1.
Smart Gateways, Blockchain and the Internet of Things
Charalampos Doukas
CREATE-NET, Trento, IT
@buildingiot

2.
What IoT Looks like

3.
What IoT Looks like

4.
Issues?
UsersUsers

5.
Issues?
UsersUsers
Data Ownership ??
‘The currency of the
Internet of Things is
data’

6.
What is a Smart Gateway?
Control DevicesControl Devices
Store & Manage DataStore & Manage Data
Create & Run AppsCreate & Run Apps
Export & Share DataExport & Share Data
64 bit ARM Cortex Processor 1.2GHz
1GB RAM
HDMI
40 GPIO
10/100 Ethernet
WiFi & BLE

7.
Where can I use a Smart Gateway?
Source: iotonlinestore.com

8.
Blokchains? What about them?
• ”A block chain or blockchain is a
permissionless distributed database based on
the bitcoin protocol that maintains a
continuously growing list of data records
hardened against tampering and revision,
even by its operators”
Source: Wikipedia

9.
Blokchains? What about them?

10.
Blockhain + Smart Gateways + IoT
Smart GatewaySmart Gateway
Track
history
Resource
Management Independent
transactions
Data
transaction
history

11.
Blockhain + Smart Gateways + IoT
IBM, Device Democracy whitepaper

12.
A smart, Open Source IoT Gateway

13.
ModularityModularity
ExtensibilityExtensibility
Device & Data
Management
Device & Data
Management
IoT Apps
Ecosystem
IoT Apps
Ecosystem
Workflow
recommendation
Workflow
recommendation
Community Engagement &
Exploitation
Graphical App
Development
Graphical App
Development
Diverse Pilots
Privacy - Data
Provenance
Privacy - Data
Provenance
External Clouds
AGILE Testbed

14.
AGILE Consortium – 17 Partners

15.
AGILE ECOSYSTEM
DEVELOPERS/
MAKERS
INDUSTRY
M2M/IOT
INDUSTRY
M2M/IOT
STARTUP/ENTRE
PRENEURS
STARTUP/ENTRE
PRENEURS
END USERSEND USERS
Early Community
involvement, Eclipse
project proposal,
IoT apps ecosystem,
Maker’s Gateway
version
Early Community
involvement, Eclipse
project proposal,
IoT apps ecosystem,
Maker’s Gateway
version
Open calls for Startups +
SMEs for use cases & user
adoption,
Promotion to Accelerator
programs
Open calls for Startups +
SMEs for use cases & user
adoption,
Promotion to Accelerator
programs
Self-tracking Pilot, Crowdfunding
campaign
IoT Testbed,
IoT apps ecosystem,
3rd
party apps (open calls)
Self-tracking Pilot, Crowdfunding
campaign
IoT Testbed,
IoT apps ecosystem,
3rd
party apps (open calls)
Industrial GW -
Air Monitoring Pilot,
Smart Retail Pilot
GW on a UAV – Open
space monitoring
Industrial GW -
Air Monitoring Pilot,
Smart Retail Pilot
GW on a UAV – Open
space monitoring
BioAssist
Canonical Ubuntu

16.
Funding opportunities
Great ideas!
Up to 50k € each
16 startups/SMEs
Equity free

17.
Get in touch
http://www.agile-project-iot.eu
cdoukas@create-net.org