IoT Practice {In} ActionBy Shine Xavier (A Thing)MOBConf : IOT Conference 2016May 28, 2016

Objective

Why do we need an IoT Practice?• DriversHow do we create an IoT Practice?• Strategies & ThoughtsHow do we sustain an IoT Practice?• Strategies & Thoughts

:: Based on my

experience ::

• What I have seen

• What I have heard

• What I have done

• What I felt it is

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Target Audience

• Anyone who is still trying to figure out what IoT means to them and others.

• Anyone who is still trying to see how they can benefit from IoT with maximum ROI and minimal CAPEX.

• Anyone who is still wanting to take the plunge and yet overwhelmed by the IoT landscape.

• Anyone who tried to participate and gave up easily thinking there isn’t anything special here.

• Anyone who tried to set up a competency group or practice and yet struggling to generate business and visibility in the organization.

• Anyone who doesn’t want to miss the greatest revolutions of our times – “Digital”!

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Why do we need a Practice?Drivers

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Connect the Dots (Technology Evolution)

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Connect the Dots (Human Intelligence Evolution)

Human Intelligence vs Technology

A Transhumanism Analogy (LUCY - 2014 Movie)

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Technology

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Connect the Dots (Industrial Revolution)

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Connect the Dots (Convergence)

IoE

Engineering

Physical Sciences

Life Sciences

:: Now Picture These Scenarios ::• Drunken Driver Smart Detection• Smart Notifications (Accidents,

Blocks etc.)• Connected Vehicles (M2M)• Message Verification (Blockchain)

• Deforestation & Hunting• Trees/Animals calling 911• Natural Computing

• Decoding the “River Of Life”• Mining blood for everything that

the can indicate health attributes

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Connected Dots Say:

“It is the next natural step in evolution and growth”

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How do we create the Practice?Strategies & Thoughts

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Let’s Break It Down – IoT Ecosystem

• IoT as a Graph• Edges correspond to connectivity• Long-Haul Communication• Wi-Fi, Cellular, BLE, Zigbee, Z-Wave, 6LowPAN, Thread, NFC, Sigfox, Neul, LoRaWAN,

CAN, RS-232, Ethernet, TCP/IP, MQTT, 6LowPan  etc.• Short-Haul Communication• OBD II, MDB etc.

• Vertices correspond to devices connected to “things”• Sensors, Controllers, Gateways, Cloud, Smart Devices, Actuators etc.

• Device Management• Provisioning, Remote Monitoring, Diagnostics, Firmware Update• Supported by Protocols like Very Simple Control Protocol (VSCP)

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Let’s Break It Down – Where’s your competency?

Things

• Making your things smarter & pluggable

• Consumer goods/product manufacturers

Devices (Tier1 & Tier2)

• Last Mile• Sensors, Controllers, Gateways, Actuators etc.

• Embedded development

Back-End (Tier3)

• Cloud, Mobility, Analytics , Provisioning & Reporting

End-To-End Service

• Device Provisioning, Remote Monitoring, Diagnostics, Firmware Update

Systems Integrator

• Create IoT Solution with Integration Platforms like ThingWorx, IBM BlueMix etc.

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Let’s Break It Down – Solution Coverage (Domains)

Semiconductor• Devices (Sensors, Agents & Controllers) including

IT• Intelligent BOTS, Intelligent & Proactive SOC/NOC that

provides value for Customer Services (Machine Learning, Cognitive Computing, Reporting, Self-Healing, DevOps, A/B Testing, RPA etc.)

Manufacturing & Engineering• Home Automation, Smart Meters, Smart Factories

(Instrumentation, Feedback Loops, Actuators etc.)

Healthcare• Telemedicine, Bedside Monitoring, Remote Patient

Monitoring, Intelligent/Proactive Diagnostics, Wellness

BFSI• Behavioral Insurance, Smart trade and contracts (with

Bit Coins, Block chains, Machine Learning etc.)

Retail• Last Mile Delivery still an unsolved problem

Shipping & Logistics• Tracking Perishable Goods

Automobile• Connected Cars, Intelligent IVI systems

Aviation• Baggage Tracking

Agriculture• Hydroponics, Illegal Logging

Security• Computer Vision, Video Analytics etc.

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Core Activities – Where do you focus?You know your basket by now • Have a stock of what you have and

what you don’t.

Let's go shopping• Innovation aggregation, Partnerships

etc.• Hackathons (Open Ideas,

Crowdsourcing etc.)

Low Hanging Fruits• Look for value added services for your

existing customers• Scan the markets constantly for

innovations that you could apply above

Individual players don't have the big picture. They too are desperately looking for markets.• H/W Manufacturers (Devices, Controllers, Gateways, Smart

Devices, Actuators)

Service Creation• It’s an art to create and sell (Case Study: Selling

Information vs Equipment in Smart Metering)• Follow the pioneers (as in any utilitarian domain e.g.

Mobile & Telecommunication providers)• You seldom listen to your customers (too focused on the

wrong basket mostly H/W)

Solution• Dreaming of endless possibilities• Design – Loosely coupled & Plugin Architecture (Anything

can change – Protocols, Devices etc.)• Adherence to open standards

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The Core Team

• Practice Lead – Chief IoT Strategist• Decides the right basket for investment

• Innovation Architect• Creates the ecosystem for Innovation and

devises realization roadmap for PL’s vision• Market Analyst • Does the needed Market Research

• Solution Architect• Creates Blueprint of Solution along with

other Practice Architects in Services team• Integrator• Manages the implementation along with

SMEs and the allocated project teams

Practice Lead

Market Analyst

Integrator

Solutions Architect

Innovation

Architect

:: Don’t look outside ::Leverage SMEs across practices including Mobility, Cloud, Embedded, Analytics, SOA etc.

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How do we sustain the Practice?Drivers

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Long Haul (Now that you have a team)

• Create product services• Solely or Jointly (Mix n’ Match)• Market Research• Apple way

• Facilitate Innovation & Research through collaboration• “Any Non-Trivial Human Endeavour Warrants Collaboration” – Praseed Pai• Work with Universities/Colleges• Individual Innovators/Contributors/Researchers• Support Startup Ecosystems

• Drive Industry Growth by joining hands with Hardware manufacturers• Publish Open Ideas constantly (Trivial or Complex)• White Papers, Forums etc.

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Long Haul (Now that you have a team)

• Create IPs• Exclusive & Joint IPs

• Join, Co-Create & Drive Standards• The Industrial Internet Consortium - IIC (Intel + IBM + Cisco + AT&T + Microsoft) would

establish use cases and standards requirements for IoT implementations in business and government.

• The Open Internet Consortium - OIC (Intel + Atmel + Samsung + Broadcom) is to define IoT interoperability specifications, and enable branded implementations of them.

• AllSeen (Qualcomm + Cisco + Microsoft) is actively producing an open source framework for enabling communications between devices in ad hoc networks-a system for discovering what's out there, and making use of it.

• Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) will help ensure secure interoperability for consumers, business, and industry.

• The OpenFog Consortium, was formed to define and promote fog computing. The consortium, founded by ARM, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Princeton University in November 2015, seeks to create an architecture and approach to fog, edge, and distributed computing.

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Summing Up (The Connected Dots)

• IoT - A true convergence that warrants a serious practice• Indulge• It’s never too late – You could be a Pioneer!• Come and claim your pie• Extent of unexplored landscape is huge

Thank You!

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