using watson to build cognitive iot apps on bluemix

Using Watson to Build

IoT Apps on Bluemix

Watson’s address is Bluemix.net

http://www.bluemix.net

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Speakers

Greg Knowles

Product Manager, Smarter Infrastructure

@gtkwahoo

Swami Chandrasekaran

Executive Architect, Watson Innovations

@SwamiChandra

Swami’s Blog

Nathan Vega (Moderator)

Developer Engagement, IBM Bluemix

@IBMBluemix

http://www.nirvacana.com/


Internet of Things

Greg Knowles, IBM Software Group

Product Management & Strategy, Internet of Things

[email protected]

@gtkwahoo

mailto:[email protected]


9 billion devices around the world are currently

connected to the Internet

The number of connected devices is expected to increase dramatically within the next decade, including many new types of connected devices, with

estimates ranging from 50 Billion devices to

1 trillion

The Internet of Things has the potential to create

economic value of $2.7 trillion to $6.2 trillion annually by 2025

Source: Disruptive Technologies, McKinsey Global Institute, May 2013

The Internet of Things is here, and growing


Extend the value of goods and services

• Lock/Unlock/Find your car

• Tell me when the wash cycle is done

Monetize through new business models

• Ad-hoc car hire & sharing (e.g. Uber, Car2Go)

• Pay-as-you-drive insurance

Optimize by understanding behaviour and anticipating actions

• Appliance manufacturer understanding customer behaviour

• Improved product support & maintenance

• Smarter Supply Chain

Control and automate remote behaviour

• Home automation / remote control

• Energy Demand Management

• Smarter Cities

• Manufacturing

Key areas• Automotive• Consumer products• Energy and Utilities• Government• Healthcare• Home Automation• Insurance• Manufacturing• Transport• Oil and Gas

What is IoT being used for today?


The Internet of Things is an integrated fabric of devices,

data, connections, processes and people

The Internet of Things is based on a careful balance between both the Internet

and the things within it—locally and globally, in the design lab and on the

assembly line, whether in buildings, on roads, and in our very own pockets.

I invent.

I operate.

IBM can help you design, operate and manage the things you deliver for

optimized performance. We can help you mitigate warranty costs,

minimize product recalls and gain new insight into customer use

patterns that will empower entirely new levels of product and service

innovation.

IBM can help you bring things together from multiple vendors across

heterogeneous environments, optimizing the whole to deliver greater

than the sum of its parts. We deliver the insights that enable you to

reduce utility costs, optimize compliance and exceed customer

expectations. And offer exceptional levels of privacy and security.


IoT solution patterns span the device lifecycle

Design & Engineer

OperateManage

• Develop connected products• Testing and requirements

verification• Analyze operations & maintenance

data to improve designs

• Integrate across heterogeneous devices

• Optimize processes for business outcomes

• Predict quality issues• Analyze heterogeneous

fleets

• Monitor device health• Predict failures• Manage and maintain

devices• Analyze warranty &

support data


IoT solution patterns span the device lifecycle

Design & Engineer

OperateManage

• Develop connected products• Testing and requirements

verification• Analyze operations & maintenance

data to improve designs

• Integrate across heterogeneous devices

• Optimize processes for business outcomes

• Predict quality issues• Analyze heterogeneous

fleets

• Monitor device health• Predict failures• Manage and maintain

devices• Analyze warranty &

support data

Inventors

Operators


Internet of Things Foundation

Connect

Collect

Manage

Simple APIs

Assemble

BuildReal Time MQTTREST

IBM® Bluemix™

A fully managed, cloud-hosted service that makes it simple to Internet of

Things (IoT) solutions

https://bluemix.net/

https://bluemix.net/


IoT Foundation is part of Bluemix…and a Composable Business

IoT Foundation

IoT-related Bluemix services

Secure Device Registration, Scalable Device Connectivity, Historian, Visual wiring

Rules, Push, Geo location, Analytics, Asset management, Predictive Maintenance…

Devices & Gateways

REST APIs

IoT end-end solutions

REST APIs

Connected appliance solutions, Smarter home solutions…

Realtime MQTT APIs


Getting started

https://internetofthings.ibmcloud.com/#/

https://developer.ibm.com/iot/

https://internetofthings.ibmcloud.com/#/

https://developer.ibm.com/iot/


Examples of applying Watson Cognitive

Services in IOT Applications


Executive Architect - CTO Office

IBM Watson Innovations

[email protected]

@swamichandra



Anatomy of an IoT Solution / Application - Setting Context

Devices / Sensors

Network

Connectivity Management

Data Ingestion & Streaming Analytics

Data at Rest Analytics

Cognitive Services

Applications

Platform &

Services

Connectivity

& Devices

Systems Integration

✔

Makers of Things

Providers of

Connectivity

Users of Things

Platform,

Services,

IoT Cloud

Wizard’s

stitching the

perfect

Composable

Apps


Until now, access to Watson services has been limited. Today,

the barriers are gone…What will you do with Watson?


