IoT at EclipseCon 2014

With EclipseCon starting in less than 3 weeks, I am starting to be really excited!

It is going to be my 7^th EclipseCon in North America, and I wouldn’t miss it for the world! Of course, this year we have lots of great content around IoT (more on that below), but what I really love about EclipseCon is that you get to meet all the people who make Eclipse, and more importantly those who use the technology every day. I usually enjoy discussing in the hallways as much as attending the presentations, and I am always impressed to see how many new faces I see each year!

So yes, this year is going to be packed with great IoT content, and I would highly encourage you to attend EclipseCon for the following reasons:

MQTT tutorial on Monday

You’ve likely heard about MQTT before. It’s an open protocol for the Internet of Things that has lots of open-source implementations available as part of Eclipse Paho and Mosquitto projects.

On Monday 17^th, Julien Vermillard and I are running a tutorial where you’ll get to know more about the protocol, and how to use it in real-life scenarios.

Also on Monday, there is an MQTT interoperability test day, with several companies and projects testing their clients and server implementations against each other.

Hackathon on Tuesday

On Tuesday 18^th, if you have spare time in-between the regular sessions and the Vert.x Day (which I am really looking forward to since I really want to learn more about it), you may want to attend the annual Hackathon.

It’s a great opportunity to meet with Eclipse committers and fellow contributors, and I really hope to see many bugs fixed by newcomers during that day! I will definitely attend and you sould certainly come talk to me if you are interested in contributing to the Eclipse IoT projects and don’t know where to start. By the way, several other committers from the IoT space should be there too!

IoT day on Wednesday

Whether you are still wondering what the heck is the Internet of Things, or you have sort of figured it out already, then I am happy to announce that we have a really good mix of talks lined up for the IoT day on Wednesday 19^th!

If you want to learn more about the challenges of building IoT solutions, and get answers to the following questions:

…and many more, then I highly encourage to participate!

You can register for the IoT day only for $200, although I would highly encourage you to stay for a bit longer! 🙂

I am starting to be really excited with EclipseCon starting in less than 3 weeks.

So yes, this year is going to be packed with great IoT content, and I would highly encourage you to attend EclipseCon for the following reasons:

MQTT tutorial

You’ve likely heard about MQTT before. It’s an open protocol for the Internet of Things that has lots of open-source implementations available as part of Eclipse Paho and Mosquitto projects.

On Monday 17^th, Julien Vermillard and I are running a tutorial where you’ll get to know more about the protocol, and how to use it in real-life scenarios.

Hackathon

On Tuesday 18th, if you have spare time in-between the regular sessions and the Vert.x Day (which I am really looking forward to since I really want to learn more about it), you may want to attend the annual Hackathon.

It’s a great opportunity to meet with Eclipse committers and fellow contributors, and I really hope to see many bugs fixed by newcomers during that day! I will definitely attend and you sould certainly come talk to me if you are interested in contributing to the Eclipse IoT projects and don’t know where to start – and many other committers from the IoT space should be there too!

IoT day

If you still wonder what the heck is the Internet of Things, or if you sort of figured it out already, then I am happy to announce that we have a really good mix of talks lined up for the IoT day on Wednesday 19^th!

If you want to learn more about the challenges of building IoT solutions, what are some of the Eclipse projects tackling some of these challenges, and finally hear about some real-life use cases then I highly encourage to participate! You can register for the IoT day only, for only $200.

Tags eclipsecon, iot, m2m, vertx

Eclipse

Key takeaways from the IoT Day GrenobleKey takeaways from the IoT Day Grenoble

Post author By Benjamin Cabé
Post date February 21, 2014
1 Comment on Key takeaways from the IoT Day GrenobleKey takeaways from the IoT Day Grenoble

On Wednesday the Eclipse Foundation together with Grenoble’s Computer Science Lab (LIG) organized an IoT day.

It was a pretty cool event, with 100+ participants and really good presentations. In particular, I liked the mix in the attendance: people with a research background, people coming from the M2M and telco industry, and also a significant number of students who are very enthusiastic about IoT.

