Bluetooth & IoT

Imagine proclaiming in 1990:

The Internet

Soon we’ll be able to look up every text, picture, video, review and opinion ever made about a particular topic, simply by entering keywords into a computer.

Imagine proclaiming in 2015:

The Internet of Things

Soon we’ll be able to look up real-world context, the physical state of anything, as it unfolds, simply by entering keywords into a computer.

Created standards which are:

How did the Internet do it?

➔ Simple in principle➔ Open in spirit➔ Easy to adopt➔ Application-agnostic

By creating standards which are:

How will the IoT do it?

➔ Simple in principle➔ Open in spirit➔ Easy to adopt➔ Application-agnostic

(From our 2014 Bluetooth World Presentation)

We believe in ‘BLE for IoT’

Most ‘things’ are simply glorified barcodes.

Our vision of the IoT

Everything identifiable in real-timeat a human scale.

Anything can propagate any short message with minimal overhead.

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Kevin Ashton’s IoT vision:

We’re not alone

We need to empower computers with their own means of gathering information, so they can see, hear and smell the world for themselves, in all its random glory. RFID and sensor technology enable computers to observe, identify and understand the world—without the limitations of human-entered data. (RFID Journal, 2009)

From Bluetooth World 2015

How can the SIG help?

Everything identifiable in real-timeat a human scale.

Anything can propagate any short message with minimal overhead.

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➔ Assigned Numbers➔ DNS-like standard for distributed lookup?

➔ GAP➔ Standard for data propagation via Internet?

Summary: it’s happening

Inexpensive Bluetooth Smart ICs

Energy Harvesting

Every product will be identifiable at a

distance.

Many will share sensor data.

Summary: think Internet

➔ Simple in principle➔ Open in spirit➔ Easy to adopt➔ Application-agnostic

Facilitate the propagation of this data with a standard that is:

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Jeffrey Dungen | jeff@reelyactive.com