Is Anyone Using OSGi

An Anonymous Coward queries: "OSGi is a Java technology for allowing third party venders to control your domestic appliances (Fridge, Front Door, Security System etc). I have been tasked to implement OSGi apps, but cannot find any working examples, is anybody working on OSGi applications?"

Comments

Huh?

[fille]

What about these? It reads:

OSGi Based Products

A listing of products that use OSGi technology

4DAgent
Acunia, Embedded Solutions XINGU Product Offering
Aleato
Amino
Atinav aveLink
Bluelabs
...

Re:Do people still come up with this stuff?

[jo42]

These wankers, www.lga.ca, are running ads on Canadian televisions showing a fridge ordering crap and some photogenic tosser adjusting his air conditioning from a cell phone while some photogenic wench strokes his wee willy.

Just wait till hackers start melting your ice cream in yer fridge and turning the heat off in the family igloo.

hackers?

[Innomi]

great, now virus's really WILL make the icecream go melty when they infect my refrigerator.

Checkout ProSyst

[regen]

I've done some OSGi work in the past and I found it a royal pain. What it is really meant for is having a "Service Provider" (aka Utility, Cable company, etc...) manage a device remotely.

That said, check out ProSyst. They have a server and bundles for various tasks. I've used it in the past to control X10.

Programming Appliances

[ClickNMix]

Sure the extream uses of this kind of technology are generally crazy at best, most of the subtle ones are over looked, and just creep in little by little.

Wouldnt it be nice to just press a button on your PDA, so by the time you step in to your kitchen, your coffee pot you set up before work has just brewed perfectly. Or turning off the oven because that 'One pint' with the lads turned out to be a few more, and you don't want your dinner you left in the oven to over cook because you wont be back in time to turn it off.

At some point, somebody will do something with just the right amount of 'GeeWizz' and functionality to make a great product...

Re:Programming Appliances

[zangdesign]

The problem is that eventually this stuff just stops being used. Sure it's a interesting idea, but how much work is it really to just turn the coffee on yourself?

It would be interesting to see what percentage of the public uses this gadgetry after a year of ownership.

Re:Programming Appliances

[zangdesign]

What the heck is a hob?

^---- Stupid American :)

Re:My nonsense

[ClickNMix]

I wouldn't mind been in a shop and been able to check what I had in the fridge however, be it by some product log, or just a cam inside!

Or better still, having the fridge tell you who took that last beer..