1. International Cooperation in the Area of M2M Standardization Jeffrey O. Smith, Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer, Numerex Corp Chairman TIA TR-50 Smart Device Communications Standards Committee

2. The Tower of Babel - Pieter Bruegel the Elder International Cooperation Is Not An Option

3. Given worldwide diversity of players and M2M standardization models, collaboration is a must “The aim must remain to succeed in developing open standards by promoting a transparent dialogue between the different players. This is a necessary condition to the development of competition and harmonization of solutions on the [Internet of Things] market.” The Internet of Things – What Challenges for Europe – October 2008 – www.voxinternet.orgwww.voxinternet.org “[M2M] collaboration and standardization efforts are necessary.” Frost and Sullivan reported by IT Web, South Africa, “Telcos Look to M2M”, July 30, 2010 http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35424:telcos-look-to-m2m&catid=350# http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35424:telcos-look-to-m2m&catid=350#

4. What is Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)? At GSC, the world’s leading telecommunications and radio standards organizations meet to promote innovation and collaboration on a broad spectrum of standards topics. Some hundred participants from Participating Standards Organizations (PSO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU, a United Nations agency) attend, along with observers from additional groups. The mandate of GSC is to provide a venue for the leaders of the Participating Standards Organizations to support the ITU as the preeminent global telecommunication and radiocommunication standards development organization. GSC was born in 1990 in Fredericksbug, VA at the Inter-regional Telecommunications Standards Conference (ITSC). Most recent GSC meeting (GSC-15) was in Beijing, China (8/30 – 9/2/2010)

5. Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) Members ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada (ISACC) Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) of Japan Telecommunications Technology Committee (TTC) of Japan European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) of Korea China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) of China

6. Observers at GSC-15 (Beijing, China) “Standards Collaboration Beyond Crisis” Alliance of Sensing China American National Standards Institute (ANSI) APT Wireless Forum Broadband Forum CDMA Development Group (CDG) China Electronics Standardization Association (CESA) China Interactive Media Industry Alliance China National Technical Committee of ITS Standardization European Patent Office (EPO) FuTURE MOBILE COMMUNICATION FORUM Global ICT Standardization Forum for India (GISFI) Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) International Electrotechnical Commission Sector Board 4 (IEC SB4) ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1) Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) SCDMA Wireless Broadband Industry Alliance TD Forum TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance (TDIA).

7. 7 Why Standards? “Standards serve as the foundation and forerunner for the development of the industry, and play a very important role in encouraging competition, spurring innovation, promoting high quality products and supporting public policy objective s.” Mr. Guoha Xi, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), GSC-15 Communiqué, Beijing, China, September 2 nd, 2010

8. 8 Why M2M Standards? Smart devices, smart grids, smart motors and a myriad of other "smart" technological advances will be unable to "talk" to one another, resulting in chaotic communications structures – unless standards are developed to enable, monitor, and ensure interoperable interfaces to the network. (TIA, USA, Press Release – November 18, 2009) Since IOT (Internet of Things) is envisioned as the future of Internet and Ubiquitous Computing that is going to change the way people lead their everyday life and since it is primarily based on the concept of Machine-to- Machine (M2M) communication, it is imperative that exhaustive standardization to be in place for its wide scale deployment. (GISFI, India, June 23, 2010) Standardization is essential for long term development of the technology and for interoperability of services (ETSI, Europe, M2M Presentation at GSC-15, Beijing, China, 8/30 – 9/2, 2010) TC 10 is the leading Technical Committee in CCSA focusing on Ubiquitous Network (UN) standardization in China to provide high-quality telecom standards to support the applications of M2M in different industries (CCSA, China, M2M Presentation at GSC-15, Beijing, China, 8/30 – 9/2, 2010) INTEROPERABILITY, CONVERGENCE & ECONOMIES OF SCALE

9. TIA TR-50’s Standard Focus TR-50 is focused on identifying and standardizing the commonality across various devices and applications so that devices of the same type, from different vendors, behave the same way, and that a single device may be used in multiple applications. "It does not seem reasonable to me that a thermometer behave differently depending on whether it is installed in a car, a truck, a home or a factory, or that a single room may contain a motion detector to control the lights, another to control the heating and ventilation, and yet another as part of an intruder detection application.“ Peter Nurse, Sigma Delta Communications, Inc., Chair of TIA TR-50.1, Engineering Subcommittee on Requirements and Architecture

10. From: The Internet of Things – What Challenges for Europe – October 2008 – www.voxinternet.org International Standardization General Framework

11. Examples of Current M2M-related Standardization Work (1) 3GPP http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Information/WORK_PLAN/Description_Releases/NIMTC_M2M_20100621.ziphttp://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Information/WORK_PLAN/Description_Releases/NIMTC_M2M_20100621.zip 3GPP2 TR50-20100617-004_ALU__LS 3GPP2 M2M Updates.pptTR50-20100617-004_ALU__LS 3GPP2 M2M Updates.ppt CCSA’s Ubiquitous Network Technical Committee (China) http://www.ccsa.org.cn/english/show_article.php?article_id=cyzx_a20c92a3-7c03-8a7e-5f3c-4b944cba3345 http://www.ccsa.org.cn/english/show_article.php?article_id=cyzx_a20c92a3-7c03-8a7e-5f3c-4b944cba3345 ETSI General M2M Activities (TC M2M) http://www.etsi.org/Application/Search/?search=m2mhttp://www.etsi.org/Application/Search/?search=m2m ETSI and Smart Card Platform work related to M2M http://portal.etsi.org/scp/ActivityReport2009.asphttp://portal.etsi.org/scp/ActivityReport2009.asp 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 http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.document&N_RCN=30283 GISFI’s Work on Specs for Standardized Framework on Internet of Things (M2M) (India) http://gisfi.org/pdf/IOT%20Work%20Plan.pdf http://gisfi.org/pdf/IOT%20Work%20Plan.pdf ITU Mobile Wireless Access Systems for sensors and/or actuators – See e.g., 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” ITU-T Study Group 15 Optical transport networks and access network infrastructures - http://www.itu.int/ITU- T/studygroups/com15/index.asphttp://www.itu.int/ITU- T/studygroups/com15/index.asp Open Mobile Alliance Device Management http://www.openmobilealliance.org/Technical/DM.aspxhttp://www.openmobilealliance.org/Technical/DM.aspx TIA TR-50 Smart Device Communications http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/committees/committee.cfm?comm=tr-50http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/committees/committee.cfm?comm=tr-50 11

