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Dear Francesco and all,<br>
My vote will be provided in a separate email but I include here
remarks on the Zigbee driver project.<br>
<br>
As already mentionned by Antonio (Trialog) and Roberto (Uni.
Zaragoza), we have developed in MonAMI two drivers for Zigbee
Wireless Sensors network, one by Unv Zaragoza, one by Trialog. The
two approaches use different Zigbee implementation (Ember for Uzaz)
and (TI for TRIALOG). The objectives of these two approaches were
twofold : <br>
<br>
1. to proof that the OSGi4AMI interfaces (Application Interfaces
representing sensors and actuators independantly from the type of
the network) can be implemented easily by two different teams. <br>
<br>
2. to validate that the OSGi4AMI interfaces are comprehensively
defined to enable the interoperability of applications.<br>
<br>
The objective 1 was demonstrated. <br>
The objective 2 shows in some cases that the key issues is there :
an application interface such as OSGI4AMI is a must for
interoperability of applications but this is not sufficient: for
interoperability, the behaviour of devices themselves are generally
not totally identical and therefore the driver shall take into
account these differences.<br>
<br>
In your project, I see some proposals to take into the above issues
: The use of the Zigbee Cluster Library will help for
interoperability at the level of Application Interfaces. However for
AALOA, one of the primary objectives is the definition of the
Application interfaces of the drivers. This interface cannot be the
Zigbee-based on the ZCL, but something more generic and I do not see
that approach in your document.<br>
<br>
Therefore I would recommend the AALOA board to vote for the Zigbee
Project but a first task of this project would be to define the
Device API. In that goal, I recommend to use as input the OSGi4AMI
proposal (note that this name is misleading : the OSGI4AMI
interfaces are not depending on OSGi, nor Java. This is mainly an
ontology of devices, then mapped into Java interfaces).<br>
<br>
Bruno <br>
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Le 16/12/2010 15:07, Francesco Furfari a écrit :
<blockquote cite="mid:4D0A1D24.8060809@isti.cnr.it" type="cite"> Dear
Supporters,
<br>
<br>
today I submitted a first project proposal to the Governing Board
of AALOA.
<br>
Even if the project was already announced, it was a needed action
in order to define the process for submitting a project proposal.
<br>
The governig board will decide whether the project proposal is
alligned to the AALOA mission and consequently will allocate the
requested resources.
<br>
<br>
In particular this proposal is one of the outcomes of the PERSONA
project (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.aal-persona.org/">http://www.aal-persona.org/</a>) that finished with
excellent evaluation few days ago.
<br>
As described in the Manifesto the leader proposing the project
will be part of the AALOA Governing Board.
<br>
<br>
We don't have a formal proposal template so far.
<br>
I thought to the following sections:
<br>
1. Motivation for incubating the project
<br>
2. Description of the codebase or the input material for the
project
<br>
3. Simple roadmap and invitation to contribute ( how the AALOA
community could help)
<br>
4. People involved (e.g. the list of initial committers in case of
software projects)
<br>
5. An optional expression of interest on the project incubation. (
list of people internal or external to AALOA )
<br>
<br>
I invite all of you to read the proposal for the ZigBee 4 OSGi
project,
<br>
help to advertise the project (when accepted) and help to
contribute to the further development and testing.
<br>
<br>
Please, if you have any doubt about project proposal submission,
don't hesitate to post your questions,
<br>
they will help to create a FAQ on the topic.
<br>
<br>
Kind regards,
<br>
Francesco
<br>
<br>
<br>
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