The Internet of Things (IoT) aka Machine 2 Machine (M2M)

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The Internet of Things (IoT)akaMachine 2
Machine (M2M)

• Bilel Jamoussi
• Chief, Study Groups DepartmentTelecommunications
  Standardization BureauInternational
  Telecommunications Union

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ITU and the Internet of Things

• Major ITU report in 2005 The Internet of Things
• Describes the visions underlying the IoT
• Examines enabling technologies
• Explores the market potential
• Contemplates the challenges and wider
  implications
• Sets out some of the benefits of IoT for
  developing countries
• www.itu.int/internetofthings

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Internet of Things Characteristics

• Many different competing definitions, regional
  approaches - common understanding needed at
  international level
• IoT becomes essential digital infrastructure for
  countries
• Multi operator and service provider business
  model not limited to telecom operators
• Distributed deployment across industries, supply
  chains, countries and regions
• Needs regulatory policy support for
  infrastructure and many vertical market
  applications e.g. security and privacy for
  eHealth
• Charging framework is complex and not well
  understood

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ITU JCA on IoT

• JCA-IoT
• The Joint Coordination Activity on Internet of
  Things (JCA-IoT), has been approved by
  ITU-T TSAG in February 2011.
• JCA-IoT replaces and continues the work performed
  by JCA-NID since 2006.
• Mr. Hyoung Jun Kim (ETRI, Korea) was appointed as
  the Convener of this activity, reporting progress
  to TSAG.

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Highlight of Current Activities

• IoT Joint Coordination Activity (JCA-IoT)
• Coordinates ITU-T work related to IoT, taking
  into account the work done in other SDOs
• Maintains a standards roadmap (list of approved
  IoT international standards and work in progress)
• Acts as a single point of contact within ITU-T
  and performs an external coordination role with
  other relevant recognized SDOs to avoid
  duplication of work
• Next meeting of the JCA-IoT 28-29 November
  2011, Geneva, Switzerland
• More information at
• www.itu.int/itu-t/jca/iot
• tsbjcaiot_at_itu.int

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ITU IoT GSI

• The Global Standards Initiative on Internet of
  Things (IoT-GSI) promotes a unified approach in
  ITU-T for development of technical standards
  (Recommendations) enabling the Internet of Things
  on a global scale.
• ITU-T Recommendations developed under the IoT-GSI
  by the various ITU-T Questions - in collaboration
  with other standards developing organizations
  (SDOs) will enable worldwide service providers
  to offer the wide range of services expected by
  this technology. 
• IoT-GSI also aims to act as an umbrella for IoT
  standards development worldwide.

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Highlight of Current Activities

• IoT Global Standards Initiative (IoT-GSI)
• Provides a visible single location for
  information on and development of IoT standards
• Harmonizes different approaches to the IoT
  architecture worldwide
• Participation from industry, government entities
  and SDOs (All invited ETSI M2M, GSC MSTF,
  ISO/IEC JTC1, TIA, AICTO, ARIB, ATIS, CCSA,
  GISFI, IEC, IEEE, IETF, ISO, TTA, TTC, IETF etc.)

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Highlight of Current Activities

• Items for the IoT-GSI work plan include
• Identification and addressing aspects
• Functional architecture
• Service Delivery Platform (SDP) capabilities
• Requirements and capabilities for IoT use
  cases/applications (e.g. ITS, eHealth, Smart
  Metering, Smart Grids, Mobile Payments, Home
  Networks, Smart City, Connected consumer, etc)
• Requirements and capabilities for energy saving
  using smart objects / Charging principles
• Device management
• Quality of Service
• Security and privacy
• Device and gateway capabilities
• IoT and Cloud / IoT and Peer2Peer/DSN
• Conformance and interoperability testing
• IoT Governance

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Highlight of Current Activities

• The IoT-GSI is working on a new Recommendation
• IoT-Overview which aims to cover
• High level concept (vision)
• Business and social drivers, ecosystem and
  business models
• Essential terminology
• Scope (applications/services, networks, M2M,
  devices, security, enabling technologies, etc.)
• Very High Level Requirements
• Key features / key areas / key components
• High level IoT diagrams
• Taxonomies
• Target for approval 02-2012

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Strategic Direction

• Attracting vertical industries
• ITS Intelligent Transport System Communications
• ITU-T Focus Group on Car Communication and
• ITU-T Focus Group on Driver Distraction
• Smart Grid
• ITU-T Focus Group
• eHealth
• Planned workshop on eHealth (in cooperation with
  WHO) and related technology standards

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Industry Challenges

• Urgent need to increase engagement and
  coordination with IoT / M2M stakeholders across
  the world
• Telecom SDOs
• Vertical market SDOs and industry bodies
• Regulators
• Academic institutions
• Regional bodies for providing emerging market
  requirements
• Risk without proper consultation countries could
  limit deployment and use of global IoT
  infrastructure

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Next Steps / Actions

• ITU provides a unique platform to discuss these
  challenges, foster effective coordination to
  provide global IoT standards and help get them
  deployed
• GSC MSTF has been effective in bringing together
  several stakeholder communities
• ITU invites GSC MSTF to join the efforts of the
  IoT Joint Coordination Activity (JCA) as well as
  Global Standards Initiative (GSI)
• ITU encourages additional participation from its
  membership in the IoT JCA discussions, especially
  stakeholders who are not traditional SDO members