The IPSO Alliance is the leading organization promoting the use of the Internet Protocol (IP) for Smart Object communications. IPSO is a global non-profit organization founded in 2008 and has more than 50 members from leading technology, communications and energy companies.

Smart Objects

Smart objects are small computers (micro-controllers) with a sensor or actuator and a communication device, embedded in objects such as thermostats, car engines, light switches, and industrial machinery. Smart objects enable a wide range of applications in areas such as home automation, building automation, factory monitoring, smart cities, structural health management systems, smart grid and energy management, and transportation.

Internet of Things

The IPSO Alliance is the leading organization defining and enabling the “Internet of Things”. IP has proven itself a long-lived, stable, and highly scalable communication technology that supports a wide range of application, a wide range of devices, and a wide range of underlying communication technologies. The layered architecture of IP provides a high level of flexibility, innovation and accelerates the adoption of network-connected devices, often referred to as the “Internet of Things.”

Industry standards

As a collaborative organization, IPSO’s activities include webinars, interoperability events, and the publication of white papers. The Alliance also complements the work of entities such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the European Telecommunication Standard Institute (ETSI) and the ISA, all of which develop and ratify technical standards in the industrial community.

Activities

June, 2011 IPSO announces intent to begin a series of interoperability testing

In May 2010, ZigBee Alliance and IPv6 Forum form strategic relationships with the IPSO Alliance to speed adoption of IP networked smart objects

In April 2010, IPSO conducted a series of successful interoperability tests with several independent implementations of RPL and of 6LoWPAN-HC.

October 15, 2008, members of the IPSO Alliance released uIPv6, the world’s smallest stack.

In November 2008, TIME Magazine listed the IPSO Alliance and the Internet of Things as the 30th most important innovation of 2008

On October 15, 2008, members of the IPSO Alliance released uIPv6, the world's smallest IPv6

IPv6

Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...

 stack.

Support

• 6LoWPAN
  6loWPAN
  6LoWPAN is an acronym of IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks. 6lowpan is the name of a working group in the internet area of the IETF....
  
   Working Group

• ROLL Working Group

• ISA100 Industrial Wireless

• IEEE Working Groups

• ZigBee Alliance

• IPv6 Forum

On-going

• Interoperability Testing

• Architecture Design

• Technology Demonstrations

• Use Cases/White papers/ Webinars

• Tutorials / Presentations/ Educational Materials

• Published Articles/ Speaking Engagements/ Tradeshows

Members of IPSO Alliance

• Atmel
  Atmel
  Atmel Corporation is a manufacturer of semiconductors, founded in 1984. Its focus is on system-level solutions built around flash microcontrollers...
  
  
• BII Group
• Bosch
  Robert Bosch GmbH
  Robert Bosch GmbH is a multinational engineering and electronics company headquartered in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. It is the world's largest supplier of automotive components...
  
  
• Corporative Intelligence Laboratory S.L. (Cilab)
• Cisco
  Cisco
  Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...
  
  
• Concept Reply
• Consumers Energy
  Consumers Energy
  Consumers Energy is a public utility that provides natural gas and electricity to more than 6 million of Michigan's 10 million residents. It serves customers in all 68 of the state’s Lower Peninsula counties. It is a division of CMS Energy. Its headquarters is in Jackson.-History:The company was...
  
  
• Convergence Wireless
• Cooper Power
• Duke Energy
  Duke Energy
  Duke Energy , headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is an energy company with assets in the United States, Canada and Latin America.-Overview:...
  
  
• Dust Networks
  Dust Networks
  Dust Networks, Inc. is a company specializing in the design and manufacture of wireless sensor networks for industrial applications including process monitoring, condition monitoring, asset management, Environment, Health and Safety monitoring and power management...
  
  
• Électricité de France R&D
  Électricité de France
  Électricité de France S.A. is the second largest French utility company. Headquartered in Paris, France, with €65.2 billion in revenues in 2010, EDF operates a diverse portfolio of 120,000+ megawatts of generation capacity in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.EDF is one of...
  
