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WG03 IoT Platforms & Standardisation Workshop

Smart City Standards: Hypercat & CityVerve

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John Davies, BT

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CityVerve €20m nationally-funded Smart City project (innovateUK)

Hypercat IoT data interoperability

Some remarks on IoT standards for Smart Cities

Overview

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CityVerve Manchester, 2.8m people, £42 billion GVA Manchester is also a SynchroniCITY

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CityVerve

• €20m collaborative R&D project, with UK government investing €15m

– Large-scale deployment of IOT

• Delivers Smart City networks, platforms and infrastructure and demonstrators

• Central to this will be BT’s data hub, interoperating via Hypercat with a range of other platforms

– Interoperability is in our DNA

CityVerve’s Use Cases – Themes

Transport and Travel

Health and Social Care Culture & the public realm

Energy & the environment

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Interoperability

“Interoperability is essential to unlock 40% of the $11 trillion potential value of the IoT” (McKinsey)

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IOT Hubs & data interoperability

ETSI “knowledge gap” Data hubs lower the barrier to participation and avoid silos: • Interoperation between hubs • Resource discovery and access (what data

does this hub have? how do I get it? what other hubs are there?)

Hypercat is a specification which allows these questions to be answered

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Hypercat

• HyperCat is a file format and a common web API • It has a small set of mandatory core metadata

– horizontal – can link to domain-specific vertical

vocabularies (ontologies) • It exists at application layer (OSI Layer 7) • It uses well-understood web technologies (REST,

JSON) • It is publically available and unencumbered

• A machine-readable catalogue for IoT data • Status: British Standards Institute PAS (Publically

available specification)

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We are not short of initiatives…

Standards for Smart Cities & IoT

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Source: AIOTI WG3 (IoT Standardisation) – Release 2.7

Service & App

B2C

(e.g., Consumer Market)

B2B

(e.g., Industrial Internet Market)

Connectivity

AIOTI

Open Automotive Alliance

IoT SDOs and Alliances Landscape

(Technology and Marketing Dimensions)

NB-IoT

Forum

NB-IoT

Forum

Open Connectivity Foundation

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We are not short of initiatives…

Transition phase from specifications to standards Hypercat is an example

Service layer and infrastructure layer are linked but separate We need articulation at the service layer level

Service platform vs Technology platforms

Can we imagine a Programmable City Specification? Replicable

Scalable

Avoiding duplication of effort

Interoperability across domains/silos

At what level(s) of abstraction?

Interoperable with other verticals as far as possible

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