1. Standards for the Internet of Things
Class 1: IoT Standards Overview
October 5, 2015 Louis W. Giokas

2. This Week’s Agenda
Monday IoT Standards Overview Tuesday Device Standards Wednesday Communication Standards Thursday System Standards Friday Future Directions

3. Course Description
The Internet of Things (IoT) is dynamic and growing by leaps and bounds.
Standards will help in sustaining this growth.
Standards are key to efficiently melding together many devices and systems from multiple vendors.
The IoT consists of a multilayer architecture of devices and systems connected in complex networks.
We will look at the types of standards developed, or being developed, by standards bodies, concentrating on the IEEE.

4. Today’s Agenda Motivations IoT Standards Landscape
Current and Established Standards
Standards Participants
Roadmap/Architecture

5. Motivations Standards promote interoperability
Communications standards are an excellent example of this
Standards promote industry growth
Standards promote competition
Standards can help promote efficiency
Standards can help promote security and safety

6. Motivations The IoT is complex The IoT is far reaching
Many types of devices
Many types of network
Feedback and control
The IoT is far reaching
Home automation
Automotive
Office
Industrial

7. Motivations The IoT is experiencing rapid growth and scope
Catching up with this dynamic environment will be challenging
There is not even a common definition
Success of the IoT will depend on standardization which will provide interoperability, compatibility, reliability and effective operation on a global/Internet scale

8. Motivations There is lots of hype around the IoT
Similar to the hype around Big Data (which actually is a part of the IoT)
That is not say that the IoT is not real
Despite the hype the IoT will change the way we live, hopefully for the better
User acceptance of, and comfort with, the IoT is crucial

9. IoT Standards Landscape
The IoT landscape can be thought of as having three aspects:
The Market for the IoT
The Technologies of the IoT
Standardization itself
There are many participants
Developers
Academia and research
Users and consumers

10. IoT Standards Landscape
Unlike communication standards, the IoT is much more broad (as we will see)
There are many industry consortia and groups promoting the IoT
Many are focused on a particular activity, market or industry
Research is on-going and extensive covering theories, materials, devices and applications

11. Current and Established Standards
The IEEE has a large number of existing standards that were not specifically developed for the IoT, but that apply to the IoT.
I counted about 80 in one reference document
Standards cover a number of areas, but need to be extended to cover major application areas as well as base technologies
There are a number of industry groups, but these tend to address particular applications.

12. Current and Established Standards
IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks
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IEEE Standard for Air Interface for Broadband Wireless Access Systems
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IEEE Standard for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE)
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13. Current and Established Standards
IEEE Standard for Health Informatics
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IEEE Standard for Information technology -- Smart transducer interface for sensors and actuators
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14. Standards Participants
IEEE is the premier standards body
Unbiased, with a well established approach to developing standards with broad input
Many standards, including IEEE standards, are first developed by industry groups
When successful, there is often a push for the IEEE to then formalize the standard
One IoT related example is Zigbee. The parallel IEEE Standard is

15. Standards Participants
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Industrial Internet Consortium
EEBus
Open Interconnect Consortium
AllSeen Alliance
AllJoyn
Internet of Things Consortium
Thread Group

16. Roadmap/Architecture
In the following lectures we will look at the IoT through the following lens:
Devices
Communications
Systems
Each category builds upon the previous one
Devices are the most basic and unique to the IoT
Communications standards leverage existing standards with IoT considerations included
Systems bring together these elements to build useful applications and services

17. Roadmap/Architecture
There is no one IoT. Application areas can be separate, although at the information processing level there may be significant interaction.
For example medical devices have different requirements from home control devices and vehicular systems
There may be intersection at the communications level

18. Roadmap/Architecture
Standards and architectures are generally layered, for example Smart City/Smart Grid.

19. Roadmap/Architecture
Discussion of standards in each area will include the motivation for the standards and requirements associated with each
Attention will be given to application areas and their impact on standards development
Special attention will be given to layered architecture concepts

20. Roadmap/Architecture
Consideration of attributes necessary and/or desirable for the IoT is an important part of the evolution of the IoT and standards
These include security and power consumption
The large numbers of devices and the sensitivity of the information drives these considerations
Standards efforts are on-going and many are just starting up. Community involvement is important

21. Summary and Preview
In this lecture I have tried to lay a groundwork for the effort and to show where the IoT Standards efforts are now
There is still a state of flux in the IoT and in the Standards. There is much to be done and many opportunities
The scale of the IoT is massive, with estimates of 50B connected devices in about five years

22. Summary and Preview
The next three lectures will concentrate on three major areas in which standards are developed
We are not going to concentrate on development methodologies, marketing new research, although these will influence the IoT, Standards and our review of them
Next time we talk devices