The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, today announced results from its 2023 IoT & Edge Developer Survey.

Administered by the Eclipse IoT Working Group and the Eclipse Sparkplug Working Group, the survey provides essential insights into IoT and edge computing industry landscapes, challenges developers face, and the opportunities for enterprise stakeholders in the IoT & edge open source ecosystem. Now in its ninth year, the survey is the IoT & edge industry’s leading technical survey.

“This year’s results yielded some very interesting trends, particularly those related to real-world use cases and technology choices,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation.

“What’s clear is that developers are actively building production solutions leveraging open source technologies to tackle today’s IoT challenges across industrial, agricultural, and municipal settings.”

The online survey was conducted from April 4, 2023, to July 5, 2023, during which 1,037 global developers, committers, architects, and decision-makers from a broad set of industries and organisations participated. Key findings include:

• Development is increasing across all IoT sectors. Industrial automation is once again the top area of focus (33%, up from 22%), followed by agriculture (29 %, up from 23%), building automation, energy management, and smart cities (all at 24%).

• Developers indicate that Java is the preferred language for IoT gateways and edge nodes, while C, C++, and Java are the most widely used languages for constrained devices.

• MQTT is the top IIoT communication protocol. Nearly half of developers (49%) indicate a preference for MQTT for IIoT communications, with MQTT + Sparkplug checking in at 8%.

• The withdrawal of IoT Middleware providers has created an opportunity for innovators to enter the market. Google Cloud IoT Platform, Bosch IoT Suite, IBM Watson IoT, and SAP Internet of Things all exited the market in 2022 or announced their intent to do so. While nearly half of respondents indicated a relationship with one or more of these providers, only 12% have migrated to a new provider.

• Control logic (40%) surpassed artificial intelligence (37%) as the most common edge computing workload. Does this imply a renewed focus on the practical aspects of delivering real-world solutions? Only time will tell.

• Software Supply Chain Security has become an essential issue for IoT/edge developers, with 70% saying it is vital to their work.

• 5G is enabling accelerated IIoT adoption. Cellular adoption has doubled since 2022 (44% vs. 22% in 2022) largely due to 5G penetration, while WiFi (38% vs. 36% in 2022), Ethernet (38% vs 29% in 2022) and Bluetooth (23% vs 20% in 2022) continue to be viable options.

The survey data contains further insights on developer choices for edge computing workloads, platform connectivity, developer concerns, and use case breakdowns by market. In addition, the report provides breakdowns of use cases by market and detailed recommendations on the next steps for IoT developers.

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The 4th annual survey reveals an increased enterprise reliance on open source technologies to accelerate the adoption of IoT and Edge Computing solutions.

The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source foundations, today announced the availability of its 2022 IoT and Edge Commercial Adoption Survey report, based on an online survey of more than 260 IoT and edge professionals conducted from April 1st to June 15th, 2022.

The survey’s objective is to gain a better understanding of the IoT and edge computing ecosystems by identifying the requirements, priorities, and challenges faced by organizations that deploy and use commercial solutions, including those based on open source technologies.

Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said:

“IoT and edge computing continued to accelerate in 2022 and into 2023 with no signs of slowing down, despite the current macroeconomic climate. These trends suggest that IoT and Edge are thought to be strategic investments that deliver true ROI. The open source model will only augment these benefits.”

Survey participants represent a broad set of industries, organizations, and job functions. Nine of the top conclusions drawn from the survey data include:

• IoT technologies are being adopted at an accelerated rate. 53% of respondents currently deploy IoT solutions and an additional 24% plan to deploy within the next 12 to 24 months, while 18% are currently evaluating deployments.

• Edge computing adoption is also on the rise. 53% of organizations are either utilizing or planning to utilize edge computing technologies within 12 months. Another 20% are currently evaluating the use of edge deployments.

• There is a shift towards higher investments into IoT & Edge. 23% of respondents project spending between $100K – $1M in 2022, growing to 33% in 2023. 10% anticipate spending over $10M and growing to 12% in 2023.

• There is a trend towards a larger number of IoT & Edge assets managed per deployment. Deployments of fewer than 1K managed assets will remain steady or decline, while larger deployments are on the rise. In terms of asset implementation, 52% are a mix of both greenfield and brownfield.

