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Android powered internet of things
1. Android powered
Internet of Things
ALEXANDRU IOVANOVICI
POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA
ADVANCED COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURES LABORATORY
2. Songdo, South Korea
first of its kind fully equipped and wired smart city
$40 billion in 10 years;
3. “With Android, you get
something that is
power-efficient, it’s
easy for developers to
do the user interface
and touch
controls, and it’s easy
to get data in and out”
[Philip
DesAutels, Xively]
4. 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
6. 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]
7. 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
8. Implementation … issues
Lack of standardization;
Size: it’s 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 !?
9. 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 control;
Safety critical systems.
10. 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
devicehub.net
12. 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.
14. 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.
19. 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]