[Francis daCosta]Rethinking the Internet of Things A Scalable Approach to Connecting Everything(epub,mobi,pdf){Zzzzz}

Book Description
Publication Date: December 29, 2013

Over the next decade, most devices connected to the Internet will not be used by people in the familiar way that personal computers, tablets and smart phones are. Billions of interconnected devices will be monitoring the environment, transportation systems, factories, farms, forests, utilities, soil and weather conditions, oceans and resources.

Many of these sensors and actuators will be networked into autonomous sets, with much of the information being exchanged machine-to-machine directly and without human involvement. Machine-to-machine communications are typically terse. Most sensors and actuators will report or act upon small pieces of information - "chirps". Burdening these devices with current network protocol stacks is inefficient, unnecessary and unduly increases their cost of ownership.

This must change. The architecture of the
Internet of Things must evolve now by
incorporating simpler protocols toward at the edges of the
network, or remain forever inefficient. Rethinking the Internet of Things describes reasons why we must rethink current approaches to the Internet of Things. Appropriate architectures that will coexist with existing networking protocols are described in detail. An architecture comprised of integrator functions, propagator nodes, and end devices, along with their interactions, is explored.
What you’ll learn

Discusses the difference between the "normal" Internet and the Internet of Things.
Describes a new architecture and its components in the "chirp" context.
Explains the shortcomings of IP for IoT.
Describes the anatomy of the IoT.
Describes how to build a suitable network to maximize
the amazing potential of the IoT.



Who this book is for

Thought
leaders, executives, architectural, standards and development leaders in
the evolving IoT industry. Corporations and organizations whose
commercial products could be adapted simply to be functioning devices on the
IOT while saving billions of dollars in unnecessary costs or proprietary
designs. Those who wish to capitalize on technology change and those
interested in the Internet, its capabilities and the need to improve it.

Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1430257407
Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (December 29, 2013)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00EBCGHSW

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

Big ideas about the Internet of Things February 17, 2014
By Leigh M. Chinitz
It is not often that one gets to read a manifesto, but that's exactly what you get in Francis daCosta's "Rethinking the Internet of Things: A Scalable Approach to Connecting Everything." Why a manifesto? Because although the author agrees with the commonly accepted view that the Internet of Things (IoT) is the next big thing, he makes a strong case for the position that, simply put, almost everyone is thinking about it wrong.

People, he argues, are focused on the question of how to get addresses to the billions, or actually hundreds of billions, of devices that will make up the IoT. And, so, they focus on the complete rollout of IPv6 with its massive address space, and then leap to the conclusion that once all of these devices have their IPv6 address, the IoT is inevitable. daCosta, however, puts that assumption to the test. The question he asks is, what are these devices that will make up the IoT, what will they be trying to do, what will they need to do it, and how much complexity can they support? His answer is that most of the devices will be conveyors of very small pieces of information (a rain gauge here, a heat sensor there) that will will only become interesting when aggregated into larger sets of information. (Infinitesimal data to small data to big data.) Burdening these devices with the cost and complexity of a full IP stack, says daCosta, is unreasonable, impractical, wasteful, and, worst of all, detrimental to the promise of the IoT. That promise, he writes, is the ability to "gather data from interesting end devices ... discovered by searching out small data streams from specific classes of device, location, or other characteristics

Thought provoking approach to the Internet of Things! March 16, 2014
By Dr. Justin Lipman
The book provides an excellent introduction to design, complexity and issues surrounding future usage and deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT). The writing style is clear, concise and focused. The book's chapters provide a smooth and educating flow for those not familiar with how the IoT is developing and what issues are going to emerge.

Overall an excellent read. I highly recommend the book. Definitely a good book for newbies to the field - both technical and management. It is also also an interesting (thought provoking) read for those of us more experienced in the IoT space.

Overall, I really appreciated the simplicity and common sense "chirp" based approach to IoT presented. The approach is justified and grounded. The argument is well presented. To me the proposed **rethinking** is an ideal yet "natural" approach to building an IoT that will scale. The book exposes some of the misguided ignorance regarding memory/computational/bandwidth overheads associated with existing MAC protocols and IP stacks (yes also uIP). While the memory/computational overheads may eventually not be an an issue as we move to smaller transistor geometries in the next 5-10 yrs... the actual protocol, frame and packet bandwidth overheads are not suited to many wireless IoT usages - particularly in Enterprises IoT and Industrial IoT. To ensure we reach an effective economy of scale for IoT we need to address these overheads early on.