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Thematic Research Day - March 2016
“Generating value from IoT environments” (workstream 2) - Findings
• Delivering activities more efficiently (emptying bins, watering crops, milking
cows, manufacturing products)
• Consuming fewer resources (power, light, water, effort, raw material)
• New business models:
From asset ownership to service rental (e.g. Rolls Royce engine rental)
Crowd-sourced ownership models (Zipcar)
Service improvements funded by advertising (Nottingham bin project)
Service innovation funded by data-trading (Google/Facebook model)
• Greater demand for data security, brokerage and standards: HyperCAT
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City-Verve
• Major-scale IoT technology smart-city deployment
• Use-cases in health and social care; energy and environment; transport and
culture, public realm and community
• Harnessing the collaborative power of the devolved Greater Manchester
Combined Authority, global corporates Cisco and BT, world class
universities and UK SMEs
• Testing multiple IoT platforms and data hubs
• A real-world proving ground for HyperCat
• Producing a scaleable set of business models for global adoption
• Powering the acceleration of UK IoT capabilities