How OSGi Alliance and its partners join forces to overcome market hurdles (first in smart home, now in IoT)

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HOW OSGi ALLIANCE AND ITS PARTNERS
JOIN FORCES TO OVERCOME MARKET
HURDLES
Susan Schwarze
OSGi Board Director and VP
Digital Home World Summit - June 4, 2014
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2. What is OSGi?
Hardware
Bundle
Bundle
Bundle
Operating System
OSGi
Java VM
Bundle (API’s; apps)
Driver Driver Driver
service interface
exported and
imported by bundles
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• Cross industry
modular
execution
environment
• Dynamic life
cycle
management
• Programming
model for
applications
• Global
ecosystem

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Close collaboration of SDO’s can provide
solutions for complex, end-to-end service delivery
home
network
WAN
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 RemoteManagementof SW environment& modules
Broadband Forum started to define a data
model and possible TR-069 changes for
the management of software modules on
the CPE.
 Gatewayarchitecture,functionsand functionalprofiles
The HGI defined a requirements
specification for “Software Execution
Environments on the HG” (RWD008-R3).
 DefinedAPI to gatewayfunctions
OSGi worked on a specification “Home
Gateway Device Admin” that provides
secure access for modules to the core
functions of a home gateway.
 Local Management
UPnP Forum provided a specification for
basic management, configuration
management, software management.
Service
Providers
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6. Adoption
AT&T Digital Life℠
Comfort Touch Panel
Building Automation and
Facility Management
Home Area Network and Cloud
for monitoring home,
energy usage and devices
Home automation system
run from the ClareCloud
QIVICON
Amdocs Connected
Home
Smart Home Gateways
/Cable Media Server
ICT Services
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SoC Smart
Home Platform
Smart grid enabled
domestic appliances

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8. Cooperation of SDO‘s for IoT solution
OSGi contributions
•Device Abstraction Layer
• https://github.com/osgi/design/tree/ma
ster/rfcs/rfc0196 (RFC 196)
• Global cooperation of key industry
actors and the European Commission
(SMART 2013/0077)
•Cloud PaaS
• https://github.com/osgi/design/tree/ma
ster/rfcs/rfc0183 (RFC 183)
• https://www.osgi.org/bugzilla/attachm
ent.cgi?id=46 (RFP 133)
•OSGi enRoute
• Framework based on OSGi to
facilitate modular app development
• https://github.com/osgi/osgi.enroute.bl
og
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9. Invitation to partner/influence/adopt/benefit
• OSGi DevCon 2014
• Colocates with QCon New York
• June 11-13, 2014
• New York, NY
• http://www.osgi.org/DevCon2014/HomePage
• OSGi Community Event 2014
• Colocates with EclipseConEurope
• October 28-30, 2014
• Ludwigsburg, Germany
• OSGi Workshops
• October 27, 2014
• Contact:
• www.osgi.org
• s.schwarze@prosyst.com
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