ITU, Georgia Tech Agree To Monitor IoT Standards And Applications

Dr. Bilel Jamoussi, Chief of the Study Groups Department at the International Telecommunication Union Standardization Bureau in Geneva, Switzerland, joins IoT Innovation host Jeff Mucci for a discussion on the ITU, Georgia Tech IoT Agreement.

ITU, a specialized division of the United Nations (UN), and the Centre for the Development and Application of Internet-of-Things Technologies (CDAIT), which is housed at Georgia Tech, recently announced an agreement to study and monitor IoT standards activity and then collaborate with other organizations and work groups on unifying IoT standards worldwide.

Dr. Bilel Jamoussi is responsible for the organization and management of the ITU-T Study Groups, Focus Groups, Global Standardization Initiatives, Joint Coordination Activities, and their secretariat.

Areas of cooperation between ITU and CDAIT include:

Joint steering committee. The ITU Standardization Sector (ITU-T) and Georgia Tech will establish a Joint Steering Committee composed of two representatives from each organization that will supervise the overall implementation of the collaboration.

Thought leadership. Both parties will encourage standards groups and trade associations focused on a specific industry (“vertical market”) or a group of industries (“horizontal market”), open source communities, de facto standard representatives, and other public and private organizations interested in IoT technologies to participate in IoT-relevant discussions with the goal of promoting interoperability in the IoT arena across industry and geographic markets.

Global IoT events. Through this cooperation, both ITU and Georgia Tech plan to jointly organize topic-relevant events in the future — such as but not limited to workshops, conferences and webinars — for the purpose of enriching the debate regarding standards-development activities in the technical areas pertinent to IoT.

IoT standardization, research and education. A critical objective of this agreement is the expectation that the collaboration will be of particular relevance to the standardization work of certain ITU-T Study Groups.

Housed at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the Centre for the Development and Application of Internet-of-Things Technologies (CDAIT pronounced sedate) is a global, non-profit, partner-funded center located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, that fosters interdisciplinary research and education while driving general awareness about the Internet of Things. CDAIT bridges sponsors with Georgia Tech faculty and researchers as well as industry members with similar interests. Founding members include AirWatch by VMware, AT&T, Cisco, Flex, IBM, Samsung, Stanley Black & Decker and Wipro. Learn more about CDAIT at www.cdait.gatech.edu.

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