Home IoT Markets Based on Smart Home Appliances Are Predicted to Rapidly Increase Next Year
Samsung Electronics and SK Telecom are targeting IoT80 markets together. SK Telecom will introduce IoT Connectivity Technology that has been developed by Samsung Electronics.
Samsung Electronics will introduce IoT household appliances that have Smart Things technologies in South Korean markets next year, and SK Telecom will commercialize a service that is optimized for what Samsung Electronics is planning to do for the first time as a telecommunication business in the world.
According to related industries on the 10th, SK Telecom has decided to introduce ‘Iotivity’, which is a IoT Connectivity Technology that was developed by Samsung Electronics. Samsung Electronics is planning to apply Iotivity to all of Tizen263 OS-based mobile wearable equipment that will be released later in time as a basic connectivity technology and display related products at Consumers Electronics Show (CES) that will be held in Las Vegas in January of next year.
Iotivity is linked to Samsung Electronics’ home IoT hub platform service Smart Things, which will start its service in South Korea next year. Considering the fact that Samsung Electronics’ Tizen equipment and Smart Things Service will be widely supplied, SK Telecom is planning to apply Iotivity to current IoT platform OneM2M159.
It is predicted that Home IoT markets based on Smart Home Appliances will rapidly increase starting from next year as Samsung Electronics joins forces with South Korea’s top telecommunication business. It is also expected that competition between South Korean telecommunication businesses in standardizing IoT connectivity will become even more fierce if SK Telecom introduces Iotivity Platform.
“Samsung Electronics has a goal to connect every thing with Iotivity Connectivity Technology in 5 years.” said a person from Samsung Electronics. “If Iotivity becomes widely supplied, ‘light connectivity’ that consumes less electricity rather than ‘heavy connectivity’ through wireless LAN will account for more proportion in overall data communication.
Iotivity is a connectivity platform technology that is developed by Consortium OIC (Open Interconnect Consortium). Samsung Electronics, Intel, Cisco and others created OIC in July of last year to make standards that will be responsible for connection between things and things and Cloud infrastructure. Intel, which is a founding member, will be responsible for exclusive connectivity chip, Cisco will be responsible for network infrastructure, GE will be responsible for industrial equipment, and Samsung Electronics will be responsible for applying corresponding technologies to final products for consumers. Other than major founding members, 110 other semiconductor, final product, and infrastructure businesses such as HP, ZTE, IBM and others have participated in this consortium.
OIC created connectivity platform Iotivity 1.0.0, which enables transmission of data between equipment even though operation system (OS) and service supplier are different, on the 14th of October. Iotivity is a technology that is based on CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol) Protocol and supports variety of connectivity technologies such as Bluetooth, Bluetooth LE, wireless LAN, Ethernet, Zigbee, and NFC while also providing routing function between different kinds of technologies, which indicates that communication between Bluetooth and wireless LAN equipment is possible. CoAP, which is IoT protocol standards that were defined by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), also supports variety of OS such as Android, Tizen, and Ubuntu and Arduino Platform.
Staff Reporter Han, Jooyeop | powerusr@etnews.com