In the continuous effort to support rapid ITS deployment and to validate the ETSI ITS Release 1 standards, a fourth Plugtest will be organized in March 2015 focusing on Co-operative Mobile Systems standards from ETSI, CEN and ISO and to test the interoperability of ITS equipment from all key vendors.

Key speakers:

• Mr. Dinesh Chand Sharma (Director – Standardization, Policy and Regulation, Project SESEI on European Standards)
• Ms. Anya Margaret Ogorkiewicz (Managing Director, The Keryx Group; Polish Permanent Representative to the CEN-CENELEC-ETSI Smart City Standardisation Coordination Group (SSCC-CG))

India’s focus on Smart cities can be regarded as one of the most ambitious plans that Prime Minister Modi has proposed for revolutionising growth. As part of this initiative, the Indian Government will be developing 100 Smart Cities in the vicinity of existing/new major cities and getting them up to a new level of development.

Hence, it would be interesting to understand how different components within urban context such as green & sustainable buildings, electricity, urban transport, waste and water services, security, surveillance, network & communication technologies, work in tandem. This webinar shall help in understanding the importance of standards including other aspects of a smart city.

The webinar will broadly cover:

• Smart City Building Blocks and how standards can help planning and operating a smart city.
• Benefits of standards, including Architecture and International Standards work on Smart Cities and more.

The webinar would be of particular interest to stakeholders working/involved in the “Smart City” realm such as Planners & Developers, Governments, Investors, Industry Suppliers, Associations, and Utility Providers etc.

In the future, domestic or industrial energy using and producing products, also called appliances, will not be stand-alone systems anymore. They will be highly intelligent, networked and smart devices, which form complete energy consuming, producing, and managing systems. One of the requirements for making such systems commercially successful and widely adopted, is that they can be extended over time according to the needs and budget of the user. Such systems will therefore consist of devices from different vendors added at different points in time, with open interfaces enabling further extension. These systems will also need to be able to communicate with service platforms from different energy service providers. ETSI’s proposed standard will take account of these requirements and will ensure interoperability through the integration with ETSI’s M2M architecture.

In coordination with this initiative, the European Commission has launched a “Study on the available semantics assets for the interoperability of Smart Appliances; Mapping into a common ontology as a M2M application layer semantics” (SMART 2013/0077), which will provide input to the ETSI work. TNO is performing this study.

This event will provide an update on the Smart 2013/0077 study and will be a place holder for discussion on Ontology, M2M mapping and certification.

The India chapter of Europe Business Group released its Position Paper for the year 2014 and hosted its national event on 26th September 2014. The event was attended by the members of EBG, commercial counsellor of the Embassies of EU Countries, dignitaries from the EU Delegation to India. The Chief Guest of the event was Mr. Amitabh Kant, IAS, Secretary Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the opening remarks were given by Ambassador EU delegation in India H.E.Dr. João Cravinho.

Ambassador EU delegation in India, highlighted trade volumes, FTA and other open concerns EU Industry and administration is facing as listed in the position paper. He highlighted the close relationship Indian and EU enjoy since last 10 Years. Position paper was launched by Secretary, DIPP, Ministry of Commerce who applauded the relationship between EU and INDIA. Suggested EBG to visit his office with delegation and a meeting will be arranged with respective Ministry to discuss all the concern listed down in this position paper and way forward will be decided to resolve them. SESEI had contributed an update to section on Telecom Standards as part of this position paper.

Digital Enterprise Services (DES) unit of Tech Mahindra organized an event on Internet of Things (IoT) in association with Nasscom and Aeris on 24th September 2014. Aeris is a leading M2M platform provider and a partner of Tech Mahindra. The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) is a trade association of Indian IT and BPO industry and a non-profit organization.

SESEI participated in the Workshop on “Internet of Things”, and the main topics of the workshop were;

1. Future of IoT and impediments to achieve it
2. loT business models – next steps to get there
3. “How IoT will revolutionize industries — impact of IoT across industries”

During the workshop it was discussed that how various industries especially Education, Medical, Agro, Banking, Transport, IT Services etc. can be connected and made available for better utility. Taking a note of question raised on standards, SESEI shared the progress of M2M standards at ETSI and oneM2M. SESEI was also asked to share these updates sometime to TechMahindra team members, which was acknowledged and agreed.

