Presentation by reelyActive to the Bluetooth SIG committee on Internet of Things in June 2015.

1. Bluetooth & IoT

2. Imagine proclaiming in 1990:
The Internet
Soon we’ll be able to look up every text,
picture, video, review and opinion ever
made about a particular topic, simply by
entering keywords into a computer.

3. Imagine proclaiming in 2015:
The Internet of Things
Soon we’ll be able to look up real-world
context, the physical state of anything, as
it unfolds, simply by entering keywords
into a computer.

4. Created standards which are:
How did the Internet do it?
➔ Simple in principle
➔ Open in spirit
➔ Easy to adopt
➔ Application-agnostic

5. By creating standards which are:
How will the IoT do it?
➔ Simple in principle
➔ Open in spirit
➔ Easy to adopt
➔ Application-agnostic

6. (From our 2014 Bluetooth
World Presentation)
We believe in ‘BLE for IoT’

7. Most ‘things’ are simply glorified barcodes.
Our vision of the IoT
Everything identifiable in real-time
at a human scale.
Anything can propagate any short
message with minimal overhead.
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8. Kevin Ashton’s IoT vision:
We’re not alone
We need to empower computers with their own
means of gathering information, so they can see,
hear and smell the world for themselves, in all its
random glory. RFID and sensor technology
enable computers to observe, identify and
understand the world—without the limitations of
human-entered data. (RFID Journal, 2009)

9. From Bluetooth World 2015

10. How can the SIG help?
Everything identifiable in real-time
at a human scale.
Anything can propagate any short message with
minimal overhead.
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➔ Assigned Numbers
➔ DNS-like standard for distributed lookup?
➔ GAP
➔ Standard for data propagation via Internet?

11. Summary: it’s happening
Inexpensive
Bluetooth
Smart ICs
Energy
Harvesting
Every product will
be identifiable at a
distance.
Many will share
sensor data.

12. Summary: think Internet
➔ Simple in principle
➔ Open in spirit
➔ Easy to adopt
➔ Application-agnostic
Facilitate the propagation of this
data with a standard that is:

13. context.reelyactive.com
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Jeffrey Dungen | jeff@reelyactive.com