oneM2M welcomes Mr. Jan Ellsberger, Director General - ETSI as the new Chair and Mr. Vijay Madan, Advisor and Mentor- Services and Solutions at TSDSI as Vice Chair of its Steering Committee.
ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) and TSDSI (Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India), the standards development organizations based in Europe and India respectively, have been playing a key role in the promotion of oneM2M specifications.
The above appointments come at a time when the oneM2M Release 4 specifications with new and enhanced features supporting vertical IoT implementations, such as the smart home, smart cities and Industry 4.0, are set to be published by its organizational partners, an important milestone in setting a global baseline with our regional standardization partners.
Mr. Ellsberger and Mr. Madan working with the Steering Committee will provide strategic direction and management to the oneM2M Partnership Project.
Mr Jan Ellsberger, newly appointed SC Chair, stated:
“Organizations increasingly see the need for interoperability, scalability, and supplier independence with the growing deployment of connected devices and sensors. I am therefore honoured to be elected as oneM2M’s Steering Committee Chair and look forward to advancing oneM2M’s global and open standard for IoT systems. I thank my predecessor, Enrico Scarrone (TIM), for guiding oneM2M’s roadmap beyond connectivity and for building alliances across European and international bodies to promote a global standard.”
Mr Vijay Madan, newly appointed SC Vice Chair, remarked:
“New vertical and horizontal IoT-based applications and services in the digital world are becoming mainstream, with use cases evolving in critical domains such as healthcare, smart agriculture, intelligent mobility, smart sustainable cities, industry automation, efficient energy and education. There is a growing need for service delivery architectures that are agnostic to vertical applications on one side and connectivity on the other. The oneM2M standard, with its common service functions, has progressively become the best open option to make sectoral systems interoperable and efficiently secure for data sharing.
I am honoured to be elected as Vice Chair of the Steering Committee of the oneM2M Global Partnership Project, which develops a global and open standard addressing both regional and the global requirements.”
Reflecting on his tenure, immediate past Chair of the Steering Committee, Enrico Scarrone (Telecom Italia), stated:
“oneM2M is a unique standard, that aggregates other standards and proprietary IoT solutions into a common interoperable framework. Data and information sharing is essential for IoT services and for the support of emerging AI and digital twin applications. Its potential for the evolution of the Digital transformation in the world is terrific.
It was an honor serve the group as SC chair, working in a so open and professional environment. I welcome the new SC Chair Jan Ellsberger (ETSI), and I thank him for taking care of future exciting challenges of IOT standardization in oneM2M.”
Roland Hechwartner, oneM2M Technical Plenary Chair, added:
“We offer our best wishes to Enrico Scarrone as he steps down from chairing oneM2M’s Steering Committee. Enrico played a key role in oneM2M’s operating model with a strategic focus on making it easier to share and apply IoT data through semantic interoperability standards. We look forward to working with his successor, Jan Ellsberger, on oneM2M’s continuing standardization roadmap.”
As technology continues to advance, oneM2M is now working on standardizing new features aimed at further enhancing the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) with IoT platforms. This standardization also focuses on enabling seamless interworking with blockchain systems, supporting the development of digital twin technologies, and advancing the application of IoT in Metaverse environments that emulate real-world scenarios. Additional supported features are the integration of NGSI-LD in oneM2M and the support for data protection regulations and data license management. Thus, Release 5 and future releases will greatly enhance the use cases supported by oneM2M based deployments. The finalization of release 5 is expected in Q1 2026.
For more information on oneM2M’s current work, visit: www.oneM2M.org.
