The Internet of Everything

connecting people, data, processes and things

@AnnaGerber

internet of things
noun
“a proposed development of the Internet in which everyday objects have network connectivity, allowing them to send and receive data”
—Oxford English Dictionary

The Vision

Connect all the things! Image modified from: hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com

Home

Twine
Twine (streamishmc CC-BY-ND)
  • Smart homes
  • Home automation
Smart Egg Tray
Smart Egg Tray © Quirky

Business & Industry

  • Industrial automation
  • Inventory tracking
  • Point of sale
  • Customer tracking
  • Agricultural monitoring
RFID Reader
(bradley_newman CC-BY-SA)

Transport

Parking meter
(springfieldhomer CC-BY)
  • Public transport
    • Ticketing
    • Tracking
  • Navigation
  • Smart cars
  • Smart roads
  • Parking meters

Wearable computing

Google Glass
Google Glass (prae CC-BY-ND)
Pebble
Pebble (goron CC-BY-NC-ND)

Bio-medical

  • Health and fitness monitoring
  • Quantified self
Scales
Withings Wifi Scales (kogakure CC-BY-NC-SA)
Bitalino
Bitalino Physiological Sensor Kit

Scientific

  • Environmental measurement
  • Wildlife tracking
Sensor Fish
Sensor Fish (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory CC-BY-NC-SA)
Air Quality Egg
Air Quality Egg

And more...

  • Drones
  • Augmented Reality
  • Digital Fabrication
  • Electronic Arts
  • Hobbyists / Makers
  • ...
Ninja Blocks
Ninja Blocks (david_gray CC-BY-NC)

The Reality

"During 2008, the number of things connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people one earth.
By 2020 there will be 50 billion."
—CISCO

The Internet of Everything

Connecting

  • people: social networks
  • processes: business processes, web services, web apps
  • data: linked data
  • things

Challenges & Implications

Connect all the things?

Identification

  • RFID
  • URIs (HTTP, Semantic Web)
  • IPv6
    • 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks)
    • 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses

Protocols & Standards

standards

Alternative M2M communication protocols:
MQTT, XMPP, RESTful HTTP, CoAP

“The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.”
—Andrew S. Tanenbaum

User Experience

Semantic Interoperability

Security & Privacy

Shodan

The Open Internet of Everything

many eyes make all bugs shallow

Internet of Things
Bill of Rights

  • Open is better than closed; this ensures portability between Internet of Things devices.
  • Consumers, not companies, own the data collected by Internet of Things devices
  • Internet of Things devices that collect public data must share that data.
  • Users have the right to keep their data private.
  • Users can delete or back up data collected by Internet of Things devices.
—Limor (Ladyada) Fried, AdaFruit Industries

Personal vs Public Data

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