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Fig.1
Above Left. Key
Challenges to “
Massive
IoT” are Energy, Complexity, Density + Security.
Fig.2
Above Right. Nature's Massive IoT uses light, innately secure receiver biased messaging.
Fig.3
Consumer: Medical Sensor Patches -> Data
Logs -> Carrier Pigeons -> Cloud -> "Edge" Intelligence
Fig.4
Enterprise: "Imprinted" Sensor Patches
-> Data Logs -> Pigeons -> Cloud -> "Edge" Intelligence
The Rationale
behind Small Dumb Cheap Copious
Over next decades, billions of IoT devices will be monitoring
farms, forests, oceans, and other natural resources with
sparse or intermittent cloud connectivity. As IIoT becomes
semi-autonomous, intermittent connectivity is both sufficient
and ubiquitous.
Leveraging this, Edge devices may now provide the Sensor Patch
Edge -> Cloud work flows above.
IPV6 protocol is heavy – 40 bytes for the header alone. In
sharp contrast, Nature’s IoT messaging is light,
receiver-oriented and self-classifying. Thus pollen is light
so it can piggyback on available transports- wind, bees. It is
receiver oriented - only intended recipients –flowers- can
decode the “message”.
Distinguishable but Undecipherable. Innately Secure.
Taking cues from Nature, “Chirps” were developed for
SPAWAR
for stealth terse (1-2 bytes) messaging across global and
untrusted networks. Sharp Corp. implemented a version for Asia
for multi-use applications.
Soft ChipsTM are imprinted to send trusted
sensory Edge data to interested subscribers. They leverage
ubiquitous and at least intermittent Cloud connectivity to be
-
. Small. Small Footprint, Ultra-Low Wireless Usage. Long
Battery life.
. Dumb. Ant-like purpose driven processing capabilities - but
re-programmable.
. Cheap. Intended to be produced in millions - since
multi-purpose, multi-use.
. Copious. Intended to be used like Smart Dust – copiously
spread.
. Secure. Imprinting process - end-to-end - is innately
secure.
. Organic. No central standards needed. Modem based Chirp
protocol custom.
. Agnostic. Chirps are radio and protocol agnostic. Can
coexist with others easily.
Global Impact.
Today’s
last mile is crippled by fractured
MAC-centric
protocols: all un-scalable solutions.
The
Cloud Orchestration model cuts
Gordian knots in Fig. 1 and
unleashes the full power of IIoT which means also addressing
the needs for legacy unconnected - but operational -
machinery.
Industrial versions of
Medical
Sensor Patch may
now be - non-invasively- attached on edge assets for their predictive maintenance.
Soft ChipsTM and its low cost and power
embodiments
may also be deployed with little or no electricity, in developing
regions or where remote natural resources reside - the "Edge".
Platform as a service providers -
PaaS - will use carrier pigeons (cars, drones) to forward
chirps for Edge Intelligence
and
SLA compliance.
Chirpers with imprinted
edge intelligence may then glean trends from
sensor data collected within food systems, agriculture
production, factory distribution, and climate preparedness.
Logically contiguous clouds cross over previously walled garden
boundaries - engendering Massive IIoT.
Executive Summary.
The rapidly accelerating confluence of
Distributed AI with Software Defined Networking (SDN) prompted
Cloud Orchestration Models. Chirp networks
coalesce to be
logically contiguous across walled
gardens.
Cheap, Copious, Global Scale Connectivity then drives new -
currently impractical - efficiencies.
Soft ChipsTM is a "natural" alternative to key challenges in
remote management of edge assets.
Bio Slides.
1. Today: Edge with
BLE,
Zigbee,
Lora
=> Fractured Markets and Silos ==
Not Massive
versus
2. Chirp: Edge with Imprinted Pigeons
=>
Contiguous Clouds and
Pub/Sub ==
Massive and Trusted.
Thank you for your consideration. Your feedback is welcomed.
Francis daCosta Jan 2024.
