Domestic technologies in the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart city sectors have been approved as international standards. This is expected to enable securing global leadership in related technologies in the future.
The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on the 26th that at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) IoT and Smart City Study Group (SG20) international meeting held recently in Geneva, Switzerland, two out of four technologies primarily developed by ETRI researchers were finally approved as international standards.
In addition, ETRI received preliminary adoption of two technologies as international standards and had 11 new standardization tasks adopted. Expanding this to the entire Korean delegation's achievements, ETRI explained that Korea achieved a total of four international standard approvals, two preliminary adoptions, and 15 new standardization task adoptions at the meeting.
This outcome was achieved through discussions involving 336 experts from 47 countries working on international standard development.
Dr. Kim Hyung-jun of ETRI is chairing the 'SG20 International Conference.' Provided by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Korea.
At ETRI, a total of 18 standard experts, including Korea’s chief representative Dr. Kim Hyung-jun, attended the meeting. These researchers led standardization discussions at ITU-T on major issues such as ▲SG20 activity directions for the next study period (2025?2028) ▲digital twin ▲smart city ▲metaverse ▲smart agriculture ▲smart building ▲energy data management.
In particular, the ‘Autonomous Delivery Robot Standard,’ which was finally approved as an international standard among ETRI technologies, is evaluated to accelerate the commercialization of autonomous driving technology and contribute to building a logistics system that combines efficiency and safety in smart cities.
Two standards developed under the leadership of ETRI researchers?▲delivery robot interoperability requirements and ▲IoT device authorization delegation framework?were preliminarily adopted, and 11 others, including ▲metaverse-based digital twin interoperability and ▲crop growth monitoring in smart agriculture, were adopted as new standardization tasks.
Based on these achievements, ETRI expects that the standardization of IoT and metaverse technologies will play a key role in smart cities and various industrial fields, contributing to Korea securing leadership in the global market.
Lee Seung-yoon, head of ETRI’s Standard Research Division, stated, “We plan to continue leading SG20 activities in the next ITU-T standardization period to sustain international standardization efforts in the IoT and smart city fields. Furthermore, we will strengthen collaboration among domestic industry, academia, and research institutes to clarify the role of government-funded research institutions.”
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