Proximity IoT solution with Aruba ALE / Microsoft Azure · 2019-09-05 · @ArubaEMEA | #ATM17EMEA 8 ALE Modes of Operation (2.0) •Proximity (Context with no maps or location) •Rough

Proximity IoT solution with Aruba ALE / Microsoft Azure

2017-05-09 Fabien GIRAUD

2@ArubaEMEA | #ATM17EMEA

Problem statement

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– Hard to sell added value of ALE

– Lot of small ecosystem partners

– Ecosystem only focusing on few verticals / use models

– No use model for IoT in combination with ALE

– Provide more added value on Aruba Mobile first infrastructure


Analytics and Location Engine (ALE) overview


Network Analytics with ALE: Functional Overview

Unified Context

for each user

(Username, IP,

MAC, device

type, Apps)

1Real-time

location

and

Context

decoding

engine

2

ALE

Seamless, secure

connectivity to

analytics platforms

4

Northbound

APIs (publish/

subscribe,

polling)

3


Analytics with ALE

Contextual Data:User, Device, Application &

Location

ENGAGEMENTLocation / User Specific

Experiences

DATA

MINING /

ANALYTICS

Sensors

Other

Data

Sources

CRM

Venue Traffic

Patterns, A/B

Testing,

Demographic

Analysis, etc.

ALE

MARKETING, AD

PLATFORMS

Context

APIs


ALE Northbound APIs

Two types of Northbound APIs:

– Publish/Subscribe

– Uses Google Protocol Buffering (“Protobuf”) for encoding and TCP based ØMQ transport

– External Analytics engines can subscribe to various “topics”:

– Location

– Presence

– Applications, Destination URLs

– Campus, building, floor, etc.

– Polling Based: REST API

– Supports standard REST queries for various events/objects

– Example: http://<ip>/api/v1/station will return a list of all stations

– Return data format is JSON


ALE Modes of Operation (2.0)

• Proximity (Context with no maps or location)

• Rough estimate of location – which AP is closest to the client

• No maps required

• Context with Mapped Locations:

• Estimated:

• Uses floor plans / AP placement info from Airwave

• Uses AP-AP RSSI messages to build a path loss model to create a pseudo Positioning Database (PDB)

• Fingerprinting Mode:

• Uses calibration data from fingerprinting

• New Android App for fingerprinting (NAO Logger) and a web service on ALE (NAO Campus)

• Pattern matching utilizing customer generated PDB is used for location calculation


Viewing Client Locations and ALE Dashboard


Demo time !

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Existing Partners Ecosystem


Key 3rd Party Location Analytics Partners http://www.arubanetworks.com/partners/ecosystem/mobile-applications/


Software AG – ALE integration


Software AG – ALE integration (con’t)


Rifiniti – ALE integration


Rifiniti – ALE integration (con’t)


Aislelabs – ALE integration


SkyFii - ALE Integration


Ivizone – ALE integration


Demo time again


ALE – Azure integration

Add value and scalability to ALE with Azure Power


Problem statement (reminder)

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– Hard to sell added value of ALE

– Lot of small ecosystem partners

– Ecosystem only focusing on few verticals / use models

– No use model for IoT in combination with ALE

– Provide more added value on Aruba Mobile first infrastructure


Steps

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IoTworkshop

Microsoft & Aruba

Hackathon

Solution demo

Pilot @Discover

2016

Pilot @CeBit

2017


Solution components

Microsoft Azure

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Initial use case

– Simple initial solution

– Dwell time

– Visitor counter

– Devices, users, etc

– More complex solution

– User detection

– Visitor counter for a given proximity

– Push notifications based on proximity

– You are at the men’s clothing department

– You are in the Store

– You are in the hall of medieval arts in a museum

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Ubuntu

(Python script)

IoT Hub Stream Analytics

Servicebus

Queue

SQL

Notification

Hub

Azure

Function

Aruba ALE

Power BI

Solution Architecture

Clearpass

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Macvendors.co

API

On-Site WWW Azure Cloud Cloud or local

Websocket tunnel

NoSQL

(DocumentDB)


Python script flow


View data in Power BI (geofence)


View data in Power BI (Location)


View data in Power BI (CeBit)


Azure bricks

Python script VM

iOT Hub

SQL Database

App notification

Stream analyser


Last but not least demo time

Thank [email protected]

Proximity IoT solution with Aruba ALE / Microsoft Azure · 2019-09-05 · @ArubaEMEA | #ATM17EMEA 8 ALE Modes of Operation (2.0) •Proximity (Context with no maps or location) •Rough

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