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Introduction to the AllJoyn Gateway Agent
1. 2 June 2015 AllSeen Alliance 1
Introduction to
Gateway Agent
Art Lancaster
CTO, Affinegy
Chair, Gateway Agent Working Group
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1. Background
2. Gateway Working Group Overview
3. Gateway Agent Project
4. Gateway Agent Developer Information
5. Status And Future Plans
Topics
3. 3
This is going to look a lot like the
Internet in the sense that everything
depends on interoperability.
Seth Frader-Thompson, EnergyHub
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2925232/want-smarthome-devices-to-get-along-get-the-industry-to-do-it-first.html
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IOT Challenges to Privacy
• Ubiquitous data collection
• Unexpected uses of consumer data that could have
adverse consequences
• Heightened security risks
Speech of FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez; Privacy and the IoT: Navigating Policy Issues
International Consumer Electronics Show, January 6, 2015
Key Solutions
• Security by design
• Data minimization
• Notice and choice before information shared
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Gateway Working Group
• Mission: Provide standard and secure interfaces between AllJoyn
devices in a proximal network and other IOT protocols, external
networks, remote access and cloud services
• Current Projects
– Gateway Agent Project:
A standard, secure application to securely connect AllJoyn applications with external
networks and services.
– Analytics Connector Project:
Provides a common API for capturing events, state, and other information, to be
collected and transmitted outside the AllJoyn proximal network
– Device System Bridge Project:
Provides a bridge to connect external non-AllJoyn devices to the AllJoyn bus in a
proximal network (samples available for Z-wave and BACnet)
– Update Service Project:
Provides a standard and secure interface for remotely updating AllJoyn applications
(i.e. thin clients) via another connected AllJoyn node.
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Gateway Agent Project –
AllJoyn Meets Cloud / Managed Services
DVR: OK
playing
My Hawaii
vacation
movie
Car: OK Lights are
now OFF
TV: Fixing WiFi video
quality
TV: My WiFi video
picture is poor
Fix it?
Dryer:
Laundry is ready
72°
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Turn off the kitchen
lights,
Set away mode.
OK changing
to away modeDVR: play
my Hawaii
vacation
movie
Laundry is ready
BeFit: Congratulations
goal met!
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AllJoyn
Gateway Agent
Cloud / Managed
Services
AllJoyn local applications
AllJoyn remote applications
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AllJoyn Gateway Agent Application
• Software application ideal for an always on, connected
hardware device in the proximal network turning it into
an AllJoyn to remote services gateway
• Provides a standard and secure method for connecting
local AllJoyn devices and applications to external
services
– Works with any Internet connection
– Supports persistent remote connections without special firewall
or port settings
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Managed and Secure AllJoyn Remote
Routing Node
• Filters local AllJoyn traffic from remote traffic – only traffic
needed for the user’s cloud or remote services is passed
• Filters are configured by the Gateway Agent’s remote
Service Profiles – managed by the Gateway Agent Control
API
– Enhances the user’s privacy and security
– Enables managed service privacy policies
• Supports multiple independent cloud services in one device
with modular Connector plug-ins
• Supports other local protocols (6LowPAN, ZigBee, etc.)
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Consumer Mode Operation
• User self-manages
their AllJoyn
connections to external
services
• Services provisioned
via a mobile app with
the Gateway Control
App component
– Connector Plug-in
installed
– Service Profile
managed
• Consumer must be at
home when configuring
their cloud service
using Control App
BA
SP AppConnector
Plug-in
Gateway
Management
App
Config file policy enforcement
Client Lib.
AllJoyn
Devices
Control App
Remote App
AllJoyn Router
Cloud
Service
App Mgmt Interface
Platform based interaction
Client Lib.
Gateway Agent
Package
Manager
App install/upgrade/uninstall
Cloud<->Connector
protocol
App Install Interaction
Pkg Download
Server
Connector package download
Service profile
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XMPP Remote Connector
• An XMPP Cloud Services Connector plug-in for the Gateway Agent
supporting its APIs and service profiles
• Relays local AllJoyn messages, to/from a remote AllJoyn application
by wrapping these in XMPP sessions relayed via a standard XMPP
server cloud service
• Subscribers authenticate with their cloud service’s XMPP ID –
provides secure authentication and an encrypted channel for AllJoyn
remote access
• Embedded version for Linux AllSeen Open Source contribution from
Affinegy available June 2015
• Mobile app version will be available from Affinegy June 2015 as both
a helper application and an SDK.
– Helper app uses the AllJoyn bus in the mobile device to remotely enable
existing AllJoyn apps.
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Affinegy CHARIOT Connect Services
CHARIOT Connect Service (XMPP)
CHARIOT
Mobile Connector for
AllJoyn (XMPP)
AllJoyn Home
AllJoyn Apps
AllJoyn Apps
AllJoyn Remote
Turn-key enables existing AllJoyn Apps for remote services
Gateway Agent
with
AllJoyn - XMPP
Connector Plug-in
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Gateway Agent Developer Information
• Gateway Agent Project Wiki
https://wiki.allseenalliance.org/gateway/gatewayagent
– Documentation and presentations
– Open source GIT repository
– Weekly working group meetings
– Inviting contributors now for connector plug-ins for remote and
local protocols
• Released source code available now in AllSeen GIT:
– Gateway Agent management app (embedded for Linux and OpenWRT)
– Sample connector plug-in
– Sample Android control application for managing connectors and the
service profile
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Status And Future Plans
• Fully released with AllJoyn Core 14.12 and now part of the C.B.I.
– Gateway agent application
– Sample connector application (for AllJoyn to Twitter)
– Control application (Android) for managing service profiles of gateway
agent
• Plans for the coming Quarter
– XMPP AllJoyn Connector Plug-in – in beta from Affinegy today,
contributing to AllSeen GIT during June
– For AllJoyn 15.08 Core Release
• Gateway Agent Package Manager (to install, update and remove connectors)
• Support for Security Manager 2.0 of AllJoyn Core
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