Goals

Exploring the role of the Web amidst the explosion of connected devices and services in our lives.

Projects & Current Activity

• Chirimen - Firefox OS microcontroller board
• FlyWeb - Framework for direct device connections
• Web of Things Maker - An online editor helps developers build cross-platform WoT applications faster and easier.
• WoT.JS - A library provides Web Components to control devices.
• Browser Johnny Five - A set of libraries to bring Johnny Five to the Web for controlling Arduino Boards.
• FxOS Beacon Demos - Firefox OS Add-ons and Apps to demonstrate beacon usage.
• BLE Tools - Tools to help BLE development.
• Exploring the Open Internet of Things - Hub of research, prototyping and networking-building around IoT. Focus on privacy, inclusion and literacy in connected spaces using human-centered design and collaborative kaing.

Recent and Upcoming Events

• Web of Things planning and strategy workshop, Sept 2015
• MozFest
• Mozlando

Participate

• IRC
  • #wot channel on Mozilla IRC
  • #flyweb channel on Mozilla IRC
• Slack
  • http://webofthings.slack.com/

Platform

Web Platform

Some of the Web platform APIs relevant to IoT development. Comprehensive list at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI.

Related Activity

People & Projects

JavaScript projects/toolkits/libraries

• Sensible
• Octoblue
• CylonJS
• Intel XDK IoT Edition
• Internet of Things Database - Semantics for the Internet of Things
• IOTDB Node library
• Pubsub for Things
• Physical Web - URLs for Things
• Node Red - Visual Connector
• Avahi - mDNS service broadcast

Hardware

Hardware that supports a JavaScript (but necessarily Web) programming interface.

• RaspberryPi
• Tessel
• Kinoma Create (and Studio)
• Espruino
• NinjaBlocks
• Arduino
• Spark Core + Spark OS
• KDDI Open Web Board
• APC

Services

• WoT.io
• yeelink (cn)

Industry Groups / Standards Bodies

TODO: Convert this into a table, and categorize which part of the the stack the group's standards address, and where it might intersect with Web standards and technologies.

• W3C Web Of Things Interest Group link
  • Mozilla participants: (TODO: list people here, with contact info)
• AllSeen/AllJoyn - Qualcomm led, with Linux Foundation, Cisco, Microsoft, LG, and HTC. AllJoyn is name of protocol. link
• Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) - Intel, Atmel, Dell, Broadcom, Samsung, and Wind River. Openly competing with AllJoyn. link
• Thread Group - Google/Nest. link
• ITU's IoT-GSI - The UN's International Telecommunication Union's Internet of Things Global Standards Initiative. link
• IEEE IoT Standards link
• Industrial Internet Consortium - Intel, Cisco, AT&T, GE, and IBM. Focused on industrial stds. link
• OneM2M - Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung, many more. "Cross sector" architecture and stds. link
• Open Mobile Alliance - Intel, Qualcomm, Microsoft, ATT, ARM, Cisco, and Samsung. link
• Apple HomeKit - link

Government

• Smart America - Global City Teams Challenge

Events

• ThingsCon - Berlin, May 2015 link

Event Calendars

• http://www.iotevents.org/
• http://iotinternetofthingsconference.com/iot-events/

In The Wild

Relevant implementations of IoT standards.

• NTT Docomo's open Web API for Vusix smart glasses, using OMA's Generic Open Terminal API.
  • press release
  • NTT Docomo's code on Github