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IPSO Alliance Newsletter
Secretary's Message
We Have Seen This Movie Before
Growing up I remember the long pending arrival of televisions that could hang on your walls. It seemed like a marketing promise that never came to fruition. A 1954 Popular Mechanics article (no, I'm not that old) may have been one of the first sources to discuss the potential for flat TVs to show up in homes as early as 1964. Clearly this did not happen. In fact, it took almost 50 years before the consumer electronics industry finally delivered on the promise.
In a 2009 RFID Journal article, Kevin Ashton claimed credit for coining the "Internet of Things" term back in 1999. The Internet of Things represents a more autonomous operation of connected devices without the limited time, attention and accuracy of human intervention. It extends the internet beyond machines manipulated by people, and allows systems to seamlessly gather inputs, analyze data, provide notifications, and modify outputs.
Here we are again. We see the vision, we understand the potential, and yet we continue to wait for something we can stick on our walls. While the technologies and standards are constantly evolving to advance the IoT, they are no longer an entry barrier. Don't get me wrong, there are internet thingies today, just like there were HDTV sets in the nineties. But it feels like these devices and applications are for hobbyists, early adopters and techno geeks.
So what's stopping us? I believe it is the makers of internet things, the device OEMs. We are still clinging to the proprietary closed systems of the past. If it's not broken, don't fix it. Why would we move from our comfortable walled gardens that marry our customers to us, into a competitive and collaborative environment that allows our customers more vendor agility? We won't. The path needs to be forged by the brave new upstarts that don't have the ballast of legacy products, and then taken by the fast followers who recognize the shift. At some point the industry will tip.
We customers and consumers also play a part in this. It's our requirements, decisions and dollars that pull the market. Are we continuing to invest in the technologies of the past, or are we doing our part to move the Internet of Things from vision to reality? Let's buy that thing, stick it on the wall, and enable it to communicate across the interconnected network known as the internet. Then we can pop some popcorn, sit back and enjoy the movie.
Nick Ashworth IPSO Secretary
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By Chris Carnevale, IP500In 2007, the IP500� vision to form an open, fully interoperable and robust IP-based sensor network solution for commercial building and other sensor applications began. Formally established in 2010, the IP500� Alliance is comprised of international OEMs and system manufacturers. These member companies are focused on the end user and have created the desired industry standard IP500� solution. Suppliers of the IP500� solution are key technology partners of the IP500� Alliance, but primary decision making is carried out by the Alliance members. In this way, the IP500� Alliance maintains its attention on the market requirements (the OEMs) and its end-customer.
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By Mike Coop, Marcom Co-ChairAnother Consumer Electronics Show has come and gone; as usual, vendors announced technologies ranging from broadly beneficial to patently absurd. Based on actual product introductions, a number of categories seemed to make concrete market progress over the previous twelve months, including less insanely expensive ultra high definition television (UHDTV, also known as 4K for the nearly four thousand horizontal pixels in its 3840x2160 format, delivering four times the resolution of today's 1920x1080 sets), advanced vehicle infotainment and navigation solutions, even more Android-based devices, and-as one might expect-a wide range of Smart Objects. IPSO members stood front and center at CES with announcements incorporating IP-connected devices; whether classified as Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Everything (IoE), or machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions, members announced and demonstrated a wide range of solutions ranging from software and hardware ingredients to complete systems for networking Smart Objects using Internet Protocol.
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From the Ericsson Blog The IPSO Alliance promotes a future where everyday objects include technology that allows them to communicate via the Internet. At the IETF, IPSO had invited NXP, Sensinode, Nivis, Proto6, and Ericsson to demonstrate IP-based smart object technology. The demonstration included IP-based light bulbs, control of city lights on a web-based platform, smart electric meters, and motion sensors. Ericsson demonstrated how social networking can be integrated with smart objects. Showing full-size street lights on a demo table is a bit difficult, so Sensinode had built a Lego-model of a street with office and home buildings. The street had lights on both side, the home couple of lights at the front porch, and the office building lights in the cubicles inside. All these lights could be controlled directly by communicating with the lights using IPv6 and CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol). The lights were also connected to servers running in the cloud, so that a web user interface with regular HTTP/REST API could be used to control them. Continue Reading...
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The IPSO IoT Innovation Contest
The IPSO Alliance is announcing the Internet of Things 2013 Innovation Contest that invites people and companies from around the world to submit new Internet Protocol enabled Smart Objects that demonstrate the power of the Internet of Things. The goal of this contest is to bring forth exciting new concepts and devices that use the Internet Protocol in interconnecting embedded sensor and control solutions in areas of home control, smart building, healthcare, lighting control, smart energy, or consumer entertainment. "The IPSO Alliance is committed to showing the benefits of using the Internet Protocol in the design and development of M2M and IoT projects and solutions. This contest will help demonstrate just how powerful IP Smart Objects can be and how, by shedding proprietary protocols, we can advance the developments that let us connect the Internet with our physical world", said Geoff Mulligan, IPSO Chairman. The entries will be judged by a panel of experts and the top designs will be brought to and demonstrated at Sensors Expo June 4-6 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL. The finalists will receive the opportunity to meet with the judges and present their device to the attendees of the show. The winning submission will receive a $10,000 prize. Details and rules of the contest will be published on the IPSO Alliance website at the beginning of February.
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Spring Member Meeting Announced
By Geoff Mulligan, Chairman
I am pleased to announce that we have scheduled our Spring 2013 meeting in Helsinki, Finland for the week of May 20th, with an Interop scheduled to follow the meeting. Please watch the Interop mailing list for information related to that event. You can manage your subscriptions to the mailing lists on the Wiki. Please email marketing@ipso-alliance.org for help with accessing the Wiki. We are still negotiating with the hotels to select the specific venue, but please start planning your calendar and travels so that you can attend the meeting. We are looking forward to holding our second European meeting and are pulling together plans to have an exciting and very productive meeting. If your company is interested in sponsoring our meeting or social event please contact me, our BoD or Jessica for more information and benefits. I look forward to seeing everyone there and please watch for more information including our full agenda in the coming days.
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