Coordination and Support Action within the "Information and Communication Technologies" (ICT) 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission

Partners :

UNIVERSITY OF SURREY, United Kingdom
TELEFONICA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA, Spain
ERICSSON D.O.O FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Serbia
NEC EUROPE LTD., United Kingdom
SAP AG, Germany
UNIVERSITAET ZU LUEBECK, Germany
COMMISSARIAT A L' ENERGIE ATOMIQUE, France
ALCATEL-LUCENT DEUTSCHLAND AG, Germany
VDI/VDE INNOVATION + TECHNIK GMBH, Germany
THALES RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (UK) LIMITED, United Kingdom
UNIVERSITAT ST GALLEN, Switzerland
ERICSSON AB, Sweden
ALEXANDRA INSTITUTTET, Denmark
UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH, Switzerland
TELENOR ASA, Norway
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, Australia
HITACHI EUROPE LIMITED, United Kingdom

September 2010 to September 2012

Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most important areas of a Future Internet with significant potential to positively impact European economy and society. The current IoT research community is however highly fragmented, featuring diverging approaches and technologies. This inevitably leads to a lack of coherency that hinders the realization of an interoperable IoT, preventing the IoT to achieve its full potential. The IoT Initiative (IoT-I) brings together key actors from all relevant but currently fragmented IoT communities in Europe to work jointly towards a common vision of the Internet of Things. It represents the first serious attempt in building a unified IoT community in Europe, going across boundaries of disparate technology sectors, in order to create a joint European strategic vision of the Internet of Things and aligning this vision with the current developments on the Future Internet.

The IoT-I pursues the achievement of the following strategic objectives:

• Creating a joint strategic and technical vision for the IoT in Europe that encompasses the currently fragmented sectors of the IoT domain holistically.
• Contribute to the creation of an economically sustainable and socially acceptable environment in Europe for IoT technologies and respective R&D activities.
• Creating an environment that favors international adoption of European IoT technology.

To achieve the objectives the project will utilize and implement a range of instruments.

Observation of worldwide activity in IoT and identification of strategically important missing research, Identification of important IoT related applications areas, global coordination of IoT research activities, e.g., through incubation of an international Forum and through coordination with research activities outside Europe, especially Japan.

Coming up soon.

Official IoT-I Web Site