Who will win the battle of the IoT standards?

This whitepaper provides an overview of the most important contenders around the IoT wireless communication standards. For the sake of argument, and to keep it simple, the cellular standards have been left out, although they do play an important role in the IoT (and the so-called M2M business). RFID, which can be quite useful for the IoT for security purposes, but is less contentious as it is more of an electronic bar code replacement than a means for real (two-way) communication, has also been excluded.

Also for simplicity, the proprietary pseudo standards like ANT+, Z-Wave and EnOcean have been cut. This is for the simple reason that, like other 'non-standard' proprietary standards, they will not be able to survive against industry accepted international standards in the long run.

These IoT connectivity solutions can be split up into three horizontal (combinations of) layers:

1. the Physical/Link Layer (the connector)
2. the Network/Transport Layer (the wireless cable)
3. the Application Layer (who is doing what to whom)

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