Internet of things slides from 9-17-2014 Boston Bluemix meetup.

1. Internet of Things and Bluemix
By: Ryan Baxter
@ryanjbaxter
9/17/14

2. What makes up the internet of things?
Anything that has an internet
connection…..ANYTHING!!!
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3. Device Explosion
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4. Speaking The Language
 The protocol of choice when communicating data from
your devices is MQTT
 Pub/Sub protocol
 Very lightweight so works well on devices that are
battery power and where bandwidth is a concern
 Use libraries for the language your app is using to use
MQTT
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5. IBM’s IoT Cloud and Bluemix
 IBM provides an MQTT instance in the cloud for you to
use to publish and subscribe to device data
 Quickstart and Registered devices
 Bluemix contains an IoT service to connect to the IoT
Cloud
 Use Node-RED to easily access and process your IoT
data
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6. 5
IBM Cloud
IBM IoT Cloud IBM Bluemix
MQTT
Subscribe
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IBM Cloud
IBM IoT Cloud IBM Bluemix
MQTT Publish
MQTT
Subscribe

8. Thank you.
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