Here is this week’s week in standards.
Web Standards
Mobile Apps “May Soon Be Dead”
On the day that Gartner reports the growth of the smartphone market by 85%, comes the counter intuitive suggestion that very soon mobile apps will be dead. Apps are, of course, the main reason people buy smartphones.
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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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The launch of concurrent efforts to implement standards-based infrastructural re-engineering of massive proportions in three separate political, geographic, and economic settings provides an unparalleled opportunity to compare what works – and what doesn’t – in the modern world. Those settings are China, Europe and the United States.
Consider the differences:
Europe is committed to the 20-20-20 targets to reduce carbon emissions and to secure energy supply. Energy efficiency and renewable energy are seen as key to reach this goal. Both measures call for changes in our energy supply system leading to smart grids as key enablers for the required innovation. To promote this transformation the European Commission has taken a number of actions including a mandate on standardization.
The Smart Grid technology will prove essential in meeting the European Commission’s EU2020 objectives (cutting greenhouse gases and energy consumption by 20%, meeting 20% of the EU’s energy needs through renewable resources) (see here). Similarly, the PRC considers Smart Grids as being instrumental in substantially lowering energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions [1], as shown again in the recently promulgated Chinese Government’s12th Five-Year Plan.
This article is co-authored by James Bryce Clark, General Counsel, and Laurent Liscia, Executive Director, of OASIS
I have been following smart grid standards especially since the talkstandards meeting in Boulder Colorado (the world’s first smart grid city) and also as a part of the Week in Standards posts on Talkstandards. And these standards are evolving rapidly. Here I give a flavour of what I mean in terms of the current and the future.
As we near the end of the month and the Easter break, a lot has happened in the world of standards. Next week, we will post a monthly summary but for this week, here are the latest developments in Standards. Please feel free to leave any comments/suggestions in the comment section below.
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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 second in the new incarnation of the “Week in standards” series. I am always surprised by how much activity there is in the standards world in only a week, and this week is no exception. So here we go. Again, the goal is to provide as broad a review as possible, and please feel free to leave any feedback/suggestions in the comments section below.
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