Open House: How Open Platforms Are Making Our Homes Smarter

Dan Lieberman, SmartThings@danlieberman

What is the Internet of Things?

Everything that can be connected to the network will be connected.

The Physical Graph is a virtual representation of the Physical World

It makes the physical world programmable

By just about anyone, not limited to firmware engineers.

What are the key layers of abstraction for the IoT?

One: The Physical Graph

The Physical Graph makes things easy, so we don’t have to know how it REALLY works.

Two: Security & Privacy, Security … more Security

Three: Visibility & Control … of Things

# ask the switch to turn on the lightswitchDevice.sendZclCommandNoAck(switchPort, switchEndPoint, lightDevice, lightEndPoint,

ZCL_CLUSTER_ID_GEN_ON_OFF, ZCL_FRAME_CLIENT_SERVER_DIR,

switchEndPoint.onCmd())

t = Timer(toggleDelay, name = ”On command watchdog")t.start()# we should get a notificationalt([

[ lightPort.RECEIVE(lightEndPoint.mw_incomingZcl(), value = 'incomingZclMsg'),

lambda: t.stop()],[ lightPort.RECEIVE(),

lambda: REPEAT],[ t.TIMEOUT,

lambda: stop()],

])if value and value('incomingZclMsg')[1]:

_msg = value('incomingZclMsg')[1]lightEndPoint.incomingZclCmd(lightPort, lightDevice,

_msg['clusterId'], _msg['cmdCode'], _msg['data'])

livingRoom.Switch1.On()

This Instead of This

Four: Discovery & Intelligence – The application of, well, “applications”

Five: Predictability

“Would you like me to close the garage door automatically from now on when you leave?”

“Would you like me to order new air filters?”

“Shall I turn off the hot tub now?”

“Shall I turn off the lights in your store?”

“Since you are near the market, did you know that you need milk, eggs, …”

Putting it all together …

Physical World

Physical Graph

Security & Privacy

Visibility & Control

Discovery & Intelligence

Predictability

The landscape today is fractured

Functionality and data are locked in silos

50 billion devices by 2020

Building Connections

Ad-hoc

Open Ecosystems

Standardization

Open federation standards are the missing link: the Internet of Things needs its SMTP

True interoperability will create user value and drive growth