Evidence of the explosive growth of the Internet of Things is all around us. In our homes, vehicles, and workplaces, connected devices assist us with daily tasks and generally make our lives easier. But unlocking the full potential of the Internet of Things presents several challenges that the Open Connectivity Foundation is working to address.
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The OCF Automotive Project: Driving Global Interoperability and Adoption
Enabling A Secure Connected Automotive Ecosystem Through Industry Collaboration
The goal of the Open Connectivity Foundation’s (OCF) Automotive Project is to ensure seamless interoperability among the connected vehicles of tomorrow and connected devices, and cities. The project will deliver the technology, standards, and certification needed to facilitate interoperability with the Internet of Things (IoT).
Motivation
- Despite the significant momentum in the market towards autonomous and connected vehicle enablement, the business or technical models for connecting automobiles to the rest of the IoT ecosystem is not clearly defined. The OCF Automotive Project will change this by closely working with OCF members, automakers, existing automotive alliances, open source projects, device makers, and standards bodies to define and deliver the requirements for secure interoperability between connected vehicles and IoT.
- OCF members and global market leaders, including Samsung, Honeywell, SmartThings, ETRI, GRL, and Tinnos are collaborating on the project.
Open Specifications
- OCF is the largest international consortium comprising of more than 300 member companies that have clearly defined and agreed upon the data, security, and connectivity models for IoT devices and services in multiple verticals like SmartHome, Healthcare, etc.
- The OCF Automotive Project aims to define data models conforming to the above specifications for the automotive domain, to enable secure connectivity between vehicles and the existing OCF domains.
- The Project will generate data models.
- The automated process of the site enables crowd sourcing of data models that helps in rapid development of new devices and services for the IoT.
Breaking Through the Barriers
- Technology companies and car manufacturers agree the connected automobile is the next domain for disruptive innovation, but solutions and services currently in the market are mostly proprietary in nature.
- Common standards and open source implementations are the key drivers that will help the automotive industry to speed up development of new product, features and services –while addressing interoperability issues together.
A Secure Interoperable Future
- The OCF Automotive Project will deliver the data models, which in turn drive certification requirements. The certification process, delivered through multiple authorized labs around the world, help ensure that OCF compliant products are meeting security, safety, and interoperability requirements for IoT devices.
- The Project will also deliver an open source reference implementation of the OCF specification via IoTivity. The IoTivity open source community works with the specifications defined by the OCF to help develop the compliant implementation that helps developers to quickly address consumer requirements and bring exciting new features.
Endless Possibilities - How the Automotive IoT Will Affect the World
Initially, the project will deliver the specifications and open source for enabling cross vertical IoT use cases in automotive. The specifications can be used to develop:
1. A Vehicle data model translator (located in cloud or vehicle), enabling services like:
- Remotely unlocking only a trunk for package delivery or hood for maintenance
- Automatically signaling distress to a hospital emergency room or family members
- Asset tracking from a browser
- Fleet management for ride hailing/vehicle sharing services
- Vehicle customization based on consumer preference
- Remotely or automatically setting climate based upon time of day and outside temperature
- Work-aware vehicles
- OBD device interactions
2. Vehicles with OCF capability, enabling services and features such as:
- Unlocking vehicles over Bluetooth without cloud connectivity
- Advertise transportation availability for ride hailing/car sharing
- Automatically connecting with parking systems to identify available parking slots
Read more on the OCF Automotive FAQ page.
OCF Named an Implementing Reference in the NIST IoT Device Cybersecurity Capability Core Baseline
In the final release of the IoT Device Cybersecurity Capability Core Baseline, NIST has identified OCF as an example reference for each of the six core cybersecurity baseline capabilities. This is a reflection of OCF’s continued commitment to developing and driving secure interoperability for IoT devices through not only an open interface specification, but also with IoTivity, the open source implementation, and certification and developer programs. Critically, OCF has incorporated the needed and expected cybersecurity capabilities as articulated and recognized by government agencies into its specification and open source implementation. This is made evident in NIST’s inclusion of OCF as an example reference to help IoT manufacturers develop a deeper understanding of each of the following core capabilities:
OCF Highlights Interoperability Standards at CES Asia
Following our successful debut at CES Asia 2017, OCF returned to this year’s show at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre – not only with a booth but also a keynote address from OCF Executive Director John Park in front of a packed audience. The premier event for the consumer technology industry in Asia took place on June 13-15.
In addition to providing an overview of the Open Connectivity Foundation and emphasizing its role as the world’s leading IoT standards organization, Mr. Park … [Read More]
OCF Deployed in Korea LH Smart Home Project
Industry leadership from Korea Land and Housing Corporation overcomes significant IoT security, privacy and interoperability challenges with OCF
07 December, 2021 – The Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) has adopted the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) secure cloud-connected technology as the foundation for its national Smart Home Platform. This has helped LH to overcome significant IoT security, privacy and interoperability challenges. The initiative enhances residents’ living experiences through access to smart healthcare, intelligent safety systems, greater convenience through automation and improved energy management and control. All of this is achieved through the convenience and automation of the LH Smart Home.
Jin Meong Eo, Director of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation, adds: “We have made it our mission for all public housing to adopt smart homes. This is not only a response to the government’s digital policies. We are working to continue Korea’s leadership in innovation for the good of society. We are opening up access to healthcare, making living environments safer and saving energy to protect the world around us. OCF is one of the key components in helping us to achieve this in a secure, scalable way and that is why we chose OCF in our project.”
A secure- and private-by-design IoT smart hub in each home collects and analyzes IoT big data. It also features built-in fine dust and CO2 sensors, and helps residents to control 15 different types of device via an OCF-compliant Smart Home app. Based on this project, the goal is to continue to expand into public housing, with more than 223,000 households estimated by 2025.
Mr. Mark Trayer, Chairman of the OCF Board of Directors, comments: “Connecting IoT cloud environments with a range of devices and device types presents significant security, privacy and interoperability challenges. This is limiting consumers’ options and hindering market expansion. As governments work to connect infrastructure, proprietary IoT solutions can’t meet their requirements. Delivering a smart home service like this at scale both answers these challenges while improving tenants’ lives. This is true leadership from LH, and a model that can be replicated elsewhere.”
OCF collaborates with the IoT ecosystem to deploy and evolve the OCF ISO/IEC specifications, including the Secure IP Device Framework, its open-source reference implementation, and an industry-recognized certification program. All of this enables secure end-to-end implementations that encompass device-to-device, device-to-cloud, and cloud-to-cloud. The technology fosters competition, facilitates productivity, and drives innovation while aiding secure deployments with rapid development and simple integrations with IP networks and non-IP systems.
For more information on Open Connectivity Foundation and the Secure IP Device Framework, please visit: www.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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