Powering Smart Homes at Scale - Challenges and Architecture for IoT Cloud Systems

Explore the challenges and architectural considerations for building a highly secure, responsive, and scalable IoT cloud connecting over a million smart homes in this comprehensive talk. Dive deep into user expectations for modern smart homes and learn how Lutron Electronics designs their platform to deliver exceptionally low latencies. Discover Lutron's approach to cloud architecture for performance, security, data privacy, and system stability through a 100% infrastructure as code approach. Gain insights into key architectural drivers, securing connections, performance benchmarks, and the impact of commercial projects on smart home systems. Examine major technologies used, including AWS, Kubernetes, OpenAPI, and AWS CDK, for efficient scaling and deployment. Understand how to architect an IoT cloud that powers smart homes at scale while meeting user demands for security, responsiveness, and reliability.

Intro
About Lutron
The Problem
What Do People Want Out of a "Smart" Lighting Control System?
A Basic Systems Architecture
What's "in" an IoT Cloud Anyway?
Key Architectural Drivers
Securing our Connections
Performance: What is Good Enough?
What Type of Impact Do Commercial Projects Have?
So What's the Architectural Impact?
Major Technologies
Efficient Scale: AWS & Kubernetes
Kubernetes Cluster Deployment in AWS EK
OpenAPI: A Specification Language for API
Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK
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