Learn how IBM Watson is allowing developers to build cognitive applications in the IBM Cloud. Using the IoT foundation and Watson, the future of connected devices is staying connected in a cognitive way with smarter apps and smarter devices.

1. Using Watson to Build
IoT Apps on Bluemix
Watson’s address is Bluemix.net

2. Using Watson to Build
IoT Apps on Bluemix
Watson’s address is Bluemix.net

3. Speakers
Greg Knowles
Product Manager, Smarter Infrastructure
@gtkwahoo
Swami Chandrasekaran
Executive Architect, Watson Innovations
@SwamiChandra
Swami’s Blog
Nathan Vega (Moderator)
Developer Engagement, IBM Bluemix
@IBMBluemix
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4. Internet of Things
Greg Knowles, IBM Software Group
Product Management & Strategy, Internet of Things
gknowles@us.ibm.com
@gtkwahoo
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5. The Internet of Things is here, and growing
 9 billion devices around the world are currently
connected to the Internet
 The number of connected devices is expected to
increase dramatically within the next decade,
including many new types of connected devices, with
estimates ranging from 50 Billion devices to
1 trillion
 The Internet of Things has the potential to create
economic value of $2.7 trillion to
$6.2 trillion annually by 2025
Source: Disruptive Technologies, McKinsey Global Institute, May 2013
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6. What is IoT being used for today?
Extend the value of goods and services
• Lock/Unlock/Find your car
• Tell me when the wash cycle is done
Monetize through new business models
• Ad-hoc car hire & sharing (e.g. Uber, Car2Go)
• Pay-as-you-drive insurance
Optimize by understanding behaviour and anticipating actions
• Appliance manufacturer understanding customer behaviour
• Improved product support & maintenance
• Smarter Supply Chain
Control and automate remote behaviour
• Home automation / remote control
• Energy Demand Management
• Smarter Cities
• Manufacturing
Key areas
• Automotive
• Consumer products
• Energy and Utilities
• Government
• Healthcare
• Home Automation
• Insurance
• Manufacturing
• Transport
• Oil and Gas
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7. The Internet of Things is an integrated fabric of devices,
data, connections, processes and people
The Internet of Things is based on a careful balance between both the Internet
and the things within it—locally and globally, in the design lab and on the
assembly line, whether in buildings, on roads, and in our very own pockets.
I invent.
I operate.
IBM can help you design, operate and manage the things you deliver for
optimized performance. We can help you mitigate warranty costs,
minimize product recalls and gain new insight into customer use
patterns that will empower entirely new levels of product and service
innovation.
IBM can help you bring things together from multiple vendors across
heterogeneous environments, optimizing the whole to deliver greater
than the sum of its parts. We deliver the insights that enable you to
reduce utility costs, optimize compliance and exceed customer
expectations. And offer exceptional levels of privacy and security.
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8. IoT solution patterns span the device lifecycle
Design &
Engineer
• Develop connected products
• Testing and requirements
• Analyze operations & maintenance
data to improve designs
Manage Operate
verification
• Integrate across
heterogeneous devices
• Optimize processes for
business outcomes
• Predict quality issues
• Analyze heterogeneous
fleets
• Monitor device health
• Predict failures
• Manage and maintain
devices
• Analyze warranty &
support data
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9. IoT solution patterns span the device lifecycle
Design &
Engineer
• Develop connected products
• Testing and requirements
• Analyze operations & maintenance
data to improve designs
Inventors
Manage Operate
verification
• Integrate across
heterogeneous devices
• Optimize processes for
business outcomes
• Predict quality issues
• Analyze heterogeneous
fleets
Operators
• Monitor device health
• Predict failures
• Manage and maintain
devices
• Analyze warranty &
support data
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10. Internet of Things Foundation
A fully managed, cloud-hosted service that makes it simple to Internet of
Things (IoT) solutions
Manage
Assemble
Connect
Real Time MQTT Build
Collect
REST
Simple APIs
IBM® Bluemix™
https://bluemix.net/
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11. IoT Foundation is part of Bluemix…and a Composable Business
IoT-related Bluemix services
Rules, Push, Geo location, Analytics, Asset management, Predictive Maintenance…
IoT Foundation
Secure Device Registration, Scalable Device Connectivity, Historian, Visual wiring
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Devices & Gateways
REST APIs
IoT end-end solutions
REST APIs
Connected appliance solutions, Smarter home solutions…
Realtime MQTT APIs