There was a perfect mix of technical talks and feedback from industrials, with of course great conversations during the breaks.

For me, the 3 key takeaways of the day are:

1 Security. Lots of connected objects of our daily life are running on outdated Linux kernels, or secured via “credentials” like admin/admin. While some security issues are to be addressed at the human level, the true challenge of bringing security to IoT will necessarily involve open-source initiatives and open collaboration.
As Pierre Dubois explained in his talk, having access to the code that our objects run is crucial, and not just in an ideological/idealistic way: the inherent complexity of IoT makes it mandatory to be able to know how the technologies involved really work.

2 LWM2M and CoAP are getting traction. I was surprised to see that several attendees are evaluating very seriously, or even already started building solutions based on LWM2M for device management.
Fortunately, we will have very soon two projects at Eclipse for doing LWM2M as well as pure CoAP, respectively the Wakaama and Californium projects.

3 OSGi and modularity. We had several presentations during the day that were focusing on home automation use cases.
Such use cases illustrate in a very tangible way the need for modular and dynamic architectures: as sensors, lightbulbs, etc. come and go on your local network, you very likely want your application to adapt accordingly. At Eclipse, projects like Kura and SmartHome leverage OSGi for easing the development of IoT gateways.

All in all it was a great event, and I am looking forward to having more of those in the future. If you are interested in co-organizing a similar event please let me know!

Check out the Flickr set for more pictures of the event. Videos of all the talks will be available shortly.

Header image is Laurent Espitallier via Compfight.

On Wednesday the Eclipse Foundation together with Grenoble’s Computer Science Lab (LIG) organized an IoT day.

There was a perfect mix of technical talks and feedback from industrials, with of course great conversations during the breaks.

For me, the 3 key takeaways of the day are:

All in all it was a great event, and I am looking forward to having more of those in the future. If you are interested in co-organizing a similar event please let me know!

Check out the Flickr set for more pictures of the event. Videos of all the talks will be available shortly.

Header image is Laurent Espitallier via Compfight.

Tags events, grenoble, iot

Eclipse

Moving on!

I very well remember my first day at Sierra Wireless, when it was still a different company named Anyware Technologies.

That day I wrote my very first Eclipse plug-in to customize the Console view, and I was almost immediately and genuinely amazed by the versatility of the Eclipse platform.

Later on, I had the chance to work on many projects involving a great deal of Eclipse technologies (eRCP, EMF, Xtext, …), and to work on very different kinds of projects: developing an Eclipse workbench for scientists, a mobile app for doctors and nurses, or training dozens of people to Eclipse RCP and Modeling technologies, etc.

When Sierra Wireless started to get really serious about Machine-to-Machine we soon realized that the Eclipse Foundation would be the perfect place to start establishing an open consortium around the core technologies that are needed for building M2M solutions.
I drafted a charter for an M2M Industry Working Group, and in November 2011 the Working Group was officially created with Sierra Wireless, IBM and Eurotech as founding partners.

Two years and a half later, we have gone from 3 to 13 Eclipse projects, from 3 to 9 members of the Working Group, and the community is thriving.

Today, after more than 7 years working at Sierra Wireless, it is time for me to move on.

I am joining the Eclipse Foundation next week, to continue growing the already great community of Internet of Things projects and playing the role of technology evangelist I’ve been having for the last couple years.I am very thankful to all my colleagues & friends at Sierra Wireless with whom I learnt a lot, and I am very excited to soon becoming a part of the Eclipse Foundation family! :)I very well remember my first day at Sierra Wireless, when it was still a different company named Anyware Technologies.

That day I wrote my very first Eclipse plug-in to customize the Console view, and I was almost immediately and genuinely amazed by the versatility of the Eclipse platform.

Two years and a half later, we have gone from 3 to 13 Eclipse projects, from 3 to 9 members of the Working Group, and the community is thriving.

Today, after more than 7 years working at Sierra Wireless, it is time for me to move on.

Tags anyware technologies, Eclipse, iot, m2m, sierra wireless