osgi in the residential market
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OSGi in the Residential Market
Andreas Kraft
Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories
November 16th, 2011
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• A lot happened in the last 10 years. • In-House LAN’s and wireless technologies became ubiquitous.
• Capable equipment is much more affordable today.
• Credible functional and business requirements exist. • Smart Grid and Energy Savings.
• Health Care and Ambient Assisted Living.
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A much clearer view
A mature technology
• OSGi technology matured in the enterprise market
while still being compatible with embedded devices.
• OSGi plays a vital part in the implementation of the
residential ecosystem.
• The Residential Expert Group provides answers to
residential requirements.
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Why remote management?
• Millions of households, millions of different
infrastructures.
• Customers are challenged to plan, operate
and maintain small-office-like networks.
In their free time.
Frustrating and expensive.
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Why remote management?
• Remote management helps operators to manage home
networks for their customer.
• Remote management pushes structured approaches to
configuration data and component representation.
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Newsflash!
Standards co-operate!
• The OSGi Alliance cannot provide all solutions alone.
• Experts from various consortia are working together to
build a remote management infrastructure for the home.
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Newsflash!
Standards co-operate!
• Home Gateway Initiative • Defines requirements for the home gateway’s Software Execution Environment.
• Organizes test events for the integrated hardware and software.
• Broadband Forum • Amended the TR-069 suite of protocols to enable the remote management of
software execution environments.
• UPnP Forum • The Device Management WG works on specifications to manage software
modules on connected home devices and configurations.
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The OSGi Residential Specification
• Public review draft available now!
OSGi Service Platform, Residential
Specification Release 4, Version 4.3
• The specification bundles the services required by the
HGI’s HG Requirements for Software Execution
Environment.
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The OSGi Residential Specification
• Three new and revised services • Configuration Admin Service Specification, Version 1.4
• Dmt Admin Service Specification, Version 2.0
• TR-069 Connector Service Specification, Version 1.0
• Two guidelines & specifications • Residential Device Management Tree Specification
• TR-157a3 Software Module Guidelines
• And more Log Service, Http Service, Device Access, Metatype Service, User Admin Service,
Initial Provisioning, UPnPtm Device Service, Declarative Services, Event Admin,
Tracker, XML Parser Service
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What makes a residential platform?
• An open and managed execution environment.
• Application security and reliability is ensured.
The customer’s privacy is cared about.
• An open domain-specific SDK to enable interoperability.
• Continuous support for future connected home
technologies.
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The road ahead
• Support customers to choose proper technologies.
Ensure and maintain a high level of interoperability.
• Operators need to prepare for the diversity of
connected homes.
• Integrate commodity hardware characteristics in future
service gateways.
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The road ahead
• More than one application vendor will deploy and
operate services on a service gateway. • How to manage and monitor resources and the correct operation?
• How to ensure security and privacy for the data?
• The OSGi Residential Expert Group will continue to
work on specifications to build the residential market.
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Thank you!
Andreas Kraft
Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories
Winterfeldtstraße 21-27
10781 Berlin, Germany www.laboratories.telekom.com
[email protected] www.twitter.com/t_labs
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