Presented at the NG-IoT standardisation workshop: ''Distributed Architectures in the EdgeCloudIoT Continuum''

1. NEXT-GENERATION IoT SOLUTIONS
FOR THE UNIVERSAL SUPPLY CHAIN
Standardisation aspects in iNGENIOUS
NG-IoT standardisation workshop: ''Distributed Architectures in the EdgeCloudIoT Continuum''
Nuria Molner (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia)
Efstathios Katranaras (Sequans)

2. Consortium
FRANCE
FRANCE
SPAIN
SPAIN
ITALY
ITALY
POLAND
POLAND
GERMANY
GERMANY
LUXEMBOURG
LUXEMBOURG
IRELAND
IRELAND
21 organisations coming
from 8 different European
countries
UK
UK
An external Advisory
Board formed by 9
organisations will
provide wider
feedback from
industrial and
communications
side
FINLAND
FINLAND
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3. Project Fact Sheet
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• iNGENIOUS is built around 6 use cases for the
supply chain management.
• PoCs (TRL 4) and
• demos (TRL 6) experimentally validated in
one factory, one ship and two ports
• 30 months project – 8 M€ budget
• 21 partners from 8 countries
• October 2020 – March 2023
iNGENIOUS aims to design and evaluate the NG-IoT solution, with a particular
emphasis on 5G and the development of Edge and Cloud computing extensions for
IoT in addition to providing smart networking and data management solutions with
AI/ML.
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Valencia
Port
Livorno
Port
COSCO
Ship
ASTI
Factory

4. Use Cases challenges
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• Factory UC: end-to-end management + orchestration of 5G industrial
networks
• Transport UC: defect detection using ML-based sensors trained on real-
world data
• Port Entrance UC: data accessibility and ML model development to
predict and optimize truck + container traffic in ports
• AGVs UC: immersive cockpit for good driver experience in tele-operated
AGVs
• Ship UC: end-to-end tracking + real-time monitoring of shipping
containers on both land and sea
• DVL/DLT UC: virtualization of machine-to-machine platforms for unified
data access

5. Cross-layer Architecture
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MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY SERVICES
PRIVACY SECURITY DLT INTEROPERABILITY
SMART APPLICATIONS
NETWORK
AR/VR
THINGS
GEOLOCATION AI
RADIO NETWORK IT NETWORK
EDGE NETWORK
SOC SENSORS ACTUATORS MODEMS
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
• Smart Application level: prediction of vessel
arrival times and TTT in maritime ports.
• Network level: network resources adaptation
to IoT devices at the things layer.
• Things level: data processing at the edge
within energy-constrained IoT sensors.
Security and privacy
• Management and Security level: data
interoperability with pseudonymization for
personal data; and data integrity using DLTs.
• Network level: security enhancements over
previous 3GPP standards.
• Things level: policy analysis and definition for
Identity & Access management for 5G-
connected IoT devices.

6. SDO Current Activity/ Subgroup Partners Involved
3GPP Active participation to RAN, RAN1, RAN2 SEQ, 5CMM
5GAA
Active participation at Tele-operation Driving rate and
reliability communication requirements
NOK
ETSI
Monitoring of ETSI NFV, ETSI ZSM, and contribution to
ETSI SES SCN
NXW, iDR
SSIG
Monitoring of Satellite Standardisation Interest Group
(NTN standardisation, NB-IoT NTN study)
iDR
KPI Achieved
Number of standards contributions 38
Number of partners involved 5
Standardisation in iNGENIOUS
Overview of activity in SDOs
Standardization scope
● Bring project findings to regulators & standardisation bodies
● Raise awareness and help in the adoption of new project results
Standards impact KPIs
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7. Challenges and next steps
▪ Some elements in the IoT continuum (e.g., user device hardware) may not follow
specific standard or not support specific protocol.
▪ ecosystem interoperability must be ensured, either through open-source or through
provisions in standardization
▪ Difficult to follow and contribute as a completely new player to complex
standards (with a lot of legacy spec/work) such as 3GPP
▪ Even in transition from 5G to 6G
▪ 6G standardization to consider joint design of IoT continuum
▪ identify services, requirements, management functions for real-world applications
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8. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No
957216
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Thank you
Nuria Molner
numolsiu@iteam.upv.es