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2 June 2015 AllSeen Alliance 1

Introduction to Gateway Agent

Art Lancaster

CTO, Affinegy

Chair, Gateway Agent Working Group

2 June 2015 AllSeen Alliance 2 2

1. Background

2. Gateway Working Group Overview

3. Gateway Agent Project

4. Gateway Agent Developer Information

5. Status And Future Plans

Topics

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This is going to look a lot like the

Internet in the sense that everything

depends on interoperability.

Seth Frader-Thompson, EnergyHub

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2925232/want-smarthome-devices-to-get-along-get-the-industry-to-do-it-first.html


IOT Challenges to Privacy

• Ubiquitous data collection

• Unexpected uses of consumer data that could have

adverse consequences

• Heightened security risks

Speech of FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez; Privacy and the IoT: Navigating Policy Issues

International Consumer Electronics Show, January 6, 2015

Key Solutions

• Security by design

• Data minimization

• Notice and choice before information shared


Gateway Working Group

• Mission: Provide standard and secure interfaces between AllJoyn

devices in a proximal network and other IOT protocols, external

networks, remote access and cloud services

• Current Projects

– Gateway Agent Project: A standard, secure application to securely connect AllJoyn applications with external

networks and services.

– Analytics Connector Project: Provides a common API for capturing events, state, and other information, to be

collected and transmitted outside the AllJoyn proximal network

– Device System Bridge Project: Provides a bridge to connect external non-AllJoyn devices to the AllJoyn bus in a

proximal network (samples available for Z-wave and BACnet)

– Update Service Project: Provides a standard and secure interface for remotely updating AllJoyn applications

(i.e. thin clients) via another connected AllJoyn node.


Gateway Agent Project – AllJoyn Meets Cloud / Managed Services

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AllJoyn

Gateway Agent

Cloud / Managed

Services

AllJoyn local applications

AllJoyn remote applications


AllJoyn Gateway Agent Application

• Software application ideal for an always on, connected

hardware device in the proximal network turning it into

an AllJoyn to remote services gateway

• Provides a standard and secure method for connecting

local AllJoyn devices and applications to external

services

– Works with any Internet connection

– Supports persistent remote connections without special firewall

or port settings


Managed and Secure AllJoyn Remote Routing Node

• Filters local AllJoyn traffic from remote traffic – only traffic

needed for the user’s cloud or remote services is passed

• Filters are configured by the Gateway Agent’s remote

Service Profiles – managed by the Gateway Agent Control

API

– Enhances the user’s privacy and security

– Enables managed service privacy policies

• Supports multiple independent cloud services in one device

with modular Connector plug-ins

• Supports other local protocols (6LowPAN, ZigBee, etc.)


Consumer Mode Operation

• User self-manages

their AllJoyn

connections to external

services

• Services provisioned

via a mobile app with

the Gateway Control

App component

– Connector Plug-in

installed

– Service Profile

managed

• Consumer must be at

home when configuring

their cloud service

using Control App

BA

SPAppConnectorPlug-in

GatewayManagement

App

Configfilepolicyenforcement

ClientLib.

AllJoynDevices

ControlApp

RemoteApp

AllJoynRouter

CloudService

AppMgmtInterface

Platformbasedinteraction

ClientLib.

GatewayAgent

PackageManager

Appinstall/upgrade/uninstallCloud<->Connector protocol

AppInstallInteraction

PkgDownloadServer

Connectorpackagedownload

Service profile


XMPP Remote Connector

• An XMPP Cloud Services Connector plug-in for the Gateway Agent

supporting its APIs and service profiles

• Relays local AllJoyn messages, to/from a remote AllJoyn application

by wrapping these in XMPP sessions relayed via a standard XMPP

server cloud service

• Subscribers authenticate with their cloud service’s XMPP ID –

provides secure authentication and an encrypted channel for AllJoyn

remote access

• Embedded version for Linux AllSeen Open Source contribution from

Affinegy available June 2015

• Mobile app version will be available from Affinegy June 2015 as both

a helper application and an SDK.

– Helper app uses the AllJoyn bus in the mobile device to remotely enable

existing AllJoyn apps.


Affinegy CHARIOT Connect Services

CHARIOT Connect Service (XMPP)

CHARIOT

Mobile Connector for

AllJoyn (XMPP)

AllJoyn Home

AllJoyn Apps

AllJoyn Apps

AllJoyn Remote

Turn-key enables existing AllJoyn Apps for remote services

Gateway Agent

with

AllJoyn - XMPP

Connector Plug-in


Gateway Agent Developer Information

• Gateway Agent Project Wiki

https://wiki.allseenalliance.org/gateway/gatewayagent

– Documentation and presentations

– Open source GIT repository

– Weekly working group meetings

– Inviting contributors now for connector plug-ins for remote and

local protocols

• Released source code available now in AllSeen GIT:

– Gateway Agent management app (embedded for Linux and OpenWRT)

– Sample connector plug-in

– Sample Android control application for managing connectors and the

service profile


Status And Future Plans

• Fully released with AllJoyn Core 14.12 and now part of the C.B.I.

– Gateway agent application

– Sample connector application (for AllJoyn to Twitter)

– Control application (Android) for managing service profiles of gateway

agent

• Plans for the coming Quarter

– XMPP AllJoyn Connector Plug-in – in beta from Affinegy today,

contributing to AllSeen GIT during June

– For AllJoyn 15.08 Core Release

• Gateway Agent Package Manager (to install, update and remove connectors)

• Support for Security Manager 2.0 of AllJoyn Core


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