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Case Id: 5ee0634b-353c-4a16-ab17-6139970f7e2aDate: 29/12/2015 15:37:59
Standards in the Digital Single Market: setting prioritiesand ensuring delivery
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Qualcomm is the world leader in the development of wireless technology,
supporting Europe’s mobile ecosystem. We innovate and invest in research
and development that drives the evolution of mobile communications,
underpinning the best mobile services in Europe. We are the world’s
largest supplier of chips for mobile phones and our technology is in all
3G and 4G phones and communications equipment globally. Europeans want
the power of a PC in their mobile device. Qualcomm is strongly engaged
with the European industry ecosystem to shape the new ‘connected world’.
Qualcomm’s presence in Europe includes offices in the UK, France,
Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Finland and Belgium. Our
European research facilities in Cambridge, Munich and Nuremberg
undertake R&D in areas including core network standards, interference
management, spectrum engineering, position location, automotive
machine-type communications, context aware computing and computer
vision. We have engineering centres in Farnborough (UK), Hessen
(Germany) and Guyancourt (France).
Qualcomm mission is to continue to innovate and drive forward technology
advances in mobile and wireless communications products and standards
through the significant investment in research and development (R&D)
that underpins the company’s business model, the fruit of which is
licensed to interested parties in an open, fair and non-discriminatory
way.
Qualcomm has been actively involved in global industry wide
standardisation virtually since its formation in the mid-1980’s and is
today active in over 100 Standard Setting Organisations and industry
organisations. Standardisation has been a key component in quality
communication systems that we all use every day.
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Enterprise (not SME)
Is your organisation active in ICT standardisation?YesNo
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*Please indicate the Standard Setting Organisations in which you are active:
Qualcomm has long been a member of the family of SSO’s related to mobile
networks (ETSI, 3GPP, ATIS, ARIB, TIA, ATIS, TTA, TTC, CCSA, TSDSI) in
addition to more than 100 SSOs and Consortia’s, whose standards are
integral to today mobile devices, such as IEEE, Wi-Fi-Alliance and
Bluetooth SIG for connectivity standards. More importantly Qualcomm
actively makes technical contributions to standards working groups and,
for example, is one of the most active contributors in both cellular and
connectivity standards evolutions.
For the upcoming 2 questions see Comment #1 on Q1.10
And if possible:
- The approximate number of person-months devoted to standardisation related activities.
- The percentage this means to the total of your resources.
Questions
II.1 Questions on general framework and problem statement
It is of particular interest to understand if the standards currently under development effectivelymatch interoperability and successfully creating a Digital Single Market. In addition, it isespecially interesting to identify those actions in standards development that could act as asolution for wider industry and public needs, not limited to the specific technologies that havebeen standardized.
Please indicate whether you agree to the following statements and explain your answerbriefly.
Q1.1 - Do you share the Commission's analysis in Part 2 of?this document
YESPARTLYNONO OPINION
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- “Voluntary process”: We believe “voluntary process” is a key
component because encouraging and incentivising technology contributors
to take part in standardisation efforts and to contribute to
standardisation activities is critical if standardisation efforts are to
have the broadest choice of technological solutions available. This is
essential to the technical and commercial attractiveness of standards.
We think that “consensus-driven” instead of “consensus-oriented” should
be a requirement and this principle should be strongly recognised (as it
is already in the Regulation (EU) N 1025/2012 of the European Parliament
and the Council of 25 October 2012). In this context, consistency
between different EU and international standardisation instruments is
fundamental. As a general rule, European standardisation policy is
correctly founded on the principles recognised by the World Trade
Organisation (WTO) in the field of standardisation namely coherence,
transparency, openness, consensus, voluntary application, independence
from special interests and efficiency, known as the “founding
principles” (recital 2, Regulation N 1025/2012)
- “Timeliness”: A balance needs to be struck between efficiency
and quality. However Standards Setting Organisations (SSOs) and their
members are generally best placed to understand this balance, given the
technical nature of quality assessment. Where a policy or regulatory
system seeks to set the ‘balance’ before standardisation efforts
commence, this will affect the desire for participants to take part,
especially if there is a sense that work will be distorted by subjective
policy imperatives, or where winners will be ‘picked’ on the basis of
non-technical criteria.
