Picos, CloudOS, and Connecting Things

Connecting EverythingPhillip J. Windley, PhD Enterprise Architecture, BYU CTO, Kynetx, Inc. @windley

Internet of Things

The Internet of Things will lead to a computing experience that is immersive & pervasive.

Ambient Computing

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But it’s bigger than that…

Everything will have an online representation.

Connections EverywhereThe things you own The things you don't Different types of connections

What will its architecture be?

Personal: Clients working on behalf of the user Real-time events and alerts Access to data through APIs Context

Imagine a mountain representing today’s billion node network...

From Trillions by Maya Design

From Trillions by Maya Design

Events and Requests

“this happened” vs “do this”

Static Data & Dynamic Queries

Dynamic Data & Static Queries

Event System Properties

Events are autonomous Event-driven system are more loosely coupled Downstream (receiver) driven flow control Near real-time propagation

The Current #IoT Model Won’t Scale

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Internet of

My Things

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The Internet of My Things

The Internet of My Things leads to The API of Me

Fuse is Three Things

http://joinfuse.com

Social Products

"The car needs to become your friend. How does the car speak to me? How does the car integrate with the dealership and the factory? How does the car help me get to the service station? ... I want a relationship with the car in the same way I have a relationship with my friends. ... The car is going to become social. All our

products are going to become social."—Marc Benioff

But it’s not just about manufactured things...

We give each thing a persistent compute object, or pico

Picos are online computersIdentity—they represent a specific entity Storage—they persistently encapsulate both structured and unstructured data Open event network—they respond to events Processing—they run applications autonomously Event Channels—they have connections to other picos APIs—they provide access to and access other online services

Picos Are Decentralized & Networked

Built on open standards Built on open source

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Picos Ease Modeling

Picos support a new Web programming model

Web Application

Application Data

Browser

Web Application

Application Data

Browser

Picos Use an Event Query Model

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functions

rules

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User Interface

name

email

phone

query API

event API

user makes change in UIresulting in an event

UI updates presentation using query API

rules validate and process event, often updating model

functions return results based on persistent data

Picos Support A Familiar Model

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Programming ModelProgram in any language you like

OAuth access to pico

Pico provides

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API and inter-pico communications

MicroservicesOrganized around a single business capability Small, generally less than 1000 lines and code and usually much smaller Event-based and asynchronous Run in their own process Independently deployable Decentralized data storage

Healing Subscriptionsrule check_subscriptions {

select when fuse subscription_check

pre {

vid = carvoyant:vehicle_id();

my_subs = carvoyant:getSubscription(vid);

should_have = required_subscription_list.length();

}

if(my_subs.length() < should_have) then

send_directive("not enough subscriptions")

fired {

log ">>>> vehicle #{vid} needs subscription check";

raise fuse event need_initial_carvoyant_subscriptions;

}

}

Healing Subscriptionsrule check_subscriptions {

select when fuse subscription_check

pre {

vid = carvoyant:vehicle_id();

my_subs = carvoyant:getSubscription(vid);

should_have = required_subscription_list.length();

}

if(my_subs.length() < should_have) then

send_directive("not enough subscriptions")

fired {

log ">>>> vehicle #{vid} needs subscription check";

raise fuse event need_initial_carvoyant_subscriptions;

}

}

Healing Subscriptionsrule check_subscriptions {

select when fuse subscription_check

pre {

vid = carvoyant:vehicle_id();

my_subs = carvoyant:getSubscription(vid);

should_have = required_subscription_list.length();

}

if(my_subs.length() < should_have) then

send_directive("not enough subscriptions")

fired {

log ">>>> vehicle #{vid} needs subscription check";

raise fuse event need_initial_carvoyant_subscriptions;

}

}

Healing Subscriptionsrule check_subscriptions {

select when fuse subscription_check

pre {

vid = carvoyant:vehicle_id();

my_subs = carvoyant:getSubscription(vid);

should_have = required_subscription_list.length();

}

if(my_subs.length() < should_have) then

send_directive("not enough subscriptions")

fired {

log ">>>> vehicle #{vid} needs subscription check";

raise fuse event need_initial_carvoyant_subscriptions;

}

}

Healing Subscriptionsrule check_subscriptions {

select when fuse subscription_check

pre {

vid = carvoyant:vehicle_id();

my_subs = carvoyant:getSubscription(vid);

should_have = required_subscription_list.length();

}

if(my_subs.length() < should_have) then

send_directive("not enough subscriptions")

fired {

log ">>>> vehicle #{vid} needs subscription check";

raise fuse event need_initial_carvoyant_subscriptions;

}

}

KRL

Runs in picos Built for microservices Complex event expressions Persistent variables Side-effects are quarantined

This can get complex…

Institution

TourIndex Location

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Report"1"

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Report"current"

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Managers

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Guard"Frank"

Subscriptions

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Report"2"Report"2"Report"2"Reports

ToursToursToursTours

LocationsLocationsLocationsLocations

Why do this?Orthogonality and modularity are powerful: network effects! More flexible Can be less work More private

What Technology Wants

Recommended ReadingMirror Worlds, David Gelernter

Snowcrash, Neal Stevenson

Rainbow's End, Vernor Vinge

The Intention Economy, Doc Searls

Trillions, Peter Lucas, Joe Ballay & Mickey McManus

My book on how this can be built now

CloudOS White Papers

www.windley.com

Contact info: Phil Windley

[email protected] www.windley.com

@windley

Connecting Everything