It is widely agreed that there will be devices in the range of billions communicating with each other by the end of this decade. From the alarm system in your house, to your power-meter being part of a smart grid, to the ATM around the corner, every object of your life will soon be connected to the Internet of Things, if not already. This connected world is at the crossroads of various ecosystems that the Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group aims at bridging. On one hand are the IT and telco industries, that already are connecting devices together by means of usually closed software platforms and communication protocols. These industries have an incredible experience at designing solutions tailored to their vertical businesses, but today's challenge is to break down the silos preventing the emergence of the true Internet of Things: every object should virtually be accessible from anywhere. On the other hand, there are many providers of great end-user services that are waiting for platforms allowing them to create their own applications using these services, that they can distribute on their own markets and via social networks. Lastly, the Open Hardware and hobbyists movements are a place where a lot of innovation happens: bleeding edge technologies, passionate developers that can, and will, make Internet of Things not only successful, but also fun. If you want to learn what is cooking at Eclipse in terms of tools and frameworks for M2M development, how we get the aforementioned communities actively involved, and the business models that this Open M2M stack is enabling, then this talk is for you!

1. Building an Open M2M
community
… one step at a time
Benjamin Cabé
bcabe@sierrawireless.com — @kartben

2. Who I am
• Benjamin Cabé
• Open Source guy
at Sierra Wireless
• Long-time Eclipse lover

3. What is M2M?
Technology that supports
wired or wireless
communication
between devices

4. 50
billion
devices
by 2020

5. 50
billion
devices
by 2020

11. Smart
Pill
Box
Near field
Patient
Heartbeat
Sensor
Medical
Services
Gateway Clinical Trial
Weight Internet
Scale of Things
Communication
Infrastructure Doctor
Blood
Pressure
Blood
Sugar

12. Ready then?

13. …Not quite!!

14. M2M market
= fragmented

15. M2M development
= complex

16. M2M vendors
= lock-in

17. ?

19. • $3000 bounty
• Open Source
driver
• 1 week

20. Kinect sales
12
10
Millions of units sold
8
6
4
2
0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Weeks after launch

23. 3 pillars
Experience
Tools
Interoperability

24. 3 projects
Framework
Protocols
Tools

25. =
framework
I/O manipulation
data consolidation
application management
dev-friendly API

26. M2M programming
• low-level C • read sensor values
• memory • control actuators
management
• consolidate data
• multithreaded
• communicate
programming

27. Example: Sending an SMS
int main()
{
unsigned char char1[10];
unsigned char char_buf[8]="AT+CSQn";
// unsigned char sms_buf[20] = "AT+CMGS="xxxxxxxxx";
int wc_fd;
/********* Init of serial port ************/ sms.send(
'+33612345678’,
wc_fd = init_wc(wc_fd);
sleep(3);
//writing to serial port
write(wc_fd,char_buf,sizeof(char_buf));
usleep(40000); 'My SMS’,
)
//reading from serial port
read(wc_fd,char1,sizeof(char1));
sleep(2);
close(wc_fd);
return 0;
} // end of main
// initialization of serial port
struct termios options;
ttys5_fd = open("/dev/ttyS5", O_RDWR );
if (ttys5_fd < 0)
{
printf("nFail to open serial port 2n");
return 0;
}

28. Simplify M2M programming
• powerful
• fast
• lightweight
• embeddable
• scripting
• C integration

29. =
protocols
open
multi-language
clients and servers
MQTT

30. • Low-bandwidth
• Low-power
• Payload agnostic
• Adjustable QoS
• Large ecosystem

31. (optional) bridge
broker broker
topic/#
topic/subtopic
keepalive
publish
last will & testament
subscribe
username/password

32. =
tools
develop
simulate
debug
deploy

33. Lua Development OMA-DM
Tools Simulator
Next: Mihini tooling, M2M modeling

34. M2M IDE
• June 2013
• Ready-to-use
• Market Place

35. M2M Developer Kit
Affordable! Simple! Industrial!

36. Standardization?
• Actively collaborate with standards
organizations
– OneM2M, Continua, …
• Combine both bottom-up and top-
down approaches
– Leverage existing, open, software stacks
– Foster compatibility with emerging
standards

37. M2M Developer Portal

38. New business models
Third Party Ecosystem
Open M2M
communication protocols
Open M2M application Internet of
framework and runtimes Things
…!
Open M2M
development tools

39. H/W differentiation
• ruggedness
• radio certification
• add-ins
• services

40. S/W differentiation
embedded server
industrial protocols 24/7
power optimization 3rd party services
development tools security
vertical applications billing
real-time carrier integration
professional services professional services
… …

41. Wrap-up
• A complete M2M stack
– embedded framework
– comm. protocols (client and server)
– tools
• An open collaboration model
• A de-facto standard M2M platform
for enabling new businesses

42. Join us!