IoT enabled Bee Health

Using IoT technologies for addressing the Colony Coilapse Disorder. We propose an architecture for an end-to-end solution using, 6LoWPAN, LoRA and microservices. Focus on the gateway component architecture.

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1. IoT enabled Bee Health CodeMotion Warsaw 2016 Antonio Almeida developer & product evangelist at relayr antonio@relayr.io September 15, 2016
2. who are we? edge to edge IoT enabler from the sensing edge to the cloud edge deliver effective IoT market solutions
3. IoT?
4. the promise of IoT I
5. the promise of IoT II
6. IoT 101: constrained devices low computing power: CPU, memory, etc unreliable networking: mesh, 6LoWPAN, BLE low power consumption: small duty cycle RFC 7228
7. IoT 101: network topologies
8. IoT 101: fog computing
9. the problem: colony collapse disorder worker bees abandon colony it dies soon after exact causes are unknown pesticides, parasites, changes in flora, malnutrition, &c
10. colony collapse disorder: illustration
11. participants project originally started by Cisco as CSR we embraced it immediately CSIRO is a governmental research lab from Australia project is part of Global Bee Health Initiative
12. our approach I: monitoring beehives & bee behavior solution ranging from DIY to full scale industrial deployment price range varies accordingly from 100s to 1000s of USD from consumer to industrial grade hardware all code available as free software
13. our approach II: what to monitor 1st phase: weight of beehive, temperature and humidity 2nd phase: 3D thermal imaging, acoustic fingerprinting, infrared for bee counting
14. architecture: 30000 ft view 6LoWPAN, i.e., IPv6 running on top of IEEE 802.15.4 (PHY + MAC) gateway - can be many things LoRa/LoRaWAN for long range – 5 km in urban environments, 20km in suburban
15. what is 6LoWPAN? make IPv6 work over 802.15.4 - handle fragmentation, compression IETF RFC 4944, RFC 6282, RFC 6775 radio uses ISM band: 868 MHz (EU), 915 MHz (US), 2.4 GHz (world) data rates up to 250 kbps
16. what is the gateway? leverages concept of fog computing it can do a lot of things 6LoWPAN border router input filters, e.g., CoAP to HTTP adapter (proxy) stream analytics local control loops - rules engine
17. gateway examples
18. what is LoRa/LoRaWAN? patented Chirp Spread Spectrum (CSS) passband modulation technique developed by Semtech LoRaWAN is the network technology (MAC layer) uses a start based topology for the network long range – 5 km in urban environments, 20km in suburban
19. DIY and/or operator based LoRaWAN network - a LoRaWAN gateway acts as a between IP and edge - deploy your own network of LoRaWAN gateways
20. gateway revisited expanding on fog computing the edge can be anything it can be a rack full of powerful servers or it can be a 6LoWPAN border router depends on the application
21. gateway: posing the problem needs to be highly-available needs to be scalable needs to be lightweight needs to be reliable
22. gateway: microservice based architecture
23. component services I: input/output filters converts from one data format to another converts from one application protocol to another compresses the data omitting superfluous information inserts (additional) metadata into the given input/output can be composed with other services
24. component services II: local storage function as a backup for data sent upstream can be used to buffer the transmission of data uptream can be used as an edge data warehouse can be composed with other services
25. component services III: rules engine establish localized control loops, i.e., not defined in some sort of upstream rules can be fired using pattern matching can function as backup for control loops defined upstream can be composed with other services to create additional services
26. component services IV: device management registry of all devices that interact with the gateway update device models locally remove, add and update devices on the edge firmware updates, bootstrapping, etc
27. component services V: streaming analytics compute indicators specific to the business it serves smooth out, average out, remove superfluous information build better control loops through better data modeling provide immediate business insights can be composed with other services,
28. component services VI: authentication & authorization defines unambiguously the allowed interactions between devices establishes and enforces realms of action for the devices on the network composable with other services for creating new realms of activity
29. to be continued...
30. I rest my case
31. thank you