With the widespread commercial availability of connected devices over the past few years, it’s safe to say the Internet of Things has officially gone mainstream. You may not be aware, however, that the concept of machines communicating with one another via the internet has been around for a while.
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Connecting the past to the future – The origins and evolution of IoT
The OCF Healthcare Project: Improving health outcomes through IoT data
According to data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there are 990.8 million physician office visits every year in the US alone, with over half of those visits made to primary care physicians. For every 100 people there are more than 300 visits to the doctor annually, and nearly 40 hospital outpatient visits. One can only imagine the numbers on a global scale.
With the number of doctor and hospital visits growing each year, appointments often must be scheduled weeks or months in advance, exam rooms are frequently overbooked, medical staffing resources are stretched thin, and waiting room … [Read More]
OCF Developer Kit: Develop a Secure IoT Device in 15 Minutes
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).
What to Expect from an Interoperable IoT
Interoperability has become a staple in making any industry more successful. The telecommunications industry has embraced interoperability and openness in order to create a more flexible communications network. In the healthcare industry, for example, an interoperable environment improves the delivery of healthcare by making the right data available at the right time to the right people or any device. When it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT), there are a variety of form factors, devices, frameworks, and ecosystems that makes it both exciting and complex. By focusing on interoperability, we can take the IoT to a new level, allowing different devices to communicate seamlessly and securely across ecosystems.
Where Do Standards Fit in? Consumers desire interoperability within the IoT for a number of reasons, but most enterprises struggle to provide interoperability of their IoT components and devices. One resolution for this interoperability and connectivity challenge is to have common standards within the IoT.
IoT standards, like interoperability, ensure cooperation and seamless connectivity between different environments and networks. By allowing devices from different vendors to communicate, IoT standards enable and increase the number of compatible devices in an ecosystem, as well as, promote firmware and device diversity.
One of main pillars of the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) is to provide interoperability for the IoT. OCF’s IoTivity open source project provides an open source IoT framework with the goal of connecting devices with each other and with the internet to ensure a secure a robust architecture that works for all devices and all ecosystems. By supporting such a vital part of the evolving IoT, OCF continues to fulfill its mission of solving the IoT standards gap providing not only source code, but also specifications, a reference application for set-up and control, plus a certification program. All of those enable manufacturers to bring interoperable OCF-certified products to market and seamlessly bridge other ecosystems with a user’s smart home or automated building or utility.
What are the Benefits of Interoperability?
- Adoption: The lack of interoperability within the IoT right now is one of the biggest barriers to IoT adoption. If a consumer’s connected devices are too difficult to install, can’t communicate with each other, or connect to a network, IoT growth will continue to be stunted. If all devices are created with interoperability in mind, anyone deploying a connected device will not have to worry about different network types, devices or ecosystems.
- Sustainability: Interoperability is not just important for short-term IoT adoption, but also for long term transformation of the IoT, leading to scalability and sustainability. If each device in a smart home is able to seamlessly collect, analyze, and share data with other devices, this offers manufactures visibility into the lifecycle of devices and the ecosystems they create. If devices stop connecting or communicating, consumers will be forced to continue purchasing new devices in shorter amounts of time, leading to additional spending. When manufacturers get an idea of how well and how long a device will hold up in different networks and ecosystems, they can plan application and device updates years in advance. This type of planning drives innovation and sustainability within the IoT.
- User Experience: Interoperability offers convenience and ease to users. Without interoperability, consumers feel a direct impact in their user experience. Consumers want the installation and use of their connected devices, applications, and networks to be easy. When consumers use several different applications to control each of their devices, the user experience is muddled and disjointed. Interoperability between connected devices enables seamless connections between devices and networks, providing convenience and improvements to the daily lives of consumers and other IoT end users.
Interested in joining leaders from around the world in defining the connectivity requirements to improve interoperability between billions of IoT devices? Join the OCF today.
How to Secure IoT Connectivity and Onboarding Without Writing Code
Security breaches where private files and personal data are stolen has sadly become commonplace in today’s digital age. Even more terrifying are the security breaches where a hacker gains access to your home, peering through cameras, listening on microphones, and even unlocking your front door. These are some of the risks posed by the Internet of Things (IoT). Several government and technology agencies have proposed rules and guidelines that could be adopted by technology companies to combat the most common security and privacy vulnerabilities, but a more comprehensive strategy is required. Security is a complex and dynamic problem that can’t simply be solved by a dedicated one-time effort. The issue is rapidly increasing as new products and services are introduced. Small developers, focused on creating the next generation of innovative connected products, often don’t have the resources and expertise to properly secure them. This has led to a deluge of highly insecure devices flooding the market and consumers’ homes.
The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) has created an open international standard, complete with open source software and a world-class security infrastructure that directly addresses this issue. Industry-leading security has been built into the OCF design: from the specifications, the software, and the development tools, to labs around the world that certify products and manage a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) system. Using these resources, a fully functional and interoperable IoT prototype that includes world-class security can be built in a matter of minutes. This paper will demonstrate how that is done.
Read the full article by OCF members Kyle Haefner and Clarke Stevens via Embedded.