Q1.2 - ICT is assuming a greater role in sectors of the economy which were not previouslysignificant users of ICT. How do you see for the economy, in particularthe role of ICT standardsbeyond the ICT sector?
Very ImportantImportantModest importanceNot importantNo opinion
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*Your comment, indicating a specific sector:
In the knowledge economy, ICT is increasingly pervasive and is now an
enabler for e-health, e-energy and smart grids, e-learning, smart cities
and home and the Internet of Things (IoT) and in the near future will
all be pillars of our connected economy.
The IoT is connecting devices to the network across products as varied
as cars, washing machines, smartphones, as well as connecting the home
and smart cities. This will require large scale interoperable wireless
connectivity solutions, such as 5G. The expected economic growth; mass
markets and job creation, will only occur with seamless interoperability
between devices and services.
Existing value chains and traditional means to doing business are likely
to be rearranged and merged with neighbouring sectors that were formerly
separated. In the near future, therefore, significant effort will be
required to deliver the complex interoperability solutions needed to
mesh traditionally disparate sectors and value chains.
European standardisation, with its proven record of success, will play a
critical role in ensuring interoperability and the diffusion innovative
solutions to the Single Market and beyond.
We believe ETSI is both well placed and well adapted to play a key role
in standardisation for the whole economy, including beyond the ICT
sectors, e.g. IoT and 5G.
Q1.3 - Do you agree that setting priorities for ICT standards at EU level, accompanied by cleartime-tables, could help standard-setting organisations in better organising their work andsupport the Digital Single Market?
YESPARTLYNONO OPINION
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Given the upcoming convergence of different sectors of the economy and
the pervasive role of the wireless ecosystem in ICT, the setting of
priorities can be good tool for governance and may also help to ensure
delivery of new services for the DSM.
The setting up of realistic time tables also helps in delivering on
policy goals. Nevertheless the core principle of inclusive
standardisation is consensus. Consensus can take time to achieve and
therefore a certain degree of flexibility should be applied to setting
up timetables for the development of innovative technology standards.
The existing Multi Stakeholder Platform and its ICT task force is one
mechanism to identify priorities and mechanisms for direct industry
participation and enhanced representativeness. However, these must be
further improved.
As wireless connectivity continues to expand across many industries
(transport, energy, health, housing, learning) leading to efficiencies
and growth opportunities, significant up-front investment will be needed
to develop standardised technology solutions required to support this
growth and to fulfil the objective of the DSM. Since investment in
standards development is majorly fuelled by the industry and the initial
risk taken by participating companies, a direct industry input into the
setting of ICT priorities is key to the success of the future DSM.
Q1.4. - What other steps should be considered to ensure that any such prioritisation wouldenjoy broad support of key stakeholders?
Critical to effective standardisation is to foster an understanding
amongst ‘non-traditional’ ICT industries as to how the process of
standardisation works in practice and the benefit it brings. Many
‘traditional’ industries may be unfamiliar with the form of risk-sharing
involved in standardisation, standards evolutions and/or standards
dissemination approach traditionally used in the ICT sector. Yet these
non-traditional ICT industries need R&D intensive companies to invest in
standards in order to ensure interoperability of services and
applications independently from the brands, e.g. vehicle to vehicle
communications. As such the European Commission could usefully help to
bridge this knowledge gap and foster dialogue and mutual understanding.
See also Answer to Section II.3 below.
