Summary - Y Suppl. 104 (05/2026) - Intelligent Internet of things (IoT) service with best practices on interworking with agent-based things

Things in the Internet of things (IoT) domain, such as transportation, homes and factories, are equipped with many devices. These devices have software-like agents with the ability to receive and transmit IoT data such as sensor data, state data and event data. These agents can be defined as IoT things. These agent-based things collect different types of IoT data related to IoT services in real time. The collected IoT data can not only improve intelligent IoT services but also develop various intelligent IoT convergence services by interacting with existing IoT services. Therefore, agent-based things can help optimize intelligent IoT services and integrate intelligent IoT services by providing various IoT data collected from things to intelligent IoT services.
Supplement 104 to ITU-T Y-series Recommendations describes use cases of linking with agent-based things for intelligent IoT services. It also identifies the challenges and opportunities of connecting with intelligent IoT services.