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As the IoT week event in ETSI came to an end last Friday,
there was no doubt that the huge tractor in front of the building was the star
of the week. But this wasn’t only for the size of its tyres…
The showcase was indeed a worldwide first: a tractor
connected to a car to mitigate the risk of collision on the road and bring down
the 400 fatal yearly car accidents caused by farm vehicles that are not visible
when coming into the road. Using ETSI’s ITS-G5 standard and the oneM2M gateway,
the use case demonstrated how standards help provide interoperability between
two sectors such as agriculture and automotive.
Other showcases proved how products based on the oneM2M
platform have evolved from prototypes to commercial applications over the last
5 years. Implemented in all parts of the world, they addressed such diverse
domains as smart cities, smart agriculture, automotive, smart home, smart
living, testing, smart body area, aquiculture or healthcare. There was also the
opportunity to test interoperability with interworking platforms or emerging
technologies such as Artificial Intelligence or blockchain. Large global
companies, SMEs, start-ups, R&D centres worked together to build up these
projects and put them on the market, showing the dynamic IoT ecosystem and how
the diversity of actors and expertise can be a real asset for industry at
large.
Developers were happy to go into details in a tutorial
dedicated to IoT applications and to build small projects with developers’ kits
provided to them. In parallel, security experts discussed the challenges for
IoT security and privacy. While the chair of the ETSI cybersecurity committee
gave a list of very similar issues to those found in desktop OS vulnerabilities
in the 90’s, he also gave a set of 3 main recommendations for IoT devices
security: no default passwords, implement a vulnerability disclosure policy and
keep software updated.
Smart cities was another hot topic of the event. It was
addressed through use cases, standardization challenges and first
implementations. As was outlined by the speakers, there is no ‘one size fits
all’ for cities as they have various needs including those for towns, islands
and rural areas which are different from large urban areas. If the cities’
priority is to solve societal issues, it’s a fact that interoperability of the
various types of data collected is crucial, but standards are then essential.
Some very positive feedback from commercial implementations
were presented. Bordeaux metropolis smart lighting in France was an example and
their goals were achieved: reduce energy consumption, optimize services
suggested for users by the metropolis and measure the impact of the deployment
of street-connected infrastructures. A few Irish cities are also deploying
several services. Other cities have implemented, or are going to implement,
valet parking, highway use, platooning or urban driving for instance, this
includes Livorno in Italy, Tampere in Finland, Versailles in France, Daejeon in
South Korea, Eindhoven in the Netherlands or Vigo in Spain.
This year, SmartBAN, smart body area network, was also a new
and very interesting topic. The use of wearables and body sensor devices is
rapidly growing in the Internet of Things (IoT). Addressing eHealth is of
course a technology challenge, you need to deal with interoperability in
heterogeneous use cases, low power, low latency, security, robust operation and
the ability to interact with embedded intelligence in smart environments.
ETSI’s technical committee on Smart BAN presented its work but other industry
players, including a prominent sportswear actor, offered technology solutions
and visions to solve these issues. Speakers concluded that SmartBAN can not
only provide connectivity for our portable and wearable devices in the IoT, but
it can also serve as the personal interface to the digital world, in particular
the healthcare system of the future. To do so, new solutions are needed both
technically and in terms of interoperability.
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