Android powered Internet of ThingsALEXANDRU IOVANOVICI

POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA

ADVANCED COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURES LABORATORY

Songdo, South Korea

first of its kind fully equipped and wired smart city

$40 billion in 10 years;

“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]

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

State of IoT

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]

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

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 !?

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.

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

IoT @ Google

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.

Hard stuff -;)

Bluetooth via Amarino

Android IOIO

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.

Android world

bRight Switch

FeaturesLearning mode, Dimmer, Built-in programmable timers, Integrated speaker and microphone, Proximity detection/motion sensing, WiFi capability, Outlet control, Customizable features

Staples connect

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]

Powered by Android ;-)