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“The LoRa™Alliance Wide Area networks for Internet of Things was initiated by industry leaders with a mission to standardize Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) being deployed around the world to enable Internet of Things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M), and smart city, and industrial applications” Social: Twitter Homepage LoRa Alliance Founding Members:

Actility, Cisco, Eolane, IBM, Kerlink, IMST, MultiTech, Sagemcom, Semtech, Microchip Technology, Bouygues Telecom, KPN, SingTel, Proximus, Swisscom, and FastNet (part of Telkom South Africa)



Total Members: 16 (as of March. 2015)



Annual Dues:

N/A Details:

N/A License / Protocol / Certification:

Protocol: LoRaWAN network protocol

License: Eclipse Public License LoRaWAN network protocol Tech Overview Data Rates: Range from 0.3 kbps to 50 kbps. Distance: 100 km (62 miles) in favorable environments Battery: Sensors can run for 10 years or more on a single AA battery Security: Unique Network key (EUI64) and ensure security on network level

Unique Application key (EUI64) ensure end to end security on application level

Device specific key (EUI128) IBM LoRa WAN in C

- Eclipse Public License - Developer Portal

“The Weightless SIG was formed to coordinate and enable all the activities needed to deliver the Weightless standard. Weightless-N Standard will provide uplink connectivity based on Ultra Narrow Band technology” Social: Twitter Homepage Weightless SIG Founding Members:

Neul, Landis+Gyr, Cable & Wireless, and ARM



Total Members: 2031 (as of March. 2015)



Annual Dues:

Observer: Free

Associate Member: £900

Core Member: £3500-£14000

Promoter: License / Protocol / Certification:

Protocol: Weightless-N

License: For terminals and related products a royalty-free regime is used. For base stations a “Free, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory” (FRAND) regime is in place. Weightless-N Overview Designed to operate in Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) spectrum. These sub-1GHz frequency bands - 868MHz in Europe, 900MHz in the US Frequency hopping to provide best in class interference tolerance Data Rates: Range from 100 kbps to 16 Mbps Security:

Weightless has adopted the shared secret key regime. This requires that a 'secret number' be held securely in both a Weightless controlled central server and in the edge device. - Details

“The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual.” Social: Twitter



Homepage Internet Engineering Task Force Membership:

"There is no membership in the IETF. Anyone may register for a meeting and then attend. The closest thing there is to being an IETF member is being on the IETF or Working Group mailing lists" Details:

Governance, Working Groups License / Protocol / Certification:

IP Rights IoT Related Work DTLS - Datagram Transport Layer Security UDP - User Datagram Protocol IPv6 - Internet Protocol, Version 6 CoRE is providing a framework for resource-oriented applications intended to run on constrained IP networks. ROLL - Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks CoAP - Constrained Application Protocol 6LoWPAN - IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks XMPP - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol - XMPP IoT HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol

IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission

"The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is the world’s leading organization that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies." - IoT Working Group



OGC

"The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international industry consortium of 511 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface standards. OGC® Standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT." - SensorThings WG

“OMA is a non-profit organization that delivers open specifications for creating interoperable services that work across all geographical boundaries, on any bearer network. OMA’s specifications support the billions of new and existing fixed and mobile terminals across a variety of mobile networks, including traditional cellular operator networks and emerging networks supporting machine-to-machine device communication.” Social: Twitter Homepage Open Mobile Alliance Founding Members:

Open Mobile Alliance was created by consolidating the efforts of the supporters of the Open Mobile Architecture initiative and the WAP Forum. In addition, the SyncML initiative, Location Interoperability Forum (LIF), MMS Interoperability Group (MMS-IOP), Wireless Village, Mobile Gaming Interoperability Forum (MGIF), and Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF) have consolidated into the Open Mobile Alliance.



