The Internet of Things (IoT) is really about the ubiquity of data, the possibility of humans extending their awareness and reach globally, or further.
IoT frees us from the tedium of physically monitoring or maintaining remote systems, but to be effective we must be able to rely on data being accessible but comprehensible.

This presentation covers three main areas of an IoT big data strategy

* The Air Gap - options (from obvious to inventive) for connecting wireless devices to the internet
* Tributaries - designing a scalable architecture for amalgamating IoT data flows into your data lake. Covers recommended API and message-bus architectures.
* Management and visualisation - how to characterise and address IoT devices in ways that scale to continental populations. Examples of large scale installations to which I've contributed. Coping with information overload.

The Internet of Things is undeniably here. In the last year we have heard tell of of security cameras, dishwashers and even ovens roaming the internet unsupervised.

As a consultant and writer about the Internet of Things, I have worked to bring my experience from 20 years in manufacturing and internet security to the IoT world. This presentation will cover the tools and techniques I use to build secure, reliable and rapidly updatable IoT devices.

The techniques covered are applicable to both the simplest embedded devices with no general-purpose OS, and more powerful devices running Linux or Windows.