ITU Workshop on the “Internet of Things Trend and Challenges in Standardization”
(Geneva, Switzerland, 18 February 2014)
OPEN PROTOCOLS FOR AN OPEN,
INTEROPERABLE INTERNET OF THINGS
Dr Carol Cosgrove-Sacks
Senior Advisor on International Standards Policy
OASIS
info@oasis-open.org
Geneva, Switzerland, 18 February 2014
OPEN
PROTOCOLS FOR AN OPEN
INTEROPERABLE
INTERNET OF
THINGS
• Open standards for the global info society
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What The Phrase Means
Kevin Ashton coined "Internet of Things" phrase to
describe a system where the Internet is connected to
the physical world via ubiquitous sensors
How Ubiquitous?
Gartner: “IoT Installed Base Will Grow to 26 Billion Units By
2020.” That number might be too low.
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Every mobile
Every auto
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Every door
Every room
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Every part, on
every parts list
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Every sensor in
every device …
in every bed,
chair or bracelet
... in every
home, office,
building or
hospital room
… in every city
and village ...
on Earth ...
The Challenges
Every one of those sensor and control points is generating
data. Often, it's very informative and very private data.
Systems are needed to help those devices talk to each other,
manage all that data, and enforce proper access control.
Big Data means BIG Challenges
All of the messaging, management,
and access control technologies used
in these large-scale device networks
must be massively scalable.
Open Protocols
Current Internet and software methods are highly modular
(APIs), highly distributed (Cloud) and "loosely coupled"
(SOA). In today's systems, every LEGO brick comes from a
different source – and they all still must snap together.
This requires open, rapid and safe development methods.
Open, Rapid and Safe:
Open Source and Open Standards
OPEN: Both work well. Easy to join, transparent to review.
FAST: Open source methods work well. Rapid iterations and
ease of contributions promote rapid development. (1)
SAFE: Open standards methods work well. Strong IPR rules,
balanced participation, neutral governance = usable work. (2)
Fast open standards groups ...
and solid open source projects ...
work together very well
Many open standards projects
are robustly supported by free
& open source software.
Web standard (3)
FOSS browsers (4)
Identity standard (5) FOSS toolkits (6)
Fast open standards groups ...
and solid open source projects ...
work together very well
Giant ecologies can grow from open projects,
promoting widespread use and adaptation.
One open standard (UBL for e-invoicing)
generates many local profiles, regional
public projects and open source tools. (7)
Fast open standards groups ...
and solid open source projects ...
work together very well
Giant ecologies can grow from open projects,
promoting widespread use and adaptation.
This works in the Internet of Things as well.
The OASIS MQTT TC (8) standardizes this
industry protocol for lightweight sensor
and device coordination, complemented
and informed by Eclipse's open source
implementation project. The two projects
feed each other improvements.
Key Challenges
for an Open Internet of Things
Lightweight protocols for
devices to work together,
communicate
Unique and extensible
identifiers for all those
billions of devices
Demand for API access and
interoperability
Cybersecurity
Privacy and Policy
Key STANDARDS emerging
for an Open Internet of Things
Lightweight protocols
for devices to work
together, communicate
Unique and extensible
identifiers for all those
billions of devices
OASIS MQTT, MQTT-SN (8)
OASIS SmartGrid projects (9)
Demand for API access
and interoperability
SOA/Cloud orchestration (11)
and API standardization
(AMQP, MQTT, OData) (12)
Cybersecurity
KMIP, SAML, XACML/JSON,
PKCS11, CloudAuthZ (13)
Privacy and Policy
PMRM, PbDSE, and Personal
Data Stores (14)
Multiple new projects,
XRI(10), UUIDs, etc.
Open Standards and Open Source
Projects will accelerate the
development of the IoT
Thank you! Questions?
info@oasis-open.org
Notes
1. FOSS: http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/c3em21d2_en.pdf (UNCTAD);
http://www.netvibes.com/cabinetoffice#Open_Source (UK Action Plan).
2. Open Standards: http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/17-tbt_e.htm (WTO);
http://www.talkstandards.com/standards-and-oss/.
3. HTML: http://www.w3.org/html/.
4. HTML FOSS Browsers: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ (Mozilla);
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ (Amaya).
5. SAML: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security.
6. SAML FOSS Toolkits: http://saml.xml.org/wiki/saml-open-source-implementations.
Notes
7. UBL: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl (OASIS); http://www.nesubl.eu/ ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OIOXML , http://www.peppol.eu/pilot-reporting ,
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-ind-disrubl/ ,
http://www.opensourceacademy.eu/index.php?id=59 (guides);
http://openinvoice.org/ubl4j/, http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeb-ubl ,
http://xmltools.oio.dk/oioonlinevalidator/ehandel/0p71/Invoice/ ,
http://www.ubl-italia.org/ubl-italia/imple/pgcl.asp?p=418,
http://www.simpleubl.com/articles/what-is-nes/ (tools).
8. MQTT: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/mqtt OASIS);
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Paho (Eclipse); http://mqtt.org/news (industry).
Notes
9. SmartGrid, Devices: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=smartgrid.
10. Identifiers: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xri (XRI);
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi (XDI).
11. SOA and Cloud: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/soa-rm (SOA);
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=cloud (cloud computing).
12. API-oriented standards: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/amqp (AMQP);
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/odata (OData); MQTT (fn 8).
13. Cybersecurity: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=security.
14. Privacy standards: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/pmrm (Privacy Model);
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/pbd-se (Privacy by Design);
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=privid (other).