RWI Scenarios
From RwiWiki
[edit] RWI Scenarios new
Scenario Presentation .ppt Download
[edit] Emma's Commute (Sector: Transport) – CIT-VIS (Citizen Centric Scenario - Visionary) (Mirko)
| Scenario Description | Functional Description | Potential for Business Innovation |
| Emma in her home, getting ready to go to work. She is subscribed to a car pooling service to find a suitable lift to the city and is informed by her mobile that Steve is passing by near her house in 5 min to drive to his workplace close to the city centre. | A combination of personal digital information (e.g. calendar) and real world information (e.g. Emma almost ready to leave – got up, showered, got dressed, had breakfast and is putting on her jacket) offer advanced internet services. An intelligent home system recognizes user tasks and combines this information with the digital calendar schedule to infer the next step. The system is therefore able to match agendas in a timely and dynamic fashion. | Behaviour learning, pattern recognition in human behaviour and habits combined with digital content.
Mash-up of services provided by different networks (GPS and home network) |
| Emma on the road, going to work. She steps outside her house as Steve pulls up. And they start on their journey to the city. | Navigation systems are able to re-route using input from a variety of internet services, such as traffic and weather conditions and revising the route according to internet services such as the car pooling service and the information that Emma is ready to leave. | Real-time, real world information (provided by a community of drivers) based navigation systems. |
| On their commute, the motorway enables an automatic drive mode during which Steve can relax and talk to Emma. They have been car pooling for several weeks now and they both enjoy their morning chat. | Automatic drive spaces cars at a certain, safe distance within specific lanes offering the driver a break and more efficient congestion control for busy stretches of road. | |
| Emma and Steve arrive at the city boundary. Their paths separate and Steve drops Emma off near a public transport spot. Timing is not perfect as her bus has just passed and she will have to wait for 30 min for the next one. | Busses are equipped with GPS and timetables are adjusted to traffic conditions and use patterns. Instead of rigid timetables that are inaccurate, availability is offered dynamically on user mobiles. | |
| Emma receives an offer to use one of the city’s bike pods. It is only one block to walk and she will get some much needed exercise and also safe time. | Location and agendas are updated and additional internet services can be offered to help the user fulfil their purpose. | |
| Mobile payment. Emma uses her credit card to unlock a bike and cycles the last 5 km to work. | NFC payment. | |
| Health monitoring while mobile. Based on the level of sweat and personal digital information, a shower at her office is booked for Emma.
Emma’s fitness instructor provides feedback on her fitness level and recommends new sets of exercises. | While Emma is cycling her Body Area Network is monitoring her ECG, pulse oxymetre and analyses the sweat. This information is forwarded to her fitness monitoring team together with information gathered by the bike she is using (distance covered, elevation of the route, speed, number of revolutions, etc.) | |
| Environment friendly Emma. As Emma arrives at work her carbon credits are updated. Her journey to work was particularly green today and she is rewarded with tax credits for her environmental awareness. | The system measures the carbon footprint of users and encourages users to find “greener” modes of transport. |
[edit] Telehealth monitoring (Sector: Health) - CIT-INC (Citizen Centric Scenario - Incremental) (Manfred)
| Scenario Description | Functional Description | Potential for Business Innovation |
| Siobhan is pregnant with her second child and has a medical record which suggests that she may suffer from elevated blood sugar levels which require constant monitoring (sudden changes in the blood sugar level can endanger the mother and the child). She can stay in hospital or she wears a mobile sensor which reports her blood sugar level and a GPS device to report her position via her mobile phone. | Mobile phones can act as a the major information gateway for all kinds of mobile applications specifically requiring the reporting of context coming from sensor inputs (in the broadest sense) | Stable and easy to use mobile middleware platforms for fast development and deployment of mobile sensing applications. Service innovations, e.g., position as a service, or health condition as a service, etc. which can be combined into more complex applications in a service-oriented way. |
| Siobhan's doctor, Dr. James Mooney, enters the necessary monitoring requirements into his healthcare information system along with rules when to raise an alarm and to whom. The sensor readings of Siobhan's blood sugar levels and her position are directly fed back into the healthcare information system. | A combination of personal digital information (electronic patient record) and information about the real world (blood sugar level, position). The backend system may analyse trends and provide early warnings. | Mobile, real-time healthcare monitoring integrated with existing medical information systems. |
| After some time, Siobhan's blood sugar levels change dramatically and the alarm rules are set off. Now it is important to get Siobhan to a doctor as fast as possible, or vice versa, a doctor to Siobhan. | The system will call Siobhan and warn her via a synthesized voice message, while James is informed via a text message on his beeper which he wears all the time. | |
| The doctor on duty decides that an ambulance should pick up Siobhan and get her into the hospital. The ambulance is routed to Siobhan's last position and brings her into the hospital were she is treated. | Ambulances have sophisticated navigation systems on board take into account traffic conditions. Traffic lights along the route to the patient are controlled in a way that the ambulance makes it to the patient's position in the fastest way. |
[edit] Telehealth monitoring (Sector: Health) - CIT-VIS (Citizen Centric Scenario - Visionary) (Manfred)
| Scenario Description | Functional Description | Potential for Business Innovation |
