H2020 Work Programme 2014-2015 ict-30-2015: Internet of Things and Platforms for Connected Smart Objects
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Executive summaryPublishable summaryThe report provides an overview of IoT platforms followed by a systematic analysis and concise description of the platforms and their features. The purpose is to analyse the IoT platforms both commercial and open source, while mapping the IoT use cases and applications around the platforms and presenting the factors that are relevant for the adoption of the platform. The analysis offers a comprehensive looking at all aspects of platform activity, from elements like communication capabilities, to the availability and quality of documentation, the ease of use of APIs, SDK environments and the use of innovation support events such as pit stops or hackathons to engage with platform adopters and potential platform adopters. The remaining report is structured in seven chapters covering an overview of IoT platforms, their mapping into the IoT layered architecture, the description of the main functional components of IoT platforms, the IoT service model and the functional components of IoT platforms presented in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 offers an overview of the global IoT platform market starting by presenting the evolution of the market and the specific elements in different regional markets and concluding with a summary of market trends. The framework for analysis, the assessment methodology and the market reflections on leading platforms are described in Chapter 5. An overview and description of different types of platforms and their features are presented in Chapter 6 with the identification of three broad categories: commercial platforms of global industry players, SME/start-up, open source platforms and an additional group that includes the OneM2M compliant platforms. The commercial IoT platforms have evolved from the platforms developed in different sectors and are classified under four main categories: device, communication/connectivity, cloud and industry centric platforms. Chapter 7 offers an overview of the IoT platforms used by the IoT ecosystems that are created by the IoT-EPI projects, summarising the architectural mapping, IoT applications targeted by the IoT-EPI projects and a discussion on common challenges. The analysis in this report has looked on different technological and consumer/business/industrial approaches on the IoT platforms. These are addressing the heterogeneous sensing and actuating technologies, data ownership, security and privacy, data processing, data sharing capabilities, the existence of a community of developers/users and the support to application developers, the creation of an IoT ecosystem, and the availability of dedicated IoT marketplaces. IoT platforms enable enterprises to monitor and control IoT endpoints, build applications to meet digital business requirements, and will be an essential element in the development of a digital single market. In the new digital economy, IoT platform ecosystems are the foundation for new value creation and the driver for developing new IoT applications. This requires architecting and developing IoT platforms that addresses the new technologies for communication, control, management and security of endpoints in the IoT to form a coherent architecture. The IoT Platform market represents a new dynamic segment that emerged few years ago, and as in any new markets, the landscape is complex and changing very rapidly. IoT Platforms are key for the development of scalable IoT applications and services that connect the physical, digital and virtual worlds between things, systems and people. Non-publishable informationNone. IntroductionThe IoT market has started to move towards action and companies are realizing that building end-to-end IoT systems from scratch is a tedious task and a big risk with many business cases still shaky and not clearly validated. With so much re-inventing the wheel happing at the same time in different organizations, the market has responded by generating a wave of companies that deliver out-of-the box solutions that encapsulate major parts of an end-to-end IoT system in repeatable and replicable building blocks that can be used in different vertical of the market. These solutions are known as IoT platforms. IoT platforms enable companies to bring IoT solutions more rapidly to the market by cutting development time and expenses for IoT systems. By paying per use or for fixed licensing terms, the risk of failed investment is minimized. As a result, IoT platforms have grown significantly in popularity, which the recent Gartner Hype Cycle shows (see Figure 1). However, the hype has led to a situation that can be described as a modern day IoT Babylon with more than 360 platforms on the market, as a leading IoT market research firm has recently found. 
Figure 1: Gartner Hype Cyle 2016. IoT platforms are on the rise. In this context, the European Commission has funded the creation of seven European IoT platform ecosystem, which form together the European IoT platform initiative. The goal of these projects is to overcome the increasing market fragmentations by delivering solutions for IoT platform interoperability and demonstrating the benefit of the resulting interoperability in different real world pilots. The ambition that the projects have set is to develop these platforms into successful and thriving innovation ecosystems. In this report, we aim to capture the current IoT platform landscape and provide the European research and innovation community and policy makers with some orientation in this fast-paced market. Download 9.57 Mb. Share with your friends:
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