XMPP-IoT
XMPP-IoT is the XMPP protocol with extensions for IoT (Internet of Things). To manage to get different companies talk to each other devices XMPP-IoT is a new initiative from XMPP.org to make interoperabilty happen. The xmpp protocol is an IoT ecosystem already today, with it being fully open, supporting different business models and with easy integration of devices between the involved companies.
Layout
Links to important documents relating to Internet of Things and XMPP:
IoT_XepsExplained
- XMPP IoT systems (Main page): Main page.
- XEPs Explained: Description of xeps and their interaction. If you are new to XMPP & Internet of Things, you should read this.
- IoT Examples: Mashup some examples from different industries, help finding new ones.
- IoT Support: Here we describe who support this and related work that can help you.
- IoT Interoperability: How we will keep everything truly interoperable.
- IoT Security: This is one of the strongest benefit of using XMPP.
- IoT XMPP Process: How is the process of the xep's and interoperability interfaces managed.
- IoT Constrained Devices: Going in to the world of restricted devices we need special care.
- IoT Local Environment: When dealing with home automation or a local network we need serverless or a local server configuration.
- IoT Http over XMPP: This extension extends the web to include devices in XMPP networks.
The IoT world
The term Internet of Things has many definitions Wikipedia definition but one of the cornerstones in all views is the seemless interaction between people and things.
Making people to people communication working. Has been the focus for the XMPP protocol suite for many years and it has succeeded in making the communication open and controllable through the XSF foundation.
On the M2M machine to machine area nothing like XMPP has ever existed. We have seen several "If you all do like me" (like Ionworks, KNX, Zigbee, Z-wave) and what they all have in common is that they all have gateways to IP
The evolvement of wifi and initiatives as ipso-alliance and IPv6 together brings the revolution of connected devices and M2M.
The big problem is that they are all trapped in business silos covered by clouds with exploding number of different API's making it very hard to create interoperable inventive services without creating your own hardware.
Goals of the XMPP-IoT effort
In the same manor as XMPP silently has created people to people communication interoperable. We are aiming to make communication machine to people and machine to machine interoperable.
Many of the cennected devices are
Width the federation of xmpp servers closed services with defined business models are possible but it is also possible to open up sensors to be used in smart cities and wider.
The Swedish "Sustainable Innovation" project sust.se (and the other state funded projects reported at iea.sust.se) are example of this it spans the domestic business models alarms, heating, ventilation, to create smart energy services it will use this XMPP solution
XMPP strengths
- Proven technology
- Security
- Efficient
XMPP weaknesses
- Provisioning, things that cannot answer friend requests.
The sensei/IoT ISO/IEC/IEEE P21451-1-4 The Xeps defined in IoT will also be base for other standardisation
Sources and links
Xeps in experimental
xep-0322 Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format
xep-0323 Internet of Things - Sensor Data
xep-0324 Internet of Things - Provisioning
xep-0325 Internet of Things - Control
xep-0326 Internet of Things - Concentrators
Protoxeps
Latest working material
Latest working material is put on Github as soon as available
Reference material and more to read
CollaborateCom_2012-Klauck_Kirsche.pdf
Authors of XMPP-IoT
Email: [email protected] JabberID: [email protected] URI: http://se.linkedin.com/pub/peter-waher/1a/71b/a29/
Email: [email protected] JabberID: [email protected] URI: http://se.linkedin.com/in/joachimlindborg/