WebOfThings/WorkshopSep2015

Summary

• Teams present: Firefox OS, Developer Relations, Product Marketing, Research & Insights, Mozilla Japan, Mozilla Taiwan
• Goals: Identify the diverse efforts related to IoT at Mozilla, share project status, understand role of Web in IoT, identify opportunities, define the principles driving our activity.
• Project wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebOfThings
• Agenda: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PYYlt5zVdcbA4Gjs-vQbUcke9-rtB0WRyLHxZQMvHTU/edit#slide=id.p
• Full notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14IAshSiqqnFpXGeUYDDNh6zrxrj0h3mL-EYrB5pUPss/edit?usp=sharing
• Presentations
  • WebEverywhere: https://drive.google.com/a/mozilla.com/file/d/0B1S9RuMdOMpcckdIc0dTeFpYYTg/view?usp=sharing
  • Accessing Arduino from the Web, Eddie Lin: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1m13AJJHnwDprZw6LFNZLG1deOCRgE4mnjM9EZI2RgpY/edit#slide=id.p
  • WoT Toolkit/Workshop for beginners, Daisuke: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15GAv_1O3hOKaLMM0i2zh2hB_WDzk4dHtRBi9E_RQ73k/edit
• Summary of Findings
  • Currently active projects are bridging the Web platform and popular microcontrollers, Firefox OS developer boards, device-to-device interaction and content delivery, connecting the Web to fabrication tools.
  • Areas of opportunity identified:
    • Lowering barrier to entry for developers, makers and hardware vendors.
    • Standardization on existing trusted infrastructure.
    • Bridging maker and Web developer communities.
    • Allowing web-based identity providers (facebook, google, Firefox Accounts) to handle logins to IoT devices.
    • Reduce app exhaustion by enabling IoT to work through the browser rather than require dedicated app.
    • Using education and advocacy to influence consumers/industry/government behavior.
    • Service and data management.
    • There’s no clear pathway from hobby/maker/DIY development and productization/scale.
  • Challenges identified: Early/large movers pushing verticalization for consumers, Mozilla has no established credibility in IoT, difficult to conceptually bridge Web technologies with local/direct device interaction and development, no over-arching theme in Mozilla’s current activity, the categories of activity are extremely diverse (maker vs consumer products vs enterprise/industrial).
  • Manifesto principles #4, #5 and #6 are relevant to IoT. They should inform our product designs, and can be differentiators.
• Projects
  • Chirimen: https://github.com/MozOpenHard/CHIRIMEN
  • FlyWeb: https://wiki.mozilla.org/FlyWeb
  • wot.js - http://wotjs.io/
  • serialport-io: Use socket.io to proxy the Web to a serial port, https://github.com/elin-moco/serialport-io
  • ble-serialport: Use Bluetooth LE to proxy the Web to a serial port, https://github.com/elin-moco/ble-serialport
  • wot-daemon: Helper for desktop dev, https://github.com/elin-moco/wot-daemon
  • chrome-app-api-proxy: Call Chrome App APIs from a Webpage, https://github.com/wotjs/chrome-app-api-proxy
  • chrome-usb-serialport: A serialport module for Google Chrome browser, https://github.com/wotjs/chrome-usb-serialport
  • browserify-johnny-five: Build Johnny Five as a browserify module, https://github.com/wotjs/browserify-johnny-five
  • BlueYeast: A wrapper for BLE APIs in FxOS, https://github.com/evanxd/blue-yeast
• Upcoming event opportunities for demos, meetings, development
  • W3C TPAC, Oct 26-30, Sapporo, http://www.w3.org/2015/10/TPAC/
  • View Source, Nov 2-4, Portland, https://viewsourceconf.org/
  • MozFest, Nov 6-8, London, https://2015.mozillafestival.org/
  • Mozlando, Dev 7-11, Orlando
  • MWC 2016, late February
• How to Participate
  • Join on Slack: https://webofthings.slack.com/
  • Join on IRC: #wot, #flyweb
  • Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebOfThings
• Misc Links
  • FlyWeb use-cases: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zAhvJJhH2kxvQ3Qo-qlts1nToCZHMTn6av5VCAesJHI/edit