An Analysis Of No-fuss Internet Of Things Systems

The numbers are staggering. Gartner predicts that the Internet of Everything or the Internet of Things -- autonomous communication between a wide variety of everyday devices, objects and applications ? will add $1.9 trillion to the global economy by 2020. McKinsey Global Institute pegs the potential economic impact at $2.7 trillion to $6.2 trillion by 2025. ABI Research says the amount of wirelessly connected devices on the market, now 10 billion, will triple by the conclusion of the decade.

There has been attempts to solve this interoperability challenge the old-fashioned way. Some vendors have tried to corner industry with proprietary solutions -- a crippling contradiction when the fundamental requirement of the Internet of Everything is interoperability across vendors and brands. Standards-setting initiatives have cropped up -- inefficient when, say, every company that produces a tiny light switch needs to implement a 500-page technical spec.

The solution here's clear: Open source is the perfect, neutral staging area for collaboration that will give you the interoperability layer needed to really make the Internet of Everything a reality. When everyone jointly develops and uses exactly the same freely available code, companies can develop innovative services on top of it and encourage them to market faster. This is the reason many the gadgets industry, the high-performance computer industry, the world's stock exchanges, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Twitter and every Android device count on the Linux kernel. Why would all them to use and produce non-differentiating infrastructure software that needs a development pace of 10,000 lines of code a day?

This is exactly why we're so excited to today announce the AllSeen Alliance. The AllSeen Alliance could be the broadest cross-industry consortium to date specialized in advancing adoption and innovation in the Internet of Everything in homes and industry. Founding members of the AllSeen Alliance include a lot more than 20 of the world's leading, gadgets makers, home appliances manufacturers, service providers, enterprise technology companies and chipset manufacturers, including Haier, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Sharp, Sears, Silicon Image, TP-LINK and Cisco, among others.

AllSeen Alliance members will contribute software and engineering resources included in their collaboration on an open framework, on the basis of the AllJoyn open source project, that enables hardware manufacturers and software developers to create interoperable devices and systems that could discover, connect and communicate directly with other nearby products regardless of brand. This goes far beyond simply defining a typical and hoping people will adopt it. This really is working code that everybody can freely use. By adopting the same code base this project will enable higher quantities of compatibility required for a world of billions of connected devices.