Vision and Challenges for Realising the Internet of Things

competitive marketplace that benefits end
users.
Issues to be addressed:
Distributed open architecture with end to
end characteristics, interoperability of heterogeneous
systems, neutral access, clear
layering and resilience to physical network
disruption.
Decentralized autonomic architectures
based on peering of nodes.
Architectures moving intelligence at the
very edge of the networks, up to users’
terminals and things.
Cloud computing technology, event-driven
architectures, disconnected operations and
synchronization.
Use of market mechanisms for increased
competition and participation.
3.4.3 Communication Technology
Billions of connected devices are pushing
current communication technologies, networks
and services approaches to their limits
and require new technological investigations.
Research is required in the field of Internet
architecture evolution, wireless system access
architectures, protocols, device technologies,
service oriented architecture able to support
dynamically changing environments, security
and privacy. Research is required in the field
of dedicated applications integrating these
technologies within a complete end to end
system.
In the Internet of Things the following topics
related to communication technology have to
be considered:
Communication to enable information
exchange between “things” and between
“things” and Internet
Communication with sensors for capturing
and representing the physical world in the
digital world
Communication with actuators to perform
actions in the physical world triggered in
the digital world
Communication with distributed storage
units for data collection from sensors,
identification and tracking systems
Communication for interaction with humans
in the physical world
Communication and processing to provide
data mining and services
Communication for localization and tracking
for physical world location determination
and tracking
Communication for identification to provide
unique physical object identification
in the digital world.
In the IoT the range of connectivity options
will increase exponentially and the challenges
of scalability, interoperability and ensuring
return on investment for network operators
will remain.
In this context the communication needs will
change and new radio and service architectures
will be required to cater for the connectivity
demands of emerging devices. The frequency
spectrum will have to be adapted to
the new bandwidth requirements.
Issues to be addressed:
Internet of Things energy efficient communication
multi frequency protocols,
communication spectrum and frequency
allocation.
Software defined radios to remove need for
hardware upgrades when new protocols
emerge.
Connectionless communications, even
beyond IP.
High performance, scalable algorithms and
protocols.
3.4.4 Network Technology
The evolution and pervasiveness of present
communication technologies has promised to
revolutionize the way humans interact with
their environment. The Internet of Things is
born from this vision in which objects form
an integral part of the communication infrastructures
that wire today’s world. For this
vision to be realized, the Internet of Things
architecture needs to be built on top of a network
structure that integrates wired and
wireless technologies in a transparent and
seamless way. Wireless network technologies
have gained more focus due to their ability to
provide unobtrusive wire-free communication.
They have also become the leading area
of research when combined with data collecting
technologies used for environmental and
object monitoring.
In this regard, wireless sensor networks
promise low power, low cost object monitoring
and networking, constituting a fundamental
technology for the evolution towards a
truly embedded and autonomous Internet of
Things.
Research is needed on networks on chip
technology considering on chip communication
architectures for dynamic configurations
CERP-IoT – Cluster of European Research Projects on the Internet of Things
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