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The EU Chips JU project LoLiPoP IoT provides a second White Paper dealing with its reference architecture. As a public paper it is part of the project's dissemination strategy: The LoLiPoP-IoT Reference Architecture White Paper (available here) documents the common architectural framework developed across the project's ten use cases in asset tracking, condition monitoring, and building energy efficiency. The framework is grounded in ISO/IEC 30141:2024 and extends it with the specific concerns of energy-harvesting and energy-constrained IoT systems, which the standard does not address in detail. |  |
The architecture uses two sequential viewpoints. The first establishes the deployment topology of a long-life IoT system, placing building blocks in their correct network environments based directly on the use case context. With that topology in place, the second viewpoint layers in the functional requirements for power management, communications, and edge intelligence for each node type. A catalogue of fourteen Architecture Building Blocks, mapped to the partner-developed and COTS components from the project's component library, links the architectural framework to the technical work packages.
The white paper is a practical resource for consortium partners working with the framework in use case development, for partners considering commercial exploitation of project results, and for external SMEs and research organisations evaluating the long-life IoT pattern for new deployments. The framework and building block catalogue are designed to be reusable beyond the specific components developed within the project.
About LoLiPoP-IoT:
In LoLiPoP-IoT innovative Long Life Power Platforms are being developed to enable retrofitting of wireless sensor network (WSN) modules in IoT applications. It comprises energy harvesting (light, heat, vibrations, RF) and micro-power management platforms as well as application optimised WSN modules. The partners work on minimizing power consumption and maximising use of the ambient energies to assure long battery life of the WSN modules, in many cases full power autonomy. The APPLICATION (industry 4.0, smart mobility and energy efficient buildings) Use Cases drive the development of algorithms to perform FUNCTIONALITIES like asset tracking, condition monitoring (for predictive maintenance) and energy/comfort optimization in buildings.
LoLiPoP-IoT creates an ecosystem of 40 developers, integrators and users from 10 European countries to develop these platforms thinking about power/battery life, ease of installation and maintenance. The project is driven by 10 laboratory- and field-based use cases to initially demonstrate their technical viability and then potential impact.
