MIG and IEEE SA produce new standard for IoT

PISCATAWAY, USA: IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, announced the availability of the IEEE 2700-2014 “Standard for Sensor Performance Parameter Definitions,” recently approved by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board.

With sensors being one of the primary technologies to help improve the lives of every connected person in the world, IEEE 2700-2014 is intended to provide a common methodology for specifying sensor performance in the ever-expanding sensor technologies in the consumer electronics industry.

IEEE 2700-2014 aims to reinforce innovation in a variety of sensor types for vendors considering ways to integrate two or more sensors—all introduced by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and other platform providers with non-scalable integration challenges.

The IEEE 2700-2014 fulfills the need for a common methodology to define sensor performance, and eases non-scalable integration challenges and burdens across manufacturers. Because sensor framework and technology span not only sensor vendors and ISVs, there are numerous types of sensors that require specification terminology, units, conditions and limits, including: accelerometers, magnetometers, gyrometers/gyroscopes, barometers/pressure sensors, hygrometers/humidity sensors, temperature sensors, ambient light sensors and proximity sensors.

“Ultimately, the goal for the standard is to help chipset manufacturers and OEMs achieve better performance and improved scalability,” said Ken Foust, chair of the IEEE 2700 Working Group. “The industry has been struggling to scale this technology across all platforms, because of the need to accommodate all sensor types from numerous vendors and all of the variations of those sensor types. This new industry standard is intended to reduce costs in working with sensors and help accelerate time to market.”

“The IEEE 2700 standard will be beneficial in the design of future technologies, such as the Internet of Everything that includes the Internet of Things, next generation of the cloud, telemedicine, augmented reality, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and vehicle-to-pedestrian communications,” said Herbert Bennett, chairman of the IEEE Electron Devices Society MEMS Standards Sponsor Committee for the IEEE-SA 2700 Working Group and NIST fellow and executive advisor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The IEEE 2700-2014 resulted from extensive efforts of the IEEE 2700 Standard for Sensor Performance Parameter Definitions Working Group and was developed under the IEEE-SA Corporate Program as an IEEE Entity standard. It is the first standard to come out of the IEEE-SA and MEMS Industry Group (MIG) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) announced in February 2014.