Re: [aaloa supporters] News -- submitted project proposal on ZigBee integration with the OSGi Platform
Dear Francesco and Kay, my comments follow On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:30, Francesco Furfari francesco.furf...@isti.cnr.it wrote: Dear Kai, this is a very good news. We will be happy to contribute to the requirements, as well as to work on the reference implementation when the specification will be ready. Concerning Z-Wave I tried time ago to get their specification but it wasn't open. Is there anybody in AALOA who have experience with such technology ? Yes, as far as I know, the Z-Wave specification are available only for Z-Wave Lincesee, and I'm wondering if it may cause any IP issue for the definition of the open specification. Kind regards, Francesco Il 22/12/2010 11.07, Kai Hackbarth ha scritto: Dear Francesco, all, some of you may know that the OSGi Residential Expert Group started to work on new requirements for REG specification release 5. We are also planning to define standardized APIs for ZigBee and Z-Wave. The general idea that Francesco introduced is inline with what are planning to do at REG. We will start working on requirements documents next year and you kindly invited to participate in this activities. I keep you informed. Yes, I have to join my happiness to Francesco's one, I'm really looking fordward to contribute either to requirements and to interface specification! Moreover, IMHO, I believe that it could be one of the best channel for spreading the name of AALOA among the OSGi community. Regards, Kai Ciao, Stefano Kismet Lenzi ___ Supporters mailing list Supporters@aaloa.org http://aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/supporters
Re: [aaloa supporters] News -- submitted project proposal on ZigBee integration with the OSGi Platform
Dear Francesco and all, My vote will be provided in a separate email but I include here remarks on the Zigbee driver project. As already mentionned by Antonio (Trialog) and Roberto (Uni. Zaragoza), we have developed in MonAMI two drivers for Zigbee Wireless Sensors network, one by Unv Zaragoza, one by Trialog. The two approaches use different Zigbee implementation (Ember for Uzaz) and (TI for TRIALOG). The objectives of these two approaches were twofold : 1. to proof that the OSGi4AMI interfaces (Application Interfaces representing sensors and actuators independantly from the type of the network) can be implemented easily by two different teams. 2. to validate that the OSGi4AMI interfaces are comprehensively defined to enable the interoperability of applications. The objective 1 was demonstrated. The objective 2 shows in some cases that the key issues is there : an application interface such as OSGI4AMI is a must for interoperability of applications but this is not sufficient: for interoperability, the behaviour of devices themselves are generally not totally identical and therefore the driver shall take into account these differences. In your project, I see some proposals to take into the above issues : The use of the Zigbee Cluster Library will help for interoperability at the level of Application Interfaces. However for AALOA, one of the primary objectives is the definition of the Application interfaces of the drivers. This interface cannot be the Zigbee-based on the ZCL, but something more generic and I do not see that approach in your document. Therefore I would recommend the AALOA board to vote for the Zigbee Project but a first task of this project would be to define the Device API. In that goal, I recommend to use as input the OSGi4AMI proposal (note that this name is misleading : the OSGI4AMI interfaces are not depending on OSGi, nor Java. This is mainly an ontology of devices, then mapped into Java interfaces). Bruno _ Bruno Jean-Bart Connectivity Products Services TRIALOG, 25 rue du General Foy, F-75008 Paris - France http://www.trialog.com Tel Direct : (33 1) 44 70 61 08, Fax :(33 1) 44 70 05 91 _ Le 16/12/2010 15:07, Francesco Furfari a écrit : Dear Supporters, today I submitted a first project proposal to the Governing Board of AALOA. Even if the project was already announced, it was a needed action in order to define the process for submitting a project proposal. The governig board will decide whether the project proposal is alligned to the AALOA mission and consequently will allocate the requested resources. In particular this proposal is one of the outcomes of the PERSONA project (http://www.aal-persona.org/) that finished with excellent evaluation few days ago. As described in the Manifesto the leader proposing the project will be part of the AALOA Governing Board. We don't have a formal proposal template so far. I thought to the following sections: 1. Motivation for incubating the project 2. Description of the codebase or the input material for the project 3. Simple roadmap and invitation to contribute ( how the AALOA community could help) 4. People involved (e.g. the list of initial committers in case of software projects) 5. An optional expression of interest on the project incubation. ( list of people internal or external to AALOA ) I invite all of you to read the proposal for the ZigBee 4 OSGi project, help to advertise the project (when accepted) and help to contribute to the further development and testing. Please, if you have any doubt about project proposal submission, don't hesitate to post your questions, they will help to create a FAQ on the topic. Kind regards, Francesco ___ Supporters mailing list Supporters@aaloa.org http://aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/supporters ___ Supporters mailing list Supporters@aaloa.org http://aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/supporters
Re: [aaloa supporters] News -- submitted project proposal on ZigBee integration with the OSGi Platform
Of course my vote is a +1 (non-binding) as developer of the ZB4OSGi project Ciao, Stefano Kismet Lenzi On 16/12/2010 15.07, Francesco Furfari wrote: Dear Supporters, today I submitted a first project proposal to the Governing Board of AALOA. Even if the project was already announced, it was a needed action in order to define the process for submitting a project proposal. The governig board will decide whether the project proposal is alligned to the AALOA mission and consequently will allocate the requested resources. In particular this proposal is one of the outcomes of the PERSONA project (http://www.aal-persona.org/) that finished with excellent evaluation few days ago. As described in the Manifesto the leader proposing the project will be part of the AALOA Governing Board. We don't have a formal proposal template so far. I thought to the following sections: 1. Motivation for incubating the project 2. Description of the codebase or the input material for the project 3. Simple roadmap and invitation to contribute ( how the AALOA community could help) 4. People involved (e.g. the list of initial committers in case of software projects) 5. An optional expression of interest on the project incubation. ( list of people internal or external to AALOA ) I invite all of you to read the proposal for the ZigBee 4 OSGi project, help to advertise the project (when accepted) and help to contribute to the further development and testing. Please, if you have any doubt about project proposal submission, don't hesitate to post your questions, they will help to create a FAQ on the topic. Kind regards, Francesco ___ Supporters mailing list Supporters@aaloa.org http://aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/supporters -- Stefano Lenzi Voice: +39 050 315 2887 ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR Fax:+39 050 315 2040 via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa Mobile: +39 328 489 3270 (entrance 20, 1st floor, room C66) Email: stefano.le...@isti.cnr.it ___ Supporters mailing list Supporters@aaloa.org http://aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/supporters
