The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), a European Standards Organization, announced the release of three new specifications for the smart cities, industry, and manufacturing, and smart agriculture and food chain domains. This is in addition, to the first three Smart Applications REFerence (SAREF) ontology specifications for energy, environment, and buildings. By enabling interoperability, these standards will contribute to the development of the global digital market.
The European Commission conducted a survey when it launched the SMART 2013/0077 Standardization Initiative on smart appliances. One of the findings of the survey was the need to create commonly agreed semantics for smart appliances and build a reference ontology as an interoperability language. Now, with the help of TC smartM2M — specifications for M2M services and applications — and oneM2M — standards for machine-to-machine (M2M) and the Internet of Things (IoT) — these standards are a reality.
The ETSI SmartM2M Technical Committee developed the ontology specifications in accordance with the requirements of the respective domains. For instance, the SAREF4CITY specification, ETSI TS 103 410-4 has been developed with the stakeholders who would need ontology such as other standardization bodies, associations, IoT platforms, and European projects and initiatives.
The SAREF4INMA specification for Industry 4.0, ETSI TS 103 410-5, was developed to solve the lack of interoperability between various types of production equipment used to manufacture items in a factory. The specification enables organizations to uniquely track back the manufactured items for the corresponding production equipment, batches, and materials and retrieve the exact time of production.
The SAREF4AGRI specification, ETSI TS 103 410-6, addresses the Smart Agriculture and Food Chain domain. The use cases focus on the integration of multiple data sources for providing decision support services through the local Farm Management System or a service over the network.
Furthermore, TSI TC SmartM2M is working to include more activity sectors and to complete the development of an open portal to gather direct contributions to SAREF by 2020. This will enable the inputs for the stakeholders’ evolving data model to reflect directly in the ETSI SAREF and oneM2M specifications.
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