Transcript Building Tomorrow*s Internet of Things: Latest Standardization

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2. Industrial Developments
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Section 2 - Overview
2. Industrial Developments
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Standardization Bodies
Startups
Conclusions
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2.1 Standardization Bodies
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What are Standards?
• Normative standardization documents are
– elaborated by a community
– publicly available without any discriminatory conditions
– published by Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs)
• SDO (Standards Developing Organization):
– publish standards which
– rely upon national or international regulations
• Further facts about standards:
– pushed for by consortia or forums
– popularity is reflected by the market
– serve as references for compliance purposes
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Benefit of Standards
• Service Providers benefit because
– they can design, develop and operate a wide range of services
– whatever the underlying but standard-compliant, heterogeneous technologies
• Vendors benefit because
– they can access markets more easily with standard-compliant products
– proprietary technologies are restricted to niche markets (at best)
– at the risk of blurring competitive differentiation
• Customers benefit because
– they can access a wide range of services
– without the burden of being tied to a given service provider or technology
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Corporate View
• Standardization as a profitable business:
– defend business stakes
– promote patents through the enforcement of a consistent IPR policy
• Standardization as a decision-making tool:
– privileged space for consolidating and developing leadership positions
• Speed up the introduction of new products and/or services:
– facilitated by a set of available standards
• Slow down the standardization process:
– to extend the lifetime of an already-introduced yet proprietary product or service
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Regulatory View
• Technology space is very complex:
– stringent regulations are hence needed
– to facilitate control and possible billing (e.g. UMTS spectrum license)
• Standards serve as the technical references for regulation rules:
– European directives and derived domestic laws
– part of the legal resolution of conflicts between competitors
– and/or customers and service providers
• Part of the corporate strategy:
– corporate solutions evolve in a regulated manner
– mainly if regulators see a (financial) opportunity
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Standardization Bodies
• Standards Developing Organization bodies can be
– international (e.g. ITU-T, ISO, IEEE),
– regional (e.g. ANSI, ETSI), or
– national (e.g. CCSA)
• Standardization efforts pertinent to WSNs are:
– IEEE
– ETSI
– ISA
(link and physical layer solutions)
(complete M2M solutions)
(regulation for control systems)
– IETF
(routing and network solutions)
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IEEE – Overview
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers:
– is one of the leading standards-making organizations in the world
– Standardization through IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA)
• IEEE standards affect a wide range of industries:
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power and energy
biomedical and healthcare
information technology
telecommunications
transportation
nanotechnology, etc.
• IEEE has close to 900 active standards, with 500 standards under
development.
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IEEE – The 802 “soup”
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802.1 High Level Interface (HILI) Working Group
802.3 CSMA/CD (Ethernet) Working Group
802.11 Wireless LAN (WLAN) Working Group
802.15 Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) Working Group
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TG1 – WPAN, Bluetooth
TG3c - mmWave
TG4c - WPAN Alternative PHY for China
TG4d - WPAN Alternative PHY for Japan
TG4e - WPAN Enhancements
TG4f - RFID
TG4g - Smart Utility Neighborhood
TG5 - WPAN Mesh Networking
TG6 - Body Area Networks
TG7 - Visible Light Communication
IGthz - Interest Group Terahertz
WNG - Standing Committee Wireless Next Generation
802.16 Broadband Wireless Acces s (BWA) Working Group
802.17 Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) Working Group
802.18 Radio Regulatory Technical Advisory Group
802.19 Coexistence Technical Advisory Group
802.20 Mobile Broadband Wireless Acces s Working Group
802.21 Media Independent Handover Working Group
802.22 Wireless Regional Area Networks Working Group
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IEEE – WSN Related Standards
• The IEEE usually standardizes:
– PHY layer of the transmitter
– MAC protocol rules
• The following IEEE standards are applicable to WSNs:
– IEEE 802.15.4 (technology used by ZigBee and IETF 6LowPan)
– IEEE 802.15.1 (technology used by Bluetooth/WiBree)
– IEEE 802.11x (technology used by WiFi)
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– IEEE 802.15.4 has been the obvious choice but will get
– serious competition from ultra-low power (ULP) IEEE 802.15.1 (WiBree)
– low power IEEE 802.11 solutions are emerging (e.g. Marvell)
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IETF – Overview
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formed in 1986
not approved by the US government
composed of individuals, not companies
quoting the spirit: “We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough
consensus and running code.” D. Clark, 1992
• Quick overview on the IETF:
– meets 3 times a year, and gathers an average of 1,300 individuals
– more than 120 active working groups organized into 8 areas
– IETF management (including area directors) is chosen by the community
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IETF – Overview
• General scope of IETF:
– above the wire/link and below the application
– TCP/IP protocol suite: IP, TCP, routing protocols, etc.
