Thursday, April 16, 2015

Introduction to Technology of IOT webinar

I was glad that the connection went well this event time recently in which the event took place several days ago starting from 3AM to 4AM. Yes, 3AM to 4AM for some unusual reason in which the organizer decided to start the webinar at lunch time in his office or something. This is about the Internet of Things which may be the interesting topic to look at but then, there might be way too many slides to talk about on time for the 1-hour webinar like that but the workaround for him would be to present stuffs about this in some public conference like he'll do the same presentation of the first part of his webinar presentation next month and I hope that he'll have covered everything on time. This is the second part he organized several days ago and it's going towards the technological parts of Internet of Things while the first part of the webinar which he'll be presenting again next month is the one for business. The third part is the IOT Business Plan in which how the companies will develop their own IOT stuffs for probably enterprise use, home use and so on. Overall, the webinar is not about IPv6 stuff like it's kind of off-topic to GogoNet Community. Why would he organize the webinar like that with a topic that isn't related to IPv6 while he's a manager of that community? The thing is, there may be people who come from GogoNet Community as well as the one from IOT-INC so expect many business people watching this webinar just like other events I attended. Many of those events are leaving me speechless but I'm still going to blog about what I can recall. Thankfully, I have some screenshots of that webinar in case I forget but to respect privacy or whatever, I'm not going to show them here.
There may be slides in which we get familiar with the networking OSI Model but when it came to IOT, the one he showed looked very detailed. Other things he talked about included the software-defined and hardware-defined products which looked kind of understandable. From the software aspects, the coding may represent the instructions on what the machine is supposed to do but it must match the anticipation to keep things current. Any difference is probably due to some faults or maybe the update requirement. Speaking of firmware update, some networking components will be needed and especially that you should know that on the hardware aspects, the device is pretty much an embedded system. Embedded systems are what we know of in general but I guess that even the anticipated specifications should be the same for the hardware aspect like it shouldn't take up so much power that may cause itself or everything to shut off due to overheating issues or maybe it's exceeding the amount of electrical power where the prediction may say that some components may be the sensitive victims of overheating issues that such hardware instruction will be executed for the sake of damage prevention. For External System in which he talked about, there are Analytics, External Data, Business and IOT product systems. Analytics and External Data may be somewhat important for the business technically and especially for Data Security and Privacy he mentioned as well.
Then, about Software Defined Product, it consists of Task Programming Language, Control and Sensing and Real-Time Computing. Task Programming Language looked kind of mathematical according to his slides and the Control and Sensing looked like some kind of electronics diagram on how things would work based on the programming and output will be stored via Real-Time Computing.
On the hardware side, how do the developers of those embedded systems get the actual data instead of spending time like trying to guess like a trial-and-error method? Lastly would be the Network Fabric he talked about as well like how the networking worked on the IOT device but then, that was the time he had to end the webinar because he went out of time and besides, the presentation had about 100+ slides and that would be too much to present on time even if he had to speed up or something.
And sometime after the webinar, I guess that I was free or something like that was all the stuffs I worked on but there may be things to keep in mind that certain of those stuffs were still in incomplete state due to incomplete resources of something and besides, I finally started to beta-test Windows 10 this month although there might be annoying bugs that annoyed the hell out of me compared to other OSes I beta-tested last time. But don't think it's over for my blogs. There will be future IT related events to attend and blog about as well to keep myself active.