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Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012.

Organized by the Internet Society, and building on the successful one-day World IPv6 Day event held on 8 June 2011, World IPv6 Launch represents a major milestone in the global deployment of IPv6. As the successor to the current Internet Protocol, IPv4, IPv6 is critical to the Internet’s continued growth as a platform for innovation and economic development.

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Any device connected to the internet needs an internet protocol address, a string of numbers unique to it that identify it and enable it to communicate with the web. As the number of web-enabled devices grows, the old system of assigning IP addresses can no longer accommodate them all and will have to, in the very near future, be replaced by a new system of allocating IP addresses called IP Version 6.

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October 12, 2011 – The IPSO Alliance held a press event in the middle of their committee meetings in Santa Clara. The group is focused on IP as the interoperability protocol for Smart Objects. Smart objects, an Internet of Things and ubiquitous computing are no longer “future” issues, these areas are here today. These products are pervasive in almost all activities – energy, food production, asset tracking, health care, predictive maintenance, buildings and personal residence, defense, safety and security, and communication. The challenge to allow for centralized communication and telemetrics management is to have a way from all these pieces to interoperate. The goal of the IPSO alliance is to have inter-operation take place using standard network IP infrastructure for Smart Objects.
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As intelligent devices proliferate into diverse and special-purpose networks, the enhanced address space, routing and security features of IPv6 will be required for universal connectivity.
by David Ress, Sensus and Mark Grazier, Texas Instruments
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Smart grid technology is here, so how can manufacturers be sure their appliances are ready to participate? There are many different parts of “smart grid,” which includes all aspects of the power grid: generation (power plants), transmission (power lines, substations) and distribution (electric meters, and in-home devices), with a focus on enabling cost savings by monitoring and managing power consumption. The area that most affects appliances is automated demand response (ADR) and, for this, the focus is on the home area network (HAN).
by Geoff Mulligan and Vint Cerf
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Smart Grid is not a concept built by electricians for electricians. The challenge behind smart grid is to master energy from production to consumption and its transport in the electric grid. It is in this consumption area where appliance manufacturers have an important and unique role to play.
by Patrick Wetterwald
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More objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate. The resulting information networks promise to create new business models, improve business processes, and reduce costs and risks.
MARCH 2010 • Michael Chui, Markus Löffler, and Roger Roberts
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November 2010 – RTC Magazine
The use of IP to communicate with and control small devices and sensors opens the way for the convergence of large, IT-oriented networks with real-time and specialized networked applications. The synergy of the access and potential data exchange opens huge new possibilities. By: Stamatis Karnouskous, JP Vasseur, Patrick Wetterwald, Jerlad Mattocci, Ted Humpal and Ming Zhu.
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August 2010 – Sensors Magazine
The previous article covered a basic introduction to IP enabled Smart Objects. These are devices that combine processing power with communications capabilities to exchange information using the Internet Protocol. IP Smart Objects are being deployed in a variety of machine to machine (M2M) systems. Application areas such as industrial control, process automation, and commercial building control are moving away from closed proprietary protocols to embrace open international standards such as the Internet Protocol (IP). Now the U.S. Smart Grid has adopted IP to interconnect smart energy components such as smart meters and thermostats, which will amount to 300–500 million devices.
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