Kista, Sweden – February 9, 2012.  IPSO Alliance Member SICS (Swedish Institute of Computer Science) is sponsoring the Internet of Things Day on February 9, 2012.

Adam Dunkels, a co-founder of the IPSO Alliance and  Swedish software engineer, researcher and co-founder of the Networked Embedded Systems Group at SICS will present  “The Internet of Things: Time for Action”.

Jan Höller, member of the Board of Directors of the IPSO Alliance  will talk about the transition of M2M, which can be referred to as “Intranet of Things”,towards a true Internet of Things. This transition will bring a new set of challenges and will also require a new set of solution tools. The challenges and new tools will be briefly introduced.

For More Information visit:  http://www.sics.se/Internet_of_Things_Day

The Alliance welcomes Consumers Energy, Econocom, Instituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB), IOTA Computing, Maxim Integrated Products, Motorola Mobility, Smart Dutch, Symphony Networks, and Telecommunication Metrology Center of MIIT (TMC). Representing China, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States, these organizations are leaders in advocating the use of IP in Smart Objects worldwide.

“Standardization and interoperability are of major importance in the European utility branch, a need which creates confidence for Smart Dutch that IPv6-based technologies will prevail as the winning smart meter technology in Europe,” states Gert van Kempen, Managing Director of Smart Dutch, one of the first Dutch companies to join the Alliance.

“The Managed Home Solutions division of Motorola Mobility is focused on developing next-generation connected home services,” said Jim Hunter, Technical Staff Fellow, Motorola Mobility. “Motorola recognizes IP as an important driver in the proliferation of smart objects; we’ve joined the IPSO Alliance to guide the development of standards for IP objects and to extend our leading role in the evolution of the connected home.”

During 2011 the Alliance rejuvenated their interoperability testing program, and started the development of a strong social media campaign and the launch of a new quarterly newsletter. IPSO also seated a new Technical Advisory Board, headed by Jari Arkko of Ericsson, and launched a Smart Energy Committee led by Mike Dow of Freescale and Lizardo Hernandez of Landis+Gyr.

Publication of a quarterly newsletter began in December. Providing information about the latest news in the world of embedded IP, the Internet of Things, and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technology, the newsletter shares the latest innovations from IPSO member companies and the industry. “This newsletter will go far in keeping the industry informed of upcoming trade shows and conferences, as well as current projects the Alliance is working on as a whole,” said Mary Miller of Sigma Designs, co-chair of IPSO’s marketing committee.

To register to receive upcoming editions of the IPSO newsletter, email marketing@ipso-alliance.org.

About the IPSO Alliance
The IPSO Alliance is the primary advocate of IP for Smart Objects for use in energy, consumer, healthcare and industrial applications. The Alliance, a non-profit organization whose members include leading technology, communications and energy companies, promotes the use of the Internet Protocol to serve as the foundation for a network of sensor-enabled physical objects to communicate with each other as seamlessly as individuals do over the Internet.

IPSO Alliance membership is open to any organization supporting an IP-based approach to connecting smart objects. For more information, visit www.ipso-alliance.org or contact Kate Easton – kate@ipso-alliance.org.

Tim  is also a member of the Growth and Impact of Energy Management Device Offerings Panel.  The increasing popularity of IP-enabled devices among consumers is causing a subsequent expansion in the adoption and variety of technologies in the home. This discussion addresses efforts by home control and security manufacturers to establish a leading position for energy management.

IPSO member companies Duke Energy, GreenWave Reality, Itron and Motorola will also feature speakers.

For More Information visit: www.smartenergysummit2012.com

ETSI Plugtests, the IPSO Alliance and the FP7 Probe-it project are pleased to invite you to participate in the first Internet of Things CoAP Plugtests, taking place from 24-25th March 2012 in Paris, France.

The event is co-located with 83rd IETF meeting.

This event is aimed at M2M system vendors, operators, software vendors and research institutes.

The event will focus on testing the conformance and interoperability of the IETF CoRE standards for M2M, focusing on CoAP. An event not to be missed, if you want to be sure your products and implementations are fit for the growing M2M market!

ETSI will assess for the interoperability of different CoAP implementations for features including:

1. The base CoAP specification
2. CoAP Block Transfer
3. CoAP Observation
4. The CoRE Link Format

The event will focus on server and client CoAP end-point implementations and products with these features.

If you would like to know more or have any questions, please to contact us at plugtests@etsi.org

Kurt Stammberger, VP of Market Development at Mocana will be presenting ” Scoring Security: Building a Standard Framework for Publicly Rating the Security of a Third-Party Device”.

Dr. Jerker Delsing, Professor at Lulea University of Technology in Sweden will be speaking on Next Generation DCS and SCADA Device Security based on 6LowPAN and CoAP as basis for building SOA based collaborative automation. Automation aspects of security such as e.g. data integrity, control integrity, will be addressed.

Mike Siegel, VP of Products at Mocana will address Securing Apps, Not Endpoints: A New Approach to Mobile Security.

To learn more about the Amphion Forum, go to https://amphionforum.com/munich-germany-meeting/

Registration and hotel information available on the IPSO meeting page

Directly following the Member Meeting on April 3rd and 4th,  IPSO Members will be testing the latest interoperability technology onsite and remotely. To participate, join the Interop Committee weekly planning calls. Call-in information available on the IPSO wiki.

Strand Palace Hotel, London  – April 17 – 18. Thomas Lorbach of NXP Semiconductors will be speaking on behalf of the IPSO Alliance April 18th at 14:30 at the IET’s fifth annual Smart Metering Conference.

This two day conference will continue to question and advise on the ways in which the smart meter revolution can become a reality.

For More Information visit: at www.theiet.org/smart-metering

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