IoT - a techie's viewpoint

Contents

Presentations

1. General IoT talk given to ACS and various universities in 2015-2016 Internet of Things
2. Talk given on security at Deep Sensor conference Perth, April, 2017

Experiments with 6LoWPAN (articles from Linux Journal)

1. Low power wireless and Linux
2. Low power wireless: Routing to the internet
3. Low power wireless: CoAP
And a fourth article which didn't get published
4. Low power wireless: CoAP discovery and observers

PART 1: Introduction

1. Introduction (last modified v0.1)
   • The Internet of Things
2. Business models (last modified v0.2)
   • Resources
   • What is the Internet of Things
   • Predictions
   • The Gartner Hype Cycle
   • IoT growth areas
   • Conclusion
3. Architectural models (last modified v0.3)
   • Resources
   • Architectural frameworks
   • Functional viewpoint
   • Design patterns
   • Client architectures
   • Implementation

PART 2: Sensors

4. Temperature sensors (last modified v0.3)
   • Resources
   • Introduction
   • Types of temperature sensor
   • Properties of temperature sensors
   • Some theory, and how it pans out
   • Messaging protocols
5. Sensor device descriptions (last modified v0.1)
   • Resources
   • Introduction
   • W3C semantic sensor network
   • OIC sensor descriptions
   • IPSO sensors
   • SenML: Media Types for Sensor Measurement Lists
   • Conclusion

PART 3: Microcontrollers and microprocessors

6. Introduction (last modified v0.1)
   • Resources
   • Microcontrollers and Microprocessors
   • Architecture: Harvard and von Neumann
   • Microcontrollers
   • Microcontroller boards
   • Microprocessors
   • System on a Chip (SoC)
   • Programming languages
   • Operating Systems
   • IETF Terminology for Constrained Nodes
   • Conclusion
PIC (nothing yet) (last modified v0.1)
• Resources
Alternative Microcontrollers (nothing yet) (last modified v0.1)
• Resources
7. Arduino (minimal) (last modified v0.1)
   • Resources
   • Specification
   • C Programming
   • C++ Programming
   • Programming environment
   • Basic programming
   • Interacting with the Arduino through a serial port using Firmata
Raspberry Pi (nothing yet) (last modified v0.1)
• Resources
8. Operating Systems (last modified v0.1)
   • Resources
9. Programming Languages (last modified v0.2)
   • Resources
   • Introduction
   • Low memory
   • Medium memory
   • Standard memory
   • Web applications
   • Big data

PART 4: Networking

10. Introduction to IoT networking (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • Existing protocols
    • Newer short range protocols
    • Newer long range protocols
11. IEEE802.15.4 (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • List of 6lowpan products and suppliers
    • Introduction
    • Packet size
    • Types of device
    • Addressing
    • Layer 3
    • Security
    • Case study: OpenLabs 802.15.4 radio
12. Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (minimal) (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • Introduction
13. 6LoWPAN (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • Introduction
    • Packet sizes
    • Auto-configuration
    • Router adverts
    • Security
    • Higher layer protocols
    • Conclusion
14. ZigBee and Z-Wave (never will be much) (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • Introduction
15. Experiments with 6LoWPAN (last modified v0.1)

PART 5: Middleware

16. Remote Programming Models (minimal) (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • Introduction
    • IP
    • TCP and UDP
    • TCP programming
    • UDP programming
    • Higher-level programming
    • Conclusion
17. REST (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • Introduction
    • Eight fallacies of distributed computing
    • URIs and resources
    • URIs and REST
    • REST verbs
    • HATEOAS
    • Representing links
    • Transactions with REST
    • Richardson maturity model
    • RAML
    • Conclusion
18. HTTP and REST (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • Overview
    • URLs
    • HTTP verbs
    • HTTP message headers
    • Status codes
    • Link relations
    • HTML links
    • REST HTTP client-side programming APIs
    • REST HTTP servers: Apache
19. CoAP and REST (minimal) (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • Introduction
    • UDP
    • Request/Response Model
    • String format
    • Message reliability
    • Resource discovery
    • Summary
MQTT (nothing yet) (last modified v0.1)
20. Serialisation (last modified v0.2)
    • Resources
    • Introduction
    • XML
    • JSON
    • Binary JSON (CBOR)
    • Google Protocol Buffers

