What is the Internet of Things and How it Impacts You

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What is The Internet of Things
How does it impact you
Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart,
VP Technology, Office of the CTO, Progress Software
June 9, 2014
PUG Challenge, Americas

Computing Tomorrow

Definitions
 Wearable Technology
• Clothing and accessories incorporating computer and advanced electronic technologies
– Smart glasses, body trackers, watches, activity trackers, wrist devices, clothing, cars
 Smart Glasses
• Related Topics include Optical head-mounted displays, helmets, ski googles
• Heads-up Display (HUD) – car windshield projection…
 Internet of Things (IoT)
• Uniquely identifiable objects and their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure
• Objects can be tagged via RFID, NFC, barcodes, QR codes, or digital watermarking,
via IDs communicated using Bluetooth Low Energy, WiFi, or other radio technologies,
or just recognized via Computer Vision
 IoT, Smart Glasses and Wearables are intertwined.
• This is a fast moving space

IOT et al – Types & Uses
 Bluetooth Low Energy - BLE
• RFID – never caught on
• NFC – some traction in europe. Too large friction (bumping)
• BLE - +50m / low power / Apple (et al) support
 Apple iBeacon – notification protocol on BLE
• Signal 2/s – 10/s.
• Power -> Proximity
• UID -> Which beacon (thus, where & what)
• Indoor microlocation, retail, etc…
BLE since iPhone 4s
iBeacon since iOS 7.1

IOT et al – Types & Uses
 Beacon-like
• Indoor micro-location and other Location-based Services
• Payments
 Home / Office / Smart Buildings / Industry Automation
• Lights, switches, thermostats, smoke detectors, motion sensors, cameras, DVR, …
• Ovens, Dryers, Washers, Fridges, etc (LG et al.)
• Building Management (Energy Management Compliance – title 24)
 Wearables as companions
• Glasses, Pebbles, other sensors
• Activity sensors: fitbits, basketballs, golf gloves…
• Cars
Brought to you by the wave of Mobiles (Phones & Tablets), LTE and WiFi
iOS 8 HealthKit
iOS 8 HomeKit
iOS 8 supports >= iPhone4s

Agenda
 Smart Glasses
 Home Automation
 Wearables
 Beacons
 “Architecture” Slides
 Smart Cities
 IOT, Node.js and Progress
• Summer Interns

Smart Glasses

Smart Glasses – Key Technologies and Vendors (MA)
 OS
• Android Dominates
 Devices (Hardware)
• Standard Features
– front facing camera, one or more screens,
accelerometer/gyro, wifi/bluetooth, audio
• Types
– Monocular - Google Glass, Vusix
– Binocular – Epson Moveria BT-200
o support larger field of view (better for AR), 3D
 Software Development Platforms
• APX Labs – Smart Glasses Dev/Deployment Platform
• Metaio – AR Dev Platform
Google Glass
Epson Moveria BT-200

Display: Glass vs. BT-200 (MA)
Monocular
Small FOV
Binocular
Large FOV

Business Use Cases and Key Verticals – Smart Glasses
Business Use Cases
• Rich Communications – phone, messaging, video conferencing, video sharing
• Continuous data streaming – messages, tasks, alerts
• Augmented reality – Training, recording, next-step guideance, compliance
Key Verticals – Enable “Deskless Workers” 10% of workforce
• Military
• Healthcare
• Manufacturing
• Logistics
• Energy/Utilities

APX Labs Video - YouTube

Home Automation

Home & Building Automation / Industrial Management
 Home – Philips Hue, Nest
 Building Energy Management – Enlighted Inc
 Commercial Appliance Management
ESEV Charging Infrastructure
iOS 8 HomeKit

Business Use Cases – House, Office Automation, Smart Buildings
Business Use Cases
• House – Remote control and monitoring, Automation, Energy monitoring and savings…
• Smart Buildings – Better efficiency, Compliance with new laws (California Title 24)
• Industry 4.0, Smart Manufacturing
Recall Apple’s track record of moving from “consumer” to “enterprise”

Wearables

Health / Wearables
Fast moving field
 Fitnet Bands
 Smart Watches
 Smart Clothing
 Smart Glasses
iOS 8 HealthKit

Connected Cars
 Remote Access to Cars (Tesla, FIAT)
ChargePoint
 OTA (Over-the-Air) Fixes pushed to Tesla Cars

Computing Tomorrow – Beacons

Beacons

iBeacons – Qualcomm Gimbal as an example
 Uses Bluetooth Low Energy
• 50 meters range, no pairing, energy efficient, less radio interference, send/receive only.
• Micro-location indoors.
 Series 10 – 28mm x 40mm x 5.6 mm
• 3-6 months. Transmits at 2/sec. ~5$ (or less)
 Series 20 – 95mm x 102mm x 24 mm
• +2yrs. Transmits at 10/sec - ~$10 – NEMA 3 rated

Gimbal Platform
 Qualcomm Gimbal
• Context Awareness Platform for Retailers, brands and mobile applications with geo-fencing,
location-based messaging and built-in interest sensing. Can combine macro-location (GPS)
+ micro-location (beacons). TRUSTe certified privacy.