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Q1.5 - What would be the most effective instrument at EU level to ensure that any suchprioritisation is taken up by relevant standard-setting organisations? (please select and rank upto 3 instruments)
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A Commission Communication
A Commission Recommendation
Standardization requests issued to EU standard-setting organisations andincluded in the Annual Union Work Programme for Europeanstandardisation
Regulation
Priorities stated in the Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation
No opinion
None of them
Your comment:
Our answer is "no specific answer" as all available policy instruments
could play a role. What is important is the direction given by policy
makers in providing standards participants a level of commercial
certainty, from technology development and contribution to
implementation. We believe that the choice of instrument has to be taken
on a case-by-case basis. For instance the Rolling Plan could set the
long-term vision on the macro level that could then be supported by
policy statements in communications. On the micro level we might need a
different form of instrument; recommendations, to guide more technical
aspects of standardisation; and regulations where national initiatives
need to be harmonised in order to permit implementation (for instance on
public procurement for the Health sector or for transport emergency
systems like eCall).
Q1.6 - What would be the impact of a priority ICT standards plan defined at the level of the EUon Europe's effort ?to pursue leadership in global standard-setting
POSITIVENEUTRALNEGATIVENO OPINION
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*Please explain:
Leadership comes not only from first-mover advantage, but from
credibility, openness, predictability, IP protection, enforcement and
market sophistication. European polices should encourage and reward
companies to take part in standardisation efforts and to contribute
their best technologies and innovations (i.e. policies should seek to
attract the right participants, have rules that ensure the best
technologies are proposed and adopted and that there is fair return on
investment). Participants will take part in standardisation efforts if
there is a level of commercial predictability that the project has a
good chance to yield effective results and that there is an opportunity
for effective implementation. Policy direction and purpose is important,
however the search for ‘leadership’ should not be at the expense of
quality or standards evolution.
Q1.7 - What would be the impact of a priority ICT standards plan defined at the level of the EUon the ability of European companies ?to capture new global market opportunities
POSITIVENEUTRALNEGATIVENO OPINION
*Please explain:
We would like to rephrase the question: How does the ICT standards plan
ensure European leadership in the context of Global Standards Setting?
Our answer is the following. In order to gain leadership and capture new
global market opportunities, there is a need to play a key leadership
role in (1) attracting and selecting best technologies, (2) the
fostering of such technology development, and (3) to play a key role as
a first mover implementer. In order for Europe position in Standards to
be enhanced, this can only be achieved if Europe is in the driving seat
in term of (1) definition, (2) development, (3) selection, (4)
implementation. If only one of the four elements is picked leadership
will likely occur elsewhere.
The Plan should encourage participation of non-traditional industries
(i.e. non ICT) such as automotive, transportation, etc. at the earliest
stage possible in the standardisation cycle. Their inclusion from
standards inception is the key to implement the most competitive and
tailor-made solution and capture first move advantage. This is what we
could call building a “tailor-made and holistic standards ecosystem”.
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Q1.8 - Besides establishing a priority ICT standards plan, what other measures could theCommission (or other EU institutions) take to ensure that standardisation plays its role inachieving a Digital Single Market?
See answer to question 1.7
Q1.9 - How should standard-setting organisations best respond to the increasing speed oftechnological development and the integration of technologies in business processes across allindustrial sectors?
A - Regarding the adaptation of existing standards tonew developments:
Regarding speed, SSOs must be flexible and agile enough to not only
develop standards but to ensure their evolution as technology solutions
improve. UMTS and LTE and their various evolutions over the years are a
very good example of this. Given standards competition, if speed results
in an inferior standard, either the market will gravitate to the best
performing standard or other jurisdictions and markets that adopt the
best performant standard will evolve faster and compete more
effectively. The desire for speed should therefore be tempered by the
need for quality. We want to emphasize in this context that ETSI/3GPP
have been extremely efficient in responding to the development and
integration of new standards in various non-ICT industrial sectors, e.g.
LTE-MTC, NB-IOT, LTE eMBMS (Broadcast), LTE V2X (vehicle to vehicle,
infrastructure, pedestrian), LTE Public Safety / D (device to device).
B - Regarding the introduction of new standards for new:technologies/products
There is always a balance to be struck between the cost of developing
and standardising standard specifications and their evolution, versus
level of commercial certainty in term of implementation costs.
Q1.10 - How do you see the involvement of European ICT Standardization experts ininternational standardisation organisations (ITU, ISO, IEC) and global standard settingorganizations (i.e. IEEE, IETF, OASIS, W3C, ECMA international)?
