Page 9 - Unleashing the potenti al of the Internet of Things

FOREWORD

The years approaching 2020 will see Internet of
Things (IoT) technologies enabling the intercon-
necti on of billions of devices, things and objects
to achieve the effi ciencies borne of innovati ons
such as intelligent buildings and transportati on
systems, and smart energy and water networks.

IoT is contributi ng to the convergence of industry
sectors, with uti liti es, healthcare and transporta-
ti on among the many sectors with a stake in the
future of IoT. The new ITU-T Study Group 20 es-
tablished in June 2015 provides the specialized
IoT standardizati on platf orm necessary for this
convergence to rest on a cohesive set of interna-
ti onal standards.

Today we are faced with the challenge of address-
ing the standardizati on requirements of the many for IoT, and mechanisms for the interoperabili-
verti cal industries applying informati on and com- ty of IoT applicati ons and datasets employed by
municati on technologies (ICTs) as enabling tech- various verti cal industries. An important aspect
nologies. This is parti cularly evident in the fi eld of the group’s work is the development of stand-
of IoT, where IoT platf orms are being developed ards that leverage IoT technologies to address ur-
independently, according to the specifi c needs of ban-development challenges.
each sector. This divergence in IoT development
and deployment has led to an urgent need for This fl ipbook presents a compendium of the fi rst
stakeholders to come together to miti gate the set of ITU internati onal standards for IoT, provid-
risk of data “silos” emerging in diff erent industry ing a resource of great value to standards experts
sectors. interested in contributi ng to the work of ITU-T
Study Group 20. This compendium is also expect-
ITU-T Study Group 20 has taken up this challenge, ed to assist the wide variety of stakeholders in-
providing government, industry and academia terested in implementi ng these IoT standards or
with a unique global platf orm to collaborate in the calling for adherence to standards in policy and
development of internati onal IoT standards. One regulatory frameworks relevant to IoT. This com-
of the group’s primary objecti ves is to support pendium will be updated conti nuously, according
the creati on of an inclusive, interoperable IoT to the progress of IoT developments in ITU.
ecosystem capable of making full use of the data
generated by IoT-enabled systems.

The Study Group is building on over ten years
of ITU-T experience in IoT standardizati on, de-
veloping internati onal standards to enable the
coordinated development of IoT technologies,
including radio-frequency identi fi cati on, ubiqui-
tous sensor networks and machine-to-machine Chaesub Lee
communicati ons. A central part of this study is Director, ITU Telecommunicati on
the standardizati on of end-to-end architectures Standardizati on Bureau