Experience on the demonstration of the ETSI M2M architecture release 1

In recent years there has been a huge increase of personal and enterprise services relying on the interconnection of embedded devices, often called Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications. Nowadays, components are interconnected through a custom and proprietary networking tier prohibiting their re-use across different applications. The closed design and use case specific architecture of current solutions excludes the sharing of many generic functions, or the reuse of solutions for the same application. ETSI recently founded a Technical Committee on M2M communication, which aims at defining a common architecture to achieve a fully horizontal view, where a common network and application infrastructure can connect different M2M domains and can be shared by different applications. The Release 1 of the functional architecture has been published in October 2011 and, at the same time, Intecs and other partners were demonstrating publicly its main functions by means of a working prototype, with several use cases of business and social interest.