The document discusses Internet of Things (IoT) activities at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR). It provides an overview of NIBR's exploration of IoT, including technology evaluations, potential use cases around lab environment monitoring, asset management, and instrument control, as well as challenges implementing IoT strategies. NIBR aims to develop an IoT platform and consolidate ongoing IoT activities to drive tangible results in 2017.

1. IoT at NIBR
Brian Duffy, Director, NIBR Informatics
Pistoia Alliance Annual Conference
October 18th, 2016
NIBR

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Agenda
• Introduction
• What is the Internet of Things?
• IoT at NIBR
• Activities
• Strategy
• Use cases
• Issues
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Introduction
• Global Head of NIBR Informatics (NX) IS Delta team
• Team consists of ~30 Software and Automation
engineers
– Cambridge and Basel
• Deploy solutions to all NIBR sites
– Cambridge, Basel, San Diego, East Hanover, Emeryville, Shanghai, Singapore
• Solutions provided
– Scientific applications
– Laboratory Automation
– Technology evaluation
– Custom engineering
– 3D printing
– Microfluidics
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Novartis Institutes for Biomedical
Research
• NIBR is the research arm of Novartis
• NIBR is separate from Novartis development
• This presentation covers only NIBR IoT activities
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What is the Internet of Things?
• The Internet Of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology and
industry where all kinds of objects are connected
• Objects are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to
transfer data
• Everyday objects have network connectivity, allowing them to send
and receive data
• At its core, IoT is simple: it’s about connecting devices over the
internet, letting them talk to us, applications, and each other
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Context
• The Internet of Things (IoT) is a disruptive innovation that most
companies are trying to incorporate into their business
• The emergence of the Internet of Things devices has created the
need for new tools and technologies to help developers create
solutions that harness the power of the smart, connected world
• An IOT dedicated platform is setting the business foundation to
provide faster solutions
• The landscape will shake out to a few major players
– Similar to past emerging technologies
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Opportunities
• The IoT technology stack is an opportunity for the labs
to leverage existing systems or bring in new and unmet
services.
• Current electronic kits and board miniaturization can
support conversion of unconnected objects to a “thing”
• Custom engineered devices can be developed as well
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IoT at NIBR
• A lot going on in the IoT space within NIBR
• Consolidating a list of all activities
• Relatively early days of exploring IoT
• Evolving IoT in the lab strategy
• Driving for concrete/tangible results in 2017
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Lab of Things strategy
• There is a shared interest within NIBR for a global,
cross-domain IOT platform for application development
• There is currently no strategy for a standardized
platform and environment for the support of IOT based
applications development
• Evolving an IoT for the lab concept:
• How does it fit within NIBR?
• How can NIBR take advantage of this new technology?
• How to prioritize what is important within NIBR?
• Strategy may fail if not planned well
• A component of Lab of the Future/ Intelligent Labs/
Innovative Lab Design
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Technology Evaluations
• Major corporations
– PTC ThingWorx
– AWS IoT
• Start ups
– Multitudes in the Boston/Cambridge area
• Academia
• Evaluating
• Applications
• Platforms
• Hardware
• Security
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NX exploration (NXplore)
• Exploration/Innovation:
• Creating an environment for exploration within NX
• To tap into the vast talented and creative resources throughout NX,
leveraging the wider organization
• Developing a culture of exploration is a way of continually preparing
for the future
• “What’s Possible” contest
• IoT voice control
• Room booking/monitoring/availability
• Plans to make 20 Raspberry Pi’s with a general/base
image for anyone to develop anything they want
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NX Teams involved
• Software Engineering
• Research Computing Platform
• Information Systems
• Automation/Engineering
• Cybersecurity
• End User Services
• New Technology
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Sensing
• Lab environment monitoring
• Temperature
• Humidity
• Oxygen
• Liquid level detection
– Reservoirs
– Waste collection
• CO2
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Asset Management
• Location tracking
• Monitoring instruments
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
• Reporting/Statistics
• Availability
• Monitoring maintenance schedules
• Instrument utilization/usage
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Instrument control
• Remote monitoring
• Controlling experiments via mobile devices
• Critical device parameters or process extraction
• Conversion of stand alone devices to I-devices for
better process integration
• Extend capabilities of existing devices
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Freezer management
• Monitoring
• Alarms
• Environmental conditions
• Sample tracking
• Freezer operations
• Data analytics
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Potential use cases
• IoT sensors tracking temperature in shipping containers
from our CRO's
• Data capture of lab environmental conditions
monitoring, correlation with assay results
• Data capture of experiment conditions to ELN
• Remote video motion/detection
• I/O controlling:
– Pumps
– Valves
– Motion/motor control
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Potential use cases
• Amazon dash button
– Hit button and send a request
– Use for restocking consumables/reagents/chemicals/etc
• Proximity/presence sensing
– Safety
• Event message upon certain conditions
– Experiment complete
– Threshold exceeded
– Event could trigger downstream processes
• Facial recognition
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IoT shop
• Building a dedicated IoT shop in addition to Machine & 3D
printing shops
• Providing centralized access to:
– Instrumentation
– Tools
– Standard IoT components
• Enables:
– Custom device development
– Quick prototyping
– Pilots and POC’s
– Testing
– IOT technology evaluations
– Information sharing
– Community building
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Challenges
• Lack of an IoT strategy
• Security challenges
• Lack of standards
• Communication protocols/interoperability
• Team collaboration
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Acknowledgements
• NIBR Informatics
• IS Delta team
– Guy Herr
– Umesh Katpally
– Andres Tschupp
• NXplore team
• “What’s Possible” contest participants
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Questions
•?
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23. Thank you