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December in Kobe, Japan, referencing both Release 1 and communication platforms, with input from the energy, the
Release 2 specifications. They included conformance testing environmental and the buildings domains. SAREF will allow
to help participants debug their products. devices in the home to exchange information with any
energy management system, whether located in the home
Promotion of oneM2M’s achievements remained an itself or in the Cloud. We also completed an investigation
important aspect of its work. Members of oneM2M into the possible evolution of SAREF, potentially to include
therefore took part in numerous international conferences non-energy aspects and expanding it in response to feedback
and exhibitions throughout 2016. Other communications received from industry.
activities included executive briefings, interviews with
key figures in the industry and continuation of the highly In addition, we are developing a complete set of testing
successful programme of webinars on the business and specifications for smart appliances.
technical aspects of oneM2M.

The ETSI IoT and M2M Workshop Building Smart Cities
The ETSI IoT and M2M workshop took place in We are heavily committed to the development of standards
November 2016, focusing on the smart world and which will form the technology building blocks for smart
smart cities. cities, both as a partner in oneM2M, as well as in our own
committees. For example, our Human Factors committee
The workshop included a one-day tutorial on (TC HF) has begun work on a pre-study of the human factors
oneM2M for developers. Various showcases aspects of the services in smart, accessible, sustainable cities
demonstrated oneM2M in action, with commercially and communities.
available products and services which had already
been deployed from across a wide range of IoT We are also developing specifications for energy efficiency in
application domains. The latest developments in smart cities. We have created a working group for sustainable
oneM2M Release 2 were also presented, with a digital multiservice cities to develop standards to support the
particular focus on its support for security and deployment and roll-out of smart city infrastructures.
semantic interoperability.
An international group was established to develop a
consensus framework for smart city architectures. The
group, in which we join the National Institute of Standards
Smart Appliances and Technology (NIST), the American National Standards
In the future, domestic and industrial appliances will be Institute (ANSI) and the Green Building Council in the U.S.,
the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future
intelligent, networked smart devices, forming complete Planning, the Italian Energy and Innovation Agency and
energy consuming, producing and managing systems. They the FIWARE Foundation, will build upon existing standards
will need open interfaces so that they can communicate with and specifications, including the work of oneM2M and TC
service platforms from different energy service providers and SmartM2M.
allow the addition of new appliances from different vendors,
using ‘plug and play’ connectivity.
Following the World Smart City Forum in July, representatives
of relevant Standards Developing Organisations, including
In 2016, our Smart M2M committee (TC SmartM2M) ETSI, met together in August to consider how to align their
extended its specification for SAREF, the smart appliances work to accelerate the deployment of smart cities.
reference ontology that runs with oneM2M-compliant

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