Hi all, I know you probably react the same way as I, when I hear someone talking about an “open IoT Platform” because most of the time it means one company wants the rest of the world to use their platform. At least it has been this way for almost all the “open-platform” discussion rounds I have attended (and there were quite a lot of them.
Lat week I was invited to a Kick-Off event from a group called “Industry Business Network 4.0 e.V.” (This is a German “registered association”) This is a group of mid-sized companies building production machinery and/or running production machinery, which are very unsatisfied with the existing initiatives (mostly commercial) Therefore they initiated a project called “IndusryFusion” where they are trying to create a basis for industrial IoT applications. In general it’s conceptually not much different than all the other commercial or non-commercial platforms out there. The main difference is that they’re doing it completely open. Everything is going to be Apache 2.0 licensed and when attending the kick-off, there is not one company pushing their ideas, but a pretty diverse group wanting to work on this together. I was approached as Apache PLC4X is the only Open-Source project, which is also Apache 2.0 licensed that allows them to access PLC data, but I’ll probably help out with technical advice on selecting the right tool for the job and I guess with the build. Just thought I’d post this here as it does involve the full stack of Apache goodness and perhaps others would like to participate. Industry Business Network 4.0 e.V. website: https://industry-business-network.org/en Here the link to the IndustryFusion project website: https://www.industry-fusion.com/en/ Chris
