 We have our speaker here with us, who will be taking us through that, actually he is a digital, smart, young developer, yes, and yes, from Nigeria, so let's put our hands together so we'll welcome Godwin Ojebi. Welcome. Hi everybody. Thank you very much for having me. By the way my friend over here dragged me here. She was like, I don't really go out to speak much but I talked about this at Wadcamp Lagos earlier this year and she was like there's a Wadcamp in Mombasa this year and I'm like okay let's take the version 2 of the talk down there. So I'm going to be talking about WordPress on the Internet of Things and my name is Godwin Ojebi. You can reach me on Twitter there but he shows the faceless man as the name. He said something about it yesterday. So I don't know, should I call myself a developer and engineer? I don't know. I'm just angry for knowledge. That's the thing. I am like a nomad and I lead the software development team for FTR, Canada. I lead the IOIT team and web engineering team for industrial matrix in Canada and I do WordPress consulting for BPD accessories in Trinidad and Tobago. I just love this thing, like anything that has to do with code. I'm like all into it. So let's get into WordPress on the Internet of Things. The first thing I'm going to talk about is the things I'm going to be talking about. The Internet of Things, using WordPress with the Internet of Things and our building IoT product. In the first one we're going to demystify IoT and then the second one we're going to talk about using WordPress or building smart stuffs with WordPress and IoT. And the third one we're going to talk about building IoT products for investors, developers, what you should invest in, why you should invest in it. IoT is new in Africa. It's not like we don't have companies that build many of these stuffs. The people would use them, import them and all those things. So I think it's the right time for us to get into it because imagine you have the knowledge to build these things. Imagine you invest yourself into it and you know how to do it. Many people live here and work in other countries. We're in the digital age. It's getting here little by little and you don't have to be at a place, you don't have to have a skill, you don't have to 100%, you don't have to look at a skill that is valuable at your location. You can get something that people will pay for for you to do remotely. So the next thing is Internet of Things. This time Internet of Things was coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999. He thought about it like okay we're trying to connect things, we're trying to make things get connected together. Chias, when people ask me how did you get into Internet of Things or how did you stumble upon this stuff, I tell them okay. There was a day I went out and then somebody was calling me trying to know where I was and my phone went off. And then I stood up from the chair, I was seated on and I sat on another one and then I thought okay. What if this chair can actually tell somebody that okay he just got here and he just sat here. It's weird right, but it's possible. Everything is connected to the Internet now, everything. So Internet of Things is actually like an ecosystem where sensors, devices, equipment are connected to the network. It's very simple. Don't look at the complex definitions. It's just connecting things to the Internet. Tables are connected to the Internet, houses are connected to the Internet, cars are connected to the Internet, and chairs are connected to the Internet. Anything. Things connected together to the Internet. I think I saw that there are a lot of network professionals here and networking students. You're familiar with TCPIP right? So every device connected to the Internet has an IP address for recognizing or knowing what the device is. It shows a lot of data about the device. So with the use of that, that's how this thing is possible. As you can see in the picture, we have bulbs that are connected to the Internet. We have TV, we have phone, we have almost everything connected to the Internet. And this is like very huge right now. We have a lot of people that this is their life's work. They are dedicated to making things that are smart, they are dedicated to making things that are connected. Now there are disadvantages and advantages and we're going to get there. But these are places, these are the manifestations of IoT. We have the smart city, industrial application, connected mobility, smart home, entertainment, variables and then the health and fitness. There are devices that you can just maybe like just wear a watch and the watch checks what's wrong with you or the watch monitors you and reports to an app. Many people have seen something like that before, heard about something like that right? So Internet of Things is something I think it's a very huge idea. It's something that the potentials are limitless. The things that can happen, the better things that this thing can bring to our life, you cannot limit it. So first of all, I'm going to talk about predictions, focus on market estimates. So this is the first slide. This stuff started in 1999, it started way before 1999, but someone put a name to it in 1999. And then this is a forecast that the global IoT market will grow from $157 billion in 2016 to $457 billion by 2020. The good thing is right now we all have a way of staying in a location and doing something for people in different locations. So it doesn't have to be, you don't have to say it's not here yet, I don't have to know about it, I don't have to look at it or stuff like that. You just take a look, it is really taking over. A lot of people were like, IoT is dangerous because when things that are close to me are connected, my data is out there and all those things but we're going to get back to the data part and then you see that every technology that has ever been invented