The Standards Committee holds numerous standards activities throughout the year, mostly associated with Working Group meetings. Working Group meetings are usually held at intervals of 6 to 8 weeks, via WebEX conferencing or other online conferencing systems to accommodate members from multiple geographical regions. Face to face Working Group meetings are also held during the main IES conferences coinciding with AdCom meetings, notably at ISIE and IECON conferences. Face to face meetings will include online conferencing to accommodate members unable to physically attend. Standards Technical Committee meetings are held twice a year, normally coinciding with IES AdCom meetings at ISIE and IECON conferences.
TC status reports are usually covered at these meetings plus new activities discussion.

On-going Working Groups:

The Standards Committee is currently sponsoring the following standards development activities:

• 1. IEEE P21451-002 PAR. Recommended Practice for Low Power Smart Transducers Applications
• Co-sponsored with the Instrumentation and Measurements Society (IMS)
• SCOPE: This recommended practice establishes operating aspects and additional Transducer Electronic Data Sheet (TEDS) based on the IEEE 1451 family of standards for low-power smart sensors and actuators, concerning the signal conditioning electronics and the processing unit operation. The recommended practice also defines protocols for accessing TEDS and smart transducer data with restrictions on energy, battery power, and energy harvested from the environment. Operating aspects and protocol implementation should adhere to computational restrictions of low-power smart transducers, available memory, or execution speed.
• Approved PAR by IEEE-SA (See P1451.001[1])
• Working Group (WG) Chair: Antonio Espirito-Santos, IES member
• Status: Standard in development


• 2. IEEE P2668 PAR. Standard for Maturity Index of Internet-of-things: Evaluation, Grading and Ranking
• SCOPE: Ethernet The scope of this standard is to measure the maturity of objects in Internet-of-Things (IoT) environment, namely IoT objects. IoT objects shall represent things or devices or the entire system. The standard defines the mechanism and specifications for evaluation, grading and ranking of the performance of IoT objects by using indicator values, referred as IoT Index (IDex). IDex shall classify the objects into multiple levels of performance and give a quantitative representation and indication of the performance of objects. IDex shall manifest guidance on blending of IoT objects to evolve into better performance.
• Approved modified PAR by IEEE-SA
• WG Chair: Kim Fung Tsang, IES member
• WG Vice Chair: Victor Huang, IES member
• Secretary: TBD
• Status: Standard in development


• 3. IEEE P1451.1.6 PAR. Standard for a Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors, Actuators, and Devices - Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) for Networked Device Communication
• Co-sponsored with the Instrument and Measurements Society (IMS)
• SCOPE: This standard defines a method for transporting IEEE 1451 messages over a network using Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) to establish a light-weight, simplified protocol structure to handle IEEE 1451 communications. The standard uses the common network services defined in IEEE 21451-1.
• Approved PAR by IEEE-SA
• WG Chair: Hiroaki Nishi, IES member
• WG Vice Chair: John Schmalzel, IMS member
• Secretary: Russell Trafford, IMS member
• Status: Standard in development


• 4. IEEE P2805.1 PAR. Self-Management Protocols for Edge Computing Node
• SCOPE: This standard specifies the self-management protocols for edge computing node. These requirements include management protocols of Self-organization, self-configuration, self-recovery and self-discovery between multiple edge computing nodes. The autonomic management features for edge computing node shall cover discovery, node identification, negotiation, transport, messaging and security mechanisms.
• Approved PAR by IEEE-SA (See P2805.1[1])
• Working Group (WG) Chair: William Dai, IES member
• WG Vice Chair:
• Status: Standard in development


• 5. IEEE P2805.2 PAR. Data acquisition, Filtering and buffering Protocols for Edge Computing Node
• SCOPE: This standard specifies the protocols used by the edge computing node of buffering, filtering and pre-processing data collected from controllers including programmable logic controllers, computer numerical controllers (CNC) and industrial robots. The data acquisition from field devices with different interfaces must be automatically stored, filtered and calculated according to reconfigurable rules (including buffering data from selected time frame, convert data format and filter invalid data) from industrial clouds and other edge computing nodes.
• Approved PAR by IEEE-SA
• Working Group (WG) Chair: William Dai, IES member
• WG Vice Chair:
• Status: Standard in development