Examples of uses of beacons
 A shopper looking at a display gets a discount for her favorite product.
 An art museum sends multimedia content to a visitor, describing the works of art
closest to him and suggesting other pieces of likely interest.
 Tourists passing a digital kiosk receive different signage and advertisements depending
on their profile
 Customer arrives at Phone Carrier’s store and is given offers specific to their plan
 Grocery shopper is given offers based on their profile (and latest purchases)
 Help find an office in Progress site in Bedford
 Travelers at the airport are told when there is a gate change they have not noticed

Business Use Cases – Beacons
Business Use Cases
• Retail – Targeted Advertising, Special Offers, Loyalty Apps, Indoor Micro-location
and Navigation
• Warehousing – Location, Inventory
• Electronic Payments
Some Ongoing Trials
• MLB Stadiums
• World Cup (soccer) and Coca-Cola
• Macy’s
• American Eagle

Some “Architecture” Slides

IOT - Typical Architecture (Enlighted Inc)

IOT - Arrayent Architecture

Smart Cities

Smart Cities
 Garbage Trucks
 Lights
 Utilities
 Traffic Lights
 ..
 Seems great Oppty for Progress

IOT, Node.js and Progress Software

Node, API-First, IOT and Wearables
API-First. Node.js is perfect to build APIs as shown by many production applications
in this area. The Next Generation Applications are built around an API-first
methodology and node is a perfect complement.
IOT and Wearables: These technologies can generate a large flood of requests, which
are managed very well by Node.js via "streams“ which can be processed and
monitored very efficiently.
Lightweight: Node also has a very low resource requirements and there are people
exploring how to use it in devices.
High Afinity: The Node.js community has an affinity for IOT technologies and early
adopters of IOT have a tendency to use Node.js for experiments and products.

Some Examples: Pebble and FitBit
Two recent examples showing the natural affinity of Modulus with
IOT and API-First
Status.Fitbit. This monitoring page was written in Node, leveraging
the API architecture at FitBit and runs on Modulus in production.
Modulus and Pebble: This prototype connects a Pebble
smartphone with a modulus application.
IOT Packages: NPM, the Node package
repository, is an indicator of the affinity between
these communities; it includes over 80
packages for Arduino, over 15 for Bluetooth Low
Power, and multiple packages for Pebble and
Fitbit.

Progress + Modulus and the Next Generation of Developers
IOT, Smart Glasses, Wearables and API-First Applications
Modulus will allow Progress to:
 Enable developers to use Node.js to write Next Gen Applications
 Quickly build runtime-efficient integration for many IOT applications
 Provide high-quality Node.js friendly APIs to our Pacific Services
 Encourage adoption of all of this via community presence and evangelism
Modulus enables ISVs and devs to Build Next Generation Apps Using Progress

Internet of Things and Node.js
Here is an architecture for a Beacon-based App leveraging Beacons + Node
iPhone
Native
“Loyalty
App”
beacon
Retailer
Dashboard
Rollbase Model
Rollbase App
System
Dashboard
Process Beacon Events
Access to Retailer data
Biz Logic (Offers, etc)
Mobile App Interactions
Node.js

Node Current Presence in IOT
IOT Space
 Beacons – Content and Payments
Node
 Server-Side Middleware Connecting
events, content, and actions
 Wearables – Glasses, Watches,
Notifications
 Glue, Programming
 M2M – Industrial Automation, Home &
Building Automation, Telemetry
 Middleware / Glue. Examples include
NodeRed (IBM), TheThingSystem
Modulus enables ISVs and devs to Build Next Generation Apps
Using Progress

Summer Interns
 Progress Summer internship programs
• Redwood City – mostly around Node.js × IOT × Rollbase
• Morrisville – Data storage and access
• Modulus – Node.js and PaaS
• India – IOT infrastructure
Redwood City
 Working in Sprints
 Open Source Samples
 Regular Blogging
 Send suggestions / ideas to epelegri@progress.com

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