Global Forum

VISION FOR THE DIGITAL FUTURE

Brussels, 7th of November 2011
Towards Intelligent Platforms
EU R&D& Innovation perspective
Luis Rodrguez-Rosell
Head of Unit
Future Networks
DG INFSO
European Commission
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Support to Infrastructures and Poles of Innovation
eInfrastructures, Cloud Computing, Virtual/regional Clusters (Labs, European
Institute for Innovation & Technologies);
Large Open Test-bed facilities needed
Involvement of Member States in large scale experiments
Development and testing of innovative and interoperable solutions in general interest
areas (smart cities, regions) and for grand societal challenges
Use R&D&I to support open standards and platforms
Linking standardisation to research and leveraging it as a tool for
innovation.
Remaining barriers for entrepreneurs to bring "ideas to market" must
be removed: smarter and more ambitious regulation and targets, faster
setting of interoperable standards.
Medium to long term balance, Pooling resources, Impact driven,
More systematic coupling R&D with Innovation
X-sector partnership
Novel Web services, new actors (games, social network, creative industries...)
Explotation of the Digital Single
Market for ICT innovation
Digital Agenda for Europe & Innovation Union
Some important issues for R&D&I on Networks at the
HORIZON 2020
Main trends affecting research
and innovation in the
communications networks area
Societal drivers:
Urbanisation
Smart cities
Mobility
Information availability
Social networks
Privacy
Security
Energy efficiency
Demographic trends
Healthcare
Education

Research & Technology drivers:

Capacity/Efficiency
Service/Content centricity
Virtualisation & Cloudification
Cognition
Context awareness
Manageability
Self-organisation
Self-optimisation
Cross-layer optimisation
Flexibility
Smart environments, Sensors M2M

TV
Access
Control
Parking
Control
CCTV
Monitoring
Facilities
Control
Power
Control
Light
Control
VoD
Video
Conferencing
KIOSK
Health
Care
Management
Control
Public
Safety
Education
Street Light Management
Fleet Management
Smart travel
Waste
Management
Smart
Grid
An Internet-enabled service economy
and creative society
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Broadband Subscribers (millions)
Mobile: red
Fixed: blue
Trend: Wireless Internet
1 Billion mobile BB subscribers end 2011
>3227 HSPA devices are launched from
214 suppliers
HSPA is deployed in 462 networks in 162
countries/ territories
136 HSPA+ networks launched in 69
countries
Exponential growth of apps
M2M to increase the trend
174 LTE network commitments in 64
countries
+ 163 pre-commitment trials
31 commercial LTE networks in 31
countries -> 80+ expected by end of 2012
Source: UMTS Forum
Mobile Internet inter-working today: mainly patches
Media Over The Top services (superposition of layers)
Mob volume 1/200 fixed
volume
Time needed to deploy 100 3G networks world-wide: 4 years
Time needed to deploy 100 HSPA enabled networks: 1 year
2 Million+ LTE subscribers: the fastest developing mobile
communication system ever!!
Mobile radically accelerate the pace of changes (Apps, Mash-ups,
Location Based Services, M2M)
Common sensor and
actuator information
infrastructure across
cities
provides secure and
reliable access to sensor
and actuator information
services for multiple
players, and so that
information can be
efficiently shared across
verticals, this provides
application enablement
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Sensor information enablement
aggregation and collection of data
directory services
data brokering and service composition
information federation
privacy and integrity protection
access policy enforcement
accounting and revenue,....
Image: SENSEI project, FP7 215923
Trend: Smart environments enabled
by networked sensors
Converged and Optical Networks
Cellular
and beyond
Ad-Hoc
Mesh
Relay
Broadcast
Application
Server
Operator A
Gateway
Operator B
Public Internet
Object and
Sensor
Networks
Optical Switching
Optical Transmission
Personal
Space
Application
Server
High Speed
Broadband
Access
The Network of the Future: Internet
architecture designed for broadband fixed and mobile access
Future Internet Technologies
Radio Access and Spectrum Use
The Commissions proposals for the 2014-2020
Multiannual Financial Framework
1.05% of EU GNI in commitments = 1025 billion
over 7 years (2011 prices)
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Connecting Europe Facility Digital
Infrastructures
focused public intervention to stimulate private investment where
the market case is weak, and
development of common architectures for digital services
support increasingly mobile citizens,
reduce transactions costs for enterprises, in particular SMEs in
search of growth opportunities beyond their home markets
enable the emergence of the digital single market,
stimulate growth of cross-border services:
Trans-European backbone connection for public administrations
Cross-border eGov services
Access to Public Sector Information and multilingual services
Safety and Security
- Intelligent energy networks and services
Horizon 2020 Objectives and
structure
Creating Industrial Leadership and
Competitive Frameworks
Leadership in enabling and industrial
technologies
ICT
Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. and
Processing
Biotechnology
Space
Access to risk finance
Innovation in SMEs
Excellence in the Science Base
Frontier research (ERC)
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Skills and career development (Marie Curie)
Research infrastructures
Shared objectives and principles
Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes
Europe 2020 priorities
European Research Area
Simplified access
I nternational cooperation
Dissemination & knowledge tranfer
Tackling Societal Challenges
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Food security and the bio-based economy
Secure, clean and efficient energy
Smart, green and integrated transport
Supply of raw materials
Resource efficiency and climate action
Inclusive, innovative and secure societies
Intelligent Platforms: the road to
smart innovation
i) Europe can build on its telecommunications and applications/services
strengths and take a leading role in ICT-enabled smart growth;
ii) Research with strong innovation orientation: need to address longer-term
and shorter term delivery of results;
iii) Interoperability/standards as important as ever;
iv) Need for critical mass; involvement of new players Convergence beyond ICT
boundaries;
v) User driven open innovation, large scale test-beds;
vi) Next year will be key to define with the stakeholders the new plans for
innovation and infrastructures to be carried out under H 2020 and The
Connecting Europe Facility
Thank you for your
attention
Luis Rodrguez-Rosell
Head of Unit
Future Networks
DG INFSO
European Commission