After 30 years full of promise, hundreds of protocols, thousands of products, the highly-anticipated home automation revolution is yet to happen. Are smart homes doomed to stay a geek's hobby? What is refraining mass-market adoption of these technologies? And how the Internet of Things revolution is about to change the deal? Presented by Laurent Goudet at the 1st IoT Meetup in Sydney: http://www.meetup.com/Internet-of-Things-Sydney

1. Where the f**k
is my
Smart House!?
A short & sweet introduction to the Internet of Things

2. All I wanted is a Smart House

3. After 30 years full of promise
I’m still waiting!
Unity Systems Home Manager ― 1985

4. I’m not even 30!
but that’s not the point

5. Why no one cares?
Less than < 5% equipped homes in the U.S.*
* Melanie Panetta, Ain Group for SDM Mag

6. Who needs to use a
touchscreen to turn ON a light?

7. Answer:
A Geek!
5% of geeks in the U.S.?

8. Connected devices ≠ Value
smart (’smärt)
very good at learning or thinking about things
- Merriam-Webster

9. Solving problems = Value
Solving problems = Data + Algorithms
= More Connected Devices + Smarter Software
“The true power of connected devices lie in connecting
them together”
- Me, just now (+ everyone else for the past 30 years)

10. Getting objects to speak
together is not easy
x10, Z-Wave,
KNX, ZigBee,
Bluetooth,
Bluetooth Low
Energy (BLE),
Universal
Powerline, Bus,
Insteon, Wi-Fi

11. Home Automation 101
Communication protocol press release kit
“<Your product> sets a new standard in home automation: all home automation
devices will now be able to communication together provided they are using <your
product> as a common protocol.”
This Home Automation press release generator is license under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

12. Software guys did
what they do best:
frameworks
Google Android
@Home, Qeo,
Technicolor

13. Home Automation 201
Framework press release kit (extended
business jargon version)
“<Your software product> is a software framework made of a core set of modules
from which can be developed fully-fledged software solutions for consumer
devices in order to realize a full interoperability between them. Some of these
modules can also be added to existing software solutions to maximize
interconnections.”
This Home Automation press release generator is license under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

14. Each company wants to be
the center of the eco-system
Because it’s where
the big money is

15. And run into the
“chicken-and-egg” problem

16. “Single home automation
standard not going to
happen”

17. Enter the Internet of
Things revolution

18. Do one thing and do it well
- Unix philosophy
Philips Hue

19. And there’s an App* for that!
*App is not a trademark of Apple Inc.

20. There’s an App for this too
Flower Power by Parrot

21. And for this too
Lockitron

22. And this
LIFX

23. Even many of them!
“Holiday comes with dozens of apps to delight and entertain the whole family”
Holiday by MooresCloud

24. Who needs dozens of apps..
..for a Christmas tree?

25. Answer:
A Geek!
But that’s not the point

26. What do all these devices
have in common?

27. For the first time in years,
connected objects start to
play well together
By providing APIs for others to play with
Based on open Web standard: TCP/IP, HTTP, REST (RESTFull)...

28. And that’s what the Internet
of Things is all about
“The Internet was about
sharing of knowledge, the
Internet of Things is about
sharing what your device
can do”

29. The eggs being
there, the
chickens
showed up
Ninja Blocks
Ninja Blocks
Smarttings
Providing APIs too,
because my needs
are different than
yours

30. New business models are left
to be defined
Spartacus’s Home Cloud Plans
$0
month
$5
month
$10
month
Up to 100
connected devices
Up to 100
connected devices
Unlimited
connected devices
Ad supported*
Your data stay
private
Your data stay
private
*Share anonimized data with selected partners (how much time you spend in the shower,
what food you have in your fridge..). Terms and conditions may apply.

31. PaaS anyone?
“Smart object vendor? Join a community of thousands of supported devices
and millions of AHS users, starting at only $0.005 per 1,000 request (GET, PUT,
COPY, POST, LIST)”

32. “Comes with 2 years of
Amazon Home support*”
*And stop working after

33. Security is also a concern
Honey, the Roomba is trying to kill me!

34. And while app overload is
around the corner
Look, I found a new app for my home!

35. The future is already on Kickstarter
(and it rhymes!)
“Your Ninja Sphere learns about you, and your environment. It uses data from sensors
and actuators to build a model that can inform you if something is out of place.”

37. Btw, I’m Laurent!
Embedded software engineer
I get paid for playing with kewl objects
Connected objects geek
Otherwise my green plants would die
Open source advocate
So we progress faster as a society
Rainbow unicorn trainer
Twilight Sparkle & Co. shall die

38. And I build useless things
WatchDuck: pool safety duck
3-Axis accelerometer + 433MHz RF transceivers
M&M’s Sorter: because the blues!
Color sensor + RC servo + Cat
EleRider: catch the elevator
OpenCV + Arduino
3D printed design, schematics, source code: lab.laurentgoudet.com

39. Who-hoo we’re saved!
Aren’t we?
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twitter.com/laurentgoudet
github.com/laurentgoudet
linkedin.com/in/laurentgoudet