GSoC 2018: Integrate Eclipse SmartHome with the IOTA tangle

[htreu]

This discussion is about a project proposal for the Google Summer of Code 2018. The basic idea is to integrate Eclipse SmartHome with the distributed ledger technology by the IOTA organisation. This is the original idea given on the eclipse wiki:

Eclipse SmartHome could potentially interact with the IOTA distributed ledger for machine-to-machine communication. The project proposal is to develop a proof-of-concept which integrates Eclipse SmartHome with the IOTA technologies. A project proposal could include the following features:

• Access the IOTA tangle with an Eclipse SmartHome instance.
• Provide actions for rules to start transactions on the IOTA tangle.
• React on transactions happening on the SmartHome instances address.
• Implement a IOTA transaction based transport between sensors and the SmartHome hub.

Especially for the last part the IOTA MAM protocol is a perfect fit.

• MAM introduction: https://blog.iota.org/introducing-masked-authenticated-messaging-e55c1822d50e
• Deep dive: https://iotafan.jp/en/developer/deep_drive_into_mam_20171229/

[giovannt0]

EDIT 24/04:

Here's the final proposal that was accepted:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LJ7g03maPi8yH70L86GqY76jhSKGdILb/view

Every piece of feedback whatsoever is appreciated, so if any of you has any suggestion please let me know !