Huawei & InterDigital Demonstrate Open-Standard, IoT-Platform Interoperability
standards. During the third phase, Huawei
introduced interworking functions, between
OSGi and oneM2M, into the scope of work.
Test cases demonstrated interworking
between the InterDigital system and
Huawei’s OSGi gateway.
arriving at slightly different interpretations
of the specifications.
During testing, one should always make sure
that things operate seamlessly in all
situations. The idea is that one should be
able to pick up devices that conform to a
Figure 2 Example test-case: prepare a sensor to publish data to a subscriber application
specified standard from various vendors and
make them work together seamlessly.
Exposure of the testing project with the IIC
has laid the foundations for more intensive
testing along the lines of the third phase and
involving other companies with their
oneM2M-compliant devices.
I N C LOSING
In the context of the IIC’s testbed program,
the focus on this testbed has always been on
interoperability, between platforms and
between applications. It is important to
strike a balance as to where to invest efforts.
For example, one can invest a lot of time
building an algorithm to optimize an
industrial operation and not spend nearly
enough time on the technology or the
platform that enables the application. The
latter is important because whenever an
organization needs to replicate something or
add to it, it is all too easy to fall into the trap
of re-inventing the wheel. A standardized
solution eliminates this.
There were not many bottlenecks or
challenges encountered during testing,
apart from time-zone differences for China
and USA-based team members. It was
mostly straightforward other than some
issues with interpretation of the
specification and provisioning. However,
those issues were sorted out via
configurations.
One of the key lessons learned was that
although we followed and conformed to the
same standard there was still the issue of
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