  
• ElectroTest Sweden AB
• ELIKO
• Elster Electric
• Ember
  Ember
  Embers are the glowing, hot coals made of greatly heated wood, coal, or other carbon-based material that remain after, or sometimes precede a fire. Embers can glow very hot, sometimes as hot as the fire which created them...
  
  
• Emerson Climate Technologies
• Ericsson
  Ericsson
  Ericsson , one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks...
  
  
• Freescale
• Fujitsu
• Google
• GreenWave Reality
• Inria
• Intel
• iotaComputing
• IP Infusion
• Istituto Superiore Mario Boella
• Itron
  Itron
  Itron Inc. is a provider of intelligent metering, data collection and utility software. It has nearly 8,000 utilities worldwide relying on their technology to optimize the delivery and use of energy and water...
  
  
• Landis+Gyr
  Landis+Gyr
  Landis+Gyr, until early 2008 The Bayard Group, is a company focused on metering and other technologies which deal with management of scarce resources. Founded by Cameron O'Reilly, who is currently CEO, it has a revenue in excess of 1.25 billion USD per annum...
  
  
• Lulea University of Technology
  Luleå University of Technology
  Luleå University of Technology or Luleå tekniska universitet of Sweden is Scandinavia's northernmost university of technology. It has four campuses, located in Luleå , Kiruna , Skellefteå and Piteå .-History:The university was founded on 1 June 1971 at Porsön in Luleå as...
  
  
• Maxfor
• Mocana
• Motorola Mobility
  Motorola Mobility
  Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. , formerly the Mobile Devices division of Motorola Inc. until January 2011, is a communications corporation headquartered in Libertyville, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. Motorola's networks division pioneered the flip phone with the StarTAC in the mid-1990s...
  
  
• National Instruments
  National Instruments
  National Instruments Corporation, or NI , is an American company with over 5,000 employees and direct operations in 41 countries. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it is a producer of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software...
  
  
• Nivis
• NXP Semiconductor
• Oracle
  Oracle Corporation
  Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
  
  
• Primex Wireless
• Proto6
• SAP
  SAP AG
  SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...
  
  
• Sensinode
• Sensus
• SICS
• Sigma Designs
• Silver Spring Networks
  Silver Spring Networks
  Silver Spring Networks is a provider of smart grid products, headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices in Australia and Brazil. Besides communications devices, Silver Spring Networks develops software for utilities and customers to improve energy efficiency.Founded in 2002 as a...
  
  
• ST Microelectronics
• Symphony Networks
• Synapse Wireless
• Tampere University of Technology
• Telecommunication Metrology Ctr of MIIT
• Texas Instruments
  Texas Instruments
  Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
  
  
• Tridium
• Tritech
  Tritech
  Tritech Technology AB is a radio technology company profiling towards Industrial Wireless solutions. Tritech consists of three business areas: Consulting, Solutions and Products....
  
  
• Ubilogix
• Watteco

Board of directors

• Geoff Mulligan- Proto6- Chairman
• Pete St. Pierre- Oracle - President
• Tim Hirou- Convergence Wireless - Vice President
• Gary Stuebing- Duke Energy
  Duke Energy
  Duke Energy , headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is an energy company with assets in the United States, Canada and Latin America.-Overview:...
  
   Secretary
• Steve Adams- Intel- Treasurer
• Anton Pfefferseder- Bosch
  Robert Bosch GmbH
  Robert Bosch GmbH is a multinational engineering and electronics company headquartered in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. It is the world's largest supplier of automotive components...
  
  
• James Smith- National Instruments
  National Instruments
  National Instruments Corporation, or NI , is an American company with over 5,000 employees and direct operations in 41 countries. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it is a producer of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software...
  
  
• Jan Holler -  Ericsson
  Ericsson
  Ericsson , one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks...
  
  
• Nicholas Ashworth - Cooper Industries
  Cooper Industries
  Cooper Industries is a former US-based company that in 2009 switched its incorporation office from Bermuda to Ireland, maintaining its chief operational offices in Houston, Texas. It produces transformers, tools and electrical equipment, employing 29,000 staff around the world. Revenue in 2007 was...
  
  
• Ryusuke Masuoka Fujitsu
  Fujitsu
  is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the world's third-largest IT services provider measured by revenues....