This document discusses the prospects of the Internet of Things (IoT) globally. It provides background on IoT, noting that connectivity is already enabling machine-to-machine communication via technologies like SMS and cellular networks. The status of global connectivity is advancing IoT, with mobile networks connecting billions of people and the machine-to-machine market growing rapidly. Examples of IoT applications include logistics, transportation, health, environment, and consumer electronics. Challenges remain around further developing technologies, standards, security, and regulations to fully realize IoT's potential.
This document discusses the prospects of the Internet of Things (IoT) globally. It provides background on IoT, noting that connectivity is already enabling machine-to-machine communication via technologies like SMS and cellular networks. The status of global connectivity is advancing IoT, with mobile networks connecting billions of people and the machine-to-machine market growing rapidly. Examples of IoT applications include logistics, transportation, health, environment, and consumer electronics. Challenges remain around further developing technologies, standards, security, and regulations to fully realize IoT's potential.
This document discusses the prospects of the Internet of Things (IoT) globally. It provides background on IoT, noting that connectivity is already enabling machine-to-machine communication via technologies like SMS and cellular networks. The status of global connectivity is advancing IoT, with mobile networks connecting billions of people and the machine-to-machine market growing rapidly. Examples of IoT applications include logistics, transportation, health, environment, and consumer electronics. Challenges remain around further developing technologies, standards, security, and regulations to fully realize IoT's potential.
This document discusses the prospects of the Internet of Things (IoT) globally. It provides background on IoT, noting that connectivity is already enabling machine-to-machine communication via technologies like SMS and cellular networks. The status of global connectivity is advancing IoT, with mobile networks connecting billions of people and the machine-to-machine market growing rapidly. Examples of IoT applications include logistics, transportation, health, environment, and consumer electronics. Challenges remain around further developing technologies, standards, security, and regulations to fully realize IoT's potential.
Circumstances Dr. Bilel Jamoussi Chief Study Groups Department Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU www.itu.int/ITU-T/go/IoT 1 IoT in ITU – already many years experience… • ITU 2005 Report The Internet of Things • Describes the visions underlying the IoT • Examines enabling technologies • Explores the market potential • Contemplates the challenges and wider implications • Sets out some of the benefits of IoT for developing countries • ITU-R: Global management of the radio-frequency spectrum • ITU-T: Global ICT Standards – Leading the IoT international coordination Executive summary available at www.itu.int/internetofthings
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The concept
The status of global connectivity
A few examples of applications
The challenges ahead
3 The concept
The promise of an “Internet of Things” has been on the spotlight
for a long time • A few definitions: • In computing, the Internet of things, also known as the Internet of objects, refers to the networked interconnection of everyday objects. (Wikipedia) • In the 2000s, we are heading into a new era of ubiquity, where the “users” of the Internet will be counted in billions and where humans may become the minority as generators and receivers of traffic. Instead, most of the traffic will flow between devices and all kinds of “things”, thereby creating a much wider and more complex Internet of Things. (From “The Internet of Things”, ITU Internet Report 2005) • The concept is attributed to Auto-ID Center (1999), a research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). • Alternative names: “Ubiquitous computing“ (1991, Mark Weiser) and the “Internet of objects”
4 “The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.” Dr. Mark Weiser, “father of ubiquitous computing”
5 The concept
The basic idea behind the IOT is the connection
of any THING – at any TIME – from any PLACE (…)
Source: ITU, adapted from the Nomura Research Institute, “Ubiquitous Networking: Business Opportunities and Strategic Issues”, August 2004 6 The concept
(…) enabled by a number of technologies that needed to be
further developed and deployed at affordable costs • In particular: • Connectivity: Ubiquitous access to broadband (e.g. deployment of 3G and 4G networks) • Object identification: A simple, unobtrusive and cost-effective system of item identification (e.g. RFID technologies); • Real-time information: Authomatized data collection from devices (e.g. sensors); • Smart devices: Embedded intelligence in devices (e.g. smart technologies); • Small scale: Advances miniaturization (e.g. nanotechnology)
7 The concept
The implementation of the Internet of Things has advanced
notably from its initial concept
• Over the past years the work of ITU has enabled the advance of the technologies that will enable the Internet of things, mainly: • Overseeing the use of wireless spectrum; • Working on new standards for networks and services; • Promoting affordable access to ICTs at the global level;
• In this presentation we will take a look at some of the lessons
learned from ITU in relation to the advance of the IOT
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The concept
The status of global connectivity
A few examples of applications
The challenges ahead
9 The status of global connectivity
The “mobile miracle” has enabled the connection of 5 billion
people worldwide
10 The status of global connectivity
This connectivity is already being used to provide basic wireless
communication to enable machine to machine (M2M) communication
(e.g. SMS notifications)
11 The status of global connectivity
Making of the M2M market one of the fastest growing segments
of the mobile industry • Several telecom regulators are already registering M2M lines as a separate segment, evaluating the introduction of future specific regulations for this segment.
