How Bluemix and IDS can help in a Natural Disaster

© 2015 IBM Corporation
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How can Bluemix, IDS
and Open Source Help
in a Natural Disaster?
Kyle Brown and Marc-Arthur Pierre-Louis

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Outline
 What do people Need in a Natural Disaster?
– Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
 Who are our customers in a Natural Disaster?
 What is Bluemix and the Bluemix Ecosystem?
– Bluemix, IOT Foundation, DevOps Services
 Advantages of Bluemix in a Natural Disaster
 Application Concepts
– Food & Shelter
– Safety
– Community
– Self-Esteem
 Architectural assumptions
 Support for Teams

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What do I mean by a Natural Disaster?
 Natural disasters are unexpected occurrences caused by
natural processes that incur damage to property, or
cause injury or death
 Can be fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes,
etc.
 The key is that they are unexpected – but you can plan
for them regardless of the fact that you may have little
warning of when they occur.
 In a great TEDx Boston talk from 2012, Caitria and
Morgan O’Neill give a wonderful list of things you can do
to help in any Natural disaster – these form a template
for us to discover ways in which Bluemix can help the
victims of these disasters
– Plan for recovery before disaster strikes
– Care for yourself and your family first
– Get online as soon as possible
– Find ways to organize people
– Find ways to log and record EVERYTHING
– Find ways to train others to respond

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What do you need in a Natural Disaster?
 In 1943 Psychologist Abraham Maslow
developed a framework for what
motivates people and keeps them
physically and psychologically healthy
 His “Hierarchy of Needs” has become
common in sociological and
psychological research and training.
 It’s very useful as a way to view what
people need in when they are affected
by a Natural Disaster
– Gives you a way to organize the
different capabilities and help that
can be provided in such
emergencies

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Who are our customers in a Natural Disaster?
 The first question in understanding how at technology or set of technologies can help you with
a problem is to understand who the customers of the technology would be. In our case, these
could include:
– Victims of the Natural Disaster
– First Responders
– Family, Friends and Loved Ones of those affected
– Utility Companies, Insurance Companies, Transport companies
 The next set of questions come after you’ve identified
your customers
– How does this concept help them?
– Will they be able to use it effectively?
– How is it better than existing approaches?

So what is Bluemix?
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Bluemix is an open-standards, cloud-based platform
for building, running, and managing applications.
Build your apps, your way
Use the most prominent
compute technologies to
power your app: Cloud
Foundry, Docker,
OpenStack.
Extend apps with services
A catalog of IBM, third party,
and open source services
allow the developer to stitch
an application together
quickly.
Scale more than just
instances
Development, monitoring,
deployment, and logging
tools allow the developer to
run and manage the entire
application.
Layered Security
IBM secures the platform and
infrastructure and provides
you with the tools to secure
your apps.
Deploy and manage hybrid
apps seamlessly
Get a seamless dev and
management experience
across a number of hybrid
implementations options.
Flexible Pricing
Try compute options and
services for free and, when
you’re ready, pay only for what
you use. Pay as you go and
subscription models offer
choice and flexibility.
Coming Summer
2015

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IBM Internet of Things Foundation allows you to easily
compose IoT solutions
Visually define logic flows
Select from a growing list of device recipes
Visualize real-time data stream
Mix with other services
in Bluemix to create
apps
Simply connect & “recognize” device types

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Advantages of Bluemix in a Natural Disaster
 Location – the Bluemix datacenters are physically distant from the area of the natural disaster
and applications can keep running even when power and telecommunications are disrupted.
 On demand pricing – you only pay for the application as it’s used.
 Autoscaling – applications designed for Bluemix can automatically scale to adjust to the
number of users they are experiencing
 Support for distributed team development – you won’t be tied to inaccessible physical build
and deployment servers if you hit a bug at exactly the wrong time

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Application Concepts – Food and Shelter
 How do you avoid the long lines for basic necessities (Food, Water, Gasoline)?
 How do you find shelter when your home is uninhabitable or unreachable?
– One possibility is a set of applications that crowdsource availability and convenience of
different options
– For example: a Java application that runs on Cloudant using Google Maps that allows
people to enter location data when they find available shelters (or stores with bottled
water, or gasoline, etc…). DataWorks can automatically cleanse address data.
 How can you protect your family and home?
– Application can use small-grained weather data (within a zipcode) to alert a smart home
and its occupants to protect themselves

