According to the research conducted by the Institute for Information Industry (III), the number of smart home worldwide was about 55.4 million in 2016 and is expected to quadruple to 230 million in 2021 with over 15% of household penetration, representing tremendous business opportunities.
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III (Institute For Information Industry) forms Smart Home Task Force in accordance with international IoT standards and tap into global smart home market
First IoT Platform to Combine OCF and Thread Capabilities Pioneers Strong Security Offering for Low Power, Large Area IP-Based Mesh Networks
20 October, 2021 – OCF welcomes the certification of the first ever standards-based, low power IoT platform to combine the end-to-end security benefits of Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) technology and the low power and wide-area coverage advantages of Thread. Its availability creates an unprecedented opportunity for the rapid build and deployment of securely connected IP-based ultra-low-power devices, which lays a transformational foundation for highly secure smart building and smart city landscapes.
The certified platform from Cascoda is based on an open-source software development kit (SDK) and comprises the first ever module to offer OCF’s secure IP framework and application layer, and Thread’s low-power and scalable IPv6-based network layer protocol; the required Thread IP router; and OCF cloud connectivity functionality.
The unique combination of platform features, including a root of trust (RoT), cryptographic acceleration and hardware tamper protection features, combined with the unparalleled security features of OCF and Thread, have enabled it to gain both European and UK IoT security attestation through the IASME ‘IoT Security Assured scheme’.
As a result, it aligns with OCF’s mission by enabling secure end-to-end IoT deployments that encompass device-to-device, device-to-cloud, and cloud-to-cloud without the privacy concerns of consumer-driven cloud-connected systems.
This development supports another key aim of OCF, which is to drive demand-side energy efficiencies in commercial building automation systems (BAS) and smart city infrastructure through migration to secure IP solutions.
It also represents a significant step towards achieving the vision of IP-BLIS – a market interest group, which brings together standards organizations including OCF, KNX, DALI, BACnet, Thread Group, and Connectivity Standards Alliance to support the adoption of a secure, multi-standard IP-based infrastructure.
Mark Trayer, OCF Chair, comments: “This development is a milestone for OCF and for all IoT stakeholders wishing to take advantage of the highest levels of security on low power IP-based mesh networks. Until now, this hasn’t been possible. Now, however, an opportunity has been unlocked for low power devices on mesh networks, and the services and applications they run, to leverage a chain of trust built on OCF’s public key infrastructure (PKI) to ensure secure end-to-end encryption over IP. This unleashes lots of potential for organizations wishing to scale deployments without limitation, while maintaining simple and secure network control. For example, a network initially built as part of a smart city scheme to control street lighting can be scaled up securely over time to add in other real-time public services, such as air quality or traffic monitoring. Permission-based access can be granted to different stakeholders, ensuring they can only see data from their own applications. We’re excited by the possibilities presented by this platform and applaud Cascoda for leading the way with this development.”
Bruno Johnson, CEO of Cascoda and OCF Member, adds: “By combining the unique advantages of OCF and Thread’s low power wireless networking protocol into this now certified IoT platform, we have opened up the possibility for battery and energy-harvester powered devices to be uniquely addressable over the internet, while allowing them to benefit from the most advanced level of IoT security. As a result, we have eliminated the cost and complexity of the gateway. This opens up significant opportunities for those planning smart building and smart city infrastructure, where highly secure services can now be delivered through low power, IP-based mesh networks, covering large areas.”
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About Open Connectivity Foundation
The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) is a global, member-driven technical standards development organization. Its 500+ members are working to enable trust, interoperability, and secure communication between IP-connected IoT devices and services. It does this by fostering collaboration between stakeholders across the IoT ecosystem to deliver the freely-available ISO/IEC specifications, including the Secure IP Device Framework, its open-source reference implementation, and an industry-recognized certification program. This enables innovative new secure use cases and user experiences, reduces development costs, integration complexity and time to market, and simplifies regulatory compliance to IoT security and privacy baselines.
OCF members work across the enterprise layers of infrastructure, applications, and data. They collaborate to co-create and deploy systems in an open and standardized way, enabling devices to communicate over IP, regardless of form factor, operating system, service provider, transport technology, or ecosystem.
The vertical-agnostic technology has already seen significant adoption in the smart home sector and is now enabling the transition to secure, intelligent, Building Automation Systems (BAS) based on IP connectivity networks.
