The document describes the iCore project which aims to develop an open cognitive framework for empowering the Internet of Things. It discusses: - The project details including partners, duration, budget. - The iCore concept of virtual and composite virtual objects to represent real and digital objects. - The technical challenges of addressing interoperability, reusability, reliability and energy efficiency. - The technical approach including cognitive mechanisms, semantic descriptions and context awareness. - The work organization split into clusters for technology, implementation, use case definition and management. - Potential application domains and example use cases like smart cities, transport, homes and businesses. - Engagement of an external stakeholders group

1. iCore Project Number: 287708
Internet Connected Objects for
Reconfigurable Eco-systems
iCore Presenation
Dr.-Ing Abdur Rahim Biswas/ Prof. Kalus
Moessner
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Outline
Empowering IoT through Cognitive Technologies
 Consortium
 Introduction
 iCore framework
 Technical approach
 Work organization
 Applicability
 Potential synergies with Butler
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Project Outline/Consortium
Empowering IoT through Cognitive Technologies
 Project outline
- Project type: Integrated Project
- Duration: 36 months
- Total cost: €13.4M (59%
industry)
- EC requested funding: €8,5M
- Resources: 1,332 PM (111 FTEs)
 Consortium
- Coordinator: CREATE-NET (Italy)
- 20 partners ( including NTT)
- Strong industry participation (12
companies)
- 12 countries (including
China/Japan
- External stakeholders group (use
cases)
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4. Future iCore worlds of IoT
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What are “things”?
“Things”= Real objects + Digital devices
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Maybe
GPS
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Reusability of IoT
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Q1: Can we reuse IoT outside the scope in
which they were originally deployed
“A kitchen knife daily used to cut food.
What about if it could act as a
screwdriver, and it could also be an
envelope opener”.
Q2: Can we combine various objects and
use for new applications
“temperature sensor” ( indoor
temperature monitor/control) +
“humidity sensor” ( adjust cooling) = >
city weather forecasting, city
temperature mapping
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Virtual representation and cognitive
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 virtual representation of real and digital objects
 ……without the virtual mind
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iCore concept
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Open cognitive framework for the Internet of Things
(IoT) addressing three levels:
i) Virtual Objects (VOs): Virtual representations of
real-world objects
ii) Composite Virtual Objects (CVOs): Cognitive mashups of multiple VOs
iii) Users/stakeholders perspectives
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Overall framework
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iCore technical challenges
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 Addressing interoperability issues through
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VO/CVOs
Increase the reusability of objects outside the
scope in which they were originally deployed
Increase reliability and availability of services
Increase energy efficiency
Allow Business integration on the view of
multiple stakeholders in the composition of
services
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Technical approach
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VO and CVO:
 Cognitive mechanisms (self-management and
learning capabilities)
Sensing and context/resources extractions
(computing, storage, profile, etc.)
 Offering access to information and knowledge on
the RWO/DWO context from service point of view
Semantic descriptions of the virtual and composite
virtual objects
The possibility of sharing data and resources in the
IoT, which through iCore becomes application domain
and initial context agnostic
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Technical approach
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DWO
RWO
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Technical approach
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• Cognitive mechanisms are used to create the service
logic based on the user/application requirements and
preferences
• Service logic instantiates the reconfigurable application
on the CVO fabric
• CVO fabric looks up and discovers appropriate VO/CVO
or deploys mechanism for composition of new CVO
• VO fabric creates and manage the semantic description
of VOs
• Cognitive mechanisms in VO factory are used for
objects awareness and maintain the handled to VO
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13. Technical approach
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Alignment with EU IoT activities,
Overall cognitive process optimization,
Architecture reference model
iCore security
Context awareness,
cognitive process
technologies
Service logic
factory
Complex event prosessing, service
Cognitive
composition technologies
management and control
framework
CVO
CVO
User
context
registries
CVO
registries
User level cognitive
processes
CVO level cognitive
processes
Semantic technologies
for maintaining the
handle to Virtual Objects
VO
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VO
registries
VO level cognitive
processes
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14. Work organization
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WP8 Management and co-ordination
WP7 Dissemination and exploitation
Cluster C: Management and impact generation
WP3
Virtual object management
WP9
Demonstration and Testing
WP4
Composite virtual object
management
WP6
Use case implementation
WP5
User level cognitive mgmt
and control mechanisms
Cluster B: Implementation
WP1 Socio-economic and
technical aspects and evaluation
Cluster D: Use case definition and business relevance
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WP2
Cognitive
management
and control
framework
for IoT
Cluster A: Technology research design and optimisation
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15. Vertical iCore frameworks
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 iCore frameworks can be used by many parties and type of users and
stakeholders ( across vertical application/usage areas)
Stakeholders/service providers roles
•A real world (RO) or digital
world (DW) may be owned
(controlled) by a particular
stakeholders
• Virtual object ( VO) may be
owned or controlled by
particular service provider
• Composite virtual object
(CVO) may be owned
(controlled) by yet another
service provider
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16. iCore application domains
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 This virtual objects framework will be defined independent of
a particular application domain or use case
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External Stakeholders Group
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 Stakeholder engagement in use cases:
 iCore stakeholders involvement into two fold-
use case definition (TNO, TI, DoComo, WuXI,
Atos, etc); use case implementation -ALU,
CRF, Siemens, Atos, etc.
 iCore external stakeholders group to provide
the business and technical requirements for
each of the use cases and later validation of
the use cases
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