The IoT European Large-Scale Pilots Programme includes the innovationconsortia that are collaborating to foster the deployment of IoT solutionsin Europe through the integration of advanced IoT technologies across thevalue chain, demonstration of multiple IoT applications at scale and in a usagecontext, and as close as possible to operational conditions.

The programme projects are targeted, goal-driven initiatives that proposeIoT approaches to specific real-life industrial/societal challenges. They areautonomous entities that involve stakeholders from the supply side to thedemand side, and contain all the technological and innovation elements,the tasks related to the use, application and deployment as well as thedevelopment, testing and integration activities.

This chapter describes the IoT Large Scale Pilot Programme initiativetogether with all involved actors. These actors include the coordination andsupport actions CREATE-IoT and U4IoT, being them drivers of the programme,and all five IoT Large-Scale Pilot projects, namely ACTIVAGE,IoF2020, MONICA, SynchroniCity and AUTOPILOT.