DaCosta Francis - Rethinking the Internet of Things: a Scalable Approach to Connecting Everything

Rethinking the Internet of Things

A Scalable Approach to Connecting Everything

Francis daCosta

Rethinking the Internet of Things: A Scalable Approach to Connecting Everything

Francis daCosta

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To Gautama Buddha, whose teachings inspired me to explore a more nature based approach to edge networking as described in this book.

Contents at a Glance

Contents

About the Author

Francis daCosta founded and acted as CTO for MeshDynamics (wireless mesh networking), Advanced Cybernetics Group (embedded software for robot control systems and other mission-critical military applications), and Knowmadic (web-based big data extraction). Previously, he served as an adviser to the United States Air Force Robotics and Automation Center of Excellence (RACE). He also held senior technical positions at MITRE, Northrop Grumman, Ingersoll-Rand, and Xerox. His entrepreneurial projects have also included autonomous robotic systems and adaptive process controllers.

Mr. daCosta has a MS from Stanford University and a BS from the Indian Institute of Technology, along with post-graduate work in artificial intelligence at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently involved in a stealth-mode Internet of Things start-up and has authored or co-authored 15 patents incorporating a variety of technology innovations including adaptive control, self-healing mesh networks, sensor fusion, machine learning, distributed control, and automatic robot programming. His intellectual interests include machine intelligence, subsumption architectures, emergence, and consilience.

About the Project Manager

Byron Henderson has been working in data communications and networking for thirty years in a variety of marketing, product management, sales, and general management roles. Companies have included MeshDynamics, Cisco Systems, Stratacom, Fibermux (later ADC Telecommunications), MICOM Systems (later Nortel Networks), and ComDesign (later Network Equipment Technologies). His areas of technology focus have included wireless networking, voice-over-IP, routing and switching, security, and more. Before discovering that communications offered a better career path than crustaceans, he studied aquatic biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

About the Technical Reviewer

John Aiken took his BSEE at Cornell University. He worked in silicon fabrication process engineering in implant, diffusion and thin films for several chip companies. John moved into development, as a founder of one of the first companies providing low cost, high performance satellite television receivers to the consumer market. He developed high reliability power avionics for the defense and space sectors, designed broadcast video-graphics systems and managed development of pioneering graphics supercomputers for space shuttle flight simulation at NASA Johnson Space Center. Working at Lockheed Martin, John provided software and systems engineering expertise in the communications, navigation and training markets. He developed protocols for networked simulation and performed operations planning for the Air Force Satellite Control Network. At Intel, John managed development of software for server applications and developed specifications for open communications systems.