1. Dr. N Sarat Chandra Babu/ C-DAC Bangalore
IOT STANDARDS
Dr. N Sarat Chandra Babu/ C-DAC Bangalore
14th September 2017

2. Need & Urgency of IOT Standards
IOT aims to connect various things around us to the Internet with the use of smart sensors and actuators
IOT devices have limited resources in terms of power, processing capabilities, bandwidth etc.
Existing set of protocols were not designed for such constraints
Gartner Inc. forecasts that the total number of connected things will reach 20.4 billion by 2020
Need of a standards based layered architecture and protocol suite considering the huge scale of implementation and influence on public life

3. Challenges
Customers would be bound to one vendor for the entire end to end solution
Operational quality may not be uniform
Systems might not work as expected
Interoperability issues- incompatible with other solutions
Scalability is a challenge
Technology reuse and modularity
Ease of Innovation
Development of entire end to end solution- lesser competition, monopolization of market and higher cost of the product

4. The IOT Standards Environment
Standards Creation reflects business opportunities; this race is about IoT monetization creating the potential for market transformation
Formal Standards in all 5 Sectors are creating End to End (E2E) IoT Architecture Frameworks to address the connection of Things
Communications
Governments
OIC < > UPnP < >Allseen < > IETF < > W3C < > 3GPP < > OMA < > oneM2M < > AIoTI < > IIC < > Ind 4.0
IEEE P < > ETSI < > IoT China < > NIST < > ISO/IEC JTC1 < >
IoT
Enterprise
(IT)
Industrial
(OT)
The end-customer is probably not a person but an entity, thing, or a system. A new type of marketplace will emerge creating these new businesses
Standards harmonization will even become very difficult if not impossible
Consumer
A single IoT Standard is not achievable given the market dynamics and business opportunities
Ref: IoT Standards The Next Generation by Jeff Fedders Chief Strategist- Intel Corporation

5. IOT Standards and Strategies
Interoperability required to capture 40% of total value Mckinsey Report 2015
50 Billion devices by 2020 – Is it happening?
Presently it’s growing at a slow phase and at an Inflection point exponential growth is possible only when we have Interoperability; Otherwise difficult to reach the anticipated target by 2020
Are unified standards possible? Competing standards – Survival is the fittest
Many Standard organizations and more than 100 standards – New Standards still keep coming to meet the changing communication technologies; services and so on
Viable standards: Must address widely held concerns of people
(For example USB has become popular standard as it addressed fundamental need of transporting data)
Right standards for right purposes: Say Medical, Transportation, Power, …
Best Practices and guidelines

6. IOT Standards – The Trend

7. IOT Standards: International Scenario
Organizations
Committees/Working Group
Efforts
AllSeen Alliance
>170 members - Qualcomm, Cisco Systems, Panasonic
An open-source framework for service & connectivity layer- build around AllJoyn protocol
Open Interconnect Consortium
>300 members - Intel, Samsung Electronics, Dell, HP, Lenovo
framework which enable interoperability of IOT devices- IOTivity project
AllSeen merged into it
OneM2M
8 standardization organizations, 6 industry consortia
Defines an IOT service layer - middleware
Thread Group
>170 members - ARM Holdings, Samsung, and Google’s Nest Labs
Promoting a mesh networking protocol standard for low-power devices around homes
Liaison agreement with ZigBee
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
IEEE P2413
To turn the information from different IOT platforms into commonly understood data objects
ISO/IEC (International Organization for Standardization/ International Electrotechnical Commission)
ISO/IEC JTC 1 (Joint Technical Committee)
Develop standards for IOT & facilitate coordination between JTC 1 and other organizations like IEEE, ITU etc.
ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
SG20 (Study Group)
For development of technical standards enabling the Internet of Things on a global scale
Industrial Internet Consortium
>250 members - General Electric, Cisco Systems, IBM, Intel and AT&T
foster coordination among industries where IOT and older M2M technologies

8. IOT STANDARDS: NATIONAL SCENARIO
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), GoI released its draft IOT policy in Focuses on creating an IOT industry in India worth of USD 15 billion by 2020 with a share of 5-6% of global IOT industry
TSDSI joined the oneM2M consortium which is seen as a major step towards the convergence of IOT standardization efforts in India
TEC tasked to identify and define India specific M2M standards and contribute to the global standardization efforts
BIS has setup two panels namely, Internet of Things and Smart Infrastructure. Tasked to examine the progress of International standards and identify the gap and need of standards to meet India specific requirements
IOT4SCF (IOT for Smart City Forum) aims to develop standards, guidelines and procedures for application of IOT to various smart city solutions

9. INDIAN EFFORTS Organizations Committees/Working Group Efforts
Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI)
Working group 8 (WG8) on M2M to study Indian requirements of M2M and IOT Services
Technical reports mentioning the study of Indian use cases has been released by TSDSI.
2015 – TSDSI joined the one M2M consortium
Bureau of Indian Standards
Setup two panels namely, Internet of Things and Smart Infrastructure.
Tasked to examine the progress of International standards and identify the gap and need of standards for India
BIS works in close association with the ISO/IEC initiatives.
Telecommunication Engineering Centre, DoT, GoI
In 2014, five working groups (WGs) formed - M2M gateway & architecture, power, automotive, health, safety and surveillance.
In June 2015, 6 new WGs formed - security, smart cities, smart homes, smart villages, agriculture, smart environment and smart governance.
WGs have released different technical reports.
Have identified the need of a standardized M2M service layer similar to the one being promoted by the oneM2M consortium.
Seconded European Standardization Expert in India
Focus areas - electrical and electronic household products, ITS, smart cities, ICT domains like M2M/IOT, Security, 5G, NFV/SDN etc.
It is playing a major role in converging the various standardization efforts going on in India with that at the International level.
IOT for Smart Cities Task Force (IOT4SCTF)
Divided into three working groups on usage scenarios, architecture and RFP framework.
It aims to develop standards, guidelines and procedures for application of IOT to various smart city solutions.
Released a draft IOT reference architecture for smart cities.

10. IEEE P2413 Working Group
IEEE has more than 300 standards relevant to IOT
Revising 40 existing standards to adapt them for IOT and is working on further new IOT standards
IEEE P2413 working group acts as the umbrella for all this standardization work
Membership includes companies like Cisco, Intel, Wipro, Honeywell, Huawei, Qualcomm, Schneider, Siemens, STMicroelectronics etc.
It aims to provide an architectural framework defining various IOT domains (like energy, home and buildings etc.), their abstractions, their relationship with each other and common architecture elements with an aim to promote cross-domain interaction, interoperability, functional compatibility, reliability and security
It aims to use existing applicable standards and collaborate & coordinate with groups with similar objectives like ISO/IEC JTC 1, Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), oneM2M, ITU etc.

11. Conclusion
IOT is a diversified domain with plenty of organizations/consortia are working towards standardizations at different layers of a layered architecture
Sensor interface standardization is getting addressed by IEEE at global level
Communication networks - plenty of possible standardized technologies with Thread also picking up
Service and connectivity layers - can be based on the new merged IOT-ivity
oneM2M also defines the service layer/IOT platform and manages the semantic interoperability as well
It will require a concerted effort of the major National and International standards bodies to arrive at global standards for IOT
Pitch India’s interest at such global standardization organizations and consortia and come up with guidelines/standards to fill in the gap, wherever necessary
Important to address Security standards in IOT including Identity and Privacy
In Nut-shell, we need viable standards addressing the concerns; right standards for right purposes; best practices and guidelines

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