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We will begin work on a series of investigations into different
The ETSI IoT Week domains, with a view to specifying semantic models to
In 2017, the ETSI IoT Week will be held in October extend SAREF. This work will address smart cities, the
at our headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France. The industry and manufacturing domains, smart agriculture
focus this year will be ‘Standards and Technologies for and the food chain, automation, eHealth/aging well and
the Smart World’. wearables. We plan to publish a Technical Report (TR) for
each domain early in 2018.
The week will include a one-day tutorial on oneM2M
for developers, followed by a three-day workshop In parallel, we will begin work on six new parts for the
with presentations on IoT service implementations in Technical Specification (TS) which extends SAREF, adding
smart cities, industrial applications, aging well, smart semantic models for each of the six domains covered in the
agriculture, smart energy, wearables, smart appliances TRs. This work is expected to be completed by the end of
and co-operative and connected mobility. Standards 2018.
updates will also be included.
In parallel, various showcases will demonstrate Building Smart Cities
oneM2M in action, with commercially available We are heavily committed to the development of standards
products and services which have already been which form the technology building blocks for smart
deployed from across a wide range of IoT application cities, both as a partner in oneM2M, as well as in our own
domains.
committees.
For example, our Human Factors committee (TC HF) is
Smart Appliances studying the human factors aspects of the services in smart,
Our Smart M2M Communications committee (TC accessible, sustainable cities and communities. We are also
SmartM2M) is developing standards to enable M2M services developing specifications for energy efficiency in smart
and applications and certain aspects of the IoT. We are cities. We have created a working group under our Access,
addressing the need for all the connected appliances in Terminals, Transmission and Multiplexing committee
the IoT to be able to communicate among themselves and (TC ATTM) for sustainable digital multi-service cities,
with the service platforms, allowing the interoperability of developing standards to support the deployment and roll-out
applications and ‘plug and play’ connectivity. Interoperability of smart city infrastructures.
is a key factor in creating an IoT ecosystem, and the
availability of a standardised solution with open interfaces, We have joined the international group, IES-City, which was
along with related test suites, will be the essential enabler of established to develop a consensus framework for smart city
the IoT. architectures. The group is enabled by the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST), the American National
In 2017, we will focus primarily on SAREF, our smart Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Green Building Council in
appliances reference ontology that runs with oneM2M- the U.S., the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT and
compliant communication platforms. SAREF is designed to Future Planning, the Italian Energy and Innovation Agency
enable connected devices to exchange information with any and the FIWARE Foundation. It is expected that the group’s
energy management system. work will build upon existing standards and specifications,
including the work of oneM2M and TC SmartM2M.
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