The document discusses how open source communities are needed for the Internet of Things (IoT). It notes that currently IoT consists of isolated "silos" but should be more interconnected. It argues that creating open standards through open source communities, with input from technology adopters, can help achieve this. The Eclipse Foundation is working to build IoT open source communities around projects like MQTT and Vorto to help drive more collaboration and standardization in IoT. The European Commission also supports this approach through projects like AGILE that aim to develop open source IoT gateways and frameworks.

1. Why IoT needs
Open Source Communities
Philippe Krief, PhD
Eclipse Foundation
Research Relations Director
philippe.krief@eclipse.org

2. Internet of Things Landscape
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Today, IoT looks like this:
“Internet of Silos”

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We would like to see IoT look like that:
Internet of Things

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One way to create a standard:
Make your own !

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Another way:
Involve adopters of these standards!
© anne.jacko

7. IoT Developer Enablement
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8. https://iot.eclipse.org
@EclipseIoT
http://iot.ieee.org
@IEEEIoT
http://agile-iot.eu
@agile_iot
http://tinyurl.com/zcgchb7

9. Which operating system(s) do you use for your IoT devices?
73,1%
23,1%
12,7% 11,1% 9,5% 7,4% 6,0% 6,0% 5,8% 5,6%
Linux No OS /
Bare-metal
FreeRTOS Other Windows
Embedded
mbed Contiki TinyOS Don’t know RIOT
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10. What messaging protocol(s) do you use for your IoT solution?
2,3%
3,5%
5,3%
6,2%
7,4%
13,2%
13,9%
15,5%
19,2%
21,2%
52,4%
61,2%
None
DDS
Other
Proprietary vendor protocol
I don’t know
XMPP
AMQP
In-house / proprietary
HTTP/2
CoAP
MQTT
HTTP
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11. Key Findings
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52%
use
open hardware
for deployment or prototyping
58%
actively participate in
open source
projects for IoT
Open IoT

12. MQTT CASE
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13. What is MQTT
• Simple Publish/Subscribe protocol
• Small footprint
• Minimal on-the-wire formal and payload
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MQTT Client MQTT Broker

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Invented
by IBM and Arcom
back in 1999
Open Source Community built the
Standard
Google Trend

15. LET’S TALK ABOUT ECLIPSE
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16. Eclipse is all about Building Communities
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Working Groups (2009)
Foundation (2004)
IDE (2001) Platform/RCP/... (2005) Research (2013)
…

17. Business Drivers for Collaborative Development
§ Identify precisely what your IT competitive differentiators are for your
customers
§ Focus all possible energies there, and acquire everything else from OSS, or help
build it in OSS
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Build this in and
with open source,
even if that means
working with your
direct competitors.
Platform
&
Components
Value

18. Or in other words…
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Co-develop the
platform/standards in
collaboration with
others
Platform
&
Components
Value Focus on your value
Business
Friendly !

19. ECLIPSE IOT WORKING GROUP
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20. Eclipse IoT by numbers
2 22 150+
MLOC projects developers

21. IoT Architectures
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New and Existing
Devices
IoT Gateways Network/Wireless
Services
Backend Systems

22. Vorto
Open Source at Eclipse IoT
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And much more…
http://iot.eclipse.org/projects

24. Commercial Ecosystem
Open IoT Stack for Java

25. EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND OPEN SOURCE
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26. European Commission & Open Source
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AGILE:
Adaptive Gateways for dIverse muLtiple Environments
• AGILE builds a modular hardware and software
gateway for the Internet of Things with support for:
– protocol interoperability,
– device and data management,
– IoT apps execution,
– and external Cloud communication,
• featuring diverse pilot activities, Open Calls &
Community building.
For further information:
http://www.agile-iot.eu
@agile_iot
Gateway O/S
IoT
framework IoT SDK …
Device
Discovery
… …
Management
UI
Developers UI
Workflow
Recommender
Collaboration
Tool

29. AGILE IoT Pilots
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Pilot #1 Pilot #2
Pilot #3 Pilot #4