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Q3/20 (Presentation Web page is available here)
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Architectures, functionalities and protocols in applications of verticals and infrastructures of Internet of Things (IoT) and smart sustainable cities and communities (SSC&C)
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1 Motivation
As the Internet of Things (IoT) establishes its position as an underlying mechanism for various applications, special attention is being paid to how advanced information and communication technology (ICT) systems are designed based on IoT and related conceptual architectures including network requirements and protocols. Given the rich features of IoT, highly capable ICT systems meeting vertical industry demands can be realized by supplementary development based on IoT architectures. This is a promising way in terms of efficiency and time to market.
To support this approach, the IoT architectures, their functionalities, interfaces, protocols and control mechanisms, connectivity technologies need be studied, also building on existing Recommendations, including ITU-T Y.4000/Y.2060.
This Question addresses architectures, including their functionalities, interfaces, protocols and control mechanisms, interoperability technologies of IoT and smart sustainable cities and communities (SSC&C), which needed to construct architectural functionalities to interact with services and applications of verticals and infrastructures of IoT and SSC&C.
2 Question
Study items include, but are not limited to:
- What new and revised Recommendations are required to realize IoT and SSC&C architectures?
- What technologies including networks, interfaces, functions, management mechanisms, as well as protocols are required for the architecture of IoT and SSC&C?
- What functionalities of the ICT technologies, protocols and control mechanisms are required to support services and/or applications of IoT and SSC&C?
- What enhancements to existing network connectivity, interfaces, functions, management mechanisms and protocols are required to support machine-to-machine (M2M) communication services and/or applications of IoT and SSC&C?
- What performance enhancement requirements of connectivity technologies are required to support services and/or applications of IoT and SSC&C?
- Collaboration with which standards development organizations (SDOs) would be necessary to maximize synergies and harmonize existing standards?
3 Tasks
Tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Developing Recommendations, reports, guidelines, etc., as appropriate, on:
" conducting studies on architectures and functional models on IoT and SSC&C services and systems based on vertical industry and infrastructure needs like power, water, city facilities etc.
" developing frameworks to identify the basic architectural compositions and views on IoT and SSC&C. These will be based on the architectural requirements derived from the industry and infrastructure needs;
" identifying entities, their functions, and reference points required to provide support to IoT applications and services;
" determining the requirements that the connectivity and protocols are intended to support. It is anticipated that these requirements will need to be periodically refined to reflect the evolution of IoT related technologies taking into consideration the connectivity, management mechanisms (including device management) and protocols available from ITU-T and other SDOs;
" developing modifications and enhancements to the network connectivity technologies, management mechanisms (including device management) and protocols that will enable them to meet the requirements and architecture IoT and SSC&C;
" identifying performance enhancement requirements of connectivity technologies that will enable them to meet the IoT and SSC&C requirements;
" identifying interfaces for which interoperability between different IoT elements is desirable and for which detailed requirements need to be studied and protocols need to be standardized;
" defining interworking with legacy systems;
" developing intelligence control related technologies that will provide support to applications and services for various verticals and infrastructures;
" identifying mechanisms for achieving architectural interoperability in IoT and SSC&C;
" open-source related matters.
- Providing the necessary analysis of and collaboration for joint activities in this field within ITU and between ITU and SDOs, consortia and forums.
An up-to-date status of work under this Question is contained in the SG20 work programme (https://www.itu.int/ITU-T/workprog/wp_search.aspx?sp=18&q=3/20).
4 Relationships
Recommendations:
- Y.4000-series
Questions:
- All ITU-T SG20 Questions
Study groups:
- ITU-T (e.g. considering their lead study group role), ITU-D and ITU-R study groups, as appropriate
- IoT signalling and protocols will be developed in collaboration with ITU-T SG11
Other bodies:
- ATIS
- IETF
- ETSI
- CCSA
- TM Forum
- oneM2M
- ISO/IEC JTC 1/ WG10
- Joint IEC-ISO-ITU Smart Cities Task Force
- 3GPP/3GPP2
- IEEE
- W3C
- OCF
- Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC)
WSIS Action Lines:
- C2, C3, C5, C6, C7, C8, C10
Sustainable Development Goals:
- 9, 11
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Continuation of Q3/20
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Rapporteur:
| Mr. | Younghwan | CHOI |
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Associate rapporteur:
| Ms. | Jie | CHENG |
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Associate rapporteur:
| Ms. | Ti | GUAN |
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