• More organizations now see IoT and edge as strategic, with spending decisions being driven at the executive level 38% of the time. This increased by 3% compared to the year 2021.

• 73% of organizations factor open source into their deployment plans. This clearly demonstrates that the dominant IoT & edge platforms will either be open source or based on open source. Only 27% of organizations using IoT and Edge technologies state they do not use open source technologies.

• The primary benefits of using open source according to respondents include: the ability to customize or influence code in projects (30%); flexibility (22%); as well as cost advantages (16%).

• The top 3 IoT and edge operational challenges are: 1) connectivity; 2) security; and 3) data collection & analytics.

• There is a trend towards a hybrid cloud strategy. 42% of respondents suggest that IoT deployments are using, or will use a hybrid cloud (i.e. composed of two or more distinct cloud infrastructures such as private and public).

The report also includes details on IoT and edge adoption by industry and the top concerns of commercial adopters.

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The Sparkplug specification that enables a “Plug n Play” Industrial Internet of Things Poised to become an Official ISO/IEC Standard.

The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, in collaboration with the Eclipse Sparkplug Working Group, today announced the release of the Sparkplug 3.0 specification.

Sparkplug is an open software specification that enables mission-critical operational technology (“OT”) clients to use industry standards, including MQTT, to seamlessly integrate data from their applications, sensors, devices, and gateways with most Industrial Internet Of Things (IIoT) Infrastructure. The Sparkplug 3.0 specification represents the first version of the specification managed under the Eclipse Foundation specification process. It also represents the proper formalization of the specification over the v2.2 release.

The goals for Sparkplug 3.0 are to leverage the Eclipse Foundation’s open and vendor-neutral specification process to clarify ambiguities in the v2.2 version and add explicit normative statements while maintaining backward compatibility. In addition, the Sparkplug specification has begun the process of transposition as an international standard at ISO/IEC, an independent, non-governmental international organization with a membership of 167 national standards bodies. To support this standardization effort, the Eclipse Foundation has obtained the status of Publicly Available Specification (PAS) submitter from ISO/IEC’s Joint Technology Committee (JTC) 1. The PAS process is a fast-track process enabling a specification to be approved as an ISO/IEC standard in less than a year, as opposed to a full-length process that can take up to four years. Already growing quickly, Sparkplug’s transition to approved industry standard specification should further speed its growth and acceptance throughout multiple industries.

“Today’s release of Sparkplug 3.0 represents a major milestone,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director for the Eclipse Foundation.

“This march to Sparkplug’s transformation into an official industry standard has come from significant industry-wide collaboration that continues under the auspices of the Sparkplug Working Group. We look forward to continuing to foster new partnerships to advance the adoption of MQTT and Sparkplug in the industry.”

The Sparkplug Working Group is simultaneously launching a product compatibility program for Sparkplug implementers. The program will ensure that Sparkplug-compatible products and implementations demonstrate a high degree of compatibility and interoperability.

About Sparkplug & MQTT

Sparkplug provides an open and freely available specification for how Edge of Network (EoN) gateways or native MQTT-enabled end devices and MQTT Applications communicate bi-directionally within an MQTT Infrastructure. It is recognized that MQTT is used across a wide spectrum of application solution use cases and an almost indefinable variation of network topologies.

By design, the MQTT specification does not dictate a Topic Namespace or any payload encoding. However, as the IIoT and other architectures leveraging the publisher/subscriber model are adopted by device OEMs in the industrial sector, having different Topic Namespace and payload encoding can inhibit interoperability for the end customer. To that end, the Sparkplug specification addresses the following components within an MQTT infrastructure:

• Sparkplug defines an OT-centric Topic Namespace.
• Sparkplug defines an OT-centric Payload definition optimized for industrial process variables.
• Sparkplug defines MQTT Session State management required by real-time OT SCADA systems.

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Oniro will provide a true open source solution to make multi-device hardware and software integration easier.

The Eclipse Foundation, an European open source foundation, furthering the recently announced cooperation with the OpenAtom foundation, announced today the launch of the Oniro project and working group.

