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.

15th Nov. 2011

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
  • ppl 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)
  • Arduino as a target
• Setup a Mosquitto instance at Eclipse
• Ubuntu version of Mosquitto
• 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 30th or 31st of January in London?
• Interested parties
  • Ian: should we try to recruit at least one carrier in the IWG?
    • Yes, but we need an actual roadmap first