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Applications 1

AAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

CAN Controller Area Network
DSL Digital Subscriber Line

FCAPS Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security
ICT Information and Communication Technology

IoT Internet of Things
ITS Intelligent Transport Systems
LTE Long Term Evolution

NGN Next Generation Network
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

5 Conventions
None.

6 Introduction of the IoT

6.1 Concept of the IoT

The Internet of things (IoT) can be perceived as a far-reaching vision with technological and societal
implications.

From the perspective of technical standardization, 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 (ICT).
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 – The IoT is expected to greatly integrate leading technologies, such as technologies related to advanced machine-
to-machine communication, autonomic networking, data mining and decision-making, security and privacy protection
and cloud computing, with technologies for advanced sensing and actuation.
As shown in Figure 1, the IoT adds the dimension "Any THING communication" to the information and
communication technologies (ICTs) which already provide "any TIME" and "any PLACE" communication.

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