Presenting at API World 2017, Soracom CTO and co-founder Kenta Yasukawa gets hands-on to demonstrate leading practices and APIs for connecting and controlling remote devices in the Internet of Things.

1. SORACOM: IoT APIs for Cloud Connectivity and
Device Management
Kenta Yasukawa, Ph. D.
Cofounder & CTO
SORACOM, INC.
Sep. 2017
-- You Create. We Connect. --

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About myself
Kenta Yasukawa, Ph. D.
Cofounder & CTO, SORACOM Inc.
Experience
Researcher at Ericsson Research
AWS Solutions Architect
AWS NoSQL Developer & SA
Twitter: @thekentiest
Facebook: fb.me/kenta.yasukawa
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kenta-y

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What comes on top of your head
when you hear “Internet of Things”?

4. What comes on top of your head
when you hear “Internet of Things”?
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Internet of Things
Internet CloudThings
IntelligenceConnected
Devices

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Ok, great!
Let’s start building IoT application!

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Cloud
Intelligence
I would first do prototyping

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Cloud
Intelligence
Then notice WiFi is not always available

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Cloud
Intelligence
And notice low cost devices are not capable enough…

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Internet CloudThings
Security
Device
Constraints
Connectivity
Device
Management
Cloud for
Things
Even worse, many things to consider in reality

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Too many hurdles to implement my great idea….

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Let SORACOM handle it!
You Create. We Connect.

13. We offer services and API for you!

14. What if you have API to:
Build private network dedicated for your
devices and your servers?
Change data collection endpoint from one
server to another w/o touching devices?
Connect/Disconnect remote device?

15. SORACOM Services offer such API!

16. What if you have API to:
Connect/Disconnect remote device?
Build private network dedicated for your
devices and your servers?
Change data collection endpoint from one
server to another w/o touching devices?

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SORACOM API

18. First of all, how does SORACOM
connect your devices to cloud?

19. SORACOM Services

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Internet
SORACOM Air – Cloud Connectivity
MNO
partners
User
① Purchase SIM cards and
deploy to devices
API③ API automation
Web Console② Manage via Web Console

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Cloud
Intelligence
Let’s first connect R Pi with SORACOM

22. Demo:
Connect Raspberry Pi with SORACOM Air
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23. Now the device is connected to cloud.
What’s next?

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Cloud
Intelligence
How can we bridge the gap b/w Arduino and Cloud?

25. SORACOM Services

26. Demo:
Send data to SORACOM Harvest
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27. I have my own server. Can SORACOM
help connect to it?

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SORACOM Beam: Data Transfer Support
Internet Service
Server A
Server B
Simple, Low overhead protocol
- TCP / UDP raw socket
- HTTP
- MQTT
ISP
MNO
Things Base
station
Transfer with Secure protocol
- HTTPS
- TCP over TLS
- MQTTS
Add metadata
- SIM ID (IMSI)
- Device ID (IMEI)
- Timestamp

29. Demo:
Send data to your server with
SORACOM Beam
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32. I want to send data to cloud service. Can
SORACOM help that?

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1. Configure your cloud resource ID and credentials
2. Send data from your devices
SORACOM Funnel: Cloud Resource Adaptor
Authentication
information
Cloud
Services
Low overhead
protocol
Protocol conversion
Authentication logic
Buffering
Error handling
TCP
UDP
HTTP
LoRaWAN
Sigfox
SORACOM Funnel

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Supported Cloud Adaptors
Amazon Kinesis Family
Azure Event Hubs
Encryption
Attach
authentication
information
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Amazon
Redshift
Stream Analytics
Power BI
Machine
Learning
TCP
UDP
HTTP
LoRaWAN
Sigfox
Cloud Dataflow
Cloud Functions
BigQuery
Firebase
Google Cloud PubSub

35. Demo:
Let’s connect Raspberry Pi to
Google PubSub with SORACOM Funnel
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37. SORACOM Services

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AWS
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
We can simply peer with your Amazon VPC
SORACOM Canal: Private Peering to your VPC
SORACOM
Canal
専用線
MNO

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What about private cloud and
other cloud services?

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SORACOM Direct and Door
Public cloud
Link to any cloud regardless private or public
AWS
SORACOM
Direct
専用線
MNO
Private cloud
SORACOM
Door

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I need to access my devices from my
server. Can I do that?

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SORACOM’s network security policy
User’s server
Hacking and unauthorized
access
Blocking direct access from
external network

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SORACOM Gate
Establishing a virtual subnet between user’s server to devices
Internet
User’s server
Gate Virtual Subnet

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SORACOM Gate
Establishing a virtual subnet between user’s server to devices
User’s server
Internet
Interactive communication as if connecting through a local area network
- From user’s server to device
- From user’s device to device

45. Demo:
Let’s build private network and SSH to
Raspberry Pi with SORACOM Canal & Gate
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46. How to get started?

47. Strong Developer & User Community

48. The community is expanding worldwide
Silicon Valley, US
London, UK Copenhagen, DK
Paris, France

49. Join us at SV-IoT!
The
Upcoming
Friday!
meetup.com/SV-IoT
More than 1,000 IoT developers registered!

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You Create. We Connect.