Keynote: Making IoT Experimentation Easy
Talkat Embedded Linux Conference + OpenIoT Summit North America 2017 · on Wednesday, 2017-02-22· at 09:25· Grand Ballroom I/II·
summary
Argues that device innovation must match cloud pace, citing 1017 new features AWS shipped in 2016, and shows concrete experiments: a solar-panel cleaning A/B test comparing water spray, squeegee+water (best), and squeegee alone (poor). Recommends architectures that limit blast radius and target cohorts with hot/warm/cold telemetry, using AWS Greengrass to run Lambda-like functions on devices, Kinesis for streaming and EMR for heavier analysis, so experiments can be rolled back quickly and measured against baselines.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:12How we experiment with IoT
- 3:37Design vs technology
- 4:12First Amazon website
- 4:44Technology change
- 8:11Customer expectations
- 10:30Where things go
- 11:00Experimentation layers
- 11:24Architecture tools culture
- 13:19Scientific method
- 15:02Baseline
- 16:48Streaming Analytics
- 17:10Behavioral Analytics
- 17:38Experiment Holder
- 19:17Green Grass
- 21:27Facial Recognition
- 22:03Play the More
- 23:03Conclusion
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