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Talk on EU Standards for CSIR-NISTADS, 6th August 2013
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (CSIR-NISTADS), invited SESEI on 6th August 2013to make a presentation on EU standards.
SESEI presented a detailed presentation on the importance of standards in relation to globalisation, emerging technologies, trade and to bring economies of scale into the market.
Presentation by SESEI generated a lot of interest, especially amongst the students, helping them to realise the role of standards in a larger perspective. Institute has asked SESEI to share an article on standards. SESEI informed the organizer that LO approval is pending and once in place an article will be shared along with a regular quarterly newsletter on EU Standards and Policy updates.
Webinar on Smart Grid by SESEI for ISGF members, 11th July 2013
SESEI conducted a webinar for India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF) members on Smart Grid and efforts and the European standardisation bodies in the area. The highlights of the webinar are as under;
• During the webinar members showed interest and asked how best they can co-operate and collaborate on this subject. SESEI suggested following way forward;
- SESEI with the help of its European Stakeholders will be happy to work with ISGF and share all the progress done until now on this subject.
- ISGF shall involve all other stakeholders such as Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and Industry. They shall also generate a similar report for India as done in EU and presented during this webinar. This report shall become basis of standards adoption, development, etc. for Indian Market by BIS.
- Project SESEI is also closely working with BIS. BIS shall take this subject and start working on it with ISGF and Industry.
• Copy of this webinar has been uploaded to the SESEI website, just click here.
Updates on Smart Grids in Europe -PDF
• Webinar on Smart Meter & e-Mobility is proposed for future possibilities.
• During this webinar, It is noticed that BIS is actively working with IEC/TC57 and PC118 on this subject and it appears that PC118 next meeting in March’2014 will be hosted in India by CPRI
SESEI will continue working on this subject with forums, industry and standards bodies in India and align the EU standards and excellent work done on this smart grid, smart meter and e-mobility areas.
http://indiasmartgrid.org/en/Pages/ViewEvents.aspx?event_id=92
3rd LTE Summit 2013, held on April 19, 2013 at Mumbai
LTE has now been embraced as the future of commercial wireless communications by most operators in the world and India is no different, Early 2012 India has witnessed first commercial LTE launch. The number of LTE subscribers is set for dynamic growth in the next five years, as operators build and trial LTE in order to cope with the increasing demand of data traffic on their networks. The proposed successful launch of a number of LTE networks in India is driving ever greater adoption of 4G services.
Cerebral Business research organized 3rd LTE Summit 2013 on 19th April 2013 at Mumbai in association with 3rd Generation Partnership Projects (3GPP) and Broadband Wireless Consortium of India (BWCI).
3rd LTE Summit 2013 provided a perfect platform the entire LTE ecosystem to come together to search for new partners and learn from the market leaders about their deployment experiences and unparalleled breadth and depth of discussion around the positive future prospects of mobile broadband in India.
SESEI addressed an audience of 150 delegates from the industry and presented;
• 3GPP scope, approach, objective,
• RAN and SA Updates including
• Project SESEI
M2M Conclave 2013 held on March 14, 2013 at New Delhi
M2M technologies, allows both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices / systems of the same ability. Innovative applications like smart cars, connected homes, smart metering, remote management and industrial data collection would be the major revenue drivers of service providers worldwide in the future.
India being one of the fastest growing & largest telecom market place in the world, realizes importance of machine-to-machine ( M2M ) market which is growing worldwide at a fast pace.
The M2M Conclave provided a world class platform for understanding business value proposition of M2M and how M2M technologies and applications will help businesses to fuel growth and productivity.
SESEI attended the M2M Conclave as an inaugural speaker organized by M/s Cerebral Business Research. More details at (http://www.cerebralbusiness.com/m2m/conference.asp) and presented M2M standards status and M2M partnership project. SESEI presentation was very well appreciated and lot of people/companies showed interest to work together.
Panel discussions were held on;
a) “India Specific Strategies for Successful Monetization of M2M Opportunities to Achieve Fast Revenues”
b) “Killer Applications in M2M Value Chain for Achieving Fast Customer Adoption in India”.
Lot of discussion focused around M2M application suitable for India, including Smart Meter, Smart Grid etc., were also held
ETSI’s Director General, Mr. Luis Jorge Romero, named one of Global Telecoms Business Power100 for 2014
Global Telecoms Business magazine and website has named Luis Jorge Romero, Director General of ETSI, as one of the most powerful people in the telecommunications industry worldwide, joining top executives from the industry’s leading companies.
Global Telecoms Business has named its Power100 list of the most powerful people in the telecoms industry every year since 2008. This year’s judges have said “Power implies the ability to move the industry. If the Power100 reflects the people who are running this industry, then many people outside the telecoms industry are causing shifts to occur – and they are as powerful as many of the leaders within telecoms operators and vendors.”
The judges were selected for their global experience of the industry: a lawyer/regulator, the founder of a leading trade organization, an analyst and a recruitment specialist. Three of them have, during their careers, worked for telecoms operators and all four maintain a close relationship with the industry.
The judges picked out Network Functions Virtualisation as a technology driver in the industry and selected a number of executives behind its development. ETSI is the home of the Network Functions Virtualisation Industry Specification Group and ETSI’s Director General, Luis Jorge Romero, has overseen the rapid growth and success of this important initiative.
Since his election as ETSI Director General in 2011, Mr. Romero has been further developing ETSI, a European Standards Organization, to provide global reach to its members. He has led the development of the oneM2M global standards initiative for Machine to Machine Communications and the Internet of Things. This brings ETSI together with eleven other leading ICT standards bodies, fora and consortia throughout the world, and with 200 of their member companies to define the specifications needed for scalable, secure deployment of M2M and IoT services. He has also ensured that ETSI is well positioned to take an active role in the development of future 5G standards, both within ETSI and 3GPP, of which ETSI is a founding member.
Industry is demanding that standards be produced more efficiently in the future than in the past. This implies faster delivery times, higher technical quality and greater assurance of interoperability. Mr. Romero has set about achieving these objectives by modernizing the standardization processes used within ETSI, a task that will take time to complete but which is already demonstrating clear benefits.
Article extracted from :ETSI News Section
ETSI Newsletter Publishes SESEI Project Update
To understand the Indian telecoms environment and to help bring synergies between future ICT technologies and standards, Project SESEI (Seconded European Standardization Expert for India) was launched by European Commission’s Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry (EC DG ENTR), the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), CEN, CENELEC and ETSI. This SESEI Project was the opportunity to bring together European and Indian standardization communities to maximize the cooperation around standardization, policy and legislation.
In its latest Newsletter ETSI, published and shared an update on the Project SESEI. The article provides details on the various milestones achieved by SESEI and the contribution of the Project in the field of ICT.
To read more about the Project progress and targets set out for the duration of the SESEI. Please click here for the ETSI Newsletter, page 10
Standards/TBT/IPR
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