XMPP, Could be a defacto standard to IOT?

update 8/10/2009:

Ian Lawrence points us to Why you need to pay attention to Google Wave

By Isaac Mao: "I got some sample applications recently on RSS pipelining and circumvention which are all based on XMPP protocol. The protocol looks neat and largely propagated by the wide adoption of Google Talk. However, Nicolas Vérité's article on Planet Erlang gave us more hints on how this protocol could become a standard for future Internet of Things(IoC). Nicolas also list some sample usages of XMPP, like:

WideTag’s OpenSpime relies on XMPP: OpenSpime is set of XMPP extensions and an opensource library PyOpenSpime. OpenSpime uses the standard XMPP for identity, presence, communication, request-response, and decentralized architecture. WideTag’s extensions add encryption, digital signatures, authority claiming, data reporting and seeking.

Shion, from Audacious Software, is using a vanilla XMPP as a channel for receiving and responding to commands transmitted remotely. It uses disco, Ad-Hoc commands, vCard, avatars, activity, entity time and software version (in the future location query). Shion framework is GPL.

Nabatztag is a smart object connected to the internet. That said, it can also be defined as a “communicating rabbit”, as it uses XMPP to get the weather forecast, e-mail notifications, stock market report, news headlines, alarm clock, RSS-Feeds, and much more since it is customisable.

TiVo, the set-tob box, uses XMPP in order to get in real-time TV schedule updates and new software updates notifications.

Intuity Medialab has also been able to switch on and off an office light from an Android phone with a simple GTalk client.

I would say that this prediction is very reasonable with XMPP's advantages and possibly an improved version just for IoC can be collaboratively defined in the near future. We need industry alliance."

XMPP Architecture

(image: Imatechie.com)

Régine Debatty

Régine Debatty blogs on we-make-money-not-art.com, contributes to several European design and art magazines and lectures internationally about the way artists, hackers and interaction designers (mis)use technology.

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Isaac Mao

Isaac Mao is a philosopher on Sharism, social entrepreneur, blogger, software architect and researcher in learning and social technology. He divides his time between research, social works, business and technology. He is now managing director of Social Brain Foundation, board member to Tor Project, advisory to Global Voices Online and board member to several web 2.0 and new media businesses. As one of the earliest bloggers in the Chinese community, Isaac is not only co-founder of CNBlog.org which is the earliest evangelizing site in China on grassroots publishing, but also the co-chair of Chinese Blogger Conference.

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Liam Bannon

Liam Bannon heads the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick, Ireland where his interests include human-centred computing, HCI, CSCW, and interaction design. He has been a long-time advocate for a larger role for human and social agency in information technology programmes. He is involved in the new European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET).

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XMPP, Could be a defacto standard to IOT?

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