Rob Chandhok has a rather impressive selection of titles at Qualcomm, including first and foremost being the President of Qualcomm Internet Services. Chandhok is also President of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc., as well as the Senior Vice President of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. – and our talk with him this week comes via Barcelona, where we’re exploring the globe’s greatest new wireless bits and pieces courtesy of Mobile World Congress 2013. Chandhok was keen to speak about the reasons AllJoyn will be an important point of interest for consumers in the near future – and why the whole platform is open source.

Chandhook made it all clear: “If we work on a video protocol – we haven’t announced that specifically just yet, but you can see how the following to audio [which we've just announced] would be video – and I want to show slides, I would want it to be: If I’m in the same room as the projector, I want to have [wireless, instant] access to the projector. We think we know how to do some of those experiences. But we also know that we’re not going to be the only people that do those sorts of experiences, and that’s why we want this to be an open platform.”

At one end of the equation there’s developers who Qualcomm wants to work with the AllJoyn platform and create amazing connected experiences. On the other end, there’s the hardware manufacturers that Qualcomm wants to be on board with integrating AllJoyn connectivity and functionality into their products – then everyone can connect. And the fact that this platform is open source is key from start to finish.

“It’s a little bit atypical for Qualcomm to say ‘here’s something that we’re going to open source,’ but if you heard Paul Jacobs yesterday in his keynote, he was very clear about how committed the company is to the open source platform. And the reason is simple. For Qualcomm, it’s more useful for things to be connected. It’s really straightforward.”

Chandhok made it clear that if a developer were to want to create a project using AllJoyn on a competitor to Qualcomm’s hardware, and said to him (representing Qualcomm) “will you help me?” He’d have to say “no – I’ll give you a solution based on our products, I will differentiate and I will compete based on the quality of our product. But the ecosystem has to be open in order for there to be an ecosystem.”

Several sets of possibilities and were discussed as well, including the possibility of products hitting the market with AllJoyn integrated by the holiday season of 2013 – near the end of the year, that is. AllJoyn is being pushed as an ingredient brand, one that, like Bluetooth or NFC, is included in the list of awesome connectivity features a device has embedded. To make this reality possible with AllJoyn as a real technology on the market, the AllJoyn Alliance exists to first seek out and hook up with and help out hardware manufacturers as well as developers to integrate across the board.

Then comes marketing to the public, making the AllJoyn mark something that people will look for in products in many products – and not just televisions, speakers, and smartphones. Devices like refrigerators and ovens are being discussed by Qualcomm as being connected as well, all of this creating the Internet of Everything that’s quickly becoming a reality, here and now. While devices like refrigerators, they having a rather long lifetime in the wild, will see slower adoption of AllJoyn services, Chandhok made a very general guess – not quite a prediction – at AllJoyn proliferation in 2 to 3 years.

There’s a growing expectation out there now, noted Chandhok, by consumers that their devices will continue to become more intelligent – all of their devices, even the ones that’ve never really been all that intelligent in the first place. The simplest way to put how AllJoyn will take part in this expectation, Chandhok made clear, is ti make AllJoyn useful. “If it’s useful, users will want it. if it’s annoying, users wont want it.”

Speaking this week on the topic of Vertical Disruption in the mobile industry, Jacobs made it clear that “disruption” was too negative to be comfortable to go forth with. Instead it was Mobile Enablement that Jacobs decided to focus on. Qualcomm’s vision of a Digital 6th Sense was re-outlined as a user interface for the world – for the things in your life that don’t otherwise have one.

With this Digital 6th Sense comes the new concept Qualcomm first spoke about earlier today – The Internet of Everything. The AllJoyn collection of connectivity technology – an update for which was also announced today – is at the heart of Qualcomm’s push for a connected world. For the world where an Internet of Everything is made real.

As far as disruption goes, Jacobs reminded the audience that smartphone shipments were twice the number of PC shipments through 2012 (according to a Gartner study published earlier this month). It’s through this wireless world that we connect – this is Qualcomm’s message.

Both healthcare and education were spoken about as two of the most important areas for innovation that Qualcomm is working with. The technology for the enablement of services created by the open source community to boost the abilities of educators, students, doctors, and everyday citizens – all comes through AllJoyn through the future.

Stay tuned the rest of this week in our fabulous Mobile World Congress 2013 tag portal for more information on Qualcomm and the rest of the wireless universe from across the planet. You’ll find more up to the minute news action and hands-on experiences than you can throw a stick at!

Several main pillars of the AllJoyn universe are being listed this week, with Qualcomm expecting to release “fully functional versions of these core services” in a completely open source license way. Through the developer-friendly AllJoyn.org you’ll be able to find tools for the following services immediately if not rather soon:

• Notifications
• Onboarding
• Control
• Audio Streaming

In the Notifications package you’ve got Qualcomm supporting “a standard way” for devices you program for to both send and receive notifications – text, image, and multimedia included. You’ll be creating an intermediary with the Onboarding service with AllJoyn, this intermediary able to be programmed to, in turn, configure simple smart devices – “headless” included. The intermediary can be a smartphone application if you like, and the end goal can be for that headless beast to work on you personal network with ease.

Qualcomm is pushing Control with AllJoyn, here letting us know that you’ll be given the tools to allow devices to export their control interfaces from top to bottom – graphics included. From one to another to the other, this smart universe continues to be cross-platform. Then there’s Audio Streaming, including an interoperable and open wireless protocol for streaming music – from any device to any device.

Each of these core services is being announced as being upstreamed by May 2013 into the AllJoyn open source project. Integrated support – like magic – is expected by the company to be integrated into “many” platforms and products made with Qualcomm Technologies innards as well from this point forward. And that’s the beauty of it for everyday users – you don’t have to put in any effort at all – it’ll all just work for you, presto! Developer magic.

Fun fact: Audio Streaming is being brought to you in part by the DoubleTwist Corporation – a group we saw an awesome Android sync demo with back two years ago at Mobile World Congress 2011 for Android Community (and that’s where we are again today to hear this Qualcomm set of announcements). We’ve since seen doubleTwist push forth quite a few awesome bits and pieces since then!

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