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Connecting Everything
Phillip J. Windley, PhD
CTO, Kynetx, Inc.
Internet of Things
The Internet of Things will
lead to a computing
experience that is immersive
& pervasive.
Ambient Computing
vs
But it’s bigger than that…
!

Everything will have an online
representation.
Connections Everywhere
The things you own
The things you don't
Different types of connections
What will its architecture be?
Imagine a mountain
representing today’s billion
node network...
From Trillions by Maya Design
From Trillions by Maya Design
The Current #IoT Model
Won’t Scale
Me
GE
GE

Internet 

of

My Things

Me
Building the Internet of Me
But it’s not just about
manufactured things...
A Few of My Things

GE
Internet 

of

My Things

Me
A Few of My Things

Lights
Fuse is Three Things

http://joinfuse.com
We give each thing a
persistent compute object,
or pico
Picos are online computers
Identity—they represent a specific entity
Storage—they persistently encapsulate both structured
and unstructured data
Open event network—they respond to events
Processing—they run applications autonomously
Event Channels—they have connections to other picos
APIs—they provide access to and access other online
services
Picos Are Decentralized & Networked
Built on open standards
Built on open source
Picos Ease Modeling

Lynne's Cloud

Phil's Cloud

owner

2

Tom's Cloud

3

owner
1

1

4

borrower
Picos support a new Web
programming model
Web
Application

Browser

Application
Data
Web
Application

Browser

Application
Data
Picos Use an Event Query Model
functions return results based
on persistent data

UI updates presentation
using query API
pico

User Interface
query API
name

functions

email
persistent
storage

phone
event API
rules
Done

or Cancel

user makes change in UI
resulting in an event

rules validate and process event,
often updating model
Why do this?
Orthogonality and modularity are
powerful: network effects!
More flexible
Less work
Less expensive
More private
APIs

APIs

Other
Data
Sources
Web
Services
Rulesets

Social

Social

File

Guard
Tour
Library

Fuse
Library

UI Support

Notification
Service

CloudOS
Service

Configuration
Management

Personal Data
Service

Guard
Tour

Fuse

Home
Management

Intentcasting

To Do &
Reminders

Vehicle
Manangement

Timeline
(social)

Forevr.us
(contact)

Picos Support A Familiar Model
...

...

Persistent
Data

Applications

CloudOS

User
Space

Services &
Libraries

Persistent Compute Object

Kynetx Rules Engine

Kernel
Space
Programming Model
Program in any language you like
OAuth access to pico
Pico provides
user data
processing
API and inter-pico communications
Managers
Report
Index
Institution
Report
Report
"2"
Report
"2"
"2"
Reports

Guards
Report
"current"
Report
"1"

Guard
"Frank"
Tour
Index

Location
Index

Location
"R7RK"

Tour
"LUFX"

Location
"T67G"

Tour
"KUFF"
Tours
Tours
Tours
Tours

Locations
Locations
Locations
Locations

Subscriptions
permanent
temporary

Location
"G5YH"

This can get complex…
What Technology Wants
Recommended Reading
Mirror Worlds, David Gelernter
Snowcrash, Neal Stevenson
Rainbow's End, Vernor Vinge
Trillions, Peter Lucas, Joe Ballay & Mickey McManus
My book on
how this can
be built now
CloudOS White Papers

www.windley.com
developer.kynetx.com
docs
Connecting Everything
!

Contact info:
Phil Windley
pjw@kynetx.com
www.windley.com
@windley

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Connecting Things

Notas do Editor

  1. - 1 trillion is *really* big. 1M => 10 days, 1B => 30 years, 1T => 38,000 years - 1-2 billion nodes on the Internet now - A trillion node network will dwarf today's Internet in scale and complexity - What will cause this, how will it be accomplished, and what will it mean?
  2. - Software is Eating the World - "middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy." -MA - A microprocessor that costs $30 today will cost $0.03 in your life time -- Every thing will have an embedded processor -- Connectivity solves problems (GE Dishwasher) -- Everything will be connected -- You might laugh at the thought of your couch being on the Internet and wonder why. But 10 years ago, you would have thought the same thing about your bathroom scale.
  3. - When computational devices are all around us and ubiquitous, we will find ourselves immersed in a sea of computation. - Moore's Law and glasses with microprocessors
  4. Modern cars are a great example of ambient computing. There are dozens of microprocessors connected by networks. But we don’t notice them. The car is the most sophisticated computer network most people own, but the interface is old and familiar.
  5. Moores law will propel connected microprocessors into every thing. Literally.
  6. There are literally trillions of things that will be connected to each other in vast networks that dwarf what we have today. Person, place, organization, thing Computational avatars. Potholes…
  7. - Connections to things you own - Connections to things you don't - Connections to the people around you - permanent - temporary (CS462) - transitory - Devices will be like Bic pens. Everywhere and the one we pick up will be ours until we set it down
  8. - Not like the current Web - It will be just like the Internet, which is to say that it will NOT be like the Web. - Not like mobile - Not like a place We need a BRAND NEW application model that more closely resembles the Internet
  9. and imagine one representing the trillion node network. Try to envision the difference in scale. Now, imagine you want to get from the top of one mountain--where we’re at now--to the other.
  10. You can’t do it by merely changing a few things, building scaffolding between the mountains in the analogy
  11. You have to scale the new mountain.
  12. Each connected product expects me to sign up for their service and download their iPhone app. This won’t scale...
  13. This is what it looks like from the manufacturer’s perspective
  14. Sometimes we call this a “personal cloud”
  15. Every thing, manufactured or not, conceptual, geospacial, and so on can be in My #IoT Potholes!
  16. A very decentralized personal data store. A personal cloud Our vision of a PDS is a model of the world that a person cares about.
  17. 1. Apps 2. Gizmo 3. Personal Cloud
  18. Relationships might be existing or potential, mention VRM? Personal Clouds Fuse helps car signal intention, a very powerful signal… Not exclusivity … plugging into a vast network Fuse Features Maintenance history Service reminders Manufacturer recommendations Recalls and warranty Service certification (3rd party)
  19. Picos are personal data stores with a lightweight virtual computer attached. They can be used to give *everything* an online avatar. They are cheap. Decentralized data.
  20. Form the basis for personal clouds
  21. Substitutability is a key concept if we want freedom from silos.
  22. Unhosted web applications More modularity, less coupling Apps based on HTML5, CSS, JavaScript. Model also works for hosted apps and mobile.
  23. - positive: - the world and everything in it will become programmable and malleable - computing will move out of devices and become ambient. - we will live in an ecology of computation - computing experiences will be more natural and personal - negative: - what will *reality* mean? - books as an example of the disappearance of physical devices - decentralized networks can be non-deterministic
  24. Mention Neckpain
  25. - Will it be a utopia? dystopia? - Somewhere in the middle http://dylanglynn.blogspot.com/2010/07/utopia-dystopia.html
  26. Build the world you want to live in
  27. I’ve written a book, The Live Web, that describes the fundamental technology--event-based interactions--that make the CloudOS and personal clouds possible.
  28. There are several white papers on my blog that give more information about what we’re doing.
  29. We’ve got pretty good documentation about how to build event-based applications. The underlying system has had an open developer program for several years. We’re just about ready for alpha developers to build applications on the CloudOS itself: target Dec 2012.