Oniro aspires to become a transparent, vendor-neutral and independent alternative to established IoT and edge operating systems. To achieve this goal and ensure Oniro has a global reach, the Eclipse Foundation and its members will deliver a compatible independent implementation of OpenHarmony, an open source operating system specified and hosted by the OpenAtom Foundation.

Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said:

“Oniro is open source done right. It represents a unique opportunity to develop and host a next-generation operating system to support the future of mobile, IoT, machine economy, edge and many other markets.”

With the creation of the Oniro top-level project, the Eclipse Foundation aims to strengthen the global technology ecosystem, while bringing a vendor-neutral, open source OS to the global market. To facilitate the governance for the Oniro device ecosystem, the Eclipse Foundation is also launching a new dedicated working group. The Eclipse Foundation’s working group structure provides the vendor neutrality and legal framework that enables transparent and equal collaboration between companies.

“We’re very proud to be hosting a major European open source project with worldwide contribution aiming to develop an independent OS,” says Gaël Blondelle, vice president of European ecosystem development. “To achieve this, we want to welcome developers and companies from Europe and the rest of the world to join our working group at the Eclipse Foundation and bring this groundbreaking project to life together.”

“We have been working hard with Linaro, Seco, Array, NOITechPark, Synesthesia to prepare Oniro’s initial code contribution and public cloud CI/CD infrastructure, and it is so exciting to see everything moving under the expert governance of the Eclipse Foundation,” said Davide Ricci, Director of the Huawei’s Consumer Business Group European Open Source Technology Center. “Under the Eclipse Foundation the project will have its greatest chance at onboarding new contributing members and bringing real products on the shelves of consumer electronics stores around the world. We reckon Oniro is not a sprint, rather a marathon, and we are thrilled and committed to this world changing journey.”

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The 2nd annual survey reveals an increased enterprise reliance on open source technologies to accelerate the adoption of IoT and Edge Computing solutions.

The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source foundations, today announced the availability of its 2021 IoT and Edge Commercial Adoption Survey report, based on an online survey of more than 300 IoT and edge professionals conducted from January 12 to March 15, 2021.

The survey’s objective is to gain a better understanding of the IoT and edge computing ecosystems by identifying the requirements, priorities, and challenges faced by organizations that deploy and use commercial solutions, including those based on open source technologies.

Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said:

“IoT and edge computing technologies go hand-in-hand and these survey results tell a clear and compelling story. Real-world adoption is accelerating in both domains and open source is firmly established in production deployments across a range of industrial use cases.”

Survey participants represent a broad set of industries, organizations, and job functions. Five of the top conclusions drawn from the survey data include:

• IoT technologies are being adopted at an accelerated rate. 47% of respondents currently deploy IoT solutions and an additional 39% plan to deploy within the next 12 to 24 months.

• Edge computing adoption is also picking up. 54% of organizations are either utilizing or planning to utilize edge computing technologies within 12 months. Another 30% have plans to evaluate edge deployments over the next 12 to 24 months.

• 74% of organizations factor open source into their deployment plans, a 14% increase over the 2019 survey. This clearly demonstrates that the dominant IoT & Edge platforms will either be open source or based on open source.

• The top 3 IoT and edge operational challenges are: 1) End-to-end IoT solution monitoring and management; 2) Device management; and 3) Security (network/devices/data).

• There is a trend towards a Hybrid Cloud strategy. 44% of respondents suggest that their IoT deployments are using, or will use, a Hybrid Cloud (i.e. composed of two or more distinct cloud infrastructures such as private and public), an increase from 22% in 2019.

The report also includes details on IoT and edge adoption by industry and the top concerns of commercial adopters.

The IoT and Edge Commercial Adoption Survey is sponsored by the Eclipse IoT and Edge Native Working Groups. The adoption survey complements the annual IoT Developer Survey, one of the industry’s most influential surveys from the development front lines, which the Eclipse Foundation has conducted for the last seven years and will continue to produce. The Foundation’s IoT and Edge Native communities represent one of the largest open source collaborations in the world spanning 47 projects from 49 members and over 32 million lines of code produced. Eclipse IoT and edge projects have been adopted by leading organizations across a variety of verticals to deliver commercial IoT and edge-based solutions and services.

