IoT : A beginner’s viewIEEE Student Leadership Congress - 2014

Team Emertxe @ BEC, Bagalkot

9th November 2014

Topics

Brief introduction

The context of IoT

Key trends

How can you benefit from this?

Demos

Brief Introduction

About Us

Emertxe is India’s one of the top IT finishing schools & self learning kits provider. Our primary focus is on Embedded with diversification focus on IT applications.

Our IT finishing school providers training programs for corporate, professionals and students in the following areas:

o Embedded Systems (Beginners)

o Advanced Linux workshops (Professionals)

o IT Applications (Java, Android, Oracle)

Our product division works on IoT based solutions with major focus in Embedded aspect by focusing on the following areas:

o Hardware design

o Product engineering, integration and solutions

o Linux porting and tuning

o Embedded application development

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Thee waves of computing

Inflection points

First wave:

Mainframes

Centralized

Terminal based

Vertical industry

Second wave:

De-centralized

PC + Mobile

Internet centric

Horizontal industry

Third wave:

Non-digital devices

Connecting all

Super integration

Tech agnostic

Non-digital world

Anything that we can imagine (ex: Bicycles)

Challenges are different:• Can’t have heavy weight computing device

• Cost

• Form factor

• Power consumption

• Communication

Non programming skills are getting important:• Sensors

• Hardware design

• Interfacing

• Optimization

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IoT : Brief Introduction

Its big and real

Any TIME, Any THING, Any PLACE connection

Its your things

Your Things = Embedded Technologies, Your Data = Data Science

IoT ecosystem

IoT ecosystem

Application layer

(How data gives meaning?)

Cloud data

(How the data is stored?)

Network-Service edge

(How the device is connected to the Network?)

Embedded: Devices & sensors

(where and what to sense?)

Marriage of convenience

Hardware

RFID

Sensors

Interfacing

Connectivity

Embedded systems

Device drivers

Board bring-up

Firmware

Custom application

Applications

Big data

Analytics

Mobile apps

Web apps

Solution

Retail

Manufacturing

Home

Health

IoT : Simple view

Playing this game!

Key Trends

Business trends

Costs are falling

(Chips, Storage)

Acception of Internet as a center

(SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)

Doing more with less

(Improve productivity, Bring down cost)

M2M is here to stay

(More device talking with each other )

Money-Honey!

(Economic benefits up-to $6.2 trillion)

Technology trends

Open Source Software

(GPL, Linux Kernel, Apache)

Standard Protocol & Interfaces

(REST, HTTP, SOAP)

Seamless connectivity

(Wi-Fi, LTE)

Open Hardware

(Raspberry-Pi, Panda, UDOO)

Community & Forums - Moderation

(Linux Foundation)

IoT : Embedded Systems perspective

IoT device

Hardware Bring-up

Porting OS

Custom Application

IoT device

Boot loader / Board bring –up

Choice of OS or Non-OS

OS tuning

System programming

Program optimization

Network error handling

Importance of Open Source

Skill view

What is Open Source?

With GNU (GNU is not UNIX)

Richard Stallman made the initial announcement in 1983, Free Software

Foundation (FSF) got formed during 1984

Volunteer driven GNU started developing multiple projects, but making it as

an operating system was always a challenge

During 1991 a Finnish Engineer Linus Torvalds developed core OS

functionality, called it as “Linux Kernel”

Linux Kernel got licensed under GPL, which laid strong platform for the

success of Open Source

Rest is history!

How it evolved?

Kernel

Applications

Customization

Multiple Linux distributions started emerging around the Kernel

Some applications became platform independent

Community driven software development started picking up

Initially seen as a “geek-phenomenon”, eventually turned out to be an

engineering marvel

Centered around Internet

Building a business around open source started becoming viable

Redhat set the initial trend in the OS business

Where it stands now?

OS Databases Server/Cloud Enterprise

Consumer Education CMS eCommerce

Embedded + Kernel

Non x86 architectures in Embedded Systems

Secure and portable monolithic architecture

Supports multiple instructions (ARM, MIPS, PPC etc…) – ideal for Embedded

Quality and reliability of code

Communication protocols and software standards

Cost and Time-to-market advantages

Vendor independence

How you can benefit from this?

Three takeaways

Build on Basics• Curriculum courses

• Strong concepts

• Lay fundamentals

Get hands-on• Do practical things

• Build “working” things

• Build-Iterate-Build

Learning ways• Conferences

• Hackathon

• Peer-to-peer

Opportunity for you

Emertxe is looking forward to have some interns to work in the IoT

area (Embedded & application) to build complete solutions

Opportunity to learn modern practices like Agile SCRUM, Lean-

startup etc..

Performance driven environment

Contact: careers@emertxe.com

Summary

IoT is an emerging area that tries to connect anything, anywhere, anyplace

It has blurred lines between various technologies by “marriage-of-convenience”

Technology will continue to change the way we live

Tremendous opportunity to build great careers

Build-on-basics, Get hands-on, Learn in multiple ways

Learning should never stop in a rapidly changing environment

Stay connected

About us: Emertxe is India’s one of the top IT finishing schools & self learning kits provider. Our primary focus is on Embedded with diversification focus on Java, Oracle and Android areas

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