"Open Source Protocols and Architectures to Fix the Internet of Things".
I'm not much for 1-hour videos, but I think I'm going to watch this one, made just a couple of days ago at Linuxconf in Aukland, NZ.
Update: I have watched it and you should soon. This explains a lot of the philosophy that we have in IOTDB about how all the pieces of the IoT need to be put together.
Alasdair Allan http://lca2015.linux.org.au/schedule/... Everyday objects are becoming smarter. In ten years’ time, every piece of clothing you own, every piece of jewellery you wear, and every thing you carry with you will be measuring, weighing and calculating your life. In ten years, the world — your world — will be full of sensors. The problem? The things are becoming smarter, but they’re also becoming selfish. Your lightbulbs aren’t talking to your media centre, your media centre isn’t talking to your blinds, and nobody is talking to the thermostat. Instead of talking to each other, everything is talking to you—you’ve ended up as a mechanical turk inside someone else’s software. That situation can’t continue, we need to fix the Internet of Things. As our computing continues its diffusion out into the environment we need our things to work together. The things have to become not just smarter, but more co-operative, they need to become anticipatory rather than reactive. Right now we have not so much an Internet of Things, but a series of Islands of Things. I present open source protocols and architectures that will help solve this trouble with the Internet of Things.
