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Digifed-Bootcamp-OC2-Iot-AI.Pdf AI & IoT Bootcamp 30 November 2020 Digital Catapult, Ikerlan, University of Ljubljana This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 864266. 1 Welcome 2 Welcome At this table, you can’t speak, and it is normal. To display the presentation To chat with us full screen To zoom in and out 3 Agenda • Introduction, objectives and agenda (10 minutes) • Partners’ presentations • University of Ljubljana • IKERLAN • Digital Catapult • Open floor discussion with Q&A 4 University of Ljubljana Jure Trilar 5 IoT & AI technology suport services from University of Ljubljana Prototype supporting interesting use-cases Electrical switch with Ethereum support Open source platform IoT prototyping & service design BigData analytics Percipio<BigData> analytics tool 30. 11. 2020 6 SWETHER - Electrical switch wih Ethereum support • Maturity/TRL: • Function: IoT-Blockchain Prototyping kit • Technology Readiness Level • Principle: • 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 • End-to-end prototype kit • Control electrical switch via blockchain transactions • Application cases: • charging of electric vehicles, • arbitrary control of IoT devices, • device-to-device transactions and interactions. 30. 11. 2020 7 IoT prototyping & service design • Maturity/TRL: • Function: Integration of commercial IoT sensors & platform and implementation • Technology Readiness Level consultation • 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 • Principle: • Capacity to developed own IoT boards, • due to popular demand we can help develop services on widely available commercial platforms such as: - Libelium, Raspberry Pie, Arduino,… • Sensors based on context and environment • Proper mode of connectivity 4/5G, LPWAN (LoRa, NB) • Various modes of computing/databases • Cases: • Smart City, • Smart Agriculture, • Smart Industry… 30. 11. 2020 8 percipio<BigData> analytics tool • Maturity/TRL: • Function: Big Data Analytics Tool: „Find • Technology Readiness Level the (un)known unknowns and discover new insights!“ • 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 • Principle: • Context selection • Correlation and trends dashboard • Key Performances: • Sources • 250M tech and sci articles • Patents • Web and social media 30. 11. 2020 9 Ikerlan Xabier Iturbe 10 IKERLAN in a Nutshell Since 1974! 350 150 HIGH-SKILLED ICT PROFESSIONALS TECHNOLOGY 24.1 M€ 13 M€ TRANSFER TURNOVER PROJECTS FUNDAMENTAL 10 M€ RESEARCH 2 M€ INVESTMENT IN WORLD-CLASS LABS 45 PhDs 30. 11. 2020 11 Information and Communication Technologies IoT & Digital Platforms Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence • Smart Digital Platforms: • Short-range IoT connectivity: • Highly scalable. • BLE, ZigBee, NFC, UWB, WiFi. • Public, private and hybrid cloud architectures. • Long-range connectivity: • Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis: • Non-licensed bands: LoRa, Sigfox. • Predictive maintenance. • Licensed bands: 2G/3G/4G (NB-IoT, LTE-M) and • Data Lakes for Data Analytics. towards 5G. • Data interpretability and AI-algorithms: • IoT / IIoT protocols and interoperability: • Smart Digital Platforms • MQTT, CoAP, DDS, LwM2M, AMQP, Websoket, NodeRed, etc. • Smart Interaction with data platforms : • Indoor (UWB, BLE) and outdoor (GPS, GNSS, cellular) • Natural interaction with data (chatbots, etc.). location • Development of platforms based on micro-services • Intelligence of Things: and “serverless” • IA + ML on edge nodes. 30. 11. 2020 IKERLAN 12 Dependable Embedded Systems • Maturity/TRL: • Function: Development of dependable systems by experts in safety and real-time • Technology Readiness Level electronics engineering • 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 • Principle: • Applications: • Embededd Systems developement certified up to SIL4 • Development of software for control-units on transport (e.g., traction, elevation) • Software developement and virtualization for real-time control • Development and validation of up to SIL4 • Automated Testing and Validation (HiL) certified applications (e.g., railway signaling) • Artificial vision for embedded safety • Virtualization of applications and plants (e.g., an elevation system) • Key Performances: • +20 years experience on electronic and safe embedded systems developement • Safety Certified methodology (TÜV) • Uniqueness: • +10 Fuctional Safety Engeeniers • 1 Fuctional Safety Expert (unique in Spain) • Referential on the development of advanced and safe functionality executed in complex chips (SoC, multicore, GPUs) 30. 11. 