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5 Unleashing the potential of the Internet of Things

• The capability of application support operation acknowledgement involves the abilities of
acknowledging the correct operations requested by applications in order to support reliable
application operations in the IoT [C-3-6].

8.4 Data management capabilities
The data management group includes data storage, data processing, data querying, data access
control, open information exchange, semantic data operation and autonomic data operation
capabilities.
• The capability of data storage involves the ability of storing data of things based on
predefined rules and policies [C-4-1].
• The capability of data processing involves the ability of data fusion and mining based on
predefined rules and policies [C-4-2].
NOTE 1 – Data processing refers to a set of data operations in order to fulfil the application requirements. Data
processing in the IoT includes collecting, representing, fusing, mining, and interpreting the data of things.
From an application perspective, data processing can be regarded as data analysis that consists of data fusing
and data mining. From an implementation perspective, the operation of data fusing includes data collection
and data representation, and the operation of data mining includes data interpretation.
• The capability of data querying involves the ability of querying information about things
connected to the IoT [C-4-3].
• The capability of data access control involves the abilities of controlling and monitoring data
access operations by the owners of the data [C-4-4].
• The capability of open information exchange involves the abilities of sending data to or
receiving data from external data sources, e.g., data centres and data servers outside the IoT
[C-4-5].
• The capability of semantic data operation involves the abilities of semantic annotating,
semantic discovering, semantic storing, and semantic composing data of things to fulfil the
requirements of IoT users or applications [C-4-6].

• The capability of autonomic data operation involves the abilities of automatically collecting,
aggregating, transferring, storing, analysing data of things, and automatically managing these
data operations for support of operating data of things in a scalable way [C-4-7].
NOTE 2 – This capability can be used to face the impact of big data in the IoT.

8.5 Management capabilities

The management group includes capabilities fulfilling the IoT interoperability requirements,
capabilities fulfilling the IoT scalability requirements, capabilities fulfilling the IoT reliability
requirements, capabilities fulfilling the IoT high availability requirements, and capabilities fulfilling
the IoT manageability requirements.
NOTE – The abilities involved in the management capabilities specified in this Recommendation may be
operated in a remote way. Remote operation can be disabled based on security or other policy considerations.
8.5.1 Capabilities fulfilling IoT interoperability requirements

The capabilities fulfilling the IoT interoperability requirements specified in [ITU-T Y.2066] include
managing data models for exchanging data of things, managing service description, managing
network configuration, managing device configuration, managing security policy, and managing
privacy protection policy capabilities.
• The capability of managing data models for exchanging data of things involves the abilities
of creating, querying and updating data models for support of interoperability among IoT
applications. This capability also includes the abilities of creating and updating data models
for support of semantic interoperability among IoT applications [C-5-1].

480 Rec. ITU-T Y.4401/Y.2068 (03/2015)