The Little IoT Agent, liota, is an open-source project created by the VMware IoT team. We believe that for IoT to realize its promise the development platform for IoT gateways must be open, vendor-neutral, easily portable, permissively licensed, and provide support for meta-data (e.g., SI Units and IEEE 1451). Also, it must be easy to add support for the highly diverse set of sensors and actuators, data-center components, network transports, transformation modules, data orchestration components, local and remote databases, etc. Liota is a start in this direction and our hope is that its features begin to form a sound foundation for such a platform. Today liota has skeletal abstractions for the gateway hardware, the gateway OS, transforms, transports, data-center components, attached devices, metrics. (Alerts and actions coming soon). We have, at this time, completed (more or less) implementations for one data-center component (VMware’s vRealize Ops Manager), two transports (sockets and websockets), and metrics. We’ll discuss liota in detail, re-cap the liota hackathon held earlier this week, and look at some of the source developed there.
