The document discusses the F-Interop project, which aims to develop online remote interoperability and performance testing tools for emerging IoT technologies. It notes that a lack of interoperability currently hinders 60% of IoT value. The project seeks to support SMEs and researchers by integrating European testbeds and developing online testing, certification, and labeling mechanisms. It outlines the testing lifecycle and roles within the platform, lists currently supported protocols, and provides details on an open call for new testing tools, test designs, and plugtest events.

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Boosting IoT Interoperability
F-Interop projects
Guildford, July 19th
Michele Nati,
Lead Technologist Personal Data and Trust
Digital Catapult, London
@michelenati
michele.nati@digicatapult.org.uk

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The Problem

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The Opportunity
● 60% of the IoT value is currently hindered by lack of
interoperability
¢ Mckinsey Report: http://tinyurl.com/jqpymqu

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The Challenges
● Interoperability requires tests, validation and
certification
¢ Conformance
■ Test against reference implementations
¢ Interoperability
■ Test against other vendor implementations
¢ Performance
■ How protocols can be improved and scale?

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The Barriers
● SMEs are driven by time-to-market
● Standards are driven by large organizations
¢ If not open, membership might be otherwise
expensive
● Tests require physical meetings and complex
logistics
¢ Plugfest
¢ Managing confidentiality of information
● Certification process might be long and costly

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F-Interop Project
● EU H2020 F-Interop project is researching and
developing online remote interoperability and
performance test tools for emerging IoT-related
technologies
● It aims to:
¢ Support researchers communities, SMEs involved
¢ Integrating and extending several European testbeds
¢ Researching and developing online testing tools for
IoT
¢ Developing online certification and labelling
mechanisms

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The Testing Life Cycle
● Test Description (TD)
¢ Describe the test scenario, any language
● Test Script (TS)
¢ Set of actions to implement the scenario
¢ Exchange of information between IUTs
(interoperability) and IUT and test system
(conformance)
● Test Analysis (TA)
¢ Analyze, compare messages, generate verdict (pass
or fail)

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F-Interop Current Base Platform

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The F-Interop Platform Roles
● Testbed owner
¢ Who integrates a testing facilities with the F-Interop
platform (more devices, more infrastructure, etc)
● Platform contributor
¢ Who provides tools for supporting the testing life
cycle of supported protocols or new ones
● Platform user
¢ Who uses the platform and provides new TD, TS, TA
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Supported Protocols
● 6LoWPAN and RPL,
● 6LoWPAN and supported functionalities
● 6TiSCH
● OneM2M
● Web of Things (partially)
● ….

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“Currently” Federated Testbeds
Capabilities
● Fed4FIRE (http://www.fed4fire.eu/testbeds/)
federates 24 FIRE+ testbeds, bringing together cloud,
IoT, wireless, wireless mobile, LTE, cognitive radio, 5G,
openflow, SDN, NFV and network emulation
technologies
● OneLab (https://onelab.eu/) federates testbeds for the
future Internet, including IoT, cognitive radio, wireless
and overlay network technologies
● IoT lab9 (http://www.iotlab.eu/) federates crowd
sourcing and crowd sensing testbeds, including smart
campus, smart building and smart office testbed (low
end IoT device, sensor platforms)

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Open Call Categories
§ New testing tools to extend capabilities of F-Interop
§ New tests designs to test interoperability & other
measures
§ SME device Interop tests to test F-Interop platform
§ Plugtests to conduct 3 remote online plugtest events

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Supported Activities & Budget
List of Categories Grants Award
New F-Interop tools extensions 3 100 000
New interop test design and implementation 3 60 000
Plugtests 3 10 000
SME devices F-Interop tests and report 10 10 000

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Important Dates
Formally launch Open
Call & open the
application process
Open Call
Starts
July, 31st
… 2016 … 2017~~
Close the application
process
Delivery of
plugtest
events
Jan, 25th
Conduct
evaluations &
select 3rd parties
April, 26th Aug, 30th
Commence
experiments/
projects
May
… 2018
~~ Review 1st
release of tools
& tests projects
Projects
kick off
AprilFebruary
Results
announcement
…

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“Possible” Open Call tools and
communities
§ Tools:
§ Specific protocols tools, such as: tools to emulate client and server protocol functionalities; visualization
tools; remote communications tools; data security and confidentiality handling; certification and
compliance issuance tools; network analyzer and emulation tools
§ HW tools: agent implementation under test energy consumption measurement board, additional HW for
timestamping functionalities for low-end devices
§ Protocols:
§ UNB LPWAN (LoRa, N-WAVE, Sigfox), IPv6, OMA LWM2M, 5G IoT, Hypercat, BLE
§ Test descriptions:
§ For all new protocols
§ For existing ones: IPVv6, 6LoWPAN and RPL, 6LoWPAN and supported functionalities, Web of Things
§ Communities:
§ Hypercat, Web of Things (direct involvement to generate more test descriptions), LoRA Alliance, BLE,
OMA, 5G

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Final step
● Any questions?
● Please take few minutes (3) to complete this on-line
survey
¢ http://tinyurl.com/jeko2zz
● Be a champion, share the open call info within your
communities:
¢ http://www.f-interop.eu/index.php/open-call
¢ Tweet @michelenati, @digicatapult, @finterop

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Looking for more info?
● Website: http://www.f-interop.eu/index.php/open-call
● Email: maria.prokopi@digicatapult.org.uk,
michele.nati@digicatapult.org.uk
● Interoperability blog post:
http://tinyurl.com/zmjvauh - please comment with
your view
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Thank you