LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China 2018

In response to the China’s 19th Congress, it proposed to “strengthen the construction of manufacturing powers, accelerate the development of advanced manufacturing industries, and promote the integration of the Internet, big data and artificial intelligence, with the real economy.” Many domestic companies are looking for their own path of digital transformation. In the past few years, with the help of the open source platform Cloud Foundry, many Fortune 500 companies have achieved big success in the IoT field. This lecture through case sharing, hoping to work with the domestic open source community to explore how to build China’s road of IoT.

Linuxkit is a toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers. But currently Linuxkit is built based on mainline linux. So it just provide such the soft real time implementation. In many use cases like IoT, even some time-sensitive tasks in the cloud, we really need to meet hard real time requirement. Preempt-RT Linux patch can convert mainline Linux to be preempt-able. Here we will review together how we can integrate Preempt-RT Linux patches to make sure Linuxkit can build out Real Time Linux for container. This can help us deploy different Linux/Docker onto the resource constrained IoT Gateway. In addition, I hope we can discuss if-how we can tune Real Time Configuration in the case of Docker.

The IoT is a system of physical objects connected to the Internet that can be discovered and interacted with. What IoT was supposed to be. Instead what we have is
- Vertical stacks
- Don’t talk to each other
- Per-vendor integrations

Like the Internet before the world wide web with competing for hypertext systems and proprietary GUIs from AOL and CompuServe

In this talk, we take a step back and apply lessons learned from the World Wide Web to the IOT. WoT is not another vertical IoT technology stack to compete with existing platforms
It is a unifying horizontal layer to bridge together underlying IoT protocols.

In this talk, I introduce you to Mozilla “Project Things”, with the goal of building a decentralized ‘Internet of Things’ that is focused on security, privacy, and interoperability.

Modern microcontrollers offer mechanisms to protect memory regions from being inadvertently accessed, either by programmer error or by malice. Until recently, Zephyr was not making use of it. This talk will present the work performed to retrofit memory protection in the Zephyr kernel, discussing the constraints, design decisions (affecting portability, security, and performance), its current state, and the next steps. We will discuss details on a novel method of tracking and validating kernel objects, techniques for defining system calls with a minimal amount of boilerplate code, details on our APIs for managing memory permissions, and details on the implementation of the protection feature for the ARC architecture.

As China largest home appliance maker, Haier is building its world's largest mass customized solution platform (Cosmoplat) and Cosmoplat was named as first national-class industrial internet platform approved by the National Development and Reform Commission.

To build a national wide large-scale system, Cosmoplat embraced various cutting-edge open source technologies like container/devops/microservice to provide all kinds of capabilities including: fast cloud native app development and whole life-cycle management, industrial middleware, services like big data analytics/IoT/blockchain/AI, etc...

In this session, Hongbing from DaoCloud and Bin from Haier will give a detailed introduction and tech deep dive about Cosmoplat, and address how to design and use open-source technologies together with our optimization and thinkings in the process of building Cosmoplat.

Huawei LiteOS is an open source RTOS for IoT field. It is an IoT software stack with key capabilities such as lightweight, low power, fast startup, smart connectivity and security management. In this talk, we will introduce IoT operating system in Low Power Wide Area (LPWA), talk about the problems in this field and how we solve them with Huawei LiteOS and the technical ecosystem, industrial partners and developer community around it, such as NB-IoT solution and the APIs which offer low-power secure connectivity and access to IoT platforms (including Huawei and other IoT platforms) for terminal device vendors and developers. We also will use some real cases among meter reading, parking, street lighting, bicycle sharing and logistics to introduce. Finally, we will present our developer program for IoT and make the IoT + NB-IoT ecosystem smarter and more prosperous.

