The IEEE Standards Association plans an Internet of Things...

The IEEE Standards Association plans an Internet of Things workshop Sept. 18-19 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, to “provide an open, engaging platform to discuss opportunities, impacts and challenges around the convergence” of IoT technologies, the group said Thursday (http://bit.ly/1pMY3oH). A “special focus” at the workshop will be on the need for “more interdisciplinary approaches to the design of products and services for IoT markets,” it said. “From smart cities to smart homes to eHealth to cleaner transportation, standardization in IoT will provide economic opportunity to these areas and many more by increasing interoperability and fueling the economy of scale,” it said. The group “is one of the driving forces behind IoT standardization and will continue to contribute to the advancing of IoT by participating and hosting of IoT workshops, events and projects,” it said.