Internet of Things and Bluemix

By: Ryan Baxter

@ryanjbaxter

9/17/14

What makes up the internet of things?

Anything that has an internet

connection…..ANYTHING!!!

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Device Explosion

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Speaking The Language

The protocol of choice when communicating data from

your devices is MQTT

Pub/Sub protocol

Very lightweight so works well on devices that are

battery power and where bandwidth is a concern

Use libraries for the language your app is using to use

MQTT

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IBM’s IoT Cloud and Bluemix

IBM provides an MQTT instance in the cloud for you to

use to publish and subscribe to device data

Quickstart and Registered devices

Bluemix contains an IoT service to connect to the IoT

Cloud

Use Node-RED to easily access and process your IoT

data

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IBM Cloud

IBM IoT Cloud IBM Bluemix

MQTT

Subscribe

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IBM Cloud

IBM IoT Cloud IBM Bluemix

MQTT Publish

MQTT

Subscribe

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