DOCUMENT #:
GSC15-PLEN-nn
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Presentation
SOURCE:
TIA
AGENDA ITEM:
6.12
CONTACT(S):
Jeffrey Smith (JSmith@numerex.com)
Alain Louchez (alouchez@numerex.com)
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)
TR-50 Engineering Committee Activities &
Recommendations
Jeffrey Smith, Ph. D.
Chief Technology Officer, Numerex Corp
Chair of TIA TR-50 Smart Device Communications Standards Committee
Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)
GSC-15
Highlight of Current Activities
at TIA TR-50
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Following presentation by Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)
delegation at GSC-14, TIA Engineering Committee on Smart Device
Communications was launched in December 2009; Chair and Vice Chair were
elected in February 2010
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TR-50.1 subcommittee on Requirements and Architecture was subsequently
created; Chair and Vice Chair were elected in April 2010. TR50.1 project
references to date:
During Development (i.e., Project Phase)
 PN-3-0411.000 – List of Parts
 PN-3-0411.001 – Common Terminology
 PN-3-0411.005 – Reference Architecture
Publication Document Number
 TIA-1203.000 – List of Parts
 TIA-1203.001 – Common Terminology
 TIA-1203.005 – Reference Architecture
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Highlight of Current Activities
at TIA TR-50 (cont’d)
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As of GSC-15, 5 TR-50 meetings since creation with participants from a wide range of organizations in
private sector and government from North America, Europe, China, India and Japan
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Work to date: review of use cases for related applications and common set of requirements
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Collaboration with trade organizations and academia, for instance, TR-50 participation at Connected
World in June 2010 in Chicago, IL and at the M2M Evolution Conference in October 2010 in Los
Angeles, CA and discussions with Georgia Institute of Technology, especially in the area of data
security
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Internal cooperation with other TIA groups: TR-45 (Mobile and Personal Communications Systems
Standards), TR-48 (Vehicular Telematics), TR-49 (Healthcare ICT) and Emerging Technologies
Subcommittee
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Liaison with SDOs and such organizations e.g. participation at IEEE workshop at Santa Clara
University, CA in September 2010 on Smart Grid, Emerging devices and "the Internet of Things“, and,
also, at ETSI M2M Workshop in October 2010 in Sophia Antipolis, France
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Actively involved in Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2)
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Open collaboration through TIA website
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TIA TR-50 Scope
(Chair: Jeffrey Smith, Numerex; Vice Chair: Jim Wert, ILS Technology)
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Engineering Committee TR-50 Smart Device Communications is responsible
for the development and maintenance of access agnostic interface standards
for the monitoring and bi-directional communication of events and information
between smart devices and other devices, applications or networks.
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TR-50 will develop a Smart Device Communications framework that can
operate over different underlying transport networks (wireless, wired, etc.) and
can be adapted to a given transport network by means of an
adaptation/convergence layer.
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The TR-50 framework will make its functionality available to applications
through a well-defined Application Programming Interface (API) that is agnostic
to the vertical application domain (eHealth, Smart Grid, Industrial Automation,
etc.)
TIA TR-50.1 Scope
Requirements and Architecture
(Chair: Peter Nurse, Sigma Delta; Vice Chair: Mitch Tseng, Huawei)
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Requirements shall be agnostic to the application (e.g. eHealth, Smart Grid,
Industrial Automation, etc.), but shall reflect the requirements of the
applications of interest. Examples of such publications include Use Cases and
Stage-1 Descriptions.
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System architecture shall be agnostic to the application, but shall reflect the
requirements of the applications of interest, including their information models.
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Data models requirements shall be agnostic to the application, but shall reflect
the requirements of the applications of interest.
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In its work, Subcommittee TR-50.1 shall take account of the following: Security
(e.g., data content, authentication, signaling); End to End Performance and
scalability of equipment and networks; and Device Management (incl.
discovery and identity)
GSC Mandate
“Collaborate in planning future standards
development to gain synergy and to reduce
duplication.”
Source: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/gsc/Pages/default.aspx
M2M is no longer a niche market
 2004: “Will M2M Survive?” in “Where is M2M Headed?”, M2M
Magazine (now Connected World Magazine), Fall 2004, p. 26
 2010: “The presence of the mainstream cellular
communications and IT markets [at Connected World in June
2010 in Chicago, USA] signifies the transition of M2M from a
niche and nascent collection of “science projects” to a
fundamental development on the path of cellular/IT market
growth and evolution,” Sam Lucero, ABI Research, July 13,
2010
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M2M is becoming mainstream
The Connected Planet*
The Internet of Things*
As a result of the
growing interest
in M2M, there is
a lot of
standardization
activities . . .
The Smarter Planet*
Smart objects talking to other objects, for the
benefit and protection of our quality of Life
*SOURCE: Philips for Connected Planet, European Commission for Internet Of Things, IBM for The Smarter Planet,
Strategic Direction: Avoid Duplication
Examples of Current M2M-related Standardization Work (1):
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3GPP http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Information/WORK_PLAN/Description_Releases/NIMTC_M2M_20100621.zip
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3GPP2 TR50-20100617-004_ALU__LS 3GPP2 M2M Updates.ppt
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CCSA’s Ubiquitous Network Technical Committee
