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Recommendation ITU-T Y.4103/F.748.0

Common requirements for Internet of things (IoT) applications

1 Scope
This Recommendation defines the common requirements for Internet of things (IoT) applications
based on [ITU-T Y.2060].
This Recommendation covers the following from the application point of view:
– overview of the IoT applications;

– characteristics of the IoT applications;
– common requirements for the IoT applications.
NOTE – This Recommendation mainly focuses on the viewpoint of the IoT applications. The network layer
aspect of the IoT is out of scope of this Recommendation.

2 References
The following ITU-T Recommendations and other references contain provisions which, through
reference in this text, constitute provisions of this Recommendation. At the time of publication, the
editions indicated were valid. All Recommendations and other references are subject to revision;
users of this Recommendation are therefore encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the
most recent edition of the Recommendations and other references listed below. A list of the currently
valid ITU-T Recommendations is regularly published. The reference to a document within this
Recommendation does not give it, as a stand-alone document, the status of a Recommendation.
[ITU-T Y.2060] Recommendation ITU-T Y.2060 (2012), Overview of the Internet of things.
[ISO/IEC 29182-1] ISO/IEC 29182-1 (2013), Sensor networks: Sensor Network Reference
Architecture (SNRA) – Part 1: General overview and requirements.

3 Definitions

3.1 Terms defined elsewhere

This Recommendation uses the following terms defined elsewhere:
3.1.1 data fusion [ISO/IEC 29182-1]: Deriving information by processing data from various
sources.
3.1.2 Internet of things (IoT) [ITU-T Y.2060]: A global infrastructure for the information society,
enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things based on existing and
evolving interoperable information and communication technologies.
NOTE 1 – Through the exploitation of identification, data capture, processing and communication capabilities,
the IoT makes full use of things to offer services to all kinds of applications, whilst ensuring that security and
privacy requirements are fulfilled.
NOTE 2 – From a broad perspective, the IoT can be perceived as a vision with technological and societal
implications.
3.1.3 thing [ITU-T Y.2060]: With regard to the Internet of things, this is an object of the physical
world (physical things) or of the information world (virtual things), which is capable of being
identified and integrated into communication networks.

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