Quotes From IoT & Edge Native Working Group Members

“The IoT and Edge Commercial Adoption Survey not only provides valuable insights into how organizations are adopting IoT and edge technologies but also how open source is a vital part of their digital transformation journeys. The survey results showcase that the number of organizations incorporating open source technologies into their deployment plans has increased each year. Those looking to grow and evolve their organization should seriously consider integrating open source or open source-based IoT and edge platforms into their deployment plans,” said Deb Bryant, senior director, Open Source Program Office, Red Hat

“The IoT & Edge Commercial Adoption Survey Report provides valuable insights into market dynamics and trends in quite a unique way. We highly value the scope and professional execution of the survey as well as the relevance, way beyond a thriving commercially-friendly open source ecosystem we are proudly part of,” said Robert Andres, Chief Strategy Officer at Eurotech Group

“Survey report showcases how open source software technologies are enabling cutting edge developments across various industries,” said Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D. and Chief Technology Officer at ADLINK.

“Edge computing’s architectures definition and successive implementation is one of the most challenging areas I can personally think of nowadays. Sometimes it takes a lot of time just to understand why you need it. The IoT & Edge Commercial Adoption Survey is a great tool to understand what other businesses in the industry are planning to do and how,” said Nicola La Gloria, Ph.D. and Chief Technology Officer at Kynetics.

To find out more, interested parties can download the 2021 IoT & Edge Commercial Adoption Survey Report.

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The world’s largest open source IoT community uncovers developer trends focused on edge computing, AI, and security, with results detailing platform use, developer concerns, target markets, and more.

​Today on the first day of EclipseCon, the ​Eclipse Foundation​, the world’s largest open source foundation focused on the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the release of the findings of its 2020 IoT Developer survey.

Administered by the ​Eclipse IoT Working Group​, the objective of the survey is to provide essential insights into the IoT industry landscape, the challenges IoT developers are facing, and the opportunities for enterprise IoT stakeholders in the IoT open source ecosystem. Now in its seventh year, the survey is the IoT industry’s leading technical survey. For the first time, the survey also probes respondents about their use of edge computing, which will help influence the roadmap of the Eclipse Edge Native Working Group.

“As the Internet of Things continues to grow, so do the opportunities and challenges faced by IoT developers to add value to the industry,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation.

“This survey provides everyone, from hardware and software vendors to service providers and enterprises, with insights into how the latest IoT product and service development trends affect their strategies and businesses.”

From May to July 2020, 1652 individuals from a broad set of industries and organizations participated in an online survey. Five of the top conclusions drawn from the survey data include:

• In 2020, Smart Agriculture has emerged as the leading industry focus area

• Security (39%), Connectivity (27%) and Data Collection & Analytics (26%) are still the top three concerns for IoT developers in 2020

• Artificial Intelligence (30%) was the most frequently selected edge computing workload

• Privacy is a growing concern selected by 23% of respondents, as awareness of the issues increases among organizations and consumers alike

• Distributed Ledgers have gained momentum as a way to secure IoT solutions

• Java is the most widely used programming language at the Edge (20%) and in the Cloud (24%)

The survey data also includes details on edge computing workloads, top concerns by IoT developers, and breakdowns by market.

To find out more, interested parties can download the entire report and its ground-breaking insights ​here​.

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Leading open source community finds IoT adoption real and growing with results detailing spend, target markets, and relevant applications.

The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source foundations focused on the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced the release of its first annual IoT Commercial Adoption survey.

One of the first of its kind, this survey’s objective was to gain a better understanding of the IoT industry landscape by identifying the requirements, priorities, and challenges faced by organizations that are deploying and using commercial IoT solutions, including those based on open source technologies. This survey is distinct and separate from the IoT Developer Survey, the industry’s most influential survey from the development front lines, which the Eclipse Foundation has conducted for the last six years.

Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said:

“The Internet of Things is clearly one of the major technology trends today and a ubiquitous buzzword.”

“This survey, which we hope will be the first of an annual tradition, seeks to provide real insights into what organizations are doing with the IoT right now and their plans for production deployments.”

From October 7 to December 2, 2019, 366 individuals from a broad set of industries and organizations participated in an online survey. Five of the top conclusions drawn from the survey data include:

• IoT is real and adoption is growing, if slower than the hype would indicate. Just under 40% are deploying IoT solutions today and another 22% plan to start deploying IoT within the next 2 years.

