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1 Unleashing the potential of the Internet of Things

4 Abbreviations and acronyms

This Recommendation uses the following abbreviations and acronyms:
2G Second Generation
3G Third Generation

AAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

CAN Controller Area Network
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
FCAPS Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security

ICT Information and Communication Technology
IoT Internet of Things

ITS Intelligent Transport Systems
LTE Long Term Evolution

NGN Next Generation Network
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

5 Conventions
None.

6 Introduction of the IoT

6.1 Concept of the IoT

The Internet of things (IoT) can be perceived as a far-reaching vision with technological and
societal implications.
From the perspective of technical standardization, the IoT can be viewed as a global infrastructure
for the information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual)
things based on existing and evolving interoperable information and communication technologies
(ICT).

Through the exploitation of identification, data capture, processing and communication capabilities,
the IoT makes full use of "things" to offer services to all kinds of applications, whilst ensuring that
security and privacy requirements are fulfilled.
NOTE – The IoT is expected to greatly integrate leading technologies, such as technologies related to
advanced machine-to-machine communication, autonomic networking, data mining and decision-making,
security and privacy protection and cloud computing, with technologies for advanced sensing and actuation.
As shown in Figure 1, the IoT adds the dimension "Any THING communication" to the information
and communication technologies (ICTs) which already provide "any TIME" and "any PLACE"
communication.

8 Rec. ITU-T Y.4000/Y.2060 (06/2012)