C-DOT - TSDSI Webinar Series

TSDSI and C-DOT are proud to announce a four-day webinar series on “The National Standards for IoT – Smart Cities Perspective” to give an insight into the rich features of oneM2M as well as various aspects of IoT including security, privacy, trust, interoperability and testing in the backdrop of Smart Cities. Our aim is to provide a knowledge sharing platform where foreign and Indian experts from oneM2M, TSDSI, academia, R&D, industry and senior officials from Ministries of Communications, MoHUA and authorities involved in Indian Smart Cities project can interact to share knowledge and experiences.

According to leading Market research organisations, the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices worldwide is likely to grow to more than 25.4 billion IoT devices in 2030 which is approximately three times the 8.74 billion devices in 2020. Major industry verticals globally are electricity, gas, water supply & waste management, retail & wholesale, transportation & storage, and government. With the deployment of these and many other use cases, Smart Cities continue to be the largest consumer of IoT applications and are evolving as connected, liveable, energy efficient, adaptive and resilient cities. The global smart cities market size is also expected to grow from US$ 410.8 billion in 2020 to US$ 820.7 billion by 2025, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 14.8%.

However, far too many cities still use a “siloed” approach to smart city applications where individual domains and verticals build individual applications, with little regard to sharing costs, infrastructure and data. This results in lack of interoperability of devices and applications, replicability challenges, proprietary protocols, proprietary software and their interfaces together with proprietary data models that doesn’t permit divergent applications to talk to each other which means virtually zero or limited sharing of data. At the core of all these issues, plaguing the Smart Cities is absence or lack of standardisation. The challenges that cities are facing will not be solved without having clearly defined standards. In India, the Smart City Mission under Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) also experienced these challenges while executing the 100 Smart City project and had since been looking up to the Indian Standardisation bodies for ICT Standards which can be used in the Smart Cities in India.

Telecom Standard Development Society of India (TSDSI) took the first step towards IoT standardization and partnered with 7 other global ICT standards development organizations, namely: ARIB (Japan), ATIS (United States), CCSA (China), ETSI (Europe), TIA (USA), TTA (Korea) and TTC (Japan) as partner type 1 of oneM2M -the Global Standard for IoT/M2M. TSDSI transposed the oneM2M Rel2 following its transposition process and handed over to DoT for adoption. Subsequently, the adoption as National Standard was done by TEC following the standardization process, which included wide consultation with the industry, academia, Govt. departments and Standard Development Organisations(SDOs) and detailed deliberations in the Telecom Standards Advisory Committee within TEC. Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), under LITD 28 Smart Infrastructure Sectional Committee had also been working towards the standardization of Smart ICT Infrastructure, recently released various ICT standards for the Smart City including the “IS 18004 (Part one): 2021 IoT System Reference Architecture” which also refers to the National Standard published by TEC.

C-DOT, founded in 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. C-DOT continues its technical journey. Besides developing various products of cutting edge-technology, C-DOT has also been one of the largest contributors in the technical specifications of oneM2M. C-DOT has also developed oneM2M standards based Common Services Platform (CCSP) for IoT which is of tremendous value to Smart city applications developers.

We believe that the webinar series will be highly beneficial to the decision makers and senior officers of the ministries and cities associated with the smart city projects of India. It will be a great opportunity for industry, including MSMEs, innovators, entrepreneurs and startups.