• Caution rules in the IoT market, with 30% of organizations planning to spend less than $100K in the next year.

• IoT investment is on the rise, with 40% of organizations planning to increase their IoT spending in the next fiscal year.

• Open source pervades IoT with 60% of companies factoring open source into their IoT deployment plans.

• Hybrid clouds lead the way for IoT deployments. Overall, AWS, Azure, and GCP are the leading cloud platforms for IoT implementations.

The survey data also includes details on IoT adoption by industry, top concerns by commercial IoT adopters, and breakdowns by organizational role.

Quotes from Eclipse IoT Working Group Members

Bosch
“This new survey aligns with our own insights into the IoT industry and how organizations are embracing open IoT platforms and commercial offerings based on open source,” said Anita Bunk, Bosch.IO’s open source advocate and head of Marketing, Associate and Technical Communications. “We are seeing growing interest in our Bosch IoT Suite offering that is built upon Eclipse IoT open source. Our customers benefit from the open and transparent development that accelerates their ability to deliver real business outcomes.”

Eurotech
“The insights provided by this survey are exactly the kind of information vendors, solution providers, and other ecosystem stakeholders need to plan their next steps in this burgeoning market,” said Giuseppe Surace, Chief Product and Marketing Officer for Eurotech. “Based on open source, our Everyware IoT portfolio of building blocks, including our Everyware Software framework ESF and Everyware Cloud EC, addresses needs from the edge to the cloud, so any market intelligence on how companies are looking to consume end-to-end IoT solutions is extremely useful.”

Red Hat
“This survey is one of the first to truly tap into what industry leaders are actually doing about IoT right now,” said Deborah Bryant, senior director, Open Source Program Office for Red Hat. “The survey results highlight the important role of open source software in helping companies achieve their goals. This should be a wake-up call for any organization that has yet to evaluate solutions based on open standards and open source technologies as part of their IoT plans.”

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Eclipse Leshan open source project provides production ready implementation of new IoT device management standard.

The Eclipse IoT Working Group, a collaborative working group of the Eclipse Foundation, is pleased to announce the Eclipse Leshan open source project will support the newly ratified Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) LightweightM2M (LwM2M) 1.0 device management standard.

LwM2M has become an important Internet of Things (IoT) standard for managing low power and lightweight devices that are common for IoT solutions.

Eclipse Leshan is a Java based implementation of the LwM2M standard. It provides a LwM2M server implementation that can be incorporated into any IoT platform or solution. Eclipse Leshan incorporates some of the core IoT functionality required for device management, including access control, device connectivity, firmware update, location, and connectivity statistics.

Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, explains:

“A key strategy of the Eclipse IoT community has been to provide open source implementations of IoT standards. Therefore, we are thrilled about our close collaboration with the OMA to provide an open source implementation of LwM2M.”

“Eclipse Leshan’s production quality code will be available soon after the specification has been ratified.”

Eclipse Leshan has been in development since 2014. The project code has been downloaded over 30,000 times. The project is led by developers from Sierra Wireless and includes contributions from over 25 developers. Companies active in the Leshan community include Sierra Wireless, Bosch Software Innovations and many others.

A new milestone release of Eclipse Leshan 1.0, supporting the LwM2M 1.0 specification, was made available this week.

“OMA’s LwM2M standard is a powerful and yet simple technology that fulfills remote device management requirements for the IoT,” said Julien Vermillard, Principal Engineer, Sierra Wireless.
“Sierra Wireless started the open source “Leshan project” with the Eclipse Foundation as a way to promote interoperability, and our AirVantage IoT platform is compatible with Leshan. We believe the LwM2M 1.0 release will provide a stable foundation for the standard and support the growing Leshan and LwM2M communities.”

Eclipse Wakaama will also support the LwM2M 1.0 specification. Eclipse Wakaama is a C implement about the LwM2M specification.

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Open source technology will enable 9 million Java developers to build IoT solutions.

The Eclipse IoT community is making it easier for Java developers to connect and manage devices in an IoT solution by delivering an Open IoT Stack for Java. Based on open source and open standards, the Open IoT Stack for Java simplifies IoT development by allowing developers to re-use a core set of frameworks and services in their IoT solutions.

