IoT Standards

Abstract

The universe of standards issues that affect IoT development and implementation is vast and complicated, involving many organizations, technologies and interests. This article discusses the intersection of three elements of the IoT Standards Ecosystem, namely: the principal organizations that drive Global Standards Development, Standards for Functionality and Compatibility, and Standards for Security and Privacy. These topics are evolving rapidly and, like the Internet of Things, constantly morphing as technology solutions are developed and implemented. Not being able to swallow the whole thing, our plan is to eat the standards watermelon a bit at a time over the next several issues of IEEE Internet of Things Magazine. So, for this inaugural article, I’ve chosen to briefly introduce the standards players by some admittedly subjective, broad, divisions: The Standards Development Organizations (SDO) Space, the Government Space and the Industry Space.