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Recommendation ITU-T Y.4101/Y.2067

Common requirements and capabilities of a gateway for
Internet of things applications

1 Scope
This Recommendation provides the common requirements and capabilities of a gateway for Internet
of things (IoT) applications. The provided common requirements and capabilities are intended to be
generally applicable in gateway application scenarios.
The scope of this Recommendation includes:
• General characteristics of a gateway for IoT applications
• Common requirements of a gateway for IoT applications

• Common capabilities of a gateway for IoT applications
Use cases of a gateway for IoT applications are provided in appendixes.
NOTE – This Recommendation focuses on the gateway as equipment interconnecting devices with
communication networks.

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 Internet of things.

3 Definitions

3.1 Terms defined elsewhere

This Recommendation uses the following terms defined elsewhere:
3.1.1 device [ITU-T Y.2060]: With regard to the Internet of things, this is a piece of equipment
with the mandatory capabilities of communication and the optional capabilities of sensing,
actuation, data capture, data storage and data processing.
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 broader perspective, the IoT can be perceived as a vision with technological and societal
implications.

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