1. Not Your Father’s Platform How to Connect the Internet of Things
Women Who Code – Denver
February 4, 2014
Presented by
Laurie Lamberth and Allison Jones
Associate Partner Software Engineer
151 Advisors machineshop.io

2. THINGS

3. High level of user leadership May not have a user interface
THINGS
General Purpose
Platforms
(GPP’s)
Dedicated Purpose
Devices
(DPD’s)
DO ANYTHING
Highly configurable
High level of user leadership
BE ANYTHING
Preconfigured
May not have a user interface

4. CONNECTED TO Mark Weiser
Tiny- to Mid-Range Networks
Mark Weiser
IoT Pioneer, former CTO Xerox PARC and author of groundbreaking IoT essay “The Computer for the 21st Century” (Sept 1991)
“… three different network connections:
tiny-range wireless,
long-range wireless and
very high-speed wired.”
CONNECTED TO
Wide Area
Cell/Sat Networks
Wired and Fixed Wireless
Broadband Networks

5. THINGS
CONNECTED TO
THE INTERNET/Cloud

6. 4.3% CEO to shareholders: 50 billion connections 2020 Hans Vestberg
2009 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting
April 13, 2010
Market
Segment
Forecasted Units, In millions
CAGR
Source
2008
2009
2013
2014
Connected CE products/US 6 86
56.0%
Strategy Analytics, “U.S. Connected Device Forecast,” Jan. 2010
M2M/Global 73
430
42.6%
Harbor Research, “ M2M/Pervasive Internet Market Forecast Report,” Feb. 2009 46
412
44.1%
Juniper Research, “Embedded Mobile and M2M Strategies, ,” Jan. 2010 71
225
26.0%
ABI Research , “Maximizing Mobile Operator Opportunities in M2M,” 1Q2010
Mobile Phones
286
364
IE Market Research Corp, “2Q10 United States Mobile Operator Forecast, ,” May 2010
4.3%
Hans Vestberg
CEO, Ericsson

7. Connecting Objects to the Cloud: Big Building Blocks
Application
Enablement
Platforms
Cover This Turf
Device Management
Platforms End Here

8. Characteristics of “New-School” Device Connectivity Platforms
Normalize complex functions such as connecting to a network, incorporating third-party data and managing applications and devices into standardized interfaces
Incorporate “trust engines” and other security measures to control how devices connect and how their data can be used
Delivers services through modern tools including HTML5, RESTful interfaces, Python, Apache, app stores
Includes or access “big data” analytics data stores and resources
Bringing successful technologies, strategies and techniques to device connectivity from adjacent markets

9. Example 1: machineshop.io “There’s an API for that… or there can be…”
Legacy: developed by the team that created SensorLogic, an application enablement platform purchased by SIM and smart card manufacturer Gemalto in 2011
machineshop’s “small ‘p’ platform” per CTO Greg Jones consists entirely of RESTful Automated Program Interfaces (APIs) to all sorts of services including cellular networks, third-party data stores, all sorts of connected devices and objects, business logic and analytics
“Every app programmer already knows how to use it” – G. Jones

10. Example 2: Xively from LogMeIn (join. me)
Example 2: Xively from LogMeIn (join.me) “Secure sessions are our lifeblood”
Legacy: developed by the team that created LogMeIn (remote session management) and join.me (client-less online collaboration) to leverage deep experience in secure sessions
Depends on a lightweight client installed on remote device to provide secure connectivity and strict rules about how devices and data are used
“Trust engine… only allowed listeners can access devices they trust” – Paddy Srinivasan, VP Product Management

11. Example 3: Kii “Tight integration with device manufacturers = better user experience”
Legacy: developed by former Nokia executives, platform leverages lessons learned from managing more than 30 million smartphones and tablets
Depends on client installed on device by manufacturer, company tightly integrates with manufacturers to ease common device management issues (software update, security schema), improve product distribution, and enable device functionality through an app store that already includes over 7,000 titles
Huge in Japan, expanding globally
Smart homes, TVs and medical devices
“are the same thing as smartphones”
– Masanari Arai, CEO

12. Example 4: ThingWorx “Interactive conversations with connected devices”
Legacy: leveraged experience developing applications to manage manufacturing plants and processes
A “modeling engine” defines and describes each device by its properties, services and events, and feeds a “mashup engine” creates drag-and-drop applications using device data, external data, analytics and other services
It’s “an event-driven architecture where a ‘yin and yang’ of events and subscriptions” triggers actions – John Canosa, Chief Strategist

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