[aaloa supporters] News -- submitted project proposal on ZigBee integration with the OSGi Platform

[Bruno Jean-Bart]

Dear Francesco and all,
My vote will be provided in a separate email but I include here remarks 
on the Zigbee driver project.

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 :

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.

2. to validate that the OSGi4AMI interfaces are comprehensively defined 
to enable the interoperability of applications.

The objective 1 was demonstrated.
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.

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.

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).

Bruno

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Le 16/12/2010 15:07, Francesco Furfari a écrit :
>  Dear Supporters,
>
> today I submitted a first project proposal to the Governing Board of 
> AALOA.
> Even if the project was already announced, it was a needed action in 
> order to define the process for submitting a project proposal.
> The governig board will decide whether the project proposal is 
> alligned to the AALOA mission and consequently will allocate the 
> requested resources.
>
> In particular this proposal is one of the outcomes of the PERSONA 
> project (http://www.aal-persona.org/)  that finished with excellent 
> evaluation few days ago.
> As described in the Manifesto the leader proposing the project will be 
> part of the AALOA Governing Board.
>
> We don't have a formal proposal template so far.
> I thought to the following sections:
> 1. Motivation for incubating the project
> 2. Description of the codebase or the input material for the project
> 3. Simple roadmap and invitation to contribute ( how the AALOA 
> community could help)
> 4. People involved (e.g. the list of initial committers in case of 
> software projects)
> 5. An optional expression of interest on the project incubation. ( 
> list of people internal or external to AALOA )
>
> I  invite all of you to read the proposal for the ZigBee 4 OSGi project,
> help to advertise the project (when accepted) and help to contribute 
> to the further development and testing.
>
> Please,  if you have any doubt about  project proposal submission, 
> don't hesitate to post your questions,
> they will help to create a FAQ on the topic.
>
> Kind regards,
> Francesco
>
>
>
>
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