IPSO Interop Event
This week the IP Smart Object Alliance converged in Las Vegas for a live global interop event at Networld / Interop 2009. In addition to a stand in Las Vegas with live wireless embedded sensor devices and routers, tens of companies from all over the world participated live by connecting devices from their remote sites to a visualization application server provided by SAP running in France. This event showed that 6LoWPAN, IPv6 and IPv4 devices from around the world could be globally interoperable without the use of complex gateways.
As an active IPSO promoter it was exciting to watch the interop event preperation and excitement both in Sensinode’s engineering team and at a huge range of member companies. Our CTO, Mikko Saarnivala attending the event in person. Most interesting is the wide variety of companies involved with IPSO from chip makers, network providers, backend systems, system integrators and even end-users. So congradulations to IPSO on the successful event! The alliance just hit 50 members and will have its first anniversary this summer. Next I am looking forward to a next stage in interop, where multi-vendor 6LoWPAN networks are tested over-the-air and over the backbone using the latest HC and ND specifications.
