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The role of standards in accelerating innovation - The case of IoI/IIoT

The background for the webinar was the great disruption generated by the COVID-19 and how it has immediate implications and generates new challenges regarding response effectiveness, resilience of healthcare systems as well as privacy for the individuals and citizens. Beyond these immediately perceivable implications, this disruption has also larger consequences across a broad range of sectors by potentially redesigning the business models, the supply chains, etc. These new challenges demand fast readjustments of the associated technical systems ñ with a key role for the IoT systems - and new innovations to cater for new requirements.
 
In this context, standards have a key role to play. Standards and sharing of common practices are strong drivers of digital transformation of European industry. Standards are critical tools of innovation, and many innovations that have changed the world (e.g., modern manufacturing and interchangeable parts, agriculture, the Internet, global communication) only succeed because of standardization. The case of IoT/IIoT deployments in the IoT European Large-Scale Pilots Programme has shown the role of standards in accelerating innovation and the benefits of using standard processes, considering common goals, common platforms, shared values and standard Interfaces.
 
CommLedge has made a presentation on "Addressing the need for co-design supportive architectures taking into account the work done in ETSI STF 561 (in particular regarding citizens' involvement in service design) and CREATE-IoT (regarding the 3D Reference Architecture model).