This document discusses Intel's 6LoWPAN solution for connecting low-power wireless sensors and devices to the internet. It provides an overview of 6LoWPAN and its benefits, Intel's NetContiki operating system, the Intel IoT gateway architecture, security features, and optimizations for the 6LoWPAN stack. It also mentions Intel achieving interoperability with the IPSO Alliance and current support for Quark and Baytrail systems.

1. Usman Sarwar, Kamarul Zaman and Joshua Fung
Embedded World 2016
An Infrastructural Secure
Wireless Sensing and Actuating
Solution

2. Internet of Things Group 2
IoT Connectivity Landscape
IEEE 802.15.4
6LoWPAN
OtherTechnologies
BluetoothWIFI
StandardBTSW
6LoWPAN
Ethernet
RFID/NFC
Standard OSI Reference Protocols
Stack
Cellular
Cellular specific protocols
Complexity Simplicity
IPSO
Thread
ZigBeeIP
ZigBee
TSN
2G /3GSIGFOXLTE-MOthers
others

3. Internet of Things Group
Connectivity Landscape (Distance vs Bandwidth)
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4. Internet of Things Group
IoT based infrastructure use-cases with IEEE
802.15.4
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IEEE 802.15.4
HomesSmart
Buildings
Smart
Utilities
Smart
Agriculture
Smart
Cities
Streetlights
Parking
Roads&
bridges
Livestock
Farming
Smart
Transportation
Smart
Healthcare
Grids
Water
Traffic
Waste
Assets
Ports
Monitoring
Office
• Designed for low bandwidth, low transmit power, small
frame size
• Design for Low power sensing and actuating applications.
• AA batteries usage up to 5+ years
• Indoor range: 10 to 50 Meters. Outdoor: 100+-
• Network topologies: Star, Tree and Mesh
Frequencies Data Rate
2011 Spec
Data Rate
2006 Spec
Channels
2.4 GHz 250 kbps 250kbps 16
928 Mhz 100 kbps 40 kbps 10
868 Mhz 100 kbps 20 kbps 1
OtherUse-cases
Overall
Market
Value
2020
1100B$
Logistics
157B$
Use
cases
400B$58B$ 5+ B$
Syringes
Medicine
117B$

5. Internet of Things Group 5
What is 6LoWPAN?
• Acronym for IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks.
• Standard from the maker of Internet (IETF) which works with existing
Internet infrastructure (30+ years)
• Widely accepted Standard and created Internet based on IP architecture
• It provides
• Adaptation layer for interoperability and packet formats
• Adapting the packet sizes of the two networks
• Address resolution
• Addressing management mechanisms
• Routing considerations and protocols for mesh topologies in 6LoWPAN
• Scalable

6. Internet of Things Group 6
Why 6LoWPAN and what are the possibilities?

7. Internet of Things Group
What is NetContiki?
• Fork of Contiki OS
• Numerous Bug fixed in Contiki OS and other components (eg. CoAP) with
optimization towards commercialization
• Features and tools
• Interoperable IPSO 6LoWPAN stack
• Automatic channel selection
• Over the air upgrade
• Optimization in mesh routing
• Security framework
• Scalable to have larger network per routing device
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8. Internet of Things Group
IoT gateway –
Application Processor Centric
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Intel Architecture
Gateway
IPSO 6LoWPAN Stack
Performance Optimization
Application services
WIFI
Ethernet
UDP/IP stack (Kernel)IEEE 802.15.4 Transceiver
Serial protocol
Cellular
+ Open Source (in-progress)
+NBR software independent of IEEE 802.15.4 Transceiver
+ Scalable from Quark to Xeon
+Available on Linux
+ Optimization (eg. Higher communication throughput, bigger routing table
etc)

9. Internet of Things Group
Intel 6LoWPAN solution
1. Network Border router modes
• Normal NBR
• Neighbor discovery
• Smart bridge
• Multi-NBR with multi-15.4 radio
• Infrastructural mode
2. Application services
• IPSO smart objects
• OMA LWM2M (bootstrap and the server)
• CoAP (Reference Demo for sensors, LEDs and buttons (using IoT-u10)
3. Security
• DTLS support for CoAP - Pre Shared Keys, Raw Public Certificates
• IEEE 802.15.4 Layer 2
4. RPL MESH
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Ref: http://www.ipso-alliance.org

10. Internet of Things Group
Intel 6LoWPAN solution
(Conti..)
5. Other Features
• OTA programming
• Automatic network selection mechanism using beacons (active scans)
6. Optimization
• Packet handling
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Ref: http://www.ipso-alliance.org

11. Internet of Things Group
Intel IPSO 6LoWPAN solution
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12. Internet of Things Group
Successful Intel 6LoWPAN stack interoperability
at IPSO plugfest - May 2015
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13. Internet of Things Group
Infrastructural IP based WSN
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14. Internet of Things Group
demo
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Curie based device

15. Internet of Things Group
Current Status
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Yocto Linux
Quark BSP 1.2 (Available for evaluation)
Baytrail BSP (Soon)
NetContiki
Yanzi IoT-U10 (USB)
Quark Microcontroller devices
Contiki supported platforms

16. Internet of Things Group
Sarwar, Usman <usman.sarwar@intel.com>
Palangian, Gary <gary.palangian@intel.com>
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Contact for details

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