The document discusses elements of connected products and platforms. It outlines five key elements: Purpose, People, Process, Product, and Platform. It then discusses local connectivity between devices, sensoring and local intelligence, internet connectivity, and management and application programming interfaces (APIs). The goal is to define an open IoT platform that connects many device types securely, enables remote upgrades, and provides data services through an open-source server.

1. Elements of
Connected Products
@jrhusney, Undercurrent

2. Philosophy
Making

3. Philosophy

4. PURPOSE
Why we come to work
PEOPLE
The teams that do the work
PROCESS
How the work gets done
PRODUCT
What we deliver
PLATFORM
What our community builds upon us
5Ps

5. PURPOSE
Why we come to work
PEOPLE
The teams that do the work
PROCESS
How the work gets done
PRODUCT
What we deliver
PLATFORM
What our community builds upon us MOST START HERE

6. PURPOSE
Why we come to work
PEOPLE
The teams that do the work
PROCESS
How the work gets done
PRODUCT
What we deliver
PLATFORM
What our community builds upon us
START HERE

7. Who is the leading Internet
of Things cloud platform?

9. Nobody.

13. This fish
found land!

14. PLATFORMS ARE BORN
OF BELOVED PRODUCTS
PRODUCT MARKET PLATFORM
NEED
+
TECH

15. When (context)
They want to (action)
So that (outcome)
A JOB TO BE DONE

16. VERTICAL VALUE DRIVERS
1
2
3
New Experiences
New Efficiencies
New Business Models

17. JOBS TO BE DONE
Make a simple,
amazing product.
Go deep.
VERTICAL

18. VERTICAL
HORIZONTAL
Then, open your
platform to capture
unanticipated value.

19. Technology ages in
reverse.

21. What’s are the jobs to be
done?

22. An now there’s a platform…

24. Making

25. Design
Local Connectivity
Sensoring & Local
JOBS TO BE DONE
Management &
Application API Principles
Internet Connectivity Intelligence

26. Local Connectivity
Node Hub & Spoke Mesh

27. Local Connectivity
Application ⬌ Device
Standards
• Wired {Ethernet, Modbus, …}
• WiFi (802.11)
• Mobile (LTE, GSM, …)
Peer to Peer

32. SparkFun Arduino Shield / TI CC3300

33. Broadcom WICED™

34. Application ⬌ Hub ⬌ Devices
Standards
• Bluetooth
• 802.15.4(g)
• ANT
• Propietary (> Jillion)
Local Connectivity
Hub & Spoke

36. Lumo Lift

37. Hammerhead

39. XBee™ 802.15.4G aEn Ldi n9k00 MHz XTend™

40. Local Connectivity
Application ⬌ Hub ⬌
Devices ⬌ Devices
Standards
• ZigBee – Non-IP on 802.15.4
• Thread – IPv6 on 802.15.4
• ZWave
• Many Proprietary (< Jillion)
Mesh

42. GE Link

43. XBee™ Series 2 ZigBee

44. CEL MeshConnect

45. helium.co (watch this space)

46. Local Connectivity
Hardware
Intelligence
Local
Interoperability

47. Sensoring & Local Intelligence
STM8 Broadcom BCM2835
Microcontrollers Embedded PCs
• Power efficient
• Low cost
• Single, Simple Application
• Fewer I/Os
• Power hungry
• Higher cost
• Complex applications
• Lots of I/Os
Atmel ATMega8
STM32 Arm Cortex
TI MSP430
Hardware Intelligence

49. Spark Photon

53. BeagleBone Black

54. Sensoring & Local Intelligence
Device ⬌ Device
Behaviors
• Discovery
• Joining and Grouping
• Message Passing
Standards
• Bluetooth, ZigBee, ZWave, Thread
• AllJoyn
Local
Interoperability

55. Internet Connectivity
INTERNET
GATEWAY OR ROUTER
DEVICE DEVICE DEVICE
Gateways
• Some open, some closed:
• From bring your own app
• To rich, proprietary ecosystems

56. Rasberry Pi in a Box (UniPi)

59. Wink Home Hub

60. Management & Application API
INTERNET
GATEWAY OR ROUTER
DEVICE DEVICE DEVICE
DEVICE MANAGEMENT
API

61. Management & Application API
Topology Devices ⬌ Internet App ⬌ Devices
Key Desired
Features
• Open to many device types
• Secure connections
• Remote upgrades
• Data is available:
• as real-time publish/subscribe streams
• as Async Multicast
• as Historically (with Mailboxing)
• Server is open-source

62. There is no reason IoT
platforms must be
commercial offerings.
(just like Apache gave us the web)

63. many device types
secure connections
remote upgrades
data services
server is open-source

64. many device types
secure connections
remote upgrades
data services
server is open-source

65. many device types
secure connections
remote upgrades
data services
server is open-source

66. Thank you!
@jrhusney, Undercurrent

67. Acknowledgements
1. http://thenounproject.com/term/thinking/9492/
2.http://thenounproject.com/term/tools/45344/
3.http://thenounproject.com/term/conversation/1680/