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C-DOT, founded on 24th of August, 1984 by the Govt. of India as India’s telecom technology development centre, did pioneering work in bringing about a telecom revolution in the country and is well known for its great contributions to telecommunications in India especially rural telephony. The latest being the BharatNet, the ambitious National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) project, which relies heavily on broadband technologies developed by C-DOT. But C-DOT is not limited to only rural telecom solutions. NGN, Terabit Routers, XGSPON, DWDM, Wi-Fi are a few of the myriad of products which are testimony to this fact. From being a purely Telecom Switching and Transmission Hardware and Software Development Centre, C-DOT had diversified into development of value-added telecom software and brought out many products like NMS(Network Management System) and C-DOT’s messaging platform - Samvad to name a few. Venturing into IoT/M2M Domain, C-DOT has also developed oneM2M Standards based Common Services Platform-CCSP for IOT which is of tremendous value to the entire IoT ecosystem, including the Smart City Applications and Industrial IoT Applications.

The IoT ecosystem comprising of a network of wireless sensors, a reliable public communication infrastructure and innovative applications working on big data and analytics will help the homes, enterprises/industry, Government and especially the smart cities immensely. Innovative local solutions will have to be found for local problems and it would offer great opportunities to industry, including MSMEs and startups. It is therefore necessary to adopt standards in the IoT/M2M ecosystem. Adoption of standards will ensure that solution developers do not reinvent the wheel but devote their energies to the actual building of product and on innovations. Further, the interoperability of devices, applications and semantics will be another dividend of a standards-based approach.

It is with the intent of creating the standards for IoT/M2M, oneM2M, a Global Partnership Project, was formed in July 2012 which consists of eight of the world’s preeminent standards development organizations (SDOs), notably: ARIB (Japan), ATIS (United States), CCSA (China), ETSI (Europe), TIA (USA), TSDSI (India), TTA (Korea) and TTC (Japan) together with six industry fora, consortia or standards bodies (Broadband Forum, CEN, CENELEC, GlobalPlatform, Next Generation M2M Consortium, OMA).oneM2M began some of the earliest work on standardization of a common platform for internet of things (IoT) systems. In 2018, oneM2M reported its cooperative efforts with the ITU to bridge standardization gaps by transposing the oneM2M standard to an ITU standard.

It has been a tradition in C-DOT to celebrate its foundation day by inviting eminent Professors and Technology Leaders of International Repute to deliver their lectures on the latest cutting-edge technologies in the field of telecommunications. This year it was felt germane to organize a two-day conference on “oneM2M – The Global Standards for IoT/M2M” along with these lectures.

In view of the above a two-day conference on “The Future of Telecom Technologies and oneM2M- The Global Standards for IoT/M2M”, is being organized at C-DOT Campus in New Delhi on the 26th and 27th of August 2019.

This event is being organised by C-DOT and ETSI under the aegis of EU funded project India-EU Cooperation on ICT- Related Standardization, Policy and Legislation, in association with TSDSI.

We, at C-DOT and India - EU Collaboration project are very pleased to invite you to our joint conference. The conference, besides providing an insight into the cutting-edge telecom technologies, also aims to provide a platform where foreign and Indian experts from IOT and M2M forums, academia, R&D, industry and senior officials from Ministries of Communications, Urban Development and Electronics and Information Technology and cities named in Indian Smart Cities Project can interact to share knowledge and experiences. It is also planned to enrich the interaction by inviting City authorities from Europe and South Korea who have actually implemented smart city projects in their respective cities.

We believe that the conference will be highly beneficial to the decision makers and senior officers of the ministries, industries, Service Providers and also the cities associated with the smart cities projects of India. It will be a great opportunity for industry, including MSMEs, innovators, entrepreneurs and startups. Also, academia will actively participate to bring the right expertise and knowledge to the table.