EU SEW 2014 - GreenTouch

EU Sustainable Energy Week

Workshop on

Towards a Sustainable and Energy Efficient Internet of Everything

Sponsored by GreenTouch™

25 June 2014

Microsoft Centre
Brussels, Belgium

In addition to the continued exponential traffic growth in data communication networks driven primarily by mobile video applications, the next disruptive trend in ICT technologies is a fully connected world with a huge number of machines, devices and sensors sending, storing, accessing and processing data and information. It has been predicted that the number of active devices could be as large as 100 billion devices virtually connecting everything to the future Internet. This Internet of Everything will undoubtedly have enormous benefits to our professional and personal lives and significantly contribute to improve the environment by reducing global greenhouse gas emissions through the ubiquitous and intelligent use of information and communication technologies.

The recent European Internet Foundation (EIF) publication, "The Digital World in 2030" emphasizes the overwhelming implications of converging core technologies, the growing need for more powerful clouds and platforms to support the knowing society of the future and the capture, communication and analysis of real-time, real-world data. Some central questions need to be addressed before the Internet of Everything will become a reality at such extremely large scale. What is the energy consumption and the environmental impact of the Internet of Everything itself? How can we power 100 billion devices? How should we deploy and manage billions of devices in the most energy efficient and sustainable way to maximize the net benefits for a truly sustainable, efficient and economically viable future connected world?

Speakers will provide answers to these questions and link examples of innovative pre-competitive research relevant for the technology issues identified. For cutting edge research and its policy and societal implications, listen to leading researchers from the GreenTouch consortium and other industry stakeholders at our EU Sustainable Energy Week event.

Topics

Powering Billions of Devices by Energy Scavenging
Green Clouds: Distributed Cloud and Content Networks for Energy Efficiency
Energy Optimized Content Processing, Storage and Management
From Sensors to Information to Knowledge: Intelligent Extraction and Analysis of Real-World Data
Smart Cities: An Application of the Internet of Everything
The Sustainable Business Case for the Internet of Everything

Workshop

Welcome Remarks

Thierry Van Landegem, Chairman, GreenTouch™

Opening Speech and Introduction of the Keynote Speaker

Marc Vancoppenolle, Vice President, Public Affairs, Europe, Alcatel-Lucent

"Introduction: 'Societal Megatrends and ICT'"

Keynote Speech

Ajit Jaokar, the co-author of the Digital World in 2030 report by the European Internet Foundation and founder of London based research firm, futuretext

"The Internet of Everything: Powering and Empowering - A vision for the Digital World in 2030"

Abstract: Many believe 2014 is the year of Internet of Things (IoT). After much debate, IoT (or as some call - Internet of Everything) - has transitioned from being a research topic to deploying real applications. For some, IoT is just a quest for a new Greenfield platform (post mobile) - but for others the impact of IoT is pervasive across all aspects of society. By 2020, 5G networks are expected to be deployed and we are expected to live in a world of 50 billion devices. This pervasive deployment of technology will have a wide impact.

The Digital World in 2030 report from the European Internet Foundation identifies the Technical, Economic and Social trends with a special emphasis on Europe leading up to the 2030 time frame.

This talk will address the crucial importance of the energy efficiency in this debate such as:
- Can we power the billions of devices in a sustainable and an energy efficient way?
- Can we use the opportunity of deploying new devices to gain a quantum leap in energy efficiency (1000 times more efficient)?
- How can Cloud technology be used to further the benefits of a Green / sustainable economy?
- How will the 'knowing society' act as a catalyst for reduction of energy consumption
- What new policies are needed and how will they impact the lives of citizens?
The central theme of the talk is: Drawing on the findings of the Digital World in 2030 report - Energy efficiency will be a key element of future networks and thus the Internet of Things will both 'empower its citizens' and also need to be 'power efficient' to make a sustainable impact for leading up to 2030.

