PETRAS Hub Overview

PETRAS Privacy, Ethics, Trust, Reliability, Acceptability, and Security

for the Internet of Things

PETRAS: Hub Overview

Jeremy Watson: UCL – Director

Emil Lupu: Imperial College – Deputy Director



• Deliver real co-produced impactful and cross-sectoral technical and

socioeconomic benefit

• Place the UK as world-leader in expertise and deployment of trusted

IoT technology

• Create a cross-disciplinary environment across research domains,

industries, and government departments.

• Create a social platform for innovation and co-creation with users

and stakeholders

• Provide an enduring legacy from the PETRAS Hub, beyond the end of

the funded period

Aims – to:



• Use an integrated approach of collaborative social and

physical science expertise

• Remove barriers to the beneficial adoption of Internet of

Things

• Address generic knowledge gaps through case study

approaches covering major sectors

• Use innovative methodologies including ‘in the wild’ and

citizen science

Principles



Cybersecurity of the Internet of Things

Organisation

Steering board

Warwick

UCL

Healthcare

Node

Cities

Node

Hub

Cardiff

spoke

Soton

spoke

~ 50 Public & private sector research partners

Acceler-

ator

Oxford

Lancas-

ter

Edin’bro

spoke

Surrey

spoke

Shared

admin

Imperial

Operations group

User &

Research boardIoTUK

Landscape



Cybersecurity of the Internet of Things

Organisation

Steering board

Warwick

UCL

Healthcare

Node

Cities

Node

Hub

Cardiff

spoke

Soton

spoke

~ 50 Public & private sector research partners

Acceler-

ator

Oxford

Lancas-

ter

Edin’bro

spoke

Surrey

spoke

Shared

admin

Imperial

Operations group

User &

Research board

£10m

Demonstrator

‘CityVerve’

Manchester

2 of 7 NHS-E

projects:

Surrey &

Bristol

SBRI Call

tba

£9.8m Hub

DCMS/EPSRC



Key Facts about PETRAS

• 9 world leading universities via

the core and spoke model (4

from the Alan Turing Institute)

• Combined hub value: £23m

• Blackett Review expertise

• 47 partners at submission

combining presence in the UK,

Central Europe and America

(giving International links and

perspective)

• Inter– and multi-disciplinary

focus



Governance

Terms of reference are available

for each board

A rigorous set of processes providing

independent ‘steering’ including ethical aspects

of projects, knowledge needs and technology

advice, and executive management of projects



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• Privacy & Trust

• Safety & Security

• Harnessing Economic Value

• Adoption & Acceptability

• Standards, Governance & Policy

Stream programmeGeneric learning outcomes – each co-led by a social and physical scientist

Projects grouped by type into ‘Constellations’, sample one or more of the Stream threads



• Ambient environments

• Health & Care

• Infrastructure

• Supply & Control Systems

• Transport & Mobility

• Identification

• Design & Behaviour

Constellation groupingsSectorally-themed collections of projects which provide evidence to the Stream programme

Projects grouped into ‘Constellations’ according to theme type



• Discipline balance

– The PETRAS domain of study requires a balance between social and physical science

and engineering challenges, so each of the Streams is co-led by academics representing

these two disciplines

• PDRA pool

– Post doctoral research fellows will be hired for the whole three year Hub programme

and will be attached to a particular stream; they will be deployed to Constellation

projects and bring knowledge back to their stream

• Interim Call

– It is anticipated that much of the first months will be spent in setting contexts and

establishing baselines. In month 10, an internal Call for proposals will be issued, shaped

by the needs of User Partners and by emerging technologies. A further Call in Year 2

will aim at converging knowledge to Stream conclusions

• Innovation Champions (x2)

– Will provide active professional links to the greater IoTUK community, Catapults, etc.

Innovation in the execution process



• Publicity and knowledge dissemination are a priority

• Possible business models beyond the end of the funded period will be

considered from the outset

• Relationships with User Partners will include considerations of

relationship and value sustainability

• Relationships with relevant Academies and Professional Engineering

Institutions will be built to create mutually-beneficial delivery platforms

Creating an enduring legacyIt is the collaborators’ intention to create an interest group with enduring value, serving the

UK government and business sectors



Workshops across the country

Next generation of researchers

Multi-level partner engagement

Steering, streams, constellations

Two large symposia

Website hub

Truly transdisciplinary publicationsImpact

Champions

Partnership Fund

Secondments, fellowships

Specialist Journalist

Common language

Sociotechnical tools

UK world-leading in research & practice

Policy advice and innovation

Leading in standardisation

Using:

Impact call

via Strategic Fund

Routes to

Impact



Constellation example: Transport & Mobility

Transport & Mobility

projects will include

smart street planning, pricing

& maintenance and also

developing solutions for

communications among

autonomous and semi-

autonomous cars and

infrastructures.

Lead: Professor Carsten

Maple (Warwick)



Constellation example: Health & CareSeNTH - focus on: 1. Threat

modelling and analysis for

body sensor networks; 2.

Security mechanisms that can

be provided on miniaturised

low power ASICs; 3.

Establishing a test-bed with

selected scenarios.

DAISH - user trust in

medical applications of IoT.

Project will use sandpits to

identify problems impairing

users’ trust and will define a

code of practises for IoT.

Lead: Emil Lupu (Imperial

College)



Constellation example: Design & Behaviour

This Constellation will

consider the role that Design

plays in influencing the

adoption of IoT. In particular,

how Design and Engineering

can actively encourage or

discourage behaviours, so

that Privacy and Trust are

enhanced, and adoption is

promoted. Design charrettes

will be used to obtain user

responses to a range of

interventions.

