Accenture, Arkessa, BT, Cisco, Telensa and WSN have come together to found the Wireless IoT Forum, in efforts to accelerate international adoption of IoT by reducing fragmentation and promoting open-standards.
Launched in March, the WIoTF today unveveiled the founding board. The forum said its mandate is to drive consolidation around a minimal set of standards for both licensed and license-exempt wireless solutions.
The organisation will also develop a set of requirements through engagement with vertical end-users and a clear use-case driven roadmap for the eco-system of technology companies, apps developers and operators.
The forum added it will work with relevant stakeholders to agree core requirements that inform and accelerate understanding, standards development and consistent, supportive regulation.
The founding board vowed to work to promote and market wireless IoT to and for wireless network operators, infrastructure providers, specialist SMEs, semiconductor companies, vertical end users and others.
William Webb, CEO, Wireless IoT Forum said: "Without widely-agreed open standards we risk seeing pockets of proprietary technology developing independently, preventing the benefits of mass-market scale."
Gibson, CEO of Telensa said: "The WIoTF is committed to aligning a diverse group of industry pioneers around key common approaches, so that IoT can build on early success to reach its undoubted potential."
Aidan Quilligan, MD at Accenture Digital – Mobility said: "The IoT is growing at an unrelenting pace, but it’s important that the entire ecosystem co-operates around open standards in order for it to reach its full potential.
"That’s why it’s important that the Forum works with key ecosystem members from the start, in order to create the right conditions for the mass market, without duplicating the work being done by existing standards bodies."
The WIoTF added its membership plans are open to any legally established corporation, individual firm, partnership, governmental body or international organisation.