The event was attended by CEOs, CTOs, Vice Presidents, Digital Enterprises Heads, Technical consultants. Talks by leaders and panel discussion with great minds from across industries/academics helped to deliberate on issues like monetizing IoT, the most apt IoT model and the killer applications that can be delivered to the market that continue to intrigue us.

India is 3G & 4G Ready with a mobile subscriber’s base of over 950 million – One of the fastest growing & largest telecom market place in the world. Telco’s in India are excited and have realized importance of machine-to-machine (M2M) market which is growing worldwide at a fast pace.

In India M2M market has now started evolving – India M2M market will be majorly driven by Automotive & Commercial Telematics, Household Monitoring & Control, Financial Services & Retail, Smart Homes & Smart Metering, Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics. Being India’s First Convention on M2M – Now into successful 4th Edition – The M2M conclave was held at Mumbai which 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 in India market.

SESEI participated in the in the M2M Conclave as a distinguished Session Lead Speaker on “Successful Strategies from Around the World & India Specific Business Models for making M2M a Business Success in India”. The main highlights of SESEI’s presentation and views are as following;

• M2M Market and Key Challenges
  • Fragmentation, provisioning/efficiency, integration complexity, scalability
  • M2M Communications meets non-ICT Industry [Automotive, Health, Energy..]
  • Make intelligent use of information, enabled by connected IT [Cloud..]
  • SDO/Fora roadmaps are not coordinated, and compete on similar subjects
• TSI Smart M2M – Update and Way forward
  • Published – 25 TS & TRs, Drafting Stage – 12 TS & TRs, New Work Items – 3 TS
• oneM2M partnership project – Update and Way forward
  • Leading regional SDOs agreed to create a global harmonization partnership
  • oneM2M Partnership project established July 2012.
  • Total 221 organizations involved in oneM2M
  • The oneM2M Standard provides a common Platform to share data among various Application domains having different data models
  • 15 WI approved, 6 TS/TRs Approved & Published, 6 TS/TRs are open for comments, remaining
• In India M2M – Update and Way forward
  • TSDSI WG on M2M established in June 2014, 60 Individual & 18 Organization have joined
  • Study topics covers verticals such as Utilities, Transportation, Remote Asset Monitoring, Health, Agriculture, Smart Energy, Smart Cities etc.
  • Naming & Addressing, Security & Privacy, Architecture, Interfaces and Protocols, Impact on Radio Active Network and Core Network etc.
  • Attended last oneM2M meeting as observer, plan to join soon as permanent member
  • DoT Questionnaire on M2M Policy and roadmap
  • ETSI TC M2M submitted its response
  • TEC established WG on Automotive, Power, Health, Surveillance and Architecture – ITU-T/DoT
  • Consolidate use cases, study existing standards, gap analysis

In India market Automotive, Transport & Logistics industries lead in terms of M2M adoption. However, Utilities will drive future market growth as the Government of India is increasingly taking serious initiatives to deploy smart energy meters to address the concern of increasing power theft and round-the-clock monitoring of power supply.

5G Standardization workshop was organized on the occasion of 5th year celebration of the Global ICT Standardization Forum for India (GISFI). GISFI announced 5G standardization activity back in December of 2012. GISFI concept of 5G is named as WISDOM (Wireless Innovative System for Dynamic Operating MegaCommunications) – a communication system for ubiquitous trustworthy human-centric connectivity via an arbitrary infrastructure support. SESEI attended the GISFI workshop on 5G standardization and 5 year celebration. In brief update is as below with a detailed report as enclosed.

• The Seminar comprised of university professors, officials of Department of Telecommunications and students doing PHDs from GISFI connected/sponsored Universities.
• Prof. Ramjee Prasad, founding Chairman of GISFI, released a book authored by him titled “A Step Towards 5G Communications”. This book provides views of the 5G and hence views on the potential standardization scenarios.
• Professor Sandip Inamdar [ Trustee GISFI, Secretary Vishwaniketan’s Institute of Management Entrepreneurship and Engineering Technology (V-iMEET) during his speech announced that GISFI will be self-sustainable and 50 PHDs have been awarded already through GISI program.
• Sr. DDG TEC Mr. A.K.Mittal and other member of TEC participated in the seminar and presented their requirement and prospective from 5G subject in India.