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About Thread Group
Formed in 2013, the non-profit Thread Group is focused on making Thread the foundation for the internet of things in homes and commercial buildings. Built on open standards, Thread is a low power wireless networking protocol that enables direct, end-to-end, secure, and scalable connectivity between IoT devices, mobile devices, and the internet. And, because Thread is IP-based, it seamlessly integrates with many environments, apps, devices, and clouds. The Thread Group provides a rigorous certification program to ensure device interoperability and a positive user experience. Thread is backed by industry-leading companies including Amazon, Apple, Google/Nest, Lutron, Nordic Semiconductors, NXP Semiconductors, OSRAM, Qualcomm, Siemens, Silicon Labs, Somfy, and Yale Security.
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Analysts predict there will be upwards of 25 billion devices on the Internet of Things by 2020. But for device manufacturers, the fragmentation of standards, especially the lack of a cohesive interoperability strategy, has hindered innovation opportunities to maximize interop and increase market share.
Benefits of Open Standards and Open Source
OCF’s Specifications are truly an open standard committed to broad scale interoperability. The Open Connectivity Foundation enables manufacturers to leverage all of the benefits of an open source, open standards community to quickly create and implement reliable, secure device discovery and connectivity across operating systems, platforms, transports, and vendors.
The IoTivity Open Source Project is an independent open source project hosted in GitHub, allowing manufacturers to design products and innovate new applications by utilizing the code and OCF Specifications, bypassing the need to develop to every physical transport or operating system in order to maximize interoperability and market size.
With nearly 15 liaison agreements with industry leading organizations, OCF works with industry groups encouraging them to share their data models for reuse. OCF's tooling encourages the design of interoperable device data models for IoT, enables users to create simple models for any IoT device (using Open API Specification (OAS2.0) and JSON) in a matter of minutes.
The easy-to-integrate architecture of IoTivity and the openness of OCF's data models enables manufacturers to convert these organizational liaisons into working interoperable implementations, lowering the overall cost of development.
Expand Across Devices and Industries
OCF Specifications allow manufacturers to drive interoperability across different devices and vertical uses, expanding their market opportunities by interconnecting with other IoT things. OCF interoperability further lowers manufacturer’s development costs by reducing the number of multiple SKUs of the same product that would be required to support multiple transports to meet differing industry needs.
To learn more about how OCF is enabling the Internet of Things by allowing your offerings to go beyond verticals, please click here.
OCF Bridging Framework
By developing to the OCF stack and utilizing OCF’s Bridging Framework, manufacturers are able to span multiple vertical industries and maximize their development investment to increase cross-market opportunities. Additionally, OCF bridging capabilities enable companies to fully integrate OCF certified products into proprietary and legacy solutions without losing their current investments. For more details view the OCF Bridging Specification here.
Serious IoT Security That is Easy to Implement
Because OCF Specifications include a common security framework to manage device to device communication, manufacturers can focus on increasing innovation and expanding their market share without worrying about adding additional security layers. End users can rest assured that OCF certified products maintain an exacting standard for secure interoperability and ease of management to address future security concerns and updates. To learn more about OCF Security Framework go here.
Interview with Bruno Johnson at the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF)
We caught up with Bruno Johnson, CEO of Cascoda and Vice Chair of the Marketing and Communications Working Group of Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) to find out about the foundation, from what it is the foundation does to the challenges the foundation has overcome in the past…
What is the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF)?
Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) is the leading Internet of Things (IoT) standards organization, formed by key industry players to address interoperability and security issues facing the IoT industry. OCF has designed, developed and published application-layer IoT protocols that solve today’s IoT issues using the universally supported Internet Protocol (IP) and robust open standards.
Read the full interview via TechRound.
New Survey Highlights Importance of Interoperability in the Internet of Things
73 percent of respondents agree industry standards are imperative for technological innovation, according to a new survey conducted by the Open Connectivity Foundation.
Beaverton, Ore., – February 22, 2017 – The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), a leading Internet of Things (IoT) standards body, today announced the results of a survey conducted at CES 2017. After surveying 250 respondents, the results conclude that more than 60 percent of respondents consider standardization and interoperability when it comes to purchasing connected devices, cybersecurity concerns, and overall technological innovation in our society.