The long road to unified IoT standards

Like many wireless communication standards today, those specifically intended to support the Internet of things (IoT) are still under development. The situation is even more so for industrial IoT (IIoT) applications, where many deployments are still in the early stage, particularly when it comes to standards like NB-IoT and LTE CAT-M1.Granted, in areas like IT (internet technology) and OT (operational technology), where standard groups have long operated, standards are well developed and adopted, but at the same time, the standards and frameworks for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and IoT are still being worked on. Huei Sin Ee, Vice President And General Manager of General Electronics Measurement Solutions at Keysight Technologies noted that one of the biggest challenges of developing IIoT standards is ensuring the interoperability of different IoT devices across a diverse set of applications and different kinds of communication networks.