• 6. IEEE P2805.3 PAR. Cloud-Edge Collaboration Protocols for Machine Learning
• SCOPE: This standard specifies the collaboration protocols of enabling machine learning on the edge computing node with support from industrial clouds. This standard provides implementation reference of machine learning upon lower powered, cheaper, embedded devices, a specific hardware-based method of accepting the introduced machine learning models and then online optimization, i.e. comparing the models with incoming live data.
• Approved PAR by IEEE-SA
• Working Group (WG) Chair: William Dai, IES member
• WG Vice Chair:
• Status: Standard in development


• 7. IEEE P2023 PAR. Standard for Digital Transformation Architecture and Framework
• This is an Entity PAR
• SCOPE: This standard provides an architecture and framework for digital transformation development, usage, implementation and interfaces for applications. The architecture and framework addresses scalability, systems and interfaces, security and privacy challenges for digital transformation applications.
• Approved PAR by IEEE-SA
• WG Chair: Lee Stogner, IES member
• WG Vice Chair:
• Secretary:
• Status: Standard in development


• 8. IEEE P1451-5-5 PAR. Standard for a Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors and Actuator—Wireless Communication Protocols and Transducer Electronic Data Sheet Formats – LoRa
• SCOPE:The proposed standard will define a smart sensor interface using Long-Range (LoRa) Band protocol. LoRa systems shall include the end devices, gateways, network servers and application servers. The standard defines the standardized design and specifications of LoRa smart sensor interface to achieve data accuracy, interoperability (plug-and-play) based on the IEEE 1451.0 transducer services, security, privacy and harmonized performance of LoRa systems. The IEEE 1451.5.5 LoRa smart sensor interface standard development includes the wireless transducer interface module (WTIM) or end devices, network capable application processor (NCAP) (gateway device, or 1451 server), and application (1451 client), and appropriate transducer electronic data sheet (TEDS). This standard shall define the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) between WTIM and NCAP (1451 server), secure and private communication, harmonized radio frequency planning. The IEEE 1451.5.5 LoRa smart sensor interface shall provide guidance of smart sensor system interface to improve the data accuracy, security, privacy and quality-of-services (QoS).
• Approved PAR by IEEE-SA
• WG Chair:Kim Fung Tsang, IES Member
• WG Vice Chair:
• Secretary:
• Status: Standard in beginning stages


• 9. IEEE P1451-5-6 PAR. Standard for a Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors and Actuator—Wireless Communication Protocols and Transducer Electronic Data Sheet Formats – SigFox)
• SCOPE:This project defines a standardized system design for a smart sensor interface using the long-range Ultra-narrow Band Sigfox protocol. Sigfox systems shall include the end devices, gateways, network servers, and application servers. The standard defines the design and specifications of smart sensor interface adopting the Sigfox protocol to achieve data accuracy, interoperability (plug-and-play) based on the IEEE 1451.0 transducer services, data privacy, and harmonized performance of Sigfox systems. The IEEE 1451.5.6 Sigfox smart sensor interface standard development includes the wireless transducer interface module (WTIM) ( end devices), network capable application processor (NCAP) (gateway device, or 1451 server), and application (1451 client), and appropriate transducer electronic data sheet (TEDS). This standard shall define the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) between WTIM and NCAP (1451 server) and harmonized radio frequency planning. The IEEE 1451.5.6 Sigfox smart sensor interface shall provide guidance to improve data accuracy, privacy, and quality-of-services (QoS).
• Approved PAR by IEEE-SA
• WG Chair: Kim Fung Tsang, IES Member
• WG Vice Chair:
• Secretary:
• Status: Standard in beginning stages


• 10. IEEE P1451-5-10 PAR. Standard for a Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors and Actuator—Wireless Communication Protocols and Transducer Electronic Data Sheet Formats – NB IoT)
• SCOPE:This project defines a standardized system design for a smart sensor interface using the Narrow-band Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) Band protocol. NB-IoT systems shall include the end devices, gateways, network servers and application servers. The standard defines the design and specifications of smart sensor interface adopting the NB-IoT protocol to achieve sensor data plug-and-play based on the IEEE 1451.0 transducer services, secure, and private performance of NB-IoT systems. The IEEE 1451.5.10 NB-IoT standard development includes the wireless transducer interface module (WTIM) (end devices), network capable application processor (NCAP) (gateway device, or 1451 server) , and application (1451 client), and appropriate transducer electronic data sheet (TEDS). In essence, this standard shall define the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) between WTIM and NCAP (1451 server), secure wireless communication between WTIM and NCAP . The IEEE 14515.10 NB-IoT smart sensor interface shall provide a guidance to improve the data accuracy, interoperability, security, data privacy and quality-of-services (QoS).
• Approved PAR by IEEE-SA
• WG Chair: Kim Fung Tsang, IES Member
• WG Vice Chair:
• Secretary:
• Status: Standard in beginning stages


