@conference {417, title = {o.io: a Unified Communications Framework for Music, Intermedia and Cloud Interaction}, booktitle = {ICMC}, year = {2014}, publisher = {IMCA}, organization = {IMCA}, address = {Athens, Greece}, abstract = {We present work on the {\textquotedblleft}o.io{\textquotedblright} system, a suite of tools for hiding vendor-specific and protocol- specific details of con-trollers and actuators and for replacing diffuse documentation and heterogeneous ontologies with harmonized, situational schema carried along in real-time with gesture and actuator control values as Open Sound Control (OSC) bundles. We introduce useful general design patterns and object-oriented tools that support them. We conclude with details of support of two particular devices that illustrate the potential of {\textquotedblleft}o.io{\textquotedblright}, the QuNeo and Bluetooth LE heart rate monitors.}, keywords = {Control,, Cyber-physical, Device, Discovery, Engineering, Franca,, Integration,, Lingua, Open, OSC,, Protocol,, Software, Sound, Systems,}, author = {Freed, Adrian and DeFilippo, David and Gottfried , Rama and MacCallum, John and Lubow, Jeff and Razo, Derek and Rostovtsev, Ilya and Wessel, David} }