what is iot and how modulus and pacific can help - featuring node.js and rollbase

What Is IoT, and How Modulus

and Pacific Can Help

Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart

Vice President, Technology

Progress Software

© 2014 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 2

Agenda

What Is IoT

What Is Node

Why Node.js and IoT

Two Examples

What Else? Samples, More Samples


What Is IoT


Computing Tomorrow


Computing Today!


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


Protocols


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)


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


Smart Glasses


Display: Glass vs. BT-200

Monocular

Small FOV

Binocular

Large FOV

Google

Glass


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


Home Automation


Home – Philips Hue,

Nest

Building Energy

Management –

Enlighted Inc

Commercial Appliance

Management

ESEV Charging

Infrastructure

Home & Building Automation / Industrial Management


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”


Wearables


Health / Wearables / Secondary Displays

Fast moving field

Fitness bands

Smart watches

Smart clothing

Smart glasses


Wearables – Telematics


Connected Cars

Remote Access to Cars (Tesla, FIAT) and Chargers

OTA (Over-the-Air) Fixes pushed to Tesla Cars

Vehicle tracking, fleets, taxis….


Beacons


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:


Smart Cities


Smart Cities

Garbage Trucks Lights Utilities Traffic Lights Government 2.0

So… How Can I Build These Apps?


Enter Modulus


What Is Node.js


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)


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


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


Roll Call Sample


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


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

Firew

all


Snow Plow Sample


Tracking and Managing Snow Plows … With Rollbase

Snow Plows (et al) have GPS unit

Based on Jungle Lasers’ App

Goal

s

Efficiently Managing GPS Stream Data

Exposing data to Rollbase


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)


jsdo-node – JDSO Remoting into Node.js Layer

Rollbase App

Node.js Layer

Node JSDO

server objects

Any

JSDO Client


Snow Plow DEMO


What Else?


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


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

http://dcinglis.wordpress.com/

http://mendoncakeegan.wordpress.com/

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