Introducing the
AllSeen Alliance
The Broadest Cross-Industry
Effort to Accelerate the Internet of Everything
January 2014
Interoperability
The ability to intelligently share across
electronic devices and systems regardless of
product brand – is the key to advancing this
new level of connectivity and enabling real
technology transformation.
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Enter the AllSeen Alliance
PREMIER MEMBERS
COMMUNITY MEMBERS
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What is the AllSeen
Alliance?
• A nonprofit consortium dedicated to enabling the widespread
adoption of products, systems and services that support the Internet
of Everything through an open environment, vibrant ecosystem and
thriving technical community.
• Hosts and advances an industry-supported software and services
framework initially based on the AllJoyn™ open source project.
• This open framework enables hardware manufacturers and software
developers to create interoperable products that can discover,
connect and communicate directly with other devices, systems and
services regardless of brand.
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The Alliance and Objectives
Alliance
Enable
Vibrant
Ecosystem
Evolution
of AllJoyn
Evangelize
Contribute
& Use
Open Source
Community
Industry
leaders
Tech/software
innovators
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Membership Value
• Contribute and influence the direction of AllJoyn services and
features
• Priority to contribute strategic definitions of services for your product
portfolio that are key to optimizing your product experiences
• Create products and applications and be secure in the knowledge
that they will be interoperable in future roadmaps
• Ability to guide feature sets in requirements documents and future
technology roadmaps of AllJoyn through Working Groups, technical
contributions and earning committer status
• Feature your AllJoyn certified projects and applications at key
industry events, website and marketing collateral
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Membership Levels
3. Sponsored Members
1. Premier Members
– Designate one board representative
– Designate one technical steering
committee representative
– Initial 2 year commitment: fee for
initial year = $300K, annual fee
following = $250K
2. Community Members
– Vote for board members from “n”
additional board seats
– Fee Structure varies by size of
organization
> 5000 employees = $50K
500-4999 employees = $30K
100-499 employees = $10K
< 100 employees = $5K
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− Available to any:
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Non-profit entity
association,
governmental agency
academic entity
individual contributor
− No fee
− Board of Directors membership
approval required
Membership at any level:
− Required to become a
committer; membership not
required to submit contributions
− Enables Working Group and TSC
participation based on technical
merit and community recognition
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The reaction has been very positive
Internet of Things Fans Form ‘AllSeen’ Alliance
• How are things going to find each other once they are all connected? A lot of
companies are discussing such questions these days, with some of them
banding together in an effort ...
For Qualcomm, a 'gift' to the Internet of things
• … opening up AllJoyn to the community at large will spawn a booming
industry of companies that will both contribute to its code and use it to
develop products for the "Internet of things"
The Internet of things is coming on faster than ever, thanks to a new,
huge alliance
• The AllSeen Alliance, as it’s called, will take on the monumental, innovation-accelerating
task of creating and maintaining unified standards for device-to-device communication.
Plan Emerges to Make Internet-Enabled Devices Play Nicely
• Before you know it, you may be able to connect your “smart” coffeemaker to
your “smart” toaster to ensure a properly timed java and bagel.
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The Alliance has formed. Will
you participate?
• The technology stack is being defined.
• The governance is being established.
• The Internet of Everything is coming.
Please contact Mike Dolan
for questions and next steps:
mdolan@linuxfoundation.org
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Thank You
Website:
http://www.allseenalliance.org
Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/allseenalliance
Linux Foundation
Collaborative Projects
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