Smart Services – Rules & Regulations In A Smarter World

Smart Services are beginning to make a mark in our daily lives. New business models and processes are being developed, which are bringing great changes to the consumer world. To ensure that a Smart Services ecosystem, which involves different players and various devices and applications, works successfully, a number of essential requirements have to be fulfilled:

  • Connectivity
  • Data Security
  • Accountability
  • Quality of Smart Service.

Visualizing a Smart Services process via the SODATM model

Smart Services processes are currently often visualized as a “chain”. However this is not really suited to demonstrate the complexities of such a process. 7Layers, the wireless/smart world expert of the Bureau Veritas group, has therefore developed its SODA model, which describes a Smart Service in terms of a dynamic “circular” process that must be continuously monitored once it has been set up.

Stakeholder of a Smart Services process are

  • Users, who are equipped with wireless connected devicesare at the center of the process. Smart Services are generally geared to provide the User with a more convenient or efficient lifestyle, whether he usesmHealth devices and services, smart home or car2X equipment or other smart applications.
  • Service Originators realize their Smart Service business ideas with the support of a Service Provider.
  • Service Providers are responsible for the business relationship.
  • Smart Services Data Platforms receive data from wireless connected devices, analyze them and initiate physical or virtual Actions required by the User.

Adhering to official and proprietary rules & regulations

Wireless connected devices, which are at the core of Smart Services, already need to adhere to a host of continually changing rules & regulations from governmental organizations, industry interest groups or purchasers. However not only the connected devices, but also applications, data platforms and the Smart Services themselves must be evaluated to ensure that Smart Services function properly and are in accordance with both official and proprietary rules & regulations.

With 7Layers as a partner you can rely on a comprehensive service and product portfolio for the Smart Services / IoT environment, offering

Further details at: http://www.7layers.com/industries/smart-services-iot-internet-of-things
About 7Layers

7Layers is an international group of engineering & test centers and a specialist in wireless technologies, offering services and products that support the set-up and maintenance of Smart Services, which play an important role in the Internet of Things. 7Layers supports stakeholders in Smart Services processes, such as manufacturers and suppliers of connected devices, wireless component manufacturers, network operators, Smart Services service providers, data platform providers and the service delivery actions. To describe the set-up and continuous monitoring tasks necessary to maintain Smart Services processes, 7Layers uses its SODA model which depicts smart services in terms of a dynamic “circular” process.

7Layers runs accredited Test Houses in the USA, Germany, China, Korea and Japan that offer conformance and interoperability testing, certification and global type approval. The 7Layers Systems House offers product and Smart Services development and integration support, development of test specifications and test cases, as well as InterLab test solutions and test management systems. The 7Layers Software House provides the InterLab Software System for the systematic verification & validation of complex high-tech products. 7Layers is part of the Bureau Veritas Group, a global leader in testing, inspection and certification, serving a large variety of industries.

More at: www.bureauveritas.com/cps and www.7Layers.com.

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