started April 2015.

Following CeBIT announcement, IoT Cities call opened 25 June 2015 – must use HyperCat.

Thank you! Richard Foggie The Knowledge Transfer Network