A - The :SCOPE (or LEVEL?) of involvementIs appropriateShould be increasedShould be decreasedNo opinion
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Please explain:
Our answer is "No Opinion". Before answering, it would be important to
have more details and definition on what a European ICT Standardisation
‘expert’ is; their affiliation, technical competence, mandate and
authority, their scope and level of activity (both in terms of time
commitment as well as at what level of the SSO) etc. In addition,
maintaining transparency and governance rules are critical and it is key
to understand in which capacity European ICT experts will be speaking on
behalf of and which organisation they answer to.
B - The :QUALITY of involvementIs appropriateShould be improvedNo opinion
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Please explain:
Our answer is "No Opinion". There should be some criteria to be set on
mandate, level of engagement and objective - especially if such experts
are appointed by the European Commission. Finally we do not believe such
a category should only include technology experts and should exclude
non-European authorities and in particular regulatory authorities.
-- Comment # 1 -- The approximate number of person-months devoted to
standardisation related activities:
Standardisation related activities permeate many activities at Qualcomm.
There are hundreds of Qualcomm employees that travel to and attend
standardisation meetings in person. In addition, there are many
employees that join meetings through conference calls. There is also the
very significant set of researchers at Qualcomm who never travel to nor
attend meetings, but instead spend their time researching new approaches
to solve technology problems for standardisation efforts. There is also
the large number of support staff that are essential to continued
participation in standardisation activities, these people include patent
attorneys, paralegals, program managers and project analysts and
management, to name but a few. At Qualcomm, we assess the number of
people who are directly involved in standardisation activities (i.e.
attending the meeting, making contributions, etc…) to be approximately
4000. However, we consider that essentially all Qualcomm employees are
directly or indirectly involved in the standards setting process more
broadly, given the focus of the company. For example the activities of
researchers, support staff as well as the engineers that are engaged in
the implementation of standards and testing of devices are essential in
underpinning pre- and post-standardisation efforts.More generally we
would point out two articles on the intensity of industry-level
standardisation efforts and commitment; “The process and data behind
standard setting in wireless communications by Kirti Gupta, June 2013”
and “Unpacking 3GPP standards” by Justus Baron, Kirti Gupta and Brandon
Roberts, March 2014
(http://www.law.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/searlecenter/events/in
novation/documents/Gupta_standard-setting-process-3gpp.pdf). These
provide some key data points on the significant firm time investments
made in the process of standardisation within 3GPP, including 1.7
million man-hours spent solely on meetings within (only) RAN 1-5. This
figure does not include any R&D effort spent outside the meetings, which
is where the main R&D efforts occur.
-- Comment # 2 --
N.B. : The Form does not allow to get the same 'Priorities".Our answers
are below. #1 is the Highest Priority.
Domain 1: 5 G --> Rank 1, Domain 6: eHealth and aging --> Rank 2, Domain
7: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) --> Rank 3, Domain 8: Internet of
Things --> Rank 2, Domain 9: Smart Cities --> Rank 3
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II.2 Questions on priority domains for standardisation in the Digital SingleMarket
In this section, the Commission invites survey participants to express opinions and ideas onsetting priorities for ICT standardisation.
The Commission has identified 10 domains set out below, as well as a set of sub-domainswithin each domain. Please note that domains and subdomains are interrelated and thatoverlaps are possible and desirable in particular with respect to synergies between differentsectors. Some domains are horizontal and may benefit a large number of sectorialapplications; some other domains are more sectorial and were identified as areas where ICTstandardisation would bring important benefits.
First check whether the list of domains is complete and relevant. If the list is consideredincomplete, please complement it with additional domains that you consider priority.
