The Internet of Things has been dominated by things that connect to a pwoer source or which can be re-charged between uses. The Internet of Things got a lot bigger this year thanks to French start-up Sigfox which has developed a narrow-band long-distance wireless communication technique that allows sensors such as smoke alarms and parking space sensors to report to station miles away using small battery which can last for years. Luke D'Arcy

1. The first cellular network operator for the IoT

6. Topology
Countrywide networks being installed around the world

7. SCALE: Safe Community
Alerting Network
“Democratizing safety by bringing the Internet
of Things (IoT) to everyone”

8. SCALE Concept

9. Goals and Objectives
• Demonstrate our ability to extend a connected safe
home to everyone at a low incremental cost,
regardless of income or ability (focus on vulnerable
populations)
• Identify suitable sensors/algorithms for detecting
possible emergency/safety events,Jump-start a live
testbed for research and identifying IoT challenges
• Identify proper schemas for sensor data, test
analytics and alerting workflows
• Demonstrate the efficacy of an open data platform
in connecting disparate systems with little to no
coordination

10. SCALE multi-sensor boxes designed with off-the-shelf components:
• Client software designed to easily incorporate new sensors with
minimal programming effort, allowing easy customization of boxes
• Client performs local analysis on data, publishing unusual events
immediately as well as periodically updating readings
• Sensor data transmitted through best available network medium
• Plans to integrate mesh networking solutions for increased reliability
Multi-networks and Multi-sensor Box

11. • DIME is a one-stop shop for sensor data
and associated analytics
• Publish-subscribe model: IoT devices
exchange data and receive actionable
messages via DIMEwithout coordinating
directly with DIME maintainers
• A New Data Ecosystem: Protocol-agnostic
design avoids “vendor lock-in”; devices
and people freely exchange data and
analytics, building on the contributions
made by others
Middleware – Virtual Sensors and
Data In Motion Exchange
• Virtual sensors translate raw sensor streams
to a semantically meaningful stream at a
certain level – programming simplicity and
flexibility
• SCALE instantiates virtual sensors, performs
analytics on data pulled from DIME, and
publish observations to DIME

12. Alerting and Notification Dash Board
at Dispatch Center

13. Get in touch