2016 IEEE Winter Academy on Internet of Things

Five Years of Research and Innovation Experience in IoT: Lessons Learnt DOs and DON'Ts

Raffaele Giaffreda, Chief IoT Scientist, CREATE-NET, Italy

This tutorial will present lessons learnt in the past 5 years of R&D in the domain of Internet of Things and it will be structured in three main parts (research, development and business) reflecting and sharing the personal journey of the presenter in this exciting field. More in detail, the first part will consist on current research challenges for integrating the powerful monitoring capabilities of IoT with cognitive systems that can transform such data into knowledge using machine learning. The second part will illustrate what it takes to transform research ideas and demo prototypes into viable solutions that address real market needs, focusing on the creation of an IoT based eHealth platform for the remote monitoring of elderly and cognitively impaired people. The third part will focus on the business part of IoT. It will share the experience gathered from initiating technology transfer activities targeted at creating a viable go-to-market strategy for a particular asset that, within the scenes set by the previous two tutorial parts, aims at addressing various IoT problems such as interoperability, scalability and privacy within a viable business context.