This document summarizes a research paper on the Real World Internet (RWI) published in 2008. It discusses the evolution of the Internet from primarily human-centric information exchange to integrating physical objects and the real world through technologies like RFID, wireless sensor networks, and networked embedded devices. The RWI aims to allow ubiquitous wireless access and interconnection between virtual and physical worlds, enabling applications in healthcare, logistics, transportation, and more. Key challenges to the success of the RWI include managing heterogeneous devices at scale, ensuring security and privacy, and developing standards for representing real-world information.

1. Authors: M, Daras P, Baker M, Karnouskos S, Gluhak A, Krco S,
Diaz C, Verbauwhede I, Naqvi S, Alvarez F, Fernandez-Cuesta
Published on 2008
Presenter: Zia Ush Shamszaman, ICE, HUFS
Course: Next Generation Internet
October 26, 2012

2.  RWI Overview
 RWI Vision
 Key factors for the success of RWI
 Research Orientation
 Conclusion
 Real life example (Video)

3. The Internet
 Is evolving - in its use and in its technology
 Born from the vision to create an open infrastructure
 Has become the socio-economic backbone
 Early applications were remote login and file transfer
before www emerged as the main driver
 Human centric information exchange is the main
concern today, such as email, audio and video files or
real-time multimedia communications

4. Integrates diverse Human Generated Information
Sports
Science
Shopping
Weather
Maps
NEWS Financial
Technology 4 l

5. The Internet infrastructure
 Also evolving besides its application.
 Extended its reach to mobile users and end devices
with next generation networks.
 This evolution has lead to a patchwork of fixes.
 Requires the rethink of fundamental pillars of the
Internet architecture

6. Internet of Things (IoT)
 Enabled the internet to reach the real world.
 Initially based on RFID or WSAN.
 Now spawns a wide variety of devices termed
Network Embedded Devices (NED).
 Targets multiple domains including automation,
energy, e-health etc.
 Has been driven by more recent ideas to integrate
the real world into the Internet.
 Expected to collaborate with Internet of Service (IoS)
and Internet of Energy (IoE)

7.  Wireless networks will allow everyone permanent
access to the Internet at all times and all places.
 This wireless connection is not limited to user
devices,
◦ Almost any artifact from clothing to buildings can be
connected and collaborate as a NED.
 “Intelligent things” and “Smart Spaces” will be
formed by the interconnection of artifacts
embedded in real environment.
 Almost real time interaction between the virtual
world and real world.

8.  Coupling of RWI with Enterprise Systems

9. Monitoring
Management
Data
Analytics
Controllers
WiFi
Operations GPRS
Field
Units

10.  Cross-layer collaboration is expected to be
a key issue in a highly dynamic and hetero-
-geneous infrastructure where NED’s are
more powerful with respect to computing
power, memory, and communication.

11.  Cross-layer Service Oriented Architecture(SOA)
based collaboration in the Real World Internet

12. Expected applications
 Ambient assisted living and health care
 Supply chain monitoring and logistics
 Efficiency for transport, energy and facility
management
 Improved Augmented Reality simulations
 Social and leisure applications
 Manufacturers can create extended products

13. Social Devices
 Embedding social capability in objects and devices
 Sharing experiences and knowledge among devices
 Help each other to overcome any problem
Their Characteristics are
 Should be uniquely identified
 natively designed for collaboration
 integrating local and global information
 able to interpret all the exchanged information at a
semantic level
 Trusted devices with built in security

15.  Identity Management
 Efficient Integration with the Internet
 Highly composable information to generate new
and innovative services
 Standardised way of describing information about
the real world
 Integration of security and privacy protections at
the NED
 The combination with other adjacent areas
 Secure, reliable real time network infrastructure

16.  Management, scalability and heterogeneity of
devices and users
 Networked knowledge and context
 Privacy, security and trust
 Real World Internet generated network traffic

17.  The RWI is an interdisciplinary domain which
Involves the characteristics of the IoT with the
vision to integrate the real world into the Internet.
 Fundamental Design is very important to let the
RWI grow organically within the space of the future
Internet.
 Only time will say how the RWI will grow to reflect
our vision.

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best-examples-of-the-Internet-of-things
 http://readwrite.com/2009/12/08/top_10_internet_of_things
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 http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/29/wesc-karmatech-
concept-makes-your-shoes-more-social-with-rfid/
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