OCF Members Certify First Universal Cloud Interface (UCI) Platforms
27 Oktober 2020 - 01:00AM
Business Wire
Haier Group certifies new Cloud-to-Cloud
solution, expands OCF ecosystem
Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), a leading Internet of Things
(IoT) standards body, today announced one of the first OCF
Universal Cloud Interface (UCI) platforms has been certified as
part of its Cloud-to-Cloud (C2C) certification program. The OCF UCI
C2C certification program, announced in July 2020, represents the first initiative of its kind in
the IoT industry.
Haier Group, a world's leading provider of IoT ecosystem
solutions, certified its Haier Cloud one month after OCF launched
the UCI certification program. Additional information on the
certified Haier Cloud can be found on the OCF certified product
registry.
“Cloud-to-Cloud connectivity is key to achieving
interoperability within the IoT. The launch of the OCF UCI reduces
the complexity of implementing C2C, which greatly accelerates its
overall adoption,” said Guohuo Chen, General Manager, Qingdao Haier
Technology Co., Ltd. “The Haier IoT Ecosystem has provided
exceptional multi-scenario and customized smart home services for
end users. The Haier Cloud receiving OCF UCI certification will
further enhance the end user experience.”
The OCF UCI is an Application Programming Interface (API) that
helps the IoT industry avoid implementing and maintaining numerous,
simultaneously run, proprietary or custom programming interfaces.
The OCF UCI is built using secure, industry standardized underlying
technologies.
With the UCI publicly available, OCF is further simplifying C2C
connectivity. Cloud solutions that implement the OCF UCI can
communicate with each other instantly, meeting a variety of
business requirements and saving on costly custom API
investments.
To ensure compliance and interoperability of UCI-Certified Cloud
platforms, OCF expanded its existing Device-to-Device (D2D)
Certification Program to include UCI-Certified Clouds. The OCF
certification programs provide robust, real world testing to help
ensure that IoT products work securely together.
plgd Reference Implementation Now Available
Until today, there has not been a complete IoT protocol standard
built on top of IP. A complete protocol standard supports all
communication possibilities between the device and cloud, which is
required not only by end-users, but by various industries as well.
To address this, OCF has also developed the open source reference
implementation of UCI - plgd (pronounced plugged) which is also
available via the OCF GitHub.
plgd is a cloud native reference implementation backed by an ISO
ratified IoT standard allowing communication on the proximity
network without connectivity to the internet, remote access to
devices in public or closed network or controlled exchange of the
data between multiple IoT Cloud providers. It also features an
immutable audit trail, secure device provisioning using
manufacturer certificates and end-to-end security using TLS 1.2 all
without any vendor lock in and with full deployment freedom.
plgd provides a complete set of tools and services to manage
devices at scale. Allowing for the processing of real-time device
data and interconnection of devices and applications based on an
interoperable standard. The time to interconnect, monitor and
manage devices in a cloud native way is here, and finally
standardized.
“With the OCF UCI, its expanding certification program and the
new plgd reference implementation, the possibilities of how IoT
platforms can be deployed are unlimited,” said John Park, executive
director, OCF. “IoT platform vendor lock-in is now a thing of the
past. The OCF UCI, together with plgd cloud reference
implementation, provides an end-to-end solution fulfilling
cross-platform and cross-domain secure IoT connectivity.”
The OCF Specification Release 2.2.0, including the OCF UCI, is
available for public download on the OCF Specification Page. For
more information on the OCF UCI, download the OCF Universal Cloud
Interface White Paper. The plgd open source implementation of the
OCF UCI is available on the OCF GitHub. OCF members interested in
certifying their UCI implementation, can visit
www.OpenConnectivity.org/certification.
About Open Connectivity Foundation
The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) is a standards
organization that develops application-layer IoT protocols, based
on the universally supported Internet Protocol (IP), using strong
open standards. IoTivity is the open source reference
implementation of the OCF specification. The OCF Core Framework
describes device discovery, onboarding, security (and optionally,
data models), for device-to-device, device-to-cloud and
cloud-to-cloud connectivity. The OCF Core Framework can be used to
carry the data models of other application-layer protocols. OCF is
published as an ISO/IEC JTC1 specification, and there is a
comprehensive certification program in place. Join our 500+
membership and learn more at OpenConnectivity.org.
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