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IoT/M2MIWG/Weekly call minutes
The Machine-to-Machine Industry Working Group is holding weekly calls.
Participation to these calls is restricted to members of the IWG, but the minutes are public.
Contents
15th Nov. 2011
Attendees
- Benjamin Cabé (Sierra Wireless)
- Gaétan Morice (Sierra Wireless)
- Jean-Yves Reynaud (Sierra Wireless)
- Scott DeDeugd (IBM)
- Arlen Nipper (Eurotech)
- Ian Skerrett (Eclipse Fdn)
EclipseCon feedback
- BoF
- About 10-12 interested people: home automation hobbyists, ppl working in companies interested in M2M
- We need to agree on a common terminology: Benjamin to initialize a page on the wiki
- We need to come up with a "big picture"
- People don't quite get how MQTT will address the fragmentation in terms of "local" protocols (Modbus, CANbus, …)
- clarify what MQTT is and what MQTT is not
- "Communication challenge" ahead: everybody has its own definition of M2M
- We need a roadmap!
- Modeling / Hobbyists
- People really interested by the approach where you work on the abstraction of what the application is doing (e.g. get a temperature every 10 min)
- Setup a Mosquitto instance at Eclipse to lower the barrier for people (inc. hobbyists) to prototype more easily?
- Deploy an Ubuntu version of Mosquitto at eclipse.org
- Set-up to be discussed with Eclipse webmaster (Arlen and Ian)
Paho update
- Code is ready to go. (3.0 version of MQTT)
- CQ for IP review to be open soon
- Proposal to be clarified re: server-side stuff
Koneki update
- Lua Dev Tools now available on the market
- Great feedback so far from the Lua community
EclipseCon 2012
- Benjamin to submit the proposal, Benjamin and Scott speakers.
- Ian suggest to submit technical proposals by Friday 18th! (Target "Mobile" and "Embedded" tracks)
What next?
- Roadmap
- Focus on what we think m2m/IoT should be
- Define the marketecture / big picture
- Everybody is encouraged to put ideas on the wiki
- Scott to put a first draft on the wiki for next week
- Arlen suggest to put together an FAQ
- Face-to-Face meeting
- Ian: face-to-face meeting purpose would be to come up with version 1.0 of the roadmap
- Face-to-Face meeting tentative at the end of January: 30th or 31st in London area
- Interested parties
- Ian: should we try to recruit at least one carrier in the IWG?
- Yes, but we need an actual roadmap first
- Ian: should we try to recruit at least one carrier in the IWG?