oneM2M DEPLOYMENTS
Anyang City Public Safety LTE-Based IoT Services
Anyang City has launched the first municipal IoT service using a public safety LTE network in Korea, incorporating a oneM2M-based IoT platform to ensure residents' safety through various applications such as structural vibration detection, explosive detection, fine dust and gas monitoring, water leak detection, smart traffic light control, street lamp control, and security light management.
The public safety network is designed for agencies like the police and fire departments to communicate urgently and securely during disasters, offering better security than standard networks without incurring communication fees. Leveraging this network can save significant costs associated with network construction and maintenance, leading to budget savings and diversified services.
Since May 2019, Anyang City has been leading smart city projects in Korea, piloting programs in collaboration with companies like Entels, OurNet, CyberTel Bridge, and MAT, leveraging experiences gained over time.
Smart Tag-Based IoT Services
Smart Tags are IoT devices designed to help locate easily lost items by attaching them to objects and displaying their location. Unlike traditional loss prevention products that alarm when disconnected from a smartphone, Smart Tags work on Bluetooth and can detect the tag within a Bluetooth range of 100 meters. If the tag is far from the user's smartphone, its location can be identified through other smartphones or tablets via an IoT platform (provided the smartphone app is installed).
Sollium has supplied 'Galaxy Smart Tags' to Samsung and launched its own branded products, emphasizing durability with features like water resistance and shock absorption, useful for tracking pets, infants, and the elderly. These products support both Android and iOS.
Natural Gas Metering Based IoT Services
The natural gas AMI project aims to improve gas metering environments and provide safer, more efficient work conditions for meter readers with smart gas meters, allowing non-face-to-face meter reading and real-time gas leak detection, offering a next-generation metering system.
Entels has developed a gas AMI platform during the pilot project to collect and manage safety-related data from smart meters. The N-MAS platform, a common platform for collecting and storing smart gas meter data, interfaces with mobile carriers' IoT platforms to manage gas meters and supports the next-generation gas meter standards of the Korea Smart Metering Forum. It also features a Key Management System (KMS) for meter authentication and data encryption/decryption, providing APIs for service management to operations systems.
With the rise of COVID-19 leading to difficulties in manual meter readings, the introduction of non-contact readings not only addresses privacy concerns but also improves the working conditions for meter readers and enhances the safety of gas leak detections, increasing demand from local governments and expanding the project scope.
Smart City Demonstration Projects (Busan/Goyang/Daegu)
Busan is advancing its smart city project using the oneM2M standard, aiming to create an efficient and safe urban environment by integrating IoT technology across various sectors. This includes upgrading existing infrastructure, such as smart streetlights, CCTV, and parking systems, and enhancing transportation by employing technologies for real-time traffic information, traffic analysis, and signal control. Additionally, Busan is developing a smart city data platform based on oneM2M to efficiently manage and operate the city using data collected from various IoT devices. Big data analysis is also used for effective decision-making in areas like traffic congestion and environmental improvement.
IoT Service Platform in Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom, based in Germany, has launched various smart solutions using the oneM2M standard, including smart water meters. They introduced the world's first oneM2M prototype device at MWC19 in Barcelona, equipped with various communication modules enabling LTE and BN-IoT communications. This technology allows for precise, real-time monitoring and management of water usage, integrating various solutions. Additionally, oneM2M's compatibility with devices from other manufacturers ensures excellent scalability, enabling interoperability essential for smart city infrastructure development.
The IoT Landscape and oneM2M's Role: The IoT sector is fragmented with numerous players across devices, servers, protocols, and platforms, making integration challenging without specific proprietary technologies. Deutsche Telekom utilizes oneM2M in their technology stack, chosen for its standardization and reduced dependency on proprietary protocols, which saves significant design time due to its robust interface and data structure architecture. oneM2M facilitates the blending and combination of various technologies and suppliers, addressing the fragmentation in custom solutions. Its flexible architecture enhances interoperability, allowing for the connection of diverse items, including legacy devices, into a broader IoT solution, thus promoting a more integrated and efficient technology ecosystem.
Aetheros, an IoT operating system provider, supports next-generation smart meter deployments across the U.S.
Aetheros, specializing in IoT operating systems for large-scale machine-type communications, has expanded into the U.S. market to enhance the deployment of advanced smart meters through distributed intelligence. Aetheros products have been integrated within major networks like Telstra, Spark, Verizon, and AT&T LTE across Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and the USA. Its fully-owned Mexican subsidiary, Aetherosmex S de RL de CV, provides managed IoT device services, applications, and communication networks across Mexico. Aetheros' AOS system, operational across Australia and New Zealand, processes over a billion meter readings daily, offering a oneM2M compatible IoT service layer for distributed intelligence at the edge. This system supports the evolving power demands across the U.S. by facilitating safe edge applications and smart meters as part of an open ecosystem, responding to increased needs for renewable energy, battery storage, and electric vehicles.Â
As the smart metering landscape changes with the U.S. utilities' requirements, there is a growing need to reimagine these endpoints to accelerate the energy transition. Many U.S. utilities are enhancing their distribution networks with analytical and control features at the edge to integrate and support renewable energy sources and electric vehicles, also improving operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. For this, a robust IoT service layer is required, and Aetheros provides a validated, scalable, open option for this infrastructure.