Total Members: 101



Annual Dues:

Sponsor: $65,000 USD

Full: $25,000 USD

Associate: $5,500 USD

Supporter: $600 USD

Explorer: $650 USD

Government: free of charge5 Details:

Governance (PDF), Meeting Notes License / Protocol / Certification:

IPR Policy IoT Related Work OMNA Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) "OMA Lightweight M2M standard for Device Management, Network Mangement and Application Data for the Internet of Things. This new CoAP and DTLS based standard provides a complete system interface solution for M2M devices and services." - Public Review "The motivation of LightweightM2M is to develop a fast deployable client-server specification to provide machine to machine service. LightweightM2M is principly a device management protocol, but it should be designed to be able to extend to meet the requirements of applications. LightweightM2M is not restricted to device management, it should be able transfer service / application data. LightweightM2M implements the interface between M2M device and M2M Server. It provides a choice for the M2M Service Provider to deploy a M2M system to provide service to the M2M user."

“The Object Management Group® (OMG®) is an international, open membership, not-for-profit technology standards consortium.” Social: Twitter Homepage Object Management Group Founding Members:

Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, American Airlines and Data General



Total Members: 101



Annual Dues:

$550-$75,000 License / Protocol / Certification:

IPR Policy IoT Related Work DDS - Data Distribution Service "Data-Distribution Service for Real-Time Systems (DDS) is the first open international middleware standard directly addressing publish-subscribe communications for real-time and embedded systems." - IoT Page Additional Notes:

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) is managed by OMG.

“The Forum's goals are to allow devices to connect seamlessly and to simplify network implementation in the home and corporate environments. Toward this end, UPnP Forum members work together to define and publish UPnP device control protocols built upon open, Internet-based communication standards.” Social: Twitter Homepage UPnP Forum Founding Members:

14 companies including Microsoft, Intel, HP, Sony, Canon, Panasonic, and others



Total Members: 1028



Annual Dues:

Basic: Free

Implementer: $5,000

Steering Committee: $15,000 Details:

Governance (PDF), Meeting Notes License / Protocol / Certification:

Protocol:

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)

Device Control Protocol (DCP)

IPR Policy

Certification Product Showcase IoT Related Work UPnP+

• UPnP Cloud based on RFC 6120, 6121 [XMPP]

• IPv6 support

• Application Management UPnP IoT solves: Aggregating devices sensor and actuator data in a local network

Observing and controlling those devices from anywhere agnostic to any platform

Sharing information on a predefined granularity basis across networks with anyone

Deciding what, when and with whom to share lies with the owner of the device

Securing all communication - Certification Matrix

Additional Protocols and Initiatives: ETSI

"Produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, aeronautical, broadcast and internet technologies" - IoT Focused Protocols including Low Throughput Networks (LTN)

Semantic

Multilayer / Stack Initiatives

“The purpose and goal of oneM2M is to develop technical specifications which address the need for a common M2M Service Layer that can be readily embedded within various hardware and software, and relied upon to connect the myriad of devices in the field with M2M application servers worldwide.” Social: Linkedin Homepage oneM2M Development organizations:

ARIB (Japan), ATIS (U.S.), CCSA (China), ETSI (Europe), TIA (U.S.), TTA (Korea), and TTC (Japan). Additional contributing partners include: the BBF (Broadband Forum), Continua, HGI (Home Gateway Initiative), the New Generation M2M Consortium ‐ Japan, and OMA (Open Mobile Alliance).



Total Members: 202 (As of March 2015)



Annual Dues:

- N/A Details:

Governance License / Protocol / Certification:

Protocol: oneM2M

License: Partnership Agreement (PDF) Overview Whitepaper oneM2M is creating a distibuted software layer. There are two key elements at the core of oneM2M: providing an interworking framework and enabling re-use of what is already available as much as possible. The objective is to standardise interfaces so they are applicable to the entire ecosystem. oneM2M Release 1 A set of 10 specifications, covering requirements, architecture, API specifications, security solutions and mapping to common industry protocols such as CoAP, MQTT and HTTP. oneM2M Release 1 also makes use of OMA and Broadband Forum specifications for Device Management capabilities.



- Technical Specs

Vertical / Industry Focused