What is the Internet Of Things, and why do we think that it is a necessary next development of the Internet itself?

The progressive realization of Moore’s Law’s self-fulfilling prophecy by armies of engineers belonging to competing groups all over the planet brought us an ever larger number of computing devices. From mainframes, thought to suffice in a handful of exemplars, to minicomputers, in thousands, to personal computers in millions and hundreds of millions, we are now in the middle of the migration to a new platform of mobile communications based on billions of devices.

This tendency is not about to ground to a halt, and with the further miniaturization of components, and integration of features, we are arriving to the point where truly ubiquitous computing will make computing disappear into our environment. Network addressability will become a given for any object: this is going to be the Internet Of Things.

We have learned through these cycles how costly is the mindless race to establish mutually incompatible approaches which waste resources, and goodwill from a market hesitant to run the risk of adopting the wrong player’s solutions. Today it is understood fairly universally that only an open and non-proprietary approach can represent the inclusive solution that can collaboratively evolve towards the best implementation for the fulfillment of a given technology’s vision. OpenSpime is such an open, and inclusive approach!