Some interesting new interaction patterns, and new business models, can be found by combining WS-Calendar and EMIX Terms. WS-Calendar is a specification for constructing web-services that incorporate iCalendar, the long-established basis for personal scheduling. EMIX is an information model built to support the exchange of market related information between suppliers and buyers of energy.
Service orientation names a pattern for systems interaction in which ...
OBIX does 1.1 not require or support Haystack. OBIX 1.1 will not even mention haystack, except, perhaps, as an example. OBIX 1.1 will be able to provide metadata for any point. That metadata may be drawn from any formal or informal taxonomy. oBIX 1.1 does not define how taxonomies are applied to an oBIX server. Haystack is useful taxonomy of growing popularity that can be used to provide metadata about any oBIX point.
Privacy activists have long warned about the massive data collection enabled by smart grids. Utility representatives have long defended the smart grid by asserting that they have no interest in analyzing the lives of their customers. The recent revelations of government activity in the US make that defense irrelevant, as company after company confesses to have shared operational data with the government agencies. The lesson of current headlines is that it does not matter who collects big data, or what their motives are. Big data is a honeypot that will attract surveillance by someone.
One of the oldest stories of smart grids is of early researchers attempting...
Some of you know that the oBIX Committee (open Building Information Exchange) is meeting again. The work is moving ahead on multiple fronts. We have separated encodings (XML and COAP) from the core specification. We are working on separate transport specifications for SOAP and REST (including JSON). We are doing a refresh of the core specification for consistency and conformance. I am most excited, however about the oBIX 2.0, the enterprise services.
The core specification (1.x) requires each oBIX server to provide a lobby. Clients can ask the server what is in the lobby, and thereby discover how to interact with the system behind that server. Contracts are special purpose agreements...