ETSI has published the first release of its machine-to-machine (M2M) service standards, which it says are needed for large-scale deployment of services.
"M2M communications services are already showing strong revenue growth with the number of deployments steadily increasing. Large-scale managed M2M services will become a feature of this industry, but today the technology landscape is fragmented, which discourages investment," said ETSI.
“The publication of the ETSI M2M Release 1 standards marks a new milestone for the M2M industry. They unlock the potential for wide-scale deployment of M2M services and technologies, and encourage investment in new applications," said Enrico Scarrone, Telecom Italia, chairman of ETSI TC M2M.
An ETSI technical committee has come up with a set of standards which provides a complete horizontal service layer for M2M communications.
The ETSI M2M Release 1 standards enable integration of different M2M technology choices into one managed platform. ETSI M2M Release 1 is built upon existing standards such as the IETF, 3GPP, the Open Mobile Alliance and the Broadband Forum.
The ETSI M2M standards specify architectural components including M2M devices, gateways with associated interfaces, applications, access technologies as well as the M2M Service Capabilities Layer.
They also offer security, traffic scheduling, device discovery and lifecycle management features.
The ETSI M2M Release 1 standards are published as a set of three specifications which are available for download from the ETSI website:
Requirements in ETSI TS 102 689
Functional architecture in ETSI TS 102 690
Interface descriptions in ETSI TS 102 921
