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OCF Cloud Technology Enables Successful IoT Interoperability
By Ondrej Tomcik, Kistler Group
As OCF’s Chair of Cloud Technology, I am passionate about solving the critical issues that the IoT cloud-to-cloud communications face today, as well as addressing the absence of IoT interoperability. Today, cloud communications suffer from vendor lock-in and customers have trouble plugging non-interoperable IoT devices into different IoT platforms. It is nearly impossible to develop an IoT application that is cross-platform, and/or cross-domain. These issues are important to solve, as they ultimately prevent the emergence of IoT technology at scale.
OCF sees the massive potential for the IoT but recognizes that the market is fragmented. Discussions and collaboration among OCF members allow for a better understanding of how various IoT manufacturers and vendors operate. These discussions help guide OCF strategies, which are developed to mend the fragmented market and create a fully interoperable IoT. McKinsey Global Institute’s Internet of Things: Mapping the Value Beyond the Hype report points out the substantial connection between interoperability and the IoT’s predicted economic value. Particularly, the authors state that 40% of the market potential can be obtained with interoperability among IoT systems. Even though the value of interoperability is clear, it remains on a side-track, with more focus on proprietary vendor lock-in solutions. The IoT industry must shift its focus and realize the value of interconnecting devices and resulting economic gain. When assessing value, it is the number of connections that devices create, rather than the number of devices themselves.
Officially launched in July 2020, the OCF Universal Cloud Interface (UCI) standardizes connectivity between different manufacturer’s cloud servers and between devices and the cloud. To promote the OCF UCI and the ability to enable interoperability among cloud vendors, Kistler Group participated in the Bosch Connected World Hackathon (BCX2020) in February 2020. There, we were able to speak to different companies about OCF’s work and discuss the struggles that developers face. We found that most developers struggled with different data models, as well as obtaining and understanding the data. Making two different IoT solutions interoperable is not an easy thing to do. It’s not only about bridging the protocols, but also about the interoperability of the data model. Luckily, with OCF technology, even if the device comes from a different IoT Solution, we can map it to the standardized model that OCF defines.
At the BCX2020 event, we demonstrated how two IoT cloud offerings (Microsoft IoT Hub and Bosch IoT Things) can be interoperable on the cloud-to-cloud level. The Kistler team was able to successfully present Account Linking using OAuth2.0 as it is specified in the OCF UCI specification: After logging into the Bosch IoT Things, the user was able to use his Bosch IoT Dashboard to the Account Linking process with the Microsoft IoT Hub. Once there was successful authentication and consent approval, Bosch IoT was then allowed to communicate on behalf of the Microsoft IoT Hub user with his/her devices. As a concrete example of this communications, the user had a device with a light connected to Bosch IoT Things and a switch connected to the Microsoft IoT Hub. Both devices were visible in the Bosch IoT Things dashboard and the user was able to control the light through the interoperable cloud interface.
Following the success of this OCF C2C demonstration, Kistler Group continues to be an active OCF contributor and developer of the plgd cloud technology. I encourage developers to read the OCF Cloud specification and give it a try. It is both easy to implement and use. This technology will help ensure that you can communicate between your system with member IoT Devices over their cloud. In addition to OCF UCI, we have launched plgd, an open source OCF cloud reference implementation. This open source solution provides a complete set of tools and services so you can manage your devices at scale in a cloud native way. It is secure from the start, with end-to-end security built in. Developers can access the plgd open source solution on Github to begin taking advantage of OCF UCI today.
For more details on OCF UCI technology, read our previous OCF blog, which describes today’s cloud landscape and how OCF UCI solves the roadblocks to cloud Interoperability, security and partnerships.
Adoption of OCF’s standard grows with Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) recognition
14 February 2024 – The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) has announced that its Secure IP Device Framework (ISO/IEC 30118) has been adopted as a national standard in India. The standard, developed by a joint global collaborative effort, has been accredited by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), demonstrating the commitment of the Indian government to enabling trust, interoperability, and secure communication in its rapidly growing smart home and smart city ecosystems.
“We are excited to announce the adoption of the OCF Framework as a national standard in India. We have completed this adoption process following rigorous consultation and analysis,” said Ankur Basal, OCF India Forum member and Convenor for the BIS-LITD27 Work Group. “This recognition from the Indian government reinforces the credibility and reliability of the standard to play a significant role in supporting India’s aspirations for a more digitally connected society to support the wider realization of the Smart City Mission program in India.”
Strengthening IoT interoperability through standardization
India is working to deliver over 100 smart cities across the country to solve challenges associated with rapid urbanization. Smart cities can solve wider societal challenges such as transport management, healthcare, and energy consumption by providing and utilizing more accurate and up to date information, allowing everyone from governments to consumers to make more informed use of resources.
The OCF standard is poised to help solve these problems in India, as it provides businesses the opportunity to develop IoT technology based on OCF standards, ensuring interoperability between devices designed for use in smart homes and smart buildings. The standard will also support nationally connected smart city infrastructure as it is interoperable with industry standards such as oneM2M and MQTT which are currently in use. The OCF has several pilot projects for smart traffic management, health care, green energy and smart lighting in progress.
“We are pleased that the OCF Framework has been selected as a national standard in India as governments across the globe continue to realize the need to develop open infrastructure supporting smart city and smart home development,” comments Brian Bishop, OCF President. “This announcement showcases the potential for smart device innovation to be driven at a regional level as the OCF standard allows SMEs to create products, providing local governments in India the opportunity to develop new supply chains.”
An opportunity for national growth
The ability to use the Secure IP Device Framework ensures that future Indian IoT products and solutions will be secure by design and fit for a global market. OCF has done the legwork to map the standard to key industry and government IoT security baselines around the world. This means Indian developers can compile their compliance to IoT security baselines, as they will have already aligned with security requirements from standards such as NIST 8529, CAC2 Conveners, ENISA IoTSec, UK IoT Requirements and ETSI IoT Baseline Requirements through OCF certification.
Open Connectively Foundation and its members are ensuring that the interoperability needed for the Internet of Things exists, in order to create seamless, amazing experiences for end users. The OCF Certification Program includes conformance testing to ensure robust and secure connectivity, and to help manufacturers create products that “just work” with other OCF Certified IoT devices regardless of their form factors, operating systems, service providers or transports. India’s adoption of the OCF standard ensures clear routes for manufacturers are in place to allow them to create flexible products at scale.
OCF is the global, member-driven technical standards development organization working to enable trust, interoperability, and secure communication between IP-connected IoT devices and services.
Learn more about how OCF is enabling secure communications in smart cities and government infrastructure.
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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How Can the OCF Core Framework be Applied to Building Automation?
Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) recently formed the Smart Commercial Building project. The project is dedicated to connecting building automation devices on managed networks and intends to leverage and extend the existing protocols in building IoT.
One of the first project initiatives defines how the OCF core framework can be used to transport BACnet models. A new OCF white paper, “BACnet Gateway & OCF,” explains how OCF devices, especially sensors, can be used in a deployed BACnet system. This can be achieved by adding an OCF client to a BACnet gateway. Those interested in learning details about the integration of OCF with a BACnet gateway can read the free white paper today, which contains translation rules from OCF resources to BACnet objects.