oneM2M selected as national standard for IoT development in India

October 29, 2020 1:18 pm

oneM2M standard has been selected as a national standard in India. “It will enable greater collaboration between Internet of Things (IoT) solution developers which will reduce the time to bring innovation to market,” an official statement said.

“We are very pleased that the oneM2M standard has been selected as a national standard in India as national governments across the globe continue to realise the immense importance of IoT,” said Enrico Scarrone, Steering Committee Chair at oneM2M. “This announcement highlights the crucial role that oneM2M plays in helping to connect IoT applications and in enabling mass deployment across industries by limiting complexity and scalability issues.”

The standard, developed by a joint global collaborative effort, has already been transposed in India by the Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI). The national adoption of the oneM2M standard highlights the importance of collaboration, testing and certification in the development of IoT devices and software and it will also propel India in the global IoT market.

“Adoption of these standards helps establish the much-needed standardised technology framework for providing Machine to Machine (M2M) services in India,” said Pamela Kumar, Director-General at TSDSI. “It enables users and application service providers in various vertical domains to use “vertical agnostic” end-to-end M2M platforms, with well-defined common service functionalities. This is expected to accelerate deployment of M2M services across verticals, and facilitate optimal utilisation of communication layer resources.”

Made up of more than 200 members organisations, oneM2M specifications provide a framework to support applications and services and as the oneM2M platform has been developed in an open environment and has clear governance, this helps facilitate trust in its specifications. In recent years, oneM2M has hosted numerous IoT workshops and industry days across India as the country seeks to mandate standards for the national implementation of IoT based systems and applications.