Why It Matters:

• The Internet of Things is a tremendous opportunity for organizations and developers to create new solutions that connect devices to the Internet.
• The complexity of creating IoT solutions makes it difficult for developers to deliver new innovative solutions. The current state requires developers to create proprietary and closed solutions that are locked into a particular vendor, don’t easily interoperate, and are slow to deliver.
• There are a number of emerging IoT standards (MQTT, CoAP, Lightweight M2M) that will make it possible for devices to connect and interoperate. Open source implementations of these standards will make it easier for developers to adopt these standards.
• There are 9 million Java developers that will bridge the world between enterprise and embedded development. Providing open source Java frameworks and services will make it easier for Java to become a language for IoT.
• Similar to the way the Internet evolved to run on an open source foundation (Apache, Linux, etc), the IoT’s success will hinge on the establishment of open source technologies at its core that everyone can use to enable connectivity and interoperability.

The Details:

• The Eclipse Open IoT Stack for Java is a set of Java frameworks and OSGi services that make it easy to connect and manage IoT solutions. The Open IoT Stack for Java includes support for 1) popular IoT standards: OASIS MQTT, IETF CoAP and OMA Lightweight M2M (LWM2M), and 2) a set of services for building IoT Gateways.
• A new version of Eclipse Kura 1.0 will be released at JavaOne. Eclipse Kura 1.0 provides a set of Java and OSGi service for building IoT Gateways.
• A new project called Eclipse Leshan will be announced at JavaOne to support LWM2M. Leshan will provide a Java implementation of the LWM2M server.
• In addition to the core Open IoT Stack, a set of industrial frameworks are available to accelerate the process of creating home automation and SCADA factory automation solutions.
• The Open IoT Stack for Java is supported by a large community of companies, universities and research institutions, including: 2lemetry, Actuate, Bitreactive, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, DC-Square, Eurotech, ibh Systems, IBM, LAAS-CNRS, openHAB, Ubuntu, Sierra Wireless, and 2lemetry.

Quotes from Community:

Oracle : Benjamin Wesson, vice president, product development, Oracle

“At Oracle, we are working hard to make Java the number one platform for the Internet of Things. The Eclipse Foundation’s Open IoT Stack for Java is a fantastic and welcome example of Java developers building another innovative and diverse ecosystem, this time for IoT solutions.”

IBM : “As the Internet of Things evolves, developers need greater access to technologies and standards to deliver innovative products and services to market. Our involvement in the Eclipse Paho project, alongside the Oasis standardization effort for MQTT, will accelerate the development of Internet of Things solutions across industries. IBM MessageSight and IBM Internet of Things Foundation beta are built on MQTT, enabling the open source community, and promoting flexibility and choice for clients.” – Michael Curry, VP, IBM

Eurotech : “Even before co-founding the Eclipse Foundation M2M (now IoT) Working Group, Eurotech embraced the open source philosophy. We have invested our development resources into creating and donating the Kura project to the community while also delivering it as a fully supported commercial offering through the Everyware Software Framework. We appreciate the innovations and contributions of the talented and generous Eclipse community and look forward to exciting enhancements and revolutionary projects in the coming days, months and years.” – Marco Carrer, VP of Software Development for Eurotech

Deutsche Telekom : “Telekom has been an Eclipse Foundation solution member since July this year. We are convinced that we will take the development of our QIVICON Smart Home solution further forward with the support of the large developer community and its outstanding know-how. To do so we are integrating the Eclipse Smart Home project into our core platform. As we would like to promote Eclipse’s work at the same time, we have not only joined the IoT working group but are also contributing to the Eclipse Smart Home project by actively participating in the open source project’s development.” – Holger Knöpke, Head of Connected Home, Deutsche Telekom.

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The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce that the Eclipse M2M Working Groupcontinues to make significant progress in establishing an open source software ecosystem for Machine-2-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) development.

Eclipse M2M has added new open source projects, new releases of existing projects, new members, and new product announcements from member companies.

M2M, which deals with connecting different types of machines and devices via a network, is one of the fastest growing technology segments – by some estimates approaching $100 billion. This new technology segment presents a number of software development challenges due to the complexity of the hardware and network architectures, lack of open standards, and issues of interoperability between vertical solutions.

