The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) which is backed by big names in the industry, including IBM and National Instruments has announced the public availability of its Internet-of-Things (IoT) specification. The OIC Candidate Specification 1.0 includes core framework, smart home device, resource type, security and remote access capabilities.
The open specifications will be used to drive its IoTivity open source cloud-native architecture for IoT, documented in a formal specification that can be implemented in almost any way a developer chooses. OIC's cloud-native approach adapts cloud techniques for local use, enabling smooth integration between local and cloud use cases (for example local-to-local and local-to-cloud). Cloud-native architecture gives developers more flexibility, and means that even if developers start with a local-only approach, they need not re-architect to scale as their products become increasingly successful.
Mike Richmond, executive director at the Open Interconnect Consortium
The IT industry has looked to cloud pioneers to see how they handle millions of mobile devices and interactions, and has learned that only cloud-native design will reliably scale to handle the millions of IoT devices and interactions we expect to see in successful projects.
