News
Issue #2002 - 43 (November 2002)
(Updated Nov. 13, 2002)

TECHNOLOGY

OSGi™ Alliance Announces Best Application Award to Opensugar for "Most Innovative Video Alarm System"

San Ramon, California – The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) has presented Opensugar the award for Best Application of the OSGi technology in a real-world application. The award was presented by Dr. John Barr, President of the OSGi alliance, at a ceremony held during the OSGI World Congress in
Stockholm, Sweden.

Opensugar, a French supplier of enabling software for remote delivery and execution of interactive services on smart devices, was presented the award for its Video Alarm Service which allows users to observe live images from remote cameras and to be notified by SMS, MMS, or e-mail when motion is detected. In addition to this remote alarm capability, video can be recorded locally and alerts can be forwarded to security service providers.

Pierre Scokaert, CTO of Opensugar, said, “We’re honored to receive this award and it’s a great vote of
confidence from the OSGi alliance in the work we’ve been doing using the Service Platform Specifications.

We’ve been able to create a genuinely novel application using the capabilities of the platform and it saved
us a huge amount of time and effort compared to more traditional approaches.” Scokaert went on to
indicate that the OSGi Service Platform that Opensugar has developed is to be submitted for formal OSGi
Compliance Testing and then released in an Open Source form.

Dr. Barr said, “We used stringent selection criteria in selecting the Opensugar application and we’re
particularly pleased to hear that they are intending to produce an Open Source version of their OSGi
Service Platform implementation. The fact that Opensugar isn’t currently a member of the OSGi alliance
emphasizes the open nature of the specifications.”

For more information and demo: http://www.opensugar.com 

MobileInfo Comments and Advisory: OSGi is geared to promoting applications based on its open services gateway interface. Video-surveillance application is a good one to start with in order to give active mobile professionals peace of mind. What you need is a complete home package. That is coming.

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