The Standards Committee has successfully completed the following standards:

• 1. IEEE 21451-001-2017. Recommended Practice for Signal Treatment Applied to Smart Transducers
• Co-sponsored with the Instrumentation and Measurements Society (IMS)
• PURPOSE: The purpose is to define a standardized and universal framework that allows smart transducers to extract features of the signal being generated and measured. With the definition of these practices, the raw data can be converted into information and then into knowledge. In this context, knowledge means understanding the nature of the transducer signal. This understanding can be shared with the system and other transducers in order to form a platform for sensory knowledge fusion.
• Working Group (WG) Chair: Gustavo Monte, IES member
• WG Vice Chair: RQ Yan, IMS member
• Status: IEEE standard March 23, 2017


• 2. IEEE 61158-2017. Standard for Industrial Hard Real-Time Communication
• SCOPE: Ethernet POWERLINK is a communications profile for Real-Time Ethernet (RTE). It extends Ethernet according to the IEEE 802.3 standard with mechanisms to transfer data with predictable timing and precise synchronization. The communication profile meets timing demands typical for high performance automation and motion applications. It does not change the basic principles of the Fast Ethernet Standard IEEE 802.3 but extends it towards RTE. Thus it is possible to leverage and continue to use any standard Ethernet silicon, infrastructure component or test and measurement equipment like a network analyser. Note that this standard does not add or otherwise change EPSG DS301.
• WG Chair: Dietmar Bruckner, IES member
• WG Vice Chair: Allen Chen, IES member
• Secretary: Aleksander Malinowski, IES member
• Status: IEEE standard May 18, 2017


• 3. IEEE P2660.1-2020. Recommended Practices on Industrial Agents: Integration of Software Agents and Low Level Automation Function
• Co-sponsored with the Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (SMC)
• SCOPE: The recommended practices intend to solve the interface problem when applying industrial agents, namely integrating software agents with automation control level in the context of cyber-physical systems. The idea is to provide a description of a collection of best practices for the integration process according to the automation use cases and automation control level, aiming to standardize the interface process in order to allow the reuse and transparency.
• WG Chair: Paulo Leitao, IES member
• WG Vice Chair: Loi Lei Lai, SMC member
• Secretary: Thomas Strasser, IES member
• Status: IEEE Standard September 24, 2020