Blockchain and the Rise of the Machine Economy

On Christmas Eve, I received some correspondence on using blockchain in the Internet of Things. I have long been convinced that blockchain would be important in smart energy. Dr. Lynne Kiesling has been a leader in calling for the use of blockchain in power markets to create neighborhood energy resilience. This new letter has gotten me wondering how it might be used much more widely.

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IOT Apps and Competition for Resources in Seattle

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Tomorrow I am talking about a Resource Framework for the Internet of Things (IoT) at the summit of the AllSeen Alliance. Traditional consumer programming has concerned itself with only a few resources, i.e., RAM (memory), storage (disk space), and communication (network speed). These programs live atop operating systems and device drivers that engage directly with physical things. Third-wave Apps in the IoT, though, deal directly with resources....
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Resource Frameworks to Integrate the IoT

Last month in Monterrey I gave several talks about the how to make diverse apps in the Internet of Things (IoT) work together. It was an interesting crowd, with real problems in distributed telemetry (wastewater monitoring), big data (floor mat traffic analysis for retail) and missionary work. The problems ranged from few resource constraints to very tight constraints.

One of my favorite IoT Apps there was driven by missionary work, combining...

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AllJoyn and the Azure Cloud

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This was a fascinating week at the TechIntersection conference. TechIntersection is a new conference with three intertwining tracks, Architecture, Security, and IoT (Internet of Things}. The need for such cross pollination is obvious. Apps built for the Internet of Things rarely take account of the issues they will require to scale to millions of installations, each potentially interacting with other Apps from other developers. Security doesn’t really understand the special needs of things, just as IoT Apps often violate enterprise expectations for security and privacy. Enterprise architects have some nifty new tools that will provide great value to IoT developers, but they have no idea what an avalanche of data and connections that is headed toward their data center.
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