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Internet of Actuating Things
Balamuralidhar P, Arpan PalInnovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India
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Internet of Things & M2M
Internet of Things– Towards a vision of networking ‘Things’ on Internet– Practically it signifies
o Sensing, Identifying, communicating between physical objects such as home appliances, furniture, vehicles, buildings, components of infrastructures such as roads, utilities and many more…
Machine to Machine (M2M) communications is a part of the above vision
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Scope
Gateway
Service Platform
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Internet of Actuating Things
Cognition
Computing
NetworkingEmbedded Systems
Control
5 - 5 -
Intelligent Infrastructure
Sense
Extract
Analyze
Respond
Learn
Smartening the Infrastructure by Real-Time Monitoring and Management
Monitor
Operational Efficiency, Safety & Security, Information Services, Convenience
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Challenges in Actuating Things
Actuation causes a change in the state of things (can be catastrophic if in-appropriate)
Actuation has associated responsibility– Need authentication, – Timeliness, robustness– Security against un-intended actuations
Action may be triggered by a software agent or human being. Challenges in trusting a software agent.
Energy saving and autonomic capabilities Cooperative Actuation further these challenges
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Erasure coding for Robust Protocol
Erasure Coding: k blocks are encoded to n blocks , introducing (n-k) redundancy. If the number of blocks lost during the transmission m <= (n-k), then original information can be recovered.
Mostly used technique to address packet losses is retransmission. This creates un predictable delays and reduced throughput.
Erasure coding is an alternate way to address this. An apriori estimate of the channel condition can help in planning the redundancy required.
From an IoT perspective, this would be impactful for multicast transmissions ( mass upgrade, mass configuration etc)
Evaluation Robust CoAP is in progress
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Identity based Encryption for Secure IoT
Identity based Encryption system– Here a public key is derived from Identity – Unlike PKI there is no key exchange required during
transactions
In IOT/M2M the number of devices involved are too many. Key management and exchange would be an issue
IBE can be used in such cases. Private keys are embedded in the device. Public key is derived from publicly known identities such as IP address, MAC address, URI etc.
Standardisation in progress - IEEE P1636.3/D1
Global ICT Standardization for India (GISFI)
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GISFI
Forum for addressing ICT standardization in India (www.gisfi.org )
Working Groups– Security and Privacy – Future Radio Networks – Internet of Things (IoT) – Service Oriented Network (SEoN) – Green ICT
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Use Cases being considered in IoT WG
IoT WG
Healthcare
Home
Smart Grid
Agriculture
Food Supply Chain
Public Safety
Transportation
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IoT Reference Architecture
Sensor / Devices
Gateway
Service Platform
Applications
IoT Core Network
I1
I2
I3
Robots as Actuating Things in IoT
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Market Projection
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Some Social Applications of Robotics
Public safety – Search & Rescue– Detecting human under debris, water and fire
Surveillance– Campus security (mobile cameras and audio)– Monitoring flora and fauna, forest fires
Agriculture / farming
Remote Infrastructure Monitoring & Management
Remote Healthcare & Assisted Living
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A Motivating Requirement
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Robots as Mobile Gateways
Mobile data collection– Agriculture monitoring– Mobile Agro-advisory System– Real-time sending of Soil Temperature, Soil Moisture,
Atmospheric Temperature and Atmospheric Humidity
Advantages of Robots as Mobile Gateways– Energy saving through lower communication range– Periodic Sensor auto calibration
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Technology Challenges
Wireless Networking– Variable communication range– Mobility: no to moderate (pedestrian) speeds– Dynamic topology– Reliability & robustness, security– Real-time communication for actuation (downlink)
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Summary
“Actuating Things” have variety of important applications and related challenges
Robots are a popular category of actuators Wireless robotics need attention of researchers and
standardization bodies – Machine to Actuating Machine communications
o Next M2M?
Note:- Some of the pictures are taken from publicly available internet and have been used for illustration purpose only
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