The Institute for Information Industry (III) , Taiwan, has formed a close partnership with the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) and has been fully engaged in helping Taiwanese firms to obtain international certifications. OCF and III held the conference on “Next Generation IoT Architecture” on June 7th at Taipei World Trade Center, where Dr. John Joonho Park, the Executive Director of OCF, gave updates on OCF and its strategy for 2018 and 2019, and OCF members, including VIA Technologies, Lynx Technology, and Microsoft Taiwan shared the latest development of IoT technologies and applications.
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III partners with OCF to lead the development of the IoT industry with various AI and smart home applications
Will IoT Standards Finally Solve the Pain Points of Interoperability and Security?
I’ve long contended that until all things Internet of Things can get their security pains and interoperability challenges between IoT devices sorted, all the efforts at innovation are wasted and consumers are being short-changed.
We’ve seen in the news this week of the “Connected Home over IP” working group, a collaboration of Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance, but I’ve recently been even more interested to hear the recent announcement of OCF-over-Thread, a collaboration between two leading IoT standards bodies — Open Connectivity Foundation and The Thread Group and implemented by Cascoda. This is a huge collaboration for not only existing stalwarts but also hardware startups that are yet to be created.
The aim is to help ensure a secure and interoperable IoT for the future by simplifying highly secure, scalable, low-power IP-based IoT product development. I spoke to J. Clarke Stephens, Board Member and Technical Contributor of the Open Connectivity Foundation to found out more.
Read the full article by Cate Lawrence via DZone.
OCF Celebrates Pulse Systems’ Installation of Newly Certified IoT Platform for Smart Lighting
02 December, 2021 – The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) has announced the first installation of the recently-certified low power IoT platform , from OCF member Cascoda, that combines the end-to-end security benefits of OCF and the low power, wide-area coverage advantages of Thread. Pulse Systems, together with its lighting partner Industry Lighting, has designed, built and deployed a smart lighting installation using the wireless platform. Installation is taking place in a joint office and warehouse environment for a UK-based logistics company.
Open, international standards enabling innovation
The security and privacy features offered by the OCF specifications enabled Pulse Systems to develop a secure building management system (BMS), with cloud-based and local management control of the lighting infrastructure over public or private internet, or via an authorized smartphone app. The solution integrates Pulse Systems and Cascoda’s technologies into standard LED light fittings to support secure wireless connectivity and an array of integrated sensors. This allows preventative maintenance, presence detection and light-level sensing for dimming and energy saving, and a heat mapping function to trace footfall through the building. The system can be quickly and easily scaled to support other applications such as environment and occupancy sensing.
“The commercial real estate industry needs to reduce energy and carbon by 2050. This system demonstration allows building owners to begin navigating these requirements,” comments Kevin Davies, Company Director at Pulse Systems. “Here, we’re starting with the smart lighting and additional sensors for warehouses, but the technology can extend to securely connect all kinds of smart infrastructure. Digital certificates, enabled by the OCF standards, are at the heart of this. The client gets complete control over their lighting infrastructure, allowing for automation and energy savings based upon occupancy, daylight harvesting and dimming, all controlled via the cloud with no need to commission expensive on-site control systems.”
Collaboration to achieve business objectives
“Working on this wireless smart lighting solution with Pulse Systems and their partner Cascoda has really pushed our business forward, both in terms of capability and alignment with our end client’s environment, sustainability & governance objectives,” adds, Paul Howland Co-Founder and Director at Industry Lighting. “Our customers are demanding more than just simple LED solutions and onsite building management hardware, they want secure cloud control and automation, more granular energy data and more responsibility from the supply chain to deliver additional capabilities. The OCF security framework and resources have enabled just that.”
The Thread wide-area mesh networking capability supports connectivity between the main office building, which hosts the IP access point, and a satellite warehouse over 40 meters away. The mesh network is also scalable, allowing simple deployment and integration of additional sensors and actuators.
The system’s security is based on X 509 PKI security certificates which protect the system from unauthorized access by verifying who is accessing the system and what they are permitted to do. For example, differing access rights and privileges can be allocated to installers, administrators, and local users. The secure by design architecture also protects against any local or cloud-based cybersecurity threats.
“This is a major milestone,” comments Mark Trayer, Chairman of the OCF Board of Directors. “Within weeks of the certification of the module, it is impressive to see Pulse Systems developing, manufacturing & installing infrastructure. Connectivity over IP is now secure where it wasn’t before. Nuanced, role-based management is now possible via cloud automation or locally. Data can now be managed across borders in line with different privacy regulations. This is all possible because of the security features of OCF. Business owners take note, end-to-end cloud-based BMSs can be deployed very quickly and easily, and you can own the whole end-to-end system.”
