Android powered

Internet of Things
ALEXANDRU IOVANOVICI
POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA
ADVANCED COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURES
LABORATORY

Songdo, South Korea

first of its kind fully equipped and wiredsmart city

$40 billion in 10 years;

With Android, you get

something that is
power-efficient, its
easy for developers
to do the user
interface and touch
controls, and its
easy to get data in
and out
[Philip DesAutels,
Xively]

What is IoT ?
uniquely

identifiable objects and their virtual representations in an

Internet-like structure [Ashton99]

[]

the expanding interconnectedness of smart devices, ranging

from sensors in your shoe to jet engine monitors [BusinessWeek]

Each

object can be connected via other objects (usually via third party)
to exchange data.

Roots

in the M2M.

The third age of the Internet

State of IoT

What do we need ?

RFID

NFC

Barcodes

2D codes: QR or the more obscure ones: Aztec, Data Matrix, HCCB,

PDF417

Digital watermarking: adding auth. data to a signal;

IPv6: there would be more IP addresses available than things.

Every screen variant, mobile chip, and sensor known to man has
been tuned to work with Android [Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation]

Bluetooth Smart (Low

Energy)
Where as classic
Bluetooth devices
measure their battery life
in hours, Bluetooth
Smart devices measure
their battery in months
or even years
- proximity detection
- vitals monitoring

Implementation issues

Lack of standardization;

Size: its going to be huge. From 50 to 100 trillion of moving

things [Waldner 2007];

Time constraints: extremely hard real-time system: billion of

simultaneous events.

Position tracking: things have to know their neighbors and

interact to them.

The shear quantity of data is way above what we can

process now or not !?

Internet of Isolated Things

Systems

running on a smaller scale: size and area;

Informationally

isolated to the big IoT private

networks;
Such

as:

Home

automation;

Industrial
Safety

control;

critical systems.

Typical applications

Sensors and sensor networks

Xively ex Cosm ex Pachube -;)

Framework for real time data logging

Chatty Things

XMPP extension

Home automation

Smart product management

devicehub.net

IoT @ Google

Soft stuff -;)

Accessory Development Kit

a reference implementation for hardware manufacturers and hobbyists to use

as a starting point for building accessories for Android

new and alternative hardware based on the ADK is encouraged! [Release

notes]

Android accessories can be audio docking stations, exercise machines, personal

medical testing devices, weather stations, or any other external hardware device
that adds to the functionality of Android.

Hard stuff -;)

Bluetooth via Amarino

Android IOIO

Android@Home: I/O 2007

software framework for Android that allows programmers to interact with various
connected appliances such as light bulbs, thermostats, washing machines and more.

Android world

bRight Switch
Features
Learning mode, Dimmer, Built-in programmable timers, Integrated speaker
and microphone,Proximity detection/motion sensing, WiFi capability,Outlet
control, Customizable features

Staples connect

Threats
internet

of things holds
promises but it also holds
dangers [Rob van
Kraneburg 2011]

the

intelligence
community views Internet
of Things as a rich source
of data [Spencer 2012]

Powered by Android ;-)