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Configuring the Internet of ThingsWith The Service-Aware CMDB
April 2016
Michael Stroh
BCS CMSG London
Agenda
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The Internet of Things – Hype?
Enablers of IoT
Configuring the IoT
The Service Aware CMDB
Use Case – Road Management System
Conclusion
Agenda
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The Internet of Things – Hype?
Enablers of IoT
Configuring the IoT
The Service Aware CMDB
Use Case – Road Management System
Conclusion
Internet of Things – is it Hype?
• Short answer is, “No!”
• “The Internet of Things will connect every thing with
everyone in an integrated global network”
– (Rifkin 2014, p11)
• The “… Internet of Things is the first smart-infrastructure
revolution in history. It will connect every machine,
business, residence, and vehicle in an intelligent
network comprised of a Communications Internet,
Energy Internet, and Logistics [Transport] Internet...”
– (Rifkin 2014, p73)
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Internet of Things (2)
IoT
Communications Internet
Energy Internet
Transport (Logistics) Internet
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• These regimes are fundamental for
managing, powering and moving
economic life
• Comms internet is already built
• Building the others now
• Each “internet” enables the other
ones
Internet of Things (3) (Rifkin 2014 pp41-55, Rifkin 2015)
1st Industrial rev. (1760-1840)
2nd Industrial rev. (1870-1980)
3rd Industrial rev. (IoT)(1995-…)
Communications Steam powered printing, telegraph, public schools
Telephone, TV, radio, mass media
WWW, social media, produce/consume/store information
Energy Fossil fuel, steam Elite fuels - fossil, nuclear, oil/gas pipelines
Green, renewable power, “prosumers”, hydrogen storage
Transport Steam locomotives, steam ships
Internal combustion engine, mass production, automobiles, national road systems
Self-driving cars (electric/hydrogen),road management systems, shared vehicles
Organisation One-way, centralised One-way, centralised, silos, closed, proprietary
Shared, collaborative, distributed, interconnected, open sourced
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The Internet of Things – Hype?
Enablers of IoT
Configuring the IoT
The Service Aware CMDB
Use Case – Road Management System
Conclusion
Enablers of IoT
IPv6 - Unique device
addresses High bandwidth Open standards
Configuration management
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How we get there…
IPv6
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• IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and provides approximately 232 or 4.3×109
addresses• Last IPv4 address was allocated in
February 2011• IPv6 uses a 128-bit address,
theoretically allowing 2128, or
approximately 3.4×1038 addresses
• (IPv6 2016, World IPv6 Launch 2016, The Internet Society 2016)
5G Initiative
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• 2020s timeframe
• Massive research effort
• Requirements
• Low latency
• Reliable
• 10 Gb/s
• IoT won’t happen
without it
• (Soldani 2015)
Increasing bandwidth to 10 Gb/s
Open standards
• Software - Linux
• Hardware – Open Compute Project
• Knowledge - Wikipedia
• Artificial Intelligence – OpenAI
• Next?
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Reduce cost, encourage collaboration• (OpenStand 2016)
Linux
• Open platform
• 96.6% of internet based servers
– (Wikipedia 2016)
• Powers Android and Google Chrome
– (InfoWorld 2016)
• Ubuntu Linux chosen by AT&T for its
cloud platform
– (TechRepublic 2016)
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Open Compute Project
• Facebook initiative 2011
– (Open Compute Project 2016)
• Open hardware standards
• Open network standards
• Reduces costs – no royalties to pay
• Disruptive innovation – Cisco, Dell,
EMC concerned
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Wikipedia
• Built on Mediawiki software – an open
standard
– (Mediawiki 2016)
• Collaborative encyclopaedia replaces
paper versions
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OpenAI
• Open AI standard
– (OpenAI 2015)
• Allows for collaboration in AI
• Collaboration could reduce risk by
addressing the “control problem”
– (Bostrom 2014)
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The Internet of Things – Hype?
Enablers of IoT
Configuring the IoT
The Service Aware CMDB
Use Case – Road Management System
Conclusion
Configuration – a definition
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Configuring the IoT
• Presentation by Vint Cerf (Cerf 2015)
– “Father” of the Internet
– Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist,
• He described one unanswered question in IoT as,
– “How do I configure large numbers of devices
into my network?”
• He described one of the challenges and
opportunities:
– “Configuration of massive numbers of devices”
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Configuring the IoT – the CMDB can help
• Utilize extant Configuration Management DataBase (CMDB) and ITIL® technology
• Use a traditional CMDB
– Or
• A Service Aware CMDB
• Configuring massive numbers of devices; naturally group into fewer services
• Dynamic configuration – automated service maps
• Access control (credentials and security) handled by CMDB
• To accelerate rollout, perhaps encourage open standards for ITIL ® and CMDB?
• (NB: ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of AXELOS Limited)
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The Internet of Things – Hype?
Enablers of IoT
Configuring the IoT
The Service Aware CMDB
Use Case – Road Management System
Conclusion
The Service Aware CMDB
• Fewer services naturally group devices
• Service Maps show relationship between IoT
services and devices
• Automated Service Discovery – enables
dynamic configuration
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Service Maps help to create a service view of IoT
• Map information is stored into the CMDB
• Service oriented view of IoT
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Discovery is enabled by credentials management
• Example: Discovery Credentials Management
System (DCMS)
• Provisions and verifies target device
credentials
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DCMS Discovery CMDB IoT
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The Internet of Things – Hype?
Enablers of IoT
Configuring the IoT
The Service Aware CMDB
Use Case – Road Management System
Conclusion
Use Case – Road Management System (1)
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• Soldani (2015) describes
requirements for a RMS
• Fast connection
• Reliable
• Low latency (1-10ms)
• High data volumes (>200Mb/s)
• Support performance up to
max. relative speed
• Any network operator
Use Case – Road Management System (2)
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Services:
• Car to Infrastructure communication
• Car to Backend communication
• Car to Car communication
Use Case – Road Management System (3)
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CMDB data model for one vehicle:
• Business service name
• Vehicle ID
• Speed
• Direction
• Location (lat./long.)
• Location of other moving objects
• Accident risk level (0-10)
• Date/time
Use Case – Road Management System (4)
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CMDB data model for intersection:
Road data:
• Business service name
• Road ID
• Intersection ID
• Vehicles travelling
• Direction
• Speed
• Location in intersection
• Approaching
• Inside
• leaving
• Traffic light sequence
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The Internet of Things – Hype?
Enablers of IoT
Configuring the IoT
The Service Aware CMDB
Use Case – Road Management System
Conclusion
Conclusion
• IoT is the Third Industrial Revolution
• One unanswered question in IoT rollout is the “configuration problem”
• The service-aware CMDB and related technologies can be used to manage the
configuration of the IoT.
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References (3)
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