Open Connectivity Foundation

The Open Connectivity Foundation, which originally started in 2014 as the Open Interconnect Consortium, strives to deliver a framework enabling the "Internet of Everything." OIC was founded by Intel, Samsung, Dell, Atmel and Wind River, and in February the group changed its name to OCF and added some Premier members of Allseen, including Microsoft, Qualcomm and Electrolux, to its membership.

OCF sponsored an open-source reference of specifications, IoTivity, which is hosted by the Linux Foundation and is a competing protocol to AllJoyn. This standard is intended to be "agnostic to any wireless or wired technology and will work across technologies including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi Direct, Zigbee, Zwave and Ant+," according to the foundation.

Who It Impacts: OCF is another consortium trying to standardize a solution for IoT connectivity so solution providers interested in IoT connectivity services should follow this group.