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F1B-3 IoT Mashups With The WoTKit

This document discusses the WoTKit, a toolkit for building IoT mashups using web technologies. It provides an overview of the toolkit's requirements and architecture, which includes sensor management, visualizations, data processing capabilities, and APIs. The toolkit aims to lower the barrier to entry for IoT development by including common services and using familiar web standards and tools. It also supports finding, integrating, and sharing IoT sensor data to encourage collaboration and the creation of new applications.

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F1B-3 IoT Mashups With The WoTKit

This document discusses the WoTKit, a toolkit for building IoT mashups using web technologies. It provides an overview of the toolkit's requirements and architecture, which includes sensor management, visualizations, data processing capabilities, and APIs. The toolkit aims to lower the barrier to entry for IoT development by including common services and using familiar web standards and tools. It also supports finding, integrating, and sharing IoT sensor data to encourage collaboration and the creation of new applications.

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IoT Mashups with the WoTKit

Mike Blackstock, Rodger Lea

Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre


University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
Motivation
• IoT mashups are simple, personal,
situational, short lived applications
• Existing platforms often steep learning
curve and complex tool chains
• Leveraging web protocols important
step forward - Web of Things
• Web-centric IoT toolkits can increase
pool of developers and applications.

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Overview

• Other Toolkits
• Application Experience
• Requirements
• WoTKit
• Lessons Learned

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Many Other Toolkits
• High end M2M systems
• Custom solutions
• Not focused on web, sharing
• Can be complex
• Similar web-centric toolkits
• Key differences
• what is included
• how services are delivered

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Application Experience
• Health
• Remote monitor of pulse
oximeter
• Connect heart rate monitor
alerts when heart rate is
high
• Environment
• air quality data from web to
display on mobile
application
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Application Experience
• Transport
• vehicle location monitoring
• location and transport mode
• mobile traffic visualizations
• ship locations
• IT, Social Networks, Home
• Phidget, Arduino integration
• Zigbee gateways
• CPU monitors
• Home and appliance power monitoring
• Social network integration

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Toolkit Requirements
• Integration
• Meta-data and
Storage
• Visualizations
• Control
• Sharing
• Processing and
Alerts
• APIs
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WoTKit
• Platform and Mashup
Services
• Sensor manager and
aggregator
• Visualizations
• Finding & sharing
sensors
• Processing and alerts
• all are core system
facilities, not plug ins or
add ons.

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Architecture
• Management and
visualization UI
• Processing
engine
• RESTful API

• Shared data
model
• Database and
message broker
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Integration and Sharing
• Easy integration using
HTTP
• 2 way – sense and control
• Sharing meta data and
sensor data
• Saves integration task for
others
• Allows easy search and
creation of mashups
• Provide services for
connecting ‘islands of
things’.
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Visualizations
• First task after
integration: see your
data
• Widgets on
dashboards
• Google Charts
• Maps
• jQuery plugins
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Processing and Alerts
• Inspired by Yahoo
Pipes
• Users generate pipe
descriptions by
dragging and
dropping modules
and wires
• Input, output,
processing, user
scripting, debugging,
testing, integration

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Processing Engine
• Pipe descriptions are ‘compiled’
• Instantiates pipe modules in the
server (checking for scripting and
configuration errors)
• Routing table of module
connections
• Messages from sensors, external
systems are received by modules and
added to queue.
• Modules may send output to
downstream modules for processing,
the WotKit, or to external systems

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Lessons Learned

• Data Schema and Representations


• Sharing
• Component Model
• Sensor Updates and Processing Model
• Batteries included

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Schema and
• Important to be simple and flexible
Representations
• e.g. location can be meta data or
sensor data
• Numeric sensor values are not enough
• physical and virtual sensor feeds
(tweets)
• Start with a very simple schema
(timestamped value) that can be
extended
• True for sensor data and meta data
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Sharing
• Important to create network effect;
increasing value of platform
• Public things, private things, group
things
• Subscribe to favourite sensors
• Tagging for easier search
• Share via social networks
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Component Model
• Dashboard widgets
• visuals + sensors
• Pipes and modules
• modules - input, output and
processing
• Sufficiently different to warrant
separate integration points

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Sensor Updates and Processing
• Push (Event): firewall friendly, but can
Model
store and process data no one is
interested in
• Pull (Query): infrastructure polling for
unnecessary updates, real time alerting
not as timely
• Both current state and stream of
historical values are needed by
applications
• Both updates and processing models
are required.
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Batteries Included
• If users are able to easily capture and
visualize data, they will invest time in
exploring other toolkit capabilities
• From there, explore data processing,
more visualizations, actuators, etc.
• Provide RESTful API and integration
points for more complex applications
and contributions to platform.

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Conclusions
• IoT applications can be complex
• Many IoT toolkits but can have a steep learning
curve
• require sophisticated middleware and
development toolchains.
• For mashups, rapid development environments are
needed:
• Use familiar web technologies and tools
• Quick ability to find and visualize things
• Mashup a variety of data from things and data
sources
• Provide path to more complex applications
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Thank you
• Give it a try!
• http://wotkit.sensetecnic.com
• Academic version available
• Commercialized by Sense Tecnic
Systems
• [email protected]

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