What's this "Internet of Things (IoT)" I keep hearing all about? We will cover where IoT came from, where it is today, where it's going in the future and how the Arduino open source platform is being used to bring new ideas and products to life.

1. Open Source and the
IoT Landscape Today
Justin Grammens

2. Automation!
Source: Declan Brennan, Irish Farmer

3. Outline
• Define IoT & History of the Internet of Things ( IoT )
• Predicted growth of the IoT
• Open Source Players
• Examples

4. “Things”
• Wikipedia : Interconnection of uniquely identifiable
embedded computing-like devices within the
existing Internet infrastructure ( source: Wikipedia )
• Around 6 billion devices in 2013
• Forecasting 30 - 50 billion devices by 2020
• My definition: Digital network of smart physical
computing objects built to make our lives better.

5. Devices
CAGR = Compound Annual Growth Rate

6. History
• “Internet of Things” terminology
• Concept coined at MIT Auto-ID Center in 1999
• Lots of talk on RFID and NFC, but little action
• Past: Roots in industry and business ( M2M )
• Today: Mobile phones have brought in consumers
• Has now reached the “hype” stage

7. Hype Cycle Phases
Source: Gartner, August 2014

8. Technology Hype Cycle
Source: Gartner, August 2014

9. Trends
source: google
Source: Google

10. Trends
Source: Google

11. Growth

12. Wearables / Consumer

13. Opportunity
CAGR = Compound Annual Growth Rate

14. Costs

15. Investments

16. Why Care?
• Bigger than the explosion of mobile in 2007
• Cheap hardware at all levels ( drones are now $299 )
• Low cost cloud services
• 3D printing & low volume runs
• Consumer appetite to monitor and track things
• Standards like BLE, NFC, WIFI help
• Ubiquity of mobile devices

17. Why Care?
• The costs to compete is dropping every day
• Open source hardware is having the same effect as
open source software
• Investors have been pouring money into IoT
• $4 billion invested in IoT over the past year
• $1.1 billion investment for startups in 2013

18. Jobs

19. Major Players Are Getting In!

20. Everyone Is Getting In!

21. Cellular is getting Cheap!
$39 for hardware - $3/mo for 1MB data

22. Who Will Win?
• Products and platforms with an open development
environment and open standards.
• Predictive analysis ( i.e. machine learning and “acting
on”the data that you are receiving ).
• Ability to measure at more minute levels becomes
important
• Peer mesh ( continues to work in offline when NOT
connected to the internet ).
• Extremely low power device or a way to harvest energy.
• Use LEAN methodologies to test your ideas and iterate
quickly.

23. Trends
Source: Google

24. Arduino
• Single board Microcontroller
• 8-bit Atmel AVR or 32-bit Atmel ARM
• UNO offers 6 analog input pins
• 14 digital I/O pins
• Initial release in 2005

25. Arduino
• Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea,
Italy
• Looking for a cheaper solutions for
their students
• Built the platform using open source
tools in less than a year
• I was hooked after my first program

26. Sample of Boards
Mega
Uno
Due
LilyPad Total of 16 official boards produced...

27. Why Is It Popular?
• Easy - Programmed based on a language called Wiring
• Cheap - clones can now be bought for $9 or less
• Low energy - .1 watt
• Durable - fanless, little to no heat
• Open source - schemas are all online and free
• Makes it excellent for prototyping!

28. Where to Start?
• Arduino Inventor’s Kit
• Arduino UNO
• LEDs
• Motors / Servos
• Buttons / Switches
• Sensors

29. Components
LED Resistors Transistor
Servo Piezo Element Potentiometer

30. Components
DC Motor Push Button Photo Resistor
Ethernet Shield LCD Shield WIFI Shield

31. Examples
• Blink LED
• Tri-Color LED
• Distance
• Photocell
• Temperature

32. Blink

33. Tri-Color LED

34. Distance

35. Photocell

36. Temperature

37. Arduino’s Future
• Partnerships with Intel SoC
( Galileo Project )
• IoT is all about measuring things.
• Arduino is positioned to help
everyone do this.
• Building communities! Visit us at
http://Arduino.MN

38. Raspberry Pi
• Released Feb 2012
• 5 million Raspberry Pis have been
sold to date
• A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-
A7 CPU (~6x performance)
• 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM (2x memory)
• The Raspberry Pi 2-compatible
version of Windows 10 will be
available free of charge to makers
• Audio/Video/processing

39. Raspberry Pi
• GPIO Ports ( General Purpose I/O )
• Writing applications in Python
• Only $35

40. Beagle Board
~ $50 , Better processor and memory

41. The Future
• Onboard computing power increasing
• Systems can now finally be more intelligent and compact

42. Open CV ( Computer Vision)
• Open source computer vision and machine
learning software library
• Full interfaces in Python, Java and MATLAB
• Runs on Windows, Android, iOS, and Linux
• Allows for some interesting opportunities to plug
other languages in.

43. Open CV

44. Investment
More than $100 Million in 2014

45. Summary
• Web 1.0 - Connecting People to the Internet
(Browser)
• Web 2.0 - Connecting People to People (Social)
• Web 3.0 - Connecting Objects to People and
Objects to each other (IoT)
• Open hardware provides a path for anyone who
wants to complete, an outlet to build a product!

46. References
• Arduino: http://arduino.cc
• Arduino.MN: http://arduino.mn
• IoTWeeklyNews: http://iotweeklynews.com
• IoTFuse: http://iotfuse.com
• IoTMpls: http://iotmpls.com

47. Questions?
Justin Grammens
justin@grammens.com
http://justingrammens.com
Builder | Entrepreneur | Mentor