Summary of IoT specifications.

Lots of IT companies believe that IoT market is growing substantially. So they want make their own specification to get hegemony of IoT market.
This time, I want to summarize IoT specifications on this blog.

Open Interconnect Consortium

The OIC is being founded by leading technology companies with the goal of defining the connectivity requirements and ensuring interoperability of the billions of devices that will make up the emerging IoT.

Members : Cicso, Intel, Mediatek, Samsung, ADT, Atmel, Dell, Eyeball Networks, HP

What are we doing.

1. We are defining the specification, certification & branding to deliver reliable interoperability -- a connectivity framework that abstracts complexity
2. This standard will be an open specification that anyone can implement and is easy for developers to use
3. It will include IP protection & branding for certified devices (via compliance testing) and service-level interoperability
4. There will also be an Open Source implementation of the standard
5. This Open Source implementation will be designed to enable application developers and device manufacturers to deliver interoperable products across Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Tizen, and more.

Official page : http://openinterconnect.org/

All contents are from their official page.

AllJoyn

A common language for the internet of everything.

Our homes, our cars, and the things around us are getting smarter every day. AllJoyn is the open source project that lets the compatible smart things around us recognize each other and share resources and information across brands, networks, and operations systems.AllJoyn was initially developed by Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. and is now a collaborative open source project of the AllSeen Alliance. AllJoyn gives manufacturers and developers the tools they need to invent new ways for smart things to work together.

Members of AllSeen Alliance: Electrolux, Haier, LG, Microsoft, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Sharp, Silicon Image, Sony, Technicolor, TP-LINK

Flexible, Dynamic, Forward Compatible

• Core building blocks and services to address: discovery, connectivity, security and management of ad-hoc proximal networks among nearby devices
• Not just a low-level communications protocol
• Solves higher-level problems
• Service-level discovery, capabilities broadcasting, remote procedure calls, interface sharing, all benefits of Wi-Fi security, message marshaling
• Ability to react to dynamic, ad-hoc network changes
• Developer SDK
• Enables Horizontal Market Interoperability

Cross-platform, cross-brand, cross-physical layers

• Bridging ecosystems for individual markets and product categories
• Discover new use cases and create new business models
• Interoperable across leading OS and embed devices like small home appliances that don’t run an OS
• Bearer agnostic
• Devices can interact regardless of how they are connected – Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Powerline, etc.

Official page : https://www.alljoyn.org/

All contents are from their official page.

Thread

Thread was designed with one goal in mind : To create the very best way to connect and control product in the home.

Founders : ARM, Big Ass Fans, Freescale, Nest, Samsung, Silicon Labs, Yale

Features

• Simple for consumers to use
• Always secure
• Power-effcient
• An open protocol that carries IPv6 natively
• Based on a robust mesh network with no single point of failure
• Runs over standard 802.15.4 radios
• Designed to support a wide variety of products for the home : appliances, access control, climate control, energy management, lighting, safety, and security.

Official page : http://www.threadgroup.org/

All contents are from their official page.

Industrial Internet Consortium

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) was founded in March 2014 to bring together the organizations and technologies necessary to accelerate growth of the Industrial Internet by identifying, assembling and promoting best practices. Membership includes small and large technology innovators, vertical market leaders, researchers, universities and governments.

Founding Member : AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM, Intel

This goal of the IIC is to:

• Drive innovation through the creation of new industry use cases and testbeds for real-world applications;
• Define and develop the reference architecture and frameworks necessary for interoperability
• Influence the global development standards process for internet and industrial systems;
• Facilitate open forums to share and exchange real-world ideas, practices, lessons, and insights;
• Build confidence around new and innovative approaches to security.

Official page : http://www.iiconsortium.org/

All contents are from their official page.