Guy Martin, Senior Strategist from the Samsung Open Source Group, and Samsung's lead for the Open Interconnect Consortium's (OIC) Marketing Working Group, discusses the genesis of the OIC, what problems it is trying to solve, and how to get involved or utilize the common connectivity layer for IoT that the consortium is building.

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The Future of IoT
Why We Need the Open Interconnect Consortium
Guy Martin
Senior Strategist
Samsung Open Source Group

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Agenda
• IoT Market
• IoT Challenges
• The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC)
– Vision
– Strategy
– Value Proposition
– Membership/Operations
• OIC Roadmap for the Future
– Common Standard
– Open Source Reference Implementation
– How to Get Started

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Internet of Things
Market

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Internet of Things Market
• Gartner - IoT is ‘the most over-hyped’ tech of 2014
• Not a new concept – earliest modern IoT
references in 1990s
• Many stakeholders in the space
– Device Makers
– Corporate & ISV developers
– Consumers
– Service Providers
• Lots of predictions
– Cisco: 50 Billion devices by 2020
– IDC: IoT products/services worth $7.1 trillion by 2020
– Gartner: IoT products services worth $300 billion by
2020

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Internet of Things Market

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Internet of Things Market
• Significant market opportunities
– Device/Sensor Makers
– Consumer Electronics
– Software Developers
– Infrastructure (Cloud) Providers
– Service Providers
– ???

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Internet of Things
Challenges

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Internet of Things Challenges
• Different devices/capabilities
– Micro (no screen, embedded, etc.)
– Mini (wearables)
– Standard (mobile devices, tablets, etc.)
– Macro (SmartHome collections, Cloud, etc.)
• Different operating systems
• Different vendors
– How do you differentiate products?
• Security/data privacy
• Different user expectations

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OIC Overview

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Framework for a Solution (OIC)

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Open Interconnect Vision
• Connect the next 50 billion IoT devices
• Provide secure, reliable
discovery/connectivity across multiple
OSs/platforms
• Create a single solution for majority of
vertical markets
• Drive industry consolidation around a
common interoperable standard
• Build a broad industry consortium of
companies creating a scalable solution

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Open Interconnect Strategy
A unique combination of Standards and an Open Source implementation
• Specification, certification & branding to deliver reliable interoperability
– Connectivity framework that abstracts complexity for developers
– Open specification that anyone can implement
– IP protection & branding for certified devices (via compliance testing)
– Service-level interoperability
• Open Source implementation to enable developers and device makers
– Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Tizen, VX Works, single-threaded RTOSs
– Open governance model to allow for active code base contributors

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Open Interconnect Strategy
We need a way to
make IoT comms
as easy for
developers and
manufacturers as
connecting a
client to a server in
the Cloud.

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Open Interconnect Overall Value
“OIC is a standard and an open source
project that delivers “just-works”
interconnectivity for developers,
manufacturers and end users.”

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OIC Membership &
Operations

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Open Interconnect Consortium Members
Diamond
Platinum
Gold

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High Level OIC Governance Structure

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OIC Membership & Participation
• One legal entity with one set of bylaws
– Board of Directors has fiduciary responsibility (financial, legal, etc.)
– Sets up working groups to accomplish goals
– Work group/task group structure defined by operation guidelines, not bylaws
• Operational guidelines cover interactions/day-to-day operations
– Companies may participate at many levels (depending on membership level)
– Standards and Open Source workgroups have differences in operation/tasks

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OIC Intellectual Property Rights Policy
• OIC is a royalty free organization
• Open Source – Apache 2.0
– Copyright & patent coverage for submitted code
• Standard – RANDZ
– IP pool covering “Compliant Portions” of a member company’s products

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OIC Operational Structure

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OIC Membership Costs & Benefits

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OIC Compliance & Testing

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OIC High Level Schedule/Roadmap

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Summary & Next Steps

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How You Can Use OIC Technology
• Use the code from the open source project
– Open to any individual or company
– Availability will be announced soon – check www.openinterconnect.org
• Join as a Gold member
– Certify spec compliant apps and devices
– Use OIC branding
– Benefit from patent pool protection
– Go to www.openinterconnect.org for membership agreement, etc…

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How You Can Participate in OIC
• Contribute code to the open source project
– Open to any individual or member company
• Participate in standards development
– Open to Gold and above member companies and Individual members
• Vote on standards development; lead Work and Task Groups
– Open to Platinum and above member companies
• One Director appointed to Board by each Diamond member company
– After two years, two directors elected from Platinum member companies’
nominations

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Q&A
and THANK YOU for your time.
Guy Martin
guym@osg.samsung.com