http://www.ccsa.org.cn/english/show_article.php?article_id=cyzx_a20c92a3-7c03-8a7e-5f3c-4b944cba3345
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ETSI General M2M Activities (TC M2M) http://www.etsi.org/Application/Search/?search=m2m
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ETSI and Smart Card Platform work related to M2M http://portal.etsi.org/scp/ActivityReport2009.asp
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EU-funded project CASAGRAS ('Coordination and support action for global RFID-related activities and
standardisation') http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.document&N_RCN=30283
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GISFI’s Work on Specs for Standardized Framework on Internet of Things (M2M)
http://gisfi.org/pdf/IOT%20Work%20Plan.pdf
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ITU Mobile Wireless Access Systems for sensors and/or actuators – See e.g.,
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ITU-T Study Group 15 Optical transport networks and access network infrastructures http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com15/index.asp
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Open Mobile Alliance Device Management http://www.openmobilealliance.org/Technical/DM.aspx
Liaison statement to ITU-R
Working parties 1a and 5D,ITU-T JCA-NID, ITU-T SG 16, ITU-T SG 17, and External organizations on “Mobile wireless access systems
providing telecommunications for a large number of ubiquitous sensors and/or actuators scattered over wide areas in the land mobile
service”
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Strategic Direction: Avoid Duplication
Examples of Current M2M-related Standardization Work (2):
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GSMA Embedded Mobile Initiative http://www.gsmworld.com/ourwork/mobile_broadband/embedded_mobile/
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Wi-Fi Alliance certification programs (IEEE 802.11) http://www.wi-fi.org/certification_programs.php
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Bluetooth (IEEE 802.15.1) https://www.bluetooth.org/apps/content/
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Zigbee Alliance (IEEE 802.15.4) M2M-related solutions http://www.zigbee.org/
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WIMAX(IEEE 802.16) project planning committee http://wirelessman.org/ppc/index.html
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GS1 standardization work http://www.gs1.org/
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IETF’s Constrained Restful Environments (core) https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/core/charter/
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Wavenis Open Standard Alliance http://www.wavenis-osa.org/
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Work within World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/
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European Usenet project http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en76/special/ubiquitous-machine-to-machineservice-networks
Strategic Direction: Avoid Duplication
Examples of Current M2M-related Standardization Work (3):
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Transportation space
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Smart Grid space
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IEC TC 57 - Communication networks and systems for power utility automation. http://www.iec.ch/cgibin/procgi.pl/www/iecwww.p?wwwlang=E&wwwprog=sea22.p&search=iecnumber&header=IEC&pubno=61850&
part=&se=&submit=Submit
NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Standards Project http://www.nist.gov/smartgrid/
ETSI and Smart Grid http://docbox.etsi.org/Workshop/2010/201006_SMARTGRIDS/ELLOUMI_M2M.ppt
IEEE 802.15 Smart Utility Networks (SUN) http://www.ieee802.org/15/pub/TG4g.html
Healthcare space
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Vehicular Emergency Data Set (VEDS): http://www.comcare.org/VEDS.html
ISO TC 204 - ITS - http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_technical_committee?commid=54706
ERTICO ITS Europe http://www.ertico.com/
ITU and Standardization Activities for Intelligent Transport Systems http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itut/oth/23/01/T23010000080002PDFE.pdf
ISO TC 215 http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_tc_browse.htm?commid=54960
HL7.org http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/ansiapproved.cfm
Continua Health Alliance http://www.continuaalliance.org/index.html
ISO/IEEE 11073 Personal Health Data (PHD) Standards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEEE_11073_Personal_Health_Data_%28PHD%29_Standards
Home automation space
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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25/WG 1 – Home Electronic System http://hes-standards.org/
Challenges
 Develop global coordination and collaboration
among the standards organizations to avoid
overlaps and any confusion in M2M
standardization (risk of fractured ecosystems and
disparate interfaces)
 Ensure standards allow flexibility to support the
future array of M2M applications
 Demonstrate, broadly and clearly, benefits of M2M
standardization to all stakeholders
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Next Steps/Actions (1)
 Explore with GSC PSOs and Observer Organizations the
critical importance of:
• Cooperation and collaboration among Standards Developing
Organizations, fora, alliances and other consortia directly or
indirectly related to M2M for minimizing, and possibly eliminating,
overlapping M2M standardization efforts
• Establishing processes and structure for exchanging information,
monitoring and harmonizing M2M global standardization effort
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Next Steps/Actions (2)
 Explore with GSC PSOs and possibly
other organizations the need and
practicality of establishing a GSCsponsored M2M Standardization Task
Force (MSTF) to facilitate global
coordination and harmonization
M2M Standardization Framework
MSTF
GSC PSO 1
 Explore with GSC PSOs and possibly
other organizations the need and
practicality of identifying leadership (or
prime responsibility) for well-defined and
GSC-accepted critical components and
features of the M2M value chain
Other GSC PSOs
GSC PSO 2
Etc.
Other GSC PSOs
Etc.
M2M Value Chain
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Supplementary Slides
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TIA TR-50 Scope
(Chair: Jeffrey Smith, Numerex; Vice Chair: Jim Wert, ILS Technology)