Summary of mobile telephone lines in Spain
(Total population Total lines Year variation Spain 46.9 M) August 2010 (Aug 09 - Aug 10) (millions)
Prepaid 20.2 -4.1%
Postpaid 33.3 6.7% Growing 3 times M2M 2.0 18.9% faster than Total mobile lines 55.5 2.9% postpaid lines
Source: CMT, Spanish Telecommunication Regulator
12 The status of global connectivity
Summary of 2G and 3G technologies used for machine to machine
Data rate 144kbps 7.2Mbps 21Mbps Dwn:100Mbps Dwn:1Gbps
(Max limit) Up: 50Mbps Up: 100Mbps Channel Voice / data Voice & data Data Data Data (Single (Dual Channel) Channel) Source: ITU, internal research
13 The status of global connectivity
The expected growth in M2M connections shows that the
connectivity aspect of the Internet of Things is already resolved and being used by the industry Cellular M2M network connections (World 2009–2014)
Source: Berg Insight
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The status of global connectivity
A few examples of applications
The challenges ahead
15 Areas of IoT Investment
M2M Logistics and
Access network, air interfaces, Supply Chain applications and services, data encoding, Management RFID data exchange, data protection and privacy, data synchronization, device Transport USN interfaces, environmental regulations, frequency allocation and regulation, health and safety regulations, Internet Health Ambient Intelligence technologies, interoperability, location protocols, middleware, mobility support, Environment NFC naming and addressing protocols, network security, RFID tags, routing protocols, Consumer sensors, smart cards, and many more electronics and Nanotechnologies appliances
1 6 A few examples of applications
Smart grids is one of the most expected applications of the IOT
• Smart grids can be defined as electricity networks that can intelligently integrate the behavior and actions of all users connected to it - generators, consumers and those that do both – in order to efficiently deliver sustainable, economic and secure electricity supplies. • Through the use of smart grids buildings can be made more energy efficient, reducing CO2 emissions.
17 A few examples of applications
ITU-T is already working on smart grids
• Scope of the ITU-T Focus Group on Smart Grids (FG Smart).
• identify potential impacts on standards development; • investigate future ITU-T study items and related actions; • familiarize ITU-T and standardization communities with emerging attributes of smart grid, and • encourage collaboration between ITU-T and smart grid communities; • Fourth meeting: Chicago, USA, 29 November – 3 December 2010 • More information at: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/smart/
18 A few examples of applications
Significant work is also being done on intelligent transport
systems • The use of ICTs in transport system can enable some of the following applications: • Effective journey management, avoiding congestion and improving traffic control and navigation; • Automatic emergency calls in case of accidents , saving lives in emergency situations; • Remote diagnostics of systems, improving fleet management and reducing maintenance costs; • Tracking of vehicles, improving logistics and reducing stolen vehicles. • Reducing drivers distraction, improving road security;
19 A few examples of applications
ITU-T is already working on car communications, an area that can
prepare the field for intelligent transport systems
• Scope of the ITU-T Focus Group on Car Communication (FG CarCom).