Q2.1 - Please identify and rank the domains (up to 5) and subsequently subdomains (up to 3per domain) within each domain that you consider a priority. If specific domains or subdomainsare missing please add them.at most 5 answered row(s)
1 2 3 4 5
Domain 1: 5G communications
Domain 2: Cloud computing
Domain 3: Cybersecurity
Domain 4: Data driven services and applications
Domain 5: Digitisation of European Industry
Domain 6: eHealth and aging
Domain 7: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
Domain 8: Internet of Things
Domain 9: Smart Cities
Domain 10: Smart and Efficient Energy Use
Others
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Subdomains of Domain 1: 5G communicationsat most 3 answered row(s)
1 2 3
Architecture definition
Channel model characterisation for innovative usages (e.g. V2V)
Converged control plane (fixed mobile)
Evolved Packet Core (EPC)
Multi domain SDN interoperability
Multi tenancy and multi technology C-RAN
Network slicing
New radio access technologies and waveforms, including backhaul/fronthaul integration
Resource identification
SDN Northbound interface
Others
Domain 6: eHealth and aging
at most 3 answered row(s)
1 2 3
Drug identifiers for medical prescriptions
ICT infrastructure for the implementation and delivery of services forindependent living in age-friendly buildings
Interoperability profiles for independent living (Interoperability profilesdescribe specific solutions to interoperability in a specific use casescenario. A profile documents how standards will be used in order toachieve interoperability. Profiles ensure implementers and users that theyare talking about the same solution without having to restate all thetechnical details that establish actual interoperability.)
Interoperability profiles for mHealth apps
Quality criteria for health and wellness apps
Security and Safety of mHealth apps
Semantic interoperability of Electronic Health Records
Telemedicine
Others
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Domain 7: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
at most 3 answered row(s)
1 2 3
Access to in-vehicle resources and data
Connected and/or automated driving (Connectivity, Data-Handling,Cybersecurity)
Connected vehicles applications (e.g. Emergency vehicle notification)
eFreight
Service Platforms (for mobility and in-vehicle services) Smart chargingsolutions for electric vehicles
Multimodal passenger transport systems
European Electronic Toll Service
Others
Domain 8: Internet of Things
at most 3 answered row(s)
1 2 3
Advanced Manufacturing / M2M
Building and Home automation
Energy / Environment monitoring
Medical and health care systems
Reference architectures and related standardised interfaces
Smart cities and communities
Smart living environment for ageing well
Smart farming and food security
Transportation (including ITS, C2C, C2I, automated driving)
Wearables
Others
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*Other(s) subdomain(s):
N.B. #1 is the highest priority. Our Ranking is the following:
Reference architectures and related standardised interfaces --> Ranking
3
Medical and health care systems --> Ranking 2
Building and Home automation --> Ranking 1
Regarding the reference architectures and related standardised
interfaces, there is a particular need for Standardized APIs in order to
enable the sharing of data and communicating events among IoT
sensors/actors/applications.
Qualcomm has business ongoing in several subdomains, e.g. Medical and
health care systems (mainly eHealth) and provide communications
technologies for subdomains such as Smart living environment for ageing
well, Wearables and “Industrial Internet” with several categories
including Water management, Energy management, Outdoor lighting,
Building automation and Transportation.
Domain 9: Smart Cities
at most 3 answered row(s)
1 2 3
Application Programming Interfaces for urban platforms
Urban Indicators
Urban Management System (city planning)
Urban Ontologies (for specific domains (including city objects, geometricelements and themes) or cross-domain)
Urban Platforms
Urban transactions (payments, identification, etc.)
Others
*Other(s) subdomain(s):
N.B. #1 is the highest priority. Our Ranking is the following:
Application Programming Interfaces for urban platforms --> Ranking 2
Urban Management System (city planning) --> Ranking 3
Urban Platforms --> Ranking 1
“Industrial Internet” with several categories such as Water management,
Energy management, Outdoor lighting, Building automation and
Transportation could be also considered as an important subdomain.
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Please answer to Q2.2 to Q2.6 . In your answer pleasefor each of the domains selectedspecify if applicable the subdomains that you have selected.
*Q2.2 - For the and the subdomains which you have selected,Domain 1: 5G communicationsplease explain briefly how the criteria indicated in Box I apply to them. We copy the criteria foryour convenience.