| Siobhan is pregnant with her second child and has a medical record which suggests that she may suffer from elevated blood sugar levels which require constant monitoring (sudden changes in the blood sugar level can endanger the mother and the child). She can stay in hospital or she wears a mobile sensor which reports her blood sugar level and a GPS device to report her position via her mobile phone. | Mobile phones can act as a the major information gateway for all kinds of mobile applications specifically requiring the reporting of context coming from sensor inputs (in the broadest sense). | Stable and easy to use mobile middleware platforms for fast development and deployment of mobile sensing applications. Service innovations, e.g., position as a service, or health condition as a service, etc. which can be combined into more complex applications in a service-oriented way. |
| Siobhan's doctor, Dr. James Mooney, enters the necessary monitoring requirements into his healthcare information system along with rules when to raise an alarm and to whom. The sensor readings of Siobhan's blood sugar levels and her position are directly fed back into the healthcare information system. | A combination of personal digital information (electronic patient record) and information about the real world (blood sugar level, position). The backend system may analyse trends and provide early warnings. | Mobile, real-time healthcare monitoring integrated with existing medical information systems. |
| After some time, Siobhan's blood sugar levels change dramatically and the alarm rules are set off. Now it is important to get Siobhan to a doctor as fast as possible, or vice versa, a doctor to Siobhan. The system will call Siobhan and warn her via a synthesized voice message, while James is informed via a text message on his beeper which he wears all the time. | A combination of standard information system technology with real-time input and triggers and mobile communication (phone, SMS). | |
| The medial information systems walks Siobhan trough a standardized medical questionnaire to assess her condition and provides the result to the identified doctor. This reduces the time the doctor requires to help her. | A combination of medical sensor input with “call-center”-like functionality. | Medical call center solution. |
| Given the current positions of available ambulances and doctors with the necessary skills, the optimal strategy is to pick up the endocrinologist Dr. Sarah O'Connor from her home with a nearby ambulance and bring her to Siobhan. | The information system of the hospital which knows the GPS position of all doctors with matching skills to help Siobhan and of all ambulances produces an optimal plan based on real-time sensor input from the traffic control system of the city. This combines real-time information with profile-matching and planning. | Sophisticated real-time planning solutions taking into account distributed information sources and profiles. |
| Unfortunately, while this plan was calculated no more readings from Siobhan's GPS are received, probably because she has entered a building or because the device ran out of battery and Siobhan does not respond to calls on her mobile. | Fail-over to other positioning technologies, e.g., determine the position via triangulation of the mobile or inform all Bluetooth access points in the vicinity of the last position to send a message if they recognize any of Siobhans Bluetooth devices (phone, GPS, blood sugar sensor). | Location as a service regardless of the underlying technology including seamless hand-over between positioning technologies. |
| The last blood sugar readings show some strange and unknown pattern which neither James nor Sarah can interpret. they decide to use their country-wide social network of clinical specialists to look for doctors who probably have already seen similar patterns. A colleague of them from Dublin who participates in the social network, informs them that the pattern may indicate a malfunction of the blood sugar sensor. | Integration of sensor information with traditional information systems Information capturing and sharing through domain-specific social networks. | Services / social networks for domain-specific information sharing. |
| Siobhan can be located by a Bluetooth access point. An ambulance with Sarah on board is sent to her location and finds her in good condition. However, an examination reveals that indeed her blood sugar levels had changed dangerously and Siobhan is treated on the spot. | Ambulances have sophisticated navigation systems on board take into account traffic conditions. Traffic lights along the route to the patient are controlled in a way that the ambulance makes it to the patient's position in the fastest way. | |
| After this successful intervention James and Sarah annotate the sensor readings to permanently store their findings. Their findings are stored in James's medical system, the hospital's information system and also made accessible to other doctors in the national infrastructure along with the actual sensor readings in a secure and anonymized way. | Sharing and annotating of sensor readings in domain-specific ways and making them accessible in databases or domain-specific social networks will help to improve the distribution of knowledge. |
[edit] The mobile Citizen in Future Internet of Energy Scenario (Sector: Internet of Energy) - CIT-VIS (Citizen-Visionary) (Stamatis)
| Scenario Description | Functional Description | Potential for Business Innovation |
| Evelyn is a very busy person who tries to always use the best opportunities in helping the environment, manage her social life, as well as taking care of the economics of the family; She does that while being at home, at work or on the road travelling as she has always the necessary information. | Digital information services over modern media (static but also mobile/wireless), roaming of the user on different heterogeneous networks where still various internet services can be obtained that match her profile. Security and privacy is respected. | |
| Evelyn is on the road to work with her electric car. This is fully ready for her everyday activities, has her schedule and has planned the route accordingly. | User information context is analyzed and brought together with external information e.g. from opening hours of the shops where things need to be picked up etc.
