Android powered
Internet of Things
ALEXANDRU IOVANOVICI
POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA
ADVANCED COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURES
LABORATORY
Songdo, South Korea
first of its kind fully equipped and wiredsmart city
$40 billion in 10 years;
With Android, you get
something that is
power-efficient, its
easy for developers
to do the user
interface and touch
controls, and its
easy to get data in
and out
[Philip DesAutels,
Xively]
What is IoT ?
uniquely
identifiable objects and their virtual representations in an
Internet-like structure [Ashton99]
[]
the expanding interconnectedness of smart devices, ranging
from sensors in your shoe to jet engine monitors [BusinessWeek]
Each
object can be connected via other objects (usually via third party)
to exchange data.
Roots
in the M2M.
The third age of the Internet
State of IoT
What do we need ?
RFID
NFC
Barcodes
2D codes: QR or the more obscure ones: Aztec, Data Matrix, HCCB,
PDF417
Digital watermarking: adding auth. data to a signal;
IPv6: there would be more IP addresses available than things.
Every screen variant, mobile chip, and sensor known to man has
been tuned to work with Android [Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation]
Bluetooth Smart (Low
Energy)
Where as classic
Bluetooth devices
measure their battery life
in hours, Bluetooth
Smart devices measure
their battery in months
or even years
- proximity detection
- vitals monitoring
Implementation issues
Lack of standardization;
Size: its going to be huge. From 50 to 100 trillion of moving
things [Waldner 2007];
Time constraints: extremely hard real-time system: billion of
simultaneous events.
Position tracking: things have to know their neighbors and
interact to them.
The shear quantity of data is way above what we can
process now or not !?
Internet of Isolated Things
Systems
running on a smaller scale: size and area;
Informationally
isolated to the big IoT private
networks;
Such
as:
Home
automation;
Industrial
Safety
control;
critical systems.
Typical applications
Sensors and sensor networks
Xively ex Cosm ex Pachube -;)
Framework for real time data logging
Chatty Things
XMPP extension
Home automation
Smart product management
[Link]
IoT @ Google
Soft stuff -;)
Accessory Development Kit
a reference implementation for hardware manufacturers and hobbyists to use
as a starting point for building accessories for Android
new and alternative hardware based on the ADK is encouraged! [Release
notes]
Android accessories can be audio docking stations, exercise machines, personal
medical testing devices, weather stations, or any other external hardware device
that adds to the functionality of Android.
Hard stuff -;)
Bluetooth via Amarino
Android IOIO
Android@Home: I/O 2007
software framework for Android that allows programmers to interact with various
connected appliances such as light bulbs, thermostats, washing machines and more.
Android world
bRight Switch
Features
Learning mode, Dimmer, Built-in programmable timers, Integrated speaker
and microphone,Proximity detection/motion sensing, WiFi capability,Outlet
control, Customizable features
Staples connect
Threats
internet
of things holds
promises but it also holds
dangers [Rob van
Kraneburg 2011]
the
intelligence
community views Internet
of Things as a rich source
of data [Spencer 2012]
Powered by Android ;-)