Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

FIT (Future Internet of Things) is a french Equipex (Équipement d'excellence) which aims to develop an experimental facility, a federated and competitive infrastructure with international visibility and a broad panel of customers. FIT will be composed of four main parts: a Network Operations Center (NOC), a set of Embedded Communicating Object (ECO) testbeds, a set of wireless OneLab testbeds, and a cognitive radio testbed (CorteXlab) deployed by the Socrate team in the Citi lab. In 2013 the construction of the room was finished see Figure 3 . sdr nodes have been bought after setting two call for tenders, 42 industrial PCs (Aplus Nuvo-3000E/P), 22 NI radio boards (usrp ) and 18 Nutaq boards (PicoSDR, 2x2 and 4X4) will now be installed in the room. A first version of the software infrastructure has been deployed and small experimentations (involving 2 usrp nodes) have been made from various places (from Brasil, United States, Villeurbanne).

Figure 3. Photo of the FIT/CortexLab experimentation room before adding sdr nodes to the ceiling

France Télévisions, Euro Media France and Amaury Sport Organisation have partnered again to deliver the Paris-Tours cycling race, using a wireless sensor solution to geolocate riders in realtime. These sensors where deployed in a collaboration with HikoB (Inria/Citi-lab start-up ) and Socrate who provided the distributed cyclocalisation algorithm

In what was claimed as a world first, Euro Media France equipped the 200 competitors with special HikoB sensors at the beginning of the Paris-Tours race in Authon-de-Perche. This enabled to pinpoint the exact position of every rider and feed the information in real-time.

This collaboration is now held in a FUI project called Smacs. Next demostration should occur in the tour de France in 2014 targeting full deployment at the Olympic Games of 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.