Link to DSM objectives and other EU policies
Competitiveness of the European industry
Clear and achievable targets
Evidence of market relevance and stakeholders needs
Domains where standard setting has direct benefits for consumers
Competitiveness of the European industry
Q2.3 - The Priority ICT standards plan should lead to the production of technical specifications,standards or architectures where there is a need/gap, but could also propose any other type ofstandardisation action such as landscape analysis, gap finding, roadmaps or, ecosystembuilding that could contribute to ensure that standardisation plays its role in achieving a DigitalSingle Market. Please explain if a standardisation need/gap exists in the Domain 1: 5G
and sub-domains which you have selected. Please also indicate within whichcommunications time-frame such need could be addressed. Please limit to a maximum of five needs/gaps perdomain or sub-domain:
There is a need to define a new and much more capable platform to
optimally serve a variety of different services, addressing the needs of
multiple industry and society’s needs. The challenge will be to
integrate and multiplex these new services with wildly varying service
characteristics, access priority and reliability. The three selected
subdomains above are key for the design of such new platform.
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Q2.4 - Among those below, which action could be a priority in the Domain 1: 5G and sub-domains which you have selected.? Please rank the list below andcommunications
explain your choice.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
• Mandating EuropeanStandardisation Organisations(ESOs) for fast delivery ofstandards/technicalspecifications.
• Foster cooperation amongstandards developmentorganisations for ICT priorities
• Support Research & Innovationprojects to contribute tostandardisation
• Community Building
• Support creation ofpublic-private partnerships - PPP
• Increase strategic coordinationof ICT standardisation at EUlevel.
• Ensure consistent application ofexisting standards
• Accelerate the identification ofICT technical specifications mostcommonly used for theirreference in public procurement
• Other
• No opinion
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*Please explain:
N.B.: #1 is the highest priority.
Developing a pan-European technology vision, which could drive research
and standardisation, would assist greatly. This could include some new
policies to foster technology development as well as service innovation.
Most importantly if businesses are to take the up-front risk of
investing billions of Euros in Research & Innovation in developing the
valuable technologies underlying the DSM and be encouraged to contribute
their best technologies to standards, businesses need to know that
success in dissemination will yield a fair and reasonable return on
investments. The Commission should look at strengthening and fostering
those risk-sharing elements that already make the European
standardisation ecosystem the success that it is. The alternative –
creating proprietary solutions or siloed solutions will lock players out
and will fragment the DSM frustrating the European growth potential.
Q2.5 - Please indicate any other standardisation initiatives which would help achieving theDigital Single Market in the and sub-domains which you haveDomain 1: 5G communicationsselected., and who in the standardisation landscape would be best placed to lead on theseinitiatives:
It would help to develop and push a pan-European vision on spectrum to
make sure that harmonized spectrum in low, mid and high bands are
identified by 2018 and made available by 2020 for next generation ICT
services. Innovative policies that enable spectrum sharing and lower the
barrier for new entrants to develop and roll-up new services should be
studied and implemented. In addition, our experience from WRC is that it
would be important for the European Commission to work directly with key
other countries in other regions to find common spectrum.
Q2.6 - Would your organisation be prepared to invest resources in standard-setting to achievethe priority standards within the proposed time-frames?
Please answer this question only if you are responding as the representative of an
organisation/company/institution.
YESYES, provided some conditions are metNONo opinion
*Please explain your choice and specify conditions:
Qualcomm is fully committed in leading the research and standardisation
of technologies that will address the connectivity needs for the Digital
Single Market.
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*Q2.2 - For the and the subdomains which you have selected, Domain 6: eHealth and agingplease explain briefly how the criteria indicated in Box I apply to them.
:We copy the criteria for your convenience
Link to DSM objectives and other EU policies
Competitiveness of the European industry
Clear and achievable targets
Evidence of market relevance and stakeholders needs
Domains where standard setting has direct benefits for consumers
Healthcare represents a key economic and societal sector in Europe. The
healthcare vertical is not only critical given its implications for
European welfare systems (particularly in terms of the benefits of
citizens’ and patients’ access to timely and sustainable healthcare
services and products) and finances but also from an industrial
perspective given the importance of the pharmaceutical and medical
device sectors in the European economy.
