Bringing the web to the IoT

Firefox OS

Mobile platforms, wearable devices, IoT

Valentin Goșu

about:me

Open Source enthusiast

C++ developer by day

Firefox OS hacker by night

http://google.com/+ValentinGosu

valentin@mozilla.ro

The web is great

The web is underused

The App Store

You are here!

Proudly non-profit

Firefox OS

Gaia (collection of web apps that make up the UI)

Gecko (JS Runtime, APIs for hardware access)

Gonk (Linux Kernel, Drivers, HAL)

WebAPI

Battery

Orientation

Vibration

Alarm

Notification

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI

Camera

SMS

Telephony

Bluetooth

Wifi

TcpSocket

Contacts

Storage

Apps

WebPayment

Tools - WebIDE

Apps

Normal/Web

Privileged

Certified

Firefox as a runtime for your apps

https://marketplace.firefox.com/

Kickstart your IoT project

1 - low cost

2 - easy development

Cost

Raspberry Pi - 35$

Wifi - 10$

Flash - 5$

Battery - 20$

Wires & Cables - 5$

Screen - 30$

3G?

Camera?

Bluetooth?

Speaker?

Sensors?

Cost

https://firefoxosdevices.org

25$

dual sim (GSM) ✓

bluetooth 4.0 ✓

Wi-Fi ✓

camera ✓

battery ✓

touchscreen ✓

Easy development

1 - Flash JanOS (Stripped down FirefoxOS)

2 - Buy a screwdriver

3 -

http://janos.io/ by Jan Jongboom

JanOS DEMO

- doorbell

- motion

- security camera

- GPS tracker

How easy is it?

var tel = navigator.mozTelephony;

// Place a call
tel.dial("123456789").then(function(call) {
  call.number;

  call.onconnected = function(e) {
    console.log('Your call to ' 
        + e.call.id + ' is connected.');
    // Play recorded message to customer
  }
});

How easy is it?

window.camera.takePicture('back').then(function(ev) {
  var blob = ev.blob;
  // Store blob in storage 
}

// WebRTC

navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
  function(position) {
  // position.coords.latitude
  // position.coords.longitude
});

var request = navigator.mozAlarms.add(
  new Date("June 21, 2015 16:20:00"));
navigator.mozSetMessageHandler("alarm", 
  function (mozAlarm) { alert("alarm fired"); });

Extra goodies

navigator.mozOs.exec('ls', [ '-al', '/data/local' ])
  .then(res => console.log('exec', res.exitCode, res.stdout, res.stderr))
  .catch(err => console.error('exec failed', err));

http://janos.io/api-reference/exec.html

navigator.mozOs.readFile('/data/local/user.js', 'utf-8')
  .then(content => console.log('readFile', content))
  .catch(err => console.error('readFile', err));

http://janos.io/api-reference/fs.html