or everything that has ever been created has security loopholes that are many and then over time some people worked on it to make sure that the loopholes are reduced and I used to tell people something, don't ever think you can stop hackers. No, just think you can protect yourself from them. So the next thing is the hardware and the software and the services, it will generate this much revenue and if you look at this statistics, they are not fake, they are true. This industry is going to grow hugely. If you see a very vital industry globally, if you can't get in, the industries are very well connected to this. I met a data scientist here today and she is very awesome. She would be able to connect to this. All the data that I got in from here, that's what they do, that's what they manage. And my friends say the new oil or the new gold is data. People make money with data. Data comes from here. Imagine you have a car that is smart connected to the internet and then this car is definitely going to know your house. It's going to know where you work. It's going to know where you eat. This car probably knows everything about you. That is data. So the next thing we're going to talk about benefits. The first one is automation and control. It helps us automate things like so much. I was talking to somebody about something last week. I was talking about a smart diaper that you wear for your kids. Don't worry, I'm still going to talk about it by the end. I'm going to use it as a case study for investing and building these stuffs. The thing is kids are so hard to manage or control or something because they're just growing. So what if you wear them a diaper and then you have it up that tells you your kid is awake, your kid is crying, your kid is moving. That means your kid doesn't have to get lost. So there are products like that and then you discover that it helps you. That's a basic example for automation and control. You'll be able to automate simple tasks. Now people don't have to... It's going to get here, it's going to get popular. People don't have to really go to the hospital to do medical checkup. The thing is the reason why people don't really talk about stuffs like this in Africa much is because the audience feel people won't use this thing if you do them here and all those things. But come to think of it, who says you have to build for here right now? So the next thing is time. IOT saves time. Just like we're talking about not having to go to the hospital for medical checkup. You can be in your house or in your office and then you get diagnosed. If anything is wrong then you go see the doctor. But just that if you have a serious illness, the advancement has not gotten to that like that stage. It's still evolving, it's still growing big like that. Then the next thing is information. When we get the data and we process it, you see kids in this area wake up by 2am. Why? Many kids in this area pee 7 times a day but why? We get information from the data that we get from them. Then the next thing is money. You make money with data. You make money with anything that is new, anything that is like an IOT is like... How many of us here are developers? Let me pay a scenario. When you first start a web development, people will look at you like, you're a god right? They will be like, what are you doing? It looks like it's a very big deal and it's something that is very hard and only you can do it. And they're going to pay hugely for that. That's the truth right? But with time when there are more developers and they see that this thing is becoming common, the price starts reducing. Right now in Africa if you have an IOT idea or build an IOT product or maybe walk with people in the IOT stuff or come up with something, people won't use it, it will be there and then with time these people get to adopt it. We are Africans, we move to things like we move from something to another thing. Once we start hearing about stuff, we want to try it, when we like it, we keep it. So I feel me for me, I don't know, it may not work everywhere. But for me if I'm trying to make a product to be used in Africa or anything, a software or anything, I don't think of now, I think of the future. But to do something like that it has to be a product that you don't have to spend hugely on. Because in this continent I don't think there's no room for companies to run on negative balance and all those things. So you have to do something that you don't have to spend much on so that you don't go bankrupt. Then better quality of life, IOT help us like live a good life. Then the next thing is the risks. Now the data is much, very, very much. And the bad guys are looking for data. So you have to just be able to secure the data. But the good news is that ethical workers are evolving everyday. These guys as vulnerabilities are coming out, as security issues are coming out, these guys are trying to fix it. Like everyday. These guys are learning everyday, these guys are working everyday. So if you're scared with the data security stuff, all you have to do is maybe try to get into it, see what's happening. Nothing is really easy until you just like maybe look into it and try to see how it's done. That's the thing. Then the second thing is privacy issues, that's very important. Privacy part is very important because like I said earlier, if you have a car that is smart in your house, drives you to walk, drives you everywhere or you have a smart bed. How many of us are aware of smart beds? Okay. I don't have... Oh, that should be on my laptop. Okay. Well, these beds knows when you sleep, they know how to make you sleep on time. You should gogudem. I don't know who thought about that idea, it's a very funny stuff. So there are these beds that when you try to adjust your body, they try to condition the bed so that you don't wake up. And then someone made one for babies. That one is very expensive