12. Getting started
https://internetofthings.ibmcloud.com/#/
https://developer.ibm.com/iot/
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13. Examples of applying Watson Cognitive
Services in IOT Applications
Swami Chandrasekaran
Executive Architect - CTO Office
IBM Watson Innovations
swamchan@us.ibm.com
@swamichandra
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14. Anatomy of an IoT Solution / Application - Setting Context
Systems Integration
Applications
Cognitive Services
Data at Rest Analytics
✔
Data Ingestion & Streaming Analytics
Connectivity Management
Network
Devices / Sensors
Platform &
Services
Connectivity
& Devices
Users of Things
Wizard’s
stitching the
perfect
Composable
Apps
Platform,
Services,
IoT Cloud
Providers of
Connectivity
Makers of Things
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15. Until now, access to Watson services has been limited. Today,
the barriers are gone…What will you do with Watson?
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16. Watson Developer Cloud Services are the basis for Watson
Solutions
Discovery Engagement Decision Policy Partner-created
User Modeling
Language Identification
Machine Translation
Concept Expansion
Message Resonance
Question/Answer
Relationship Extraction
Visualization Rendering
Analytics Exploration
Data
IBM Watson Services on Bluemix
Big Data & Analytics
Curation
Curation
Local Data Sources
Cloud Data Sources
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17. 8 services are available today with more on the way
User Modeling
Personality profiling to help engage users on their own terms.
Language Identification
Identifies the language in which text is written
Machine Translation
Globalize on the fly. Translate text from one language to another.
Concept Expansion
Maps euphemisms or colloquial terms to more commonly understood phrases
Message Resonance
Communicate with people with a style and words that suits them
Question Answer
Direct responses to users inquiries fueled by primary document sources
Relationship Extraction
Intelligently finds relationships between sentences components (nouns, verbs, subjects, objects, etc.)
Visualization Rendering
Graphical representations of data analysis for easier understanding
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18. Cognitive Enabled IoT Apps / Solutions – Art of the Possible
Connected Car Digital Life Smarter Cities Smarter Care
API Management
Cognitive Services Platform
Observe Interpret & Evaluate Decide
Models | Annotations | Content | Tools
Orchestration
Mediation | Composition | Rules
Device Registration & Connectivity
Connectivity | Awareness | Security & Privacy | Asset mgmt
Big Data Analytics
Streaming | Batch Analytics
Data services
Historian | File | Archive
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19. Meet Rosy
• Recently purchased and installed a
smarter thermostat
• Very savvy smart phone user
• She has a question about restricting
only authorized users to be able to
configure & access the thermostat
• Has a smart phone app that allows
her to pose questions in natural
language and have a
conversational dialog
I need to restrict the access to modify certain capabilities in the
thermostat. How can set it up?
Integrate via API
Q&A Dialog
Interact
using NL
Product Corpus
Manuals
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20. Meet Zhang
• Remotely monitored patient
• Can use an app to interact with his
healthcare providers
• English not first language
• Need for understanding nuances in
his less than formal communications
• Concept Expansion service returns a
ranked list of contextually similar
terms
• Learned from the provided 'seed list'
against the Zhang’s interaction
history
Integrate via API
Concept Expansion
Interact
using NL
informally
Interaction Seed List
History
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21. Demo – User Modeled Radio
Swami Chandrasekaran
Executive Architect - CTO Office
IBM Watson Innovations
swamchan@us.ibm.com
@swamichandra
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22. What is Watson User Modeling?
• Use linguistic analytics to extract personality and social traits, including
Big 5, Values, and Needs, from the way that a person communicates.
• Analyze any digital footprint that the user makes available, such as
email, text messages, tweets, forum posts, and more.
• Leverage cognitive and social characteristics with their corresponding
percentile values as the basis for analyzing personality and social traits.
• Can be used anywhere improving customer engagement for an
organization differentiate itself and also drive personality-driven
engagements (offers, recommendations etc.)
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23. Consider this Scenario for a moment….
• Meet John Smith
• Very vocal person and
maintains a strong digital
presence
• Has a long day at work !!
• Tweets with certain emotions
and walks to his car
2. Walk to Car
1. Tweets before
leaving work
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24. What if John Smith’s Connected Car app understood
him at a deeper level including the current state of his
personality?
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25. Now reconsider this Scenario again ….
• Meet John Smith
• Very vocal person and maintains a strong digital
presence
• Has a long day at work !!
• Tweets with certain emotions and walks to his car
• The Connected Car app in his car has done a
psychographic analysis of his tweets using Watson
User Modeling
• User Modeling service provides the Big 5, Values,
and Needs characteristics & associated values
• Connected Car app recommends or auto-tunes to
track / radio channel that would be appropriate
• Could potentially suggest the app other car settings
incl seat adjustment, air conditioning, max speed
limit *
Walk to Car
Share Location &
Context
User Modeling
Recommended
Infotainment
Prediction
Past
Interactions
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26. Architecture of the User Modeled Radio App
Search for
radio stations
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IBM BlueMix
Drivers Connected Car App
Responsive Front-end (View)
(HTML5, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery)
Node.js (Controller)
(HTML5, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery)
Express
Eclipse
Nodeclipse
Deploy &
Manage Code
RESTful
RESTful Communication
User Modeling
(driver’s
psychographic model)
Twitter API
8tracks Fetch driver
Tweets
Tweets
AngularJS Template AngularJS Controller

27. User Modeled Radio – Connected Car App
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28. User Modeled Radio – Connected Car App
Radio tracks / station
from 8tracks played
based on User
Modeling
characteristics
Extracted Tweets from
the driver
Explanation for why
the track / station was
selected from 8tracks
Watson User Modeling
characteristics &
values
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29. Visual depiction of the flow **
** Not implemented in Node-RED. Meant to convey the concept.
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30. Get hands on fast!
• Get a Bluemix account
• Try the Watson services free of charge
for 30 days
• Take the next step toward further
development or production
deployment
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31. IBMWatson
IBM Bluemix
facebook.com/ibmbluemix Bluemix.net @ibmbluemix
IBM Internet of Things
internetofthings.ibmcloud.com developer.ibm.com/iot/ @ibmiot
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