The document provides an overview of IBM Streams and its integration with Apache Edgent and IBM Watson IoT Platform, focusing on edge device analytics. It outlines how streaming analytics can be performed locally to reduce data volume and enhance real-time decision-making for edge devices. Additionally, it describes the functionalities of the IBM Streams IoT toolkit, including device management and connectivity features that enable better monitoring and command issuing for edge devices.

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IBM Streams IoT Integration
IBM Streams Version 4.2
Susan L. Cline, Streams UI Developer,
susancline@us.ibm.com
Dan Debrunner, Streams Architect
debrunne@us.ibm.com

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Agenda
 Overview
– Apache Edgent, IBM Watson IoT Platform & IBM Streams
 Use Case: How does this help Streams developers and users?
 Demo
 Streams Console + Edgent device management functionality
 Questions?

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 Thousands to million of edge devices being analyzed by IBM
Streams
IBM Watson IoT Platform IBM Streams
Streaming Analytics
Apache Edgent on Edge
Devices and Gateways
High-Level Overview

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Apache Edgent
 Lightweight streaming analytics runtime designed to execute at the
edge of the network – “Internet of Things”
– Vehicles: engine monitoring, location analytics, …
– Buildings: Energy efficiency, …
– Smartphones: location analytics, fitness, …
– …
 Reduce data volume sent to central analytics
– Send information rich data only when relevant
 Run continuous analytics locally (on the device)
– Continue to provide functionality even when disconnected
Apache Edgent is an effort undergoing Incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Incubator. Incubation is
required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process
have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the
completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.

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IBM Watson IoT Platform
 Bluemix Cloud Service for Internet of Things
 Device connectivity using MQTT
– Supporting IoT scale, millions of devices.
 Device model
– Devices send events to IoT Platform to be subscribed to by central systems
– Devices receive commands from central systems through IoT Platform
 Device Management
– Device registration & control
 Apache Edgent provides connectors to IoT Platform

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IBM Streams IoT Integration
 com.ibm.streamsx.iot toolkit
– Enables analytics against data from IoT devices
– Adds device model for IBM Streams applications
• SPL
• Java Applications
– Simplifies connectivity to IBM Watson IoT Platform
• Edge devices can be running Apache Edgent but not required
 IoT Device manager
– Pluggable module to allow IoT device & application management from IBM
Streams
– IBM Watson IoT Platform device manager
– Open API for third-party device
– IBM Streams JMX and streamtool APIs
– IBM Streams Console integration

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Use Case
 Streams Applications, Streams Console + IoT Integration:
– Streams Applications: Monitor and analyze the data sent from devices
running Apache Edgent applications
– Streams Console: Ability to create and store device manager information and
send commands to edge devices
– Example: Temperature and speed monitoring devices running Edgent
applications send out of range data to Watson IoT that Streams applications
receive. These applications provide additional analysis on data. The Streams
application or Streams console sends commands to the device to alter behavior
of the device or request additional event information to perform additional
analysis.
– Result: The ability to combine analysis of edge device events with
analytics from the enterprise for better decision making

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Demo
 Streams console running two Streams applications using the Watson IoT
toolkit
 Show how to create a device manager configuration to Watson IoT
 Show how to send commands to devices
 View the commands sent to the devices in the Streams Console
 See the events sent from the devices to IoT

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Streams Console – Edgent Application and Device Mgr
 Edgent Application and Device Management available in Mgmt and all
Application Dashboards (Instance, Job and Operator)
 Ability to create, edit, and remove configurations
 Save device manager configurations as property files
 Generic configurations can be used to store other application connection
information – i.e, JDBC or RabbitMQ
 Drill down to see device types associated with device manager configuration
and number of devices per device type
 Issue commands on specific device types
 Show, filter and clear command history, edit commands, use command
templates

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Additional Resources
 developerWorks StreamsDev
 Apache Edgent Documentation
 Apache Edgent GitHub
 Watson IoT Platform

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Questions?