Ray Bell, founder of Aetheros, emphasizes the software's proven track record in facilitating distributed edge intelligence, speeding up innovations within the leading markets of utility. For years, Aetheros has supported utilities by deploying analytical and control features at the network's edge to detect conditions like phase imbalance, high and low voltage, and manage advanced services like virtual power plants and dynamic voltage transformations.
AOS allows utilities to enhance safety and distribution efficiency, reduce operational costs, and improve customer satisfaction while offering new smart energy services. Bell states, "Now is the time to deliver AOS's product portfolio to North American utilities riding the second wave of smart meter replacements."
Bell and his veteran Silicon Valley team, who spearheaded the first wave of IP networking and smart meter technologies in the U.S., now leverage their expertise and achievements from Australia and New Zealand to guide U.S. utilities through the next wave of smart meter deployments. Bell explains, "When we first deployed smart meters in the U.S., the aim was merely to offset the need for increased generation capacity through time-of-use billing and demand response programs. Today's requirements are much more complex. Utilities need to build a more efficient and diverse smart energy ecosystem using distributed edge analytics and control. A single vendor's walled garden approach is inadequate for meeting these demands. The utility sector urgently needs an open standard-based IoT service layer that allows market innovations to flourish
AOS provides such a layer, freeing users from dependency. Customers can select their preferred hardware and software to build, deploy, and manage IoT networks and edge applications and services. As AOS expands across North America, utilities and suppliers will be free to innovate at the grid edge, securing various opportunities for smart energy services:
Activating the transactional distributed energy market: Energy providers can develop applications that facilitate the buying and selling of energy resources. For example, consumers with solar panels and batteries can sell surplus energy in an open energy market and provide essential grid services.
2. Balancing power based on distributed resources: Using AOS, certified edge applications can instantly access cumulative and immediate smart metering data to make local demand response and load management decisions. Utilities can use smart metering analytics and control functions to locally monitor and manage customers' solar inverters, batteries, and smart devices, creating virtual power plants (VPPs) that reduce energy demand or maintain distribution grid balance.
Enhancing EV charging infrastructure: EV charging station operators can optimize buy-sell transactions based on market and local distribution network supply conditions, participating in demand response and VPP programs. Electric vehicle drivers can remotely communicate with chargers en route via mobile phones and pre-book chargers that operate only during designated departure times.
Accelerating industrial IoT: Edge devices collect data from industrial equipment, filtering, prioritizing, and processing OT data. Using AOS, industrial operations can rapidly build IIoT distributed intelligence applications to communicate almost in real-time with factory infrastructure.
"Having an open operating system that supports distributed intelligence at the edge is essential for the future of the energy sector," says Adrian Clark, CEO of CrescoNet. "With intelligent edge computing in smart meters, we can provide customers with the dynamic control and demand response services they need. Through AOS, we leverage real-time energy analysis and control at the network's edge to offer competitive new energy products and services, maintaining Australia and New Zealand's leadership in global smart energy innovation."
Source: https://www.onem2m.org/membership/executive-viewpoints/861-aetheros-ceo-ray-bell
VNPT Plarform (Source: http://vnpt-technology.vn/en/solution_detail/one-iot-platform)
IoT Services of Vietnam VNPT
Vietnam VNPT (Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group), founded in 1995 by the Vietnamese government to provide postal and telecommunication services, has since expanded to offer a wide range of communications and IT services including internet, mobile (4G/5G), and television. Based on ICT, VNPT now also provides IoT platform services, supporting diverse services with its oneM2M certified IoT platform since 2020. This platform manages about 6 million IoT devices and is integrated with various other platforms. Particularly in agriculture, which constitutes about 14% of Vietnam's GDP, it has significantly contributed to enhancing productivity, reducing costs, and improving quality.
VNPT utilizes its oneM2M IoT platform to deliver the VNPT SmartAgri service, applying telecommunication technologies to agriculture to tackle challenges like climate change, soil pollution, epidemics, and pests. Furthermore, in partnership with the Netherlands, VNPT is developing a large-scale Hi-Tech agricultural complex in Dak Lak, central highlands of Vietnam, expected to be completed by 2025, aiming to produce high-quality livestock, chickens, organic feed, and fertilizers to increase production.
MONVACOV (Source: https://antares.id/solutions/track-and-trace)
IoT Services of Indonesia PT Telkom (Indonesia)
PT Telkom, a state-owned enterprise in Indonesia, provides IoT services along with wireless and internet services. Leveraging the advancements in ICT, PT Telkom is expanding into new areas such as the metaverse and digital twins. Notably, PT Telkom has developed the ANTARES platform, an officially oneM2M-certified IoT platform since 2019, which supports a wide range of applications including smart factories, smart education, smart transportation, and smart farming, integrating various technologies like Wi-Fi, 4G, LoRa, and NG-IoT for unlimited scalability.
PT Telkom has utilized ANTARES to develop MONVACOV, aiding Indonesia's COVID-19 response efforts by maintaining optimal vaccine storage conditions through real-time monitoring. Additionally, PT Telkom offers Sreeya, a service that allows farmers to monitor crop growth in real-time, enhancing productivity and reducing the risk of crop failure.