http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/chandhokinterviewlead01.jpg Few people understand the Internet of things better than Rob Chandhok – president of Internet services at Qualcomm – and we had the chance to sit down with him in Barcelona after our interview with Raj Talluri. We chatted about AllJoyn, a set of open source services which the company just revamped to incorporate a simple notification protocol – an “SMS for things” – small and durable enough to be useful for the life on an appliance, like a fridge or a washer. This provides a universal mechanism for notification and control, such as WiFi on-boarding, for example. He also mentioned AllJoyn audio, a streaming protocol that Qualcomm and DoubleTwist collaborated on. We then discussed various approaches and network topologies for building the Internet of things, such as IPv6-connected products with cloud-based logic vs. devices on a local area networks that interact with the Internet via a gateway (something that’s prevalent in modern home automation). Check out the full interview video after the break.
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