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Application Concepts – Health and Safety
 Reporting floods and downed power lines is a major information management issue
– NHTSA reports almost 400 people drown in vehicles each year in the US
– Additional fatalities are caused by contact with downed power lines
 Applications can crowd-source the reporting of downed lines and flooded roads
– Coordinate with data from governmental agencies and Utility companies
– Automatically submit reports to utilities and first responders
– Automatically work with existing apps to reroute traffic around those areas
 Flood-prone areas can use water sensors that give warning when water begins rising in plenty
of time to respond
– Maps of flooded sensors – predicting the most likely path of rising water from historical
and hydrological data
 Sensing drones for first responders
– Applications for drone cameras to stitch together composites and low-level maps for
damage assessment and rescue efforts
– Heat sensing robot for fires

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First Responder Assistance Concept:
Data-Driven Disaster Response Robot
Temp /
Humidity
>
Threshold
Activate Responder
Send Critical Warning alert
Via SMS and E-mail
 Identify fire location using pre-calculated floor
mapping
 Constantly send temperature alert to First
responders.
 Create entry and exit routes for first responders.
 Create event report based on collected data
using IBM Embeddable Reporting
Hardware:
 Arduino Micro-controller, DHT11 Temperature &
Humidity Sensor.
API:
 IOT Foundation to process device data
 Alchemy API to analyze and identify survivors.
 Watson Text to Speech to enable trapped
victims to communicate with first responders via
text .
 IBM Embeddable Reporting to generate fast
report sheet that can be analyzed to confirm the
causes of the disaster.
Detector monitors room Temp. & Humidity,
connects to Bluemix via Wifi

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Application Concepts - Community
 Applications to aid in helping locate missing family members
– Lots of available libraries for Node.JS for implementing pop-up sites like Wikis
– Language translation with Watson can be helpful for displaced persons whose first
language is not English
– Twilio can integrate into SMS messaging and VOIP phone networks
 Applications to help locate lost pets and locate shelters that will house pets
– Analyze Twitter streams to find others who are in the same situation and who are looking
for or have found lost pets
 Applications to help share resources with those that need them
– Plugshare for mobile phones (e.g. Katrina)

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Application Concepts – Giving and Self-Esteem
 Applications for targeted contributions to those having specific needs (like YouFundMe)
– Coordination with charities to make sure donated money is sent to the right places
– In many cases, that’s a big data import problem – store data in SQL DB, cleanse it with
DataWorks
– BigInsights allows you to use Apache Hadoop to manage large-scale data analysis tasks
 Applications gathering together and coordinating volunteer opportunities
– Tons of Website code available for PHP to start up sites like this
– Simple, Fast response from IBM Cloudant

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Architectural Assumptions for applications
 You can assume you still have some level of telecommunications capability for Disaster
victims, first responders, etc.
– Even through Katrina and Sandy, some cellular phone coverage remained available,
albeit, possibly not immediately, at a reduced capacity and with coverage gaps
– This is a known issue, and other mechanisms (Mark-Arthur…) can deal with that problem
– Bandwidth will be at a premium (Videos teaching people what to do DURING the crisis are
not appropriate)
– Shared internet connections may be used when service is disrupted
 You will have reduced power availability from mobile devices and laptops
– Always-on, heavily connected GUI-driven applications will drain batteries
– Consider notifications, SMS, and lower-power consumption interaction mechanisms
 You have to plan for the possibility of the failure of remote application components – and of
the Bluemix infrastructure itself
– What if Dallas was the scene of the disaster?

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Downstream - OpenBTS-Bluemix Integration
Remote
Bluemix Center
● OpenBTS fully functional Emergency GSM Mobile Network
● Exposes Bluemix service (new) via OpenBTS APIs
● OpenBTS Optimizer (new)
● Optimizes data going through fragile GSM network
● Might use compression and other optimizing
techniques
● Data sent to remote Bluemix
● Communicates with optional Local Bluemix
● IBM DevOps Services used in conjunction with Bluemix
● Development and Deployment of situational applications
● Any composition of disaster-related applications
http://openbts.org - Opensource
http://www.rangenetworks.com - Commercial

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Bluemix DR capability
 For several reasons (including the possibility of a natural disaster in Dallas – remember the
hailstorms of 2012 and 1995, the tornado outbreak of 1955…) you want to always make sure
that your application can run in more than one location – for Bluemix today that means both
London and Dallas
deploy
CF CF
IBM DevOps
Services
Cloudant
Replication
App App
CloudantCloudant
deploy
Dallas London
External DNS

