Completed Standards

The IES Standards Committee has sponsored the following published IEEE standards (most recent first):

1. IEEE 2805.3-2026 – Standard for Cloud-Edge Collaboration Protocols for Machine Learning
- SCOPE: Specifies the collaboration protocols enabling machine learning on edge computing nodes with support from industrial clouds, providing a reference for deploying and optimizing machine learning models on low-power embedded devices.
- WG Chair: Wenbin (William) Dai, IES member
- Status: Approved by the IEEE SA Standards Board on 4 June 2026

2. IEEE 3137-2026 – Standard for Automotive Electronics Product Inspection Equipment
- SCOPE: Specifies automotive electronics product inspection equipment: structure, detection precision, visual and signal detection functions, software functions, data transfer and storage, and conformance testing.
- WG Chair: Huijun Gao, IES member
- Status: Approved by the IEEE SA Standards Board on 26 March 2026

3. IEEE 3138-2026 – Standard for General Requirements of Chip Visual Inspection in the Surface Mount Industry
- SCOPE: Specifies general requirements for visual inspection of surface mount devices (SMD) in surface mount technology (SMT) machines, including the chip parameter data exchange format, the requirements of each module of the visual inspection algorithm, and the storage structure of chip parameters.
- WG Chair: Xianqiang Yang
- Status: Approved by the IEEE SA Standards Board on 26 March 2026

4. IEEE 2992-2025 – Recommended Practice for Data Expression, Exchange, and Processing in Smart Agriculture
- SCOPE: Defines best practices for designing smart agriculture data, focusing on data formats, data tags, naming rules and data transfers, to provide co-existence and interoperability between heterogeneous systems of different manufacturers.
- WG Chair: Hiroaki Nishi, IES member
- Status: Approved 10 September 2025; published 20 February 2026

5. IEEE 2023-2025 – Standard for Digital Transformation Architecture and Framework
- SCOPE: Provides an architecture and framework for digital transformation addressing the people, process and technology elements, as well as scalability, interfaces, security and privacy, and organizational sustainability.
- WG Chair: Lee (Clarence) Stogner, IES member — WG site
- Status: Approved 10 September 2025; published 23 January 2026

6. IEEE 2805.2-2025 – Standard for Data Acquisition, Filtering, and Buffering Protocols for Edge Computing Node
- SCOPE: Specifies the protocols used by an edge computing node for buffering, filtering and pre-processing data collected from controllers such as PLCs, CNCs and industrial robots, according to reconfigurable rules from industrial clouds and other edge nodes.
- WG Chair: Wenbin (William) Dai, IES member — WG site
- Status: Approved by the IEEE SA Standards Board on 10 September 2025

7. IEEE 1451.1.6-2025 – Standard for a Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors, Actuators, and Devices – Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) for Networked Device Communication
- Co-sponsored with the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS)
- SCOPE: Defines a method for transporting IEEE 1451 messages over a network using MQTT, establishing a light-weight, simplified protocol structure for IEEE 1451 communications, including time synchronization and security extensions.
- WG Chair: Hiroaki Nishi, IES member; Vice Chair: John Schmalzel, IMS member; Secretary: Russell Trafford, IMS member
- Status: Approved 19 June 2025; published 6 February 2026

8. IEEE 2805.1-2024 – Standard for Self-Management Protocols for Edge Computing Node
- SCOPE: Specifies the self-management protocols for edge computing nodes, including self-organization, self-configuration, self-recovery and self-discovery between multiple edge computing nodes, covering discovery, node identification, negotiation, transport, messaging and security.
- WG Chair: Wenbin (William) Dai, IES member
- Status: Approved 11 December 2024; published 21 February 2025

9. IEEE 3178-2024 – Standard for General Requirements and Protocols for Software-Defined Physical Layer of Wireless Backscatter Networks
- SCOPE: Establishes the general requirements and protocols for the software-defined physical layer of wireless backscatter networks.
- WG Chair: Xiaohua Tian
- Status: Approved 26 September 2024; published 27 November 2024

10. IEEE 1451.0-2024 – Standard for a Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors and Actuators – Common Functions, Communication Protocols, and Transducer Electronic Data Sheet (TEDS) Formats
- Lead sponsor: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IM/ST); jointly sponsored by the IES Standards Committee
- SCOPE: Provides the common functions, network services, transducer services and TEDS formats for the members of the IEEE 1451 family of standards to be interoperable in both the network interface and the transducer interface; defines the functions of the network capable application processor (NCAP, 1451 server) and a set of network services to access transducer and TEDS data from IoT applications. Supersedes IEEE 1451.0-2007.
- WG Chair: Yuyin (Eugene) Song, NIST
- Status: Approved 15 February 2024; published 26 June 2024

11. IEEE 2418.11-2023 – Standard for a Framework for Use of Distributed Ledger Technology in Security of Electronic Voting (e-Voting) Systems
- SCOPE: Defines a framework for applying distributed ledger technology (DLT) to the registration and voting process: validation of sources with cryptographic methods, secured communications with digital signatures, confirmation of valid transactions on a transparent ledger, and private real-time audit of suspicious transactions.
- WG Chair: John Wnuk
- Status: Approved by the IEEE SA Standards Board on 8 November 2023

12. IEEE 2668-2022 – Standard for Maturity Index of the Internet of Things – Evaluation, Grading, and Ranking
- SCOPE: Defines the mechanism and specifications for evaluating, grading and ranking the maturity of IoT objects (devices, networks, applications, systems) using the IoT Index (IDex), on a five-level scale.
- WG Chair: Kim Fung Tsang, IES member; Vice Chair: Victor Huang, IES member
- Status: Approved by the IEEE SA Standards Board on 3 December 2022

13. IEEE 2660.1-2020 – Recommended Practice on Industrial Agents: Integration of Software Agents and Low-Level Automation Functions
- Co-sponsored with the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC)
- SCOPE: Provides a collection of best practices for integrating software agents with the automation control level in the context of cyber-physical systems, according to the automation use cases and control level, to allow reuse and transparency.
- WG Chair: Paulo Leitão, IES member; Vice Chair: Loi Lei Lai, SMC member; Secretary: Thomas Strasser, IES member
- Status: IEEE standard, 24 September 2020

14. IEEE 61158-2017 – Standard for Industrial Hard Real-Time Communication
- SCOPE: Ethernet POWERLINK, a communication profile for Real-Time Ethernet (RTE) that extends IEEE 802.3 with mechanisms to transfer data with predictable timing and precise synchronization, meeting the timing demands of high-performance automation and motion applications while preserving standard Ethernet silicon and infrastructure.
- WG Chair: Dietmar Bruckner, IES member; Vice Chair: Allen Chen, IES member; Secretary: Aleksander Malinowski, IES member
- Status: IEEE standard, 18 May 2017

15. IEEE 21451-001-2017 – Recommended Practice for Signal Treatment Applied to Smart Transducers
- Co-sponsored with the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS)
- PURPOSE: Defines a standardized and universal framework that allows smart transducers to extract features of the signal being measured, so that raw data can be converted into information and knowledge that can be shared with the system and other transducers for sensory knowledge fusion.
- WG Chair: Gustavo Monte, IES member; Vice Chair: R. Q. Yan, IMS member
- Status: IEEE standard, 23 March 2017

Last updated: 24 August 2026 (checked against the IEEE SA Standards Board approvals 2015–June 2026). Dates are IEEE SA Standards Board approval / publication dates as listed on standards.ieee.org.