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The Internet of Things

Michael Bradley IoT Development Manager
Nick OLeary Emerging Technologies Specialist
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The Internet of Things
Billions of smart
devices instrument
our world today
Interconnecting
these devices creates
an Internet of Things
Insights from real-time device
big data delivers intelligence
to power a Smarter Planet
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Our World is Filling with Devices and their Data
Rice grains grown each year
Ants crawling the earth
Devices produced each year
1,000,000,000,000,000
10,000,000,000,000,000,000
100,000,000,000,000,000
(1 quadrillion)
(100 quadrillion)
(10 quintillion)
More than 1 billion
devices for every
one of us
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The Internet of Things instruments our entire world around us
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212B Installed Things
30B autonomously connected things
Public Sector, Distribution & Services,
Manufacturing & Resources, and
Consumers Lead Segment Growth
Rates
Approximately 3 Million Peta Bytes Of
Embedded Systems Data (Excludes
Streaming, Surveillance Type Data
$8.9Trillion Of Business Value
Source: IDC, December 2013
Internet Of Things Forecast
2020 View
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Internet
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Sources: IBM Global Technology Outlook 2012
http://www.progressivepolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/09.2013-Mandel_Can-the-Internet-of-Everything-Bring-Back-the-High-Growth-Economy-1.pdf
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The Internet of Things is driving Big data volumes
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The Internet of [Things] could raise the level of
U.S. gross domestic product by 2%-5%by 2025.
This gainif realized, would boost the annual U.S.
GDP growth rate by 0.2%-0.4% points over this
period, bringing growth closer to 3%per year.
Progressive Policy Institute
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Source: http://www.beechamresearch.com/article.aspx?id=4
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Internet of Things Industry Examples
Crowd mgmt
Timetable mgmt
Asset mgmt
Mobility Services
Smart Cities
Traffic mgmt
Airport
Management
Paid Alerts to
travellers
Congestion
charging
Transport E&U Retail Automotive Healthcare Banking
Remote ATM
Management
Dynamic
Authorization
Banking the un-
banked
Biometrics
Smarter
Subsidies
Optimized Cash
management
Cash
replacement
solutions
Mobile Banking
Remote Hospital
environment
Mgmt
Life style
monitoring
ER Bed
Resource Mgmt
Paid home care
family services
Remote
Drive-train
optimization
In-car Movies,
Music, Games
Highly
Automated
Driving
Component
predictive
replacement
Fleet mgmt
Pay-per-drive car
rental
Store energy
mgmt
Store parking
mgmt
Dynamic price
labels
Smart Vending
Machines
Delivery Lockers
Delivery and
stock
replenishment
optimization
Store layout
optimization
Cash
replacement
Sensor enabled
Loyalty cards
Remotely control
consumer
devices
Control
Smart home
services
Extend
Delay non-
essential supply
during peak
loads
Optimize
Pay-per-use
energy
Monetize
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6 Challenges to leveraging the Internet of Things
Sharing device services with others
Using insights from data to change business
Acting on device data
Wire device logic together without complex coding
Making sense of device data at speed
Analyzing data when it happens
Understanding where things are
Comparing with maps, spaces and other things
Massive volume of device data
Real-time capture without thrashing networks or polling
How to connect with plethora of devices
Overcoming differences and limitations
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Easy orchestration without coding
Rapidly wire devices together and create logic
Visual tool for wiring the
Internet of Things
Deploy with just one click
Simple API to create nodes
with lines of JavaScript or
HTML
Share flows in JSON format
Based on Node.js for event-
driven, non-blocking I/O
Download from
http://github.com/node-red
node-red
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Summary
Mobile devices now outnumber the human population
New silicon connectivity opens up a massive Internet of Things marketplace
Getting started is easy with open protocols like MQTT and visual tools like Node-Red
Successful companies will be those creating an Internet of Things strategy that embraces
instrumented, interconnected and intelligent
intelligent interconnected instrumented