Distributed Control:Echelon’s view of the Internet of Things
Distributed control in the “Internet of Things”
Bellagio Fountain
Network stack requirements

Distributed control in the “Internet of Things”

Types of “real time” in communications Normal Internet communications Moving files, exchanging text, in a static network Human time scales, nobody dies if something is late Space: Command/Telemetry Constant feedback, occasional configuration changes Remote object time scales, nobody dies if something is late Distributed Control – machine to machine Continuously changing variables to control the behavior of an application In some applications, people die, or are annoyed, or the purpose is not served if time scales of interest are not observed