Hi Peter, I've read the XEP and I agree with you that the approach proposed can be interesting for the industry 4.0 scenario that I have described. More in general, I think that the idea to add to the XEP-0323 also an event driven mechanism like the one described in the XEP, can be interesting for many other scenarios, not only for the smart-factory one. Best Regards, Davide On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 16:35:33 +0000 Peter Waher <peterwaher@hotmail.com> wrote:

Thank you Davide for a very interesting description of how XMPP solves many of the issues related to Industry 4.0.

One reflection on what you wrote regarding thresholds and alarms:

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Thresholds can be set to rise alarms in case some parameters exceed the optimal values.

This use case is managed in a general way by the proposed XEP IoT Events that I submitted some time ago, but that the council wanted to change to use data forms instead of the more XEP-0323-like approach that it uses today. My personal conviction is that such an approach is highly counter productive and difficult to implement/validate and would effectively kill the XEP, which is why I did not pursue the subject. But if interest exists, it might be a good idea to brush off this proposal again, and re-address the issues in a pragmatic manner.

http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/iot-events.html

Best regards, Peter