Document No:
GSC16-PLEN-90
Source:
ITU
Contact:
Bilel Jamoussi (bilel.jamoussi@itu.int)
GSC Session:
PLENARY
Agenda Item:
6.9
The Internet of Things (IoT)
aka
Machine 2 Machine (M2M)
Bilel Jamoussi
Chief, Study Groups Department
Telecommunications Standardization Bureau
International 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 ITUT 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@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
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