With the Internet of Things (IoT) becoming more and more prevalent, one needs to understand the challenges it presents.
A new open access book from Apress Media – Rethinking the Internet of Things: A Scalable Approach to Connecting Everything – proposes a fundamentally new architectural paradigm for the IoT.
Author Francis daCosta, Founder of Advanced Cybernetics Group, MeshDynamics, and Knowmadic, has made a case in his book that many product managers and pundits think of the IoT as just another area where traditional networking protocols such as IPv6 can be applied. In the IoT, much of the communication will be machine-to-machine and in tiny snatches of data, which is the exact opposite of networks such as the traditional Internet. Thus, burdening these devices with protocol stacks, processing, and memory to allow true peer-to-peer networking wastes resources and increases risk.
The author is currently involved in a stealth-mode Internet of Things start-up and has authored or co-authored fifteen patents incorporating a variety of technology innovations. He has a MS from Stanford University and a BS from the Indian Institute of Technology, along with post-graduate work in artificial intelligence at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In ‘Rethinking the Internet of Things,’ daCosta has outlined his three-level model of end devices, propagator nodes and integrator functions that mimics systems in nature. He envisions a crowd of devices speaking and listening, each unconcerned with what’s happening anywhere else in the network. “I believe that the Internet of Things represents a completely different worldview: one where the machines take care of themselves and only trouble us for exceptions,” daCosta explains.
The new book sheds light on how “big data” can be gleaned from these billions of potential “small data” points. The eBook version of the ‘Rethinking the Internet of Things’ is freely available to download and share under the ApressOpen program. For more information about the book, please visit http://www.apress.com/9781430257400.