Dr. Mazlan Abbas gave a presentation on the Internet of Things. The presentation covered several key points: 1. The Internet of Things refers to connecting physical devices to the internet and to each other. Billions of devices are expected to be connected by 2020. 2. Organizations are looking to implement IoT solutions to gain more visibility into operations and make smarter decisions. Over 50% of organizations plan to implement an IoT solution in the next 24 months. 3. IoT enables the collection and analysis of large amounts of data from connected devices. This data can provide new insights and knowledge. However, challenges remain regarding technologies, standardization, security and privacy.

1. Internet of Things – The Tip
of the Iceberg or the The
Tipping Point?
Presentation by: Dr. Mazlan Abbas

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Social Web of Things

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can be collected, analysed and interpreted. Further, European
Commission [7] predicts that the present 'Internet of PCs' will
move towards an 'Internet of Things' in which 50 to 100
billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020.
IoT : Enabling communication
between devices, people &
processes to exchange useful
information & knowledge that
create values for human needs.
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Figure 1: The total amount of data generated on earth exceeded one zettabyte

4. “We are at the tipping point for
broader IoT adoption with 53
percent of organizations
planning to implement an IoT
solution in the next 24 months.
Organizations in Asia Pacific and
Latin America are more
aggressive with 69 and 60
percent, respectively, planning
to implement over the same
time period”
[Source: “Building Value from Visibility.” – A Forrester
Consulting Thought Leadership paper Commissioned
by Zebra Technologies, October 2012]

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More Connected Devices Than
People

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Growth of “Things” Connected to
the Internet

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We Evolve Because We Communicate
The more data that is created, the more knowledge and
wisdom people can obtain.
Internet of Things (IOT) is the enabler.

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Google Search Trends on IOT, WSN
and Ubiquitous Computing since
2004

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Possibilities Defined
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If we look at what is happening today, organizations across the globe are
striving to do more with less and to be more nimble and efficient.
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To do so, organizations need more visibility into operations in order to make
smarter business decisions and unlock potential within the value chain.

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Harnessing the Data
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Every day, events occur in a
business: Assets are used,
transactions take place and
employees move about.
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Events constantly happen and
those events constantly create
data.
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What if you could harness this
information and form new
insights to solve a business
challenge or drive innovation?
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The Internet of Things
technologies will make this
possible

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Smartphone as “Sensing Assistant”
Sensors:
• Camera – “Eyes”
• Audio – “Ears”
• Accelerometer –
“Speed”
• GPS – “Location”
• Gyroscope –
“Movement”
• Compass – “Direction”
• Proximity – “Closeness”
• Ambient light – “Eyes”
• Others…
Crowdsourcing Via Crowdsensing
Context
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Spatial – Location / Speed Orientation
Temporal – Time / Duration
Environmental – Temperature / Light / Noise Level
User Characterization – Activity (Mobility Pattern) / Social (Friends, Interactions)
Resource Availability – Storage / Memory / Computational / Battery

12. At the push of a button, hipKey™ will save you time by helping you find your belongings.
Simply attach the device to the item of your choice and you’re ready to go

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Fitbit Force

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Fitbit Force Video

16. By simply stepping on the scale, the Smart Body Analyzer provides users with a
quick a comprehensive health snapshot that shows highly accurate weigh, body
fat & heart rate readings. It will then transmitted to the Withings Health Mate
mobile application via the built-in Internet connection. The results are stored and
can be shared with a physician, dietician, support group or motivational team via
Twitter or Facebook.

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Withings Video

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On Your Finger
EyeRing – A Finger Worn Assistant
The EyeRing, created by Pattie Maes’
fluid interfaces group at the MIT Media lab, recognizes objects and then announces, out loud,
what they are.

