Use case introduction. This use case will address large-scale application of Unified Communication Services using HTML5 based Web Browsers on Embedded Systems. HTML5 offers new capabilities to create web pages, especially in terms of dynamic elements. WebRTC is set of technologies that are being standardized by the IET, W3C and 3GPP. WebRTC allows the possibility to have multimedia sessions (audio, video, chat, etc) from any browser and device with no need to install or update anything, so this technology is called to be the next big thing in unified communications during the next years. WebRTC defines an API in the browser so that it can be used as a real-time multimedia terminal (audio, video, file transfer, screen sharing, etc.). Websocket new transport protocol, defined by HTML5, is a perfect complement to WebRTC technology as it allows to easily exchange signalling information between the browser and the server. WebRTC technology was initially designed having browser-to-browser real-time communication in mind, but it allows to be used in conjunction with different kinds of servers to provide additional and interesting services such as videoconferencing and connection to PSTN. The independence from the platform or the type of device, together with the fact that there is no need to install or update anything, is going to make easier the adoption by end users. This represents a big opportunity for telecoms and enterprises to offer or expose new services. The main goal of this use case is to implement HTML5 and WebRTC in small embedded systems. As these services are available in any device with a browser with WebRTC support, different options are available to evaluate results of EMC2. Devices like Raspberry Pi, Firefox OS smartphones, devices based on Intel smart devices for WebRTC, HDMI dongles, Chromecast are some examples of embedded devices ready to work with WebRTC. Attending to the motivation on the use case and taking into account the possibility to evaluate the results and indicators we have chosen a device of the family of Android TVs that have a reduced size, runs an Android OS with browsers with WebRTC support and have the possibility to add multimedia peripherals (camera and microphone). The application will be a peer-to-peer videoconferencing solution between two devices that can help to evaluate the quality of experience (and multi-core processing performance). In addition, a method to exchange data via datachannels will be available, as a tool to promote this sol...
Use case introduction. This use case targets to demonstrate that the developments conducted within the WPs of this project with respect to open deterministic networks have been taken to the next level in cross domain industrial applications. The aim is to showcase the potential of open deterministic networking by connecting a variety of local embedded systems to other embedded systems. While the IoT today is characterized and dominated by uncritical (i.e. non-safety related) applications that follow best-effort communication scheme, the increasing integration of also safety-critical domains such as transportation or (industrial) automation is the today a megatrend. Hard real-time networking and control are traditionally fields in which safety, security and guaranteed operation are key requirements. Such systems have typically remained closed or semi-open to the wider Internet network. The real-time IoT is the trend that will drive the application of IoT connectivity to hard real-time systems. For example: Wind turbines that are precisely controlled in hard real-time over the same infrastructure as data is being transmitted and analysed remotely, autonomous cars that are controlled in-vehicle but can also interact with their physical environment, and robots that are able to safely move around factory floors and work together with the human workforce. Last but not least, the real-time IoT as envisioned in this demonstrator is an enabling technology for future System-of-systems (SoS), where distributed components or systems will be connected and integrated towards larger systems only when adequate networking infrastructure becomes available that is in particular suited for mixed-criticality integration,.
Use case introduction. The Smart Grid combines electricity and IT infrastructure to integrate and inter-connect all users (producers, operators, marketers, consumers etc) in order to continue to efficiently balance demand and supply over an increasingly complex network.
Use case introduction. This use case addresses large-scale application of Unified Communication Services using HTML5 based Web Browsers on Embedded Systems. A device of the family of Android TVs was selected to act as one of the web points with the possibility to add multimedia peripherals like camera and microphone. The application is a peer-to-peer videoconferencing solution between two devices which has been explained in “D11.3 Detailed design and first prototype”.
Use case introduction. The use-case demonstrates a novel approach for monitoring people on airports and measuring passenger data by interconnecting cameras, servers and clients. The person tracking application, which creates metadata by extracting semantic information from image data and the additional middleware, both being developed in WP12, are used to implement the demonstrator’s passenger monitoring. Cameras (servers) and clients are specifically connected via Ethernet to stream video and TTEthernet for exchanging generated metadata. TTEthernet is based on a deterministic communication architecture which is standard for hard real-time systems for example in aircrafts and vehicles. The specific system behaviour enables two applications:
1. Cameras (servers) and clients are specifically connected via TTEthernet for ensuring that the transmission of metadata (e.g. alerts) does not fail even during a network congestion (Figure 4). Such latency is a serious problem when seeing camera networks as part of future cyber-physical airport systems, for example the rapidly emerging demand of measuring passenger waiting times in real-time at security gates for automated proactive intervention into the gate process.
Use case introduction. The Autonomic home networking use case aims to deal with numerous multi – criticality issues in an autonomic smart – building environment, through the design and development of a de- centralized system consisting of autonomic distributed decision making units, which can be connected to and control multiple building devices. The decisions of these units may lead to a set of “solutions” si S={s1, s2, … , sN} where each si corresponds to a different combination of the home‘s devices operations. The envisioned system will be able to manage multiple data flows of information and requirements, with different weights of importance, and come up with the best solution of this solution set. The main requirements of the system may be categorized as follows: (i) Building’s total energy consumption minimization, (ii) Services’ delivery delay minimization and (iii) Users’ satisfaction level. The planned demonstrator / prototype, described in detail in the next section, will be based on an autonomous smart building system. Data will be gathered from a set of sensors embedded inside the house, regarding both the environment and the state of the user. The data will be available through a registry unit, and will be accessed in a service – based basis. Each time the system is triggered by a service, data will be analyzed in a distributed manner, and the system will decide upon how devices in the house should operate in order to meet the user’s needs, meaning that the system will choose from one of the N possible solutions.
