Standards and Alliances

Introduction

There are a wide range of standards bodies and alliances working in the IOT space.

Alliances

The IoT Alliance Australia is group of 400 corporates in Australia aiming to influence market development. 

This alliance focuses on the complexity of IoT across all technologies, and brings together the work being done in government, research and the community. It was founded based on evidence that similar collaborative consortia of industry and government have led to highly competitive IoT sectors.

Diagram courtesy of Frank Zeichner, University of Technology Sydney.

This competitive edge also requires building the skill sets of engineers, business people and the workforce.

IoTAA is structured along both supply and demand sides of the IoT sector as shown in the diagram below. They are currently focused over the six application sectors in the following diagram, and are considering expanding into the health sector.

Diagram courtesy of Frank Zeichner, University of Technology Sydney.

Below  is a summary of other IoT alliances:

• Industrial Internet Consortium: Primarily driven out of the USA, it has an reference architecture and security framework.
• Industrial Value Chain Initiative: A Japan led initiative
• Industrie 4.0: A German led strategic initiative focused on advanced manufacturing. 
• Open IOT: A European initiative to create a cloud-based middleware infrastructure in order to deliver on-demand access to IOT services over multiple infrastructure providers. Application is in smart cities etc.
• Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI): focus on IoT development in Europe
• The Open Group: This organisation's IoT Working group is developing open standards

Sources:

The content on this page was primarily drawn from:

• Webinar titled “Flattening the IoT Learning Curve” by Frank Zeichner, Industry Associate Professor, Schools of Systems, Management and Leadership, University of Technology Sydney