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The newest Big Thing — a networked world of connected devices, objects and people — is getting long in the tooth.  It is hazardous to even try to write about the Internet of Things without being complicit in internet triumphalism.   We try to be as specific as possible, to avoid sounding like Jules Verne the futurist, even at the risk of getting too technical to be practical for the front line work force in education communities.   We challenge excess cost starting with small things.

Standards Michigan is a past member of ANSI’s US National Committee to the IEC (USNC/IEC) but now collaborates with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee (E&H) and the IEEE Standards Association on coordinated response to commenting opportunities posted by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on its IoT titles.

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The E&H Committee meets online four times monthly in European and American time zones in which the priorities of the Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1) are a standing item on its agenda.  The International Committee for Information Technology Standards  (INCITS) is ANSI’s US Technical Advisory Group Administrator.

Leaders of the US #SmartCampus transformation will have to sort through the competition among them because, at the moment, the blue-sky conception of a #SmartCampus is doing more to drive trade association content and conference revenue than contribute meaningfully to lower costs in education communities.

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We keep pace with standards setting in the IoT transformation with particular interest in the topics listed below:

Cloud

Wireless Sensor Networks

Interoperability (e,g, Z-Wave, Zigbee, Insteon protocols)

Trustworthiness

Pathway Intelligence

Radio spectrum

There are others; all of them with challenges, risks and ethical concerns.

The IEC produces policy templates for national standards bodies and governments.  To workpoint practitioners its products may seem (at first) too “blue-sky” to be practical.   The IEC consensus products are far more “finely sliced” (think prosciutto) than US consensus products such as the National Electrical Code.   You will see this reflected in the Call for Public Comment in our INCITS posts.

We are happy to explain the difference between speculative hype and meaningful technical specifics that show up on future campus construction, operation and maintenance balances sheets to anyone any day at 11 AM Eastern time.  We also sweep through commenting opportunities every month during our Global standards teleconference and four times per month with the IEEE E&H Committee.  See our CALENDAR for the next online meetings; open to everyone.

Issue: [Various]

Category: Electrical, Telecommunication, Informatics, International, #SmartCampus

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jim Harvey, Massimo Mittolo, Giuseppe Parise

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IEC Area: 741: Internet of Things (IoT)