User Modeling

Data

Big Data & AnalyticsAnalytics Exploration

CurationLocal Data Sources

Curation

PolicyDecisionEngagementDiscovery Partner-created

IBM Watson Services on Bluemix

Language Identification

Machine Translation

Concept Expansion

Message Resonance

Question/Answer

Relationship Extraction

Visualization Rendering

Cloud Data Sources

Watson Developer Cloud Services are the basis for Watson

Solutions


8 services are available today with more on the way

User Modeling

Personality profiling to help engage users on their own terms.

Language Identification

Identifies the language in which text is written

Machine Translation

Globalize on the fly. Translate text from one language to another.

Concept Expansion

Maps euphemisms or colloquial terms to more commonly understood phrases

Message Resonance

Communicate with people with a style and words that suits them

Question Answer

Direct responses to users inquiries fueled by primary document sources

Relationship Extraction

Intelligently finds relationships between sentences components (nouns, verbs, subjects, objects, etc.)

Visualization Rendering

Graphical representations of data analysis for easier understanding


Meet Rosy

• Recently purchased and installed a

smarter thermostat

• Very savvy smart phone user

• She has a question about restricting

only authorized users to be able to

configure & access the thermostat

• Has a smart phone app that allows

her to pose questions in natural

language and have a

conversational dialogCorpusProduct

Manuals

Q&A Dialog

Interact

using NL

Integrate via API

I need to restrict the access to modify certain capabilities in the thermostat. How can set it up?


Meet Zhang

• Remotely monitored patient

• Can use an app to interact with his healthcare providers

• English not first language

• Need for understanding nuances in his less than formal communications

• Concept Expansion service returns a ranked list of contextually similar terms

• Learned from the provided 'seed list' against the Zhang’s interaction history

Seed ListInteraction

History

Concept Expansion

Interact

using NL

informally

Integrate via API


Demo – User Modeled Radio


Executive Architect - CTO Office

IBM Watson Innovations

[email protected]

@swamichandra



What is Watson User Modeling?

• Use linguistic analytics to extract personality and social traits, including

Big 5, Values, and Needs, from the way that a person communicates.

• Analyze any digital footprint that the user makes available, such as

email, text messages, tweets, forum posts, and more.

• Leverage cognitive and social characteristics with their corresponding

percentile values as the basis for analyzing personality and social traits.

• Can be used anywhere improving customer engagement for an

organization differentiate itself and also drive personality-driven

engagements (offers, recommendations etc.)


Consider this Scenario for a moment….

• Meet John Smith

• Very vocal person and

maintains a strong digital

presence

• Has a long day at work !!

• Tweets with certain emotions

and walks to his car

2. Walk to Car

1. Tweets before

leaving work


What if John Smith’s Connected Car app understood

him at a deeper level including the current state of his

personality?


Now reconsider this Scenario again ….

• Meet John Smith

• Very vocal person and maintains a strong digital

presence

• Has a long day at work !!

• Tweets with certain emotions and walks to his car

• The Connected Car app in his car has done a

psychographic analysis of his tweets using Watson

User Modeling

• User Modeling service provides the Big 5, Values,

and Needs characteristics & associated values

• Connected Car app recommends or auto-tunes to

track / radio channel that would be appropriate

• Could potentially suggest the app other car settings

incl seat adjustment, air conditioning, max speed

limit *

User Modeling

Share Location &

Context

Walk to Car

Prediction

Past

Interactions

Recommended

Infotainment


IBM

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Drivers Connected Car App

Responsive Front-end (View)(HTML5, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery)

Node.js (Controller)(HTML5, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery)

Express

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Deploy &

Manage Code

RESTful

RESTful Communication

User Modeling (driver’s

psychographic model)

Twitter API8tracks Fetch driver

Tweets

Tweets

Search for

radio stationsAngularJS Template AngularJS Controller

Architecture of the User Modeled Radio App


User Modeled Radio – Connected Car App


User Modeled Radio – Connected Car App

Radio tracks / station from 8tracks played

based on User Modeling

characteristics

Extracted Tweets from the driver

Watson User Modeling

characteristics & values

Explanation for why the track / station was selected from 8tracks


Visual depiction of the flow **

** Not implemented in Node-RED. Meant to convey the concept.


Get hands on fast!

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• Try the Watson services free of charge for 30 days

• Take the next step toward further development or production deployment


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IBM Watson

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