Building an Open Internet of Things, the Eclipse way

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! ☺

Open… Hardware

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 Numbers1.8 Million Lines of Code

18 projects

125 developers from 20+ organizationsEurotech, 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