The next wave of IoT development is here, and it’s making connected experiences more powerful and easier to deploy than ever before. AWS veteran Eugene Kawamoto offers a look at how cloud-native connectivity is changing the IoT equation, and how to bridge the gap between whiteboard and full-scale commercial release. Find out how developers and makers can use the cloud to make IoT deployments more secure, more cost-effective, more efficient and more successful.

1. Taking IoT Cloud Native
Eugene Kawamoto
CEO, Americas
February 2018

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About myself
Eugene Kawamoto
CEO, Americas @ SORACOM
Experience
Amazon Web Services
Financial Services
IBM
Twitter: @UG1N
Facebook: fb.me/eugene.kawamoto
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kawamoto

3. - 1990 1990 - 2000s 2010s -
Mainframe
Client Server
Cloud
Edge / IoT
???
Centralization
Decentralization

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You Create. We Connect.

5. What comes top of mind
when you hear “Internet of Things”?
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6. “Typical” IoT Architecture
InternetThings
Connected
Devices
Cloud
Intelligence
(AI, Big data)

7. Devices are exposed to the
Internet…

8. Cloud-native IoT Architecture
InternetThings Cloud
Intelligence
(AI, Big data)
optional

9. How we can connect
IoT devices directly to the Cloud?
But … devices don’t live inside
the cloud. They’re in the wild.

10. SORACOM’s answer:
2G/3G/LTE/++ Core Network
implemented on the Cloud

11. InternetDevices Base Stations
DC
ISP
Packet Exchange
Bandwidth Control
Subscriber Database
Billing System
etc….
MNO
Private
Network
MVNO
Connectivity Options

12. SORACOM provides all the benefits of the cloud.
Scalability
Durability
Security
Manageability
No upfront fee
Pay-as-you-go
But also…

13. SORACOM enables customers to
become a network operator!

14. Simple to use APIs that enable:
Build private network dedicated for your
devices and your servers.
Change data collection endpoint from one
server to another w/o touching devices.
Connect/Disconnect remote device.
And more…

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SORACOM provides building blocks to
securely connect to the cloud.

16. SORACOM Services

17. One SIM, connected globally
SORACOM services: accessible in over 140
countries with one SIM
Global SIM

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SIM management

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Search device locations

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Real time usage monitoring

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RESTful APIs to manage connectivity

22. What if you do not have
cellular coverage?

23. SORACOM Air for LPWA
Sigfox
Base stations
LoRa
Gateways
Sigfox
Modules
LoRa
Devices
LoRaWAN
SORACOM Air
for Sigfox
SORACOM Air
for LoRaWAN
Cellular
Base stations
Sigfox

24. More than 9,000 customers: Enterprise

25. More than 9,000 customers: Startups

26. Use Case: Farmnote
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Cow monitoring and herd
management solutions by
LoRaWAN technology with
Soracom Air.
Real time monitoring for
areas without cellular
connection.

27. SORACOM Services

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SORACOM’s network security policy
User’s server
Hacking and unauthorized access
Blocking direct access from external network

29. SORACOM Canal: Private Peering to your AWS VPC
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AWS
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)SORACOM
Canal
専用線
MNO

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What about private clouds and other
public cloud services?

31. SORACOM Direct and Door
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Public cloud
Link to any cloud regardless private or public
AWS
SORACOM
Direct
専用線
MNO
Private cloud
SORACOM
Door

32. What if I want to login to my
devices?

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SORACOM Gate
Establishing a virtual subnet between user’s server to devices
User’s server
Internet
Interactive communication as if connecting through a local area
network

34. Gas
Turbin
e
Controll
er
Remote
Maint.
Device
Power Plant
IHI HQ/
Remote
Office
Remote
Maint.
Device
“With our bi-directional virtual
network, IHI can monitor
globally deployed gas turbines
from anywhere in the world with
the same Global SIM”
Use Case: IHI – Industrial Gas Turbine Monitoring

35. SORACOM Services

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How does SORACOM help
my constraint devices to use Cloud?

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SORACOM Beam: Protocol Conversion
Internet Service
Server A
Server B
Simple, Low overhead
protocol
- TCP / UDP raw socket
- HTTP
- MQTT
ISP
MNO
Things Base
station
Transfer with Secure
protocol
- HTTPS
- TCP over TLS
- MQTTS
Add metadata
- SIM ID (IMSI)
- Device ID (IMEI)
- Timestamp

38. Use case: WHILL Personal EV
Reduced data
transmission opex
PLUS
30%+ reduction
in power usage

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Can I connect more simply with different
cloud IoT services?

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SORACOM Funnel Cloud Resource Adaptor
Authentication
information
Cloud
Services
Low overhead
protocol
Protocol conversion
Authentication logic
Buffering
Error handling
TCP
UDP
HTTP
LoRaWAN
Sigfox
SORACOM Funnel

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Supported Cloud Adaptors
Amazon Kinesis Family
Azure Event Hubs
Encryption
Attach
authentication
information
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Amazon
Redshift
Stream Analytics
Power BI
Machine
Learning
TCP
UDP
HTTP
LoRaWAN
Sigfox
Cloud Dataflow
Cloud Functions
BigQuery
Firebase
Google Cloud PubSub

42. Use Case: Dydo Smart Vending Machine
280,000 smart vending machines
throughout Japan.
Directly sends data to AWS cloud.
No individual certificate or SDK
needed on each device to send data to
cloud.

43. SORACOM Harvest: Data Collection & Visualization
Indexes and stores data from your devices
Data can be retrieved through API and Web console
Adds metadata
- SIM ID (IMSI)
- Device ID (IMEI)
- Timestamp
Simple
Protocol
Indexed time series
data via API / web
console

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Now you have the toolbox to build
your IoT applications

45. How do I get started?

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You Create. We Connect.
Thank You.