Author: James Curry

The Global Standards initiative to enable interoperable, secure, and simple-to-deploy services for the IoT ecosystem. oneM2M standards are open, accessible, and internationally recognized.

oneM2M was launched in 2012 as a global partnership initiative between eight of the world’s preeminent standards development organizations: ARIB (Japan), ATIS (U.S.), CCSA (China), ETSI (Europe), TIA (U.S.), TSDSI (India), TTA (Korea), and TTC (Japan) together with industry fora and consortia (Global Platform) to develop specifications that ensure the most efficient deployment of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications systems and the Internet of Things (IoT).
By bringing together more than 200 players from many diverse business domains including, oneM2M ensures the global functionality of M2M and prevents the duplication of standardization effort.
oneM2M framework
oneM2M defines an architectural framework based on a middleware technology that sits in the horizontal layer between IoT applications and a lower layer of communications networks and connected devices. The middleware layer provides a rich set of functions that developers can use to design, deploy and manage end-to-end IoT systems.
oneM2M functions
At present, oneM2M specifications cover seventeen functions. Developers can use these functions progressively for their applications, beginning with he most frequently required ones such as device management, registration and security. More complex applications can incorporate features to support semantic interoperability and location services, for example.

oneM2M envisions a world of Interoperable and Secure IoT services where market adoption is easy and delivers benefits to society ”
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How oneM2M works
oneM2M is a “global partnership project” that is open to all organizations who can join as members through partner organisations. The project has a steering committee that provides strategic direction and management; and a technical plenary which has total responsibility for the full life-cycle of technical standardization activities spanning industry-needs analysis, technical specifications, interoperability testing and certification.
oneM2M’s technical activities are carried out through three working groups:
Requirements and Domain Models (RDM) Working Group focuses on the future roadmap
The System Design and Security (SDS) Working Group defines oneM2M system architecture and management
The Testing and Developers Ecosystem (TDE) Working Group defines test requirements for oneM2M Systems and related services, and supervises interoperability test events
Membership and organization
oneM2M members can attend and participate in the oneM2M Technical Plenary and its working groups, joining ranks and collaborating with some of the world’s most renowned technology companies that are already building scalable and interoperable IoT systems.
Each member has its own vote on contributions and has full invitations to the technical and steering committees.

Release timeline
oneM2M specifications are issued as Releases – with new capabilities being added in each release that are developed under formally agreed workplans.

2015: Release 1
Provided a standardized, general-purpose architecture for IoT platform operators and service providers to deploy IoT solutions.

2016: Release 2
Added an interworking framework enabling each service provider to support more types of devices on their IoT platform.

2018: Release 3
Added a complementary set of oneM2M value-added services to complement IoT features in 3GPP standards.

2022: Release 4
Unlocks new and enhanced vertical IoT implementations, such as the smart home, smart cities and Industry 4.0.

Resources
For a full list of resources, including published specifications, whitepapers, deploying with oneM2M, developer guides and more, visit: link
For more information on membership and to become a member, visit: link