Internet of Things (IoT)

About IoT Division

New division with the name of Services & Development (S&D) was created in July 2013. It started working on Machine to Machine Communication (M2M) and released nine Technical Reports in this domain in year 2015. It was later re-named as Internet of Things (IoT) division in December 2015.

1. An overview of Machine to Machine communication (M2M) / Internet of Things( IoT).

2. Functions:

• Study of Machine to Machine (M2M) communications / Internet of Things (IoT) to finalize specifications for Indian ecosystem in sync with global SDOs.
• Framing GR / IR/ ER for the devices related to M2M / IoT domain.
• Providing technical / policy inputs to DoT, BIS, TSDSI,  NITI  Aayog and MoHUA on M2M / IoT and 5G related issues
• Preparing Technical Papers.

3. Focus Areas:

• Finalising IoT standards for Smart Cities.
• Adoption of OneM2M standards transposed by TSDSI.
• Participation & submitting contributions in ITU-T Study Group (SG)-20. ITU-T SG-20 is on   IoT and its applications in Smart Cities & Communities < Click here>.
• MTCTE (Mandatory Testing and Certification of Telecom Equipments) : Essential Requirements (ERs) of M2M / IoT devices and Gateways covered in MTCTE.
• Establishing IoT Experience Center in TEC.

4. M2M Working Groups. 

5. Achievements :

• M2M / IoT Technical Reports.        
•          Important actionable points emerged from the technical report.
• ITU use case documents converted in to ITU-T standards (click here)
• Essential Requirements(ERs) for Smart Devices. 
• Study Papers on M2M / IoT. 
• Conference on M2M / IoT Enabling Smart Infrastructure held on 8th January 2019 in TEC.    

6. National Telecom M2M Roadmap, released by DoT in May-2015 (click here).

7. TRAI Recommendations on “Spectrum, Roaming and QoS related requirements in M2M communication” (click here).