This document summarizes a research project exploring intelligent and secure networks for urban Internet of Things applications at city scale. The project has three main research themes: the billion device challenge, citizen engagement, and creating sustainable ecosystems. The billion device challenge involves research on power management, adaptive radio communications, and resource orchestration for large-scale IoT deployments. Citizen engagement examines how to involve citizens as data providers and consumers. Creating sustainable ecosystems looks at performance analysis of IoT technologies and requirements for data sharing across stakeholders. The project is a collaboration between Intel, UCL, Imperial College London, and Future Cities Catapult.

1. ICRIURBANIOT
SUSTAINABLECONNECTEDCITIES
A research project exploring intelligent and secure
networks of things.

2. VISION
To deliver use case inspired basic research activity
to demonstrate the compute fabric needed to
support the design of an urban Internet of Things
at city scale.

3. Billion Device Challenge
Citizen Engagement
Creating Sustainable Ecosystems
RESEARCHTHEMES

4. BILLIONDEVICECHALLENGE:
POWER
“Coupling the hardware with a lightweight
distributed energy management system that
not only maximizes energy usage over time
and guarantees ENO, but also understands
that each device sits as part of a network of
heterogeneous devices.”
Keeping IoT nodes alive constantly
for long operational periods.
[resource efficient + reliable
networking under varying energy
harvesting scenarios]

5. BILLIONDEVICECHALLENGE
COMMUNICATION
“Adaptive radio protocols to
opportunistically route messages
adapting to the dynamic
application requirements in terms
of energy usage and the expected
quality of service.”
Managing radio communications in densely-
populated network of sensing devices.
[adaptive radio management to ensure
reliability and enhance performance.]

6. BILLIONDEVICECHALLENGE:
MANAGEABILITY
“A toolset offering a programming constructs
for dynamic fair scheduling of resources to
enable city stakeholders to deploy applications
in a multitenancy fashion over heterogeneous
sensor and processing nodes in the city.”
Orchestrating resource sharing on billions
of devices for multiple stakeholders
[Scalable urban wide deployments of IoT
code for multiple tenants.]

7. CITIZENENGAGEMENT:
SENSEMAKING
WITHCITIZENS
How to explicitly bring citizens into the loop
of Urban IoT and support them as data
prosumers; both consuming available urban
data for personal / community gain, and
providing valuable new data in the form of
citizen experiences and feedback.
“Roam.io: Novel (beyond screen) interaction stations
that support two-way exchanging of knowledge –
from citizen to the city, and from city to the citizen –
to the benefit of both parties.”

8. CITIZENENGAGEMENT:
SOFTSENSING
EXPERIENCES
“Using social media streams to extract
insights on how citizens experience their
city and then playing back those insights
through virtual and augmented media.”
How do we implicitly bring citizens into
the loop of Urban IoT and take into
account their socially shared thoughts
and experiences in urban spaces.

9. CREATINGSUSTAINABLEECOSYSTEMS
PERFORMANCEIN
USEANALYSIS
“A Living Lab of experimental
hardware integrated with Smart
Park facilities to test IoT services
in the park.”
Can we create a framework for analysis of
“performance-in-use” for IoT technologies
that enables the market to make decisions
on investing in technology infrastructure.

10. CREATINGSUSTAINABLEECOSYSTEMS
CIRCULATORYDATA
“Analysis through engagement with commercial
entities deploying IoT in the park via an open call
to showcase solutions and by imagining future
possibilities for connected technologies.”
What are the socio technical requirements to
create federated data repositories in the park
that support the use and reuse of data across
all stakeholders in the QEOP living lab.

11. TEAM
Intel – PI+ 2 LDN, 2* DUB
Ucl – PI + 4 postdoc
Imperial – PI + 4 postdoc
Future Cities Catapult – PI+ 4*
London Legacy Development Corporation**
* Full time equivalent
** partner supporting hosting of experiments as part of smart sustainable district project

12. CORESTAFF
Intel
Dr Duncan Wilson.
Dr Sarah Gallacher,
Dr Mo Haghighi
Simona Ciocoiu
UCL
Prof Yvonne Rogers,
Prof Licia Capra
Prof Andy Hudson-Smith
Dr Steven Houben
Dr Ben Bengler
Dr Can Liu
Boyana Buyuklieva
Imperial
Prof Julie McCann
Dr Pedro Martins
Greg Jackson
Dr Marija Milojevic
Dr Zhijin Qin
Future Cities Catapult
John Lynch
Lavinia Cox
Geoffrey Stevens
Plus project specific support from staff in teams at:
Intel Labs Europe IoT Systems Research Lab
The Future Cities Catapult Insights, Futures, Making and Economics teams
London Legacy Development Corporation Smart Sustainable District team

13. WHYURBANIOT?WHYNOW?
Networks of devices with intelligence at the edge
that are reliable and resilient.
Understanding performance and interoperability of
future IoT networks in the field.
Urbanisation (100k new Londoners each year)
Places where people, meet, work, live and interact.
Efficient means of living (culturally and ecologically)