Electric cars are able to intelligently use the electricity network and they are aware of the user’s daily activities; as such they can charge themselves accordingly. This matches the user’s schedule, and is done in an economical way (during night or whenever the electricity price is low). An electricity information network offers dynamic electricity prices as well as additional information on the energy used. Electricity companies adapt their pricing based on their current production, but significantly lower the prices when a lot of energy is produced for free e.g. due to night wind storms, and needs to be offered/stored during (usually) low consumption hours (e.g. when citizens are sleeping). | |
| While at the office she wanted to do a quick check back-home to see if everything was turned off. She does that via her mobile phone. She had forgotten the dishwasher, so she schedules it to do the washing any time of the day in the most economic way (low energy prices) but the latest when she is back home. | Immediate access over a secure mobile network to the home services exists. Turning on/off devices, goal-driven scheduling of tasks (e.g. low energy consumption) etc can be done. This assumes intelligent machines and management capabilities remotely. It also assumes a fully liberalised electricity market where short-term contracts with the energy providers (e.g. hourly) can be done; this enhances market competition and lowers the prices. | |
| After work, she drops by the near shoe shop to get the sport shoes she had promised to her kid. The shoes have an energy label with very low footprint that make her happy since this is environmental friendly. | Goods are able to have very detailed energy footprints (down to the individual item produced) and offer this as an additional criteria to e.g. price; so the customers can decide. This assumes an infrastructure where energy can be measured, associated with the respective business processes and be fine-grained calculated. This is only possible all companies involved collaborate and share information over future internet based services. | |
| While at home, ready to watch her favourite show, she gets an advertisement that today the TV station celebrates 20 years of existence and that electricity for watching the programme will be for free. | Information can be adapted to the user’s interests, and new forms of personalised services coupled with the real-user surroundings can be made. | |
| The online services that she uses suggest that the fridge is performing low in energy consumption in comparison with the manufacturer’s data. This could be an indication of a problem coming up. | Monitoring of energy as well as of the functions of goods, will prevent fail-outs (preventive maintenance) or give value added services (e.g. exchange the fridge with a new model and due to saved energy lower energy bills will be done as early as six months later – diminishing the initial investment on the new equipment). | |
| Evelyn is planning to leave for a 2-week vacation with her family in the next days. The photovoltaic installed will deliver more electricity than the one her house needs during her absence. She is happy that this electricity can be sold online where she can earn money (that can be reinvested better for during her vacation). | Alternative and distributed energy- generating resources existing at user premises are linked up to the network itself and over the future internet with online services. These can be exploited by the user for his own good e.g. buying and selling electricity online (“eBay” model). |
[edit] The Business Side in Future Internet of Energy Scenario (Sector:Internet of Energy) - BUS-VIS (Business Visionary) (Stamatis)
| Scenario Description | Functional Description | Potential for Business Innovation |
| Electricity Companies are able to offer highly customized services to users such as short-term contracts, dynamic energy prices, information on the energy sources etc | New, highly distributed business processes will need to be established to accommodate these market evolutions and fully integrate the distributed electricity sources. The traditionally static customer process will increasingly be superseded by a very dynamic, decentralised and market-oriented process where a growing number of providers and consumers interact. A new generation of fully interactive ICT infrastructure has to be developed to support the optimal exploitation of these changed, complex business processes and to enable the efficient functioning of the deregulated energy market for the benefit of European citizens and businesses. The architecture of such distributed system landscapes must be designed and validated, standards need to be created and widely supported, and comprehensive and reliable IT applications will need to be implemented. All of these as seen as integrated parts of a Real World Internet. | |
