Preparing For The Web Of Things, Bebo White, J. Boye Web & Intranet Conference, May 7-9, 2013, Philadelphia PA USA
Preparing For
Bebo White
SLAC National Accelerator LaboratoryStanford University
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I want to discuss with you what I believeto be one of the most disruptive technologies
ever
and I want your opinions
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TheStaticWeb
DynamicWebPages
TheParticipatory
Web
TheSocialWeb
TheMultimedia
Web
TheMobileWeb
TheSemantic
Web
TheDataWeb
TheWeb
of Things
No Web X.0 !!
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• The Web of Things?? Who asked for that? Is it already here?
• aka Internet of Things, Internet of Objects, Web of Objects, Sensor Web
• Another catch phrase for conferences, venture capitalists & start-ups?
• Web = Internet? Object = Thing?
• Web disappears and encompasses all?
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$$14.4 trillion
by 2022(Cisco)
$10-15 trillionto global GDPover next 20
years(GE)
‘of the 1.5 trillion things thathave a potential to be connected,
97% of them are consumer’
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• Deals with copies - pages, documents, videos, even some objects
• Is defined by how we can receive/interpret those copies
• Browsers and miscellaneous clients
• Video players
• Printers (even 3D printers)
The Old Web(s)
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Now
• We have the capability to fully connect and integrate everyday devices and objects into “a Web environment”
• And use these devices and objects in ways that we can only imagine
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Challenges for “the Web of Things”
• What is it? What problems can it solve?
• Architecture - How does it look? What are its components?
• ‘Things’ - what are the ingredients?
• ‘Glue’ - how do things stick together?
• Applications and services - the WOT platform
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The Model Human Computer
• Works fine
• when it’s just us and a single device
• when mapping device I/O to 5 senses “makes sense”
• when computing devices “were simple”
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Why the MHC is Outdated
• There is now just one computer (the Internet/Web)
• we only have a glimpse into a part of it
• its processing and data potential is limitless
• 5 senses is too few; too many interactions at a time
• humans are not the only entities using it
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“By 2040 the Web will exceed humanityin processing power”
--- Kevin Kelly
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What is It? (to me)
• A communications revolution
• Communicating not just copying
• An interactive universe of objects, things, data, ideas/concepts and processes both real & virtual
• All objects can be integrated & communicate - co-dependency
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In 1997
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You are the Designers18Wednesday, May 8, 13
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Interactions
• People2People, Objects2Objects, People2Objects, Objects2People
• Without intermediaries or with intermediaries in the background
• MHC interaction have limited range; in WOT range is universal
• Things/objects become transmitter and receiver that can initiate and respond to stimuli
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Intent
• Objects/things are named entities
• Objects/things have attributes
• Intents are satisfied by presenting objects/things and their attributes
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A Lot of This Isn’t New...
• Ubiquitous computing
• Pervasive computing
• Captology
• Sensors/RFIDs
• Very early attempts at WOT
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Trojan Room Coffee Pot
• Cambridge, 1991
• Inspiration for 1st Webcam
• Clear interaction model with clear intent
• Really “on the Web?”
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Natural Objects
• Transmit & receive - atoms/molecules, animals/plants, stars/galaxies
• All with deliberate intent according to natural laws
• If you believe in QM, “spooky action at a distance”
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Why Shouldn’t Man-made Objects?
• Intent defined by programming and personalization
• Can turn on & off - not always subject to natural law
• Sensitive to security & privacy
• The technology exists
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3.4 e38
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Blogjects - objects that blog(Julian Bleeker, USC)
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Spimes - “a location-aware, environment-aware, self-logging, self-documenting, uniquely
identified object that flings off data aboutitself and its environment in great quantities”
(Bruce Sterling)
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“The significance of technologies like RFID and 2Dbarcoding is that they offer a low-impact way to
‘import’ physical objects into the datasphere,to endow them with an informational shadow”
(Adam Greenfield)
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What Does “a Person on the Web” Mean?
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• A ‘sensory-sensitive,’ complete unambiguous representation of a person
• Contains all credentials, contacts, friends, preferences
• A ‘digital smell’
• A ‘Turing entity’ with knowledge capture
• Your URI is your ‘human ID’
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• Premises
• Nature is data processing engine (and the best)
• The best engineering emulates nature
• Forget the human brain - the Internet/brain comparison is lame
How to Do This?
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Consider Field/Gauge Theory
• Objects/things exchange ‘hard data’ & ‘soft data’
• How is the data received?
• Objects/things obey interaction rules
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How Does That Differ From This?
• B, C, & D in coverage range of A - when A sends a message who gets it?
• A, B in range of C - when C sends a message who gets it?
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Self-Organizing Mesh Networks
• Societies of cognitively cooperating devices “growing from the edges”
• Artificial life, “swarm intelligence”
• Mutual security, group-aligned self interest
• Network as memory
• Emergent sync - they will decide how we interact with them most efficiently - new interfaces - correlation discovery
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Critical Object Success Factors
• Accessibility
• Authenticity
• Understandability
• Traceability
• Mashability
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Not Without Danger
• Open attacks on ‘low-hanging targets’
• For example, the ‘poster children’ for WOT
• ‘Smart homes/cars’
• Power grid/utilities
• Supply chains
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(Ryan Boudreaux)
Vint Cerf’s wine cellar
Insurance spies
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Enabling Building Blocks• M2M interfaces &
protocols for communication
• Microcontrollers
• WiFi
• RFID
• Energy ‘harvesting’ technologies
• Sensors
• Actuators
• Location technology
• Software
• etc., etc.
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Synergistic Technologies• Geo-tagging/geo-caching
• Biometrics
• Machine vision
• Robotics
• AR
• Mirror worlds
• Telepresence & adjustable autonomy
• Life recorders & ‘personal black boxes’
• Tangible UIs
• Clean/green technologies
• etc., etc.
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How About an Auto on the Web?
• Smart cars are old news - ‘chips on wheels’
• Could be subnets on existing networks
• Is it feasible that a car
• Could be a witness in an accident case?
• Could search for a new buyer?
• In other words, ‘have a real identity?’
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Summary
• WOT is here and can’t be stopped
• The technology & infrastructure exist
• All objects can have ‘a sliver of Web-ness’
• Numerous R & D challenges (not just about technology)
• Infinite channels for creativity - ‘make the impossible possible’
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