The SmartSantander testbed is located in Santander, a seaside town settled in the north of Spain. With a population of nearly 200,000 inhabitants, this city was chosen to deploy an experimental test facility (i.e. open laboratory) for the research and experimentation of big-scale architectures, in the context of a Smart City environment. Amongst its assets, the platform spans a number of domains that will be made available for the experimenters under the scope of the FIESTA-IoT’s Experiment as a Service (EaaS) interface. Numerically speaking, the SmartSantander testbed manages around 3,000 IoT devices (which communicate through IEEE 802.15.4 interfaces), another 200 devices that play the role of gateways (with cellular communication capabilities) that establish a link between the abovementioned devices and the core of the platform, 2,000+ joint Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags/Quick Response (QR) code labels and more than 2,000 points of interest pertaining to a wide range of events (e.g. shopping, restaurants, cultural events, etc.). Table below summarizes the principal domains supported by the SmartSantander platform that will be available in the scope of the FIESTA-IoT federation. Besides, the table also describes the main assets associated to each of these domains, as well as the number of resources available in each of the cases.

The SmartICS testbed is located in the Institute of Communication Systems (ICS) at the University of Surrey. The University is located about 40 kilometers south of London in the town of Guildford. The SmartICS testbed provides a smart environment, based on an indoor sensor nodes deployment located in the on all floors of the building. It serves as initial core and experimental micro-cosmos for the envisioned Smart Campus facility.

The IoT node tier consists of up to 200 sensor nodes deployed across all offices and desks in ICS with various sensing modalities, which include temperature, light, noise, motion, and electricity consumption of attached devices. The availability of these sensing modalities may vary across some of the nodes. The IoT nodes consist of 200 TelosB based platforms. Other sensor node platforms are planned to be deployed soon in order to achieve additional hardware heterogeneity in the testbed. The nodes’ deployment currently stretches over three floors of the building.

The Soundcity testbed is a large-scale crowdsensing testbed developed by Inria-Paris in collaboration with an SME Ambiciti. The testbed comprises of data coming from so called Ambiciti application that is installed on user's mobile phone. The Ambiciti application uses in-built sensors on mobile phones to sense various phenomena such as noise, motion and proximity. Due to privacy reasons, users have to explicitly confirm about their data to be shared to FIESTA-IoT platform, thus the number of Soundcity devices attached to FIESTA-IoT platform varies from time to time. The Soundcity testbed is not bound to any specific location due to the fact that users of Ambiciti application can be anywhere in the world.

The KETI testbed (originally installed for monitoring building energy consumption) has been implemented on the 5th floor of a Korea Electronic Technology Institute (KETI)’s building in Seoul, Korea. It aims to collect sensing data from a set of areas of offices (e.g., meeting area, relaxing area, and work area) and the parking lot. The deployed sensors (for measuring indoor climate, energy consumption of office utilities, people’s presence in offices, and parking lot status) collect information about the physical status of indoor and outdoor building environment, and transfer it to the IoT server platform, Mobius, an oneM2M standard-compatible server platform, which allows further processing and analysis.

The testbed is composed of 40 compound sensors, each of them having 4 kind of raw sensors (temperature, humidity, illumination and presence sensor), 10 CO2 (Carbon dioxide) concentration detection sensors, 10 smart sockets for measuring the electrical power consumption, and 20 parking lot sensors, with total of 200 sensors (i.e., 160 raw sensors + 10 CO2 + 10 sockets + 20 parking sensors). Table x summarizes IoT devices supported by the KETI’s testbed that will be available in the scope of the FIESTA-IoT federation.

Call 1 Testbeds

LAAS-CNRS has built a smart building called ADREAM (https://www.laas.fr/public/en/adream). This building already hasve more than 6500 sensors that collect 500. 000 measures per day (solar panel activity, energy consumption, HVAC, lighting, weather). This is completed by a reproduction of a flat where researchers can deploy extra sensors and actuators.

NITOS will bring to FIESTA-IoT a set of heterogeneous resources including nodes equipped with Wi-Fi, WiMAX, LTE and Bluetooth, 4G/5G terminals, software defined radios, SDN resources, cloud infrastructure and two wireless sensor networks comprised by commercial and custom made sensor platforms. On top of these diverse and heterogeneous resources, NITOS brings a vast number of experimental datasets generated through the various experiments conducted all these years that NITOS has been operating.

The wireless sensor network consists of a controllable deployment in an indoor environment (Figure 1), as well as an office/building deployment. Most of the sensor platforms are custom-made, developed by UTH, and some others commercial, all supporting open-source and easy to use firmware and exploit several wireless technologies for communication (ZigBee, Wi-Fi, BLE and LoRa). The office/building setup provides metrics related to the environment conditions and composes an integrated application of WSN in real-life scenarios. On the other hand, the WSN which is deployed in an indoor testbed environment is targeted to provide the necessary experimentation capabilities with a plethora of IoT communication interfaces.

