Configuring the Internet of ThingsWith The Service-Aware CMDB

April 2016

Michael Stroh

BCS CMSG London

Agenda

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The Internet of Things – Hype?

Enablers of IoT

Configuring the IoT

The Service Aware CMDB

Use Case – Road Management System

Conclusion

Agenda

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The Internet of Things – Hype?

Enablers of IoT

Configuring the IoT

The Service Aware CMDB

Use Case – Road Management System

Conclusion

Internet of Things – is it Hype?

• Short answer is, “No!”

• “The Internet of Things will connect every thing with

everyone in an integrated global network”

– (Rifkin 2014, p11)

• The “… Internet of Things is the first smart-infrastructure

revolution in history. It will connect every machine,

business, residence, and vehicle in an intelligent

network comprised of a Communications Internet,

Energy Internet, and Logistics [Transport] Internet...”

– (Rifkin 2014, p73)

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Internet of Things (2)

IoT

Communications Internet

Energy Internet

Transport (Logistics) Internet

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• These regimes are fundamental for

managing, powering and moving

economic life

• Comms internet is already built

• Building the others now

• Each “internet” enables the other

ones

Internet of Things (3) (Rifkin 2014 pp41-55, Rifkin 2015)

1st Industrial rev. (1760-1840)

2nd Industrial rev. (1870-1980)

3rd Industrial rev. (IoT)(1995-…)

Communications Steam powered printing, telegraph, public schools

Telephone, TV, radio, mass media

WWW, social media, produce/consume/store information

Energy Fossil fuel, steam Elite fuels - fossil, nuclear, oil/gas pipelines

Green, renewable power, “prosumers”, hydrogen storage

Transport Steam locomotives, steam ships

Internal combustion engine, mass production, automobiles, national road systems

Self-driving cars (electric/hydrogen),road management systems, shared vehicles

Organisation One-way, centralised One-way, centralised, silos, closed, proprietary

Shared, collaborative, distributed, interconnected, open sourced

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The Internet of Things – Hype?

Enablers of IoT

Configuring the IoT

The Service Aware CMDB

Use Case – Road Management System

Conclusion

Enablers of IoT

IPv6 - Unique device

addresses High bandwidth Open standards

Configuration management

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How we get there…

IPv6

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• IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and provides approximately 232 or 4.3×109

addresses• Last IPv4 address was allocated in

February 2011• IPv6 uses a 128-bit address,

theoretically allowing 2128, or

approximately 3.4×1038 addresses

• (IPv6 2016, World IPv6 Launch 2016, The Internet Society 2016)

5G Initiative

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• 2020s timeframe

• Massive research effort

• Requirements

• Low latency

• Reliable

• 10 Gb/s

• IoT won’t happen

without it

• (Soldani 2015)

Increasing bandwidth to 10 Gb/s

Open standards

• Software - Linux

• Hardware – Open Compute Project

• Knowledge - Wikipedia

• Artificial Intelligence – OpenAI

• Next?

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Reduce cost, encourage collaboration• (OpenStand 2016)

Linux

• Open platform

• 96.6% of internet based servers

– (Wikipedia 2016)

• Powers Android and Google Chrome

– (InfoWorld 2016)

• Ubuntu Linux chosen by AT&T for its

cloud platform

– (TechRepublic 2016)

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Open Compute Project

• Facebook initiative 2011

– (Open Compute Project 2016)

• Open hardware standards

• Open network standards

• Reduces costs – no royalties to pay

• Disruptive innovation – Cisco, Dell,

EMC concerned

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Wikipedia

• Built on Mediawiki software – an open

standard

– (Mediawiki 2016)

• Collaborative encyclopaedia replaces

paper versions

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OpenAI

• Open AI standard

– (OpenAI 2015)

• Allows for collaboration in AI

• Collaboration could reduce risk by

addressing the “control problem”

– (Bostrom 2014)

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Agenda

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The Internet of Things – Hype?

Enablers of IoT

Configuring the IoT

The Service Aware CMDB

Use Case – Road Management System

Conclusion

Configuration – a definition

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Configuring the IoT

• Presentation by Vint Cerf (Cerf 2015)

– “Father” of the Internet

– Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist,

Google

• He described one unanswered question in IoT as,

– “How do I configure large numbers of devices

into my network?”

• He described one of the challenges and

opportunities:

– “Configuration of massive numbers of devices”

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Configuring the IoT – the CMDB can help

• Utilize extant Configuration Management DataBase (CMDB) and ITIL® technology

• Use a traditional CMDB

– Or

• A Service Aware CMDB

• Configuring massive numbers of devices; naturally group into fewer services

• Dynamic configuration – automated service maps

• Access control (credentials and security) handled by CMDB

• To accelerate rollout, perhaps encourage open standards for ITIL ® and CMDB?

• (NB: ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of AXELOS Limited)

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Agenda

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The Internet of Things – Hype?

Enablers of IoT

Configuring the IoT

The Service Aware CMDB

Use Case – Road Management System

Conclusion

The Service Aware CMDB

• Fewer services naturally group devices

• Service Maps show relationship between IoT

services and devices

• Automated Service Discovery – enables

dynamic configuration

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Service Maps help to create a service view of IoT

• Map information is stored into the CMDB

• Service oriented view of IoT

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Discovery is enabled by credentials management

• Example: Discovery Credentials Management

System (DCMS)

• Provisions and verifies target device

credentials

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DCMS Discovery CMDB IoT

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The Internet of Things – Hype?

Enablers of IoT

Configuring the IoT

The Service Aware CMDB

Use Case – Road Management System

Conclusion

Use Case – Road Management System (1)

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• Soldani (2015) describes

requirements for a RMS

• Fast connection

• Reliable

• Low latency (1-10ms)

• High data volumes (>200Mb/s)

• Support performance up to

max. relative speed

• Any network operator

Use Case – Road Management System (2)

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Services:

• Car to Infrastructure communication

• Car to Backend communication

• Car to Car communication

Use Case – Road Management System (3)

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CMDB data model for one vehicle:

• Business service name

• Vehicle ID

• Speed

• Direction

• Location (lat./long.)

• Location of other moving objects

• Accident risk level (0-10)

• Date/time

Use Case – Road Management System (4)

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CMDB data model for intersection:

Road data:

• Business service name

• Road ID

• Intersection ID

• Vehicles travelling

• Direction

• Speed

• Location in intersection

• Approaching

• Inside

• leaving

• Traffic light sequence

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The Internet of Things – Hype?

Enablers of IoT

Configuring the IoT

The Service Aware CMDB

Use Case – Road Management System

Conclusion

Conclusion

• IoT is the Third Industrial Revolution

• One unanswered question in IoT rollout is the “configuration problem”

• The service-aware CMDB and related technologies can be used to manage the

configuration of the IoT.

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