Kaivan Karimi, Executive Director of Global Strategy and Business Development, MCUs at Freescale, explains why Freescale and Oracle defined together a "One Box" platform for the Internet of Things.
Kaivan suggested the idea of only one gateway box to control the smart home since future gateway boxes will be IPv6-compliant. He also highlighted the need for an infrastructure to enable a new generation of service providers for innovative IoT services, especially in the areas of home healthcare, elderly monitoring and care, home automation services, home maintenance, remote education and home meal services.
To understand what in "the box" and the detail of the infrastructure from sensors to the cloud, Read the comprehensive article on the Embedded Beat Blog