Object Middleware for Embedded Wireless Devices

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Object Middleware for Embedded WirelessDevices
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Today and Tomorrow

• As devices and infrastructures evolve, user
  experience and involvement increases

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Wireless Devices Now

• Hardware
• Small display
• Slow processor
• Limited memory
• Network
• Low bandwidth and coverage
• Software
• Thin clients
• Web browser
• Market
• Focused on delivering simple web content

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Coming Soon

• Hardware
• Color and wide display
• Faster processor
• More memory
• Network
• Higher bandwidth and coverage
• Software
• Expect rich content and functionality
• More data stored on device
• Market
• More internet with personalized services
• Mobile workers

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Market Projections

• Mobile data users are expected to grow to 2.1
  billion by 2005 - ARC group
• 70 of mobile subscribers worldwide will be using
  data by 2005 ARC group
• Middleware market will grow from 1.7 billion in
  revenue today to 7 billion by 2002 IDC

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The Problem

• Current developer tools for wireless applications
  are inadequate
• WML is inflexible
• Java addresses only GUI
• Scalability not addressed
• Solution must work across many devices (phone,
  PDA), networks (GSM, CDMA, GPRS) and standards
  (WAP, iMode, Java)
• No higher level services for peer-to-peer
  communication and service discovery
• Bluetooth abstractions are too low level
• No support for store and forward mechanism to
  handle extended disconnections
• Device remembers user commands and executes
  them when connectivity and/or bandwidth allows

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The Problem

• No solution for distribution
• Message oriented application protocols are
  difficult to code, maintain and debug
• No tool to exploit device resources
• Intelligent execution environment required to
  efficiently manage applications
• No provision for quality of service (QoS)
• bandwidth reservation for multimedia applications
• No support for ubiquitous push
• current solutions are wireless standard and
  carrier specific

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Our Solution

• Mission - Enabling the delivery of sophisticated
  distributed applications in the wireless embedded
  domain with D-MAP
• D-MAP is a minimal footprint, Object Oriented
  software framework implemented in Java that
  resides on the embedded wireless device

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Details About Our Solution

• Object request broker (ORB)
• Distributed programming model
• Quality of service
• Differentiated services through prioritization of
  data traffic
• Pluggable protocols
• Transparently support multiple transport and
  network protocols
• Security
• Encryption of sensitive data

• Transactions
• Atomicity of operations
• Service Discovery
• Interacting with new devices
• Push / Pull
• Limited Server capability
• Store and Forward
• Offline storage for extended disconnections

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Our Group Experience and Background

• The OOMWorks team has cutting edge research
  experience from being part of the Distributed
  Object Computing (DOC) group at Washington
  University on the ACE and TAO projects
• Over the past 5 years, ACE and TAO have being
  used and deployed commercially by companies such
  as Motorola, Siemens, Nokia, Lucent, Ericsson,
  Boeing, Bell Labs, ATT, Telcordia, SAIC and many
  others
• This gives OOMWorks an advantage over its
  competitors as it already has fortune 500
  companies that believe in its team and the
  products that they have developed
• This in turn means that OOMWorks already has a
  base of customers that even many established
  companies cannot easily approach
• This in turn means that OOMWorks is capable of
  generating revenue much sooner than other
  startups and established players in the market

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Competition

• ORB vendors - different specialities
• Vertel - Network Management
• Objective Interface Systems - Hard Real-Time
• IONA, Visigenic - Enterprise CORBA
• embedded wireless ORB is a niche
• Wireless Application Developers
• Bonita Software, BroadBeam - Focussed on Java for
  rich GUI
• OOMWorks Object Oriented, peer-to-peer
  networking, QoS, Pluggable Protocol support is
  unique

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OOMWorks Revenue Projection

• Middleware market is expected to grow to 7
  billion by 2002 and will continue to grow for the
  next 5 years International Data Corp
• OOMWorks is projecting to capture 2 of the
  market which translates to 150 million/year in
  revenue by the 2nd year of operation

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OOMWorks Financial Requirements

• OOMWorks is looking to raise 2 million in seed
  funding