IGF 2017 Reporting Template
- Session Title: Internet of Things for Smart City: Green and Sustainability
- Date: December 20,2017
- Time: 16:40-18:00,
- Session Organizer: China Association for Science and Technology
- Chair/Moderator: Mr. Xiaofeng Tao
- Rapporteur/Notetaker: Mr. Minglei She
- List of Speakers and their institutional affiliations:
Prof. Xiaofeng Tao Beijing university of posts and telecommunications
Mr Anthony Wong The Australian Computer Society (ACS)
Mr. Yu Liu Academy of Information and Communications Technology (China)
Prof. Michael M. Komarov National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia)
Mr. Avetik Yessayan Shirak Technologies(Armenia)
Ms. Helani Galpaya LIRNEasia
- Key Issues raised (1 sentence per issue):
- IoT development worldwide, technologies currently available or being released into the market, best practices in various countries such as China, Australia and Sri lanka
- Challenges confronting us as individual and as a country in terms of governance and regulation, and are our laws catching up with the rapidly developing eco-system
- Influence of IoT on Humans behavior and society
- Vulnerabilities and hacking the Internet of Things
- If there were presentations during the session, please provide a 1-paragraph summary for each presentation:
Mr. Xiaofeng Tao
Mr. Tao gave an overview of the development of internet of things/smart city worldwide, IoT supply chain and development trends. Then his presentation covered some industry applications of internet of things for smart city before he concluding his speech with the open-end topics about to be discussed by the following speakers.
Mr. Anthony Wong
Mr. Wrong first offered us a glimpse of the IoT and Smart Cities initiatives in Australia and stressed the importance of the new technologies for our future green and sustainable urbanization process. Then he brought up the challenges we are facing: E-Privacy,Cybersecurity, network performance as well as the ownership of data. Next he elaborated on the data ownership issue with case study and legal perspective.
Mr. Yu Liu
Mr. Liu first introduced the IoT development in China. Then he moved on the IoT applications in government, transportation etc. He wrapped up his speech by sharing the future trends of IoT for smart cities.
Mr. Michael M. Komarov
Mr. Komarov touched on the issue of Customer behaviour management with the use of IoT. Then he used his research to analyze the possible implications and benefits of location data to digitized loyalty programmes:
Possible Use-cases, Development of a location graph model as base for future location prediction algorithms
Strategy for storing location and context data efficiently.
Mr. Avetik Yessayan
Mr Yessayan raised the concern of Vulnerabilities and hacking the Internet of Things. First, he gave us an outline of the challenges of the securities of IoT and listed the reasons why IoT is particularly vulnerable. Facing the challenges and hacks, he talked about the IoT governance, compliance and in-depth defense through secure usability.
Ms. Helani Galpaya
Ms. Galpaya brought up the issue of urbanization which needs our city more livable. With IoT technology and big data, we may tackle some of the challenges we are facing. Then she used detailed case research to illustrate Mobile network & big data for planning transport, and identifying disease spreading
- Please describe the Discussions that took place during the workshop session (3 paragraphs):
How to use IoT technology to tackle the polution of river and ocean?
The relationship of 5G and IoT
IoT based human rights
Leagal issue of Big data
- Please describe any Participant suggestions regarding the way forward/ potential next steps /key takeaways (3 paragraphs):
The session covers various aspects of IoT for smart city’s sustainable development, be it technologies,social impact,best practices or legal challenges. The participants agree and would love to exchange ideas about this topic in respective studies in the future
Gender Reporting
- Estimate the overall number of the participants present at the session: 50
- Estimate the overall number of women present at the session: 20
- To what extent did the session discuss gender equality and/or women’s empowerment?
Gender equality and/or women’s empowerment was not raised in the session. We would like to add this issue to our future workshop agenda..
- If the session addressed issues related to gender equality and/or women’s empowerment, please provide a brief summary of the discussion: