The Major Standards Development Organisations (the “SDOs”) have turned their attention to addressing the need for a common and widely available M2M Service Layer, which can be readily embedded within various hardware and software.
As a result, the SDOs, meeting over the course of the past several months, have taken initial steps to form a global initiative for M2M standardisation. The initiative will seek to develop globally agreed M2M end-to-end specifications and reports, with initial focus on the service layer using common use cases and architecture principles.
The group will look to develop specifications that help drive multiple industries towards the goals of lowering OP/CAPEX, shortening time-to-market, creating mass-market economies of scale, simplifying application development, expanding global business opportunities and avoiding standardisation overlap.
In addition, the initiative will focus on cooperative efforts with other standards organisations and fora, including those representing specific aspects of M2M applications.
The SDOs agree that participation in the global initiative will be open to interested organisations and parties to provide opportunities for various levels of participation and provide flexibility for inputs from all market segments. The SDOs will establish a simple and effective operational structure which is responsive to the needs of the various stakeholders. The initiative will seek to balance regional requirements, and to address their respective timeframes, with the primary goal to support global harmonisation and consolidation.
The SDOs have agreed that the global initiative will be established early in 2012 and will then initiate the technical work to meet the challenges of rapidly evolving industries.
