Internet of Things Workshop
An early reality of the Future Internet

Time & Venue

10 May 2009, 15:00–18:00

Room STELLA
Clarion Congress Hotel

European Internet scientific and economic actors, researchers, industrialists, SMEs, users, service and content providers are determined to redesign the Internet, taking a broad multidisciplinary approach and thus shaping the Future Internet. The European Commission has launched a wide ranging consultation of all Internet of Things stakeholders and is currently preparing a Communication that will give rise to a set of actions, initiatives and policy debates. This workshop which is placed in this context will provide an opportunity to further debate the likely evolution of the Internet of Things.

By seamlessly integrating physical and virtual objects in an Internet of Things, new opportunities for innovative applications and new business models will emerge. The underlying architecture for transmission and storage, as well as the search for particular events and products (including their tracking) and the discovery of services will be issues of prime relevance in this context.

Equally a number of technical and policy challenges like security, privacy and data protection, control of critical global resources and identity management, naming and interoperability will be at the heart of a sustainable Internet of Things approach.

This special workshop is organised within the overall context of the High Level Future Internet Conference 11th May 2009 in Prague, with a view to addressing the Internet of Things as a major likely scenario of the Future Internet.

Programme

15:00

Opening
Joao DA SILVA, Director (European Commission, DG INFSO, Directorate Converged Networks and Services, Brussels)

15:10

Major aspects of the Internet of Things
(15 min. each presenter)

  1. What should be the EU strategy towards the Internet of Things?
    Bernard BENHAMOU, Delegate for Internet Usage
    (Ministry for Research and Higher Education, FR)

  2. Trends and Promises in IoT (current developments and possible scenarios)
    Mirko PRESSER, R&D Project Technical Manager
    (CCSR Wireless Sensor Network Research Lab, Univ. of Surrey, UK)

  3. Japan's UID strategy and international cooperation possibilities
    Ken SAKAMURA, Professor and Director
    (YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory and University of Tokyo, JP)

  4. Key technological and governance challenges (identities, namespaces, spectrum, security etc.)
    Anthony FURNESS, Technical Director
    (AIDC European Centre of Excellence, Halifax, UK)

  5. Potential applications in the enterprise world
    Wolfgang WAHLSTER, Professor and Director
    (Computer Science Department, University of Saarbruecken, DE)

  6. Potential applications for society (public transport, energy, climate change, health, and their potential evolution towards IoT)
    Kimmo AHOLA, Chief Technology Adviser
    (Tekes, Finish Innovation Agency, FI)

  7. Gaining Visibility: Towards the Internet of Things
    Gay WHITNEY, Standards Director GS1 EPCglobal
    (EPCglobal/GS1, US/EU)

17:00

Panel discussion: Lessons learned and next steps for knowledge sharing and collaboration

Discussion on common perspectives and future activities towards an Internet of Things.

Moderator: Gérald SANTUCCI, Head of Unit
(European Commission, DG INFSO, Unit Networked Enterprise & Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Brussels)

Participants: presenters

18:00

End

Workshop partner

[GS1]

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