• In car communication: Quality parameters and testing methods • Interaction of car hands free systems with the radio channel • Special requirements/testing procedures for speech recognition systems in cars • Next meeting: Kyoto, Japan, 11-12 November 2010 • More information at: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/carcom/
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The concept
The status of global connectivity
A few examples of applications
The challenges/opportunities ahead
21 The challenges ahead
Despite the advances made in networks and services, there are
many challenges that still need to be addressed
• Technology is fragmented: global collaboration is needed to
advance standardization and harmonization; • Users are concerned about privacy and socio-ethical implications of the the use of tracking and geo-location: users have to be made aware of the benefits of the IOT. • These challenges were already identified by ITU in 2005
23 ITU-T for all your IoT needs • IoT experience over many years Leading the international coordination with relevant IoT standards bodies • Where private sector meets government - developing standards and policy together • The place to drive and influence new global standards • Standards making the fast way… with well established policies and processes • One-stop-shop solution
24 ITU Structure
Plenipotentiary Conference
General ITU Council
Secretariat
ITU ITU-T ITU-D
ITU-R TELECOM Radiocommunication Development Standardization
25 Introduction to ITU • Founded in 1865, it is oldest specialized agency of the UN system • Standards making one of the ITU’s first activities • 192 Member States, 700+ private sector entities • HQ Geneva, 11 regional offices, 760 staff / 80 nationalities • Named as one of the world’s ten most enduring institutions by Booz Allen Joint Coordination Activity (JCA-NID) More information at www.itu.int/ITU-T/jca/nid
• High-level coordination group on IoT standardization
– Coordination of all IoT activities within ITU – External coordination with key players in IoT standards, including liaisons with
• Deliverables to harmonize and facilitate work among the key players:
1. Generic architectural model 2. Standardization roadmap 3. Terms and definition documents
• Deliverables have assisted to close gaps in standardization and contributed to
facilitate harmonization
• Name change: JCA-NID JCA-IoT (proposed to next TSAG)
27 IoT in ITU-T ITU-T Study Study Group name Activities related to IoT Group SG 2 Operational aspects of service provision and Numbering, naming and addressing Current Standards Activities
telecommunications management SG 3 Tariff and accounting principles including related telecommunication economic and policy issues SG 5 Environment and climate change SG 9 Television and sound transmission and integrated broadband cable networks SG 11 Signalling requirements, protocols and test Testing architecture for tag-based identification specifications systems and functions SG 12 Performance, QoS and QoE SG 13 Future networks including mobile and NGN NGN requirements and architecture for applications and services using tag-based ID SG 15 Optical transport networks and access network infrastructures SG 16 Multimedia coding, systems and applications Requirements and architecture for multimedia information access triggered by tag-based ID
SG 17 Security Security and privacy of tag-based applications
Focus Groups
Smart Grid Smart metering, M2M
standards
Cloud Computing Cloud network requirements , e.g., for IoT
Pre-
Future Networks Describe future networks underlying the IoT
Car Communication
28 Sample list of ITU-T work related to IoT standardization SG13 Y.2213, NGN service requirements and capabilities for network aspects Approved of applications and services using tag-based identification SG13 Y.2016, Functional requirements and architecture of the NGN for Approved applications and services using tag-based identification SG16 F.771, Service description and requirements for multimedia information Approved access triggered by tag-based identification SG16 H.621, Architecture of a system for multimedia information access Approved triggered by tag-based identification SG17 X.1171, Threats and Requirements for Protection of Personally Approved Identifiable Information in Applications using Tag-based Identification SG16 H.IDscheme, ID schemes for multimedia information access triggered by On going tag-based identification work SG16 H.IRP, ID resolution protocols for multimedia information access On going triggered by tag-based identification work SG11 Q.nid-test-arch, Testing architecture for tag-based identification systems On going and functions work The challenges ahead
ITU can provide a forum to discuss these challenges, produce
global standards and find global solutions to advance the Internet of Things and extend its benefits globally. To Join ITU-T: http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/membership/
www.itu.int
30 www.itu.int/ITU-T Bilel Jamoussi Please feel free to contact me! Chief, Study Groups Department E-Mail: Bilel.Jamoussi[at]itu.int ITU Telecommunication Tel: +41 22 730 63 11 Standardization Bureau
