1. Internet of Things:
Our programme and investments
DPA Seminar
London 16/04/2013
Dr. Maurizio Pilu
@maurizio_tsb

2. What is the Technology Strategy Board?
• We are the UK‟s Innovation Agency
• A national body set up in 2007 to invest in
business innovation
• We work across business, universities and
government
• We mostly come from business
• We have a budget of over £300m/year (£390m
for 2012/13)
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3. Some facts and figures
• Invested – with partners - >£2.5b in innovation
• Every £1 invested returns £7 in GVA
• 50 new competitions in 2011/12 (~60 this year)
• Invested in over 3000 projects
• Working with 4000 companies, 110 universities
• ~50% of funding to SMEs this year
• >£60m invested in small business in SBRI
• 50,000 businesses on our _connect innovation platform
• >9000 people participated at TSB events
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4. “Telegraph of things”
McKinsey Qtly: how data and the telegraph in 1854 shaped the
organizational chart of NY Railway
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6. IoT: The next growth wave
Internet of Things
The future $200b market
Open data and objects
Smart Everything
Cloud
Internet
Reach
Today Smart Silos SaaS of
M2M Silos
Applications
Foundation Mobile Internet Internet / broadband
Mobile telephony
Fixed Telephony / networks Sensor and actuators networks
Time Courtesy of Stuart Revell, ICT KTN & #tbiot SIG
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7. Our objectives
• Help the UK gain an early advantage in
Internet of Things adoption, applications
and services development
• Focus on the enablers of and barriers to
the ecosystem of applications and
services of the Internet of Things
• Take a “data value chain” perspective
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8. Programme in a snapshot
Engagement
Community building
Events R&D Roadmap
Consultation
Investment
Ecosystem
Preparatory
Studies (£500k)
Demonstrator
(£6.2m)
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9. Preparatory studies
10 business-led projects looking into
ecosystems in 10 different IoT application
areas/sectors.
https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/iot-convergence-preparatory-studies-2012/
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10. Objectives of the IoT demonstrator
• Develop a network of
Internet of Things
clusters
• Incentivize more accessibility
to IoT data
• Adoption of „information hubs‟
• Help drive interoperability
• Become a platform for
collaboration
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11. The Internet of Things Demonstrator
• Results of £6.2m investment
announced by David Willetts on
11 March 2013
• Investing in 8 IoT clusters to
demonstrate ecosystems in
specific application areas
• >40 organizations
involved, including
ARM, BT, IBM, NEUL, Cisco, ED
F, Carillion, LivingPlanIT, and
many SMEs
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12. Example: London City airport IoT cluster
https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/internet-of-things-ecosystem-demonstrator
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13. Roadmap for R&D in IoT (March 2013)
Key recommendations
- Multidisciplinary research essential
- Invest in demonstrators
- Develop a coordinated R&D programme
- Agile service innovation spaces
• Collaboration of 4 Research Councils & TSB
• Led by Prof. Tafazolli and 4 other leading academics
• ~100 UK leaders, academic and industrial, collaborated in the initiative
• Discussing follow on with Research Councils
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14. ... and much more ...
• Catapult networks
– Especially Connected Digital Economy Catapult
– IoT one of the initial priorities
• The £24m Glasgow Future Cities demonstrator
• Investment in Energy Harvesting
• Dallas (Assisted Living) investment
• EU programmes such as IoT-A, IoT-I and Future
Internet PPP
• ....
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15. THANKS
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