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This book includes a collection of standards-specific case studies. The case studies offer an opportunity to combine the teaching preferences of educators with the goals of the SEC (Standards Education Committee); providing students with "real-world" insight into the technical, political, and economic arenas of engineering.
* Encourages students to think critically about standards development and technology solutions
* Reinforces the usage of standards as an impetus for innovation
* Will help understand the dynamics and impacts of standards
A curriculum guide is available to instructors who have adopted the book for a course. To obtain the guide, please send a request to: ieeeproposals@wiley.com.
List of contents
Introduction 1
About This Book, 2
The Push for Open Standards, 3
Enter Openstand, 4
The Internet and Its Impact on Standards, 5
Where Does All This Leave SDOs?, 7
Rolling Out IPv6, 7
Standards and Trade, 8
Consortia--Chaos and Compromise, 10
Case Study Topics in This Book, 11
1. Smart Grid Takes on Critical Standards Challenges 14
A System-of-Systems, 16
Jump Starting the Smart Grid, 17
The Standards Priority, 19
Strictly Business, 22
United States Has a Running Start, 23
Smart Meter Concerns, 24
IEEE and the Smart Grid, 26
Catalog of Standards, 28
Timing is Everything, 29
Europe's Interconnected Grid, 30
China Goes Smart, 31
The Smart Grid in Cities, 34
Wireless Everywhere, 35
Advantage, Consumer, 38
Leveraging Home Networks, 41
Conformity Assessment, 43
Cybersecurity Becomes a Major Issue, 46
Solar Flare Threats, 49
More to Come, 52
2. Bluetooth and ZigBee--Fast-Paced Standards Development Boosts Growth 56
Jump Starting the Technology, 57
Interoperability--the (Almost) Killer Issue, 58
Why "Bluetooth?", 62
Bluetooth Standards Development: A Timeline, 65
Bluetooth Today, 69
The ZigBee Story, 70
The Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Gap, 72
Fits and Starts, 73
ZigBee Products, 74
Changing of the Guard, 75
Recent ZigBee Smart Grid Developments, 76
3. Developing a Standard for Electrical Trace Heating 79
Why a New Standard was Needed, 80
Establishing a New Standard, 82
Putting Aside Differences, 83
Forming a Working Group, 83
Confidence Surges, 85
Manufacturers Experience Growth, 86
Going Global, 87
History and Timeline of IEEE 515, 88
What's Next? A Jointly Developed International Standard:
IEC/IEEE 60079-30, 89
4. TV "White Space" Standards Open New Markets 92
Making It Happen, 93
Protecting the System, 94
Setting a Standard, 95
Super Wi-Fi?, 97
Plugging Dynamic Spectrum Access, 99
DSA and the Military, 100
Finding Common Ground, 101
Economics of TV White Spaces, 103
About Those Broadcasters, 104
Wireless MICS Become an Issue, 105
Never Mind, 107
The Global Impact, 108
Future Challenges, 110
Japan Adopts White Space, 113
Another Major Market, 114
What's Next?, 115
Spectrum Sensing, 118
5. New and Emerging Standards Help Promote Medical Device Development 121
Multiple Solutions, 122
Too Many Radios?, 124
A Work in Progress, 125
Going to Market, 127
Plenty of Standards, More Coming, 128
FDA Recognizes IEEE Standards, 129
A Device, Not a Device, 132
FDA Defines Its "Standards", 133
NFC Standards and Devices, 135
Medical Device Design Challenges, 136
More Market Research, 137
Major Markets, Players, 139
M2M in Telecare, 140
Internet of (Medical) Things, 142
The IP Wars, 143
Privacy Issues, 144
6. Wireless Chargers Become A Standards Battle Zone 145
Going Global, 147
Charged Up, 147
How It Works, 150
The Resonance Approach, 152
PMA and A4WP Unite, 153
About the author
Ron Schneiderman has been covering technology and business management issues for more than 40 years. He is a contributing editor to Electronic Design Magazine; Vision, the flagship magazine of the Consumer Electronics Association; IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum Online and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. Schneiderman is the author of seven books, including
Technology Lost -- Hype and Reality in the Digital Age (Prentice Hall),
FUTURE TALK -- The Changing Wireless Game (IEEE Press), and
The Mobile Technology Question & Answer Book -- A Survival Guide for Business Managers, published by AMACOM, the book publishing arm of the American Management Association.
Summary
This book includes a collection of standards-specific case studies. The case studies offer an opportunity to combine the teaching preferences of educators with the goals of the SEC (Standards Education Committee); providing students with real-world insight into the technical, political, and economic arenas of engineering.