• 11. IEEE P2992 PAR. Standard for -Data Expression, Exchange, and Processing in Smart Agriculture
• SCOPE: This standard defines best practices for designing smart agriculture data focusing on the data format, data tags, their naming rules, and data transfers to show the unified practices of data expression, exchange, and processing. This is indispensable for smart agriculture systems, such as data acquisition, data management, data service provisioning, and data processing for data security, as well as privacy from the perspective of agricultural machinery control, greenhouse management, and farming management. This best practice provides the co-existence and interoperability using common data structure and transfer between heterogeneous systems; namely, various systems of different manufacturers work together to achieve the farmers’ requirement efficiently and effectively as for a smart agriculture system.
• Approved PAR by IEEE-SA
• WG Chair: Hiroaki Nishi, IES Member
• WG Vice Chair:
• Secretary:
• Status: Standard in development


• 12. IEEE P3137 PAR. Standard for Automotive Electronics Product Inspection Equipment
• SCOPE: This standard defines the specification for automotive electronics product inspection equipment, focusing on its structure, detection precision, functions of visual detection, functions of signal detection, functions of the software, data transfers, data storage, and the technique for detecting whether the equipment meets requirements. It specifies the technical indicators closely related to automotive electronics product inspection equipment, which is critical for equipment production and application and is conducive to improving production efficiency and product quality.
• Approved PAR by IEEE-SA
• WG Chair: Huijun Gao, IES Member
• WG Vice Chair:
• Secretary:
• Status: Standard in beginning stages


• 13. IEEE P3138 PAR. Standard for General Requirements of Chips Visual Inspection in Surface Mount Industry
• SCOPE:This standard specifies the general requirements of visual inspection of surface mount devices (SMD) for surface mount technology (SMT) machines, including the format of chip parameters data exchange, the function and technical requirements of each module of the visual inspection algorithm, and the storage structure of chip parameters. This standard determines unified data format and algorithm interfaces between different SMT machines.
• Approved PAR by IEEE-SA
• WG Chair: Xianqiang Yang
• WG Vice Chair:
• Secretary:
• Status: Standard in beginning stages

Standards Committee co-sponsors the following standards development with other IEEE Societies:

• IEEE P1451.0: Standard for a Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors, Actuators, Devices, and Systems – Common Functions, Communication Protocols, and Transducer Electronic Data Sheet (TEDS) Formats (Instrumentation Measurement Society [IMS] sponsor)
  


• IEEE P1451.1.5: Standard for a Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors, Actuators, and Devices - Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for Networked Device Communication (Instrumentation Measurement Society [IMS] sponsor)
  


• IEEE P1451.5: Standard for a Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors and Actuator -- Wireless Communication Protocols and Transducer Electronic Data Sheet (TEDS) Formats (Instrumentation Measurement Society [IMS] sponsor)
  


• IEEE P1451.5p: Standard for Radio Frequency Channel Specifications for Performance Assessment of Industrial Wireless Systems (Instrumentation Measurement Society [IMS] sponsor)
  


• IEEE P1451.7: Smart transducer interface for sensors and actuators: Transducers to radio frequency identification (RFID) systems communication protocols and Transducer Electronic Data Sheets (TEDS) for Internet of Things (Instrumentation Measurement Society [IMS] sponsor)
  


• IEEE P1451.99 PAR: Standard for Harmonization of Internet of Things (IoT) Devices and Systems (Instrumentation Measurement Society [IMS] sponsor)
  


• IEEE P2004: Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Simulation based Testing of Electric Power Apparatus and Controls (IEEE Power Electronics Society [PES] Sponsor)
  


• IEEE P2520: Testing Machine Olfaction Devices and Systems (IEEE Sensors Council sponsor)
  


• IEEE P2048: Standards for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (IEEE Consumer Electronics Society [CES] sponsor)
  


• IEEE P2834: Standard for Secure and Trusted Learning Systems (IEEE Education Society sponsor)