7. The (recent) Past
• Many DIY- community projects
o Evolution of Open Hardware (Arduino, Flyport, etc.)
• Some commercial devices
o Self-Tracking domain (very popular)
o Home Automation (Philips Hue Connected Light bulb)
11. The Present
• QuantifiedSelf
o Devices for self tracking
• Features ?
o Collect and visualize information
• Performance
• Habits
o Motivate
• Social features
• Reminders
o + great space for improvement…
12. The Present
• The Connected Home
• Home Automation & Control
o Indoor location services
o Power monitor and remote control
o Lights
o Irrigation systems
13. The Present
• The Connected Home
• Home Automation & Control
o Smart Door Locks and Access Management
o Smart Gateways (fusion of networking technologies)
o Fire-Smoke Detectors
o Thermostats
o …
14. The Present
• The Connected Home
• Features:
o Control remotely
o Generate reports (energy, etc.)
o Better (?) automation
• Lowest market penetration = huge space for
improvement
15. The Present
• The Connected City
o Vehicle and Traffic Management
o Parking systems
o Waste management
17. The Present
• The Connected Industry
o Location services (Assets, People)
o Security
o Payment
18. The Present
• The Connected Industry
o Pricing - Promotion
o Packaging
19. The Present
• The Connected Industry
• Features
o Promoting services based on geo-location
o Simplify payment
• Open space for fusion of services {home, car,
appliance sensing with retail}
20. IoT & Open Data
Street/Traf
fic
Environment
Public
Infrastructures X Data
21. IoT & Open Data
• Open Data leverages on IoT technologies
Cloud Computing
Big DataScalability
Availability
Stream
Processing
Data
Mining
29. (Re)Acting
• Move things (motors)
• Activate (switches)
• Interfaces
o Sound
o Light
o Displays
• Remote interfaces
o Social
o Email, text, …
o Phone (twillio)
32. Communicating
• No golden solution!
• You will always need a gateway!
• The questions are:
o Range
o Power consumption
o What gateways are already available
33. Communicating
• Wearables:
o Small size -> small battery, but great autonomy
o Smartphone as a gateway
o Short range -> BT and BLE
• Home automation:
o WiFi router available
o If power is an issue -> ZigBee or RF
34. Protocols
• Web based:
• HTTP
o REST
o WebSockets
• M2M (lower resources + actuation)
o MQTT
o CoAP
o XMPP
o STOMP
o …
37. What does it take on the
back-end?
• Application server
• Database system
• Setup & Maintenance
• Scalability? -> Cloud environment
• Provide APIs
o Bring more users, external apps
• Support external APIs
• Support M2M protocols
• …..
38. What does it take on the
back-end?
Software
Hardware
Libraries
APIs
39. What does it take on the
back-end?
Hosting
Outsourcing
Resources