Lead: Professor Rachel

Cooper (Lancaster)



Constellation example: Infrastructure

Includes 1. NIRC, which

looks, from a policy angle, at

approaches in various

countries and across borders

to manage IoT threats and

increased attack surfaces. 2.

ALIoTT - tools to analyse

threats in many contexts,

creating, validating and

piloting methods and

software across the hub and

with User Partners, including

government agencies.

Lead: Professor Jeremy

Watson (UCL)



Constellation example: Identification

AACIoT - rating the

trustworthiness of

identification systems based

on the wider environment

surrounding the IoT agent

PEISI evaluating ‘identifying’

technologies, protocols, and

procedures alongside privacy

strategies, to design robust

solutions that deliver a

balance between

identifiability and privacy of

IoT technology.

Lead: Professor Luciano

Floridi (Oxford)



Constellation example: Supply & Control Systems

Connectivity and intelligence

are of economic importance to

the UK. IoT offers integrated

control systems and supply

chains. Projects include:

Developing Secure IoT-

augmented Control Systems

and Exploring Economic Value

of IoT Data in Cyber-physical

Supply Chains. The projects

will draw expertise from a

number of Hub research

organisations working with

industrial partners.

Lead: Professor Carsten Maple

(Warwick)



Constellation example: Ambient EnvironmentsThe QEOP offers an ideal

setting for scalable, ‘In the

Wild’, IoT developments.

Concepts around security

versus adaptability with

cross-layered network wide

protocols for low powered

IoT Devices will be

investigated . A combination

of In the Wild experiments

and focus groups will inform

the boundaries of privacy,

trust and personalisation.

Lead: Professor Andy

Hudson-Smith (UCL)



PETRAS: Governance detail

Jeremy Watson: UCL – Director

Emil Lupu: Imperial College – Deputy Director



Governance

Steering Board

Operations GroupUser Research

Board

Ethics sub-group

Day-to-day operations‘Push and Pull’

Governance

Terms of reference available for each board



Steering Board [SB] (including Ethics Sub-Group)

Membership

• Key strategic users – public and private sector, independent chair from private sector

• Funding bodies – DCMS, EPSRC, Innovate UK

• PETRAS PI, CoIs, Impact Champions

Role and Responsibilities

• Receives budgetary and resourcing reports from the Operations Group

• Oversees and advises on Hub portfolio management with advice from the User and Research

Board, ensuring it is aligned to the needs of Users

• Formally approves allocated projects and use of Strategic Funds and Partnership Research Funds

• Sets strategy for knowledge transfer and user engagement

• Sets ethics guidelines and advise project on ethics considerations (Ethics Sub-Group)

Terms of reference to be written for each board



User & Research Board [URB]

Membership

• Technical leaders from user partners, government subject-matter experts

• Academic experts from Hub and Spokes

• PETRAS Impact Champions


• Advises on User needs and new technology

• Provides feedback on project proposals, project progress and project outcomes (Strategic Fund,

and Partnership Research Fund)

• Advises on scope and priorities for Calls for Proposals Y2 and Y3

• Advises on training programme and people development

• Provides volunteers for Mentorship Programme




Operations Group [OG]

Membership

• Hub CoIs and Spoke project leaders

• PETRAS Programme Manager

• Admin representatives of lead HEIs

• PM and Impact Champions


• Manages the PDRA resource pool and its deployment into projects based on the

recommendations from the URB

• Manages the deployment of the Strategic Resource Fund and Partnership Fund

• Sets procedures for, and executes, project progress monitoring (technical and financial) and

reporting

• Sets programme of activities for dissemination, user engagement and communications

• Sets procedures for, and executes, monitoring of expenditure and matched funding tracking

• Sets procedures for, and oversees IP management




Meetings

Steering board

User panelSteering board

User panel

Annual cycle

Operations

Group

Operations

Group

Operations

Group

Operations

Group

Quarterly

cycle



Shared Hub Resources

• PETRAS Web page

• Hub Directory

• Mailing Lists and contact points

• Training and Training material (Baselining)

• PDRA Pool and Expertise

• Shared recruitment approach

• Ops management Google Sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19w6lrMhwrfKiXyokHrPSI3BH5ZlGuj4j0a-

B8nJhIHE/edit#gid=0

• Digital Catapult share:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XI7d7KYJmnC2h9stqqLFR0nyPDn_UxEBGcJQQ24Yb

w4/edit#gid=0

• References:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19w6lrMhwrfKiXyokHrPSI3BH5ZlGuj4j0a-

B8nJhIHE/edit#gid=1677177634

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19w6lrMhwrfKiXyokHrPSI3BH5ZlGuj4j0a-B8nJhIHE/edit#gid=0

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XI7d7KYJmnC2h9stqqLFR0nyPDn_UxEBGcJQQ24Ybw4/edit#gid=0

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19w6lrMhwrfKiXyokHrPSI3BH5ZlGuj4j0a-B8nJhIHE/edit#gid=1677177634



Aspirational pointsFurther funding

• Lloyds Register – target £1m for aligned projects (Foundation plus Group)

• Private sector cash contributions for specific technology demonstrators

Wider engagement

• International

• Other Research Councils (and the emerging post-Nurse RCUK)

• Professional Engineering Institutions (publications, streamed video, events, etc.)

• Engagement with new User Partners

In-line planning

• Website, conference, engagement and KT events

• New Calls

• Business model for PETRAS legacy

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