Talk that I gave about the intersection of Eclipse, open source, and open standards in machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT). This was given at the MSTF of the GSC meeting in Atlanta.

1. GSC MSTF Conference at Georgia Tech Research Institute – Atlanta, GA , USA – May 7, 2013
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GSC MSTF Conference
at Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)
Eclipse Foundation
Openness and M2M
Mike Milinkovich
Executive Director
Eclipse Foundation
Atlanta, GA, USA, May 7, 2013

2. Agenda
• Brief introduction to Eclipse
• What we’re doing in M2M
• Future steps
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3. Members of Eclipse
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4.  190 members
 10 Strategic Members
 1 Enterprise Member
 1017 committers, representing 100+ organizations
The Members of Eclipse
Strategic Members
Enterprise Members
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5. Vendor
Neutral
Governance
IP Mgt
Projects &
Process
Licensing
Model
Infra-
structure
Core Services
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6. Meritocracy
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7. Transparency
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Andrew Magill – flickr.com

8. Openness
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Chris J. Fry – flickr.com

9. Predictability
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Eclipse 3.0 Eclipse 3.1 Callisto Europa Ganymede Galileo Helios Indigo Juno
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
3
7
10
21
23
33
39
62
72
17 18
24
33
46
55
Projects Million LOC

10. Downloads
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11. So what are we doing?
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12. Communication
Infrastructure
Smart
Pill
Box
Heartbeat
Sensor
Weight
Scale
Blood
Pressure
Medical
Services
Gateway
Near field
Blood
Sugar
Internet
of Things
Patient
Clinical Trial
Doctor
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13. However…
The market is fragmented
– Hardware, software, protocols…
all different, independent
– Lack of integration…
between devices, to enterprise systems
M2M development is complex
– Many different skills required…
Hardware, Embedded, IT network, Telecom, web
– No common architectural guidelines
Current options are closed
– Monolithic solutions…
device specific, app specific, market specific
– Proprietary SDKs, protocols, potential vendor lock-in
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14. Open ecosystem for M2M
Third Party Ecosystem
Open M2M application
framework and runtimes
Open M2M communication
protocols
Internet of
Things
Open M2M
development tools
…
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15. protocolsframework tools
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16. hardware abstraction
server communication
application container
scripting engine
framework toolsprotocols
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17. framework protocols
unreliable networks
limited bandwidth
semantics
tools
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18. toolsframework protocols
develop
simulate
debug
deploy
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19. MQTT in a Nutshell
■ MQTT == MQ Telemetry Transport
■ In a nutshell
“A light weight event and message oriented
protocol allowing devices to asynchronously
communicate efficiently across constrained
networks to remote systems”

20. MQTT - Publish Subscribe Messaging
A Publish Subscribe messaging protocol allowing a message to be published once and multiple
consumers (applications / devices) to receive the message providing decoupling between the producer
and consumer(s)
A producer sends (publishes) a message (publication) on a topic (subject)
A consumer subscribes (makes a subscription) for messages on a topic (subject)
A message server / broker matches publications to subscriptions
• If no matches the message is discarded
• If one or more matches the message is delivered to each matching subscriber/consumer

21. Benefits of MQTT verses HTTP
■ Push delivery of messages / data / events
– MQTT – low latency push delivery of messages from client to server and server
to client
• Helps bring an event oriented architecture to the web
– HTTP – push from client to server but poll from server to client
• Efficient use of network
– For an M2M project the number of bytes with MQTT was 137130 bytes per device per month
with HTTP the number of bytes was 801000 bytes per device per month
• Reliable delivery over fragile network
– MQTT will deliver message to QOS even across connection breaks
• Decoupling and publish subscribe – one to many delivery
Source: http://stephendnicholas.com/archives/1217

22. M3DA Layered Architecture
Application Layer – M3DA::Message
– Specify access to the tree-oriented data
model
Transport Layer – M3DA::Envelope
– Enables authentication, encryption,
compression, …
Serialization Layer – Bysant
– Provides an efficient binary
serialization based on contextual
information
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HTTP
M3DA Transport
M3DA Payload
M3DA
Message
Command/Event/Data
Message
Command/Event/Data
…
Headers
- Device /Server Identification
- Security
auth, cipher, hmac, nonce…
- Compression
algo, dict selection, …
TCP UDP SMS*
Transport
Bysant Serializer
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23. • M3DA is an open-source, royalty-free
protocol
• Specifications and client reference
implementation of the protocol is available in
the Eclipse Mihini project (EPL license)
• Reference server implementation is available
on GitHub: M3DA server
M3DA Open-source
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24. Open Protocols
• MQTT has always been available royalty-free
– Now an OASIS TC
– operates under the Non-Assertion Mode of the
OASIS IPR Policy
• M3DA
– Specification and implementation are made
available under the Eclipse Public License
– Royalty-free patent license
– See http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mihini/M3DA_Specification
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25. Moving Forward
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26. Open Wins
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27. Developers are the new kingmakers
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28. “Open”?
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29. Open Source is the Freedom to
Control Your Own Destiny
OSS Freedoms*
Freedom 0
to run the program,
for any purpose
Freedom 1
to study how the program works,
and change it to
make it do what you wish
Freedom 2
to redistribute copies
Freedom 3
to distribute copies of your
modified versions to others
(*) As defined by the Free Software Foundation
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30. OSI: Open Standards Definition
• Goals:
– Any license (free, open or closed)
– Any implementation
– Any implementor
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31. OSI: Open Standards Definition
• No intentional secrets preventing
interoperable implementations
• Freely and publicly available
• Essential patents
– Royalty free or
– Non-assertion when practiced by open source
• No agreements on deployments
• Dependencies
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32. How to Win
• Open standards and open source are
complementary
• Open source implementations drive
– Developer adoption
• Essential to all adoption
– Interoperability
– Customer freedom
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33. protocolsframework tools
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34. GSC MSTF Conference at Georgia Tech Research Institute – Atlanta, GA , USA – May 7, 2013
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Questions?
Mike Milinkovich
mike.milinkovich@eclipse.org
@mmilinkov
Thankyou!