Towards Open, Heterogeneous IoT

Dr. Alan Messer Vice President/Head Advanced Technology

Samsung Electronics Silicon Valley

Contents

• What is IoT?

• IoT @ CES

• IoT Ecosystem Problem

• Samsung and this Problem

• IoT Standards and Open Source

• Open Tech Challenges

What is IoT? WiFi Devices Linked to the Internet

Home AV Connected Devices?

Smartgrid? Industrial Uses?

Low Power Mesh Network?

What is IoT? WiFi Devices Linked to the Internet

Home AV Connected Devices?

Smartgrid? Industrial Uses?

Low Power Mesh Network?

All of them, of course IoT has been around for years! Billions of devices since ~2010

IoT @ CES 2015

• IoT was on every floor, in every hall

Thermostat Control

IoT Ecosystem Problem

• Most ‘solutions’ require their own app or proprietary ecosystem

• Switching App is not a good user experience

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Piecemeal integration is not scalable

for a future mass market

Interoperability is also Complex

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Security is hard because it has to be lightweight AND usable

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Devices must also be simple to install not matter what network or vendor

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The data expectations between devices can differ on corner cases and metrics

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Privacy is critical given the sensitive data often implicitly or explicitly collected

Interoperability is also Complex

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To avoid returns/unhappy users, there must be a great out of box experience

Heterogeneous Open IoT

• The only way to overcome these problems is to:

1. Assume a heterogeneous world with open access

• No central ‘owner’ of the IoT world, assume a many ‘homed’ world

2. Cross-layer collaboration between manufacturers

• Apps thru Comms to Privacy/Security

3. Make it easy for users to setup and use

• Reliably with a system assembled over time

Samsung Open IoT Commitment

IoT Standards Ecosystem • Plenty of Groups and De Facto Standards

have sprung up as a result

UPNP OneM2M

Thread

IETF

Zigbee/BT

WiFi

IoT Open Source Ecosystem

• Open Source can often be an easier way to get interoperability quickly

And many more

Open Technical Challenges 1/2

Open Technical Challenges 2/2

Interoperability Ease of Setup Scalability

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IoT Cloud

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Things &

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Protocol level Interoperability

App level Interoperability

Semantic Interop

Out-of-box Experience

Meeting User Expectations

Use Case Coverage

Volume of User Devices

Number of Device Categories

Support Over Time

Summary

• IoT is not new but has exploded into many new areas

– Result of low power and low cost CPUs and wireless

• Heterogeneity and Interoperability are key, otherwise the current IoT push will stay niche

– Please use one of the many standards and/or open source projects rather than proprietary

• Many problems remain unsolved for massive market success

– Lots of opportunities for companies and engineers everywhere

Thank You!

Questions?