Ben Ward has 20 years of experience in internet service providers and has worked on projects involving wireless internet service providers, TV whitespace pilots, and internet of things applications for flooding monitoring and traffic/parking data collection. The document discusses how internet of things involves thousands of small, widely distributed devices that collect data using low-power wireless connections and need highly available connectivity with good uptime, reliable service, and security through measures like VPNs due to challenges around network address translation with IPv4 addressing.

1. Always On- Internet of Things
Ben Ward
Clearview Intelligence

2. Who am I?
• Ben Ward
• 20 years in ISPs
• ALA wholesale platform for WISPs (BDUK innovation fund)
• TV Whitespace pilot in Oxford
• CEO of Flood Network: IoT for Flooding.
• Now: Clearview Intelligence: IoT for traffic, journey time and parking

3. What does Internet of Things (IoT) do?
• 1000s of small devices
• IoT: Consumer, Industrial, Environmental
• Things: cheese, containers, wardrobes, dogs, catflaps, bins, roads
• Widely distributed like subscribers
• Dialup bandwidths
• Low latency and continuous connectivity
• Wireless back to a gateway:
• Wifi in the home,
• Low-Power WAN protocols,
• GSM base stations

4. What does IoT Need?
• Availability:
• Service reliability.
• Uptime, SLA, but low cost.
• Coverage:
• Geographical critical mass of subscribers.
• High spots or antenna sites which aren't owned by Arqiva. Big opportunity for WISPs
• Security & Manageability:
• Using IPv4 for the forseeable future
• This means ugly NAT
• VPNs better

5. www.clearview-intelligence.com