Clear targets can be set for this vertical related to the transition
towards digitised and integrated forms of health and social care and the
deployment of both in hospital and remote monitoring solutions that can
personalise service provision and help alleviate financial burdens on
the patient and public health system. The market is in desperate need of
these solutions in the face of long-standing budget pressures, a
shortage of health workers and ageing populations.
Given that healthcare is a key Member State competence, policy action at
EU level to create more harmonisation has so far taken the form of
facilitating voluntary cooperation among Member States and coordinating
research and innovation initiatives. While these efforts are noteworthy,
they have inherent limits to what they can achieve. A stronger focus on
European standardisation may help in achieving harmonisation of at least
the more technical elements of eHealth while avoiding more complex
political obstacles linked to funding, procurement or reimbursement.
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Q2.3 - The Priority ICT standards plan should lead to the production of technical specifications,standards or architectures where there is a need/gap, but could also propose any other type ofstandardisation action such as landscape analysis, gap finding, roadmaps or, ecosystembuilding that could contribute to ensure that standardisation plays its role in achieving a DigitalSingle Market. Please explain if a standardisation need/gap exists in the Domain 6: eHealth
and the subdomains which you have selected. Please also indicate within whichand agingtime-frame such need could be addressed. Please limit to a maximum of five needs/gaps perdomain or sub-domain:
While profiles and specifications exist for most subdomains identified,
thanks to organisations such as IHE and PCHA (Continua), widely
different local implementations, or a lack of market adoption
altogether, continue to be major issues. We suggest that the lack of
market uptake can be to a large extent explained by the fact that such
profiles and specifications do not provide national and regional public
procurers with a sufficient legal basis to source solutions on the
market. Official European standards would provide a stronger legal basis
for public procurement. Moreover, issues such as privacy and security
could benefit from further standards development.
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Q2.4 - Among those below, which action could be a priority in the Domain 6: eHealth and and the subdomains which you have selected? Please rank the list below and explainaging
your choice.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
• Mandating EuropeanStandardisation Organisations(ESOs) for fast delivery ofstandards/technicalspecifications.
• Foster cooperation amongstandards developmentorganisations for ICT priorities
• Support Research & Innovationprojects to contribute tostandardisation
• Community Building
• Support creation ofpublic-private partnerships - PPP
• Increase strategic coordinationof ICT standardisation at EUlevel.
• Ensure consistent application ofexisting standards
• Accelerate the identification ofICT technical specifications mostcommonly used for theirreference in public procurement
• Other
• No opinion
*Please explain:
N.B.: #1 is the highest priority.
We believe that set out mandates for the development of European
standards could play a major role in solving many of the issues that
public procurers face when sourcing eHealth solutions on the market.
European standards would dramatically reduce uncertainty and drive
harmonisation, interoperability and market adoption in Europe’s
healthcare systems.
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Q2.5 - Please indicate any other standardisation initiatives which would help achieving theDigital Single Market in the and the subdomains which you haveDomain 6: eHealth and agingselected, and who in the standardisation landscape would be best placed to lead on theseinitiatives:
The healthcare domain is a key part of the Internet of Things. As such,
it will benefit from the development of standards for machine-to-machine
communications in the larger sense (e.g. ETSI TC Smart M2M and oneM2M),
some of which will have very similar connectivity needs to healthcare
applications. There will still be a need, however, for standards to be
sector-specific, to address healthcare-specific needs such as EHRs. It
will still be important that sector-specific standards are developed in
a way that is consistent with the larger IoT developments, in order to
maximise interoperability and market uptake.
Q2.6 - Would your organisation be prepared to invest resources in standard-setting to achievethe priority standards within the proposed time-frames?
Please answer this question only if you are responding as the representative of an
organisation/company/institution.
YESYES, provided some conditions are metNONo opinion
*Please explain your choice and specify conditions:
Qualcomm is keen to contribute to European standardisation efforts in
the area of eHealth. We believe that the best ESO to carry out this task
will be ETSI.
