Second Set of OneM2M Specs Released for M2M, IoT

The oneM2M global standards initiative issued the second release of oneM2M specifications for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and IoT, said oneM2M founding partner ATIS in a Thursday announcement. Release 2 is based on contributions from more than 200 member companies and builds on oneM2M's first set of official specs enabling basic connectivity between applications and devices, said ATIS. The new specs open the IoT ecosystem to devices that lack the protocol and enable interworking among systems using AllSeen Alliance's AllJoyn, Open Connectivity Foundation's OIC (Open Interconnect Consortium) and the Open Mobile Alliance's Lightweight M2M (LWM2M), it said. The 17 specs in Release 2 address security by enabling end-to-end secure information exchange between any devices or servers, it said. The specs implement attribute and role-based dynamic access control in consumer-oriented IoT scenarios and allow granting temporary authorization to devices during operation, it said. Semantic interoperability enables meaningful data exchange for secure distribution and reuse, said ATIS. As a result of the latest spec, the number of devices that can connect in the IoT ecosystem “is greatly expanded” beyond the 50 billion devices Cisco estimates will be connected by 2020, ATIS said.