The facility is located in a bathing and recreation coastal area, offering support for new IoT experimentation scenarios in the unique sea and underwater environment. Moreover, a wide range of communication interfaces (ZigBee, Wi-Fi, LoRa, LTE, Iridium) and types of measurements (sea water and air quality parameters) are supported on all testbed nodes.

Testbed nodes exploit heterogeneous communication technologies to connect with the shoreside network. Moreover, they act as independent sensing units, featuring a vast variety of bathing water and air quality monitoring sensors. They are built on the BeagleBone Black Rev. C board [7], which is characterized by sufficient processing power capabilities (1GHz with 512MB RAM), low power consumption and several communication ports (USB, UARTs, SPI, I2C, etc.) for interconnecting external hardware. Sea nodes feature several types of water quality sensors, such as Ammonium (NH4+), Nitrine (NO2-), Nitrate (NO2-), Temperature, Conductivity (Salinity), pH and Dissolved Oxygen (DO) as well as air quality sensors like air temperature & humidity, Nitric Dioxide (NO2), Sulfur Dioxide (SO2), Dust Sensor, Carbon Monoxide (CO), Ozone (O3) and Ammonia (NH3). The develop buoys feature several communication interfaces, consisting the overall testbed a versatile experimental platform.

Call 2 Testbeds

FINE aims to design and develop a FIESTA-enabled heterogeneous testbed, significantly contributing to FIESTA-IoT vision. FINE will re-use the architecture, software and hardware components of RERUM, a successful IoT platform. The functional architecture of RERUM is based on the architectural reference model of IoT-A; however, it follows not only a service-oriented approach like IoT-A and most IERC projects, but also assumes that the devices have an important role into ensuring the security and privacy of the architecture. Moreover, RERUM adopts the concept of virtualisation, abstracting the real world objects into virtual objects, for concealing their heterogeneity. All devices are virtualised, and all functionalities related to service management, device discovery, federation formulation, etc., are supported by the RERUM Middleware (RMW).

At the lower layer, RERUM provides a set of functionalities for device registration, data fetching, service activation and de-activation, mainly provided by the RERUM Gateway (RGW). RGW has a southbound interface that communicates directly with the IoT devices, and a northbound virtual interface that binds to the RMW, and provides functionalities like device registration, deregistration, re-registration, measurement provision, etc. The IoT devices, namely the RERUM devices (RDs), are heterogeneous in nature, as they contain both resource-constrained devices (miniature sensors) and non-constrained ones (smartphones). The RERUM Device Adaptor (RDA) is the software API implemented in the RDs that provides the necessary abstractions in order to enable them for reporting various types of measurements to the RGW. Such measurements include ambient light and temperature, noise, humidity, as well as power consumption measurements related to RD’s operation, and network statistics like the number of the corrupted UDP packets within a time period.

Data centres (DCs) are currently consuming an average of 2% of electricity produced (based on U.S. consumption alone). Efforts to improve the efficiency of these facilities has yielded impressive results in the last 5 years but authoritative sources assert that better data is needed to continue further. We believe that IoT in DCs provides the best solution to monitor and improve DC efficiencies. A critical mass of DCs publishing their usage data is required to correlate and develop best practice solutions for energy savings. Different types of data centres have varying power and water consumption profiles. The current best practice of using PUE (Power Usage Efficiency) doesn’t provide the full picture of DC performance.

In response to the above, the purpose of this proposal is to integrate a live Data Centre into the FIESTA-IoT ecosystem. This integration comes in the form of sensor data on power, cooling and ambient weather, which will be made available to experimenters and other data centre owners as open linked data set through the FIESTA-IoT facilities. We will leverage the technology and ontology developed by the FIESTA-IoT consortium. Where additional software is required to integrate our sensors, testbed and historical observations, this will be made available as open source software. Through targeted workshops and online training, we intend to grow a community of data centre operators and experimenters in the Higher Educational Institute, Telecoms and Manufacturing sectors who can use the data and tools for experimentation and operational support. Our view is that removing barriers to access our data will be for the benefit all.

The basic idea of the Tera4Agri extension is to introduce in the FIESTA-IoT platform the new smart agriculture domain. The testbed is located in Minervino Murge (BT – Apulia Region - Italy) in the Tormaresca - “Bocca di Lupo” estate: a farm which covers an area of about 500 hectares of which 350 are planted with vines and 85 with olive trees. The extension will be compliant with the FIESTA-IoT semantic models and interfaces. The original GIoE solution in the testbed is the Tera project whose object is to enhance the energy efficiency with related reduction of energy bills and it will be customized and increased in this call with new sensors in the meantime product quality, minimizing the chemical treatments in the production chain. The testbed will collect data by sensors that TERA will install in the estate for smart agriculture domain and will give resources and observations for the FIESTA-IoT platform. Experimenters will be able to use and consume data and resource from Tera4Agri testbed.