Scaling IoTMichiel Fokke, Freek van Gool

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AgendaA little bit about us & QubyWhat is Toon?Scaling IoTFinal thoughtsQuestions

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Who we are?

Freek Michiel

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Why are we here?

Share our experiencesLearn from others

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First attemptHome control box

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PivotEnergy stick

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What is Toon?

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Setup in homes

Electricity sensor

Gas sensorMeter adapter Quby Energy

Display

Boiler adapter

Central heatingboiler

Smart plugs and smoke detectors

WiFi router

Z-Wave

Z-Wave

Philips Hue

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The service center

Service Center

Toon Displays

Mobile devicesProduct

Applications

Back Office

Applications

Mobile Backend

Internet

Internet

VPNAccess

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Firstpartnership

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Exponential growth2013 30.0002014 65.0002015 175.0002016 350.0002017 1.000.000

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

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What Steve Blank didn’t tell you about scaling up a company

Scalable startup Transition Company

https://steveblank.com/2010/01/14/a-startup-is-not-a-smaller-version-of-a-large-company/

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Challenge 1

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Current infrastructure does not scale:Time to marketLack of predictability

Problem

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Solution

MARATHON

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Challenge 2

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ProblemCurrent team structure does not scale:Operation team bottleneckKnowledge gap between dev & ops

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SolutionBuild and run by developer teamsOperations team only manages the platformMonitoring using SaaS (sysdig)Logging (ELK) SaaS problematic (privacy)CI/CD Tooling

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Challenge 3

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ProblemEneco specific solutionNo tenant agnostic data modelDiverging code-base

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Tenancy NXT

SCM repo

SCM repo

SCM repo

component

component

component

NXT Service center

NXT Service center

NXT Service center

NXT Service center

NXTService Center

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Tenancy NXTNXT Service Center

Core Product

Premium Services(through provisioning)

Configuration

Business Rules

Styling

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Challenge 4Communicationwith the devices

Toon

Commands

Events

Requests

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VPN

Problem

>50% of our platform dedicated to VPN serviceCascading failures

SolutionNo silver bullet

Mix http & message broker (MQTT)

Cloud IoT pricing models too expensive

ToonCommands EventsRequests

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HiveMQ vs AWS IoTHiveMQ

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HiveMQ vs AWS IoTAWS IoT

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What makes IoT different?

Device managementFocus on economicsLots of technologies and protocols

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Prepare for change:IoT is not fully solved yet

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