The Eclipse M2M Working Group is a collaboration of companies and organizations focused on developing open source protocols, frameworks, and tools for M2M software development. The goal of the Eclipse M2M Working Group is to make it easy for software developers to create M2M applications that are based on open standards and open source technology. Eclipse M2M has three existing open source projects – Koneki, Mihini, and Paho – that provide open source technology for M2M developers.

New M2M Projects
Four new open source projects are being proposed to join the Eclipse M2M community:

1. Ponte is a framework that will allow reading and writing of data from sensors and actuators via M2M protocols, accessible via a REST API. Ponte will also provide the ability to convert and exchange data between protocols. The initial protocols that will be supported include MQTT (a proposed OASIS standard) and CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol). Eclipse Paho hosts the reference implementation of MQTT.
2. Eclipse SCADA is an open source implementation of a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system typically used to monitor and control large scale industrial processes, e.g. solar farms. Eclipse SCADA will provide connectivity to a variety of industrial devices, a monitoring system to create alarms and events, recording of historical data and a framework to build custom user interfaces and visualizations on top of those functions.
3. Concierge is an implementation of the OSGi core specifications that is well suited for embedded and mobile devices. Concierge will target a footprint with a jar file size of less than 400KB, allowing it to run on devices that have limited resources.
4. Kura is a Java and OSGi based application framework for M2M service gateways. Kura will provide a set of common services for Java developers building M2M applications, including I/O access, data services, network configuration and remote management.

Project Updates and Contributions
The existing Eclipse M2M projects continue to develop and release open source software for M2M developers. Some key new features and contribution for these projects include the following:

• Mihini
  The initial code contribution, provided by Sierra Wireless, is now available for Mihini. Mihini, a Lua-based framework for M2M gateways, provides connectivity management to ensure reliable network connection, provides an abstraction layer for underlying hardware and protocols, and enables the smart transmission of data between devices and servers.
• Paho
  Paho provides open source implementations of the proposed OASIS MQTT protocol. In the last six months Paho has received community contributions for MQTT client implementations in Python, JavaScript, and Objective-C.
• Koneki
  Koneki is a Lua-based IDE with its first official 1.0 production release included as part of Kepler, the annual Eclipse release train. Koneki 1.0 featured updated support for the new Lua 5.2 runtime and new remote development support for the Mihini framework.

Commercial Adoption of Eclipse M2M projects
A number of new product announcements from leading M2M companies have included Eclipse M2M technology.

• Sierra Wireless AirVantage M2M Cloud platform has recently announced support for the Mihini framework that allows users to build applications running on open hardware, such as Raspberry Pi, which connect with the Sierra Wireless AirVantage Cloud Platform.
• The Sierra Wireless AirLink GX and LS series Intelligent Gateways use Mihini and Koneki as part of the ALEOS Application Framework that supports rapid development of embedded M2M applications
• The recently launched IBM MessageSight offering is a new messaging appliance designed for M2M and mobile environments. It is capable of supporting millions of concurrent sensors or smart devices and can scale up to 13 million messages per second. MessageSight supports the MQTT protocol and MQTT clients from Eclipse Paho. Sprint is the first mobile carrier to adopt IBM MessageSight and is using the technology to deliver advanced connected car services.
• Eurotech Everyware Cloud 3.0 platform allows for device-independent M2M applications to connect sensors and devices with back-end business processes and reports. Everyware Cloud 3.0 includes MQTT support from Eclipse Paho and is based on the technology proposed in the Eclipse Kura project.
• The Axeda Machine Cloud ® supports open source protocol standards including Eclipse Paho. Axeda Ready Gateways can now support MQTT networks by listening to any MQTT broker. This allows for support of local MQTT sensor and device networks as well as connectivity between MQTT device networks and the Axeda Machine Cloud.

New Members of the Eclipse M2M Working Group
IBH Systems GmbH has joined the Eclipse M2M working group. IBH provides software solutions and consulting with focus on the oil and gas and renewable energy industry. Their employees are also the founders of the Eclipse SCADA project.

IBH will join the existing members of the working group: Axeda, Eurotech, IBM, and Sierra Wireless.

