Consortium description

The integration of the physical world, using WSANs, into the Future Internet on a global scale is a very ambitious
objective and its complexity spans a variety of technological and socio-economic problem domains:

Socio-Economic Requirements
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Information Services and Actuator Networks
and Communications

PnP Framework and Future Internet

The SENSEI consortium involves the required multi-disciplinary
expertise split among 19 partners from 12 European countries:
France, United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland,
Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Romania, Serbia and
UT
AMB
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Integrating the Physical with the Digital World
of the Network of the Future
Norway. The especially strong industrial commitment in the
project is expected to help produce real-world results and
facilitate the commercialisation of the project’s efforts.
UO
TNOR SEN

• Research centre NEC

SAP EAB
CEA-LETI, CFR

• Higher education
UniS, ETHZ, UPB, UO, UPMF, UT
UniS
• SME TRT
AMB, SEN ARUP

• Industrials, Operators CEA-LETI

and Industrial-Users UPMF
EAB, NEC, SAP, TID, TRT, EYU, ALMA
ARUP, TNOR

• Other ETHZ
ALMA

TID
CFR
EYU UPB

The consortium consists of 8 industrial partners; many of them are global leaders in their market area. They are complemented
by 2 rapidly-developing European SMEs, 2 research centres, 6 universities and 1 management company.

1. (Coordinator) Commissariat à l’énergie atomique - LETI 10. Ambient Systems B.V. (AMB) - NL
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(CEA-LETI) - FR 11. Sensinode (SEN) - FI
2. The University of Surrey (UNIS) - GB 12. Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche (CFR) - IT
3. ALMA Consulting Group (ALMA) - FR 13. Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ) - CH
4. Ove Arup and Partners International (ARUP) - GB 14. University Politehnica of Buchares (UPB) - RO
5. Ericsson AB (EAB) - SE 15. University of Oulu (UO) - FI
6. NEC Europe Ltd. (NEC) - GB 16. Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble II (UPMF) - FR
7. SAP AG (SAP) - DE 17. University of Twente (UT) - NL
8. Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (TID) - ES 18. Ericsson d.o.o. for Telecommunications LLC (EYU) - RS
9. Thales Research & Technology (UK) Limited (TRT) - GB 19. Telenor ASA (TNOR) - NO
Nokia and Ericsson Ireland were also part of the consortium during the first year of the project.

Project Coordinator: Technical Manager: Administrative Manager:

Laurent Herault, CEA-LETI Alexander Gluhak, UniS sensei-alma@myndsphere.com
laurent.herault@cea.fr a.gluhak@surrey.ac.uk

