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 Use of Cloud IoT cloud-based service
• The service provides for the data collection, data
points, messages and calculation objects.
• The service also provisions for the generation and
communication of alerts, triggers and feeds to the user.
• A user is an application or service. The user obtains
responses or feeds from the cloud service.

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 IoT/M2M
Collect + Storage for
Device/
IoT/M2M the applications,
Sensor
Local Data services, enterprise and
Network
business processes User

Database Firewall
Internet Firewall
. and Intelligence Application
Device/
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Sensor Communication User
.. Collect
Network Gateway Service
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things
User
Device/ Cloud Application
Sensor Infrastructure
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Network and Services
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• Pachube platform: for data capture in real-time over the
Internet
• Cosm: a changed domain name, where using a concept
of console, one can monitor the feeds
• Xively is the latest domain name

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 Cloud service instance

• Cloud service deploys an instance of server at Arduino

and other IoT sensor nodes platforms
• Provision for real-time data collection, data
visualisation, graphical plots, HTTP based APIs and
feed

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 IoT/M2M
.
Server. Local Collect + Storage for the
Instance
..
Files applications, services, enterprise and
Dedicated business processes and Intelligence
Device/

Database Firewall
Internet Firewall
Sensor Data Store/ Cloud User
Network Coordinating Infrastructure Application
node and Services
Device/ Central
Collect
Sensor Controller
Network Distributed Collect
Device/ Database from
Node User
Sensor things Service
Network Collect

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• A commercial PaaS for the IoT/M2M
• A data aggregator and data mining website often
integrated into the Web of Things
• An IoT PaaS for services and business services.

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 Xively PaaS services
• Data visualisation for data of connected sensors to IoT
devices.
• Graphical plots of collected data.
• Generates alerts.
• Access to historical data
• Generates feeds which can be real-world objects of own or
others.

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 Xively HTTP based APIs
• Easy to implement on device hardware acting as clients to
Xively web services
• APIs connect to the web service and send data.
• APIs provides services for logging, sharing and displaying
sensor data of all

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 Xively Support
• The platform supports the REST, WebSockets and MQTT
protocols and connects the devices to Xively Cloud
Services
• Native SDKs for Android, Arduino, ARM mbed, Java,
PHP, Ruby, and Python languages
• Developers can use the workflow of prototyping,
deployment and management through the tools provided at
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 Xively APIs
• Enable interface with Python, HTML5, HTML5 server,
tornado
• Interface with WebSocket Server and WebSockets
• Interface with an RPC (Remote Procedure Call)..

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 Xively PaaS services
• Enables services
• Business services platform which connects the products,
including collaboration products
• Rescue, Boldchat, join.me, and operations to Internet
• Data collection in real-time over Internet

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 Xively Methods for IoT Devices Data
• Concept of users, feeds, data streams, data points and
triggers
• Data feed typically a single location (e.g. a device or
devices network),
• Data streams are of individual sensors associated with
that location (for example, ambient lights,
temperatures, power consumption).
• Pull or Push (Automatic or Manual Feed)

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 Xively Data formats and Structures

• Number of data formats and structures enable the

interaction, data collection and services
• Support exists for JSON , XML (Section 3.3.3) and CSV
• Structures: Tabular, spreadsheet, Excel, Data numbers and
Text with a comma-separated values in file

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 Xively Uses in IoT/M2M

• Private and Public Data Access

• Data streams, Data points and Triggers
• Creating and Managing Feeds
• Visualising Data

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 Summary
We learnt
• Cloud service and infrastructure for user applications
and services
• Devices network local Web server and feeds, streams,
triggers and alerts to cloud service for usages by the
applications and services
• Xively (Pachube/COSM) Cloud PaaS service

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 Summary
We learnt
• Cloud service deploys an instance of server at Arduino
and other IoT sensor nodes platforms
• Real-time data collection
• Data visualisation
• Graphical plots

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 Summary
We learnt
• Xively data formats and structures
• Xively HTTP based APIs
• Xively REST, web sockets and web services

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