Build your First IoT Application with IBM Watson IoT

Nov 18, 20170 likes431 views

Watch this webinar to learn how to build your first connected application. I will walk you through the key steps involved in building your first IoT application in the cloud with IBM Watson IoT. At the end of the session, you will gain an understanding of registering devices and sending messages to the cloud via MQTT.

Building IoT Applications
with IBM Watson IoT
Janakiram MSV
@janakiramm
Tech Talk

The Big Picture of IoT
Devices
Device
Registry
Data
Ingestion
Public Cloud
Message
Routing
Policies
Storage
&
Database
Stream
Analytics
Batch
Processing
Machine
Learning
Business
Intelligence
Remote Assets
Command
Control
Admin &
Management
User
Expereince

Devices
• IP capable devices
• Can directly connect to the platform
• Non-IP capable devices
• Uses ZigBee, BLE, Z-Wave and PoE
• Legacy devices
• Relies on SCADA – RTU, PLC, and
Telemetry

Gateway
• Gateways are two types
• Field Gateway
• Cloud Gateway
• Registers each device with unique
identifiers
• Devices may have additional metadata
• Each device is associated with
credentials for authentication
• Gateway authorizes devices for
• Connecting
• Publishing
• Subscribing
• Devices can be whitelisted or blacklisted
• Manages D2C and C2D messages
• Exposes HTTP, MQTT, AMQP, and
WebSockets

Data Ingestion
• Ingestion endpoint are different from
device management endpoint
• Enables high velocity, high throughput
stream ingestion
• Enables one-way communication between
devices and platform

Storage
• Uses a combination of object storage,
NoSQL and relational databases
• Stores both raw data stream and
processed datasets
• Acts as the source for queries that
deliver operational insights
• Acts as the destination for processed
dataset
• Exposes REST API for applications to
access the data

Hot Path Analytics
• Transforms, processes, queries, and
analyzes streaming data
• Connected to the ingestion layer as one of
the subscribers
• Process each item in a stream at a time or
using a sliding time window
• Modifies data format from one type to
another
• Can invoke 3rd party web services for
transforming data

Cold Path Analytics
• Delivers insights from
data collected over a
period of time
• Uses Map Reduce
algorithm for processing
data
• Leverages traditional
Apache Hadoop

Applications
• End users and decision makers access
the system through this layer
• Used for command, control,
visualization and dashboards
• Implemented as mobile, wearables,
web, and desktop apps
• Enables both retrieving the data and
sending commands to devices

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