Huawei LiteOS 是一个面向物联网领域的开源实时操作系统。LiteOS 的关键特性是轻量级、低功耗、快速启动、智能传感和安全管理。本演讲中会介绍针对 LPWA 领域的物联网操作系统中所面对的问题以及如何通过 Huawei LiteOS 及其技术生态、行业伙伴及开发者社区的建设来解决，包含 NB-IoT 解决方案、LiteOS 提供的低功耗、安全连接能力和与物联网云平台的集成。本演讲也会选择实际商业落地案例来介绍不同场景下的应用情况。最后，我们将展示华为 IoT 开发者计划，让 IoT + NB-IoT 生态更加蓬勃发展。

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings up 50 billion devices until 2020, which have to be connected somehow. Challenges include low bandwidth, high latency, non-reliable connectivity and the need for low network costs. Therefore, a gateway is needed remotely on site of the devices to filter, aggregate and send just relevant data into the cloud or data center.

The session will talk about challenges in IoT architecture and will introduce project Flogo: A 100% open source framework, which allows developing ultra-lightweight IoT integration applications with a zero-coding web user interface or design chatbot.The session will also focus on the need for machine learning at the edge and how Flogo can help.

Lastly, the session will also cover how Project Flogo can be used to develop applications at the edge as well as deploy the same in a serverless environment.

The Zephyr OS is a small, scalable, open source RTOS designed for microcontroller class devices across multiple architectures, and includes networking, connectivity and security features necessary for IoT products. This talk will provide an introduction to the Zephyr Project, highlight key features, and share upcoming development plans, including our first LTS release.

Containers have changed how we develop, ship and manage software in the cloud. Now is time to take IoT to the next level. While building automated drone inspection solution, Erno faced the problem that current IoT device management tools are coming far behind comparing to nowadays cloud tools and best practices.

To make IoT development, shipping and management easy, he started a new open source project, called Eliot. It takes latest state-of-the-art container technology to the edge and provides Kubernetes like developer-friendly interface to make the device software management easy, fast and fun again!

Today’s connected devices are increasingly expected to support a range of hardware resources, operating systems, and software tools/applications. Virtualization is key to meeting these broad needs, however, existing solutions don’t offer the right size and flexibility for IoT. Data center hypervisor code is too big, doesn’t offer safety-critical capabilities, and requires too much overhead for embedded development. Proprietary solutions are expensive and make it difficult to deliver long-term product support. In this presentation, Yu Wang will introduce a flexible, lightweight reference hypervisor, built with real-time and safety-criticality in mind, optimized to streamline embedded development through an open source platform. Its name is ACRN which is a Linux Foundation project.

Flexibility and interoperability in the field of IoT software is a paramount objective.  The mix of platforms, “things”, applications, intelligence, etc. which are connected in an IoT deployment is extensive and ever growing.  How do you create a software platform that connects to a variety of old & new, greenfield and brownfield devices and sensors, allows the incorporation of various edge analytics, communicates to a diverse set of cloud and enterprise platforms like Azure IoT Hub, Google IoT Core, AWS IoT, etc.?  The solution, as exhibited in EdgeX Foundry (an open source, vendor neutral IoT platform hosted by the Linux Foundation), is to use a microservice architecture.  In this session, come learn about EdgeX Foundry, how it works, and see how its microservices architecture can help:

• Address the challenges of dealing with the IoT protocol soup (Modbus, BACnet, BLE, Zigbee, ZWave, MQTT, OPC-UA, etc.)
• Solve the issues of “your data model/format is not my model/format” when connecting the edge to applications in your enterprise
• Facilitate organizations in incorporating use case specific edge analytics or event processing
• Allow for the continual improvements and upgrades of various parts of the IoT solution without requiring a redo of the entire platform
• Allow for value additions into your IoT solution in order to allow return on investment
• Maximize the utilization of available resources, which tend to be more constrained at the edge
• Incorporate best of breed solutions for any part of the IoT solution that already exist or may exist in the future.

No software architecture is a silver bullet.  The presentation will also explore additional challenges (and lessons learned) that a microservices IoT architecture introduce and that must be addressed to include dealing with orchestration/deployment, security and additional communication latency.