Live Demonstration of Energy Harvester

The presentation by Domhnaill Hernon will be complimented by a hands-on demonstration of a patented vibration energy harvester that is based on velocity amplification technology. The harvester will be the sole power source for a small wireless sensor network, in which temperature measurements are transmitted wirelessly to a remote base station. This demonstration mimics a real-life application of the technology where ambient vibrations can be efficiently converted to electrical energy for powering of low-power wireless sensors. The harvester technology can reduce or remove the need for batteries and the associated battery replacement costs, which is a major bottleneck to the widespread deployment of wireless sensor networks.
- Ray Pinto, Senior Government Affairs Manager, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Microsoft
  
  "Defining the Impact of Internet of Things : Microsoft Perspective"
  
  Abstract: The vision of the Internet of Things foresaw a world where the Internet would virtually connect all of the devices around us. The benefits of this would be far-reaching and impact nearly every area of society. However, there are clear challenges on the roadmap to this vision. The world is facing stress on its natural resources, billions remain digitally exclude, eWaste is a considerable issue, energy is increasingly scarce and the much needed ultra-fast broadband remains theoretical. This presentation will examine areas of research and pilots that are conducted by Microsoft pushing the boundaries of the Internet of Things to better understand its limits and how to accelerate its adoption.
- Thomas Myrup Kristensen, Director, Public Policy Nordics, Eastern Europe and Russia, Facebook
  
  "Facebook and Green Cloud"
  
  Abstract:
  * Introduction to Facebook
  * Green Internet report
  * Sharing our footprint
  * Open Compute Project and other initiatives
  * Facebook’s data centers
- Dr. Domhnaill Hernon, Efficient Energy Transfer (ηET) Dept Head, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
  
  "Vibration Energy Harvesting to Enable Wide Scale Deployment of Wireless Sensors"
  
  The deployment of wireless sensor networks has long been promoted as a possible solution to enabling "smart" industries where improving energy efficiency is a key concern. However, the market has not adopted this technology at scale owing to the cost of replacing the batteries that are required to power the sensors. The Bell Labs Alternative Energy and Storage Research Team has developed a world leading vibration energy harvester that efficiently converts mechanical vibrations in the environment to useful energy that can power a sensor. In this talk and demonstration the team will highlight the novel design aspects and the design challenges in miniaturizing the technology while ensuring high efficiency to meet the sensor power requirements.
- Dr. Fahim Kawsar, Research Director, Internet of Things Research Activity, Alcatel-Lucent
  
  "Network Intelligence Driven Cloud Services for a Sustainable Connected World"
  
  Abstract: As Internet of Things (IoT) becomes a growing reality, more and more connected devices are embedded in our daily lives, serving us in a broad range of purposes in everyday life—from personal healthcare to home automation to tailored smart city services. While this ubiquity of connected devices is radically changing the style of how we learn, think, interact and behave as social human beings, there certainly is a danger that vast network of these devices could end up harming our environment. This talk is aimed at initiating a conversation about what the real environmental impact of billions of connected devices will be and how we can minimize it. Drawing upon the theory of circular economy, this talk puts forward three challenges for the green touch and the larger research community: i) How can we shrink the foot print of the connected devices? ii) How can we increase the life span of the connected devices? and iii) How can we leverage existing infrastructures for Sensing, and Learning and Sharing? The talk will then zoom into Bell Lab’s opportunistic network-sensing approach that transforms quantified noise into social signal by discussing a number of case studies which use travel network, home network and mobile network signals instead of dedicated sensing infrastructure to extract rich and valuable contextual knowledge about personal and community behavior.

Panel Discussion

"What are the Main Challenges and Opportunities for the Sustainable Connected World? How do we overcome them?
- Moderator: Dr. Thierry Klein, Chairman of the Technical Committee, GreenTouch; Head of Network Energy Research Program, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
- Panelists: All of the speakers above

Speakers

Thierry Van Landegem, Chairman, GreenTouch™

Thierry Van Landegem is Vice President Open Innovation of Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent. His current responsibilities include open innovation eco-systems, innovation culture, overall research program management and operations. Thierry is also the chairman of the board of GreenTouch™. He is also member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Sustainability.

Prior, Thierry served in various roles in the Alcatel group amongst others in the corporate Chief Technology Office leading Research and Venturing, in the Business Group managing a broadband product line, and directing the Network Architecture and Strategy group.

Thierry Van Landegem wrote more than 50 publications in national and international journals and conferences and was twice a guest editor for an IEEE journal. He participated as an expert in the Visionary Research group initiated by the European Commission. He also has been a member of the European Commission's ISTAG group, the Information Society Technologies Advisory Group. He has been a part-time lecturer in telecommunications at the University of Antwerp and Louvain.
He also is a current member of the scientific advisory board of IMEC, a research institute in nano-electronics and nano-technology. He has been a member of the board of directors of several incubation centers. Thierry holds a Masters degree in sciences and a Masters degree in business administration from the University of Brussels and Louvain, Belgium. He is based out of Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA.

