Update Bosch Pursues An Open Strategy To Transform IoT
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<p>The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services for connected industries. It employs roughly 400,000 associates worldwide and has revenues of over 78 billion euros per year. As a leading IoT company, Bosch offers innovative solutions that connect homes, buildings, vehicles, cities, factories, agriculture and more. It uses its expertise in sensor technology, software, and services, as well as its own IoT cloud, to offer its customers connected, cross-domain solutions from a single source.</p>
<p>Bosch Software Innovations, a Bosch Group subsidiary, is spearheading the development of innovative IoT software solutions, based on Bosch IoT Suite, to connect things that can transform how business operate and disrupt existing industries. The company has also been a pioneer in creating open source software communities that provide the core technology building blocks required for all IoT solutions.</p>
<p>Bosch Software Innovations, a Bosch Group subsidiary, is spearheading the development of innovative IoT software solutions, based on <a href="https://www.bosch-iot-suite.com/" target="_blank">Bosch IoT Suite</a>, to connect things that can transform how business operate and disrupt existing industries. The company has also been a pioneer in creating open source software communities that provide the core technology building blocks required for all IoT solutions.</p>
<p>Bosch was an early innovator in IoT. Bosch’s strong ties to the manufacturing, automotive and consumer products industries provided insight into the new software required to improve the productivity of connected factories, connected vehicles and indeed any connected device. Bosch quickly realized that a new category of software, called an IoT platform, would be needed to connect the millions of IoT devices with existing operational technology (OT) and enterprise IT systems.</p>
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<p>An open source strategy also fits well into Bosch Software Innovations’ mandate to introduce new perspectives and processes that transform how the Bosch Group develops innovative software solutions. Internally, the acceptance of the OSS strategy was reviewed by key Bosch stakeholders, including legal, marketing and product owners. Initial concerns about legal issues, potential loss of IP, and transparency of code were addressed by senior management. The result was the development of a set of best practices for open source management. In fact, Bosch has been so successful with their open source management that they have now started their own consulting practice to help other companies begin an open source journey.</p>
<p>An open source strategy also fits well into Bosch Software Innovations’ mandate to introduce new perspectives and processes that transform how the Bosch Group develops innovative software solutions. Internally, the acceptance of the OSS strategy was reviewed by key Bosch stakeholders, including legal, marketing and product owners. Initial concerns about legal issues, potential loss of IP, and transparency of code were addressed by senior management. The result was the development of a set of best practices for open source management. In fact, Bosch has been so successful with their open source management that they have now started their own consulting practice to <a href="https://www.bosch-si.com/services/overview/open-source/open-source-iot.html" target="_blank">help other companies begin an open source journey</a>.</p>
<p>An important part of Bosch’s open source strategy was to join a community that was dedicated to building IoT open source technology. For this reason, in 2015 Bosch increased its membership level in the Eclipse Foundation to become a strategic member and joined the Eclipse IoT Working Group. With over 35 different projects and 40 participating member companies, Eclipse IoT is the leading open source community focused on IoT.</p>
<p>An important part of Bosch’s open source strategy was to join a community that was dedicated to building IoT open source technology. For this reason, in 2015 <a href="https://blog.bosch-si.com/developer/eclipse-foundation-bosch-strategic-member/" target="_blank">Bosch increased its membership level in the Eclipse Foundation</a> to become a strategic member and joined the <a href="https://iot.eclipse.org/">Eclipse IoT Working Group</a>. With over 35 different projects and 40 participating member companies, Eclipse IoT is the leading open source community focused on IoT.</p>
<p>Since joining the Eclipse IoT community, Bosch has created six different IoT open source projects and contributes to many other Eclipse IoT projects. The Bosch projects started with source code contributions from existing Bosch commercial projects. The open development process used by the Eclipse projects has been adopted by the Bosch Software Innovations’ product development teams. Many of the Bosch IoT Suite commercial products are now based on Eclipse IoT projects. Using an open development model allows Bosch customers to benefit from a more transparent and collaborative development process while at the same time relying upon the quality and service level Bosch provides for their commercial products.</p>
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<p>Bosch now has more than 60 developers working on Eclipse IoT projects, and has contributed around 1.5 million lines of code to the open source projects. Bosch Software Innovations’ CEO Stefan Ferber, a member of the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors, and Buck, a member of the Eclipse IoT Working Group Steering Committee, join forces to provide strategic direction to the open source IoT community. Bosch’s participation has helped to make Eclipse IoT an important source of IoT technology for the industry. Bosch’s leadership in Eclipse IoT has also helped position the company as a leader in the IoT industry.</p>
<p>Bosch is clearly seeing the benefits of their open source strategy and participation in the Eclipse community. Moving to an open development model and using open source technology has increased its attractiveness for software engineers, significantly improved their software quality and incorporated the knowledge of the industry’s best talents for Bosch’s commercial solutions, without the need to have them all on the Bosch payroll. The Bosch developers benefit from the community feedback, testing, and code contributions made to the Eclipse IoT projects. Bosch has improved the efficiency of their development teams by reusing other open source projects in their commercial products.</p>
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<p>Bosch also sees significant value in the services provided by the Eclipse Foundation. The Eclipse Foundation’s legal and intellectual property processes enable Bosch to fully comply with antitrust laws, and provide Bosch with the legal assurance that they can successfully embed open source technology into their commercial products. The Eclipse development process is a set of best practices that have guided Bosch developers during the process of starting open source projects. Finally, the Eclipse IoT Working Group has been very successful in promoting the open source projects and attracting new developers and users to the IoT technology. This helps Bosch gain adoption of their projects, which in turn helps with promoting their commercial products.</p>
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<li><a href=“https://www.eclipse.org/hono/”>Eclipse Hono</a> provides remote service interfaces for connecting large numbers of IoT devices to a back end and interacting with them in a uniform way regardless of the device communication protocol. Bosch IoT Hub is the commercial product based on Hono.</li>
to easily describe device functionality and characteristics as device information models and manage them in a central repository. Vorto provides convenient tools for IoT device developers to convert device information models to source code that runs on the device or gateway, easing the integration with IoT platforms, such as the <a href="https://www.bosch-iot-suite.com/" target="_blank">Bosch IoT Suite</a>. This enables IoT solution developers to easily integrate devices into their IoT solutions.</li>
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