As we have mentioned a few times recently OpenProducts have been working on a new product OpenProducts InformationHub or OP-I for short. It is still to early to mention detailed features or specifications since these are not yet finalized and things still might change a lot.
With that said things are progressing nicely here and we thought it was time to at least outline our main requirements and give some status information.
The sole purpose of the OP-I is to keep your personal information safe and in the same time make it accessible at all times. This means a few things.
Firstly, you should never mistakenly lose any information. There shall always exist a backup of all information, accessible in an intelligent way.
Secondly, your information should be safe. All information is stored at your premises, under your physical control. Any information not stored on the unit, such as backups, are encrypted and the password/secret key is of course not stored at the backup site or otherwise easily retrieved. The key exception to this is when any information needs to be readily available on an external device.
Thirdly, information should be accessible as easily as possibly. Regardless of your device you should have access to your centralized information.
These are the three cornerstones, or main requirement, of the OP InformationHub that currently guides our development. With these and our background in consumer electronics we at OP strongly believes that we can fulfil these requirements and in the same time make a top notch product out of it.
To clarify what we mean with your personal information, this is the information you really cant live without, mostly produced by yourself. Thus we are not aiming to safeguard or distribute your digital media collection or something else easily reproduced.
To round off this introduction lets mention some current status. Hardware wise the platform architecture has been selected and development is already mostly done. On the software side, one of the biggest pieces in the puzzle, architecture is mostly done and development is progressing nicely.
Hopefully we will have time left over during development to post updated progress information and other news here regularly.
