Presentation at Progress Exchange 2014. The Internet of Things is everywhere, from the connected home to the connected car, from smart watches to smart glasses, from beacons to smart thermostats. In this session we will provide an updated view of the IOT space and we will show you how Pacific technology like Node.js and Rollbase can be used to build IOT applications. The presentation included a demo showing how Node.js and MongoDB can be used to process a GPS feed (from vehicles like snow plows), using MongoDB to store the data. The data is then presented to Rollbase as an external source where it can be combined with other sources in model-driven productivity applications. The content is also exposed via REST through a SPA using AngularJS and through an Apache Cordova (Phonegap)-based mobile app.

1. What Is IoT, and How Modulus and Pacific Can Help
Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart
Vice President, Technology
Progress Software

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Agenda
What Is IoT
What Is Node
Why Node.js and IoT
Two Examples
What Else? Samples, More Samples

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What Is IoT

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Computing Tomorrow

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Computing Today!

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Some IoT Applications
Beacons, (indoor) Location Based Services
Payments
Home / Office Automation
Smart Buildings
Industry Automation
Wearables – Secondary Notifications & Health / Fitness
Connected Cars
Smart Cities
….
Very fast moving space
Brought to you by the economy of scale of mobile devices

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Protocols

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IoT = Connected, Thus, Protocols
Many Protocols, in all layers
Physical: Z-Wave, Zigbee, Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi, RFID, Thread (new), Ethernet, Radios
•Radio frequency, range, power consumption
•IP support, Hub/Mesh topology
•Examples: iBeacon (BLE) and Philips Hue (Zigbee)
Session / Communication:
•HTTP, CoAP (doc transfer)
•XMPP, MQTT, AMQP (pub/sub)
What protocol to choose will vary on goals and application (QoS, Industry/Consumer)

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Two Examples: iBeacons and Philips Hue
Apple iBeacon – notification protocol on BLE
•Signal 2/s – 10/s, 3-6months/2years battery
•Power (proximity) and UID (identity)
•Point-to-Point, no pairing, 50 meters
•Indoor microlocation, retail, etc…
Philips Hue
•Ethernet/IP (Bridge) + Zigbee/Mesh (Bulb)
•AC power
•REST interface (to bridge)
•Home automation

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Smart Glasses

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Display: Glass vs. BT-200
Monocular Small FOV
Binocular Large FOV
Google Glass

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Business Use Cases and Key Verticals – Smart Glasses
Business Use Cases
•Rich Communications – phone, messaging, video conferencing, video sharing
•Continuous data streaming – messages, tasks, alerts
•Augmented reality – Training, recording, next-step guideance, compliance
Key Verticals – Enable “Deskless Workers” 10% of workforce
•Military
•Healthcare
•Manufacturing
•Logistics
•Energy/Utilities

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Home Automation

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Home – Philips Hue, Nest
Building Energy Management – Enlighted Inc
Commercial Appliance Management ESEV Charging Infrastructure
Home & Building Automation / Industrial Management

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Business Use Cases
House – Remote control
and monitoring,
Automation, Energy
monitoring and savings…
Smart Buildings – Better
efficiency, Compliance
with new laws
(California Title 24)
Industry 4.0, Smart
Manufacturing
Business Use Cases – House, Office Automation, Smart Buildings
Recall Apple’s track record of moving from “consumer” to “enterprise”

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16 Wearables

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Health / Wearables / Secondary Displays
Fast moving field
Fitness bands
Smart watches
Smart clothing
Smart glasses

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Wearables – Telematics

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Connected Cars
Remote Access to Cars (Tesla, FIAT) and Chargers
OTA (Over-the-Air) Fixes pushed to Tesla Cars
Vehicle tracking, fleets, taxis….

