This is the presentation given at Cloud Expo in NYC on november 2014 touching on webRTC and IoT.

1. For Internet of Things
Real-Time Interactions
Dr. Alex Gouaillard
Webrtc summit, part of Cloud Expo, NYC, 2014

2. Overview
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Interesting IoT problems are complex, not complicated.
Scope: Smart Devices, building, vehicle, city?
Why are we speaking about webRTC in the context of IoT again?

3. IoT problems are complex, not complicated
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Complicated
Not complex
100% predictable
Not Dynamic

4. IoT problems are complex, not complicated
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Complicated
Not complex
Reducible

5. IoT problems are complex, not complicated
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Complicated
Not complex
A simple form of
reducible.

6. IoT problems are complex, not complicated
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Complex Systems
Many components in interaction and whose
behaviour at the system level can not be
inferred from the behaviour of the individual
components and their interactions.
Complexity arises when an increasing number of
variables begin to interact in an independent
and apparently unpredictable way. There is
emergence of systems level properties.
Complexity is a scientific theory that claims that
some systems have behaviour that cannot be
explained solely by the analysis, however
thorough, of the components of the system.
These phenomena, called “emergent
properties”, seem to appear in numerous
complex systems including living organisms, the
human brain or cities.
Complexity
John L. Casti, Encyclopedia Britanica

7. IoT problems are complex, not complicated
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Sustainable Urban Planning
“Environmental sustainability will require a global vision of
cities. This global vision makes a lot of sense as each city is a
whole in which components are in perpetual interaction”.
Henry Proglio, EDF CEO
Previous Veolia CEO
Complex

8. Le projet CoSMo : les enjeux
I think the next century
will be the century
of complexity
Stephen Hawking
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slide courtesy CoSMo

9. Overview
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Interesting IoT problems are complex, not complicated.
Scope: Smart Devices, building, vehicle, city?
Why are we speaking about webRTC in the context of IoT again?

10. Scope: Smart Devices, building, vehicle, city?
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Sustainable Urban Planning
“Environmental sustainability will require a global vision of
cities. This global vision makes a lot of sense as each city is a
whole in which components are in perpetual interaction”.
Henry Proglio, EDF CEO
Previous Veolia CEO

11. Scope: Smart Devices, building, vehicle, city?
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Siemens: Smart sensors, Smart grid is the most important!
… Of course, this has nothing to do with them actually making sensors …

12. Scope: Smart Devices, building, vehicle, city?
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HP: The DATA is the secret! With all those (siemens) sensors feeding you in Real Time,
you’re gonna face a DELUGE of ETHEROGENOUS data. We should lead your smart city
project.
… of course, that has nothing to do with them offering storage and solutions
for Big Data and other related technologies.

13. Scope: Smart Devices, building, vehicle, city?
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IBM: smartER cities. The analytic part is the most important ! We should lead your
smart city project.
… of course it has nothing to do with them having the best stats amnd AI
solution.

14. Scope: Smart Devices, building, vehicle, city?
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Veolia or Suez: Well, nobody really knows what a city is, while we’ve been operating
hundreds of city, and interpreting the data for years. We actually own decades of
data that you would need to train your algorithms, and make sense of anything. We
should lead your smart city project!
… of course it has nothing to do with them being the #1 and #2 at services
to cities.

15. Scope: Smart Devices, building, vehicle, city?
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Big Data, IoT, smart cities are all vaguely defined concepts
Everybody reads time at his own clock.
We need to define our scope to be able to achieve anything

16. Overview
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Interesting IoT problems are complex, not complicated.
Scope: Smart Devices, building, vehicle, city?
Why are we speaking about webRTC in the context of IoT again?

17. IoT and WebRTC
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Communication Layer !

18. IoT and WebRTC
UC / VC
Telco /
OTT Web
Hardware
Software
Embeddable,
Contextual
Real Time Interactivity
Landline
OTT
Web
Web 2.0
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19. IoT and WebRTC
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Aug 21st, 2012
Ann arbor

20. IoT and WebRTC
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2013
Singapore
RFID on waste
Bus tags
Satellite ERP
Electric Vehicle
…

21. IoT and WebRTC
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WebRT (DataChannel)
- Dynamic and fast
- Allow reuse of web techno (wifi)
- Scales like the web
- Fully encrypted
- Embeddable in any device
- Perfect for the transport layer of dynamic “Things”, not the best for static Things but can
still be used.

22. Oh yes, who am I?
Dr. Alex Gouaillard
• 15 years experience
• (2) B. in Lang. (Jp/Cn)
• (2) Master in Science / Eng
• (2) PhD in Video Processing
• ex-Harvard, Caltech,
• 5 startups
• sg.linkedin.com/in/agouaillard
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• W3C WEBRTC working group
• IETF RTCWEB working group
• W3C ORTC community Group
• 3 WebRTC industry awards
• 1 WebRTC pioneer Award
• 1 of 8 contributing company to libwertc
• Ex- Caltech
• Ex Harvard University - Systems Biology
• Head, Systems Biology, A*STAR
• Head, Complex Systems Lab, A*STAR
• Singaporean Gov. Tech expert for urban Sustainability
• Whole of government 25 years planning effort
• Government / industry workshops