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Learning Fog Networks and the Internet of Things

03 Friday Jul 2015

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Princeton University have a course set up on Coursera for learning about Fog Networks and the Internet of Things.  

This course teaches the fundamentals of Fog Networking, the network architecture that uses one or a collaborative multitude of end-user clients or near-user edge devices to carry out storage, communication, computation, and control in a network. It also teaches the key results in the design of the Internet of Things, including consumer and industrial applications.

Although no dates available at the moment, its certainly on my watch list of courses I am interested in taking.

The course will cover

  • Overview: From Cloud to Fog
  • Overview: From IT to loTThings
  • Principles of Edge/P2P networking
  • Smart data pricing for new network services
  • Client side control and configuration
  • Client-side measurement & Control Signaling
  • Edge resource pooling and caching
  • Security and privacy in Fog
  • Consumer and wearable IoT
  • Connected cars IoT
  • Smart grids IoT
  • Healthcare IoT

Source: https://www.coursera.org/course/fog

Google I/O 2015 Event – Keynote Speech – Notes

28 Thursday May 2015

Posted by in Innovation, IoT, Open Source, Productivity, Programming, Security, Wearable Tech

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Here are some notes from the Google I/O 2015 – Keynote Speech

Android Overview

  • Android – Supporting over 400 OEMs and over 4000 Devices
  • Android Wear – 7 Models Supported
  • Android Auto – Supporting 35 Brands
  • Andriod TV – Sony, Sharp, Philips shipping with Android. Many more to come
  • 17m ChromeCast Devices – 1.5B Cast Button Presses

M Developer Preview

  • Back to Basics – Solved thousands of Bugs
  • Focus on Quality
  • Improving the core User Experience

App Permissions
– Simplifying App Permissions
– Apps asking permission when using that feature at first use rather than at install
– Faster to get users up and running – updates are seamless – app control process

Web Experience + App Links
– App Dev’s care about the experience that the users get
– Linking App to Web smoother
-Chrome Custom Tabs
– Apps can auto verify links at install time to verify the app owns the links it says it does

Mobile Pay
– Standardising Fingerprint Support

Power & Charging
– Doze Feature using activity to monitor when less power is needed in the device
– up to 2x longer in power length
– USB Type C charger to increase charging by 3x to 5x
– Can be charged or feature to act as a charger

Other new features
– Easier word selection
– Direct Share
– Simplified volume controls
Android Wear

  • Wearable Apps
  • Always on Apps
  • Wrist Gestures (such as scroll up/scroll down
  • Emoji Recogniser (draw emoji’s that are then recognised and correct emoji is displayed then sent)
  • Launcher (improved)

Project Brillo – Underlying IOT Operating System

  • Derived from Android
  • Minimal system requirements
  • Broad Silicon support
  • Easy to secure
  • Q3 Developer Preview

Weave – IOT Communcations layer where things can talk to each other

  • Common Language
  • Standard Schema’s
  • Developers APIs
  • Run with Brillo
  • Cross Platform
  • Q4 2015 full stack released

Now On Tap

  • Takes advantage of M Developer
  • Provides deeper interaction through access to Googles back end systems and deep machine learning networks
  • Enhanced user experience with access to information in real time

Google Photos

  • Built a new experience
  • Home for photos private and secure – available any device
  • Organise
  • Share

Chrome

  • Lite Search Results supporting more countries
  • Optimised search page results load 4 x faster, 80% less bytes and 80MB reduction in memory usage
  • Network Quality Estimator – to load pages to quality of bandwidth
  • Improved Offline Support – Saves of pages

YouTube

  • YouTube Offline – up to 48 Hours to view the video

Maps

  • Offline Maps
  • Offline Navigation – step by step

Developers

Developing Apps
Android Studio 1.3
– Improved Gradle build speed
– New memory profiler
– Support for C/C++

Polymer 1.0
– Elements to easily drop in features

iOS
– Cocoapods for SDK distribution

Testing
– Cloud Test Lab – Automate testing of mobile apps
– Runs test across top 20 devices across the world

Engage

– App Indexing (50 billion app links)
– Cloud Messaging (70 billion messages a day)
– will support iOS
– Topic subscription

Mobile Web
– Push Notfications
– Add to Homescreen

App Install Ads
– Universal App Campains – auto campain based on budget
– Measure App Install Ads

Google Play
– Conversion Funnel – Dashboard across app
– Play Store Listing Experiments
– Developer Pages – Own Google Play Home Page

Earn
– AdMob & Google Analytics
– AdMob Mediation – 40 Ad Networks

Google Cardboard – Over 1 million users

  • Improved viewer – screens up to 6 inches
  • Cardboard SDK – build for Android and iOS
  • Expeditions – Education Travel for Schools – Synchronized phones and tables

Google Balloons

  • 100+ days in the air
  • 10 Mbps connectivity
  • 500m accuracy
  • 4 x coverage area
  • Local partners

Open Source, Open Human, Open Data, Open Sesame!

30 Monday Mar 2015

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Opeopenn Source is a term that is now common place  meaning access to the inner workings of a thing to allow a wider community of people to help develop and take it forward. A good example of this is in software. The Internet is full of Open Source Software projects that people are developing and collaborating on, sharing data.

A project by the Personal Genome Project is now looking to take the idea of Open Source to the next level with Open Humans. The project is looking for volunteers to Open Source themselves and publicly share data about their health to further science and medical fields. The project does state though that you can choose what data you share.

Open Data is a term relating to data that can be shared openly and freely. An example of this are the data sets freely available by governments such as Data.gov and Data.gov.uk.

By 2020 it is predicted that with a world population of 7.6 billion, there will be 50 billion connected devices. That’s 6.58 connected devices per person. Some people have that now with phones, tablets, wrist devices, glasses etc. Each device capable of producing a lot of data on usage, actions, etc. How much of this data will be private vs open is yet to be determined and the ability to opt in and out need to be clearer for people to understand.

A report in todays BBC News claims that yet more personal data is being sold illegally. This time pensions data (Pension data ‘sales’ investigated by watchdog) . However as we take more steps towards the IoT (Internet of Things) are we able to keep track of our data and how it is used or are we heading towards an Open Sesame bonanza of data treasure being opened, taken and sold on.

Open Sesame is a magical phrase used by Ali Baba to access a secret cave of treasure. In this case the treasure is data!

Time to get chipped?

13 Friday Feb 2015

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There is a choice at the moment to wear or not to wear tech, but in the future will there be? An interesting article on the BBC tells of an office puts chips into staff. Whist this is not new – how long before you cant get your next job without getting chipped.

As there are no current standards on chips used you may end up with the below situation.

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