12. Examples of Current M2M-related Standardization Work (2) Wifi Alliance http://www.wi-fi.org/organization.phphttp://www.wi-fi.org/organization.php GSMA Embedded Mobile Initiative http://www.gsmworld.com/our- work/mobile_broadband/embedded_mobile/http://www.gsmworld.com/our- work/mobile_broadband/embedded_mobile/ Bluetooth (IEEE 802.15.1) https://www.bluetooth.org/apps/content/https://www.bluetooth.org/apps/content/ Zigbee Alliance (IEEE 802.15.4) M2M-related solutions http://www.zigbee.org/http://www.zigbee.org/ WIMAX(IEEE 802.16) project planning committee http://wirelessman.org/ppc/index.htmlhttp://wirelessman.org/ppc/index.html GS1 standardization work http://www.gs1.org/http://www.gs1.org/ IETF’s Constrained Restful Environments (core) https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/core/charter/https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/core/charter/ Wavenis Open Standard Alliance http://www.wavenis-osa.org/http://www.wavenis-osa.org/ Work within World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/http://www.w3.org/ European Usenet project http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en76/special/ubiquitous-machine-to-machine-service- networkshttp://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en76/special/ubiquitous-machine-to-machine-service- networks Standard work in other GSC groups such as ARIB: Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (Japan); TTC: Telecommunication Technology Committee (Japan); TTA: Telecommunications Technology Association (Korea); and ATIS: Alliance for Telecommunication Industry Solutions (USA)ARIBTTCTTAATIS

13. Examples of Current M2M-related Standardization Work (3) Transportation space – Vehicular Emergency Data Set (VEDS): http://www.comcare.org/VEDS.htmlhttp://www.comcare.org/VEDS.html – ISO TC 204 - ITS - http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_technical_committee?commid=54706http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_technical_committee?commid=54706 – ERTICO ITS Europe http://www.ertico.com/http://www.ertico.com/ – ITU and Standardization Activities for Intelligent Transport Systems http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu- t/oth/23/01/T23010000080002PDFE.pdfhttp://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu- t/oth/23/01/T23010000080002PDFE.pdf Smart Grid space – IEC TC 57 - Communication networks and systems for power utility automation. http://www.iec.ch/cgi- bin/procgi.pl/www/iecwww.p?wwwlang=E&wwwprog=sea22.p&search=iecnumber&header=IEC&pubno=61850&part=&s e=&submit=Submithttp://www.iec.ch/cgi- bin/procgi.pl/www/iecwww.p?wwwlang=E&wwwprog=sea22.p&search=iecnumber&header=IEC&pubno=61850&part=&s e=&submit=Submit – NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Standards Project http://www.nist.gov/smartgrid/http://www.nist.gov/smartgrid/ – ETSI and Smart Grid http://docbox.etsi.org/Workshop/2010/201006_SMARTGRIDS/ELLOUMI_M2M.ppthttp://docbox.etsi.org/Workshop/2010/201006_SMARTGRIDS/ELLOUMI_M2M.ppt – IEEE 802.15 Smart Utility Networks (SUN) http://www.ieee802.org/15/pub/TG4g.htmlhttp://www.ieee802.org/15/pub/TG4g.html Healthcare space – ISO TC 215 http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_tc_browse.htm?commid=54960http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_tc_browse.htm?commid=54960 – HL7.org http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/ansiapproved.cfmhttp://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/ansiapproved.cfm – Continua Health Alliance http://www.continuaalliance.org/index.htmlhttp://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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEEE_11073_Personal_Health_Data_%28PHD%29_Standards Home automation space – ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25/WG 1 – Home Electronic System http://hes-standards.org/http://hes-standards.org/ – Home Gateway Initiative - http://www.homegatewayinitiative.org/index.asphttp://www.homegatewayinitiative.org/index.asp

14. 14 Need for Coordination & Collaboration Standards are most conducive to economies of scale if they are compatible worldwide Diverse M2M standardization work around the world increases the possibility of redundant and conflicting standards “While there is competition in the global market place, there is subsequently also competition in standardization …” Walter Weigel, Director General, ETSI The Standard, ETSI Newsletter, September 2010, p. 4

15. M2M Standardization Task Force (MSTF) To facilitate global coordination and harmonization an M2M Standardization Task Force (MSTF) was created at GSC-15 (Beijing, China, Sept. 2010)

16. When everything is said and done... “International cooperation in standardization activities not only promotes technological innovation but also helps to eliminate trade barriers to facilitate a harmonious and free development of the economy. The financial crisis has presented new challenges to standardization work, but has also provided the rare opportunity for its development. “ Mr. Zhengkun Ji, Administrator of Standardization Administration of China (SAC) at GSC-15 Communiqué, September 2 nd, 2010

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