On 13/02/2015 12:29, Jan Jongboom wrote: > - Do you think Firefox OS has the potential to be a viable IoT platform?
I think that making web technologies available in the usually deeply
embedded IoT platforms would definitely go hand in hand with Mozilla's
mission. While FxOS might currently be lacking some functionality (GPIO,
more sensor access, etc...) to be viable in that market I don't think it
would be hard to add it. Designing the APIs so that they would be
generally viable on the web might be more challenging though.
> Unlike the experiments we ran so far, we don't want to re-use phone hardware
> to make IoT dev boards, but work with a chipset maker to build an actual IoT
> dev board, with GPIO pins, but also with a phone featureset, which would make
> it a good competitor to Arduino/RPi/etc.
I'd rather work on making FxOS run on existing ones rather than
considering to design a new one. There's been work on making FxOS work
on the Raspberry Pi [1] but we're not completely there yet. Completing
the port would give us access to a cheap, easily available board and I
think it would also be easier than starting from scratch.
Gabriele
[1] (fxos-rpi) [meta] FxOS on RaspberryPi (RPi)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1001404
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