by Cees Links, CEO, GreenPeak Technologies
GreenPeak Technologies CEO, Cees Links, writes this white paper providing an overview of the most important contenders around the IoT Wireless Communication Standards. We are looking at wireless networking technologies.
Overview of the different IoT wireless communication standards (mapped on the ISO layering model)
For the sake of argument and to keep it simple, I have left out the cellular standards, although we do recognize that they do play an important role in the IoT (and the so-called M2M business).
I also left out RFID, which can be quite useful for the IoT for security purposes, but is less contentious as it is more an electronic bar code replacement instead of doing real (two-way) communication as such.
Also for simplicity we have left out the proprietary pseudo standards like ANT+, Z-Wave and EnOcean, for the simple reason that, like other “non-standard” proprietary standards, in the long run, they will not be able to survive against industry accepted international standards.