Engineering Committee TR-50 Smart Device Communications is responsible for the
development and maintenance of access agnostic interface standards for the monitoring
and bi-directional communication of events and information between smart devices and
other devices, applications or networks. These standards development efforts pertain to
but are not limited to the functional areas as noted: Requirements; System Architecture;
Cross-industry communication; Leverage existing (and future) physical infrastructure;
Information models (state diagrams); Security (e.g., data content, mutual authentication);
End to End Performance and scalability of equipment and networks; Network
Management/Operations; Device Management (incl. discovery and identity); Protocols;
Minimum Performance, and Conformance and interoperabilityTesting

TR-50 will develop a Smart Device Communications framework that can operate over
different underlying transport networks (wireless, wired, etc.) and can be adapted to a
given transport network by means of an adaptation/convergence layer. The TR-50
framework will make its functionality available to applications through a well-defined
Application Programming Interface (API) that is agnostic to the vertical application
domain (eHealth, Smart Grid, Industrial Automation, etc.)
TIA TR-50.1 Scope
(Chair: Peter Nurse, Sigma Delta; Vice Chair: Mitch Tseng, Huawei)

The development and maintenance of publications pertaining to requirements. Such requirements
shall be agnostic to the application (e.g. eHealth, Smart Grid, Industrial Automation, etc.), but shall
reflect the requirements of the applications of interest. Examples of such publications include Use
Cases and Stage-1 Descriptions.

The development and maintenance of publications pertaining to system architecture. Such system
architecture shall be agnostic to the application, but shall reflect the requirements of the applications
of interest, including their information models. Such publications include, for example, description of
the functional elements, definitions of relationships between functional elements, definitions of
relationships between functional elements and elements external to the system, data flow diagrams,
control flow diagrams, and definition of the application program program interface, State Diagrams
and Stage-2 Descriptions.
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The development and maintenance of publications pertaining to data models. Such requirements shall
be agnostic to the application, but shall reflect the requirements of the applications of interest.
Examples of such publications include Stage-3 Descriptions, XML schema.

In its work, Subcommittee TR-50.1 shall take account of the following: Security (e.g., data content,
authentication, signaling); End to End Performance and scalability of equipment and networks; and
Device Management (incl. discovery and identity)