Presentation given on the IoT Day (April 9th) at IoTItaly in Trento, Italy about IoT basics, projects, current trends and what the future shall look like

1. IoT basics, current
trends,
the future
Charalampos Doukas
@BuildingIoT
IoT Day 9th April 2013, Trento, Italy

2. What is the IoT ?
 Many definitions / examples:
Devices / Objects Services
Collect Smart
Visualize
Information Control
Data
Remote
Control

3. One Example

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> 250 IoT Projects + …..

11. IoT Basics
 What does an IoT project need?
 Device(s) that can communicate
 Applications
 Web
 Smartphone
 Car
 …
 Users

12. Devices that can
communicate
 Microcontroller
 The ‘brain’ controls everything
 Reads input from sensors
 Drives outputs
 LED, Switch, Motor,…
 Communicates!
 Network interfaces
 Power source

13. How can we build them?

14. How can we build them?

15. IoT: What do we currently
have?
 Some devices communicating with some services
 Many community projects (Makers)
 Some commercial products

16. IoT: What do we need?
Objects Services
Objects
Services
Objects
Objects
Services

17. IoT: What do we need?

18. How to we build this?
1
Get Information Control Devices

19. Open APIs -> Is it enough?

20. Solution?
 Gateways (Routers) with wireless interfaces integrated
 WiFi
 ZigBee
 Zwave 2
 Bluetooth
Common Protocol

21. What the future shall bring?

22. About me
 IoT Maker
 Blogger (http://blog.buildinginternetofthings.com)
 Researcher
 Author
@buildingiot
ch.doukas@gmail.com

23. #iotitaly
Stay tuned!