MAIT in partnership with DeitY and BIS organized a one-day programme titled “India Standards: A Strong ICT Nation” on 31st July, 2014 at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. With increasing calls for harmonization of conformity requirements with global best practices and upcoming programmes on post market surveillance, the issues deliberated during the conference were:

• Compulsory Registration Order – Experiences and Way Forward
• Market Surveillance, Quality Control, Inspection
• Anti-Counterfeiting and Consumer Awareness

SESEI was invited to participate as Session Chair during the session of Anti-Counterfeiting and Consumer Awareness. During the session start SESEI shared project SESEI details, highlighted importance of standards to address quality products and EU progress on the subject of Anti-Counterfeiting and Consumer Awareness.

Tech Mahindra and Bosch Software Innovations organized an event: “Internet of Things Innovation Connect” on 30th July 2014, at Tech Mahindra NSEZ (Noida) office. Event objective was to share IoT experiences and best practices from different industries. The event was attended by representatives and CXO leaders representing different industries such as Manufacturing, Utilities, BFSI, Retail, Healthcare, Telecom, Academician and Government.

Dr. Christopher Holmes (Head- International Asia Pacific, IDC Insights) was key note speaker on Trends in Internet of Things (IoT) and moderated the Round Table discussion on IoT with Industry Leaders. The other eminent Speakers were Mr. CP Gurnani (CEO & MD Tech M) on How IoT is changing IT Services Industry? and Dr. Rainer Kallenbach (CEO & and Chairman Executive Board, Bosch Software Innovations) on The Internet of Things & Services: Current Developments and Future Preview.

SESEI attend the event as a speaker in the session on standards. SESEI shared the details on the ETSI and oneM2M Partnership Project by ETSI launched in July 2012, bringing together six of other the world’s other leading Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Standards Development Organizations from USA, Japan, China and South Korea. He also shared that oneM2M is developing technical specifications for a common M2M Service Layer that can be readily embedded within various hardware and software, connecting the wide range of devices in the field with M2M application servers worldwide. It is hoped that a standardized platform for M2M services and technologies will enable new business and partnering models.

The Amity Telecom Vision Board Meeting was held on 11th July 2014 at Seminar Hall, Amity University, Noida. SESEI was invited to attend Amity Telecom Vision Board Meeting and share prospective on Education about Standardization, how it could be integrated in University curriculum.

SESEI with the help CEN CENELEC and ETSI prepared and shared ESOs initiative about Education about Standardization and suggested importance of the subject for inclusion in the university curriculum. The main aim of the Vision Board meeting was to bridge the gap between Telecom Industry and Academia and ensure the smooth transition of students from academia to professional world.

Eminent Telecom industry leaders including Mr. Akhil Gupta- Vice Chairman, Bharti Enterprises, Mr. Vimal Wakhlu- CMD, TCIL; Mr. Ravindar Popli- Head – Service Delivery, India Region ,Nokia; along with SESEI and others attended the Meeting.

It was felt that the graduates being churned out by Universities are not up to the mark whereas Universities feel that Industry doesn’t have time or enough projects for their students. The industry guests provided inputs on various Agendas of the Meeting which included

• Assessing the feasibility of Accreditation of B Tech
• Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Degree by Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC)/ Telecom Industry/Telecom Organization,
• Training of faculty as trainers on live equipment, and others

Post the deliberations and exchange of views on the issue it was addressed that Universities have to provide service to industry on continual basis, engaging it and regularly providing solutions to their problems through research and development in areas such as maintenance of Telecom Towers, Tower Radiation, studying Carbon Footprints etc. The Corporate leaders should engage more often to suggest and decide on innovative ways of bridging the gap between industry and academia.

During the event, a specialized Telecom Laboratory which has come up with the equipments presented by key players in Telecom industry including Bharti Airtel, Delta Power Solutions Ltd, Radius Energy International, Ericsson India, BlueTown Denmark was inaugurated by Dr. Ashok K Chauhan- Founder President, Amity Group and other Industry Leaders.