[bridgeiot-dev] Introduction and interest to collaborate

[Nikander Pekka <pekka.nikander@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear Bridge.IoT developers,

I am a long time OSS contributor (starting from contributing to Tcl/Tk in mid 1990s and today having Github PRs on e.g. NodeJS), professor at Aalto University, and a member in the EU H2020 project SOFIE.  I've been to the Internet longer than Google, so unfortunately Google knows far too much about me, if you want to know more.

Now, in the SOFIE project we have very similar goals to Bridge.IoT:  Enable IoT data markets across IoT "silos".

You can find basic information about the SOFIE project at our web site:  https://sofie-iot.eu

AFAICS, our approach differs from yours in at least two aspects:

1. Decentralisation.  From the technical point of view, our goal is a marketplace without a market maker.  

2. Market failure.  A longer term and more fundamental goal is to look at new economic structures for incentivising companies to share their industrial data.

For #1, our base approach is combining multiple distributed ledgers into an inter-ledger substrate that allows one to run decentralised marketplaces without an owner.  Or, in other words, to create business platforms, similar to e.g. AirBnB and Uber, without a company that owns the marketplace and takes the rent.

For #2, it is now well accepted that the industrial IoT markets do not clear.  For example, the recent paper by Stanford economists Charles Jones and Christopher Tonetti (2018) model the market failure nicely and show that a major reason for the market failure is the fear of Shumpeterian creative destruction.


Given this, I am wondering if we should collaborate in some way?

Yours sincerely,

--Pekka NIkander