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When people ask me what I do I always answer “I am about to change the world<\/em>” and I have been saying that since August in the year 2000 when the VSCP project<\/a> was first started. It is fourteen years ago \u00a0now with millions of lines of code and many, many, many. many… hours of work and the bumblebee is still flying. The Swedish companies Ericsson and Electrolux rejected VSCP in favor of OSGi <\/a>in the first months of its life,\u00a0but to be honest, I think the real reason for the reject was the chance for the project group \u00a0to travel to international meetings, but don’t tell anyone. The result, the Screenfridge<\/strong> died and was the joke of the industry for many years.<\/p>\n

Back then no one was talking about Internet Of Things of course. But the goal for this project has always been the same. We want small low cost things to be able to talk to each other regardless of the protocol they use and regardless if they talk through a cable or through the air or if they are delivered and manufactured by company B or company A. <\/strong>And knowing company A and B and C… we know that the VSCP way of thinking will never attract them fully. They will find there own way, “which is better”, \u00a0but of course incompatible, \u00a0but they will anyway. Vertical is the only way for many people to move. \u00a0So we are happy to place ourselves in between as a hardware abstraction layer also. So if they don’t adopt to the model they can be made to look like they did with a middle layer driver just as HAL in most OS’s of today.<\/p>\n

We are \u00a0also , just as anyone else, waiting for “the mighty one” to come and hand the killer solution to us, just as we once got tcp\/ip \u00a0and the packages handed over to us while everyone was busy working with X400\/X500. \u00a0Actually ten fingers plus ten toes \u00a0isn’t enough to count all of the solutions we have tried to work together with during the years, all without a single exception \u00a0telling us that they where the final solution. All of them are gone now of course. Gone and forgotten. But the bumblebee still flies, not thinking it was the only solution back then and not thinking it is now.<\/p>\n

But of course, for us a tiny device can be really tiny. Having almost no resources at all. A device that think something like a string is heavy stuff. \u00a0Silicon even. \u00a0A tiny little thing that still wants to send a measurement value to the world. Something important maybe. So I started there. Tiny things, larger things, and really big things should all work in the VSCP model . It is easier for the big to adopt to the small then vice versa. So I made the model around that.<\/p>\n

So one day there was “a thing” that fulfilled the initial goals<\/p>\n