Moxa Joins Open Source Protection Organization OIN

Moxa joins the Open Invention Network (OIN), an open source protection organization holding over 1,300 global patents and applications worldwide.
This can be interpreted as meaning that Moxa, as an industrial edge-to-cloud connectivity and computing solutions company related to IIoT, intends to contribute to the development of open source software (OSS) that enables advanced industrial networking and communication applications.
Keith Bergelt, Chief Executive Officer of OIN, said, “Just as IoT enables new products and services for consumers, IIoT will revolutionize industrial sectors. Since most IoT and IIoT platforms currently use embedded Linux and servers are handled by open source solutions like Hadoop, IoT and the innovative technologies supporting it have a close relationship with open source. Therefore, we are very pleased that Moxa’s joining OIN can help protect against patent disputes regarding Linux and related open source technologies.”

Peter Kohlschmidt, Chief Technology Officer at Moxa, stated, “IIoT enables things in industrial environments that were previously impossible.” "By doing so, we can improve productivity, increase operational efficiency, and flexibly meet customer demands, which I believe is possible because OSS such as Linux supports technologies like IIoT," he said. "The success of IIoT depends on how well sensors and devices distributed across various locations within complex industrial systems are connected and managed, and how effectively data is processed."

Moxa stated that by joining the OIN, it contributes to building an interoperable, industrial-grade open source platform that provides secure, reliable, and sustainable capabilities, and participates in patent dispute protection.