10.9. The Open Services Gateway Initiative

The specification from this popular organization (consisting of about 60 member companies) is not RFID specific per se, but can be used for management of RFID edge systems and controllers (see Chapter 1). The following summarizes the main aspects of this organization and its service platform specification:[1]

[1] OSGi Service Platform. Release 3. March 2003, pg. 3.

The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) was founded in March 1999. Its mission is to create open specifications for the network delivery of managed services to local networks and devices. The OSGi service platform specification provides an open, common architecture for service providers, developers, software vendors, gateway operators and ...

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