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Introduction to the Internet of Things
Credits: Thomas Amberg, FHNW CC BY-SA Marco Zennaro, PhD ICTP
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Introduction to the Internet of Things Credits: Marco Zennaro, PhD Thomas Amberg, FHNW ICTP CC BY-SA Hands-on, 5': Defining IoT What does Internet of Things mean to you? Write down your definition on a post-it. We will check out the result
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Vision
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Internet of Things (IoT)
"Internet-connected computers, with sensors and actuators." — @tamberg "Physical objects with a Web API." — @hansamann IoT: "Global network of computers, sensors and actuators, connected through Internet protocols." Web of Things: "RESTful Web services that measure
- r manipulate physical properties." — @gsiot
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Internet of Things (IoT)
“The IoT can be viewed as a global infrastructure for the information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things based on existing and evolving interoperable information and communication technologies (ICT).”— Recommendation ITU-T Y.2060
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History of IoT (not new!)
The first telemetry system was rolled out in Chicago way back in 1912. It is said to have used telephone lines to monitor data from power plants. Telemetry expanded to weather monitoring in the 1930s, when a device known as a radiosonde became widely used to monitor weather conditions from balloons.
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History of IoT (not new!)
Broad adoption of M2M technology began in the 1980s with wired connections for SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) on the factory floor. In the 1990s ADEMCO built their own private radio network because cellular connectivity was too expensive. In 1995, Siemens introduced the first cellular module built for M2M.
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History of IoT (not new!)
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Drivers of IoT
Small, inexpensive, low power computers. Small, inexpensive, low power sensors. Short and long range connectivity. Cloud computing and storage. Standard (IoT) protocols.
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Moore's law
"Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years." — Wikipedia Gordon Moore, a founder of Intel, noted this in 1965. => Computers become more powerful, less expensive. => The same power is available in a smaller package. => Small computers can be embedded into things.
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Moore's law
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RPi zero: $5
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Ubiquitous computing
"The idea of integrating computers seamlessly into the world at large [...] Ubiquitous computing" "How do technologies disappear into the background? The vanishing of electric motors may serve as an in- structive example" — Mark Weiser in The Computer for the 21st Century
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Motors: 1 vs. n
Public Domain
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Things — ITU definition
“Things are objects of the physical world (physical things) or of the information world (virtual world) which are capable of being identified and integrated into communication networks. Things have associated information, which can be static and dynamic.” — Recommendation ITU-T Y.2060
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Things — ITU definition
“Physical things exist in the physical world and are capable of being sensed, actuated and connected. Examples of physical things include the surrounding environment, industrial robots, goods and electrical equipment.”— Recommendation ITU-T Y.2060
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Things — ITU definition
“Virtual things exist in the information world and are capable of being stored, processed and
- accessed. Examples of virtual things include
multimedia content and application software.” — Recommendation ITU-T Y.2060
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Things — ITU definition
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Device — ITU definition
“A device is a piece of equipment with the mandatory capabilities of communication and
- ptional capabilities of sensing, actuation, data
capture, data storage and data processing. Some devices also execute operations based on information received from the information and communication networks.” — Recommendation ITU-T Y.2060
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Fundamental characteristics — ITU
Interconnectivity: With regard to the IoT, anything can be interconnected with the global information and communication infrastructure. Heterogeneity: The devices in the IoT are heterogeneous as based on different hardware platforms and networks. They can interact with other devices or service platforms through different networks.
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Fundamental characteristics — ITU
Dynamic changes: The state of devices change dynamically, e.g., sleeping and waking up, connected and/or disconnected as well as the context of devices including location and speed. Moreover, the number
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Fundamental characteristics — ITU
Enormous scale: The number of devices that need to be managed and that communicate with each other will be at least an order of magnitude larger than the devices connected to the current Internet. The ratio of communication triggered by devices as compared to communication triggered by humans will noticeably shift towards device-triggered communication.
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Predictions
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Predictions
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Predictions
Source: http://www.postscapes.com/what-exactly-is-the-internet-of- things-infographic/
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Internet of Fewer Things
http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/the-internet-of-fewer-things
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One to many to any
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Connectivity
Ability to communicate with another computer. Personal area network (PAN, e.g. BLE, Zigbee). Local area networks (LAN, e.g. Ethernet, Wi-Fi). Wide area networks (WAN, e.g. 3/4G, LoRaWAN). The range grows from "room" to "building" to "city" (e.g. BLE, 30m; Wi-Fi, 100m; LoRaWAN, 2-15km).
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Connectivity
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Connectivity: key aspects
Range - are you deploying to a single office floor or an entire city? Data Rate - how much bandwidth do you require? How
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Power - is your sensor running on mains or battery? Frequency - have you considered channel blocking and signal interference? Security - will your sensors be supporting mission critical applications?
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IoT high level use cases
IoT enables these core use cases, in different flavors. Efficiency (e.g. trash bins let you know they are full). Convenience (e.g. remotely preheat a holiday home). New insights (e.g. a crowdsourced air quality map). Sectors include connected consumer products, citizen sensing, industrial IoT and many more.
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Connected products
Internet-connected consumer products, e.g. Nest, a connected, self-learning thermostat. Philips Hue, connected lights with a Web API. Withings Scale, logs your weight to a dashboard.
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Citizen sensing
Self-built sensors, open data, nonprofit, e.g. Safecast.org, a crowdsourced radiation map. Oxford Flood Network, measuring water levels. Luftdaten.info, particles and nitrogen oxides map. Smart Citizen Kit, air quality.
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Industrial IoT
"Industry 4.0", cyber-physical systems. Predictive maintenance (know what will break). Anomaly detection (find unknown issues). Live feedback (from deployed engines).
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IoT reference model
Device, thing, product (with sensors & actuators). Gateway, hub, bridge (in the local network). Backend (IoT platform, "in the cloud"). Client (app or 3rd-party service). User (local or remote).
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IoT reference model
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Device
Embedded computer with sensors and actuators. Connectivity on the chip or as an external module. Microcontroller (MCU) with constrained resources. Small, slow processor, limited memory, low power. Often battery powered or harvesting energy.
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MCU Radio Module Sensor or Actuator
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Device
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Sensors
Convert physical properties to electrical signals. E.g. temperature, sound, light, distance, flow.
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Sensors
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Sensors
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Convert electrical signals to physical properties. E.g. light, movement, sound, heat, current.
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Gateway
Connects local devices/network to the Internet, e.g. LoRaWAN to Wi-Fi gateway (TTN indoor gateway). LoRaWAN to 4G gateway (TTN outdoor gateway). Zigbee to Ethernet gateway (Philips Hue bridge). Or the Wi-Fi router itself (for Wi-Fi devices). Transparent, depending on the perspective.
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Backend
Backend server(s), service endpoint "in the cloud“ or local. Provides data to clients, receives commands. High availability, scalability, bandwidth. Can provide storage or data analysis. Can call 3rd-party (Web) services.
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Client
Client app, e.g. dashboard or 3rd-party service client. Reads measurement data from devices via backend. Writes control data to the device via backend. Multiple client apps can share a backend.
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Important IoT System Qualities
Security, to keep devices, network & backend secure. Privacy, to keep people in control of their own data. Interoperability, to become part of an ecosystem. Openness, standards & open source build trust. See, e.g. betteriot.org principles for guidance.
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Summary
We defined IoT, understood the drivers behind it. We looked at connected products in three sectors. We know a simple reference model for IoT systems. We've seen some patterns with varying connectivity.
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