OSAmI-Commons

The OSAmI-Commons project is developing an open-services ecosystem to enable all types of co-operating devices and oftware to work together seamlessly in any type of flexible combination. The vision is of a dynamic, service-oriented platform emerging from a community process with all physical entities contributing in the long term, playing service-provider and consumer roles. A combination of service-oriented architectures and broadly-accepted open standards will enable OSAmI to map physical entities to services and build on open-source foundations to construct the ‘web of objects’.

Understanding the Platform

The world is currently moving to a one-to-many social relationship between humans and computers. These are represented, among many others, by fixed and mobile phones, WiFi routers, gaming consoles, MP3 players, TVs, set-top boxes and infrastructures with impressive computing and storage capabilities. A new concept of a global and cross-domain platform is emerging to exploit the full potential of the network in all business areas. In this convergence process, the software platform should be able to personalise itself dynamically in devices according to the context.

OSAmI-Commons is therefore developing an open-source common approach to such a dynamic service-based platform that allows any type of device to connect and exchange information and services. It will allow service retrieval from centralised and distributed resources, enable connection between various vertical markets and allow the development of new business solutions.

Services and service delivery are the driving forces in the software industry currently. The approach proposed by OSAmI-Commons will establish an ecosystem built on an European understanding of the relationship between the citizens and the service infrastructures based on open-source and customer-friendly ambient services.