FInES Cluster Concertation MeetingClosing Remarks

December 20th, 2011, Brussels (BE)

Gérald Santucci,

European Commission

What you’ve discussed (1)

• FInEs State-of-play• Upcoming changes

• FInES Task Forces Progress• Standardization Action Plan 2012• Road Map Progress• Business Models beyond 2020• Publications + Conferences List Available

• Future Internet Socio-Economics (FISE) WG• Socio-economic dimension of the Future Internet

• Regional dimension (ERRIN)• Cooperation with Future Internet PPP

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What you’ve discussed (2)

• Parallel sessions• Finding new ways of collaboration• Agreement on common tools, methods• Speak common “language”• How to share knowledge? Results?

• Wiki? LinkedIn? Visualizations?• Incentives for asset-sharing• Re-use of project results

• New Manufacturing Roadmap• FInES-EFFRA synergies

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Externalisation Working Group

Staff engagement

DAE

H2020 substance

FP7 / CIP

Organigram

H2020 structure (our bid)

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GL III

Call 1 Orientation

WP13 Drafting & decision WP13 evaluation & negotiation

CIP13 WP elaboration CIP13 evaluation & negotiation

Call 1 Drafting & Decision

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H2020 adopEA draft proposal EA Negotiation

Office setup

Decide Structure

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GL IV

H2020 Seminars

INFSO Coordination

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Staff AssemblyMT+HoU

What lies ahead in DG INFSO?

Looking ahead to challenges and opportunities [I]

• The rapidly changing world of computing and communications• A global Internet

• Internet users, broadband Internet, super computing• A more connected world

• Mobile phones, mobile Internet, Internet of Things• Towards an innovative China

• Dominant maker of computers and consumer electronics; readily able to adapt and improve on technology innovations made elsewhere; but innovation limited by government controls and the relative lack of IP protection

• FInES has a long track record in cooperating with China (INTEROP-VLab)

• Raw materials for innovation• Concentration of science and engineering talent• Venture capital (China 2nd largest VC market in the world) ••• 5

Looking ahead to challenges and opportunities [II]

• “Big data” era:• How to meet growing data storage, analysis and

management demands (e.g. parallel file systems)?• How to utilise enterprise-wide, scalable, fully web-

enabled distributed processing systems across a wide variety of industries and applications?

• How to automate the understanding of large complex data by eliminating the requirement for taxonomy/ontology and combining a number of formerly point solutions into an integrated entity-oriented analytics solution?

• More data about the data metadata• Levelling and commoditisation of knowledge as a shared,

common resource a new wave of intellectual value creation

• Social nature of the Web instant global consensus on major issues with little time for filtering, comparison, critical analysis ••• 6

Looking ahead to challenges and opportunities [III]

• After silicon• Self assembling circuits from carbon nanotubes

• Towards a programmable universe• Sensors can send out streams of data about their surroundings,

anonymously transmitted to remote data centres (“clouds”)• … but who are the EU Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple?

• Convergence of biology and computer science• Designing chips that have structural resemblance to the brain

• Deconstructing the interface (Macintosh, Windows)• By 2070, our brain connected to the Internet?

• From GIZMOS to SPIMES to BIOTS (B. Sterling)• “Halo of data”: personalised descriptions of what and who is around

you are available at the push of a button on your smartphone• The whole brain can be synchronised to the cloud (2100?) – humans

can restore and backup their memories to the system; the system can restore memories into a new body

• Collective learning (2200?) – only new knowledge needs to be created, learning becomes obsolete; all known knowledge is contained on a supercomputer (on a chip?); all known knowledge pertaining to any subject can be downloaded directly to the brain

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Towards the Sensing Enterprise?

• 2009: FInES began to explore Science Based Interoperability; 2011: FInES explores the new concept of “Sensing Enterprise”.

• Sensing Enterprise: an enterprise anticipating future decisions by using multi-dimensional information captured through physical and virtual objects and providing added value information to enhance its global context awareness.

• WYSIWYG Enterprise: “With massive quantities of real-time information becoming pushed rather than pulled on a global scale future enterprises will be (a) context aware, (b) dynamically configurable, and (c) multi-identity oriented virtual entities that manifest themselves in many different ways and re-invent themselves over and over again.”

• Sensing Factory: smart, adaptive, autonomous, and ambient machines.

Source: Future Internet Enterprise Systems (FInES) Position Paper, 2011http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/enet/documents/fines-position-paper-fp8-orientations-final.pdf

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ERP

ICT: the enabler of intelligent manufacturing

Digital factories Smart factories Virtual factories

Internet of Things

Rapid prototyping

Internet of Services

Smart items Embedded systems

Closed loop lifecycle management

Infrastructure /Services Components Applications

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Next generation cost cutting and process optimization

Next generation cost cutting and process optimization Generating new businessGenerating new business

Source: Factories of the Future PPP: Strategic Multi-annual Roadmap (2010), http://www.manufuture.org/manufacturing/wp-content/uploads/FoF_PPP_Roadmap_Final_Version.pdf

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FInES commitment to excellence!

• Research projects must strive for excellence

• Increase activities on communicating results to the most prestigious conferences and journals• ERA Conference Ranking• ISI Web of Knowledge• Special Issue of the Computers in Industry

Journal

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Thank you for your attention!

Gérald SANTUCCIHead of Unit RFID and Network EnterpriseInformation Society and Media Directorat-GeneralEuropean Commission

gerald.santucci@ec.europa.eu

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/enet/home_en.htmlhttp://www.fines-cluster.eu/fines/jm/http://www.internet-of-things-research.eu/

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DG INFSO/D-4!