4 Enabling technologies
4.6 Standards

IoT devices are quite diverse and measure different parameters and with different conventions and units of measure. Though competing proprietary protocols keep getting proposed, it is likely that open source standards will be one of the ways to get this data to interoperate.

Clearly, open standards are key enablers for the success of wireless communication technologies and, in general, for any kind of Machine-to-Machine communication. However, the need for faster setting of interoperable standards has been recognised an important element for IoT applications deployment. Clarification on the requirements for a unique global identification, naming and resolver is needed. Lack of convergence of the definition of common reference models, reference architecture for the Future Networks, Future Internet and IoT and integration of legacy systems and networks is a challange that has to be addressed in the future.