Marc Vancoppenolle, Vice President, Public Affairs, Europe, Alcatel-Lucent

In December 2011, Marc Vancoppenolle took the responsibility of Vice President Public Affairs Europe for Alcatel-Lucent. In this role Marc leads the company's EU representation office in Brussels, where his mission is to work with EU institutions and other relevant stakeholders to create a favorable political and regulatory environment to foster public and private investment in the digital and broadband industries. His responsibilities include as well the coordination of the Alcatel-Lucent Public Affairs network across European countries and CIS. Prior to this role, Marc led the Strategic Customer Marketing function for Alcatel-Lucent for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Marc has 20 years of experience in the telecommunication industry. He joined Alcatel in 1991 where he took various international and worldwide technical, commercial, marketing and communication leadership roles based in Belgium and in France. He has been driving marketing and awareness strategies supporting the growth of the company in the areas of DSL, IP, telecom services and software applications. As Chief Marketing Officer for Alcatel Northern Europe, he led the development of Alcatel's market positioning in the Industry & Public Sector. He has been a member of the executive committee of Alcatel Services, Alcatel Belgium and Alcatel Northern Europe.

Marc is a Belgian and French national. He holds a master of science, with a specialization in telecommunication from the University of Leuven (Belgium) complemented with marketing studies from the University of Antwerp. He is a member of the board of DIGITAL EUROPE (representing the Digital Technology Industry in Europe), EIF (European Internet Foundation), and FITCE Belgium (forum for ICT & Media professionals). He has also been a member of the board of the IICB (Innovation & Incubation Center Brussels).

Ajit Jaokar, the co-author of the Digital World in 2030 report by the European Internet Foundation and founder of London based research firm, futuretext

Ajit Jaokar is the co-author of the Digital World in 2030 report - created by the European Internet Foundation.

Ajit's area of work and research includes IOT, Smart Cities, Big Data and Algorithms
Ajit conducts a course at UPM(Technical University of Madrid) in their City Sciences program on 'Big data analytics and algorithms for cities'. He also conducts a course at Oxford University on "Big Data for Telecoms"

Ajit is the founder of the London based research company futuretext which specialises in identifying and researching cross-domain technology trends.

In 2009, Ajit was nominated to the World Economic Forum's 'Future of the Internet' council. In 2011, he was nominated to the World Smart Capital program(Amsterdam). Ajit moderates/chairs Oxford University's Next generation mobile applications panel and conducts courses at Oxford in the next generation Telecoms trends. In 2012, he was nominated to the board of Connected Liverpool - Resilient Liverpool programs - based in the city of Liverpool for their Smart city vision. Since 2009, he has worked with the European Internet foundation on identifying Digital Policy trends

His consulting activities include working with companies to define value propositions across the 'converged stack'. Ajit has worked with a range of commercial and government organizations including in strategic and visionary roles

Since May 2005, he has founded and run the OpenGardens blog which is widely respected in the mobile/telecoms industry.

Ajit has spoken at many conferences which include MobileWorld Congress (4 times) ,CTIA, CEBIT , Web20 expo ;Java One; European Parliament; Stanford University; MIT Sloan; Fraunhofer FOKUS ; University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)

Dr. Thierry Klein, Chairman of the Technical Committee, GreenTouch; Head of Network Energy Research Program, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent

Thierry Klein is currently the Head of Green Research at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent leading a large team of researchers, engineers and scientists across multiple departments, research domains and locations. The mission of the team is to conduct research dedicated to sustainable future communications and data networks, including the Internet, research that answers business needs related to energy efficiency, reduces carbon footprint, and leverages ICT technologies, platforms and devices for the benefits of other industries and society. He also serves as the Chairman of the Technical Committee of GreenTouch, a global consortium dedicated to improve energy efficiency in networks by a factor 1000x compared to 2010 levels.

He joined Bell Labs Research in 2001 conducting fundamental and applied research on next-generation wireless and wireline networks, network architectures, algorithms and protocols, network management, optimization and control. In 2007, Thierry founded a start-up company focused on wireless communications for emergency response situations within Alcatel-Lucent Ventures. Thierry served as the CTO of the Venture until his return to Bell Labs Research in February 2010, when he became the Director of the End to End Wireless Networking Research Department in the Networks and Networking Research Domain in Murray Hill, NJ.

