Zetta: An API First Platform

@adammagaluk

@mdobs

IoT Workshop

Zetta: An API First Platform

© 2014 Apigee Confidential – All Rights Reserved

● Brief Introduction to the Internet of Things

● What is the Internet of Things

● Problems faced in the Internet of Things

● Introduction To Zetta

● Platform

● Architecture

● Interesting Features

● Demo

Overview

Intro to the Internet of Things


● A growing ubiquitous network of devices.

● Made up of Sensors and Actuators

● Sensors

● Sense the world around you.

● Report data back

● Actuators

● Act on the world around you

● Give feedback

The Internet of Things


● Bosch predicts 14 Billion Devices online by 2022

● Generating 596 Billion Euros in Revenue

● Enabling many new use cases

● Smart Cities

● Intelligent supply chain management

● Clean energy management

The Internet of Things (contd.)


● Interfaces and Protocols

● Many protocols exist for IoT?

● What to use?

● Future proofing against new protocols

● Security?

Issues within the Internet of Things


● Devices in large systems

● How to coordinate devices in large systems?

● How to improve on emergent behaviors in large systems?

● How to

Issues within the Internet of Things (contd)


● Data

● What to store?

● What to use?

● How to learn from all the data collected



● Quality of Tooling

● How to build tools for people building products?

● Many tools are of varying quality

● Soon there will be a shortage of developers with necessary experience



Zetta is an open source platform for the Internet of Things. It harnesses

JavaScript to make development more agile. Zetta tackles all these

problems in an elegant, and efficient way.

Intro to Zetta


● Interfaces and Protocols

● Use HTTP to communicate with devices

● Every device gets an API generated from Node.js

● Devices in large systems

● Coordinate devices across the globe with ease

● Quality of Tooling

● Designed with the developer in mind

● Multiple tools for helping develop quickly

● Data

● Broadcasting data over websockets

● Make collection and analysis easy

Solving these problems

Intro to our Technology


● Completely Node.js Based

● Open Source

● MIT License

● An out of box API client used for development

Our Stack


● Evented and Async

● Open source

● Every developer knows some JavaScript

● Can run on many different platforms

● Windows

● Linux

● Mac

● Embedded

Why Node.js?


● It’s the best thing for the IoT Community

● Proprietary development stifles innovation

● Provide a “Building Blocks” approach to system creation

● It’s also fun!

Why Open Source?

Zetta Architecture


Zetta Topology

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Zetta components


● Zetta is a lightweight process that lives in multiple places

● First on the edge of the network on a hardware hub

● Second in a datacenter or on a cloud server

● Zetta will mediate protocols in the hardware hub

● Separation between API tech and Device protocol tech

● Zetta processes establish a secure link between each other using the

Z2Z protocol.

● Zetta maintains a layered approach keeping components pluggable

and extensible

Architecture Notes


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Device Definitions

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Devices are modeled as simple state machines in JavaScript. Then they

are rendered on a by state basis in the API.


1. Zetta Github - http://github.com/zettajs/zetta

2. Workshop Code - https://github.com/zettajs/zetta-security-system-edison/

3. Zetta Mailing List - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/zetta-discuss

4. IoT Craft - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/iot-craft

5. My Personal Email - [email protected]

Additional Resources

http://github.com/zettajs/zetta

https://github.com/zettajs/zetta-security-system-edison/

Thank you

@mdobs

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