1) The webinar provided an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT), explaining how connected devices collect and transmit sensor data via connectivity networks to cloud servers for processing and visualization to end users. 2) It discussed examples of IoT applications in various sectors and benefits like increased efficiency, cost savings, and new revenue streams. 3) The webinar also covered challenges like security, data management, and ensuring the value of IoT data is extracted to provide business and customer insights.

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2. Internet of Things (IoT)
Connected devices
Fraser Henderson, Digital Technology Advisor
Date: 2nd November 2020
Time: 1pm – 2.30pm

3. • Total session length 1.5hrs
• Time for questions & discussion at the end
• Use the chat but don’t expect an immediate response
- I will review chat during session breaks
• Keep your microphone muted please to avoid unwanted noise during
presentation slides
• If there is a problem, I will try to reconvene within 10 minutes – else fail!
Housekeeping

4. Your host
Fraser Henderson
• Over 12 years working remotely as an independent tech
consultant and as employee for tech firms
• Based in North Lincolnshire but serving clients globally
• Expertise in developing digital products & services, particularly
for public bodies
• Trainer and social media manager on the side!
• Doesn’t like butter on sandwiches or gravy

5. What is IoT about?
Regular things that are
connected to the internet…
Interact Collaborat
Exchange
data
Exchange
data

6. Where can I find it?
Ring video doorbell
Wifi

7. Where can I find it?

8. Smartphones are “sensing and connectivity assistants”
Crowdsensing

9. Some examples : wearables

10. Some examples : security
Real time
(1/4 data
by 2025)

11. Some examples : civic (smart cities)

12. Some examples : utilities & environment

13. Some examples : supply & demand

14. Some examples : health (asthmapolis)
When
Where
How much?
Understand triggers & personal
feedback
Identify and anticipate patient
risks

15. How IoT works
Sensors
information
(hardware)
The data is
sent to the
cloud
Software
processes the
data
The
data is made
useful to the
end user

16. Help people become smarter
Saves time
Become more efficient (push to pull)
Reduce risk (prediction) / improve safety
Create competitive advantage
Reduce costs
Improve performance
New revenues through innovative *services*
Benefits

17. Interlude

18. How IoT works
Sensors
information
The data is
sent to the
cloud
Software
processes the
data
The
data is made
useful to the
end user

19. Sensors

20. Sensors
• Cost
• Power
• Size
• Accuracy
• Reliability
• Durability
• Robustness
Sensor market
opportunity?

21. Experiment & build!
(open source hardware)

22. How IoT works
Sensors
information
The data is
sent to the
cloud
Software
processes the
data
The
data is made
useful to the
end user

23. Connectivity
Bluetooth
WiFi
3G/4G/5G
Infra-red
Ultrasonic
ZigBee/Z-Wave
• Speed
• Power
• Distance
• Error tolerance
• Security
• Compatibility
• Operating environment

24. Interlude

25. How IoT works
Sensors
information
The data is
sent to the
cloud
Software
processes the
data
The
data is made
useful to the
end user

26. Data processing (think speed!)
Data Centre
Collect/store
Aggregate
Analytics
Control flow
Edge computing
Immediacy
Local storage & processing
Make local decisions

27. Edge computing example
On-device
recognition
Cloud based
speech
and response
DAC and

28. How IoT works
Sensors
information
The data is
sent to the
cloud
Software
processes the
data
The
data is made
useful to the
end user

29. Data visualisation
High quality

30. Data visualisation

31. • Consume power
• Additional cost
• Use data / bandwidth / networking
• Interface issues (devices without displays – connect WiFi!)
• Integration (different vendors & different systems)
• Updates & staying fresh
• Security & hacking
• Needs additional “support”
• Network accessibility (close to data)
Some Challenges

32. Compromised devices

33. Security by design not by obscurity
1. Securing the device
2.Securing the network
3.Publishing updates &
patches
• Tested and trusted by users
• Change the default password (new EU
laws)
• Disable unused services (don’t need it
stop it)
• Use secure protocols (encryption)
• Trusted firmware & hardware
combinations (signed)
• Place IoT devices on a sperate network
(“guest network”)

34. Interlude

35. Iot, Analogue & Digital
The company took a page from
aerospace giant Lockheed’s famous
"Skunk Works" Advanced
Development Project division,
assembling a small group of
engineers operating semi-
independently and empowered to
design the product quickly and
without a lot of bureaucratic
interference and second-guessing.
Took one year to market.
“Time to light”, Alexa and latency
& permanent web sockets
Complexity to turn on a light bulb
is high!

36. Extracting value
Value of data in 5 states
• Real-time
• Early life
• At rest
• In motion
• Archive
Purpose value
Busines insight (inventory)
Engineering insight (failures)
Scientific insight (discovery)

37. Accessories marketplace

38. Information value loop

39. Risk versus reward (low/high)
Optimise physical
assets by tracking
usage
Improve sales by
learning customer
behaviour
patterns
Optimise physical
assets by tracking
usage
Optimise
internal
processes

40. Risk versus reward (low/medium)
Start with already
successful
product/service
What kind of sales
premium versus
R&D?
Think about
competitors and
interoperability
Add value to
an existing
product or
service

41. Risk versus reward (high/high)
Find a problem to
solve in an
efficient manner
Markets that
don’t exist
without IoT
(FedEx!)
Focus on services
and building
ecosystem
Build a
business
around an
IoT product

42. Interlude

43. The future
More connected devices than people
Internet of Everything!

44. Sensors – where next?
Gravitational wave detection
- See through walls
- See around corners
- Read minds
- Pinpoint accuracy without GPS
"quantum technology has the potential to transform the
world in ways we can barely imagine," concludes
Birmingham University's Prof Bongs.

45. The future = automation
Machine readable laws?
Intercommunication between
vehicles – platoons
Internet 2.0?

46. The future : Industry 4.0 (IIoT)
Cobots (collaborative robots)
Edge computing
Augmented reality (assembly with precision, maintain, QA)
Artificial intelligence
5G (new apps, precision, scale) AgriTech
Fibre broadband

47. The future
Cheaper, Faster, Lower Power Sensors
Better data analysis
Lower barriers to entry
Fog
Lower levers of human intervention

48. The near future
More productive “work from
home”
>presence
>home management
Stay independent
>falls prediction
>relative management
Shopping
>stock tracking
>social distancing
>Amazon supermarket
Smart cities
>utilisation
>emergencies
Future proof
your business
model

49. Group discussion

50. Harnessing the benefits of IoT
Where do people fit in?
How can IoT be used to advance sustainability goals?
Who might be interested in IoT data (subscribers?)
What will 5G do to advance IoT?

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