Sensor Atmosphere

Daniele Tosi

Monday, July 12, 2010

 About me
Started first venture (Audax) at 16

Telecom Engineering background (BSc, MSc)

Alta Scuola Politecnica extra degree

PhD in Electronics Engineering

Research: developed from scratch a new

class of optical fiber sensors at 20-35%
cost

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 About me
Fulbright experience in the Silicon Valley
(Certificate in Technology Entrepreneurship)

Endeavour scholarship for research project

based in Sydney

Sold optical fiber sensors technology to an

established company through a M&A/spin-off
agreement

Reached exit and ready for the new challenge

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 What now?
I have gained a valuable vision about sensors in our future life

I have realized that sensor technologies are established and

becoming more invasive for controlling everyday life.

Sensors turn into spimes (sensors + GPS/time + network + memory)

Sensor technologists develop sensor networks that track specific

parameters, but nobody really knows how to handle these data. For
sure, not how to handle them altogether and efficiently.

Spimes are not just rough data, they are information - and they
can build themselves information and relationships.

Spimes sync data to their cloud, not the cloud.

Future developments in mobile devices, microprocessors and wireless

will enable each unit, even small and simple, to be active and not
just passive -> “following” other spimes and managing events.

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 The missing cloud

With this upper

Each sensor
cloud, anyone can
network is linked
access sensor
to its cloud
information

Other clouds can

make use of this
information
Spimes
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 For example...

TomTom
Mercedes cloud
cloud

GPS

Impact
sensor
Speed
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 For example...
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Mileage company
TomTom Traffic Urban
Mercedes cloud Eme
rgen managem.
cloud cy c
all
First aid
GPS

Impact
sensor
Speed
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 For example...
Ads
provider
TomTom
Mercedes cloud Location +
cloud profile +
mobile
W advertising
GPS L LO
FO

Impact
sensor
Speed
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 Another example...

Rem
hos
pita ote
liza
tion
Remote
hospital /
physician

Oximetry
Heartbeat
B. pressure ...

Telemedicine
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 Another example...
Research /
Clinical Hist investigation
Faculty of
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service Me dical
develo pment
s Pharma
Physician corporate
Rem
hos
pita ote
liza
tion
Remote
First aid hospital /
physician

Prescriptions Oximetry Neighbor

Heartbeat
Suggestions B. pressure ... alarm

Telemedicine
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 Types of sensors
Now Vision
Smartphone data (GPS, Location-based sensing
Mobile acceleration, camera) Urban interaction
Biosensors, wearable Biomedical monitoring
Wearable monitoring devices Intelligent clothes?
Remote monitoring of Remote hospitalization,
Medical patients biomedical monitoring
Wireless sensor networks, Smart houses, robotics,
Domestic small-scale sensors domestic interaction
Structural monitoring Health monitoring, active
Structural Smart structures building control
In-car sensors, safety Traffic management,
Transports sensors in avionics remote vehicle control?
Pollutants, chemical Environmental monitoring
Chemical detection Safety biosensors

Many devices, many host, many types of data

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 Goal
Pain: we need a sensor atmosphere, which raises
over the single cloud and connects internet of
things spimes/clouds

Information, even anonymous, from one sensor

has significant value outside its cloud

Value proposition: build the abstract layer that

reads updates from all sensors, all types of data,
all hosts and shares them with the outside
(search) and with the inside (follow) - as Twitter

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 The project tasks

➊ Build the upper cloud

➋ Create a metadata

➌ Define input
➍ Define output
➎ Build search ➏ Build follow
➐ Develop tags
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 How it looks like
Followers
All updates Header
#label #host time
location sens_val... #label #host time
location sens_val... Conbination

+
#label #host time
location sens_val... #label #host time Host
location sens_val...
h API to
Follow
t

rc
Twee

se a #label #host time

Twt medatata?
location sens_val...
Spime lo ad ???
Up

Looks like Twitter + TwitSearch, but needs to

work on sensors
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 Issues

Protocols: design through protocols that will

be then reused by developers

Privacy: how can sensors remain anonymous

and hidden to users?

Separating users and sensors as much as

possible

Log-in/initialization: how?

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 Supporting innovation
Smartphone and
Xbee enables portable devices
internet of things increase closeness Wi-fi opens
networking cheaply to networks internet
connections
and longer
links

Integration of small
sensor modules Netsukuku project:
modules internet as a whole
mesh network?

(1) Meshing networks

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 Supporting innovation
ASIC for all FPGA for
Barriers

SW + HW
top-level
design (μP)
HW

Miniaturization
Standardization
Simplification

Anyone can design

competitive SW and HW
(2) Hardware design
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 Supporting innovation

Enabling
wireless power-
up of remote
modules

(3) Witricity
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 Supporting innovation

TED 02/09
TED 03/09 1/2
TED 03/09 2/2

(4) The Sixth Sense

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 Why open source?
Community: it reaches the whole community of
developers from the start

It enables developers to start working straight

on the upper level

Fast: it moves faster than proprietary software,

giving up dead ends quickly

Flexibility: software goes dynamic

Business model: open source does not mean no

business model...
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 Why open source?

Open source takes the whole matrix

Developer
Application

Application-
driven design

Technology / type of sensor data

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 Competitive scenario
Patchube - UK startup providing sensor
store and datastream platform

Funambol Teleport - Mobile open source

cloud sync. Platform for syncing custom
data on the Funambol cloud

Widetag - Developer of spimes, spimes

interfaces and tag-cloud interaction

WikiCity - MIT experiment for Urban

sensorization

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 Beachheads
Start from existing spimes:

Smartphones (spimes, apps marketplace,

urban interaction, Twitter)

Smart intrusion/burglar alarms (immediate

creation of value)

Mobile + profiled + localized advertising

Telemedicine

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 My plans
I have spotted the opportunity of the next
big thing (but is it?)

Relocate to somewhere I can learn fast, set

up a team and go for this project

Raise funds and bootstrap

Iterate on the project

Have fun building cool projects

Deadlines in Aug/Sept for some funds

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 Thanks for your help

sirddt@gmail.com

dan82ddt

DanieleTosi

www.linkedin.com/in/danieletosi

+39 329 2071297

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