INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION The Internet of Things serving the world of things Gabriel Barta IEC Head of technical coordination Secretary, IEC MSB, CAB ITU-T,

Internet in International Standards  ITU-T Recommendations  ISO/IEC nnnnn-m standards  Developed and/or adopted under the umbrella of ISO/IEC JTC 1 and its subcommittees  Many with text identical to an ITU-T Recommendation  Many applications in different industrial areas  Examples from the IEC (IEC 6nnnn standards):  TC 57, Power systems management and associated information exchange: communications for utilities  TC 65, Industrial-process [control &] automation: communications for automated factories

Where does the IEC add value (since 1906)?  In practical industrial situations  As well as commercial and domestic  Safety and electromag.compatibility (EMC)  But also... IEC standards reduce costs:  By common characteristics  By specifying infrastructure  By guaranteeing interoperability  Mainly using product standards (incl. sys.)

What is a product?  It is a box, a  So the IEC has always standardized things  It has already been standardizing the IoT  Since it began involvement with the Internet  So is there a contradiction, an overlap?  No, there are two complementary views:  How to communicate  What is communicating thing

Implications for standardizing the IoT, I  A comm. protocol is a beautiful thing  Experts develop and perfect it  They then make it available for users  Sounds good, but is “thrown over the wall”  We need the IoT because the things need it  Throwing it over the wall won’t work  So develop IoT in constant consideration of the things themselves, the actual boxes

Implications for standardizing the IoT, II  Examples:  NID: must consider existing ID schemes  “Sensor” networks: if modern devices no longer clearly separate sensors from actuators, the IoT must not be rigid either  We are no longer living in a world where applications come afterwards  Compare the world of mobile apps & survival  Involve the things up front in the IoT

INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION Thank you. Discussion?