Description
As discussed in the last meeting I suggest to proceed in OASIS RCxml TC the enormous interoperability work done in the CEBus Industry Council CIC www.cebus.org over the last 20 years. CIC started the abstraction interoperability modeling ideas too early, but the XML world has done these ideas more mature.
What is needed for true Service Oriented Architecture solutions is a top level Super portal that interact and intergrate different processcontrol systems nodes on a common based abstraction layer technique ( Web services modelling). This abstraction modelling has been nicely done by Consumer Electronic Bus (CEBus) Industry Council about 6 years ago.
NB ! It is only the abstraction modeling part of CEBus (CEA-600) defined as Generic CAL"HomePnP"( CEA-721) that is of interest for OASIS RCxml TC.
CEA = Consumer Electronic Association
CAL = Common Aplication Language (a kind of scripting language)
CEA has been authorized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to create standards for networks that interconnect home components and applications. The Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association (CEMA), a sector of the CEA, predicts new market opportunities for consumer products with enhanced functionality and interoperability made feasible and economical by a common communications infrastructure in the home."
Attached is the CEA-721 node modeling Specification ver 1.0 (HomePnP) with modeling examples and a slideshow illustrating my conversion idea.
The CIC lost the interoperability issues when some companies started to dominate the further work with their proprietary integration technology. Never the less the work of the abstraction interoperability modeling part and methodology done could be of significant value for the RCxml TC work.
CIC has by help of following companies, individuals, and organizations contributed to the development of CEA-721 CAL-based Interoperability for Home Systems (Ver 1.0 April 9 1998 )
· ABB
· Ademco
· AMP
· Caddx Controls
· Chamberlain Group
· CIC staff
· Cutler-Hammer
· Diablo Research Corporation
· Domosys Corporation
· Dr. Ken Wacks
· Full House Control
· Honeywell
· Hypertek
· IBM
· Intel
· InteliHome
· Intellon Corporation
· Interactive Media Systems
· ISO/IEC JTC1 SC25 WG1 Home Electronic System
· Leviton
· Lucent Technologies
· Microsoft
· Philips
· Siemens
· Smart Corporation
· The Training Department
· Thomson Consumer Electronics
· XLSynergy