Implementing OCF standards in this way can help organizations with multiple sites to securely connect and manage infrastructure from a single server, anywhere in the world. Learn more about OCF’s ISO/IEC specifications, including the Secure IP Device Framework, its open-source reference implementation, and an industry-recognized certification program at https://openconnectivity.org/.
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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Open Connectivity Foundation Specification Achieves Recognition by International Standards and Conformity Committees, Driving Secure Interoperability Across the Internet of Things Worldwide
The International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission Joint Technical Committee 1 approved the Open Connectivity Foundation Specification as an Internationally Recognized Internet of Things Standard
November 27, 2018 — The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), a leading open Internet of Things (IoT) standards development organization, today announced that its OCF 1.0 specification has been ratified as an International Standard by ISO/IEC JTC 1 (Joint Technical Committee for ICT standardization of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)), marking a critical step in the OCF’s efforts to establish a common and secure language fueling IoT interoperability worldwide. The OCF standard will be published as ISO/IEC 30118 (Parts 1-6)…. [Read More]
DALI Alliance Joins IP-BLiS to Improve IoT Integration Across Smart Commercial Buildings
Along with BACnet International, KNX Association, OCF, Thread Group and the Zigbee Alliance, the group advocates the use of Internet Protocol as the secure backbone for lighting and building-automation services.
Piscataway, NJ –December 8, 2020
The DALI Alliance has joined IP-BLiS, the “IP Building & Lighting Standards” market interest group to support convergence towards using Internet Protocol (IP) transport and security mechanisms to simplify deploying, provisioning, and securing complex building systems.
IP-BLiS was launched in June 2020 by the leading standards organizations – BACnet International, KNX Association, OCF, Thread Group and the Zigbee Alliance. Together, these organizations support the widespread adoption of a secure, multi-standard, IP-based infrastructure as the backbone in commercial buildings for lighting and building-automation solutions.
The use of IP as the common networking protocol allows IT systems and building services, including lighting control, to operate on a secure, all IP-based configuration. As a result, building operators can expect end-to-end addressing and security; easy connectivity between previously-isolated applications; limitless scalability; better, faster and lower cost integration; and great flexibility and choice of both physical transports and applications.
“On behalf of all the leading lighting companies that comprise our membership, we are excited to join IP-BLiS and help to address the complexity and connectivity roadblocks in smart buildings,” said Paul Drosihn, General Manager of the DALI Alliance. “Internally, our team is making strong progress towards our first DALI over IP specification, which will enable DALI networks with wireless connectivity, as well as IP addressing and security.”
“DALI, as the leading digital lighting-control protocol, joining IP-BLiS is highlighting once again the importance of making commercial buildings more responsive to the needs of users by promoting a secure, multi-standard, IP-based harmonized IoT solution, which is fully in-line with the vision of IP-BLiS. With DALI as a new member, we see IP-BLiS confirmed in its previous activities and success in the IP-BLiS roadmap for the future,” said Casto Cañavate, Chair of IP-BLiS.
While IP-BLiS speaks with a unified voice to promote IP-based networking with common transport and security requirements, the organization will not create its own standards. Each participant is responsible for specifying its own technology. This allows companies to decide which solution or solutions works best for their business and use cases.
Similarly, IP-BLiS seeks to align security requirements for the industry, rather than reinventing them. Security issues are discussed in an IP-BLiS blog entitled “Common Myths About IP Networking for IoT.”
About IP-BLiS
IP-Building and Lighting Standards (IP-BLiS) is a multi-party liaison between existing standardization organizations—BACnet International, DALI Alliance, KNX Association, Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), Thread Group and Zigbee Alliance—who are working together to promote the move to a secure IP infrastructure. IP-BLiS is an initiative that envisions to make commercial buildings more responsive to the needs of users by promoting a secure, multi-standard, IP-based harmonized IoT solution. The IP-BLiS liaison parties, through collaboration and cooperation, will educate and influence the market regarding application framework standards over IP for commercial building connectivity through marketing and communications. More information: www.IP-BLiS.org
About the DALI Alliance
The DALI Alliance (also known as the Digital Illumination Interface Alliance or DiiA) is an open, global consortium of lighting companies that drives the growth of lighting-control solutions based on internationally-standardized Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) technology. The organization operates the DALI-2 and D4i certification programs to boost levels of cross-vendor interoperability. As lighting continues to evolve and converge with the IoT, the DALI Alliance is also driving the standardization of wireless and IP-based connectivity solutions. More information: www.dali-alliance.org
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