Huawei & InterDigital Demonstrate Open-Standard, IoT-Platform Interoperability
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developers in the areas of semantic
interoperability. approval process
perspective.
from an international
The IIC’s Business Strategy and Innovation
Framework deals with strategic and
commercial aspects of how organizations
deploy IIoT applications. An example might
be an organization that needs multiple IIoT
applications within its manufacturing
facilities and supply chains. It is not
sustainable to build individual ‘stacks’ and
use separate platforms for each of those
applications. Companies will eventually have
to address the issue of scaling up, which
triggers the need for horizontal platforms
that can support multiple applications, share
common services (e.g. device management)
and enable data-sharing across application
silos, as enabled by oneM2M. In progressing from standardization to
market adoption, one of the aims of this test
bed is to demonstrate the value of oneM2M
by raising awareness of the capabilities it
offers application developers and service
providers.
As a horizontal standard, oneM2M is not
constrained to a single industry vertical. It is
currently
being
used
in
utilities,
telecommunications, smart cities, event
management,
intelligent
transport,
manufacturing, & energy sectors.
To address future industry needs, oneM2M
currently has initiated collaborative work
with OSGi, OCF, OPCUA, Modbus and DDS.
These initiatives are in addition to the core
standardization of oneM2M service enablers
(e.g. in Release 3 and roadmap plan for
Release 4) along the IIoT application stack.
R OLE OF S TANDARDS AND
S TANDARDIZATION
Huawei and InterDigital have been involved
in the oneM2M standard since its inception
in 2012 and count among its early adopters.
O UTCOMES
The testing process involved Huawei
(OceanConnect) and InterDigital (Chordant)
IoT platforms, gateways and applications,
and was conducted in phases. During the
first phase, the focus was on establishing
communications between InterDigital’s
platform and Huawei’s gateway, devic es and
applications. The second phase involved
Huawei’s platform with InterDigital’s
devices, gateway and applications. The first
two phases were focused on demonstrating
interoperability between Huawei and
InterDigital platforms using oneM2M
oneM2M is a relatively young standard that
addresses new challenges specific to the IoT
market. oneM2M release 1 and 2
specifications are already available 2 and
release 3 is being developed. In addition to
being supported by eight national
standardization bodies (from China - CCSA,
Europe - ETSI, India - TSDSI, Japan - ARIB,
TTC, North America - ATIS, TIA, S. Korea -
TTA), oneM2M’s functional architecture is
the first to enter the International
Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) standards
2 oneM2M Published Standards - http://www.onem2m.org/technical/published-documents
3 ITU Recommendation Y.4500.1: oneM2M- Functional architecture https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-Y.4500.1/en
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