H2020 Work Programme 2014-2015 ict-30-2015: Internet of Things and Platforms for Connected Smart Objects

IoT platforms address the components in the IoT layered architecture approach and cover the following elements [1]:

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  Abstraction – abstracting physical IoT devices and resources into virtual entities and representations, enabling interoperability through uniform access to heterogeneous devices and resources over multiple communication protocols such as MQTT, Restful, etc.
  
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  Virtualization – providing service look-up mechanisms that bridge physical network boundaries and offer a set of consumable services.
  
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  Data management Framework – enabling storage, caching and querying of collected data as well as data fusion and event management, while considering scalability aspects.
  
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  Semantic Representation Framework – for modelling and management of semantic knowledge
  
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  Security and Policy Framework – implementing Access Control mechanisms and Federation Identity management responsible for authentication and authorization policies and for enabling federation among several IoT platforms respectively.
  
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  Networking Framework – enabling communication within and across platforms, providing means for self-management (configuration, healing and optimization) through cognitive algorithms.
  
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  Open Interfaces – set of open APIs (possibly cloud-based) to support IoT applications, and ease platform extension by enabling easy interaction and quick development of tools on top of the platform.
  
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  Data Analytics services – providing "real time" event processing, a self-service rule engine to allow users to define simple and complex rules, and querying, reporting and data visualization capabilities.
  
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  Machine learning data analytics – a set of complex machine learning algorithms, for providing real-time decision capabilities.
  
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  Development tools and standardized toolkits – for fast development of (possibly cloud-based) IoT applications that can be integrated by different companies.
  

Developments of IoT platforms involves an entire ecosystem of stakeholders covering the whole value chain of the IoT that together coordinate and deliver the functionalities and the services required by the various supported IoT applications.

Figure 7: The IoT Enterprise Framework.

The STF 505 has defined an Enterprise IoT Framework, in order to put a global structure on the framework used for the analysis of the SDO landscape.
Such a framework has to deal not just with the technology, but also with other relevant areas to be taken into consideration such as stakeholder views, the regulatory aspects (e.g. for a city). All of these together make up an enterprise view [2].
The reports of the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) working group WG03 point out that part of the complexity of IoT comes from its intention to support a number of different applications covering a wide array of disciplines that are not all part of the ICT domain. An overview of all these elements can be overwhelming without a structural view. The STF 505 approach is to view the IoT framework as an Enterprise Architecture (in line with the TOGAF model for Enterprise Architecture) [2].
The main elements of this framework shown in Figure 7 are the following:

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  An Architecture Reference Model which consists of an IoT architecture integrating all components that make up an IoT system;
  
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  An IoT domain which holds the view of what makes up an IoT system;
  
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  A Standards Information Database which is the main object of study of the IoT standards landscaping, aiming to hold all relevant standards that can be used;
  
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  A Reference Library which holds any re-useable information that can be used across the IoT large scale pilots;
  
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  A Governance Repository that houses all policies, regulations that applies to any large-scale pilots.
  

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