New Service-provider and Business-model Disruption in the IIoT
constrained public sector agencies whose core mission does not extend to significant capital
investments in IIoT technologies11.
Within the trial, five organizations represent the
customer viewpoint. These include four English
counties,
Buckinghamshire,
Hertfordshire,
Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire, as well as the
Highways England transport agency. The counties
in the project outsource the management of their
transportation services and have no immediate
inclination to own or manage their own IoT
platforms. Other trial participants include ARUP
(transportation
sector
expertise),
Traak
(traditional analytics methods) and Imperial
College London (research-based analytics).
oneTRANSPORT - ITS Trial participants
Platform provider
Transport expert
Use case owners
IoT & Intelligent Transport Analytics
Sensors
InterDigital’s role in the trial is to provide a
Trials Sponsor
oneM2M™ standards-based horizontal IoT
platform. One of the factors driving the choice of
Figure 4: oneTRANSPORT, multi-party IIoT eco-system
the oneM2M™ standard 12 is to anticipate future
growth as the system absorbs or interoperates with platforms belonging to neighboring counties
or other transportation-sector agencies.
Standardization delivers additional technology-outsourcing benefits in terms of supplier diversity
and a long-term features road-map which is inherent to the standardization process.
Interoperability is central to the operational philosophy and underlying platform. This simplifies
the process of creating cross-silo applications and lays a foundation for new business innovation.
The trial makes use of over 200 types of data assets belonging to the five customer organizations
and to two other transportation system and infrastructure managers, Clearview Traffic Group
and WorldSensing.
Connected devices and sensors, of course, are not the only source of data for this trial or most
other large-scale IoT applications. A journey-planning application, for example, uses information
about planned road closures (e.g. at peak traffic times or on public holidays) as well as occasional
lane closures due to planned and emergency roadwork. The platforms requirements for such IoT
applications include common service functions to source data from back-end, enterprise IT
11 Connect It – oneTRANSPORT: using open IOT standards to connect UK counties, IEEE Communications Society webinar,
http://www.comsoc.org/webinars/connect-it-%E2%80%93-onetransport-using-open-iot-standards-connect-uk-counties
12 www.onem2m.org, oneM2M™ is a trademark of the Partners Type 1 ARIB (Japan), ATIS (USA), CCSA (China), ETSI, TIA (USA),
TSDSI (India), TTA (S. Korea), TTC (Japan)
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