How the Bosch Group is making use of OSGi for IoT - Kai Hackbarthmfrancis
OSGi Community Event 2016 Presentation by Kai Hackbath (Bosch Software Innovations GmbH)
In February 2015 the Bosch Group acquired ProSyst Software as part of its IoT strategy. For Bosch Software Innovations, the Bosch Group’s software and systems house, OSGi offers the right balance between flexibility and hardware cost for IoT gateways. There is currently no other technology for IoT gateways that is both more future-proof and more mature than OSGi. In this presentation we want to give an overview of what has been achieved since then, looking at how the ProSyst’s OSGi technology has been integrated into the comprehensive Bosch IoT Suite as well as the Bosch IoT Cloud. We will also present a number of other IoT initiatives in the Bosch group, including smart home and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) where OSGi is already being used. Additionally we will give an outlook on future activities in IoT including our plans in standardization and open source initiatives.
OSGi & Java in Industrial IoT - More than a Solid Trend - Essential to Scale ...mfrancis
OSGi Community Event 2016 Keynote Presentation by Robert Andres (Eurotech) & Walter Hofmann (Hitachi High Technologies)
With the promise of “real” IoT, the requirements for computational capabilities and agility at the edge demand IT-centric architectures and solutions that are based on open and industry standards. “IoT stacks” that are built on OSGi and Java’s solid foundation ensure effective modular software development and management on abstracted hardware.
Total cost of ownership in these IoT solutions matters a lot more than the simple combined hardware and software cost per edge node. Sophisticated software elements – including business intelligence tools, databases, and analytics packages – leverage data remotely and centrally to achieve the best results for customers. A perfect example of an analytics solution using such an approach is the predictive maintenance solution that Hitachi offers, leveraging Eurotech’s IoT hardware and software building blocks that heavily rely on OSGi.