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By Clarke Stevens, Principal Architect at Shaw Communications

The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) is dedicated to supplying both its members and developers with a variety of development tools and resources curated by experts. These assets help enable simple, step-by-step development of connected products, and include the required security, reliability and interoperability for IoT connectivity.

One of these development tools includes the OCF’s Developer Kit, part of the OCF’s Developer Program. It helps developers get started with IoT development, allowing them to get a real device working on real hardware controlled by their smartphone using state-of-the-art security in a matter of minutes. The Kit consists of a hardware board setup and programming tools, using IoTivity APIs that interact with sensor and actuator devices. These sensors and actuator devices are controllable from a smartphone application called Onboarding Tool and Generic Client (OTGC).

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The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) is excited to announce the addition of the OCF India Forum to the OCF community. The OCF India Forum is the newest regional effort, following the OCF Korea Forum and the OCF China Forum.

The number of connected devices in India is increasing exponentially with demand generating from both Consumer and Industrial applications. Nasscom predicts that there will be 2.7 billion connected devices by 2020, leading to an economic impact of up-to $15B USD. However, more than half of this market growth is locked by the lack of interoperability standards. The OCF India Forum was recently formed with a vision to solve this interoperability problem, and to promote the Open Connectivity Foundation in India and its approach to enabling an interoperable, scalable, reliable and secure Internet of Things (IoT). The OCF India Forum currently boasts 35+ members from a range of companies including Intel India, L&T Technology Services, Nasscom CoE IoT and Samsung R&D India Bengaluru.

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By Nathan Heldt-Sheller, Software Architect, Intel

The IoT ecosystem is vast and growing at a rapid pace. Developers and vendors alike are pressured to keep pace. However, IoT development has complex needs and calls for specific expertise; this combination can ultimately slow time to market.

Open source projects offer a way to meet the challenge of developing solutions for a complex IoT ecosystem in a relevant timeframe.

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Making Home Automation Real and Easily Attainable

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to come home at the end of the day to a house that has adjusted the thermostat to your preference and turned on the lights to welcome you back?

Yes, it is true, you can do this now, but it hasn’t always been this easy. In January at CES 2019, Legrand announced its Smart Lighting Controls for their Radiant Collection. The Radiant Collection incorporates Smart Lighting that is ready to connect with and seamlessly works with other OCF-certified IoT devices regardless of brand or operating system.

These lighting devices are the first to be certified from the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) and these smart switches, dimmers and outlets can be controlled remotely via the Legrand Smart Lights application or within the home through voice-enabled assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Home.

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The Open Connectivity Foundation’s (OCF) mission not only provides specifications, code and a certification program to enable OCF-certified solutions that interoperate with current IoT devices and legacy systems, but also creates an enhanced end user experience by seamlessly bridging to other ecosystems. The OCF does this to achieve global industry consolidation around a common, interoperable approach.

With this goal in mind, we are proud to announce the formal launch of the OCF China Forum. The China Forum was established with 31 member companies in February of 2019 by the China Electrical Apparatus Research Institute Co., Ltd. (CEI) with Kong Ruixun, Deputy Chief Engineer, acting as chairmen of the forum.

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