Rahul Tomar

IEEE member, CTO and Co-Founder, Smart Cities Lab

“The current IoT ecosystem is fragmented. A series of vertical solutions exist today which, on the one hand, integrate connected objects within local environments using purpose-specific implementations and, on the other hand, connect smart spaces with a back-end cloud which often hosts dedicated proprietary software components.

An open source environment can remedy this fragmented environment by providing an abstraction layer for a ‘unified view’ on various platforms and their resources, so that platform resources are transparent to application designers and developers.”