Rethinking the Internet of Things: A Scalable Approach to Connecting Everything

by Francis daCosta

Apress is proud to announce that Rethinking the Internet of Things was a 2014 Jolt Award Finalist, the highest honor for a programming book. And the amazing part is that there is no code in the book. Over the next decade, most devices connected to the Internet will not be used by people in the familiar way that personal computers, tablets and smart phones are. Billions of interconnected devices will be monitoring the environment, transportation systems, factories, farms, forests, utilities, soil and weather conditions, oceans and resources. Many of these sensors and actuators will be networked into autonomous sets, with much of the information being exchanged machine-to-machine directly and without human involvement. Machine-to-machine communications are typically terse. Most sensors and actuators will report or act upon small pieces of information - "chirps". Burdening these devices with current network protocol stacks is inefficient, unnecessary and unduly increases their cost of ownership. This must change. The architecture of the Internet of Things must evolve now by incorporating simpler protocols toward at the edges of the network, or remain forever inefficient. Rethinking the Internet of Things describes reasons why we must rethink current approaches to the Internet of Things. Appropriate architectures that will coexist with existing networking protocols are described in detail. An architecture comprised of integrator functions, propagator nodes, and end devices, along with their interactions, is explored. Thought leaders, executives, architectural, standards and development leaders in the evolving IoT industry. Corporations and organizations whose commercial products could be adapted simply to be functioning devices on the IOT while saving billions of dollars in unnecessary costs or proprietary designs. Those who wish to capitalize on technology change and those interested in the Internet, its capabilities and the need to improve it.

Genres: Technology, Reference, Technical, Nonfiction, Business

186 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 13, 2013

Reviews

[Michael Finocchiaro · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this short introduction to IOT. As most of the books from Apress, it is well-written and very insightful and does a good job challenging notions that are distorted in the general media and helping the reader really understand what IOT is really about. A must for demystifying this fad.

[Daniel Schulte · Rating 2 out of 5]

I couldn't finish this book. The topic is interesting and I wanted to learn more about chirps and integrator functions, but I couldn't go any further after the author started to explain why IP wouldn't work for the internet of things for the 5th time halfway through the first chapter.

[Dave Roberts · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am reviewing the book Rethinking the Internet of Things by Francis da Costa which is a very good book. The internet of things devices is digital devices that stream things like video such as smartphones and digital cameras and send it to websites on the internet. In the near future these will stream stuff such as HD and 3D video and other sensory data of your entire life. There will probably be free and paid optionsal tariffs. Bear in mind these companies will have to make money so the free options will probably be quite limited. It is possible there will be legislation to enforce that there has to be this free option. What businesses offer will also largely be driven by market forces. These devices could be useful in solving criminal cases like muggings and murders. They will probably to something like a jacket. The biggest problem facing these companies isn't the huge storage which is growing rapidly but how they are going to search for and access a file within this massive medium. Quite how they are going to do that no-one can say. This is an interesting book on a nice niche subject. It isn't too academic but at the same time an interesting look at the future. I do recommend this book to anyone interested in computing and technology especially digital video.

[Dan Pfeiffer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wanted an overview of IoT and this book delivered. It can get a bit dry but that can be forgiven since it is essentially a technical primer. The book definitely got me thinking about the possibilities for IoT not only in its applications but also how this newly emerging architecture can evolve in a manner which will strongly resemble mimicry of natural systems. From there you can ponder all sorts of possible outcomes if you consider the implementation of Artificial Intelligence on a global, pervasive IoT network.

Additionally, those interested in investing in IoT companies should find this book of interest by matching its identifying components of the system to companies who will manufacture the hardware, software, protocols and other elements which will comprise the whole.

[Dan Watts · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book helps to fill the very large void between the many "Getting started with the Internet of Things" guides, and the planning and execution of a large-scale deployment. As far as I know the IOT architecture described in this book hasn't fully been deployed by anyone yet, but I agree with a number of recommendations made by the author, and suspect that things will head in that direction. The book is short on technical details in many areas: there are few hardware recommendations and no code samples. As such, it would be of more interest to corporate planners and interested hobbyists, not to someone who needs to get an IOT deployment done as quickly as possible.

[Amandeep Singh · Rating 2 out of 5]

The author is trying to sell his idea through this book. Major emphasis being that IOT can not be assumed to work on IPv6 as it is not possible cost wise and other reasons. He digs in to his idea of having a new protocol called chirp, propagator nodes and integrator functions interacting with the regular network.

Certainly could have been in lesser number of pages. It seems just an idea without lot of technical substance behind it. Looks more like wishful thinking.

[Shenyu · Rating 2 out of 5]

The author showed and explained a new framework for Internet of Things, which, I have to say, is an interesting idea. But although quite a lot of disadvantages of current network framework was mentioned, I don't think this new type can be widely accepted. (See how difficult it is to replace IPv4 with IPv6)

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