Open Source Eclipse Group Aims to Standardize M2M Communications

Sierra Wireless and the Eclipse Foundation announced an Eclipse working group to define an open development standard for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Together with founding members IBM and Eurotech, the M2M Industry Working Group will establish an integrated development environment for M2M networks, as well as a Linux-based, lightweight communications protocol, based in part on Sierra Wireless' Koneki project and the Lua scripting language.

The M2M Industry Working Group is a new umbrella organization for M2M-related open source Eclipse projects that will attempt to unify the growing number of incompatible and overlapping M2M platforms and protocols. It will drive innovation, as well as reduce maintenance and upgrade problems, by standardizing on open source tools, protocols, interfaces and application programming interfaces (APIs) for M2M, the founder members said in a Nov. 1 release...