The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that link several billion devices worldwide. Any device can communicate with any other device. Through a series of tubes!

1. District 3 - IoT Event
05 08 14
Jeffrey Dungen
@reelyActive

2. The Internet of
Things
Mainframes
Servers
PCs
Smartphones
Tablets
?

3. What’s the Internet?

4. No, seriously
The Internet is a global system of
interconnected computer networks that
link several billion devices worldwide.
Any device can communicate with any
other device.
Through a series of tubes!

5. Thing to Thing
Source: All my friends are still dead

6. Again, seriously
“We need to [...] enable computers
to observe, identify and understand
the world—without the limitations of
human-entered data.”
- Kevin Ashton
RFID Journal, June 2009

7. Procter & Gamble
● owns and operates ~80 brands
● $84 billion in revenue (2014)
If computers understand the world,
they can understand the supply chain,
they can save P&G billions!

8. Internet of Things ‘99
Automatically collect info on:
● time/place of production
● what gets put inside
● when/how it gets to store shelf
● when it is purchased & by whom
● whose medicine cabinet it is in
● handling during recycling/disposal

9. Internet of Things ‘14
Computers understand the world?
- or -
Glorified remote controls?

10. The Internet of
Things
Human
entered
data
User
Interface
Computers shouldn’t depend on humans in
order to understand the real world!

11. Cut out all the humans!
But then how do computers detect:
● a product on a store shelf?
● a wireless light bulb in a room?
● a person’s presence in the room?
to create smart, efficient, magical
experiences?

13. If spaces can detect who/what is
present, that information can be shared
wherever it’s needed.
Through a series of tubes!

14. Smart Restaurant
● detects client with peanut allergy
● detects food containers labeled with
peanut-allergy warning
● detects that client’s waiter
Computers alone can automatically do
all the work for the waiter to present
only safe menu items to the client.

15. Not nearly a novelty!
China: 1.35 Billion people
● turn off lights, A/C when any room is
vacant: conserve energy
● real-time transit scheduling and ride-sharing:
reduce pollution
● optimal recycling of all consumer
goods: reduce waste

16. The IoT must happen
Scarcity of resources means that
human civilization can only continue to
grow through optimisations and
efficiencies.
Until it expands beyond
our planet, but honestly,
IoT is more realistic
today...

17. reelyActive + IoT
Smart Space
3rd
Party
Peanuts!!!
3rd
Party
3rd
Party
Series of
tubes!

18. Plenty to Detect
Billions of things can already be
detected:
ID range: tens of metres
1 Billion shipments in 2013
Source: ABI Research
Smartphones, smart things, everyday objects...

19. We’re moving from a world of
Smart devices in dumb spaces
to a world of
dumb devices in Smart Spaces

20. Barriers
Technology is no longer the barrier as
it was back in ‘99.
Ask any major corporation today, and
they’ll say it’s privacy.

21. Recap
Billions of Things “joining” the Internet
Internet of Things allows computers to
understand the world (without
humans)
Smart Spaces put Things in context
Will the IoT save us from ourselves???

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Jeffrey Dungen
jeff@reelyactive.com