Developing a City Region IoT platform to enable Research, Experimentation and Innovation

iot.ed.ac.ukEwan Klein Simon Chapple

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Infrastructure

Testbed Use Cases

Services

Why Edinburgh?

• Capital city, UNESCO World Heritage

• Year-round Festivals: 3,000+ events, 4.2 million attendances

• Most greenspace of any large UK city

• University city

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Challenges: Sustainable Growth• Resilience to climate change, flooding• Halting loss of biodiversity and threats to

ecosystem services• Knowledge-based economy at regional scale• Socially inclusive growth, promoting data

literacy• Protecting right to privacy

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IoT Service Infrastructure

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IoT Data Path

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LoRaWANServer

- Edge device access control- Data transmission over IP- Message de-duplica!ng- Data forward

Data Analysisand Visualisa!onServer

- Data colla!on- Data storage- Data analysis- Data visualisa!on

IoT Service Users

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Trust

Security

Audit Pen Testing

Governance

Ethics Code Transparency

Communication

Engagement Co-Design

A Data Value Constellation

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Audio Data

Assets

Park Managers

Biodiversity•Scientists•Professionals

Community Groups

CRD LeadersData Scientists

Sound Artists

General Public

Our IoT TestbedCurrent LoRaWAN gateway locations:1. Easter Bush (Roslin) [South]2. Argyle House (West Port) 3. New College (The Mound) 4. Library Annex (South Gyle) [West]5. Charterisland (Canongate) 6. Royal Observatory7. Western General Hospital [North]8. BioQuarter no.9 (Little France) [East]9. 50 George Square

Gateways are Kerlink V2 with high resolution clocks for geolocation with LoRa (no GPS reqd.)

Range up to 20km Blue isochrones show 5km range

City Region Deal Aspiration• 10,000+ multi-sensor devices (circa 100,000

sensors) to capture a broad range of environmental data at scale

• Create unique region-wide datasets that can be used to spawn new analytics-based research, build practical applications and develop new IoT learning, including:– machine learning applied to diverse data for

embedded intelligence, successful operation of IoT at large scale, fine resolution weather prediction, biodiversity monitoring and pollution assessment for the region;

– supporting secondary school education through enhancing STEM and providing an early introduction to data science.

Argyle House Office Environment andMeeting Room Occupancy Monitoring

• Estimote beacons (Bluetooth)• Smart cushion with Force Sensitive

Resistor• presence, movement, temperature, light

level sensors deployed to desk pods• Pycom LoPys = Local Sensor Hubs

• collect data from beacons• transfer to backend server over LoRaWAN

• Currently deployed:• E4 meeting room • K-East & K-West • F-East & F-West • 9 Sensor Hubs, 58 beacons

• 114 recorded sensor readings every 2 minutes

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LoPy

SmartCushion

Office Temperature Profiles

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Example Heat Map at Argyle House

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13 temp/lightsensors deployedacross desk pods

HotSpot

• Identifying unusual extremes of temperature at micro-locations

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Main Library Occupancy Monitoring

Main Library Occupancy +WiFi

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Graph is per quarter from 00:00 to 23:00 hrs.Bars show occupancy per floor per WiFi session.Lines show overall occupancy by access card.

KashCups

CitySounds.euMeadows Audio Capture Device Deployment

An external WiFi APhas been installedon the SW corner

of the Main Library

A sample of CitySounds in the Meadows

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Ambulance siren

Bird’s tweeting

Bird’s tweeting

Stone mason striking repeatedly

Ambulance siren

Stone mason harmonics

Bat echolocation hunting insects

Bat social calls

Birds evening song

Bat presence indicates healthy biodiversity

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RegionalCity DealData Driven Innovation

The CitySounds project is an exemplar of this model

IoT:WCDIDeveloping Embedded Intelligence

Bonseyes

Call to ActionCOME AND TALK TO US

http://iot.ed.ac.uk/contact/• Establish regional, national and global IoT footprint• Engage in collaboration and partnering • Foster high impact start-ups and business model

innovation• Deliver new forms of value through IoT

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