1. The 3 I’s of IoT Infrastructure, Integration & Interoperability
IoT Slam ’15
9 December 2015

2. The Panel Steve Blackwell Emerson VP Engineering
Jim Hunter   Greenwave Systems Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist
Clarke Stevens CableLabs and UPnP Forum Chairman, IoT Task Force
Rich Miller Telematica Inc. [Moderator] CEO
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3. Our Charter Consider the road-map for smooth IoT transition
Prevention of data loss and attention to privacy issues,
Maintain control of operations and assets,
Prosper & grow during a period that lacks unified standards and interoperability among providers
Future-proof solutions to deal with the complexities that often arise in the implementation and operational phases of adoption.
How do we identify the important distinctions in setting out a path which considers legacy without crippling the future?
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4. The Questions
Given the incumbent systems, and the newly created infrastructure(s):
Who are the constituents for whom IoT infrastructures must be constructed and operated?
What are the constituent parts and what values are paramount in our efforts for interconnection and interoperability?
Have we made the proper distinctions between
Consumer IoT and Industrial IoT?
The ‘legacy’ systems that must be integrated and the newly designed, newly built systems being predicted?
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5. The Conversation So Far …
We consider (at least) two distinct IoT environments
Consumer IoT: in which IoT weaves seamlessly with the end-user’s life, and must interwork with other systems for which it was not originally designed
Industrial IoT: in which IoT weaves seamless with the user’s job or enterprise process, and must interwork safely, with service levels specified (sometimes rigorously)
Primary Use Cases Differentiate Industrial and Consumer IoT
Why am I instrumenting ‘the system’?
Consumer IoT: The quantified self and Automation of the consumer’s environment
Optimizing the consumer’s experience
Industrial IoT: Predictive analytics and maintenance
Optimization and Service Levels
The incorporation of data from widely distributed, dispersed data
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6. Focus: Consumer IoT (vs Industrial)
Safety as a major consideration
Safety = Security + Privacy + Certification
Scalability & Speed
For the predicted numbers of IoT devices,
platforms must be able to spin up on a moment’s notice
Interaction and control
Consider ‘Things’ as if they were Agents
Hire & Fire your ‘Things’
Use accepted paradigms of communication from social media, instant messaging, and shared calendared events
Call on Jim Hunter
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7. Focus: Industrial IoT (vs Consumer)
Consider our ‘legacy’
Integration of (currently incompatible) existing equipment with new IoT data sources
Interactions of existing sytems’ data output in new, un-planned ways with one another and with newly implemented systems
The operation, administration and management of industrial IoT
What’s riding on Industrial IoT is (arguably) our well-being
It emphasizes more effective, efficient and maintainable systems
It emphazizes resilience and availability of the systems on which we rely
Call on Steve Blackwell
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8. It’s the 3 I’s … and the 3 S’s
We like the 3 I’s, but Safety (Security + Privacy) and Scale are under-emphasized
Aren’t we REALLY dealing with more than Infrastructure, Integration & Interoperability, as early considerations? …
What about
Safety (Security + Privacy) of data, without which we are sure to fail
Scale – the massive numbers of devices, sensors and messages as well as the requirement that changes is scale must be almost immediate
the Speed at which the build-out of infrastructure must occur and at which implementation of (eventually) interoperating systems must occur
It may truly be the 3 I’s and the 3 S’s …
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9. Legacy and Futures with the 3 I’s
Integrating ‘things’ that are already in place
Weren’t put in place with the intention of interworking
Early success in IoT will depend on our ability to accommodate legacy technologies
Futures
The challenges of integration, interoperability and consolidation going forward will be those of interoperation with infrastructure and data sources which were not designed at the outset for the ‘fusion’
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10. Are we agreed?
[a] Integration includes not only the infrastructure and foundational services, but must address data integration and then unification of datasets over time for predictive analysis and new forms of control
[b] Interoperability must be considered first at the lowest ‘layers’ of infrastructure, and must …early on… consider the successful incorporation of legacy technology.
[c] Interaction & Control (particularly for Consumer IoT) should rely heavily on treating ‘Things’ as Agents with which/with whom we communicate. (Could this be the 4th I ?)
[d] Infrastructure, Integration & Interoperation must be accompanied by considerations of Security, Scale and Speed.
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