ITU, Georgia Tech execute agreement to cooperate on
Internet of Things standards, applications
Collaboration will address fast growing high-tech IoT industry
Geneva, 16 December
2015 – The International Telecommunication
Union (ITU) and the Georgia Institute of Technology
(Georgia Tech) have executed an agreement to monitor
global Internet of Things (IoT) activities and
collaborate on developing standards.
The memorandum of
understanding recognizes the importance of standards
and the effective management of the associated
applications through which value is clearly
identified and captured for this fast-growing
industry.
“ITU welcomes the
participation of academic institutions like Georgia
Tech in creating an enabling environment for leading
edge technologies,” said ITU Secretary-General
Houlin Zhao. “This agreement is an important step as
we address the coming Age of the Internet of
Things.”
“The Internet of Things
includes a wide array of disciplines and
technologies in which Georgia Tech has a proven
track record of expertise,” said W.P. “Bud”
Peterson, president of the Georgia Institute of
Technology. “Our cutting-edge work in sensors,
signal processing, cybersecurity, autonomous systems
and computer applications spans a number of the
academic programmes as well as applied research
enterprise here at Georgia Tech, and we are looking
forward to partnering with ITU to develop solutions
to this global challenge.”
This initiative will be
carried out in collaboration with the ITU
Standardization Sector (ITU-T) Study Group 20, which
addresses IoT technologies and its applications,
including smart cities and communities,
machine-to-machine communications and ubiquitous
sensor networks. The Group is charged with
developing standards that leverage IoT technologies
to address urban-development challenges.
The Georgia Tech interface
will be the Georgia Tech Centre for the Development
and Application of Internet of Things Technologies
(CDAIT), an IoT technological think tank aimed at
identifying, understanding, and solving challenges
within the IoT value chain.
Areas of cooperation between
ITU and CDAIT include:
- Joint
steering committee. The ITU
Standardization Sector (ITU-T) and
Georgia Tech will establish a Joint
Steering Committee composed of two
representatives from each
organization that will supervise the
overall implementation of the
collaboration.
-
Thought leadership. Both
parties will encourage standards
groups and trade associations
focused on a specific industry
(“vertical market”) or a group of
industries (“horizontal market”),
open source communities, de facto
standard representatives, and other
public and private organizations
interested in IoT technologies to
participate in IoT relevant
discussions with the goal of
promoting interoperability in the
IoT arena across industry and
geographic markets.
-
Global IoT events. Through
this cooperation both ITU and
Georgia Tech plan to jointly
organize topic-relevant events in
the future, such as but not limited
to workshops, conferences and
webinars, for the purpose of
enriching the debate regarding
standards-development activities in
the technical areas pertinent to IoT.
- IoT
standardization, research and
education.
A critical objective of this
agreement is the expectation that
the collaboration will may be of
particular relevance to the
standardization work of certain
ITU-T Study Groups, such as ITU-T
Study Group 20 “IoT and its
applications including smart cities
and communities (SC&C)” as well as
the research and education
activities of CDAIT.
For more information,
please contact:
Sanjay Acharya
Chief, Media Relations and Public Information, ITU
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Lance Wallace
Director, Media Relations and Issues Management, Georgia Tech
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About CDAIT
Housed at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the
Georgia Tech Research Institute, the Centre for the Development and Application
of Internet-of-Things Technologies (CDAIT pronounced sedate) is a global,
non-profit, partner-funded centre located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States,
that fosters interdisciplinary research and education while driving general
awareness about the Internet of Things. CDAIT bridges sponsors with Georgia Tech
faculty and researchers as well as industry members with similar interests.
Founding members include AirWatch by VMware, AT&T, Cisco, Flex, IBM, Samsung,
Stanley Black & Decker and Wipro. Learn more about CDAIT at
www.cdait.gatech.edu.