Posted by
Brian Frank | 01-Sep-09 3:47 PM EDT
With the release of Sedona this summer, Tridium has entered a whole new realm. Previously all of our software technology was based on Java, which meant it could only be applied with fairly hefty hardware solutions. But with Sedona we now have software technology which can scale down to edge devices and smart sensors. Parallel to scaling down our software technology, Tridium has become quite involved in what it takes to scale the Internet down to edge devices. The first step of this effort is Sedona's use of 6LoWPAN, but the end-game is the "Web of Things". I have detailed our vision for the Web of Things in a new whitepaper. I would encourage you to give it a read and help us make this vision come true!
Brian,
I read your article questioning as how suitable is applying the web paradigm to things ?
Things and humans are of different nature and HTTP was created for humans in the first place.Networked things will by far outnumber humans and will bring in different lower level requirements such as priority control, timing, data rate, security, bidirectionality, multicasting. The network of things will also be much more decentralized.
Remember that the web-of-things, is really more an extension of web services, rather than HTML web pages. This model is already extensively used in machine-to-machine communications today. It is just that today most of it occurs over Ethernet between server class machines. The of web-of-things is about how to extend web services to new network topologies and less resource capable devices. But in the end, we'll just get data from Sedona devices using normal URLs, HTTP, and oBIX.