IoT Without the Hype

Delivered at LinuxBarbados on Thursday, December 17, 2015.

Every great technology started as a toy. People played with kites and paper airplanes for thousands of years before the Wright Brothers achieved powered flight. Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage toyed with the analytical engine over a hundred years before the digital computer.

Today, IoT enthusiasts fly toy drones, while professional photographers use similar devices to capture breathtaking photos. IoT youth groups build and compete with toy robots, while warehouse managers use industrial versions of the same robot to reduce costs and speed up delivery times.

The Internet of Things is grown up and ready to do real work. All it needs is you.

Curious about the Internet of Things? Check out http://WindyCityThings.com.

Transcript

1. Internet of Things Without the Hype LinuxBarbados - Thursday, December 17, 2015 http://rayhightower.com
2. 15 minutes to start the discussion.
3. Why?
4. Distance is dead. 
 Tom Peters, Author
 In Search of Excellence
5. Gartner Hype Cycle Image by Jeremy Kemp https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gartner_Hype_Cycle.svg
6. Gartner Hype Cycle IoT Peak of Inflated Expectations
7. Commoditization
8. Online Brochure?
9. Online Brochure?
10. Business Apps?
11. Business Apps?
12. What?
13. Bright LEDs Lasers Li Ion Batteries
14. Remotely Operated Vehicle
19. Hardware
20. Electronics Assembly
21. Software
22. TCP/IP
24. Parallella
25. RJ-45 Power μUSB μHDMI μSD RISC ARM 18 cores: 2 ARM + 16 RISC
28. http://rayhightower.com/blog/2014/09/09/solar-powered-parallella/ 5 volts 1 amp 5 watts Solar!
30. Find all primes up to 16,000,000. Serial on Parallella.
31. 8 inline int isprime(unsigned long number) 9 { 10 unsigned long i; 11 unsigned long s = sqrt(number); 12 for(i=3;i<=s;i+=2) 13 { 14 if(number % i == 0) 15 return 0; 16 } 17 return 1; 18 } /* Copyright (c) Adapteva, contributed by M. Thompson with modifications by T. Malthouse. */
32. 237.1 sec
33. Find all primes up to 16,000,000. Serial on Mac OS X.
34. 14.4 sec
35. Find all primes up to 16,000,000. Parallel on Parallella.
36. 27 #include <e-hal.h> 28 29 // Default max number of prime tests per core 30 // Used if a limit it not provided in argv[1] 31 #define DEFAULT_MAX_TESTS 500000 32 33 int main(int argc, char *argv[]) 34 { 35 unsigned row, col, coreid, i, j; 36 e_platform_t platform; 37 e_epiphany_t dev; 38 /* Copyright (c) Adapteva, contributed by M. Thompson with modifications by T. Malthouse.*/
37. 18.6 sec
38. Summary: Finding Primes 0" 50" 100" 150" 200" 250" Parallel Parallella Serial Mac Serial Parallella 18.6 sec 14.4 sec 237.1 sec
39. Embarrassingly parallel problem.
44. How?
45. Dull companies with steady earnings growth… make the best investments. Forbes Magazine
 November 1995
46. + +
47. Place it. Press it. Get it.
49. If it has been learned, it is learnable. 
 Susan Taylor, Editor
 Essence Magazine
50. Thanks. Discussion time!