In June, one year ago, the first NoTA-conference was held in Helsinki – more than fifty companies around the World gathered together to share views and experiences on NoTA architecture. It was also the event in which Nokia released NoTA to be an open architecture – free to use for everybody either through open source licensing or through a royalty free open technology license. It was a bold decision and significant vote for the open innovation and for the open future of mobile technologies.
The development of the NoTA architecture was a sizeable effort and not only from Nokia – there were quite a few big companies participating in the development process. Several technology trials and demos were built together with many technology houses to further develop and verify the proposed technology. The usage of existing product technologies in the proof of concept process convinced parties that NoTA and DIP can be smoothly adopted together with legacy platforms and solutions and that these are not only to enable something new and different.
NoTA is spanning an open modular architecture by providing a platform and technology independent system interconnect solution together with service oriented approach to share functional resources. Independence of technologies, operating systems and application frameworks make NoTA to be applicable in all environments – ARM or Intel, Tron or Linux, Symbian or Android, and further more, providing opportunity for interoperability across the borders. Of course, to be a comprehensive open solution, there are also other elements required: open HW interfaces like MIPI, open APIs like Khronos, open application frameworks like Android. Using such an Open Stack, with NoTA included, we are going towards open innovation and platforms instead of being trapped with traditional vertically integrated proprietary product platforms.
However, being successfully open, means something beyond technology. Without an extensive and active ecosystem and living community many of the promises would fade away. NoTA ecosystem should include technology providers, product houses, integrators, service providers, research entities, innovators, and individual developers together with other related communities. So, where are we after one year?
During the past 12 months the awareness of NoTA has spread well. Notaworld.org has been a good tool for that – visitors from 85 different countries, with more than 17 000 visits, from more than 600 sites have accessed notaworld.org WEB-pages. NoTA reference implementation has been downloaded several hundreds of times per release. Number of commercial licensees is somewhere around 20 with many big global technology houses in the list. Notaworld.org with its own booth has been in highly visible in events like Tronshow 2009 in Tokyo and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Several service companies are setting-up capabilities to provide NoTA related services like testing, programming, and system integration. Couple of new companies have already been founded based on NoTA expertise. Also universities and research institutes are starting to pick-up NoTA related research topics in their research portfolios. And last but not least, several technology companies are developing NoTA compatible offerings as was already seen in the last year’s NoTA conference and many new things are on the way.
What is missing? Interaction and sharing! Notaworld.org WEB-site has been pretty one directional and most of the things are happening behind the curtains. Let’s change this! You can start asking, challenging and sharing! Tell others about your concerns, projects, products or provided services. Start discussion about new directions to go or new innovations. And, of course, challenge also the team behind the notaworld.org to enable live interaction and sharing.
As a practical step, you can send a description of your research project in which you are planning to use NoTA; if you have NoTA compatible products or product plans use notaworld.org to promote them and get feedback; if you are ready to provide NoTA related services please let others know about it; would you be ready to do collaboration to build something new, feel free to use notaworld.org to do the pairing; do you need NoTA expertise or service, you can put your request to the white board of the site. It is up to you how much you can benefit from the community.
The first year is almost done – and it is time to start second year with an announcement of the second annual NoTA Conference which will take place on 30th of September and the 1st of October 2009 in San Jose, California, USA. More information is available in http://www.vtt.fi/nota2009. Looking forward seeing you there.
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