The era of open architecture is finally here to stay. The economic climate is not a bright one all over the world lately. Meanwhile, the low-price marketing is a hot issue in IT industry. This new marketing style is closely related to the world economy, of course. How can we offer products of good quality when low-price marketing becomes a major trend in the market? One solution is adopting open architecture. It is a very straight-forward standard approach to reduce cost by volume production of common parts using a common infrastructure and platforms.
Such an approach requires the standardization of technologies used for the infrastructure. Today, the society doesn't want to see the concentration of profit to a party in IT industry and elsewhere. The world has lessons in this regard. Hence, the required characteristics of the technologies for the future common platforms is open approach above all.
TRON architecture has been designed the concept of open architecture for close to thirty years now, and its open reach has extended. It has reached international development community. Originally, it started as an open architecture for realtime embedded systems, but now has been extended to incorporate more open platforms to support the new application of the new century as well as OSs.
Lately, active efforts to interoperate one open architecture with another are made by many partners. NoTA architecture promoted by VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland) and NOKIA and TRON architecture is now pushed together. We intend to promote open architectures to the world in collaboration with international partners.
Basic elements of Ubiquitous ID architecture has been incorporated into F.771 and H.621, ITU-T Recommendations. These two international standards are the first of their kind in the field of network style information service triggered by tag-based identification in the network environment. I expect that a new development will begin based on collaborations between de jure standards coming out of international standard organizations, and de facto standards that have been established in the industry. I hope the visitors to the exhibition will experience the glimpse of the results mentioned above.
As always, we hold TRON Enableware Symposium, TEPS2009, under the them of “Universal Design in Ubiquitous Computing” in addition to TRONSHOW2009.
Lastly I would like to express my sincere appreciation to those who have supported TRON Project, and T-Engine Project, and become the special sponsors this year: Aplix Corporation, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd, FUJITSU LIMITED, Hitachi, Ltd., NEC Corporation, Nihon Unisys, Ltd., PASCO Corporation, Personal Media Corporation, Renesas Technology Corp., SATO CORPORATION, Tokyo Midtown, TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD., Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation, YAZAKI CORPORATION, Yokosuka Telecom Research Park, Inc. I also would like to thank the exhibitors and people who have helped us in preparing this year's exhibition.
TRON Project Leader
Ken Sakamura