| Bi-directional Energy management | Intelligent, interactive energy-management systems will be needed for an infrastructure capable of supporting the deregulated energy market. Intelligent electronic meters will have to be installed for millions of households and companies, connected to the future transaction platforms. These 'e-meters' will be able to provide almost real-time data that in turn will have an significant impact on existing and future energy management models since they can now be based on real-world and real-time data. Households and companies will be able to react to fluctuations in the market by increasing or decreasing consumption or production, thus directly contributing to increased energy efficiency. | |
| Value added services can be offered that are strongly coupled with the physical environment | Energy consumption and equipment monitoring can early enough identify potential problem areas and issue warnings. Companies will be able to optimise their processes to be “energy aware” and “energy friendly”. | |
| Actualise data can assist policy and decision makers | Policy and decision makers will have fast access to the data necessary for effective market regulation and competitive business models. | |
| New challenges will lead to new business opportunities and better services. | Development of an appropriate security, safety and risk concept and architecture for an electronically-based energy market will be the core. In addition, an interoperability framework will need to be developed to enable the interoperation of the abundance of interfaces and systems that will inevitably result from a highly decentralised electronically-based energy market. Service architectures, platforms, methods and tools focusing on a network-centred approach will need to be developed to support the networked enterprise. Understanding and managing the complexity of a critical infrastructure such as the energy sector is crucial and implies systemic risk analysis, resilient distributed information and process control frameworks. | |
| Usage of green electricity, low energy loss / optimisation | Integration of distributed energy resources will increase transparency, lead to better energy usage where it is needed, and optimise the production and demand side to better match (Controllable Market Dynamics). | |
| Energy Labels | Products will be very accurately matched to the energy consumed for their production, transportation etc and this will be offered as a KPI to be considered |
[edit] Easy Life scenario (Sector:Health) - BUS-INC (Business Incremental) (Neeli)
| Scenario Description | Functional Description | Potential for Business Innovation |
| Converge is a company offering a large range of personal, social and health care services for People with special needs. We provide our customers (patients, family and caregivers) with services that improve the quality of life of
elderly people and their families. Our motto is: Ease of Life and mobility. We offer several types of inexpensive and easy to use terminals to easily access our services on the net. The company also provides sensors, wiring, equipment and software for monitoring patients’ health condition and puts the patient into contact with specialists whenever necessary. | Broadband, WiMAX, Wireless (e.g., Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, UWB, xDSL) and Home
Networking, Servers, workstations, mobile devices, and wearable modules, sensors and special equipment | Stable and easy to use mobile and wireless middleware platforms. Service innovations, e.g., position as a service, patient, or health condition as a service, etc.
Hardware should be cheap, very easy to use and include features not available today in consumer electronics, like remote diagnosis and configuration. Network quality of service should be standard for the non-critical applications, but guaranteed for critical (medical) applications |
| To provide support to the elderly persons with cognitive problems for a daily self-care A nurse, a GP or Specialist is needed at your home? Such person can be provided. You will know who is coming into your house and will be able to check the opinion of other people who have already used the services of the same
professional. | Remote conferencing even using mobile devices, with the possibility to securely access medical data (possibly stored on a hospital server).
A combination of personal digital information (electronic patient record) and information about the real world. The backend system may analyse trends and provide early warnings. | Main concerns are about privacy and security, and reliability of mobile connections Trust is a key issue here. Need to research how trust on physical people offering services on the net can be conveyed. |
| A combination of standard information system technology with real-time input and triggers, Nintendo Wii fit and mobile communication (phone, SMS). | Authorized and authenticated accesses to services while taking into account the end users’ privacy concerns and preferences. Understanding of user activities and continuous adaptation to end user needs |
| Perceptual interfaces, components and techniques (e.g., Speech Recognition, Text-to-
Speech, VoiceXML) for Natural Interactivity. | Aggregation of already existing services Consumer of a service is also providing some service for other people. "Payment" of services by exchanging help to each other. |
[edit] RWI Scenarios "old"
This document contains the original RWI scenarios in a longer format.
