Underwater Internet of Things: Standardization Strategy

With the Internet of Things (IoT) development, the Underwater Internet of Things (UIoT) has been introduced to enable smart services by connecting devices in underwater environments. Therefore, the UIoT has been one of the important topics of standardization in Subcommittee 41 in Joint Technical Committee 1 under the International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41). This paper reviews and informs the IoT community on the UIoT activities in the recently established Working Group 7 (WG7) in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41, named “Maritime, Underwater IoT and Digital Twin Applications.” This paper then discusses standardization strategies for UIoT reference architecture (UIoT RA). The UIoT RA is the foundational system structure for future underwater technical and application standard development in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 41/WG7.