Building a competitive and innovative experimental facility that brings France to the forefront of Future Internet research.

FIT (Future Internet of Things) aims to develop an experimental facility, a federated and competitive infrastructure with international visibility and a broad panel of customers. It will provide this facility with a set of complementary components that enable experimentation on innovative services for academic and industrial users. The project will give French Internet stakeholders a means to experiment on mobile wireless communications at the network and application layers thereby accelerating the design of advanced networking technologies for the Future Internet.

FIT is one of 52 winning projects from the first wave of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research's "Équipements d'Excellence" (Equipex) research grant programme. Coordinated by Professor Serge Fdida of UPMC Sorbonne Universités and running over a nine-year period, the project will benefit from a 5.8 million euro grant from the French government.

Origins

FIT will be built on the results of the European FP7 project OneLab2, and the French projects SensLAB and F-Lab, making use of existing testbeds, technologies, and expertise in both hardware, and software development, deployment and management.

Impact

Through the FIT facility, France will strengthen its position as a European leader in the field of network research. FIT will allow France to play a bigger role in the European Institute of Innovation & Technology’s (EIT’s) ICT Labs Knowledge and Information Community (KIC). It also raises France’s international contribution to the OneLab experimental facility, a flagship of the European Union’s Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) initiative.With a total funding of one billion euros, the Equipex programme will allow French laboratories to acquire the advanced scientific equipment required for them to be at the forefront of international research, ensuring the growth of knowledge and innovation.