Customer Story: Scaling for the Connected Home - Seb Chakraborty, Technology Director of Connected Homes, British Gas Connected Homes

1. Scaling for the Connected Home
Hive by British Gas
Seb Chakraborty

2. Hive by BG… Why?
• Our customers want this…
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3. …connecting customers to their energy consumption
• Transforming ordinary experiences into extraordinary experiences
• High levels of customer engagement with our products
• Understand more about energy use and how to control and save

4. Why we chose to partner with AWS
• Innovation needs flexibility
• Don’t pin the business on a technology
• AWS has the most capabilities and APIs
• Rapid growth needs flexible growth
• Energy usage can be seasonal

5. Building & Delivering
• Continuous Delivery & AWS awesomeness
– Emerged as best practices as we minimize ‘work in progress’
– Reducing spend on the wrong IT assets
• Operational Robustness
– Enable scaling to millions of customers and growing partners
– Deploy Multitude of living patterns and energy needs
– Scale of data is enormous
• Cost-effective
– Connected Homes demands massive scale and low cost at every point

6. Logical Architecture - EC2
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API
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Listeners
SMS / Email
Triggers
Sensor Log
Database Tier
Persistent
Database Tier
API
ServerAPI
Server
SMS & SMTP
Gateways
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Environment
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CustomersEngineers
AMQP

7. Logical Capability
Hive Cloud Platform
Web & Mobile Applications
Presentation Layer
Hive Hub Connectivity
Connected Devices
• Building separation of
device capabilities so
that customers can build
‘experience mash-ups’
between device types
and physical location
• Building an Operations
and Analytic cloud
Architecture
TheSchoolroom
TheGreatHouse

8. Summary
• Hive products & brand are very important for BG. Building products
that customers want always wins fans!
• Hive is using AWS to build differentiation, both in delivery, API
tooling and scale
• Hive is building it’s platform and ecosystem in AWS and is also
building a range of cloud platform tools, such as the ‘The Great
House’ and ‘Schoolroom’
• Thank you AWS!
Twitter: sebchakraborty

9. AWS
Enterprise Summit 2014
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