Tomorrow I am talking about a Resource Framework for the Internet of Things (IoT) at the summit of the AllSeen Alliance.
Traditional consumer programming has concerned itself with only a few resources, i.e., RAM (memory), storage (disk space), and communication (network speed). These programs live atop operating systems and device drivers that engage directly with physical things.
Third-wave Apps in the IoT, though, deal directly with resources....
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Bidding for Schedules—VPOLL and VAVAILABILITY
Last week I watched live multi-vendor demonstrations using the new specifications vPoll and vAvailability. These extend calendar interactions to support live negotiations about schedule and performance. These negotiations can be machine-to-machine (M2M) or augmented by human input. These were not applications, these were live interactions between mainstream calendar servers. The testing used simple user interfaces, just enough to operate the tests. These simple information exchanges extend existing systems for schedule negotiations into automated polling and bidding.
Finding a Needle in the Internet of Things (part 2)—Buildings and Building Systems
In a previous post, I described how vCards are used throughout standards-based scheduling and calendaring systems. Many different vCard standards coexist in today’s organizations. I also described how directory services, especially LDAP (the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), are the well-established means to enable wide secure access to the information in vCards. In this post I discuss current efforts that will expand these existing standards to support buildings and their systems.
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Things cost what they cost to install. Ongoing charges are, in the short term, fixed. Value may be the only thing you can control. In the Internet of Things, value will be determined by how many ways you can use that Thing. Value will be determined by how many different uses can use that thing. Some of those users will be other things.
Things (as in the Internet Of…) tend to be commodities. One thing is inherently like another. Once I have more than...