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OpenSpime launches Developer Network

by benton Posted in Gadgets, LBS, OpenSpime, Sensors, Spime

Social Networking for our Stuff? While that’s still a bit of a stretch, a new protocol implementation hit the street today that could definitely make that concept a reality. C02 sensor in Barstow, meet cell-phone in Bangalore.

At long last, OpenSpime released their first developer library today along with the launch of their new Developer Network. Built in Python, PyOpenSpime 0.1 gives developers their first taste of the OpenSpime protocol. Why you should care: the architecture is simple (XMPP), lightweight, and scalable enough to pull the whole thing off… furthermore, since it’s based on huge amounts of spatially enabled data, LBS folks should be frothing at the mouth.

So what is a SPIME? From sensors to cell-phones, the whole SPIME concept is about utilizing an internet communication bus to create a network of THINGS around the world. As Bruce Sterling conceptualized it “The most important thing to know about Spimes is that they are precisely located in space and time. They have histories. They are recorded, tracked, inventoried, and always associated with a story.”

The OpenSpime initiative focuses on creating a framework for real-time localization of sensor networks on a global scope, using scopenodes to facilitate discovery and data management.

“OpenSpime is an open protocol and a reference architecture for an open internet of things”

The protocol is a set of custom XMPP extensions, version .01 of which is currently supporting:

data reporting from an entity to another entity;
claiming, i.e. the mechanism which authorizes an entity of the OpenSpime network to perform trustful operations in the name of another entity which has allowed it;
SpimeSeek, i.e. the process which allows to seek for other entities data across the network

Check out the Developer Network at: http://developer.openspime.com