2020 IKERLAN 13 HW and Communication Systems HARDWARE SYSTEMS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ·HW developments: ·Industrial connectivity · Sensorization solutions · Low consumption electronics · Wireless & Wired solutions for embedded · Signal conditioning systems ·SW developments · System software (OS, drivers) · Wired · FPGA and programmable logic ·Real-time communications ·Integration and assembly · Applied to industrial control and sensorization · Electronic cards mounting (PCB assembly) · Extreme conditions / hostile environments ·Antennas ·Non functional developments · Design, simulation and characterization · Standards compliance ·Verification and validation · Tests and troubleshooting (EMC, electrical security, environmental) · Wireless communication systems · In-house designed channel emulator 30. 11. 2020 IKERLAN 14 Industrial cybersecurity • Function: Protection of embedded • Maturity/TRL: electronic systems and digital platforms • Technology Readiness Level • Principle: • 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 • Embedded System Security • Applications: • Security Evaluation • Cybersecure Digital platform and IIoT oriented • Cybersecure IoT, Cloud and User Interfaces to teleservice. • Key Performances: • Cybersecure Digital platform for fleets of • Security Life-Cycle and Certification automatic warehouses. Multi-business • Trust Technologies based on Distributed deployment, multi-warehouse Ledger Technologies • Uniqueness: • Certified methodologies and addressing compliance with product cybersecurity standards • Cybersecurity solutions covering the entire value chain: from the sensor, the electronics, the embedded software, the connectivity solution, the processing and data ingestion platform, to the analytics and its advanced display 30. 11. 2020 IKERLAN 15 EXAMPLES 30. 11. 2020 16 AI-powered Digital Platforms • Maturity: • Function: Digital Platform to provide tools to develop AI-powered fog/edge-to-cloud solutions. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 • Heterogenous cloud architecture (private, public and • Principle : hybrid). • Fog/Edge-to-cloud dynamic architectures. • Smart Data Lakes provisioning. • AI-powered Digital platform scenario. • Microservice-oriented service deployment. • Microservices oriented edge devices architecture. • Key performances: • Uniqueness: • AI-powered Digital Platform. • Artificial Intelligence→ fog-to-cloud architecture. • Data Lake provision for Data analytics. AI-powered predictive techniques. • Microservices based architecture→ Deployment • of AI-models to the edge. • Applications: • Edge computing → Early analytics in the edge • Industry 4.0 & Smart Factories. node to reduce delay. • Smart Cities. IKERLAN IKERLAN • Smart Living and Ageing Well. KONNEKT Box KONNEKT cloud • Smart Mobility. • Smart Buildings. • Etc. IKERLAN KONNEKT 30. 11. 2020Node IKERLAN 17 Autonomous Wireless Sensor Node • Function: detect temperature and acceleration • Maturity: events, wireless data transmission, energy- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 harvesting • Complete prototype (with RF) is working • Principle : • Miniaturization in progress • Several transducers for sensing • Additional sensing and optimization in progress • Indoor photovoltaic cells (off-the-shelf) • Key performances: • Uniqueness: • Sensing data local processing • Low power → sense & harvest at the same time Wireless robust coms (BLE, TDMA based) • High processing capabilities • • Robust and synchronized communications • Up to +-16us accuracy • Applications: • Smart logistics, smart factory: impact and temperature measurements • Industrial environment Indoor sensing 30. 11. 2020 IKERLAN 18 Safety and real-time software on COTS platforms • Maturity: • Function: certificatuion of embedded real- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 time and non-real time software • Principle : • Integrated in product • Selection of multicore commercial HW • Integration of an embedded hypervisor • Key performances: • Software development based on modeling • Safety up to PL-D level (SIL-2) • Safety concept based on industrial • x1,5 performance machinery standard (ISO13489) • Applications: • Wind-turbine control • Uniqueness: • Operation monitorization • Affordable cutting-edge HW • Local recording of key variables • Simplification of complex SW development • Safety cognizant 30. 11. 2020 IKERLAN 19 Digital Catapult Dr. Csaba Kiraly | Internet of Things Engineer 20 IoT Benchmarking: the Future Networks Lab A unique facility that is fast forwarding the adoption of future networks technologies to deliver value to industry Infrastructure: LoRaWAN, Sigfox, NB-IoT, 5G Keysight N6705C DC power analyzer Redwood 5020A LoRaWAN tester RSC Step Attenuator 11 LoRaWAN GWs geolocation testbed in London Expertise • short-range: 802.15.4, BLE, RFID, NFC, UWB, WuR • long-range: LoRa (LoRa2.4), LoRaWAN, Sigfox, NB-IoT • multi-radio platforms • testing and benchmarking methodology • test plans and reports 21 IoT Benchmarking: tests Power consumption laboratory tests • Current/power consumption measurements • Active/inactive states of a device Global Data Value Unit • Report: peak current, current/power per state Current avg 34.25 mA • Battery lifetime estimation for specific application/use-case
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