• However, layers are getting fuzzy:
– MAC & application layers influence routing in WSN
– hence a constant exploration of "edges"
• Some curiosities:
– there is no formal recognition for IETF standards by governments or SDOs
– IETF publications are very interesting for SDOs because of quick implementation
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IETF – WSN Related Standards
• IETF 6LoWPAN [2005]
– add IPv6 capabilities to wireless sensors
– end-to-end connectivity to/from the Internet
• IETF ROLL [2007]
– identify application domains
– define a routing protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
• IETF 6LoWApp [2009]
– what goes on top of IP?
– brand new…
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2.2 Startups
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Dust Networks [US]
• Dust Networks facts:
– founded in 2002 by industry pioneer Prof. Kris Pister, Berkeley, USA
– vision of a world of ubiquitous sensing – a world of connected sensors scattered around
like specs of dust, or smart dust, gathering information economically and reliably, that
had previously been impractical or impossible to acquire
– inventors of TSMP which are used in ISA100, Wireless HART and IEEE 802.15.4E
– emphasis on industrial control
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Arch Rock [US]
• Arch Rock facts:
– founded in May 2005 with a vision of providing a high quality, seamless integration of the
physical and virtual worlds that would enhance the information awareness of the
individual and the enterprise
– company builds upon a decade of research at the University of California, Berkeley and
Intel Research by David Culler et al.
– founder of a new operating system, TinyOS and Berkeley Mote, for small wirelessly
connected computers that sense the physical environment and form vast embedded
networks; emphasis on environmental monitoring & ind. control
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Crossbow [US]
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Global Leader in Sensory Systems; founded in 1995 by Mike Horton
Products MEMS-Based Inertial Systems & Wireless Sensor Networking
World-Wide Employee Base; Headquartered in San Jose, CA
$25M in Venture Capital
Cisco Systems, Intel Corporation, Morgenthaler Ventures, Paladin Capital
emphasis on asset management & tracking
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Coronis/Elster [FR, US]
• Coronis, France, (now bought by Elster, USA) in short:
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Sensinode [FI]
• Sensinode facts:
– leader in IP-based wireless sensor network (WSN) technology
– 1st on the market with a 6lowpan stack
– 6lowpan products and services: 6lowpan Devkits, Network Products, NanoStack 6lowpan
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– Engineering Services
– Sensinode is headquartered in Finland
– A 2005 spin-off of the University of Oulu, Finland based on a decade of research
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Worldsensing [ES]
• Worldsensing facts:
– addressing Smart Parking/City, Smart Construction, Smart-* markets
– winner of IBM Smart Camp London 2010 competition
– intelligent technology and software providing end-to-end solutions
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Adura
Berkeley
Lighting control
http://www.aduratech.com/
Arch Rock
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Berkeley
http://www.archrock.com/
Elster Coronis
Montpellier, France
Automated Meter Reading
http://www.coronis.com/
Crossbow
Berkeley
http://www.xbow.com/
Dust Networks
Berkeley
Industrial Automation
http://www.dustnetworks.com/
Ember
MIT
http://www.ember.com/
Federspiel Controls
Berkeley
HVAC
http://www.federspielcontrols.com/
Libelium
Zaragoza, Spain
http://www.libelium.com/
Maxfor
Seongnam, South Korea
http://www.maxfor.co.kr/
Millenial Net
MIT
Smart Energy
http://www.millennial.net/
Sensicast Systems
Pinpoint
http://www.sensicast.com/
Sensinode
Oulu, Finland
http://www.sensinode.com/
Sensys Networks
Berkeley
Traffic light sensor
http://www.sensysnetworks.com/
Sentilla (was MoteIV)
Berkeley
http://www.sentilla.com/
Skywise Systems
Beijing, China
http://www.skywisesystems.com/
Smartgrains
Paris, France
Smart Parking
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Smart Parking
http://www.smartgrains.com/
Streetline Networks
http://www.streetlinenetworks.com/
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2.3 Conclusions
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Conclusions
• The Past
– loads of proprietary wireless solutions have been mushrooming over past decade
– no or little inter-operability between these solutions
– danger of de-fragmented market is a reality
• The Present
– proprietary solutions are still being developed and pushed for
– however, standardization is wrapping up at all layers of the stack
• The Future
– integration of the to-be-finalized standards
– realization of Internet-of-Things
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