IoT Frameworks

• Apache Kafka – realtime distributed streaming platform
• Eclipse IoT Projects – IDE and frameworks such as Edje, Panho, Mihini, Ponte, SCADA, Kura, Smarthome
• Kaa – CyberVision – middleware platform for IoT
• TeamViewer – remote device connectivity, monitoring, and control
• Commercial – Dell EMC and ATT offer existing products that can be incorporated in an IoT solution; products from IBM are inscrutable
• Open Source –
• AllJoyn AllSeen Alliance
• IoTivity Open Interconnect Consortium
• Contiki Thingsquare
• ThingSpeak MathWorks
• SiteWhere
• Interesting list and categorization of IoT and related frameworks and overview of factors
• Recent announcement by the Linux Foundation on a Hypervisor reference project

Apache Kafka

• Kafka is an established open source platform designed for realtime streaming
• Publish and subscribe to streams of records, similar to a message queue
• Fault-tolerant storage
• Records processing
• Kafka is generally used for two broad classes of applications
• Data pipelines that reliably get data between systems or applications
• Applications that transform or react to the streams of data
• A Kafka cluster stores streams of records in topics
• A record is just a timestamped key-value pairs in topics
• Producer API allows an application to publish a stream of records to one or more Kafka topics
• Consumer API allows an application to subscribe to one or more topics and process the stream of records
• Streams API allows an application to act as a stream processor, transforming input to output streams
• Connector API allows building and running
• Client applications in Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, C++, Storm, etc
• Uses Apache Zookeeper
• Packaged with HortonWorks, IBM Message Hub, Confluent, etc
• Integration with Hadoop, JDBC, Oracle for data persistence
• Integration with ElasticSearch, Hive, Presto for search indexing
• Reference applications include nytimes.com, pinterest.com. Airbnb.com

Eclipse IoT

• Hardware Abstraction – software layer to ensure portability and enable access to flash memory, GPIOs, serial interfaces, etc
• Eclipse Edje provides an high-level API for accessing hardware features
• Communication – protocols that allow to connect it to a wired or wireless protocol, and therefore enable communication.
• Eclipse Paho implements the MQTT protocol
• Remote Management – interface for monitoring and controlling hardware
• Eclipse Wakaama implements the OMA LWM2M standard
• Eclipse Kura provides a general purpose middleware and application container for IoT gateway services
• Eclipse SmartHome provides an IoT gateway platform that is specifically focused on home automation
• Eclipse 4diac provides an infrastructure for distributed industrial process measurement and control systems based on the IEC 61499 standard

KAA

• KAA is a middleware platform comprised of a KAA server and custom endpoints to connect devices
• KAA server implemented as a fault tolerant cluster
• Managed by Apache Zookeeper
• REST interfaces, logging, data management, and custom services
• Integration with Apache Spark, Cassandra
• Integration with Hadoop, MongoDB, CouchDB, Oracle
• KAA SDKs for Java, C, C++
• ‘Banana Beach’ enough said!

TeamViewer

• Remote desktop control product that has been extended for generalized and distributed device management
• Platform includes a suite of mature cross-platform technologies
• Remote Desktop – Remote Login, Screen Sharing
• Enterprise Management – User Management, Device Management, Software Deployment
• Collaboration – Video conferencing, chat
• Security & Monitoring – Encryption, Two-factor Authentication, Trusted Devices, Event-based Monitoring, Dashboard, Logging