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Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MONICA (Management Of Networked IoT Wearables â€“ Very Large Scale Demonstration of Cultural Societal Applications)

Teaser

Summary

The MONICA project provides a very large demonstration of multiple Internet of Things technologies that help cities deal with sound, noise and security challenges at big, cultural, open-air events in the city. The solution will be deployed in six major cities in Europe; Copenhagen, Bonn, Hamburg, Leeds, Lyon and Torino involving more than 100.000 users in total.

MONICA will demonstrate a large-scale IoT ecosystem that can handle a multitude of devices, sensors, networks and heterogeneous data integrated into an interoperable cloud-based platform which is capable of offering multiple applications with at least 10.000 simultaneous end users. Innovative applications include the establishment of sound zones at outdoor concerts for noise mitigation as well as security measures improving crowd information and management.

The pilot sites will choose applications based on their current challenges, and deploy them at minimum 16 large, cultural events. The events include concerts, festivals and sport events and involve the use of multiple devices such as wristbands, smart glasses, video cameras, loudspeakers and mobile phones. More than 10.000 end users will be involved in the evaluation process, from authorities, organisers to citizens

Work performed

During the first year, efforts were put into retrieving relevant issues and needs from all the pilot events in order to convert these into initial requirements. Many meetings, interviews, workshops and focus groups have taken place with the various stakeholders in order to detail and complete the information that was presented by the pilots. From all the gathered information user scenarios have been formulated. After the user scenarios have been reviewed by the pilots, they have been converted to generic use cases. These use cases have officially been validated by the pilots and then taken further into the requirements management process, allowing the transfer from use cases to solution-oriented work perforemd by the technical partners.

From the technical point of view the first year dealt with the integration of MONICA closed loop systems (IoT Platform & Devies - WP3, Audio - WP4, Security - WP5, Decision Support & Applications - WP6). The MONICA platform is designed to deal with large IoT deployments, capable of integration heterogeneous types of devices including wristbands, IoT sound level meters, blimps, sensors, mobile apps, cameras, etc. The MONICA architecture is based on LinkSmartÂ® IoT Platform and SCRAL framework on the IoT layer and follows the OGC SensorThings API. The first milestone in this regard was the first MONICA platform deployment, demonstrating it at KU during the plenary meeting in M9. Then, as foreseen by the project methodology, we started with the first demonstrations at the MONICA pilot sits in 2018. Technologies that have been deployed were UWB wristbands, 868 MHz wristbands, cameras, a blimp, IoT sound level meters, environmental sensors, staff tracker app, and subwoofers, all integrated in the MONICA platform.

The data security, privacy and trust framework was proposed, defining ways to develop and deploy security policies across an organisation. The design is based on the requirements and recommendations from ISO/IEC standards from the group â€œ27000â€. It is a risk-driven approach in accordance with the recommendations from ISO/IEC, security baselines, and MONICA Risk Assessment tool (which also enlists contexts like immaterial, human, data protection or environment related assets. The framework assumes components of Encryption, Authentication & Authorisation, Identity & Access Management, anti-Malware Protection, and IT Security Baselines. Ethical analyses are performed before each pilot with the help of an ethics questionnaire. Data Management Plan templates have been created and are updated for each pilot.

In the first half of year two the first pilot demonstrations took place, starting from smaller deployments and then iterating and increasing deployed technologies and use cases step by step, taking into account the lessons learned at each demonstration. The first official demonstration was Rhein in Flammen in May 2018 where sound monitoring, crowd monitoring staff tracking, wireless networking and the COP dashboard were tested for the first time. The demonstration created huge interest both by stakeholders and the local media. A press conference was held and there were articles in several newspapers (online and print) and a TV broadcast. The second event was Nuits Sonores were sound monitoring and the COP display were tested. From the technical standpoint many important lessons learned were gained for the goal to gradually increase the deployments.

A framework for impact assessment, validation and replication was proposed, starting with a benchmarking data collection plan to understand operational processes and workflows of the Pilots for each event. The goal was to establish baseline for comparison â€“ collecting both quantitative and qualitative measures. Tools to use in the process were also developed, focusing on measurable goals in the form of KPIs plus a range of supporting qualitative evidence that will be used to assess the performance of MONICA intervention. An impact asses

Final results

Progress beyond state of the art is made in (among others):
- taking the Adaptive Sound Field Control System from the lab to the field including integration with the MONICA IoT Platform and the newly developed IoT Sound Level Meters
- incorportating IoT devices & wearables such as smart wristbands with camera-based crowd monitoring algorithms into a closed loop security ecosystem
- the deployment of huge amounts of IoT technologies in the field at demonstration during ongoing large scale events

The MONICA platform will enable innovative, sustainable service deliveries and business models; improve secure and trusted communication among infrastructures, people, and objects. It will thus present and validate a number of the prerequisites for successful renewal of business processes and business models. The socio-economic potential of MONICA is huge in all areas of socio-economic activities. It will affect a very large number of people in their most passionate areas of entertainment, safety, health and living. The mere size of the demonstration base will allow the project to explore hitherto un-explored aspects of large scale deployments of IoT platforms.