The first wave of the Internet of Things (IoT) was widespread but disorganized. SCADA operated nearly every industrial process, and was proprietary and the network rarely left the building. Power grid sensors and telemetry, if available, only extended to the substation. Home Security systems bundled sensors and a hardware-based app to provide fixed functionality. Building systems moved slowly off of pneumatics and onto digital controls. Hobbyists built apps on X10, but they enjoyed the making as much as the function. Over all of them, security was non-existent.
The second wave was ...
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The Great IoT Roll-Out
Today, is the largest roll-out of an open platform for the Internet of Things ever. So you have to be thinking, “How does this change my plans”
Today, millions of users are installing a securable open source IoT Platform. Users of Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 are eligible for free upgrade to Windows 10. Windows 10 includes an AllJoyn server as a core service.
The developers of digital controls in buildings have long been pioneers in the Internet of Things (IoT)...
Smart TVs, OBIX, and your next Commercial Building
As regular readers know, I have been caught up in the production of OBIX 1.1 for most of last year. OBIX has world-wide use in niche locations. It has open source platforms. They do not interoperate as well as they might. To improve interoperation, and ti improve telemetry, we started work on 1.1. Then the Smart TV Alliance upped our game.
But first, a little about how 1.1 is shaping up. We broke oBIX up into smaller pieces, to make it simpler for a programmer to tell what rules they are using. With smaller pieces we can more easily say “An Application conforms only if…” This makes interoperation of different platforms much more likely.
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The Taxonomies of oBIX
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.