Santa and the Internet of Christmas (IoX) Digitising the delivery side of Christmas operations Charles Sturman, Senior Director International Marketing, HiSilicon Security Level: Since the time of Saint Nicholas in the fourth-century AD, world population has grown from 200 M to 7.8 Bn and is expected to reach 9 Bn by 2037. Although Father Christmas has done a fantastic job through ever faster sleighs with increasing load capacity, this exponential rise is unsustainable using current delivery methods. Multiple inter-governmental studies have proposed various technology assistance schemes to the elf council: • Wide-Area Cellular IoT based real-time Reindeer tracking • Semi-autonomous last-yard precision guided present delivery • Benefits of an overarching fully connected Internet of Xmas (IoX) solution • The ‘good-behaviour-analysis -> logistic-scheduling -> present-delivery’ cycle
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Santa and the Internet of Christmas (IoX)Digitising the delivery side of Christmas operations
Charles Sturman, Senior Director International Marketing, HiSilicon
Security Level:
Since the time of Saint Nicholas in the fourth-century AD, world population has grown from 200 M to 7.8 Bn and is expected to reach 9 Bn by 2037.
Although Father Christmas has done a fantastic job through ever faster sleighs with increasing load capacity, this exponential rise is unsustainable using current delivery methods.
Multiple inter-governmental studies have proposed various technology assistance schemes to the elf council:• Wide-Area Cellular IoT based real-time Reindeer tracking• Semi-autonomous last-yard precision guided present delivery• Benefits of an overarching fully connected Internet of Xmas (IoX) solution• The ‘good-behaviour-analysis -> logistic-scheduling -> present-delivery’ cycle
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The scale of the operation
More than 2.2bn children on Earth• ~ 2bn live in developing countries (humanium.com)
Average number of children per household = 2.3• Average household size (inc adults) = 4.9 (Statista 2020)
• 2.3 children on average within the range of 0.5 to 5 (UN, DESA, Population Division 2019)
So, the number of households to be visited = 1bn
In a delivery time available of 32 hours• Flying E to W = 2x Night time on 24th Dec. = 2x 16:00 to 08:00 (timeanddate.com)
57.6 houses visited per μs with 1 to 5 presents delivered per house
Assume ~ 30m km covered in 32 hours = 937,500 km/h = 0.1%C • Earth circumference : 40,000 km, Surface area : 510m km² (Google)
• Inhabitable land : 65m km² (University Texas @ Austin)
So, good news - the laws of physics still work for wireless communications !• Let’s not worry too much about relativity
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Autonomous delivery operation (on-device)
• Chimney recognition, trajectory and route-planning
• Correlated with GPS position and target recipient details
Sleigh Area Network
• Local control & telemetry for route planning & delivery
• Rudolph Nose Hub (RNH) for local telemetry & control
typically combined for high availability and 1~5m accuracy
• Enhanced techniques (eg RTK) and inertial sensor fusion can enable
sub-metre, even cm level precision
• On the other hand, integrated Soft-GNSS solutions can provide
5~10m accuracy with low additional cost and power draw
• E.g. HiSilicon NB-IoT Chip receiving GNSS signals during NB-IoT DRX/PSM
Indoor
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Base station location
E-CID/OTDOA
Outdoor
Precision (m)
GNSSBLE
Cloud-Loc
Real-time Positioning
LTE Positioning Protocol (3GPP Rel14)• OTDOA (Observed Time Difference Of Arrival)
• E-CID (Enhanced Cell Id)
• Accuracy: ~50m
Cloud based location inference• Measuring available cellular signals at UE &
communicating key metrics back to cloud server for
location analysis and response; E.g. Polte / Skyhook
• Accuracy: ~10m
Fusion• A real-time positioning solution for a critical dynamic IoT system should
take advantage of all available reference points and inertial sensors to
achieve accuracy, availability and especially reliability
Bluetooth (BLE5.0) indoor positioning• BLE antenna can be shared with others (e.g. NB-IoT)
• Distance measurement based on RSSI from Beacon
• Accuracy: 5 – 10m
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Smart Vision
Enabling real-time localised route guidance and object avoidance(Similar approach to Advanced Driver Assistance System / ADAS)
• Sensors to identify and track static and moving objects• Object classification & recognition to target the delivery point (Chimney -> Tree)
An example: HiSilcon HiSpark Smart vision platform – ‘other solutions are available!’• Heterogeneous computing platform:
• Neural processor (NPU), Digital signal proc’r (DSP), Intelligent video engine (IVE), CPU and Image signal proc’r (ISP)• 1 to 4 TOPS scalable compute, efficient AI development platform and mainstream algorithm frameworks
• High image quality / low bit rate with adaptive enhancement and video coding for complex lighting and low operation cost• AI performance, power and area (PPA) trade-offs to meet wide-ranging requirements
Visual perception for intelligent recognition and detection on device side• Reduces processing latency and security / privacy-related
risks since visual data stays on-device• From ADAS to process inspection, to battery-powered
smart home devices (doorbells, locks, video games)
• And Intelligent Santa Drone Delivery !
Up to 4TOPS NPU (Da Vinci)
Automotive capable
• Up to 8x 1080P
• HDR/LED de-flicker / de-noising
• AI powered pedestrian detection
• Front fusion ADAS, AVM/APA/AVP
• Live rearview & Drive recording
• Driver monitoringHiSpark Smart Vision Platform
Image process Feature detect
Object recognition
Classif-ication
Decision / Action
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Smart Presents
And how does Santa know that you actually got the present, opened it and loved it ?
• An emerging use case for NB-IoT entitled ‘Last-gasp’
• Each present is fitted with a unique logistics tag using an ultra-low cost NB-IoT chip with in-built CPU
1. Enabled after pick-up (sleigh) and drop-off (tree)2. When stationary, a multi-second GPS signal integration process obtains a high-quality position fix3. Later, when the gift-wrap breach sensor triggers:
• A short burst of audio capture records the pleasurable yelp of excitement• The position fix and ‘I love it’ proof-of-receipt are transmitted to Santa via NB-IoT (in-building / underground no problem)
• Acquire GPS → Sleep → Wake on open → Record sound → Transmit → Die
Powered by a one-shot ~ 60,000 µF capacitor
• Total energy ≈ 730 mJ [using C = ]
• Low power Rx & Sync (eDRX) energy ≈ 160 mJ over 10s• 16 mJ /s @ 16 mW per 160 ms
• GPS fix (ttff + 5s integration) @ 25mW ≈ 250 mJ
• Power Save Mode ≈ 1µA (negligible)
• Tx Energy for 1200 bytes ≈ 320 mJ• Tx power @ raw data rate of 30kbps ≈ 1 W• GPS position + 2s speech burst @ 4.75kbps (AMR codec)
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Conclusions
The Internet of Christmas requires a number of complimentary technologies• Each one best suited to the specific needs of the problem
• Multiple connectivity techniques create a scalable heterogeneous network
(this is ultimately the vision of 5G / 6G)
The sheer scale and speed of the operation demands intelligence throughout the network• At the edge and in the device
• Avoid transmitting raw data unnecessarily (process and infer first)
• Autonomy enables delegation and distribution of responsibility
A critical system also requires multiple points of failure (Cloud / Edge / Device) and resilience• Process data and infer locally, don’t always rely on round-trips back to HQ
Ultimately digitalisation can reach all the way to the end of the supply-chain• Disposable NB-IoT logistic stamps are already here !