More information about Eclipse M2M is available at m2m.eclipse.org.

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The Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group (IWG) was established in November 2011 as an industry collaboration with the purpose of creating an open platform of tools and frameworks to simplify the creation of M2M and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

The goal of the group is to break down the silos that often occur between M2M applications and enable interoperability among different M2M devices, M2M servers, and enterprise applications.

After six months, the participants have made substantial progress toward making available the open source technology to support this mission.

• Java and C/C++ source code for the MQTT client reference implementation is now available as part of the Eclipse Paho project. MQTT is an M2M connectivity protocol that is useful for connections between small devices over low bandwidth networks. The Eclipse Paho project provides the reference implementation for the MQTT protocol. A contribution of an MQTT client implementation in the Lua language has also been proposed by Andy Gelme.
• The source code for a new M2M application framework has been made available. The purpose of this framework is to provide a consistent workflow for M2M development, and to allow M2M applications to interact with different device types and communication protocols. Creating a consistent framework will enable interoperability and information sharing between M2M applications.
• The Eclipse Koneki project has made available a Lua development tools environment and an integrated simulator for the OMA-DM protocol. Lua is a popular programming language for embedded and M2M development. Koneki provides Lua developers with an Eclipse-based IDE similar to what is available to Java and C/C++ developers. OMA-DM is a device management protocol. The new OMA-DM simulator allows developers to test interactions between a simulated M2M device running in Eclipse, and an OMA-DM server.

The Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group is open to participation by any individual or organization working on M2M solutions. The current active participants include Band XI, Eurotech, IBM, and Sierra Wireless.

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Sierra Wireless and the Eclipse Foundation today announced the formation of a new Industry Working Group to define and implement an open standard platform for the software development tools used in developing machine-to-machine (M2M) communications applications.

IBM and Eurotech are also founding members of the M2M Industry Working Group, which is open to any organization with an interest in M2M solutions, including both vendors and potential clients.

“M2M communications represents an exciting and challenging opportunity to positively impact the way our world operates in fields as varied as energy management, transportation, and healthcare,” said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation.

“We believe the formation of this M2M Industry Working Group comes at a critical time. The open source contributions of M2M tools and protocols will help to reduce development time and costs, and ensure that mission critical systems maintain interoperability as deployments evolve over the lifetime of a project.”

The market for M2M solutions is growing, but rapid growth is hindered by incompatible platforms and protocols that require developers to continually reinvent solutions that have already been created. This situation slows innovation and creates maintenance and upgrade problems as deployments evolve over time. The founding members of the Industry Working Group believe the creation of open tools, open protocols, open interfaces and open application programming interfaces (APIs) are the best approach to addressing these problems, bringing tremendous value to the M2M ecosystem.

“The Eclipse Machine-to-Machine Industry Working Group and the related open source projects will enable customers to integrate physical world systems into their enterprise solutions,” said Dr. Angel Diaz, vice president, software standards, IBM Software Group.

“Data is being captured today as never before, the Eclipse M2M initiative helps expand the spectrum of information and intelligence into the systems and processes that make the world work and become a smarter planet.”

The M2M Industry Working Group is the umbrella for M2M-related Eclipse projects for open source, the first of which is the Koneki project. The goal of Koneki is to provide M2M solution developers with tools that ease the development, simulation, testing/debugging and deployment of such solutions. The initial open source contributions provide a common set of tools and APIs that simplify development of solutions across multiple environments (such as Linux, Java, and proprietary environments such as Open AT® from Sierra Wireless), as well as standard communications protocols. The benefit to M2M customers is more flexibility, with systems that are interoperable and don’t lock them into a long-term relationship with a single solution vendor. Sierra Wireless has made the first significant contribution to the Koneki project, providing a full-featured embedded development environment for the Lua programming language.

“We consider it critically important to provide the M2M developer community with the tools and support needed to deploy applications as efficiently as possible, and ensure that they can be easily maintained over time. Because of this, we have been developing Eclipse-based tools for many years,” said Emmanuel Walckenaer, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Solutions and Services for Sierra Wireless.

“This collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation and our other working group partners is an extension of our commitment to build an open M2M ecosystem, not only for the benefit of our customers, but also for the long-term development of the industry.”

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