DiYSE

Enabling non-technical users to create smart, connected experiences in an emerging Internet-of-Things world.

About the Project

DiYSE (Do-it-Yourself Smart Experiences) was an ITEA 2 research initiative that aimed to democratise the creation of Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications.
The project brought together over 40 partners from industry and academia to build a comprehensive ecosystem enabling:

• Everyday users
• Developers
• Device manufacturers
• Service providers

to create, share, and execute applications involving networked sensors, smart objects, and interactive environments.

DiYSE anticipated the IoT revolution by addressing the challenges of device heterogeneity, semantic interoperability, application creation, and scalable execution across distributed environments.

Objectives

DiYSE set out to:

• Empower non-technical users to build and personalise IoT applications
• Reduce complexity in connecting sensors, devices, and smart objects
• Provide semantic abstraction layers for meaningful data interpretation
• Enable developers to share reusable components through an open marketplace
• Offer a scalable, distributed execution environment for real-time IoT applications
• Foster a sustainable ecosystem for IoT innovation across multiple sectors

Through these goals, DiYSE delivered a complete creation flow, from installing sensors and generating data to building and running large-scale IoT applications.

Project Information

Key Achievements

• Support for install & connect, sense, create and execute stages of the DiYSE development flow
• Contribution to experimental platforms such as SenseTale
• Participation in cross-European IoT innovation workshops and standardisation activities

Results and Impact

DiYSE delivered:

• Public experimental IoT platforms supporting large-scale deployments
• Tools for creating IoT applications with PowerPoint-like simplicity
• Semantic enrichment and sensor abstraction frameworks
• Distributed dataflow architectures enabling real-time processing
• Hardware, middleware and software assets now used in M2M and IoT products

Several major industrial partners (Alcatel-Lucent, Turkcell, Thales, Philips, Archos, Finwe, Neotiq, There) incorporated DiYSE results into commercial solutions across telecommunications, home automation, assisted living, emergency management, and digital media.

DiYSE received the ITEA Achievement Award 2012 (Silver Medal) for its innovative contribution to IoT democratization in Europe.

Funding

This project received funding from the European Union and from the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism under the ITEA 2 Programme (TSI-020400-2009-124, ITEA 08005).