Bluetooth & IoT
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The document discusses how Bluetooth and IoT standards can help connect physical objects in the real world to the internet in a similar way that the internet connected digital information. It envisions a future where any physical thing can be identifiable and able to transmit small amounts of data through technologies like Bluetooth to share real-time sensor data online. It argues that for the IoT to be successful, it needs open and application-agnostic standards like those that made the internet successful, to allow widespread adoption and connectivity of physical devices and their sensor data to the online world.
Bluetooth & IoT
- 2. Imagine proclaiming in 1990: The Internet Soon we’ll be able to look up every text, picture, video, review and opinion ever made about a particular topic, simply by entering keywords into a computer.
- 3. Imagine proclaiming in 2015: The Internet of Things Soon we’ll be able to look up real-world context, the physical state of anything, as it unfolds, simply by entering keywords into a computer.
- 4. Created standards which are: How did the Internet do it? ➔ Simple in principle ➔ Open in spirit ➔ Easy to adopt ➔ Application-agnostic
- 5. By creating standards which are: How will the IoT do it? ➔ Simple in principle ➔ Open in spirit ➔ Easy to adopt ➔ Application-agnostic
- 6. (From our 2014 Bluetooth World Presentation) We believe in ‘BLE for IoT’
- 7. Most ‘things’ are simply glorified barcodes. Our vision of the IoT Everything identifiable in real-time at a human scale. Anything can propagate any short message with minimal overhead. 1 2
- 8. Kevin Ashton’s IoT vision: We’re not alone We need to empower computers with their own means of gathering information, so they can see, hear and smell the world for themselves, in all its random glory. RFID and sensor technology enable computers to observe, identify and understand the world—without the limitations of human-entered data. (RFID Journal, 2009)
- 9. From Bluetooth World 2015
- 10. How can the SIG help? Everything identifiable in real-time at a human scale. Anything can propagate any short message with minimal overhead. 1 2 ➔ Assigned Numbers ➔ DNS-like standard for distributed lookup? ➔ GAP ➔ Standard for data propagation via Internet?
- 11. Summary: it’s happening Inexpensive Bluetooth Smart ICs Energy Harvesting Every product will be identifiable at a distance. Many will share sensor data.
- 12. Summary: think Internet ➔ Simple in principle ➔ Open in spirit ➔ Easy to adopt ➔ Application-agnostic Facilitate the propagation of this data with a standard that is:
- 13. context.reelyactive.com smartspac.es @reelyActive Jeffrey Dungen | jeff@reelyactive.com