actually, but gogudem gives it as a gift to their employees in U.S. I think. Okay, so when your baby is crying and you put the baby on bed, it's like kudus the baby, like shakes the baby to you. The baby keeps quiet and then she sleeps. I was supposed to have a video on my... I don't know, maybe when we get to the last night. So then that kind of device actually knows your baby. He knows everything about your baby. That's the thing. So the privacy is on the balance. You should not allow that data to get out of your network because people can use it against you. Then the next thing is the complexity. IoT is a complex stuff. And if something has maybe 18 processes, imagine you try to achieve something. You try to do something and all you have to do is just two things to achieve it. Now you know that the only thing you have to do is secure those two things so that nobody else can get through to those things and use that to actually disturb what you're trying to do. But imagine you have 18, 20 processes. There are plenty loopholes, plenty things that people can get through to you from. Then the next one is the diversity of niche providers. It's just like where we have the manifestation, we have the industrial internet of things. Now everybody is saying the internet of babies, everybody is saying the internet of... There are plenty niche for this thing. Some people are doing smart homes, some people are building smart devices for the health, some people are doing smart devices for the industrial sector. And then confusion on where to get value. We're all doing... Somehow everything we do, we may do them because of passion, but somehow the end result is either getting something out of it, making money. We all want to make money with what we do. How many of us know about SpaceX Elon Musk's company? It was doing this stuff because of passion, but right now they're saying we have to make money. People do this stuff because of passion, but in the end they somehow think about it. Somehow I have to find a way of making money with this thing. So if you cannot pinpoint that at five years into this thing, I'm going to be able to get return on investment, the ROI, then why do it? So these are the challenges, these are the things that people think about before getting into this thing, but the thing is it is possible to actually overcome these things. And I'm not saying that you have to do IoT on a large scale, we're just talking about what you can achieve with it, things you can do with it. Now we're going to get to using it with WordPress. The things people have done with WordPress and IoT, how IoT can help you in WordPress. So you can just break it down to three components. The power component, the input, and then the output. That's all. There's the input, there's the output, and then there's something that powers it. So they made a chip for the three main components. I'm not going to be going too deep into a little bit also. Then the next thing is this was sample projects that were submitted to little bits. Just check out the sites, you see all these ones. The good thing is they have a WordPress plugin. If you know how to use WordPress, you can download it, experiment with it, see how it works. And you can buy the stuffs and have them shipped over. Then my personal favorite is, okay, that's the site. That's where you can see everything about them. My own personal favorite is Particle. It was formerly known as PAC. And it's a platform for connecting IoT devices to the web. And they have everything, the SDKs, the IDs, the ability to connect via Wi-Fi or cellular network because it's not every device that can connect via cellular and it's not every device that can connect via Wi-Fi because it's not like you can't make them to do it, but everything you build or everything you see, some people sat down to think about how it affects the human being. Let's say you're making a smart, let me say, okay, I saw something in a movie. I don't know if it will ever be possible, but imagine you have a smart shed that you can just change it on color. So I don't have to wear more than one shed in developers. We know how hard it is to dress up. Seriously, it is very hard. So imagine I have a shed that can change it on color and change it from maybe round neck to v-neck. So I saw that in a movie under, something like that, if it's going to be connected to anything, it cannot use cellular or Wi-Fi or raise or radiation. That's why they say don't put your phone here or don't put your phone in your back pocket, like radiation gives back cancer. So you have to think of what is the proper approach. Many people, many of the smart things that are out there for babies, they don't do long term tracking, they only do Bluetooth, then in the house you get to report, but it is possible to suppress this radiation, but I don't know why many companies are not trying to research into it. By the way, I'm actually working on a smart diaper currently. I'll show you. Okay, so particle, this is my personal favorite. This is very awesome. They have adwares, they handle connectivity, they have a cloud, and then there are apps, you can build your apps there, almost everything. They have everything, all the connectivity modules, Wi-Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, Mesh, everything. Then they say this is their devices. I think the common one is the Raspberry Pi. What is missing in this thing? What can I add to this? IoT is a very huge thing. Building a smart product is very huge, very challenging. I want to make a night that switches on when you need the most power. It's definitely need a motion sensor, right? So make a bulb, make a motion sensor, sorry, buy a motion sensor, connect that together, let's say that's one device, all it does is just lights up when people walk by, and then you test it, it works. But do you know that that bulb collects a data? Anybody can guess