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Active Digital Identities in the Web of Things The Web as the Universal Platform for the Physical World…

Dominique Guinard, Ph.D. ETH Zurich

CTO & co-founder @ EVRYTHNG


EVRYTHNG Ltd. London / Zurich

Niall Murphy, CEO

Dom Guinard, CTO

Vlad Trifa, CPO

Andy Hobsbawm, CMO


Motivation [flickr.com/photos/moragcasey]


TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2010



A Fast Increasing Number of Smart Things…

A very large ecosystem of smart things,

complex application development


The Web of Things: Bridging the Physical/Virtual Gap

Simplifying Application Development in the Internet of Things

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Web of Things Application Architecture


Use-case: Energie Visible

• Developers:

– Smart Meters as a RESTful Web API:

– Mashup with any language supporting HTTP

• Users:

– Used by several families around the world (Energie Visible)


Social Access Controller (SAC)


Sharing in Friends and Things

http://vswot.inf.ethz.ch:8091

/gateways/vswot.inf.ethz.ch:8081 /resources/sunspots/spot1/sensors/temperature


Electronic Article Surveillance as a Physical Mashup

[Naef2009] Naef , L. ClickScript a

visual programming language in the

browser. Master Thesis, ETH Zurich

[Gui2010d] Guinard, D., Floerkemeier,

C., & Sarma, S. Cloud Computing,

REST and Mashups to Simplify RFID

Applications, WoT 2011


Product Intelligence Dashboard

Selected tagged Chocolate

What are my current stock levels for this

Chocolate?

Where is this Chocolate coming from?

Where is the new one I ordered?

What do people think about this Chocolate?

Follow this chocolate on my mobile phone/browser

using a feed !

Product Manager:

I want BI for my products!

Consumer: I want live info

about this Chocolate

Widget toolbox


WoT & Business? [flickr.com/photos/daviddmuir]


All kinds of objects will have intelligence and the ability to communicate. P&G ships 40 trillion some objects per year, imagine them all connected. − Chetan Sharma, leading wireless analyst, 2011

We ‘aint seen nothing yet

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Connecting people + products

• Accessories,

Consumers

Producers

• How to connect the

things I care about into my social graph?

• How to easily find digital content,

community advice and services linked to my product?

• How to share content

from or linked to my product?

• How to connect

product and customer experience?

• How link a product

with own & 3rd party digital services?

• How to connect products through the

supply chain to end customers?


A Facebook for things

An Active Digital Identity profile for every thing.

Think of a Facebook for things − individual things with unique digital profiles, like we have, to update, share and add to…

a Facebook for things

Objects

Tags

EVRYTHNG Cloud

Services

Applications


App Ideas? Join our Beta!

• Becomes a ‘social object’ • A cloud store for your Active Digital Identities

• RESTful API, low-footprint friendly (Arduinos and co)

• Libraries for:

– Java

– Ruby

– Android (coming soon)

• Will be complemented with new APIs soon!


Conclusions…

What did we contribute? What are the current limitations?

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Thanks a lot for your attention

• Dominique Guinard

– Research Blog: webofthings.org

– Company: evrythng.com

– Contact details: guinard.org

• Looking for:

– Java backend developers (JAX-RS, Play, Jetty, Jackson, PHP, Python, etc.)

– Frontend developers (HTML5, CSS, Javascript, etc.)

http://www.webofthings.org/

http://www.evrythng.com/

http://www.guinard.org/

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GET

GET, PUT

GET, DELETE

Resource Design

Representation Design

Interface Design

http://<DOMAIN>:<PORT>/genericNodes

/temperature /sensors /node1

http://<DOMAIN>:<PORT>/genericNodes

Resource Oriented Architecture


Resource Design

Representations Design

Interface Design

Implementation Strategy

30 Billion Devices, 5% are Networked!