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20 Beacons

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Beacons

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Business Use Cases – Beacons
Business Use Cases
•Retail – Targeted Advertising, Special Offers, Loyalty Apps, Indoor Micro-location and Navigation
•Warehousing – Location, Inventory
•Electronic Payments
Some Ongoing Trials:

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Smart Cities

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Smart Cities
Garbage Trucks Lights Utilities Traffic Lights Government 2.0

25. So… How Can I Build These Apps?

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Enter Modulus

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What Is Node.js

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Node.js = V8 + libuv (+ xtras) + Community (NPM)
A JavaScript Runtime to run outside of the browser
Builds on the Javascript V8 engine and libuv library for async IO
Highly Efficient
Highly Portable
Event-Driven
Built-in package manager (NPM)

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Why Are JavaScript & Node Growing So Fast?
Why JavaScript?
Virtually all developers know it Widest developer footprint of any language
Easy to learn, productive Even business users learn it fast
Used for everything Browser, Server-side, Mobile, Wearables, IoT
Used at all levels of the stack Frontend, middleware and backend DB
Maximizes developer collaboration All developers can contribute everywhere
Why Node?
Event-based model, highly scalable Great for data-intensive, real-time apps
Web API Focused Very good fit for API-first architectures
Extremely efficient Requires few computational resources
Incredible Community and Ecosystem Over 97,000 packages
Fast and easy setup Passes the 5 minute test

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Why Is Node a Great Match for IoT
Why JavaScript?
Virtually all developers know it Widest developer footprint of any language
Easy to learn, productive Even business users learn it fast
Used for everything Browser, Server-side, Mobile, Wearables, IoT
Used at all levels of the stack Frontend, middleware and backend DB
Maximizes developer collaboration All developers can contribute everywhere
Why Node?
Event-based model, highly scalable Great for data-intensive, real-time apps
Web API Focused Very good fit for API-first architectures
Extremely efficient Requires few computational resources
Incredible Community and Ecosystem Over 97,000 packages
Fast and easy setup Passes the 5 minute test

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Roll Call Sample

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Roll Call Sample
Use iBeacons to detect presence in some space
Record this in our servers
Act on this by manipulating some smart lights
For extra credit smart lights are behind firewall

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Mongoose
BLE/iBeacon
iOS
Web
Node
MongoDB
POST request
Express
Roll Call and Node.js
Hue Bridge
Local Node Server
Modulus Node Server
iOS App
Bulb
Bulb
Bulb Firewall

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Snow Plow Sample

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Tracking and Managing Snow Plows … With Rollbase
Snow Plows (et al) have GPS unit
Based on Jungle Lasers’ App
Goals
Efficiently Managing GPS Stream Data
Exposing data to Rollbase

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End-to-End: Snow Plow / Geo Data Example Location-viewer
Rollbase App Dashboards
Modulus
JSDO Remote Objects
AngularJS SPA App
Municipality Data
Rollbase Mobile
GPS Data
Node and MongoDB
OEM Data (emergencies)
Current Data Historical Data
Hospital Patients (e.g. dialysis)

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jsdo-node – JDSO Remoting into Node.js Layer
Rollbase App
Node.js Layer
Node JSDO server objects
Any JSDO Client

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Snow Plow DEMO

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What Else?

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What Else Can We Do with Node?
Corticon 5.4 REST Interface
Node.js Layer
POST / JSON
AngularJS SPA
Rollbase
Node.js Layer
Invoke REST
AngularJS SPA
Socket.io or REST
Rollbase Mobile
Angular
Node
OpenEdge
REST
JSDO

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Open Source Samples on Node.js and IoT at Github.com/Progress
ios-beacon-scanner
roll-call (4 apps)
angular-demo
corticon-angular-app corticon-angular-insurance
angular-express-rollbase-seed angular-rollbase-blog
jsdo-node
locations-viewer
Thanks to David Inglis, Keegan Mendonca and Reeti Banthia, and Jungle Lasers http://dcinglis.wordpress.com & http://mendoncakeegan.wordpress.com

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