Driving IoT adoption with Open Source & Open Standards

Benjamin Cabé, Eclipse Foundation

<benjamin@eclipse.org>

Open wins!

Remember these?

Open wins

IoT/M2M today…

Zillions of IoT partner programs

Barriers to entry

It is complicated!

It is complicated!

… how can you make it easier?

Open wins! J

Open… Hardware

4,7%

26,2%

0,8%

3,0% 63,7%

1,6%

Have you ever used any open hardware environments like Raspberry Pi, Arduino,

BeagleBone, etc. ?

Yes, I've experimented with them at work

Yes, I've experimented with them on my personal time

Yes, I've built and deployed a complete solution at work

Yes, I've built and deployed a complete solution on my personal time

No

I don't know

Open… Standards

Open… Source Communities

It’s all about innovation

It’s all about innovation

Open Source enables:

•  Permissionless innovation

•  Innovation through integration

•  Far higher levels of experimentation

The Power of Developer Choice

A Current Example

Google Trends for “MQTT”

Open sourced here

•  Founded in November 2011 by IBM, Eurotech, Sierra Wireless

•  18 open-source projects*

•  29 members*

•  Language and platform agnostic

* and counting!

→  IoT Standards →  Services & Frameworks

Members

Vorto

A framework for IoT innovation

•  Facilitate collaboration between projects

•  Provide infrastructure & governance

•  Organize conferences, hackathons

•  Leverage our community of millions of developers

Eclipse IoT = 1.8 MLOC

Eclipse IoT in Numbers 1.8 Million Lines of Code

18 projects

125 developers from 20+ organizations Eurotech, IBM, Sierra Wireless, LAAS-CNRS & Deutsche

Telekom leading

Dashboard available at: http://dashboard.eclipse.org/project.html?project=iot

How can you leverage an Open IoT ecosystem?

#1 – Embrace Open IoT Standards

•  Proprietary protocols are NOT a differentiator

•  Ensure interoperability

#2 – Leverage Open-Hardware

•  Developers are using open hardware

•  Lower your barriers to entry

•  Create your ‘Hello World’

#3 – Participate in OSS

•  Build on top of open source software to lower barriers and foster innovation

•  Participate in an OSS project to build a bigger pie

Thank you! Questions?

benjamin@eclipse.org @kartben

http://iot.eclipse.org