Internet of Things

Call summary

Scene Setter

Internet of Things - Focus Area (IoT- FA) ambition is to foster the take up of IoT in Europe and to enable the emergence of IoT ecosystems supported by open technologies and platforms. It will be addressed through a complementary set of activities structured around Large Scale Pilots.

IoT Pilots will make use of the rich portfolio of technologies and tools so far developed and demonstrated in reduced and controlled environments and extend them to real-life use case scenarios with the goal of validating advanced IoT solutions across complete value chains with actual users and proving its enormous socio-economic potential.

Support actions provide consistency and linkages between the pilots and complement them by addressing horizontal challenges critically important for the take-up of IoT at the anticipated scale. These include ethics and privacy[[In the context of this call, the concept of privacy refers to the EU legal provisions applicable at the moment of pilot implementation in relation to both the "right to privacy" (right to respect for private and family life) but as well to the "right to protection of personal data".]], trust and security, respect for the scarcity and vulnerability of human attention, validation and certification, standards and interoperability, user acceptability and control, liability and sustainability. A coordination body will ensure an efficient interplay of the various elements of the IoT-FA and liaise with relevant initiatives at EU, Member States and international levels.

Research and innovation effort in specific IoT topics will ensure the longer-term evolution of Internet of Things.

A novelty in Horizon 2020 is the Pilot on Open Research Data which aims to improve and maximise access to and re-use of research data generated by projects. Projects funded under the IoT call of the Work Programme 2016-17 will by default participate in the Pilot on Open Research Data in Horizon 2020.

Projects have the possibility to opt out of the Pilot. Participation in the Pilot is not taken into account during the evaluation procedure. In other words, proposals will not be evaluated favourably because they are part of the Pilot and will not be penalised for opting out of the Pilot.

A further new element in Horizon 2020 is the use of Data Management Plans (DMPs) detailing what data the project will generate, whether and how it will be exploited or made accessible for verification and re-use, and how it will be curated and preserved. The use of a DMP is required for projects participating in the Open Research Data Pilot. Other projects are invited to submit a DMP if relevant for their planned research. Only funded projects are required to submit a DMP.

Further guidance on the Pilot on Open Research Data and Data Management is available on the Participant Portal.

Budget Information

Pilot 1 in IoT-01-2016 will be jointly funded by ICT-LEIT "Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies Information and Communication Technologies" and SC1 "Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing". A budget of max. 10 M EUR will be equally contributed by SC1 and ICT-LEIT. Thus, the max. total budget for Pilot 1 is 20 M EUR.

Pilot 2 in IoT-01-2016 will be jointly funded by ICT-LEIT "Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies Information and Communication Technologies" and SC2 "Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy". A budget of max. 15 M EUR will be equally contributed by SC2 and ICT-LEIT. Thus, the max. total budget for Pilot 2 is 30 M EUR.