Using open source for IoT

Editor's Notes

• #3: Eventhoughitmightseemcrazy,analystsagreetosaythatbillions ofdeviceswillbeconnectedby the end of 2020 ;perhapsaround50 billion 2
• #4: Hopefully it is not a too controversial statement that openness will always win over closed proprietary. This is especially true for technology that is expected to be broadly adopted. In fact the Internet was createdon open standards and open source software. There are enough cases studies and proof points that technology based on the principles of openness make it much easier and faster for technology to be adopted. It is the transactional costs of proprietary solutions, ex bi-lateral agreements, purchase costs, competitiveness that limit adoption of technology. 3
• #5: There are lots of examples. Does anyone believe the Internet would be as successful as it is today if Tim Berners-Lee has created a Silicon Valley start-up company to commercialize what he called the www. There were already many successful online communities, AOL andCompuserve, that were widely used. The WWW changed everything since anyone could participate and create something without asking for permissions or negotiating an agreement withCompuserveor AOL. 4
• #6: In fact, the Internet is now run on open source software and open standards. Proprietary solutions still exist but it is clear who won. 5
• #8: Today M2M is not openand I don’t see much of a developer community. 7
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• #10: Lots of proprietarysilos. Proprietary SDKS, proprietary protocols, proprietary solutions 9
• #12: Therehas been a very important trend in the last 5-10 years that can’t be ignored in any technology industry and that is the importance of developers. Gone are the days of the top-down sales and procurement approach to technology distribution. Developers have become incredibly important in determining the success of new technology. If a technology is embraced by a large developer community the adoption of the technology will increase. A recent book by Stephen O’Grady documents the rise of the importance of the developer. His point is that developer are certainly the New Kingmakers for technology adoption. 11
• #13: A developer community will do a number of things for the technology: Increase the usefulness of the technology through add-ons, applications, and information resources. Source of innovation of how the technology can be used and applied. 12
• #15: Animportant issue with IoT is the complexity of creating an IoT solution. There are a lot of pieces for to an IoT solution that need to be put together. 14
• #16: Infact the complexity can be viewed from the typical IoT architecture. 1) you have to deal with different types of devices that may have different hardware platforms, operating systems, software stacks. 2) these devices typically connect to some type of IoT gateway that is responsible for managing the devices and connecting them to the Internet, 3) the gateways and some devices will need to have some type of network connectivity, eitherWifi, mobile, satellite, and 4) the IoT application needs to integrate with the existing enterprise and backend system, ex. Databases, CRM, ERP, etc. 15
• #17: A key aspect of IoT is connecting devices, sensors, actuatorsto the Internet. These devices range fromwearables, toairplances, to home, factories, etc. 16
• #18: In fact, a key aspect is thatthe devices might be brand new or existing. For instance, connectingwearablesor wind farm technology presents a set of issues that might be different than upgrading an existing factory floor or a building to IoT. 17
• #19: To simplify thecreation of these solutions we believe the industry will required some core building blocks that create an abstraction layer to reduce the complexity. Similar the start of the WWW, lots of people would create their own http server but now there are a few open source http servers that people use instead. Eclipse IoT and the Open IoT Stack for Java developers will be these set of core building blocks. 18
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• #21: A key part forthe success of IoT will be to have a set of core open standards. MQTT,CoAP, LWM2M are some of these standards that will make it possible to connect different types of devices. Eclipse has open source implementations to these IoT standards. 20
• #22: Eclipse IoTprovides implementation to the MQTT protocol. EclipsePahois a set of MQTT client libraries andMosquittois a MQTT broker. 21
• #23: Eclipse Californiumimplements theCoAPprotocol, including DTLS and some testing tools. 22
• #24: The OMA Lightweight M2M providesa standard for device management. It is based onCoAP. Eclipse IoT has a client implementation inWakaamaand can connect to the open source server calledLeshan. 23
• #25: In addition to open standardsto connect devices, creating IoT Gateways is an important piece to connect and manage IoT solutions. Eclipse IoT provides two sets of services for building IoT Gateways: 1) Eclipse Kura, for Java applications and 2) Mihini, forLuabased solutions. 24
• #26: Two key issues with building IoT gatewaysare 1) how to manage them remotely and the connectivity they require and 2)hwoto manage the applications that are deployed on the gateway. 25
• #27: Eclipse Kura provides a set of Java andOSGiservices that allow you to build IoT gateways. 26
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