Hi Gregg. As a member of IoTivity Steering Group I really appreciate your feedbacks and we will have a IoTivity meeting in person in conjunction with OCF this week and try to come up with solutions...
Thanks. Daniel, ----- Daniel Park, Ph.D. Samsung Open Source 2016. 11. 6. ?? 12:12? "Gregg Reynolds" <dev at mobileink.com>?? ??: > I hope this will be of interest to the Iotivity community. I attended the > Smart > Home Summit 2016 <https://tmt.knect365.com/smart-home/> in Palo Alto last > week (NB: the webpage says 2017 but the content appears to be from last > week's event). > > I asked Iotivity-related questions at a half-dozen or so sessions and the > most common reaction was "What's Iotivity?" Some people did know about it, > and at least one OCF member was a sponsor, but in general awareness of > Iotivity seems to be quite low. Awareness of Alljoyn seemed much higher. > > On the other hand, one of the discussants on a panel on interoperability > argued strongly that real interoperability requires an application-level > protocol and common data model, as opposed to mere interconnectivity. But > also lots of people recommended just picking a technology and getting to > market asap, and let the market pick the winners. So Iotivity would seem > to be well-positioned if it can get a little marketing support. Or maybe > this will be a case where software developers drive corporate awareness. > > More generally, pretty much everybody agreed that the smart home has not > lived up to the hype - it's been stuck at the far end of the "early > adopters" phase of the adoption cycle for several years. Reasons: too > expensive, still too complex (e.g. to turn on your lights you have to find > your cell phone, find an app, find the right screen, etc.), too siloed > (interop), and in general remains a solution in search of a problem. > Recommendations: industry should stop talking about technologies > (platforms, protocols, etc.) and start focussing on user experience, make > their devices interoperate, look to voice input for control, etc. Notably, > the big platform players had minimal presence; Amazon sent an Echo > evangelist, and the president of the Thread Alliance was on a few panels, > that was about it. The impression I got was that it remains unclear to > everybody whether the market is going to go to the Big Platforms or move to > more open solutions. So there is still plenty of opportunity for Iotivity. > > hth, > > Gregg > > _______________________________________________ > iotivity-dev mailing list > iotivity-dev at lists.iotivity.org > https://lists.iotivity.org/mailman/listinfo/iotivity-dev > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.iotivity.org/pipermail/iotivity-dev/attachments/20161108/642b82ea/attachment.html>
