Developing a global standard-compliant IoT platform and providing close support to domestic companies through open-source policies.

The Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) announced on the 27th that it is leading the way in fostering the IoT ecosystem by developing "Mobius," a global standard IoT platform with government support, and supporting domestic companies' technology development and commercialization through open-source policies and the operation of the IoT Open Lab.

Mobius is a government-funded, native IoT platform compatible with various other standard technologies. Developed with government support, Mobius is the world's first open-source IoT platform based on the global IoT standard, oneM2M. It has: △ spearheaded international standardization through ongoing oneM2M standardization activities; △ secured world-class compatibility through various global compatibility tests, including those for OCF standard and non-standard devices. Additionally, it has the advantage of being easily usable by small and medium-sized enterprises due to its high openness and easy and simple development.

KETI is developing an IoT platform that is convenient for companies to use, and is sharing Mobius technology through OCEAN*, an open source alliance, so that small and medium-sized companies and startups can freely use it. KETI is also actively supporting companies' technology development and commercialization by participating in government IoT demonstration projects such as the 'Busan Global Smart City Development Project' and the 'IoT Open Platform-based Development and Verification Support Infrastructure Construction Project' and holding periodic matchmaking events. In addition, KETI is systematically supporting developer networking by operating the 'Open IoT Developer Community and Forum'.

In addition, △KETI has opened the 'IoT Open Lab (website: open-iot.net)' at the Pangyo Global R&D Center to provide equipment infrastructure for developing and testing IoT devices and services, as well as a verification environment for conducting environmental tests. △It is contributing to the development of IoT experts such as corporate and startup developers and university students by utilizing the regular technical training program of the Korea Internet of Things Association. △It is also contributing greatly to the creation of the domestic IoT ecosystem by discovering competitive global IoT service models and expanding the developer base through the periodic Mobius Developer Competition.

The number of open source downloads from OCEAN, which is currently releasing Mobius open source, has accumulated to approximately 40,000 since its release in early 2015 as of the end of April this year. Practical use cases include SK Telecom's commercial IoT platform ThingPlug, which is being used not only in smart city demonstration projects in Busan, Goyang, and Daegu, but also in SK Corporation's smart factory, Entels' IoT platform commercialization, Seedream's smart farm (tomato farm), and Airix's dust collector (steel mill) facilities. The field of application is expanding, focusing on IoT platform business and smart city and smart factory fields.

KETI President Park Cheong-won said, “Mobius is an IoT platform developed with our own strength and is a world-class technology with the advantage of being able to use the platform for free,” and added, “We will continue to spare no support to help startups, small and medium-sized enterprises, and college students connect their creative business minds to commercialization.”