Late last year, the GSMA Connected Living programme announced the availability of the ‘IoT Device Connection Efficiency Guidelines’, which received the backing of 13 global network operators as well as a number of ecosystem partners. The Guidelines were designed to help Internet of Things (IoT) developers, service providers, communication module makers and operators negotiate the often complex path of bringing new connected devices and services to the IoT market, with a longer term objective of optimising IoT devices and networks to support the growth of the IoT market.
We’ve also been working away in the background on a separate project to develop a common set of acceptance tests or ‘test cases’ for IoT devices and applications that will ensure that best practices are being followed by all. Specifically we’ve created a document that outlines which test cases need to be passed by an IoT device in order for it to be considered compliant with the requirements stated within the GSMA’s IoT Device Connection Efficiency Guidelines.
This latest document, ‘IoT Device Connection Efficiency Common Test Cases’, was published today and is available to players across the ecosystem including mobile operators, IoT service providers, device makers, device application developers, communication module vendors and radio baseband chipset vendors and will help to accelerate the development of the Internet of Things.
The behaviour of IoT devices and applications play a significant role in the efficiency of IoT services and can create major challenges for the IoT ecosystem. With no human intervention to fall back on, mechanisms that manage recovery from failures need to be built into the software elements of the IoT device.
Several leading IoT industry experts shared their views with us and now we’re sharing them with you – take a look:
If you want to find out more about the IoT Device Connection Efficiency Guidelines and the newly published test cases, as well as the GSMA’s Connected Living programme, go to www.gsma.com/connectedliving.