Mentor's musings on the role of standards in improving the privacy, trust and reputation management in internet of vehicles (iov) [iot standards]

Internet of Things concept’s pervasiveness has overshadowed every application domain, be it consumer, industrial, enterprise, strategic or infrastructure. Across industry verticals, applications of the IoT continue to expand, and a shift has occurred from clusters of siloed IoT devices to interconnected IoT environments. This is especially apparent in settings such as factory floors and automotive vehicles. However, the IoT hasn’t yet scaled as quickly as expected, and the IoT industry hasn’t achieved a genuinely seamless experience in which devices pass into and out of physical environments and are identified, trusted, and managed without a need for separate (and at times manual) authentication steps. And, Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is another such an IoT environment which is yet to come of age and meet the users expectations. A systems approach in addressing the Security, Privacy & Trustworthiness concerns through appropriate standards can help realize this vision sooner than envisaged.