It has been a long two weeks in the UK with celebrations of the Royal wedding and now we are back after a bit of a break.  Again we have a wide range of standards related news and I hope you enjoy it!

Web standards

Adhering to OGC SWE Standards Simplifies Sensor Web Development

The SWE Common Service Model interface standard can be applied across services, which either require information from sensors or give information about sensors. In all the cases involving access and management of sensors through service interfaces the OGC SWE Interface standard can be applied.
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This week passed was a quite surprising week in standards with a proposed scale down of the budgets for data.gov and other sites, yet another cloud standards body launched, plus other interesting views and news from the world of standards. Please feel free to leave any comments/suggestions in the comment section below.
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Welcome to the revised, new look, week in standards. Once again we will cover the latest developments in the world of standards each week, trying to keep the ideas as concise as possible so as to cover as many developments as possible.  It is indeed surprising how quickly standards can evolve in just a week and we look forward to engaging with you and welcome your feedback.
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In an exclusive interview with Talkstandards, Nav Bains (GSMA Director of Mobile Money) emphasized the “lack of commercially available Single Wire Protocol NFC handsets” and “deployed contactless infrastructure at the point of sale” as the major barriers to widespread market adoption of mobile NFC technology.
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On the eve of Smart Grid week at talk standards, this post first outlines the meaning of Smart Grids and then explores the implications for standardization along with some outstanding questions for discussion. We discuss why Smart Grid standardization is different

What is a Smart Grid?

What is a Smart Grid? How should it look like? Well, the answer depends on who you ask.
There is a general consensus that:

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As the number of mobile phones steadily increase in the world and handsets are used for much more than calling and texting, Mobile Near Field Communications (NFC) offer users the ability to use their phone as a mobile wallet. However, even though consumers would welcome such solutions, NFC deployment is sluggish.
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