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Presentation to ITAC
IoT International Symposium, Tokyo, Mar 29th 2017
Thomas Walloschke, Fujitsu – AIOTI WG11 Interim Chair

1Agenda - IoT International Symposium 2017
• AIOTI Presentation overview• Europe IoT market: opportunities and challenges• Key Policy initiatives• AIOTI presentation• Potential areas for collaboration with ITACAIOTIALLIANCE FOR INTERNET OF THINGS INNOVATION

2Europe’s IoT Market: Opportunities for Growth

The Technology PushEnhanced connectivity infrastructure.
Cloud computing. With access to scalable virtualizedresources over the Internet.
Big Data.
The increasing role of smart devices.
Horizontal Platforms.

The Demand PullAIOTIALLIANCE FOR INTERNET OF THINGS INNOVATION

Demographic trends.
Environmental consciousness.
Public Sector driving role.
Business demand.
Consumers demand.

Source IDC report 20143

Europe’s IoT Market: key challenges
Rapid technological development

Users' take up and acceptability
Need to move into deployment
Risk of fragmentation
International competition
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What has the European Commission done until now?
• Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI)• Digital Single Market (DSM) Strategy
to avoid fragmentation and to foster interoperability for IoT• Advancing the Internet of Things in Europeas part of the "Digitising European Industry (DEI)"• 2016 review of the EU telecoms rules
to promote an interoperable IoT numbering• European data economy
contributes the creation of a European single market for IoT• IoT research and innovation objectives
in Horizon 2020 programme

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History of AIOTI• March 25, 2015:
Launch of AIOTI as an informal Group• Oct 2015: Recommendations for the H2020 call for Large Scale Pilots• Dec 2015: Decision to create a legal structure for AIOTI• Sept 2016:
AIOTI established as an Association under Belgium law• Nov 11, 2016: first General Assembly of the new association• March 2017: 170 members have already joined the association

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AIOTI Publications• Recommendation reports for H2020 LSPs
in Sept/Oct 2015
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/aiotirecommendations-future-collaborative-work-contextinternet-things-focus-area-horizon-2020• Updates and other reports since thenavailable on the AIOTI web site
https://www.aioti.eu/• IoT semantic interoperability paper
Joint work with W3C, oneM2M, IEEE P2413• Digitization of Industry – Policy recommendations• Workshops reports

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AIOTI Mission• Contribute to Large Scale Pilots
to foster experimentation, replication and deployment and tosupport convergence & interoperability of loT standards• Develop loT ecosystem across vertical silos
including start-ups and SMEs
• Identify, communicate and champion EU spearheadsto speed up the take up of loT• Gather evidence on market obstacles for loT deployment
in a Digital Single Market context• Mapping & Bridging global, EU and Members States' loT
innovation activities.

AIOTI is NOT a Standard Development Organization
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AIOTI Mission AreasDeployment• Identify barriers• Gather evidence• Contribute to theDigital SingleMarketIoT Uptake• Identify spearhead
players• Communicate• Champion
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IoT Ecosystem• Build across differentapplication areas• Mapping and bridging
of IoT innovation
activities• Encourage the growthof start-ups in IoT

H2020 Large Scale Pilots• Experimentation,replication, deployment• Convergence• Interoperability

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AIOTI Governance structure

WorkingGroups

General Assembly

Decision power withmembers

Steering Group

Expertise, policy,
content, management
One representative
per WGs

Management Board

Facilitating
general management

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10AIOTI Working Groups

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11Positioning AIOTI for the next phase• Transformed into a legally recognized Association• 21 Founding Members• Drafted Articles of Association and By-Laws• Providing startup capital• Critical engagement• Principles going forward
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Same vision, mission, goals
Low fee, established budget
Member driven
Equal rights, equal obligations (IoT style)
Empowerment of Working Groups and Steering Board
Participative membership
Enabling by Management Board• Elections for all key positions
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12AIOTI and Large Scale Pilots (LSPs)• Five EC H2020 IoT LSPs kick-off January 2017with total Budget 100 Mio EUR :1. Smart Living for aging well : ACTIVAGE ( 20 MilE)
2. Smart Farming and Food Security: IoF2020 (30MilE)
3. Wearables for Smart Ecosystems: MONICA (15 MilE)
4. Reference zones in EU Cities: SYNCHRONICITY (15MilE)(kicked off during 12 January OASC connected-smart-cities-conference-2017)
5. Autonomous vehicles in a connected environment: AUTOPILOT (20MilE)• EC H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support Actions) CREATE-IoT
 U4IoT (4MilE)• Five IoT LPS Pilots, two IoT LSP CSA, AIOTI and IoT research cluster(IERC/IoT-EPI) are well connected and are ready for collaboration• All H2020 IoT LSP coordinators met at EC on 11 January
horizontal IoT Research Cluster IoT-LSP Activity Groups to facilitate IoT LSP cooperation

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AIOTI Plans ahead…
Access toFunding

Matchmaking(for e.g. LSP‘s,innovation hubs)

Shape Research
Agenda, ETP

Building
Ecosystems

International
Collaboration andLeadership

Be involved in politicalagenda setting
Informational andeducational support tomembers

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Leverage standards
and platforms... and more !
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AIOTI Events (2017)
Workshops• IoT Security and Privacy – Jan 13, 2017 (EC/AIOTI)• IoT Platforms & Standardization – Feb 7-8, 2017 (EC/AIOTI)MatchMaking• Matchmaking event – Feb 15, 2017

Workshop• IoT Strategy Workshop – May 3-5, 2017
General Assembly• Second General Assembly – Jun 29, 2017
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AIOTI International
Collaboration• Memorandum of Understanding
with Brazilian Camara de IoT
signed on 28 February 2017
during MWC in Barcelona• Memorandum of Understanding
with Japanese IoT Accelerator
Consortium signed on 20 March2017 during CeBIT in Hannoverhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1_pJ8vRjTok

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Potential areas for collaboration with ITAC (Proposal)
Learn from JP Society 5.0 Insights
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What scenarios have to be proposed to society and to people?
What does Digitalization mean in terms of moving to digital business?
What messages are addressed to SMEs and SME clusters?
What will be proposed to industry and markets?
What IoT use-cases and deployment scenarios are essential?

Create a holistic and global IoT approach• Determine IoT DNA of Security & Privacy (By-Design-Concept)• Develop multi-view reference architecture cross verticals• Ensure cross-domain interoperability (including semantics)

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Potential areas for collaboration with ITAC (Cont’d)Achieve global Investment goals•••••

Use common IoT Standards & Global IoT vocabulary (WG3/WG4)
Understand SME + Industry economic needs and gaps
Setup interoperability to ensure global adoption and scaling of IoT
Comprehensive understanding of key moving parts of economy
Driving key figures AI, Security, IoT and Analytics

Understand & Act!
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Research, innovate and collaborate in H2020 LSPs
Build JTGs to push Japanese and European SME global collaboration
Setup Industrial Internet security, interoperability and collaboration
Catalyze SME’s IoT innovation
Educate and reskill people, create new jobs
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Let’s work together

Thank you !
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