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In Your face
Vuzix M100 (Google Glass competitor)

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On Your Wrist
Nike+ Fuelband
Leikr Smart Watch
CST 001
Pebble

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Atop Your Head
Reebok Checklight

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Reebok Checklight Video

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On Your Skin
Biostamp MC 10

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In Your Pocket
Withings Smart Activity Tracker

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Inside You
Balloon catheter with embedded flexible circuitry MC 10

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Thought Controlled Computing
The flagship product, MindWave, is a
headset that can log into your
computer using just your thoughts.
Researchers recently used the EEG
headset to develop a toy car that can
be driven forward with thought.
NeuroSky’s smart sensors can also
track your heart rate and other bodily
metrics and can be embedded in the
next generation of wearable devices.
“We make it possible for millions of
consumers to capture and quantify
critical health and wellness data,”
Yang (CEO of Softbank) said.
Softbank is the funder.
[Source: http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/04/next-step-for-wearables-neurosky-brings-its-smart-sensors-to-health-fitness/ ]

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Internet of Things Era – Why Now?
Smartphones
New Business
Models
Sensors
IOT
Big Data
Analytics
Mobility
Compute
Power

28. New Business Model
Monetizing the Sensor Data

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The Sensing-as-a-Service Model
“Sensing as a Service Model for Smart Cities Supported by Internet of Things”, Charith Perera1, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos,
TRANSACTIONS ON EMERGING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES Trans. Emerging Tel. Tech. 2014

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Top 10 Places That Have Banned
Google Glass
Lifelogging: Is It An Invasion Of Privacy?
Because of these concerns, Google Glass has
already received a number of pre-bans at
certain places.
1. Banks/ATMs
2. Sports Arenas/Concert Venues
3. Locker Rooms/Dressing Rooms
4. Movie Theaters
5. Cars
6. Hospitals
7. Classrooms
8. Strip Clubs
9. Casinos
10. Bars
I think the really big issue here is that you might, individually, not worry about
publishing details of your personal life.
But you are publishing your friends, family and business contacts details at the same
time. You are potentially compromising your family and friends!

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Chronos Infographics

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Smart Home Scenario – Interactions in
Sensing-as-a-Service Model
“Sensing as a Service Model for Smart Cities Supported by Internet of Things”, Charith Perera1, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos,
TRANSACTIONS ON EMERGING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES Trans. Emerging Tel. Tech. 2014

33. + Efficient Waste management in Smart Cities
Supported by the Sensing-as-a-Service
“Sensing as a Service Model for Smart Cities Supported by Internet of Things”, Charith Perera1, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos,
TRANSACTIONS ON EMERGING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES Trans. Emerging Tel. Tech. 2014

34. + Efficient and Effective Collaborative Research
Supported by Sensing-as-a-Service Model
The sensing-as-a-service model allows
researchers to share resources across borders
and understand phenomenon which are not
available in their own countries.

35. + NoiseTube – Crowdsourcing of
Pollution Data Using Smartphones
Motivations to participate
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Citizens and Communities concerned with noise
• Measure your daily sound exposure in dB(A) with your
mobile phone
• Tag noisy sources to inform the community about them
• Visualize your measurements on a map and contribute
to the creation of collective, city-wide noise maps
• Compare your experience with that of others
• Privacy: all measurements are yours.You decide to
make them public or not
Local governments / city planners
• Improve decision-making by understanding local and
global noise pollution in your city using maps and
statistics
• Get immediate feedback and opinions from citizens
• Give immediate feedback to citizens
Researchers
• Get access to and analyze (anonymized) collective
noise data
• Find out what is important in soundscape perception
Developers
• Extend our mobile app in whichever way you see fit
• Use our environmental sensor web API to do your own
web mashups
[Note: See Google Map View]

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IOT Application Scenario - Shopping
(2) When shopping in the market, the
goods will introduce themselves.
(1) When entering the doors, scanners will
identify the tags on her clothing.
(4) When paying for the goods, the microchip of
the credit card will communicate with checkout
reader.
(3) When moving the goods, the reader will tell
the staff to put a new one.

