ETSI has updated its standard for consumer IoT devices, first released in February 2019 as a “technical specification”. In a press release issued 30 June ETSI said it had unveiled ETSI EN 303 645, “a standard for cybersecurity in the Internet of Things that establishes a security baseline for internet-connected consumer products and provides a […]
ETSI moves to standardise IoT for emergency comms
ETSI has taken its first steps towards developing standards for IoT applications in emergency communications, issuing a report that looks at how IoT can be used in all types of emergency situations, such as emergency calling, mission critical communications. It also envisages a new use case: automated emergency response, where IoT devices can act after […]
New ETSI specs for smart cities, smart factories and smart agriculture
The ETSI SmartM2M technical committee has released three new specifications for: smart cities; industry and manufacturing; smart agriculture and food chain domains saying they will enable interoperability and therefore contribute to the development of the global digital market. They are the latest in a series of Smart Applications Reference ontology (SAREF) specifications and follow release […]
SynchroniCity shares smart city data, smartly
Want to know how noisy it is in Helsinki, the air quality in Santander (Spain), or how many people are walking down Portland Street in Manchester? Perhaps not, unless you live in, or have a particular interest in, one of those cities, but the fact that such data is on offer and readily available shows […]
ETSI set to release standard for consumer IoT security
ETSI is scheduled to release on 17 February a standard for consumer IoT security, based on the recently released UK standard. According to the ETSI website, the standard is aimed primarily at those developing, producing and selling consumer IoT products, and will “contain around a dozen high-level outcome-focused requirements, which bring together what is […]
Smart city data: it’s good to share, and ETSI’s helping
ETSI issued a rather enigmatic and acronym-laden press release last week that had some important things to say about data sharing in smart cities. It opened by saying: “The ETSI Industry Specification Group for cross-cutting Context Information Management (ISG CIM) has just released its main specification GS CIM 009 for NGSI-LD API, particularly targeting smart city applications […]
LPWAN – wide open field for wide area networking technology
If you’re not a close follower of what’s happening in the Internet of Things (IoT) this acronym—for low power wide area network—might be new to you, but it represents one of the most important components and one of the most hotly contested aspects of the Internet of Things – the radio communications technology that ‘things’ […]