According to the research conducted by the Institute for Information Industry (III), the number of smart home worldwide was about 55.4 million in 2016 and is expected to quadruple to 230 million in 2021 with over 15% of household penetration, representing tremendous business opportunities.
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III (Institute For Information Industry) forms Smart Home Task Force in accordance with international IoT standards and tap into global smart home market
Standardization: The Master Key to Unlocking the Full Potential of IoT
Advocates of the Internet of Things (IoT) are no strangers to its potential, knowing it has the ability to aid every facet of the human experience. With market reports estimating 41.6 billion connected devices by 2025 – and industry verticals across the board embracing digital innovation – now more than ever, it is crucial to establish IoT industry standards.
While IoT’s potential is promising, it remains hindered by the inability to fully embrace universal standards to properly manage the security, interoperability, and scalability issues that arise in day-to-day IoT deployments. These issues result in an IoT that is not simple, efficient, or trustworthy. With these barriers, the exponential benefits of IoT are wasted.
Read the full article by Open Connectivity Foundation via IoT For All.
Building Upon NIST’s Core Cybersecurity Features
By Mark Walker, Director, Technology Policy at CableLabs
This past August, the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) published a blog on the suggested core security capabilities for device manufacturers laid out by National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and how the OCF Specification includes and will continue to build upon these capabilities. As these capabilities are included in the OCF Specification, each OCF-certified device has been developed and maintained with security in mind. This security-by-design approach to device development allows the Internet of Things (IoT) to continue to evolve and helps prevent future security and interoperability challenges.
Last month, the OCF submitted comments to NIST in response to draft NISTIR 8259 (“Core Cybersecurity Feature Baseline for Securable IoT Devices: A Starting Point for IoT Device Manufacturers”). These comments range from support of different features to suggestions on how to continue developing these and other capabilities. The OCF supports NIST’s work in IoT security and specifically its development of a core cybersecurity feature baseline for the IoT. More broadly, the OCF urges NIST to work with global governments to help ensure harmonization of IoT security policy to accelerate the promised benefits of an IoT. The OCF also made clear that it has already implemented nearly all of the identified features in its specification and in the associated open source implementation.
The OCF is currently working through how to implement “cybersecurity event logging” and believes the industry would benefit from further guidance from NIST in this area. More generally, the OCF expressed its support for NIST’s flexible approach to implementing the identified cybersecurity features, the recommendation that IoT manufacturers use established IoT platforms, and the need to clearly communicate cybersecurity information to customers. However, the OCF suggested that NIST separate the core baseline of cybersecurity features (Section 4) from the business practice guidance (Sections 3, 5, 6, and 7) and place this latter guidance in a separate, standalone document.
By providing these comments and suggestions, the OCF is actively accomplishing its mission to work with government and industry organizations in order to develop a more reliable, secure IoT for all verticals around the world. As we have said before, developing IoT security cannot be brought by a single actor in the industry. Engaging with government organizations and contributing to industry-led security reports, such as the C2 Consensus, showcases the OCF’s leadership as well as its ability to help build a security framework that anyone can follow, no matter the size of the project. The OCF is here to enable every organization to make the IoT a reality.
OCF’s full comments can be found here.
IoT Management and Control:1
(Previously named Sensor Management)
The following files contain the standardized device and service descriptions for IoT Management and Control:1. In accordance with Section 2.1 (c)(ii) of the UPnP Forum Membership Agreement, these DCPs were adopted by the Steering Committee as Standardized DCPs on September 10, 2013. Related IP Declarations are posted on this web site.
In accordance with Section 2.1 (c)(ii) of the UPnP Forum Membership Agreement, the latest DataModel:1 DCP was adopted by the Steering Committee as a Standardized DCP on May 26, 2015.
NOTE: While the name of these documents is IoT Management and Control to make clear that it provides many of the interfaces needed for support of a complete IoT environment implemented using UPnP technology, the name used in normative sections is SensorManagement. SensorManagement continues to be supported at this level for historical reasons.
