The Open Connectivity Foundation ( OCF ) is an industry organization to develop standards, promote a set of interoperability guidelines, and provide a certification program for devices involved in the Internet of things (IoT). By 2016 it claimed to be one of the biggest industrial connectivity standards organizations for IoT. Its membership includes Samsung Electronics , Intel , Microsoft , Qualcomm and Electrolux .
7-448: The OCF delivers a framework that enables these requirements via a specification, a reference implementation and a certification program. IoTivity , the open source reference implementation of the specifications, is actively developed by different members of the OCF. The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) began as an industry group to develop standards and certification for devices involved in
14-496: A draft "cloud API" for cloud computing services in addition to device-to-device and device-to-cloud service specifications. By 2021, "diamond members" were Haier , LG Corporation and Samsung. IoTivity The IoTivity is an open source framework created to standardize inter-device connections for the IoT . Any individual or company can contribute to the project, and this may influence OCF standards indirectly. However, being
21-489: A member of the OCF can benefit from patent cross-licensing protection . The IoTivity architectural goal is to create a new standard by which billions of wired and wireless devices will connect to each other and to the Internet. In October 2016 they announced AllJoyn merger into Iotivity. The group hoped that devices running either AllJoyn or Iotivity would be interoperable and backward compatible. On October 10, 2016,
28-675: Is 2.0 was announced in September, 2018. Previously, there was a 1.3.1 release for the IoTivity Framework. Within the merging process with AllJoyn , the software license changed to Apache 2.0 Licence which makes it easier to other open source projects to include IoTivity and AllJoyn in more projects. The system uses the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) as its application layer which can uses several underlying physical layers as long as
35-575: The Internet of Things (IoT) based around the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). OIC was created in July 2014 by Intel , Broadcom , and Samsung Electronics . Broadcom left the consortium shortly after it was established, due to a disagreement on how to handle intellectual property. In September 2015 a release candidate of the specification in version 1.0 for the core framework, smart home device, resource type, security and remote access capabilities
42-858: The AllSeen Alliance merged with the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) under the OCF name and bylaws. OCF then sponsored both the IoTivity and AllJoyn open source projects. The merged groups announced that they will collaborate on future OCF specifications, as well as the IoTivity and AllJoyn open source projects, and current devices running on either AllJoyn or IoTivity will be interoperable and backward-compatible. The expanded OCF board of directors included: Electrolux, Arçelik A.S., ARRIS International plc, CableLabs, Canon, Cisco, GE Digital, Haier, Intel, LG Electronics, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung, and Technicolor SA. The release
49-483: Was released. By November, 2015, "diamond members" included Cisco Systems , GE Software , Intel and Samsung. On February 19, 2016 the OIC changed its name to the Open Connectivity Foundation and added Microsoft , Qualcomm and Electrolux . In November 2018 it was announced version 1 of the standard was ratified by International Organization for Standardization as ISO/IEC 30118-1:2018. In November, 2019, OCF released
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