Slides from my presentation at DDDSW 2019 Showing how technology can help our environment and it's easy to get started. It shows our use case for controlling storage heaters based on information from power plants and energy prices.

1. Saving the World with
IoT
Tomasz Bartoszewski
@t_bartoszewski
tomasz.bartoszewski@gmail.com

2. Plan
 Is IoT for .Net devs? (3 min)
 What’s wrong with the World? (3 min)
 Electricity and Renewable Energy (4 min)
 Our use case for IoT (4 min)
 Azure IoT, what IoT Hub offers (4 min)
 Demo, make it work on your machine (20 min)
 Demo with Raspberry Pi (5 min)
 Questions

3. The C Strikes Back
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

4. Do we need C to work with IoT?
https://theawesomedaily.com/30-you-can-do-it-meme-pictures/

5. Raspberry Pi
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-plus/

6. Meadow
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meadow/meadow-full-stack-net-standard-iot-
platform

7. If you only learn one thing
It’s easy to get started, even
without any devices

8. Number of devices
https://iot-analytics.com/state-of-the-iot-update-q1-q2-2018-number-of-iot-devices-
now-7b/

9. Global IoT Market Forecast
https://iot-analytics.com/state-of-the-iot-update-q1-q2-2018-number-of-iot-devices-
now-7b/

10. Finding a use case

11. https://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2018/warming-stripes/

12. Drought
https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/impacts-climate-change-one-point-five-degrees-
two-degrees

13. Flooding
https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/impacts-climate-change-one-point-five-degrees-
two-degrees

14. Flooding
https://cdn.dopl3r.com/memes_files/when-people-ask-how-life-is-going-everything-is-
fine-fgGDj.jpg

15. Wildfire
https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/impacts-climate-change-one-point-five-degrees-
two-degrees

16. Greece 2018
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/athens-greece-fires-dozens-dead-beaches-kineta-
rafina-today-live-updates-2018-07-24/

17. Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 1850–2030
https://www.c2es.org/content/international-emissions/

18. Global Manmade Greenhouse Gas Emissions
by Sector, 2013
https://www.c2es.org/content/international-emissions/

19. Learning from the past

20. Using Renewable Energy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windmill
https://en.delfi.lt/lithuania/freetime/slyninkos-water-mill-a-unique-lithuanian-
legacy.d?id=75575553

21. Electric Vehicles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle

22. Detroit Electric
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Electric

23. U.S. 1900 – car stats
 40 percent of automobiles were powered by steam
 38 percent by electricity
 22 percent by gasoline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle

24. Current state

25. World electricity production
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-Innovation-Clean-Energy-Future-
(NICE-Futur

26. UK Electricity generation
https://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

27. Wind generation progress
 NEW WIND RECORD! Between 12.15 and 13.40 on Friday
8th February, wind generated 15.3GW of green energy to
the grid, breaking the previous record of 15.1GW and
powering 36% of our electricity.
 Wind power generates 140% of Denmark's electricity
demand
https://twitter.com/RenewableUK/status/1094973337607045131
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/10/denmark-wind-windfarm-
power-exceed-electricity-demand

28. “Only two minutes of the sun
provide the world with one year’s energy
needs of entire humanity”
https://gulfnews.com/uae/environment/two-minutes-of-sun-enough-to-power-a-years-
usage-of-humanity-1.1910990

29. Problems with renewable energy
 Enough rain to power hydro generators
 Wind for wind turbines
 Clear sky and sunshine for solar panels

30. Storing electricity is hard
http://www.cleanbalancepower.com/about-pumped-storage.html

31. Storing electricity is hard
http://www.cleanbalancepower.com/about-pumped-storage.html

32. Dinorwig Power Station
https://www.flickr.com/photos/theancientbrit/545879229/

33. Our work

34. Storage Heaters

35. Dimplex

36. Smart Charger

37. Vehicle to Grid

38. Smart Grid

39. Mull
https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20180323-diy-powerwall
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/europe/scotland/isle-of-mull/

40. Mull

41. Orkney
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/europe/scotland/orkney-islands/

43. Azure IoT

44. Azure IoT
 IoT solution accelerators
 IoT Central
 Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Services
 IoT Hub
 Azure Maps
 Azure Time Series Insights
 IoT Edge

45. IoT Hub == Event Hub
 Device-to-cloud messaging
 HTTPS, AMQP, AMQP over WebSockets

46. IoT Hub == Event Hub on steroids
 MQTT, MQTT over WebSockets
 Per-device identity
 Cloud-to-device messaging
 Device twin and device management
 IoT Edge
 and more

47. Demo

48. Step 1: Create IoT Hub

49. Step 2: Send Telemetry
Room Temperature

50. Step 3: Get Telemetry
Room TemperatureRoom Temperature

51. Step 4: Send Command
Room TemperatureRoom Temperature
Turn On/Off

52. Step 5: Process Command
Room TemperatureRoom Temperature
Turn On/Off Turn On/Off

53. Smart Grid Demo
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/sense-hat/

54. Join us
https://www.ovoenergy.com/careers/vacancies