IoT Management and Control Architecture Overview
IoT Management and Control Device:1
IoT Management And Control DataModel Service:1
IoT Management And Control Transport Generic Service:1
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Adoption of OCF’s standard grows with Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) recognition
14 February 2024 – The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) has announced that its Secure IP Device Framework (ISO/IEC 30118) has been adopted as a national standard in India. The standard, developed by a joint global collaborative effort, has been accredited by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), demonstrating the commitment of the Indian government to enabling trust, interoperability, and secure communication in its rapidly growing smart home and smart city ecosystems.
“We are excited to announce the adoption of the OCF Framework as a national standard in India. We have completed this adoption process following rigorous consultation and analysis,” said Ankur Basal, OCF India Forum member and Convenor for the BIS-LITD27 Work Group. “This recognition from the Indian government reinforces the credibility and reliability of the standard to play a significant role in supporting India’s aspirations for a more digitally connected society to support the wider realization of the Smart City Mission program in India.”
Strengthening IoT interoperability through standardization
India is working to deliver over 100 smart cities across the country to solve challenges associated with rapid urbanization. Smart cities can solve wider societal challenges such as transport management, healthcare, and energy consumption by providing and utilizing more accurate and up to date information, allowing everyone from governments to consumers to make more informed use of resources.
The OCF standard is poised to help solve these problems in India, as it provides businesses the opportunity to develop IoT technology based on OCF standards, ensuring interoperability between devices designed for use in smart homes and smart buildings. The standard will also support nationally connected smart city infrastructure as it is interoperable with industry standards such as oneM2M and MQTT which are currently in use. The OCF has several pilot projects for smart traffic management, health care, green energy and smart lighting in progress.
“We are pleased that the OCF Framework has been selected as a national standard in India as governments across the globe continue to realize the need to develop open infrastructure supporting smart city and smart home development,” comments Brian Bishop, OCF President. “This announcement showcases the potential for smart device innovation to be driven at a regional level as the OCF standard allows SMEs to create products, providing local governments in India the opportunity to develop new supply chains.”
An opportunity for national growth
The ability to use the Secure IP Device Framework ensures that future Indian IoT products and solutions will be secure by design and fit for a global market. OCF has done the legwork to map the standard to key industry and government IoT security baselines around the world. This means Indian developers can compile their compliance to IoT security baselines, as they will have already aligned with security requirements from standards such as NIST 8529, CAC2 Conveners, ENISA IoTSec, UK IoT Requirements and ETSI IoT Baseline Requirements through OCF certification.
Open Connectively Foundation and its members are ensuring that the interoperability needed for the Internet of Things exists, in order to create seamless, amazing experiences for end users. The OCF Certification Program includes conformance testing to ensure robust and secure connectivity, and to help manufacturers create products that “just work” with other OCF Certified IoT devices regardless of their form factors, operating systems, service providers or transports. India’s adoption of the OCF standard ensures clear routes for manufacturers are in place to allow them to create flexible products at scale.
OCF is the global, member-driven technical standards development organization working to enable trust, interoperability, and secure communication between IP-connected IoT devices and services.
Learn more about how OCF is enabling secure communications in smart cities and government infrastructure.
About Open Connectivity Foundation
The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) is a global, member-driven technical standards development organization. Its 500+ members are working to enable trust, interoperability, and secure communication between IP-connected IoT devices and services. It does this by fostering collaboration between stakeholders across the IoT ecosystem to deliver the freely-available ISO/IEC specifications, including the Secure IP Device Framework, its open-source reference implementation, and an industry-recognized certification program. This enables innovative new secure use cases and user experiences, reduces development costs, integration complexity and time to market, and simplifies regulatory compliance to IoT security and privacy baselines.
OCF members work across the enterprise layers of infrastructure, applications, and data. They collaborate to co-create and deploy systems in an open and standardized way, enabling devices to communicate over IP, regardless of form factor, operating system, service provider, transport technology, or ecosystem.
The vertical-agnostic technology has already seen significant adoption in the smart home sector and is now enabling the transition to secure, intelligent, Building Automation Systems (BAS) based on IP connectivity networks.
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