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3 Unleashing the potential of the Internet of Things

3.2 Terms defined in this Recommendation

None.

4 Abbreviations and acronyms
This Recommendation uses the following abbreviations and acronyms:
IoT Internet of Things

M2M Machine-to-Machine

MOC Machine Oriented Communication
MTC Machine-Type Communication
QoS Quality of Service

RFID Radio Frequency Identification
SOA Service Oriented Architecture

USN Ubiquitous Sensor Network

5 Conventions
In this Recommendation:
– The keywords "is required to" indicate a requirement which must be strictly followed and
from which no deviation is permitted if conformance to this document is to be claimed.
– The keywords "is recommended" indicate a requirement which is recommended but which
is not absolutely required. Thus this requirement need not be present to claim conformance.
– The keywords "can optionally" and "may" indicate an optional requirement which is
permissible, without implying any sense of being recommended. These terms are not
intended to imply that the vendor's implementation must provide the option and the feature
can be optionally enabled by the network operator/service provider. Rather, it means the
vendor may optionally provide the feature and still claim conformance with the specification.

6 Characteristics of things in the IoT

[ITU-T Y.2060] explains the concept of the Internet of things (IoT) as a vision with technological
and social implications. In addition, the IoT can be viewed as 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.
Things in the IoT can be characterized using five criteria: fundamental, common, social, autonomy
and capability of self-replication or control [b-CERP-IoT].

6.1 Fundamental characteristics

Fundamentally, things have characteristics as follows:
– Things can be "real world entities" or "virtual entities";
– Things have identity and there are means for identifying (automatically or manually) them,
for example barcode and radio frequency identification (RFID);
– Things and their associated information (their virtual representations) respect the privacy,
security and safety of other things or people with which they interact;
– Association (or relation) among things (both physical and virtual) and the related information
is as important as the things and the information in IoT application; and

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