Alan Carlton is Vice President, InterDigital and Head of InterDigital International Labs Organization spanning Europe and Asia. In these regions Alan is responsible for R&D activities in the areas of 5G and IoT. Alan has led his organization to over a dozen major collaborative project wins. He founded and currently leads the oneTRANSPORT initiative, one of the largest Smart City projects in the UK. In the area of 5G Alan’s research interests include next generation internet and advanced applications of NFV/SDN technologies.

Alan has more than 25 years wireless industry experience spanning every generation of wireless. Prior to InterDigital, he held senior positions at Nortel, Siemens and several wireless startups both in Europe and United States. Alan is an EEE graduate of the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and also holds a MSc. in Communications & Signal Processing from Imperial College, London. Alan holds many patents covering a diverse range of wireless technology areas. He is a regular invited speaker at wireless industry events and is also author of a wireless futures blog for Computerworld.

Beyond the data and applications resulting from multiple sensors in industrial applications, the next step for industrial IoT solutions is to integrate with cities and their environment to optimise operations and tracking capabilities. However, for this integration to be possible, an open framework for exchanging data and applications is needed. This presentation will share results and insight from a commercial-grade multi-region deployment of oneM2M, which has effectively integrated transportation data in an open marketplace as an initial step to open the horizons of industrial IoT.