An Evolutionary Way to Standardize the Internet of Things

Thecurrentsituationoftechnologyseparationamongthedifferentapplication domainsoftheInternetofThings(IoT)resultsinamarketseparationperapplication domain. This issue hinders the technical innovation and investments in the IoT business. In order to solve the issue, it is necessary to standardize commontechnologiesoftheIoTacrossthedifferentapplicationdomains.This paper argues that a key direction of the future standardization of the IoT, in additiontostandardizingspecifictechnologies,isbuildingoverastandardized newarchitecturereferencemodelfortheIoT.Basedontheanalysisofexisting key activities concerning the standardization of OSI, NGN and IoT from a functional architecture perspective, it suggests that the IoT standardization workbeprogressedinanevolutionarywayinordertoenabletheintegrationof existing technologies, and focus on the interactions among functional entities ordeployablecomponentsoftheIoTtoimposeminimumconstraintsonfuture technical innovations. Topics discussed in the paper include characteristic capabilities of the IoT, ways of integrating the cloud computing technologies in the IoT perspective, and challenges faced by the IoT standardization work.