ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art in standardisation, in particular regarding the new approaches that are currently addressed by standards organisations and that will rapidly enlarge the scope of current standards. The Internet of Things (IoT) is now more than an emerging technology, and the IoT community has started to develop ambitious solutions and to deploy large and complex IoT systems. However, this new challenge for IoT will be met only if the IoT community develops a culture of openness regarding interoperability, support of a large variety of applications departing from existing silos, and the generation of healthy ecosystems. The role of standards is now well recognized as one of the key enablers to this open approach. The IoT community has recognized long ago the importance of IoT standardisation and started to work in many directions, adapting general purpose standards to the IoT context or developing new IoT specific standards.
