Open Connectivity Foundation Merging With AllSeen Alliance for Single IoT Solution

The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) is joining with the AllSeen Alliance and will operate under the OCF name and bylaws, the groups announced. The merger will advance interoperability between connected devices supporting AllSeen’s AllJoyn IoT framework and OCF’s IoTivity open source project, they said Monday. The merged groups will collaborate on future OCF specifications and IoTivity and AllJoyn open source projects, with OCF sponsoring both projects at The Linux Foundation. Both will collaborate to support future versions of the OCF specification in a single IoTivity implementation that combines elements of both technologies, they said. Current devices using either AllJoyn or IoTivity will be interoperable and backward-compatible, ensuring products currently being developed using either technology will work together, they said. The AllSeen Alliance brings a diverse, global membership and millions of AllJoyn-certified products, and OCF brings its membership roster and formal IoT standards with expertise across multiple vertical markets and cloud-based architecture, said the groups.