1. IoT,
from a geek buzzword to
a multi billion business economy
ir. Carmelo Zaccone
Expert within
the Legal & Technology Watch working group

2. Agence Wallonne
des Télécommunications
The AWT is a public body of the Walloon Region
(Belgium).
It has the overall responsibility for the
development of ICT, through 3 main missions:
1. technology watch,
2. consultancy,
3. promotion.
www.awt.be is the ICT platform of Wallonia.

3. The ICT platform of Wallonia
ICT observatory in Wallonia
Companies & citizens. Specific
sectors (education, ICT sector,
health, municipalities, …).
Partnerships with other
European regions.
Professional forums
#mforum / #ipforum.
E-commerce & ICT advanced
uses by companies. Web.
Education/e-learning.
Digiwal (ICT event).
Strong and officials partnerships
with all ICT players in Wallonia.
TIC & TWIST Clusters, Charte eTIC, CETIC,
CoWallonia, #pme20, #rentic, #mforum,
#ipforum … and private companies (FeWeb,
Agoria, etc.) + SPW.
Online database of the ICT sector
and players.
ICT companies. E-commerce sites. Public
Digital Spaces. Coworking centers &
Smarwork centers. ICT schools.
Municipalities … and more.
ICT watch (technologies, laws, business
opportunities, ...) and content provider.
AWT plays the role “ICT one stop shopping”
for Wallonia (Europe’s Digital Agenda, ...) .
Open data and consultancy for public
services and government in Wallonia.
Organization and “activation” of the data
managed by the AWT and others public
bodies.
awt.be

4. •Since IT exist, engineers wanted to control equipments
–mechanical industry was pioneer
–industrial machine locally computer operated
•When networking appears, hypes started with
–remote monitoring
–remote control
•Mobile data (gprs aka 2g) introduced new businesses
–Machine 2 Machine
–Wireless Sensor Networks
Origin in the industrial technology

5. Consumerization of industrial technology
• Early 2K,
• dot [com], internet startup & geek dreams
• first smart fridge from LG
• unsuccessful product
• unnecessary product
• to expensive ($20.000)
• technologies
• RFID
• WiFi
• Mid 2K,
• idea of connecting home appliances to the Internet
• birth of first ever mass consumer adopted smartphones
• smart home
Journey in the i-fridge history
http://fuckyeahinternetfridge.tumblr.com

6. •End 2K,
–gadget objects & the ‘connected’ buzz effect
•Nabaztag
–Sound, light, robotics
–WiFi connection
–Interactivity
–Information feeds (RSS, weather, exchange, email, + dev kits)
–New broad set of technologies to satisfies Geek’s appetite
Geek’s power to bring things alive

7. From a tech geek to a business man
• End 2K,
• massive tsunamy of connected devices
• key success factors are
• mass adoption – a market
• business model – a strategy
• money – a lever
• Not yet seduced VC / Business Angel?
crowdfunding & hightech buzz review
• get the market & ‘some’ money
• kickstarter
• indigogo

8. From geek’s backpack to your wife’s hands
• Nowadays
– Smart TV
– Smart Body Analyzer
– Connected Car
– Smart Watch
– Respiratory health
management
– Garden sprinkler
– Smart light bulb
– Washing machine
– Heather bulb
– Smart camera
– Clothes

9. Immensity of connected objects
• Today, in numerous application domains, devices can
be connected
• residential home automation
• wellfare/well-being business
• health/fitness domains
• the entertainment arena
• in vehicle infotainment
• daily life objects such as wearable computing

10. Immensity of data to process (in realtime)
• Huge challenge to be solved !
• Gamification
• Self Quantification
• Social networking
• Tons of various sensors
• New hype technologies to be involved !
• Big Data
• Semantic Web (data & metadata & interpretation)

11. From geek’s art to structured architecture
• technology evolution
– standardisation
organisation
IEEE, IETF,
GS1/EPCglobal,ITSA
– International
consortium
IoTC, Wearable Technologies,
GSMA Connected Car
• multi-level business
– wire(less) harvesting
bluethooth, zigbee, z-Wave,
EnOcean, WiFi, LiFi,
Rfid, Mifare
– embedded system
hardware platform
Arduino, Raspberry PI,
Open picus, Ninja Blocks
– infrastructure & data
protocol
6LowPAN, REST,
EAN ONS, Fibaro

12. • SmartThings
• Open Remote
• App.net
• Sen.se
• Xively (former Pachube)
• Paraimpu
• Everythng
Some software platforms/frameworks
Automotive industry
• Ford Sync/Applink
• BMW ConnectedDrive
• Renaud R-Link
• Audi Connect
• Toyota Entune
• GSMA MirrorLink

13. • Enterprise, startups
– Skylane open.yoursen.se
– Vision Smart pic2shop
– Arguslabs Jini
– TagTagCity
– Carambla
– Getyoo
– Vigo Robotics
– Enerban
– Selinko
– Nomics
– HMI Products
– Uniwan
Belgium is active in the field
• Industry clusters
• Infopole Smarthome
• Infopole Connected
Objects.
• Research centers
• CETIC
• Multitel
• IBBT

14. Multi billion business economy
By 2020, analysts predict that the planet will count
50 billions device connected to the Internet.
will reduce the border between the real world and the virtual digital one

15. Lets continue the discussion
Carmelo Zaccone
cz@awt.be
@carmelo
linkedin.com/in/zaccone
+32 475 586.782
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