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IBM DevOps Services
 Provides an end-to-end development solution for
teams
writing applications for IBM Bluemix
 Agile planning and tracking tools for assigning tasks
 Support for Web IDE, Eclipse or Command-line
tooling
 Source code hosting for Jazz and Git projects
(including on Github)
 Continuous Build and Integration with the Devops
Pipeline
 Integration Testing tools (Bluemix Labs) coming
available
 Load testing and performance monitoring tools
• Integration test, System test,
Production all united and consistent
• Automation ensures the same
procedure in each environment
• Fully hosted, managed, and
integrated in the cloud for the
cloud

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Support for Development teams (and others!)
• Track and Plan is a hosted tool to plan, track and manage tasks, backlogs and deliverables
focused on individual and team productivity Enables development planning
 Action views for Individuals and Teams
 Sprint Planning & Backlog management

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Usage Context
 Upstream
– Before disaster strikes use for development and deployment of Bluemix apps
 Downstream
– After disaster strikes use for support of Bluemix apps

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Upstream – Track and Plan
 Track and plan
– Track project work trough work items
– Ex. write a defect work item for bug found in project code
– Work item management
– Create work items
– Work item states
– Work item display options
– Filter work items
– View and organize work items
– Triage work items
– Plan work for a team
– Review the team's progress
 For uniformity ODDR Hackathon team suggests using IDS Track and Plan feature

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Upstream – Source Control
 Source Control Options
– Git integration
– Can link Git repository with IDS
• Use the IDS Web IDE
• Many Git commands available
– Work items and Git intercation
– Create Project
– Set Github hook
– Use work item to test hooks
– Local client and Git interaction
– Access Git repository from IDS project
• IDS cmd line or EGIT Eclipse plugin
– Connect Track & Plan feature to Rational Team Concert
– Develop with Bluemix Live Sync and Node.js
– Develop with IBM Eclipse Tools
– Eclipse client and Jazz SCM
– Use RTC Eclipse client

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Upstream – Build and Deploy
 Build and Deploy
– Also known as pipeline
– Provides continous deployment of apps and changes
– Stages
– Organize
• Jobs
• Inputs
– Code
• Built
• Tested
• Deployed
– Jobs
– Execution units within stages
– Build jobs prepare/compile code for deployment
– End result
– Code built and deployed automatically to Bluemix
 The ODDR Hackathon team suggests using IDS build & deploy feature

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Some IDS Web IDE Tips
Git icon
IDS command line
Edit code, Track & Plan, Build and Deploy

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Editing, Saving and Committing

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Editing Node.js
After edit completes
• File->Save or ctrl-s
• Go to Git interface to commit to the Git repository
• Click on the button

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Committing
Committing to the Git repository
Check/uncheck files to be committed
Click on Commit on upper right hand (as circled)
Click on Push (as circled)

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Deploy button
Deploys appl from workspace to Bluemix
Launch button
Starts a new browser window with the application URL
IDS retrieves URL from manifest.yml and inserts into a launch configuration
Stop button
Stops the running Bluemix application
Interacting with a Bluemix application

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 Sync changes to a running Cloud
Foundry application
 Sync changes from Bluemix web
ide or local (laptop) files
 Changes made in the developer
workspace are immediately
reflected in the running Cloud
Foundry application
 Dramatically improves developer
productivity by debugging directly in
the cloud
 Insert breakpoints into the running
Cloud Foundry application
IBM Bluemix Live Edit

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Live Edit – How to enable
To Enable Live Edit
Create new new launch configuration
Used to launch live edit version of
application
Production application still running
Live edit version independent
Can be edited without affecting
production application
After changes made and tested
Commit to repository
Redeploy production application
For a tutorial visit: http://ibm.co/1dUujTw

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Collaborative Remote Development with DevOps Services
1. Bug reported
In MQA
2. Task Assigned to developer
In Track and Plan
3. Code fixed
Locally in Eclipse
4. Changes pushed to GitHub
5. DevOps Pipeline Builds App, Runs Automated Tests
6. New Production
version pushed to
Bluemix

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Summary
 We’ve seen
– What people need in a Natural Disaster
– How you can use the services in Bluemix to build applications that can help
– How Bluemix and the Bluemix ecosystem provides support for distributed team
development that frees you from the constraints of a single development site – in case
your development team is the one that suffers the disaster

How Bluemix and IDS can help in a Natural Disaster

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