Targets

The future potential for IoT is enormous. A large number of innovative services and applications are enabled by the interconnection of billions of devices; however, the potential can only be realized if the cost for deploying various solutions is low enough and if various devices are interoperable with each other.

Targets

An interoperable mass deployment of devices or connected things requires extensive use of open, standardized interfaces, protocols and APIs. Moreover, sufficient support needs to be provided for service and application developers and providers in the form of infrastructure, tools, and guidelines.

Near-term commercialization of IoT technology is expected to happen in specific domain areas, such as medical ICT and various monitoring tasks, as well as in the interoperability enablers such as gateway and bridge solutions. A key challenge for the breakthrough of IoT is, therefore, to facilitate generic solutions that can be used across verticals, i.e. as far as possible avoid industry specific technologies – and at the same time consider the specific requirements that exist in different industry use cases.

Members of the IoT program have defined the following breakthrough targets:

Establishment of a competitive IoT ecosystem
New revenue models for participating companies in the emerging IoT market
Local ecosystem formed for proof of concept, initial market, and critical mass for international business
Solutions for establishing and sustaining global IoT ecosystems
Generic horizontal solutions that can be used across verticals
Creation of IoT business enablers
IoT product concepts and prototypes and test them in real-life environments
Supply critical components for IoT proliferation (such as gateway/border router to connect IoT with Internet)
Improving Finland’s global IoT visibility
Demonstrate Finnish cutting-edge IoT technology in pilots and prototypes.
Impact recognition of Finnish research partners as top-level institutions in IoT domain, high-impact publications.
Impacting IoT technology evolution and standardization
Significantly influence IoT standards at IETF, 3GPP, IEEE, W3C, and other relevant forums
IoT pilot implementations (prototypes, showcases, testbeds etc.)

Contact Persons

Core group:

Focus Area Director (FAD):
Wilhelm Rauss, Development Director
wilhelm.rauss(at)ericsson.com
Ericsson Research and Development

Academic Coordinator (AC):
Sasu Tarkoma, Prof. Ph.D.
starkoma(at)cc.helsinki.fi
Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki

Pauli Kuosmanen, CTO
pauli.kuosmanen(at)tivit.fi
Tieto- ja viestintäteollisuuden tutkimus TIVIT Oy

About TIVIT

TIVIT gathers the various projects and plans from these spheres into wider research programmes, raises the bar and level of expectations of innovation, gives rise to new study in the least-researched areas and then obtains additional funding from private and public donors in order to still further enhance the quality and success of each and every project.