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and the standardised entities. While we
are promoting standardisation, we are
saying standardisation should be there,
so standard oneM2M devices would be
there, non-standard would be there.
They will be categorised as devices, they
definitely would have to talk through
some service provider.
Now applications will be there in
the form of application service providers
and they will all be driven by policies.
The policies would be like KYC policies,
regulations, licensing, privacy, security
and this policy will actually drive all of
them. And the governing body also will
be driven by the policy.
So, this particular governing body
then on will actually talk to the service
to the element it is interested in and it application, so it will be an application providers, the devices and applications in
will be notified whenever a data comes. provider. And there will be a platform order to get the metadata (data about
This helps immensely in smart metering provider who will be called a M2M service the data and not the data itself as the
cases and in connected cars as well. provider; he will come as a common data might be encrypted) out of all these
It is a service layer which is a software service layer provider. So, he will set in entities to be able to make informed
layer. It sits between applications his infrastructure in order to provide this decision and the policies in order to cater
& underlying communication and common service functions. Then there to the citizens in a far better way than it
networking hardware and relies primarily will be a network service provider which is being done today.
on IP protocol stack. But that doesn’t already exists in the form of the TSPs and For futureproof ITS application
mean that your sensors must also be ISPs. infrastructure, these are the essential
IP because the sensors mostly will be Now these are only functional roles, entities. The architecture shall be
interfaced with some controller unit, anybody can take up any role at any standardised and futureproof, it shall
if it is your car. That controller unit in point in time. So, what it gives you, promote interoperability, it shall be
turn can make an IP connectivity to the it combats fragmentation, so more possible to share data amongst verticals
backend and that happens even today. partnering choices. Just try to think of
it, it creates an immense opportunity and authenticated devices & applications
From being a proprietary shall be permitted to communicate and
communication from one’s car to a back- because so far it is being siloed and security shall be an integral component
verticalized any vertical that you pick in
end business application and a server, today actually has to consider the thing of the architecture.
what is recommended is that it should in entirety, tomorrow the start-ups can Further, it is important to consider
communicate in a standard compliant create innovative applications and only the fact that if we try to think each
way to a common service layer and an think about applications. They will create application vertical like ITS, Health,
infrastructure which is provided by a applications in a jiffy, so there are so Power, Industry, Home, Street Light,
service provider. many partnering choices. Lower capex, Waste Management and Surveillance in
While we are talking about the you are making use, reusing the sensors, isolation, we may again end up in siloes.
oneM2M standards, we shall also be reusing the applications, so thereby a A much better approach thus would be
clear about the way the same can be significant cost decrease, lower operating to consider the architecture which cuts
deployed in the field and the different cost also and time to market is too fast. across all these verticals in a horizontal
functional roles. It is not that the existing devices way staying agnostic to these application
There will be users like you and me, and sensors are not going to work, they intricacies, yet covering all the essential
there will be IoT application providers, will coexist because all of them are not ingredients of all the applications in a
ITS being one of the applications. In going to be changed. We must have a standard way. And oneM2M fulfils this
smart parking, somebody comes with an coexistence of non-standardised entities in every way.

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