PART 6: Security

21. Security introduction (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • Threats
    • The security triad and beyond
    • IoT attack surfaces
    • Defence mechanisms
    • Summary
22. Identity (last modified v0.1)
    • Introduction
    • Eectronic Product Codes
    • IP addresses
    • MAC addresses
    • Physical unclonable function
23. Microcontroller and microprocessor security (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • Introduction
    • In-system programming
    • Java Card
    • Reducing attacks
    • Boot process
    • Global Platform: high level requirements
    • ARM secure element
    • Freescale i.MX6 UltraLite
    • Apple iOS security architecture
    • Summary
24. ARM security (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
Apple mobile phone security model (last modified v0.1)
Home (last modified v0.1)
• Resources
Operating Systems (last modified v0.1)
• Resources
Certification Laboratories (last modified v0.1)
• Resources
Virtual Machines (last modified v0.1)
• Resources

PART 7: Home systems

25. Architecture (last modified v0.3)
    • Resources
    • Architecture
    • Initial setup
    • Non-WiFi devices
26. IPv6 on consumer home routers (last modified v0.4)
    • Resources
    • Introduction
    • IPv4 and IPv6
    • Setting up the home routers
    • IPv6 addresses
    • Types of IPv6 addresses
    • How are IPv6 addresses generated?
    • Am I IPv6 enabled?
    • Who is on my network?
    • No NAT for IPv6
    • Conclusion
27. OpenWrt on a Raspberry Pi (last modified v0.4)
    • Resources
    • Introduction
    • OpenWrt
    • Setting up the new router behind the old router
    • Setting up another network on the new router
    • Debugging
    • Setting up the new router in front of the old router
    • Gotcha: mislocated server
    • Gotcha: no PPPoE connection
    • Router speeds
    • But where is IPv6?
    • Firewall rule
    • Static IP addresses
    • DNS
    • Routing
    • Conclusion
28. IETF homenet specifications (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • Introduction
    • Why not NAT?
    • IPv6 address types
    • Subnets
    • Choice of address
    • Router configuration
    • Naming devices
    • Discovering devices
29. Yeelight (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • Yeelight bulbs
    • Apps and services
    • Google Home control
    • LAN control
    • Adverts and search
    • Commands
30. Lanbon light switches (last modified v0.3)
    • Resources
    • Lanbon switches
    • HTTP servers
    • LAN mode
    • Reverse engineering the Lanbon API
    • Device id
    • Device type
    • Commands
    • Source code
    • Sending commands
    • Master mode
    • 'Keep alive' messages
    • Device discovery
    • State changes
    • Device names
    • Programs
    • Conclusion
31. OpenHAB (minimal, last modified v0.3)
    • Resources
32. Open Assistant (minimal, last modified v0.3)

PART 8: Big data

Storage (nothing yet) (last modified v0.1)
Big data (nothing yet) (last modified v0.1)
(last modified v0.1)

PART 9: Artificial Intelligence

33. Mycroft (last modified v0.3)
    • Resources
    • Introduction
    • Architecture of Mycroft
    • Working with the virtual environment
    • Building the documentation
    • Setting location
    • Case study: talking to Logitech's Harmony Hub
    • Mycroft using the Google AIY Voicehat on the RPi 3B+

PART 10: Micro transactions

34. IOTA (last modified v0.2)
    • Resources

PART 11: Industry groups

35. Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) (last modified v0.1)
    • Resources
    • Introduction
    • Specifications
    • Entities and servers
    • Operations
    • Resource types
Industrial Internet of Things (nothing yet) (last modified v0.1)
• Resources
Global Platform (nothing yet) (last modified v0.1)
Home systems (nothing yet) (last modified v0.1)

Acknowledgements

I have used the following in these pages

• SHJS - Syntax Highlighting in JavaScript to highlight programs
• Generated tables of contents by Stuart Langridge
• A Generic Makefile for Building Multiple main() Targets in $PWD by Robert A Nader

Copyright © Jan Newmarch, jan@newmarch.name

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CHANGES

• v0.1 released 2/5/2016
• v0.2 in progress, incrementally released
  • Added defintions of IoT to Business chapter
  • Chapter on Serialisation given some content