Slides that were used at the IBM RTP Bluemix Meetup to demonstrate using Node-RED and the IBM IoT Kit on IBM Bluemix to control Anki Overdrive cars and keep them from colliding

1. IBM Bluemix Demo
with Anki Overdrive Cars
Steer cars via speech and gestures and
prevent collisions via the Watson IoT Platform
Tom Boucher
Cloud Advisor
@trekkie
RTP Bluemix Meetup
June 2016

2. IBM Bluemix Demo with Anki Overdrive CarsOverview
• Prevent collisions (Demo)
• Steer cars via speech recognition (Demo)
• Steer cars via Kinect gestures (Slide only)
• Steer cars via Leap Motion gestures (Slide Only)

3. Architecture IBM Bluemix Demo with Anki Overdrive Cars

4. A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things

5. Tooling is key to the success of IoT
• Internet of Things solutions often require pulling together different device
APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.
• Time spent figuring out how to access a Serial port, or to complete an
OAuth flow against Twitter is not time spent on creating the real value of a
solution.
• We need tools that make it easier for developers at all levels to bring
together the different streams of events, both physical and digital, that
make up the Internet of Things.

6. Node-RED makes it easy to wire together the
Internet of Things
• It provides a browser-based UI for
designing flows of events.
• These flows are then deployed to
its light-weight node.js runtime.
• Can be run in edge-of-network
environments or the cloud.
• It can be easily expanded to take
add new nodes to the palette –
taking full advantage of the node
package manager (npm)
ecosystem

7. Open Source Development
• On GitHub since September 2013
• Apache 2 License
• 35+ non-IBM contributors
• http://nodered.org
• http://flows.nodered.org

9. Node-RED + IBM Bluemix
• Node-RED/CloudOE Demo won 2013 2Q Cloud Hackday
• Now provided as a boilerplate/quick start application in Bluemix
• One-click install of Node-RED instances
• Bluemix-aware nodes connect to bound services

10. Node-RED + IBM Watson
https://gist.github.com/argon/127444b0f89fa796730a

11. Node-RED + IoT Foundation
http://m2m.demos.ibm.com/iotstarter.html

12. Collision PreventionCollisionPrevention
• IBM Watson IoT Platform
• Node-RED
• https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/node-mqtt-for-anki-overdrive
• http://heidloff.net/article/collision-prevention-anki-overdrive-
cars-bluemix
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo4zeQxxOOI

13. CollisionPrevention

14. CollisionPrevention

15. CollisionPrevention

16. CollisionPrevention

17. Speech RecognitionSpeechRecognition
• IBM Watson IoT Platform
• Node-RED
• IBM Watson Speech to Text service
• IBM Watson Natural Language Classifier service
• https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/node-mqtt-for-anki-overdrive
• https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/sphero-bluemix-speech
• http://heidloff.net/article/steering-anki-overdrive-cars-speech-
recognition-bluemix-watson

18. SpeechRecognition

19. SpeechRecognition

20. SpeechRecognition

21. Kinect GesturesKinectGestures
• IBM Watson IoT Platform
• Node-RED
• https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/controller-kinect-bluemix
• http://heidloff.net/article/anki-overdrive-cars-kinect-bluemix

22. KinectGestures

23. KinectGestures

24. KinectGestures

25. KinectGestures

26. KinectGestures

27. KinectGestures

28. Leap Motion GesturesLeapMotionGestures
• IBM Watson IoT Platform
• Node-RED
• https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/controller-kinect-bluemix
• http://heidloff.net/article/anki-overdrive-cars-kinect-bluemix

29. LeapMotionGestures

30. LeapMotionGestures

31. LeapMotionGestures

32. LeapMotionGestures

33. LeapMotionGestures

34. Appendix

35. Appendix