The IoT.bzh project is directly issued from an historical presence of INTEL's R&D teams in Vannes [Brittany/France]. INTEL in Brittany started through WindRiver System that established its first European R&D in Vannes during the '90s to work on embedded operating systems. More recently in 2012, a new team was established: this new team worked mainly around the Linux/Tizen project and contributed significantly to the expansion of Tizen presence into automotive industries by producing Tizen/IVI. Long term success of a project based on "OpenSource" components resides in the capability to get its patches and improvements to be accepted upstream by the OpenSource community. This can only happen through well known individuals, clearly identified and respected as expert within the community of developers. OpenSource development imposes team with technical leaders that are officially known, accepted and respected as main contributors. Getting accepted by the community can take years and starting an OpenSource team without a strong and solid base of already well respected technical individual remains hard if not impossible. IOT.BZH was given through INTEL strategy shift a unique opportunity to start from scratch with a "ready to go" team base of well known and respected developers. This new team has all the necessary skills to continue the effort started by INTEL in automotive, telecoms or TV market, as well as to expand to other IoT sectors like medical, military, marine, etc.