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Advantages and Benefits of
Sensing-as-a-Service
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Participatory sensing
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Innovations – new perspectives
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Sharing and reusing
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Applications - monetizing
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Reduction of data acquisition cost
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Collect data previously
unavailable – assist scientific
community
Real-time data for decision making
and policy making

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IOT Research Challenges
Wireless Communications

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IoT Technology Challenges
Identification Technology
IOT deployment will require the development of
new technologies that need to address the global
ID schemes, identity management, identity
encoding/encryption, authentication and
repository management using identification and
addressing schemes and the creation of global
directory lookup services and discovery services
for IOT applications with various unique
identifier schemes
Communications
Technology
This implies that no single hardware and
software platform will be sufficient to support
the whole design space and heterogeneous
systems will be used.
Issues – Deployment, mobility, cost , size,
resource, heterogeneity, communication
modality, infrastructure, network topology,
connectivity, coverage, network size, lifetime,
etc)
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IOT Architecture
There is a need for the IoT architecture to provide
effective caching and synchronization of
information updates in both directions, to support
things and application scenarios that lack reliable
permanent network connectivity
Network Technology
The IoT deployment requires developments in
network technology which is essential for
implementing the vision reaching out to objects
in the physical world and to bring them into the
Internet.
Need to offer solutions that reduced costs that can
offer the viability of connecting almost anything
to the network.
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IoT Technology Challenges
Network Discovery
IOT network will dynamically change and
continuously evolving and the things feature
varying degrees of autonomy. New “things” will
be added and existing network topologies will
be moved around. In the context of IoT automated
discovery mechanisms and mapping capabilities
are essential to network management and
needed for overall communication management.
Hardware
Nano-electronics devices will be used for
implementing wireless identifiable systems with
the focus on miniaturization, low cost and
increased functionality.
Smart devices enhanced with inter-device
communication will result in smart systems with
much higher degrees of intelligence and
autonomy.
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Software and Algorithms
The need for Open Middleware Platform – A
service oriented computing for developing
distributed and federated applications to support
interoperable machine to machine and “thing” to
“thing” interaction over a network.
Analytics & Semantic
Technology
The need for intelligent decision-making
algorithms will need to trigger activities not on
the basis of a single event (such as an individual
observation or sensor reading) but often also
considering correlations among events and often
requiring transformation of the raw sensor data.
Translating data to information to knowledge.
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IoT Technology Challenges
Discovery and Search
Technologies
Information and services about things will be
fragmented across many entities.
As a thing moves through the real world, it will
encounter new environments and both the smart
things and other agents that are monitoring the
things will require lookup mechanisms in order
to discover what capabilities are available within
the local environment of the thing.
Power & Energy Storage
Technologies
Power and energy storage technologies are
enablers for the deployment of IoT applications.
These technologies has to provide high power
density energy generation and harvesting
solutions that, when used with today’s low power
Nano-electronics, enables a self powered
intelligent sensor based wireless identifiable
device.
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Relationship Network
Management Technologies
The IoT requires managing networks that contains
billons of heterogeneous “things”, and where a
wide variety of software, middleware and hardware
devices exists. Net- work management
technologies cover a wide area of elements
including, security, performance and reliability.
Security & Privacy Technologies
The systems that do work are not designed for
resource-restricted devices.
Network and data anonymity can provide a basis
for privacy, but at the moment, these technologies
are mainly supported by rather powerful
equipment, in terms of computing power and
bandwidth.
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IoT Technology Challenges
Standardization
Standards are required for bidirectional
communication and information exchange among
things.
One particular challenge in this regard is ensuring
global interoperability particularly for things and
devices that make use of radio spectrum.
Also to develop standardized semantic data models
and ontologies, common interfaces and protocols
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43. + Roadmap of key technological developments in the
context of IoT application domains envisioned.
[Source: “Internet of Things (IoT): A vision, architectural elements, and future directions “, J. Gubbi et.al, Future
Generation Computer Systems 29 (2013) 1645-1660]

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Functional View of IOT
Technologies
“Sensing as a Service Model for Smart Cities Supported by Internet of Things”, Charith Perera1, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos,
TRANSACTIONS ON EMERGING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES Trans. Emerging Tel. Tech. 2014

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“Box-Level” View of IOT Building
Blocks
“Sensing as a Service Model for Smart Cities Supported by Internet of Things”, Charith Perera1, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos,
TRANSACTIONS ON EMERGING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES Trans. Emerging Tel. Tech. 2014

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Today’s Wireless Landscape

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Communication Technologies

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Power Available from Energy
Sources

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Summary

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