He earned an MS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Universite de Nantes and the Ecole Centrale de Nantes in Nantes, France. Thierry received a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

He is an author on over 35 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications and an inventor on 36 patent applications. He is a member of the Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy and the recipient of a Bell Labs's President Award and two Bell Labs Teamwork Awards. In 2010, he was voted "Technologist of the Year" at the Total Telecom World Vendor Awards.

Dr. Domhnaill Hernon, Efficient Energy Transfer (ηET) Dept Head, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent

Domhnaill Hernon graduated with a B.Eng in Aeronautical Engineering and PhD in Fundamental Fluid Mechanics from the University of Limerick, Ireland. Domhnaill joined the Thermal Management Research Group at Bell Labs in November 2006 and created and tested novel 3D heat sink structures. Domhnaill led the expansion of the team's research into eco-sustainability with particular focus on energy harvesting. Following this, Domhnaill became Technical Manager of the Thermal Management and Eco-sustainability research group at Bell Labs in December 2010 leading a research team in advanced thermal management and energy harvesting solutions for next generation telecommunications products. In 2013 Domhnaill created the Efficiency Energy Transfer (ηET) Department managing a team of 16. Domhnaill plays an active role in building strong collaborations with multiple University partners to accelerate knowledge transfer across many disciplines ranging from thermal management on multiple scale (photonics, thermoelectrics and reliable active air cooling) to energy harvesting (vibrational energy harvesting for wireless sensors and alternative energy for off-grid power) to energy storage (novel battery architectures).

Domhnaill represented Alcatel-Lucent on the Industry Steering Board of the International Energy research Center (IERC) for two years and played a significant role in establishing the governance, IP, research and business strategies for the center. In December 2013 Domhnaill was awarded the "Young Leader of the Year Award" from the Irish Lab Awards. Domhnaill has authored over 20 refereed publications, has 3 patents granted with 10 pending.

Dr. Fahim Kawsar, Research Director, Internet of Things Research Activity, Alcatel-Lucent

Dr. Fahim Kawsar leads the Internet of Things research activity at Bell Labs. His current work focuses on building human centred software architectures, applications and interaction tools with awareness technologies (sensor-actuator-perception algorithm) in the cross-section of Ubiquitous Computing and Human Computer Interaction. He has a keen interest in understanding what aspects of system infrastructure can be part of the user experience and what design and interaction rationales lead to such system. Fahim's work has been published widely in international books and journals, presented at conferences across the world and has had projects commissioned. Fahim has a PhD in Computer Science from Waseda University, has worked before at Nokia Research, and Lancaster University. His work and publications can be viewed at http://www.fahim-kawsar.net.

Ray Pinto, Senior Government Affairs Manager, Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa

Ray's primary role is engaging with governments, business partners and non-governmental organizations to better understand the impact of the information and communication technology (ICT) industry can enable solutions for the planet's biggest challenges. Ray leads Microsoft's government policies in the area of environment, energy, education and healthcare policy for the regions of Europe, Middle East and Africa. Microsoft invests in research and development to provide tools and solutions for energy efficiency and protecting and understanding nature's fragile ecosystems as well as reducing the companies own operational, supply chain and product carbon footprint and resource needs. The company is accelerating technology trends to move healthcare to be more patient centric and preventive to empower people to live healthier lives and to reduce cost for economies. Microsoft has also developed programs to make education more accessible across diverse populations and cultures and increasing the availability of much needed skills.

Microsoft has initiated an Enabling Technology Coalition for academia, NGOs, government and industry to develop data, methodologies and indicators to better measure the exact nature of the impact of ICTs on these challenges. He has a regular blog post on at www.microsoft.eu.

Thomas Myrup Kristensen, Director of Policy for the Nordic Region, Eastern Europe and Russia, Facebook

Thomas Myrup Kristensen is Facebook’s Director of Policy for the Nordic region, Eastern Europe and Russia. He joined the company in November 2011 and is responsible for Facebook's policies with focus on growth and innovation, political outreach, privacy and regulatory issues, data protection, child online safety and online advertising. Thomas has a long history in the IT sector and joined Facebook from a Brussels based job at Microsoft Europe. Prior to this, he was a special adviser in the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.