The members of the newly formed ETSI Industry Specification Group created on Context Information Management (ISG CIM) together with the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) are Easy Global Market, imec, NEC through NEC Laboratories Europe, Orange and Telefonica. The new group's aim is to improve interoperability for smart city products. Beyond the initial focus of smart cities, the approach will be transferable to other applications, such as smart agriculture and smart industry. Organisations from all areas are welcome to join the ISG CIM initiative.
The ISG CIM will specify open standards for the context information management layer, running ‘on top’ of IoT platforms, enabling implementation of context-aware behavior in smart applications. This context information management layer accesses and updates information coming from different sources that comprise the semantics of information, including data source, time of validity, ownership and many more. This is meant to dramatically extend the interoperability of applications, helping smart cities to integrate their existing services and enable new third-party services.
The ISG CIM aims to overcome smart cities' lack of interoperability for exchange of information between platforms for telecommunication systems, city infrastructure databases, car traffic management systems, and new Internet of Things (IoT) products which each have their own specification. A focus of the group will be collaboration with other standardisation activities in related areas, including ETSI TC SmartM2M and ETSI PP oneM2M. The ISG CIM work is intended to align with the EU’s standardisation policies for the Digital Single Market.