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www.sensei-project.eu
A European Integrated Project supported through the Seventh Framework Programme
for Research and Technological Development.
Contract number: 215923
 SENSEI Motivation
In order to realise the vision of Ambient Intelligence in a future network and service environment integrating
wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSAN) efficiently into the Future Internet is a MUST:
• The growing importance of context-awareness as an enabler for more intelligent, invisible and autonomous
applications and services has highlighted the need for a greater integration of the physical with the digital world;
• The lack of an open framework for WSAN is leading to the emergence of closed vertically integrated WSAN
deployments that will prevent re-use of context information for new applications and services;
• The observation that embedded sensors and actuators will make up the majority of connected devices in the
Future Internet and their specific requirements will have a strong impact on the design of the Future Internet.
Tangible results of the SENSEI project will be:
1. A highly scalable architectural framework with
corresponding protocol solutions that enable easy
plug and play integration of a large number of globally
distributed WSAN into a global system – providing
support for network and information management,
security, privacy and trust and accounting;
2. An open service interface and corresponding semantic
specification to unify the access to context information
and actuation services offered by the system for services
and applications;
3. Efficient WSAN island solutions consisting of a set of
cross-optimised and energy aware protocol stacks
including an ultra low power multi-mode transceiver
targeting 5nJ/bit;
4. Pan European test platform, enabling large scale
experimental evaluation of the SENSEI results and
execution of field trials - providing a tool for long
term evaluation of WSAN integration into the Future
Internet.
Based on industrially led business cases,
scenarios and socio-economic analysis,
SENSEI achieves its goal and vision by:
- Investigating and researching sensor information services to
intelligently and profitably generate sensor based context
information as well as provide actuation functionalities,
both at the necessary level of quality while maintaining
scalability and supporting adaptability;
- Researching and developing a scalable sensor and actuator
networking framework that enables information to be
used globally and heterogeneous sensors and networks of
sensors to be interoperable, efficiently managed and easily
added to the framework through Plug & Play tools (PnP);
WP 1(Industrially led Business Cases, Scenarios and Socio-
Economic Analysis) The objectives of the WP are to address the
following research challenges:
framework and for the management of WSAN islands. In the WSAN
world there must be support for multiple proprietary and legacy
naming schemes and a large number of communication paradigms:
periodic, streaming, multicast, etc;
• A Scenarios Portfolio for Enterprise and Open solutions supported • Ensuring that scalability requirements are verified and analyzing
by both industrial interest and business viability for enterprise solutions potential bottlenecks.
and public needs/wants;
• Functional and technical requirement for the SENSEI system WP4 (Efficient wireless sensor and actuator systems) aims at:
extracted from these scenarios;
• Analysis of the end-user requirements for a selected set of SENSEI • Designing and developing low-power, low-cost radio transceivers
and cross-layer optimized MAC, routing, and transport protocols;
application demonstrators;
• A ranked list of potential applications and services based on user • Developing a novel distributed processing middleware that
expectations and acceptance and recommendations for the viability comprises means for collaborative processing and context-awareness
and the development of meaningful and useful applications; support, for in-network processing to distribute the data processing
load over the network, and for data-centric communication;
• Business models of the most business viable scenarios, and value
chain identifying the main stakeholders, their roles and interfaces; • Designing efficient management functions and schemes for dynamic
reconfiguration of the protocol stack in sensor nodes, adaptive
• Audio Visual Show Cases illustrating the scenario portfolio in terms
of their benefits to individuals, groups of individuals or businesses/
network topology control, flexible node and service discovery, and
mobility control to manage moving sensors;
enterprises, and user, social and business acceptance studies.
• Designing mechanisms and protocols, which ensure a secure
access to context information and provide a trustable actuation
WP2 (Sensor information services) will address the following
service without violating the information privacy of individual and
challenges:
corporations.
• Defining interfaces for retrieving context information and managing
actuation tasks;
• Modelling context information and actuation
tasks on suitable abstraction levels;
Technology developed by SENSEI will play an essential Figure 2: Workpackage (WP) breakdown
• Identifying Quality of Information and Quality
part in transforming the existing Internet, Mobile of Actuation metrics;
• Developing context processing mechanisms WP1
Networks and Service Infrastructures into a Future
to derive appropriate level of abstraction. Industrially led Business Cases, Scenarios
Internet that is capable to deal with the challenging and Socio-Economic Analysis
demands of a Future Networked Society. WP3 (Global and Pluggable Sensor and
Actuator Networking Framework) aims at:
• Providing a global service and networking WP3
framework for Sensors and Actuators; Global and Pluggable Sensor WP6
• Providing solutions for access control to sensor WP7 and Actuator Networking Framework
Dissemination,
and actuator services, such as authentication Project Standardisation
Figure 1: Concept and scope of SENSEI. and authorization of WSAN islands and their Management and
Exploitation
service consumers; WP2 WP4
• Designing networking protocols for the SENSEI Sensor Information Efficient Wireless Sensor
Services and Actuator Systems
Future Internet
Future (mobile and fixed)
Context
Network Aware
7
Components Services WP5
Prototyping and Evaluation Platforms
Network Support SENSEI Service
Interface Interface
SENSEI System A vision of the Smart City
PnP WSAN
Domain Island Interface application space
SENSEI
The explosion of the world population (2050’s earth population • Continuous energy monitoring to save money while protecting
WSAN WSAN up to 9 billion) and its accumulation in urban area is a major the environment.
Island Island
WSAN WSAN challenge for our future societies. As cities continue to grow,
Island Island more effective and ‘smarter’ infrastructures are needed. Cities SENSEI application scenarios picture how “connecting the
become increasingly complex while people require better physical world to the Future Internet” will contribute to the
quality of life through networks and context aware services. convergence of the technology, demography and climate
Moreover environmental issues become crucial in our society: revolutions into the evolution towards future society and
urban areas may provide an appropriate answer to preserve economy.
natural areas while populated cities are also vulnerable to
natural risks. Figure 3:
Smart City scenario
SENSEI technologies can support solving the equation of
- Researching and developing efficient and flexible solutions
our future societies which consists in enabling people to live
for WSANs for environmental, object and body sensor
together, better and safer in greener cities. Wireless technologies
networks based on a common architectural framework;
sensor and actuator networks can enable societal changes and
smarter citizen and organisational behaviors.
- Developing and prototyping solutions for efficient WSAN
Islands and test platform of the SENSEI concept; • Better city’s connectivity and interaction between individuals
and organizations;
- Disseminate its results, contributing to the Future Internet
• Smarter transportation and security networks;
definition and Standards.
• Minimized impact on earth through monitoring of real-time
carbon emission;