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SUNRISE Experimenting with the Internet of Underwater Things How to leverage European and US infrastructures for smarter monitoring and control of seas and oceans

Chiara Petrioli FP7 SUNRISE Project Coordinator GENI-FIRE workshop Leuven, Monday Oct 14 2013

SUNRISE & SUNRISE partners

Six partners, four EU countries: URM, CMRE, NXS, EVO, UT, UPOR A partner from Turkey: SUA An international partner (U.S.A.): UB

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SUNRISE (Sensing, monitoring and actuating the UNderwater world through a federated Research InfraStructure Extending the Future Internet) is a three year FP7 FIRE IP project started in September 2013.

SUNRISE Motivations •  The future of mankind is dependent on careful monitoring, control and

exploitation of the marine environments. o  Oceans and lakes cover 71% of the earth surface; o  40% of the global population living within 100 kilometres of the coast; o  Marine environments support the life of nearly half of all species on earth; o  Help sustain life by providing 20% of the animal proteins and 5% percent of the total

proteins in the human diet o  Are or are becoming a critical frontier of exploration for transport, oxygen and food

production, hydrocarbon exploitation, aquaculture, biofuel production, mineral exploitation, climate and global water circulation;

o  Cumulatively, the services provided by the oceans, such as the provision of food, oxygen, water and climate regulation, have been valued at over US$21 trillion, while maritime transport support 90% of global trade volume.

o  In the EU, the economic activities that depend on the sea represent 5.4 million jobs and a gross added value of around €500 billion per year, with an expected increase of 20% by 2020.

SUNRISE Motivations •  The combination of an underwater Internet of Things (IoT), through

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) integrated with underwater robotics technologies, novel underwater communication technologies and paradigms, and the integration of the resulting underwater IoT system into the Future Internet (FI), can provide the missing effective, pervasive means to sense, monitor and control ocean processes to sustainably manage our planet resources.

•  Developing underwater technologies and monitoring & control systems requires to leverage current technical, experimentation and (lack of) standardization barriers: o  Challenging environment in which to operate

ü  High pressures; ü  Complex installation of infrastructures; ü  Challenging and highly varying communication environment;

o  Expensive technologies, testing facilities, testing equipment o  Need to experiment on a variety of testing scenarios (lakes, oceans,

Mediterranean, Black sea, heterogenous shallow water environment,…) o  Need to make devices and technologies interoperable and more performing

SUNRISE Testbeds

SUNRISE Testbeds

Shared, easy to use, experimental facilities representing a diversity of relevant underwater domains and applications, thus eliminating the current barriers (in terms of high cost infrastructures and long training) that prevent access to the underwater market segment and the underwater research field today.

SUNRISE Approach…

•  Enhanced flexibility: o  Novel paradigm of SoftWare (SW) Defined

Open Architecture Modem (SDOAM) and

SW Defined Communication Stack (SDCS).

o  Novel business model: manufacturers

would be able to increase revenue through

licensing compiled modules for modems,

transitioning from earning through the

production of hardware to licensing

software

o  Standardization of underwater

communication and of the architecture for

seamless integration of heterogeneous

sensors, commm technologies, assets Interoperability Standardization path

•  Definition of standard software interfaces utility modules and libraries

•  Coexistence and interoperability of open blocks and proprietary blocks

…SUNRISE Approach SUNRISE TOOL CHAIN Tool chain decreasing the time from ideas generation to prototyping to at seas testing/evaluation of the proposed solutions.

o  Accurate system level simulation/emulation; o  Accurate, simple, channel models, enabling flexible and adaptive communication protocol stacks +

Channel recording and replaying; o  Automatic code selection and test-bed configuration/reconfiguration; o  Testbed management; o  Tools for data analysis and presentation.

SUNRISE GATE Interface to different experimental infrastructures, external monitoring systems for added value applications and services development

ü  Seamless integrating of heterogeneous flows of information available in different remote systems and over the Internet

ü  Model driven data processing and decision support

ü  Presentation through customized GUI

US-EC collaborations within SUNRISE

•  SUNY Buffalo (Tommaso Melodia’s group) involved in the project;

•  On going collaboration between SUNRISE partners and several US institutions:

ONR, MBARI, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, MIT, Northeastern University,

University of Central Florida, Sandia National Labs.

•  Letters of endorsement requested to project coordinator by several US institutions

submitting NSF/ONR grants and asking to access/use SUNRISE infrastructure (3

grants in a few months).

•  Expression of interest to perform joint experiments by UCLA and University of

Connecticut

•  Allocated budget for GENI-FIRE collaboration.

Approach to ease federation of new testbeds and joint experiments – answer 1

Open architecture Open source tool chain Based on well known and consolidated SUNSET Framework & LOON Experience à Fast support of new assets, sensors, features

Approach to ease federation of new testbeds and joint experiments – answer 2

Integration of data coming from different testbeds, and use of heterogenous testbeds based on FIRE tools and solutions à reuse of developed modules à compliant with FED4FIRE guidelines

Rationale •  The Internet is built on standards

•  Underwater, there are currently ZERO digital

communications standards

•  Failure to standardise => costly disaster o  Imperial/Metric (mars probe)

o  Railways; Left & Right- hand drive; TV; cellphone

•  Effective standards can arise in three ways: o  Top-down legislative/commercial push

o  Bottom-up consumer pull

o  Synergised consensus from manufacturer->user

Answer 3: Standardization

SUNRISE potential for standardisation •  SUNRISE is ideally-placed to develop & promote standards

o  Chosen pathway is by consensus building as a hub and as a catalyst

o  Role of CMRE whose not-for-profit mission is to create value for NATO

countries (28), also promoting standardization

o  Researchers, Engineers, Manufacturers and Users all networked

o  Standards chosen intelligently on the basis of evidence & experience => success

o  Members of SUNRISE are among the promoters of the few standardization

initiatives in the field

•  SUNRISE will: •  Extend collaborative network & support base through open calls •  Provide protocol candidates & performance testing experience •  Provide networked testing facilities for validation

=> Substantial boost to UW standardisation efforts

Questions

•  Prof. Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome La Sapienza o  FP7 SUNRISE project coordinator

o  Director, SENSES lab (Sensor Networks and Embedded Systems

Laboratory, www.senseslab.di.uniroma1.it)

o  E-mail: petrioliATdi.uniroma1.it

•  SUNRISE site (available in a couple of weeks): www.fp7-sunrise.eu

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