Home monitoring draws on sensors from different manufacturers speaking different protocols, and the raw stream they produce — bed occupancy, movement, doors, appliance use — is among the most revealing data a person can generate. Collecting it at scale needs both interoperability and strict control over who can read it or reach the devices.
Eclipse sensiNact is an open-source edge-to-cloud data platform originating from roughly seven years of research at CEA, now maintained by the Eclipse Foundation under the Eclipse Public License 2.0 and commercialised by Kentyou, a CEA spin-off based in Grenoble. It provides a common layer for collecting and transferring data from heterogeneous sensors and manufacturers, so that applications can consume it without being rebuilt for each device type.
Built on the OSGi framework, the platform is modular and service-oriented, and can be deployed seamlessly from the edge to the cloud. It supports more than 15 standard protocols, which makes integration into existing infrastructure quick and reversible, and it adds edge computing, advanced data analytics and digital twin capabilities that allow historic and real-time urban data to be exploited together. Being open source, it also lets local innovators build their own applications and use cases on top of a shared data layer.
In the M-Sec stack, sensiNact handled interoperable and scalable data collection, working alongside the Security Manager, which enforced access control over raw data and over interaction with the IoT devices themselves.
– Protocol-agnostic collection and transfer across heterogeneous sensors and manufacturers, with 15+ standard protocols supported
– Open-source core under Eclipse Public License 2.0, maintained by the Eclipse Foundation
– Modular, service-oriented architecture built on OSGi, deployable from the edge to the cloud
– Edge computing, advanced analytics and digital twin capabilities over historic and real-time data
– Access control over raw data reads and device interaction
– Scalable data transfer suited to city-scale and multi-home deployments
– Integration surface for external security and storage components
Used in the Santander home monitoring pilot (M-Sec Use Case 2) to collect data from the household sensor kits installed in participants’ homes and pass it securely into the Senior Care platform. sensiNact also carries a longer smart-city lineage through the ClouT, BigClouT and M-Sec projects, in which Santander and Fujisawa recur as paired European and Japanese pilot cities.
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