Christofer Dutz <[email protected]> wrote:
    > 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.

Agreed!
One of the key technologies which seems to lock things into a specific
vertical (and into cloud connected devices, rather than m2m IoT) is the
onboarding technology used.

draft-ietf-anima-bootstrap-keyinfra is past IETF LC, should be RFC by the end
of the year.  It's not ideal for every situation, and there are a number of
other technologies that fill in most of the gaps.

    > 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.

As an open source developer, I like to repeat that it's not the open source
that makes a platform open, but the open standard.

    > 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”)

Interesting.

    > 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)

Very interesting.


    > 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/

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