Over two years of development, Mozilla’s “Project Things” is graduating from its early experimental phase and will now forth be called “Mozilla WebThings.”
According to a post on its official blog, Mozilla said the Mozilla IoT team’s mission was to create a Web of Things implementation which embodies those values and helps drive IoT standards for security, privacy and inter-operability.
Mozilla WebThings is an open platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web, including:
- WebThings Gateway – a software distribution for smart home gateways focused on privacy, security and interoperability
- WebThings Framework – a collection of reusable software components to help developers build their own web things
Mozilla also said among the many things in the pipeline, it was working on a new OpenWrt-based build of WebThings Gateway, aimed at consumer wireless routers. This version of Mozilla WebThings Gateway will be able to act as a WiFi access point itself, rather than just connect to an existing wireless network as a client.
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