My talk in INTEROP 2014

My talk on Internet of Things and Personalization is available on Slideshare.  This is a shorter variation (with some additions) of my DEBS'14 tutorial.  Enjoy!
I am also planned to deliver a variation of this talk twice more this week: in IBM Research at Yorktown Heights,  and in Stony Brooks University. 

I'll write more insights from the other talks - later. 

My talk in DEBS 2014 on the Internet of Everything

I am writing this post from the hotel "Meluha the Fern" in Mumbai.  Arrived here on Friday and had also an opportunity to do some sightseeing. Will write my impressions from Mumbai at a later phase.

Today DEBS 2014 started, the conference is being held in IIT Bombay.   The first day has been the tutorial day. I have delivered (by myself, my co-authors did not arrive) a tutorial on the "Internet of Everything".

This is the next in the tradition of tutorials that I am giving in DEBS since 2008.   As usual I have posted the tutorial on slideshare.  The problem with the slideshare conversion is that it messes up the animations, but I guess that it is readable anyway.  I'll write about the rest of the conference soon.  Enjoy!

DEBS 2014 tentative program was published

DEBS 2014 will take place in Mumbai, India at the last week of May.   

The tentative program of the conference was published recently on the conference's website. 

My tutorial on the "Internet of Everything" will be delivered on Monday, May 26th, between 10am - 1pm.

Hope to meet old and new friends there (I'll probably arrive couple of days earlier to tour around).    

There is no Internet of Things - (yet?)

"There is no Internet of Things", this is a title of a promotion for a recent Forrester report.  The report has one more word in its title -- "yet".   The (right) claim is that while there are a lot of sensors, mobile devices, wearable computing devices and vision about "Internet of Things",  and recently "Internet of everything", the vision was not fulfilled yet, and the world of sensors is still very fragmented.   

What made the (current) Internet successful is a combination of standard protocols, the ease of creating content, and the ease of retrieving its content with the combination of web browsers and search engines.  

In order for the Internet of Things to become "Internet" - there is a need to make it much simpler and standard oriented.  Imagine that in the current Internet the retrieval from the Internet would have required everybody to write SQL queries --  do you think that the Internet  would have become pervasive?

What is the equivalent?  --  standard and simple way to perform the functionality of IoT.   I'll be able to report about our related work  in a few weeks -- stay tuned. 

Machine to machine protocol from NY Times

The "Internet of Things" where any thing is connected to the network, is one of the most influential trends today.  Cisco in its vision about the "Internet of Everything" based on the "Internet of Things"  predicts that the economical impact of the "Internet of Everything"  is  14.4 Trillion Dollars.   There is a lot of work about the infrastructure, one of it is MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport), a protocol used to support Machine-to-Machine communication.    The NY times had  recent article within its blogs on MQTT as an open standard.  In the article there is a link to a talk by my IBM colleague Andy Stanford-Clark.  
One of the mentioned applications occur in the automobile industry, of putting sensors in cars, e.g. on the car battery.

Andy is working on these topics for a long time,  in fact the chapter in our EPIA book that deals with event consumers described some of Andy's application and the ambient orb's picture appears in the book was  taken at Andy's office.  Andy has famous talks and video clips on his house where he uses MQTT to control the power.  A recent video clip that Andy posted entitled "the house that twitters" demonstrates the idea.  There are other presentations and video clips on this topic over the years. 

Internet of Things will create most of the world's events of the future, and will be a major factor in making the world event-driven.    I'll write soon about the synergy between the old world and the new world. 

On the Internet of EVERYTHING

Cisco came out recently with the concept of  "The Internet of EVERYTHING".

While the "Internet of Things" deal with connecting anything to the Internet, the Internet of EVERYTHING deal with the things and the semantic connection among things that can make the world actionable in real-time.  A simple example is the car theft example. 

A car is connected to the Internet through its GPS sensor that reports its location, it has also semantic relations to a list of eligible drivers who are permitted to drive in this car, each of these persons is also connected to the Internet using his or her mobile phone, thus the Internet knows the person's location  (disregard the privacy issue for this scenario!),  so if the car is moving (inferred from the GPS change in location), and all the eligible drivers are not in the car - it means that the car is stolen, and it can then report to the police and have them track its location.  

This scenario is based on - things,  contexts of things, and processing events about things..   It is actually quite straightforward from technology point of view.  I wonder if the "Internet of EVERYTHING" will survive the buzzword test of time...