Energy-Aware Communications: 17th International Workshop, EUNICE 2011, Dresden, Germany, September 5-7, 2011 In the next couple of years, there are expected to be 2 billion people connected to the Internet. At the same time, the instrumentation and interconnection of the worlds human-made and natural systems is explodingwhich could mean that there soon will be more things connected to the Internet than there are people who are connected. This Internet of Things promises to give people a much better understanding of how complex systems work, so they can be tinkered with to make them work better. But it also opens up a whole new sphere of opportunity to mine the data to create anything from smarter traffic to smarter healthcare to smarter food supply chains.

1. A Sense of a Smarter Planet
Dr. Matthias Kaiserswerth
Director and Vice President
IBM Research - Zurich

2. •Welcome to a smarter planet
•Who gets it?
•Wireless sensors made easy
•Summary
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3. The world is smaller.
The world is flatter.
The world is about to
get a whole lot smarter.
Why?
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4. Our world is becoming
INSTRUMENTED
Our world is becoming
INTERCONNECTED
Virtually all things, processes and ways
of working are becoming
INTELLIGENT
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5. + + =
An opportunity to think and act in new ways—
economically, socially and technically.
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6. 1 billion
transistors
for each
person
on earth.
1 trillion
WHY? things
connected
to the net.
30 billion Using the
RFID tags cloud to
already provision
embedded. computing
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7. In one small
40-70% = business district in
Estimated losses Los Angeles alone,
of electrical energy cars burned 47,000
because grid gallons of gasoline
systems are not just looking for
smart. parking.
Only 20–30%
of reserves
WHY? are extracted from
the world’s existing
oil wells.
Weather-related In our healthcare
events inflicted systems, electronic
$1 trillion in damage health records could
from 1980 to 2003. save 100,000 lives a
year.
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8. Smarter energy Smarter traffic Smarter oil fields
Smart oil fields
Smarter water Smarter food supply
management WHY?
BECAUSE
IT NEEDS
TO.
Smarter banking Smarter buildings Smarter healthcare
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9. WHO GETS
IT?
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10. MALTA
Replacing 250,000 analog
electric meters with
smarter meters that
monitor electricity usage
near real time, identify
water leaks and electricity
losses, set variable rates,
and reward customers
who consume less power.
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11. DENMARK
On the island of
Bornholm, IBM is helping
to develop smart
technologies that
synchronize the charging
of electric vehicles and
homes with the availability
of wind energy in the
electric grid.
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12. WIRELESS
SENSORS
MADE EASY
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13. WIRELESS SENSOR
NETWORKS
Spatially distributed
autonomous devices using
sensors and actuators to
cooperatively monitor and
react to physical or
environmental conditions.
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14. CHALLENGES
•Potentially very limited
resources - power,
memory, energy
•Not easy to use or
program, even for
computer scientists
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15. Introducing
IBM Mote Runner
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16. Open:
Provide an open
“standard” to spark
an ecosystem and
free for academia
Download at
alphaworks.ibm.com
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17. Power Efficient:
Makes “best” use of
the available
resources,
8 bit processor,
8 KB RAM,
128 KB Flash
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18. Dynamic:
Can be
dynamically
configured and
reconfigured in
the field.
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19. Scalable and
Integrated:
Can be deployed
on a wide range of
motes and is part
of a large
infrastructure.
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20. Accessible:
Can be
programmed in a
state-of-the-art way
by computer
scientists; can be
deployed and used
by domain
specialists
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21. On-Mote Architecture
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22. Mote Runner:
Bird’s Eye View
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23. Mote Runner:
Complier Tool Chain
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24. INTERNET OF THINGS
ARCHITECTURE
EU project, using Mote
Runner, to create an easy to
use platform to connect any
object with a sensor to the
Internet. Pilot will include
monitoring vital patient
statistics in Spain.
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25. Summary
• The technology is available
• The opportunities are being forced upon all
of us to act
• Collaboration between academia,
government and industry can make it
happen
• Try Mote Runner -
www.alphaworks.ibm.com
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