Huawei & InterDigital Demonstrate Open-Standard, IoT-Platform Interoperability
o Publishing of sensor device readings
to the platform and discovery of these
readings by applications.
o Issuing commands to actuator devices.
o Subscribing to the platform to receive
notifications if/when devices publish
new sensor readings.
o Securing access to devices and data
via authorization (i.e., access controls)
enforced by the platform
o Interworking between multiple
transport protocols (e.g. HTTP, CoAP,
MQTT)
o Interworking between multiple
content serialization formats (XML
and JSON)
Horizontal Testbed Program (OHTP), which
addresses the need for re-usable platform
capabilities, seemed a natural venue to test
IoT platforms based on the oneM2M
standard and to leverage the IIC’s aims of
encouraging member companies to use
horizontal platform capabilities.
The IIC’s Testbed Working Group forum
acted as a catalyst when InterDigital
introduced its horizontal platform ideas.
Huawei and other companies immediately
recognized the opportunity to demonstrate
that oneM2M is a good fit for industrial use
cases
and
multi-vendor
operating
environments.
Huawei and InterDigital representatives
agreed on a three-phase plan, covering a
period of one year, with progressively more
demanding test cases. The progress
reporting cycle mapped onto IIC’s quarterly
member meetings which became a venue to
bring additional IIC members into this work.
This endeavor still represents one of the
team’s primary aims.
The physical configuration for the testbed
involved Huawei hosting its IoT platform in
China while InterDigital’s platform was
hosted in the United States. Testing is being
carried out across the globe, depending on
the availability of individual testers. Some
devices are physically located in Huawei’s
facilities in China, while others are physically
located in InterDigital’s labs in the United
States.
IIC I NTERACTIONS
The oneM2M architecture maps quite well
to the Industrial Internet Reference
Architecture (IIRA) and the testing team
confirmed that the two are consistent with
one another.
In the initial stages of the testing, there were
some challenges due to slightly different
interpretation of the specifications and an
issue of access control to corporate
networks. These were minor issues so there
was no need to feed anything back to the
oneM2M standard.
oneM2M is also referenced in the Industrial
Internet Connectivity Framework. Huawei
plans to build on this early reference by
contributing to both the IIC’s Interoperability
and the Distributed Data Interoperability
Management Task Groups. This work will
demonstrate how oneM2M’s existing
capabilities and the new features in its
future release plan can help application
P LANNING AND M ANAGEMENT
F RAMEWORK
This testbed was the result of Huawei’s and
InterDigital’s existing relationships as well as
the ecosystem partnering opportunities
offered within the IIC. The IIC’s Open-
IIC Journal of Innovation
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