SUNRISE-A federation of Testbeds to Build the Internet of Underwater Things

SUNRISE-A federation of Testbeds to Build the
Internet of Underwater Things

Where we are and opportunities for collaboration

                                                               Nirvana Meratnia
                                                               University of Twente

                                            This project is co-financed by the EC 7th Framework
                                            Programme on Research & Development under n°
                                            611449, and part of the portfolio of the DG CNECT.

                                            For more information please check:
                                            http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/connect/

SUNRISE & SUNRISE partners
SUNRISE (Sensing, monitoring and actuating the UNderwater world through a
federated Research InfraStructure Extending the Future Internet) is a three year
FP7 FIRE IP project started in September 2013.

        Six partners, four EU countries: URM, CMRE, NXS, EVO, UT, UPOR
        A partner from Turkey: SUA
        An international partner (U.S.A.): UB

SUNRISE motivation

SUNRISE motivations & challenges

● The need
  – 71% of the earth surface
  – Safety
  – Food and life cycle
  – (Renewable) energy

● Challenges
  – Harsh environment
        Very dynamic channels
        High pressure
  – Expensive and bulky monitoring devices
  – Isolated and insufficient test facilities

Harsh environment
                                                                                                          Sound speed vs. depth
                                                                                            0
                                                                                                                                         T=   0 S = 30
                                                                                                                                         T=   0 S = 35
                                                                                          200                                            T=   10 S = 30
                                                                                                                                         T=   10 S = 35

                                                                                          400

                                                                              Depth [m]
                                                                                          600

                                                                                          800

                      Sound absorption vs. frequency at depth 1000 m pH = 8               1000
                                                                                            1440   1450   1460 1470 1480 1490     1500    1510
                          2                                                                                  Sound speed [m/s]
                     10
Absorption [dB/km]

                          1
                     10

                          0
                     10

                                                           T=    0 S = 35
                          -1                               T=    10 S = 35
                     10
                                                           T=    0 S = 15
                                                           T=    10 S = 15
                                     0          1                2
                                10         10               10

SUNRISE key contributions

● Experimental facilities
  – Shared, easy to use, experimental facilities
  – Representing a diversity of relevant underwater domains and applications,
  – Eliminating the current barriers (in terms of high cost infrastructures and
    long training) that prevent access to the underwater market segment and the
    underwater research field today.

● Tool chain
  – Decreasing the time from ideas generation to prototyping to at seas
    testing/evaluation of the proposed solutions.
  – Novel paradigm of SoftWare (SW) Defined Open Architecture Modem
    (SDOAM) and SW Defined Communication Stack (SDCS).

SUNRISE Testbeds

Testbeds Locations
● Ocean
  – Port of Leixões (P)
● Sea
  – North sea (NL)
  – Black Sea (TR)
  – Meditation Sea: off the coast of the Palmaria island (IT)

Testbeds Locations
● Lake
  – Het Rutbeek (NL)
  – Sapanca (TR)
  – Berlin lake (DE)
● Canal
  – Twente (NL)

Enhanced flexibility
● Open hardware platform
● Software-Defined Open
  Architecture Modem (SDOAM)
● Software-Defined
  Communication Stack (SDCS)
● Definition of standard software
  interface utility modules and
  libraries
● Coexistence and interoperability
  of open blocks and proprietary
  blocks

The Internet Underwater: Interface with the IP world

 ●   Seamless integration of heterogeneous flows of
     information available in different remote systems and
     over the Internet
 ●   Model driven data processing and decision support
 ●   Presentation through customized GUI

Where we are Today…
● LOON testbed
  – deployed in Palmaria island till March 2014,
  – redeployed in the Harbour of La Spezia in March 2014
  – Software-Defined Communication stack successfully tested and used
  – Software-Defined Open Architecture Modem successflly developed
  – SUNRISE GATE successfully tested
  – First tool-chain to support experiments developed
● Porto testbed
  – Integrated in May 2014
● SUNY Buffalo testbed
  – To be integrated over summer 2014
● Open Calls
  – Advertised since end of May
  – Deadline October 29° 2014 for the first set of proposals

SUNRISE Open Call
● Focus:
  – Incorporation of novel technologies to include in
    SUNRISE facilities
  – Federation of additional sites to further enhance SUNRISE
    testing infrastructure
  – Development of application and services exploiting
    SUNRISE technology and deployments
  – Experiments leveraging on SUNRISE testing
    infrastructures
  – Exploitation and valorization of SUNRISE testbed
    and technologies

SUNRISE Open Call
● Objectives:
   – Balanced geographical distribution of infrastructures across Europe.
   – Increased heterogeneity of infrastructures and diversity of
     monitoring and service capabilities
   – Greater diversity of underwater sensor technologies
   – Expanding services and applicability
   – Valorization and exploitation

● Important dates:
  – Opening of the open calls: 15 July 2014
  – Start of HelpDesk support: 1 September 2014
  – First Open Call Deadline: 29 October 2014, 5pm Brussels time
  – Expected project notification: 30 January 2015
  – Expected start of selected projects: 1 March 2015

Upcoming opportunities to join/meet with
               SUNRISE community
● Towards a standard to make assets interoperable
  – A gathering for discussing/achieving bottom up consensus will be organized
      at UCOMMS 2014 (Sestri Levante, September 2014)
  –   Second meeting co-located with ACM WUWNET 2014 (Rome, November
      2014)
● SUNRISE Open calls (first open call deadline October 29 th)
  –   Novel technologies, novel application and services, federation of additional
      infrastructures, experiments on existing testing infrastructure
● Information on the open calls:
   http://fp7-sunrise.eu/index.php/open-calls2
● SUNRISE Web Site: http://fp7-sunrise.eu

Questions ?

FIRE
Future Internet Research and Experimentation