The Future of IoT: Why We Need the Open Interconnect Consortium

The Future of IoT
Why We Need the Open Interconnect Consortium
Guy Martin
Senior Strategist
Samsung Open Source Group
© 2014 Samsung Developer Conference. All rights reserved. www.samsungdevcon.com

Agenda
• IoT Market
• IoT Challenges
• The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC)
– Vision
– Strategy
– Value Proposition
– Membership/Operations
• OIC Roadmap for the Future
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– Common Standard
– Open Source Reference Implementation
– How to Get Started

Internet of Things
Market

Internet of Things Market
• Gartner - IoT is ‘the most over-hyped’ tech of 2014
• Not a new concept – earliest modern IoT
• Many stakeholders in the space
• Lots of predictions
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references in 1990s
– Device Makers
– Corporate & ISV developers
– Consumers
– Service Providers
– Cisco: 50 Billion devices by 2020
– IDC: IoT products/services worth $7.1 trillion by 2020
– Gartner: IoT products services worth $300 billion by
2020

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• Significant market opportunities
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– Device/Sensor Makers
– Consumer Electronics
– Software Developers
– Infrastructure (Cloud) Providers
– Service Providers
– ???

Internet of Things
Challenges

Internet of Things Challenges
• Different devices/capabilities
• Different operating systems
• Different vendors
• Security/data privacy
• Different user expectations
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– Micro (no screen, embedded, etc.)
– Mini (wearables)
– Standard (mobile devices, tablets, etc.)
– Macro (SmartHome collections, Cloud, etc.)
– How do you differentiate products?

OIC Overview

Framework for a Solution (OIC)
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Open Interconnect Vision
• Connect the next 50 billion IoT devices
• Provide secure, reliable
discovery/connectivity across multiple
OSs/platforms
• Create a single solution for majority of
vertical markets
• Drive industry consolidation around a
common interoperable standard
• Build a broad industry consortium of
companies creating a scalable solution
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Open Interconnect Strategy
A unique combination of Standards and an Open Source implementation
• Specification, certification & branding to deliver reliable interoperability
– Connectivity framework that abstracts complexity for developers
– Open specification that anyone can implement
– IP protection & branding for certified devices (via compliance testing)
– Service-level interoperability
• Open Source implementation to enable developers and device makers
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– Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Tizen, VX Works, single-threaded RTOSs
– Open governance model to allow for active code base contributors

Open Interconnect Strategy
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We need a way to
make IoT comms as
easy for developers
and manufacturers
as connecting a
client to a server in
the Cloud.

Open Interconnect Overall Value
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“OIC is a standard and an open source
project that delivers “just-works”
interconnectivity for developers,
manufacturers and end users.”

OIC Membership &
Operations

Open Interconnect Consortium Members
Diamond
Platinum
Gold
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High Level OIC Governance Structure
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OIC Membership & Participation
• One legal entity with one set of bylaws
– Board of Directors has fiduciary responsibility (financial, legal, etc.)
– Sets up working groups to accomplish goals
– Work group/task group structure defined by operation guidelines, not bylaws
• Operational guidelines cover interactions/day-to-day operations
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– Companies may participate at many levels (depending on membership level)
– Standards and Open Source workgroups have differences in operation/tasks

OIC Intellectual Property Rights Policy
• OIC is a royalty free organization
• Open Source – Apache 2.0
– Copyright & patent coverage for submitted code
• Standard – RANDZ
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– IP pool covering “Compliant Portions” of a member company’s products

OIC Operational Structure
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OIC Membership Costs & Benefits
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OIC Compliance & Testing
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OIC High Level Schedule/Roadmap
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Summary & Next Steps

How You Can Use OIC Technology
• Use the code from the open source project
– Open to any individual or company
– Availability will be announced soon – check www.openinterconnect.org
• Join as a Gold member
– Certify spec compliant apps and devices
– Use OIC branding
– Benefit from patent pool protection
– Go to www.openinterconnect.org for membership agreement, etc…
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How You Can Participate in OIC
• Contribute code to the open source project
– Open to any individual or member company
• Participate in standards development
– Open to Gold and above member companies and Individual members
• Vote on standards development; lead Work and Task Groups
– Open to Platinum and above member companies
• One Director appointed to Board by each Diamond member company
– After two years, two directors elected from Platinum member companies’
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nominations

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Q&A
and THANK YOU for your time.
Guy Martin
guym@osg.samsung.com

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