| 12月17日消息，据外媒EETasia报道，高通在开源联盟方面付出巨大努力，已争取到23个组织采用其AllJoyn支持软件，并有了一个新名字AllSeen。
号称物联网产品间的“胶水”，AllSeen是高速中间层网络设备不计其数的标准和选项之一。它将与例如Java展开竞争，Oracle（甲骨文）今年正在大举进军物联网。每个人都同意碎片化是物联网面临的最大问题。即便是初创公司Kickstarter也在找方法解决这一问题。 可以看到AllSeen中并没有像苹果、谷歌、英特尔、三星、索尼这样的行业巨头，也许因为这些公司已经或正在开发自己的物联网软件。 AllSeen的顶级成员（花费30万美元进驻这一阶层）包括有名但是规模较小的厂商如海尔、LG、松下、Wi-Fi路由器制造商TP-LINK。二线成员需要花费5000到5万美元。它们中最大的公司包括思科系统公司（Cisco Systems）、HTC及哈曼（Harman）。 显然这些家伙们希望代码可以在自己的产品上使用并通过与知名公司并列获取关注。但到目前为止授权并不明晰。 其中的个例，海尔中国白电标准及专利主管薛国栋在AllSeen的新闻稿中表示，“我们计划在我们的产品线中实现以AllJoyn为基础的框架。” 产业在AllSeen中需要看到有用的代码是趋势，成员公司会采用其源源不断的出货。到今天为止除高通（通常在技术演示如高通智能手表上展示）以外有任何公司采用了AllJoyn，尽管它已经存在了两年。 该组织将AllJoyn/AllSeen描述为“基于多种模块化服务的代码，可以发现相邻设备，配对、传递信息并保障安全”。 该代码目前在网上公开，可在Windows、安卓、iOS、多种Linux发行版本及嵌入版本上使用。采用C++及Jave语言编写并支持C、C#、JavaScript及ActionScript的”各种版本”。 AllSeen仍在维护其组织及工作。到目前为止他们已经同意将重点放在发现设备、接入网络、用户关注及音频流上。 围绕软件的知识产权相当明晰，但目前高通拥有何种专利尚不清晰。AllSeen将在ISC的许可下展开工作。 以下为原文： Qualcomm has made great effort for rallyinginto an open-source alliance of 23 organizations for its AllJoyn software underthe new name of AllSeen. However, there remains a lot to be seen about thismove. Billed as unifying glue for Internet ofThings products, AllSeen is one of the countless standard and proprietaryoptions for high-level middleware to network devices. It will compete, forexample, with Java, which Oracle started aggressively driving into the IoTspace this year. Everyone agrees that fragmentation is perhaps the biggest IoTissue. Even Kickstarter startups are proposing ways to solve the challenge. You don't see in the AllSeen group someindustry giants such as Apple, Google, Intel, Samsung and Sony probably becausethese companies have or are developing their own internal IoT softwareinitiatives. Top-tier members of AllSeen (those who paid$300,000 for a seat on its board) include significant but generally smallerplayers such as Haier, LG Electronics, Panasonic and the WiFi router makerTP-Link. A broader cast of generally second-tier players anted up between$5,000 and $50,000 for a seat at the meetings. The biggest of them includeCisco Systems, HTC (one of Qualcomm's closest customers) and Harman. Clearly, these folks hope the code isuseful in their products and catches fire with a broader set of companies. Butso far their expressions of commitment are mainly unspecific. Among the exceptions, Guodong Xue, adirector of standards and patents at China white goods maker Haier said in anAllSeen press release, "We are planning to implement the AllJoyn-basedframework across our line of appliances." What the industry will need to see fromAllSeen is a steady stream of useful code and member companies adopting it inshipping products. To date, I am not familiar with anyone using AllJoyn outsideQualcomm (generally in technology demos such as its Toq smartwatch), eventhough it has been around for more than a couple of years. The group describes AllJoyn/AllSeen as"a code base of various modular services that enable discovery of adjacentdevices, pairing, message routing and security." The code, now available online, runs onversions of Windows, Android, iOS, and various Linux distributions and embeddedOSes. It supports C++ and Java with support for C, C#, JavaScript andActionScript "in various stages of development." AllSeen is still organizing work groups andtheir tasks. So far it has agreed to focus on issues such as device discovery,network access, user notifications and audio streaming. Intellectual property rights around thesoftware appear pretty clean, but it's not clear if Qualcomm holds any patentson it. AllSeen will release its work under the ISC license. |
