Oracle and Freescale Deep cooperation

Too much protocol and customization has led to the current disunity field of Internet, where each agency develops products that are printed with their own labels. Thankfully, there are also many institutions that are contributing to the development of the ecosystem as a whole. Prior to the Eclipse Foundation's foray into the internet of things, did the Machine-to-machine standard have been Dongfeng? In this article, we describe the Eclipse Foundation's 4 new projects to establish the Internet standards agreement and tools, and have been responded to by many names such as IBM, Sierra Wireless, Eurotech and Axeda. According to a recent GIGAOM news, database giant Oracle in the field of Machine-to-machine, and embedded pioneer Freescale in-depth cooperation. Unlike the Eclipse Foundation, which sets a new standard, Oracle and Freescale are starting with a number of protocols to try to build the translators between them.

The following is the translation:

Referring to the internet of things, the choice of operating system is always fraught with controversy-which transmission data protocol is more appropriate, or even the most basic processing place (local or cloud).

There seems to be a real reason to argue, but when things need to be dealt with in a hurry, it's not a favor to go to the clouds or to use bloated systems. Based on these issues, Oracle and Freescale are collaborating in the field of IoT to build protocol translators and java-based software stacks. As part of the collaboration, Freescale will join the Java Community Process (JCP) workgroup, working with Oracle and other JCP members to drive standard technical specifications for the Java platform.

Freescale is a pioneer in long-term embedded processing technology and has a deep insight into how to use its technology to accelerate innovation and ease of use, and to use its expertise and insights to help the Java platform develop and thrive in the Internet of things.

Freescale's Kaivan Karimi learned that the approach is based on a sensor running lightweight Java that will communicate with a "box" that can translate various IoT protocols. This "box" runs the Oracle Java SE Embedded, supported by the Freescale i.mx 6 series application processor built on the arm cortex-a9 core.

In an interview, Karimi said that Java makes the system very pervasive, without creating additional restrictions on programmers and device makers. Fundamentally, the idea is to let this "box" assume all the protocol translation, so that it can complete the interconnection of devices in any scenario.

The box also has the real-time data processing capabilities required for connected devices and can upload the remaining data to the cloud based on demand. Here, the Oracle tool will do the processing of the data, and the client can select any tool as required. This local processing can effectively reduce latency and overhead.

The box will be first used in the home area, covering all the common protocols in the field, and subsequent products will gradually evolve into commercial applications. While it will be more efficient to build a new system, the role of the translation device can be imagined, given the fact that many products now use different connecting devices.

The idea, of course, is just one of the many efforts in the field, while the memory and processing capabilities meet Java's needs, and many people doubt that Java is suitable for sensors, but the effort to build this ecosystem is indeed admirable.