what that is? It knows when you walk by that place every day. That's data. The bulb knows that you're going to be in that place. It knows when you've been in that place. It knows when you have been there. And you can use that data for something else. Like, okay, if this bulb knows when I'm here, why don't I tell this bulb that, okay, every time I pass here, I am going to make coffee. Tell my espresso maker that I am coming. So you say, think about that, and then from that you then say, okay, since that is working, what else can I add to this thing? Think like that, like that, like that. And give it like five years of thinking about a product. That's how great products are made. People keep thinking like, what can we add to this thing to improve? How do we make it great? How do we make it do more? And then the more things you add, the more the value that adds to the society and the more money you make. I don't like talking about making money, but that fact is there. We can't deny it. So the more money you make, the bigger the product is, the bigger the company is. So you build from scratch, small, or the second approach is use somebody else's product. Like, I'm not saying still a product or reverse engineering product. No. Look at somebody else's idea that is solving a problem. And be like, okay, there's a better way to solve this problem. There's a way that makes people's life better. Just like what he did, he saw that people are charging too much for stuffs and he made something that will solve the problem for free. It's the same thing. When you now look at an idea, this thing is connecting via Bluetooth. It's not so close to people. Why not use cellular? Why not use Wi-Fi? Currently, how many of us here knows about the, like do we have business people here? How about the industrial models industry? Like stuffs that are used in factories. Oh, okay. You do, right? Okay, so right now, I'm working on a smart chip that you put on these devices. That's what I'm doing for industrial matrix in Canada. You put on these factory models and then anywhere you are in the world, they can tell you if the temperature is too hot, if anything is wrong in your factory, you don't have to do manual inspection. These things do these things and they report to you. You know when the temperature is too much, you have to replace the pot. You know when this thing happens, you have to do this. So that's just it. Now, when you look at something like that, you feel like, okay, what is this thing doing? Is there any other thing that this thing can do to help people reduce their stress or to help people reduce how much work they do? Because in that sector, I think people do a lot of hard work. So we're trying to get people to, okay, yeah, you work definitely, but your work has to reduce because people, we focus more on work. But why? We have to have them for families, have them for ourselves. So we're trying to create a way for people to work and at the same time, still have time and energy to do other normal stuff. Then for business people, when you see a product and then you're like, okay, this thing is not working where I am, but it is very viable. People will need it. Somebody was trying to pitch smart houses to me and I was like, no. Do you know why? Because, okay, let me say it, I don't like the connectivity model in the one they are trying to pitch to me. Because smart houses are cool. We will definitely get there. But something someone told me is you've heard of smart cities. People have thought about smart cities when everybody doesn't even have smart houses yet. But some people are already thinking we have to be there when it's the time. So that's the thing. That's how you have to, to invest in anything actually, that's what you have to think. This thing is going to come. But how do I get ahead of it? How do I stay there? The last thing is the smart diaper. Okay, this is not my product actually. But I'm showing this product because I don't like the design. So this is a overnight smart diaper and it's an advanced smart diaper because it uses Bluetooth and it reports directly to the app and the parents can see what is actually going on with the kid and everything like that. But it's for kids. Why does it have to be like this? That's the thing. So for developers and people interested in IoT this is one of the things that you need to look into. You need to take designs very serious. I know kids that will not wear this thing. You have to make it appealing. Okay, when this is the diaper it's like, oh it's here. And then you just wear it for the kid and then the kid is happy. Yeah, I have it. I don't have to wear anything else. And by the way, I like kids a lot actually. I currently have a lot of kids that are my friend. And then I'm supposed to have a haircut on some kids. Kids are very amazing. Somehow I think me or I don't know maybe everybody here or a large percentage of people here are like a victim of the system. The system is fanted or crazy. The system is messed up. You go to school, you learn, you work hard, you get first class, you do all those things. And then when you come out, you'll be like, okay, I want to get a job. You don't have what it takes. I mean, that's the thing. So when I see smart kids I try to like, okay, no don't be like that. You have to start learning something right now and then I train kids a lot. So spending time with kids actually made me realize that the mistake our parents did was okay, go to school, go do this. And that's why if they are done something like this like okay, you're going to school, go to school. But when you come back if you want to learn anything, start learning. I currently have five kids that are between the age of 14 and 15. One is 14 and a few months that it's Laravel for dinner. These guys are good, like very, very good. It took me two years to train them. So these guys are very, very good. Like very good.