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*Q2.2 - For the and the subdomains whichDomain 7: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)you have selected, please explain briefly how the criteria indicated in Box I apply to them.
:We copy the criteria for your convenience
Link to DSM objectives and other EU policies
Competitiveness of the European industry
Clear and achievable targets
Evidence of market relevance and stakeholders needs
Domains where standard setting has direct benefits for consumers
Connected vehicles and/or automated driving is one of the keys to DSM,
as it leverages European automotive expertise and communications while
also impacting many of the other nine domains listed. In short, all
these domains are to some degree enabled by connected vehicles. Societal
and consumer needs will be met by the seamless delivery of mobility and
safety services, from collision avoidance to convenience and even modal
and time choices in transport of people and goods (i.e. the mobile
Internet on wheels). The fundamental enabling elements are to make
common spectrum available, and at the same time foster interoperability
standards. These are the basic tools needed by producers and consumers
of connected and automated vehicles and applications to transform
lifestyles, social good, all the while spurring economic growth.
In our survey response, we have also marked service platforms and
connected vehicle applications as important. Our view is that these are
closely related to, and actually stem from, European innovations in
connected and/or automated vehicles. We repeat our thesis that
enabling, standardized technologies in this domain – and in particular
communications technologies – will spawn the host of other applications
and services. The alternative would lead to siloed proprietary
technologies that would frustrate the development of pan-EU ITS services
and applications.
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Q2.3 - The Priority ICT standards plan should lead to the production of technical specifications,standards or architectures where there is a need/gap, but could also propose any other type ofstandardisation action such as landscape analysis, gap finding, roadmaps or, ecosystembuilding that could contribute to ensure that standardisation plays its role in achieving a DigitalSingle Market. Please explain if a standardisation need/gap exists in the Domain 7: Intelligent
and the subdomains which you have selected. Please also indicateTransport Systems (ITS)within which time-frame such need could be addressed. Please limit to a maximum of fiveneeds/gaps per domain or sub-domain:
Within 2 – 5 years –
I. Connected and Automated Vehicles and Connected Vehicle
Applications
Needs:
(1) Common pan-European spectrum and concomitant interoperability
standards for access technologies and applications,
(2) Public sector interest should be fostered for the development and
deployment of technologies and associated applications for safety,
mobility and environmental stewardship. (Need (2) of public interest
standardisation should be carefully and thoughtfully executed so as not
to dominate connected and automated vehicle application use cases.)
(3) Regulatory climate and standards that enable a marketplace,
innovation and technology export such that Need (2) can co-exist with
invention and consumer applications.
II. Service Platforms
Needs: open market policies and standards for interoperability that
enable service platform development to match the needs of road
authorities and road users alike.
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Q2.4 - Among those below, which action could be a priority in the Domain 7: Intelligent and the subdomains which you have selected? Please rank the listTransport Systems (ITS)
below and explain your choice.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
• Mandating EuropeanStandardisation Organisations(ESOs) for fast delivery ofstandards/technicalspecifications.
• Foster cooperation amongstandards developmentorganisations for ICT priorities
• Support Research & Innovationprojects to contribute tostandardisation
• Community Building
• Support creation ofpublic-private partnerships - PPP
• Increase strategic coordinationof ICT standardisation at EUlevel.
• Ensure consistent application ofexisting standards
• Accelerate the identification ofICT technical specifications mostcommonly used for theirreference in public procurement
• Other
• No opinion
*Please explain:
N.B.: #1 is the highest priority.
Encouraging individual participation and industry standards and
investing in innovation will engender significant market-driven
advances. Hence, we rank these higher than other meritorious efforts.
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Q2.5 - Please indicate any other standardisation initiatives which would help achieving theDigital Single Market in the and theDomain 7: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)subdomains which you have selected, and who in the standardisation landscape would be bestplaced to lead on these initiatives:
For the DSM to best meet its ambitions, those who innovate and develop
technologies, products and services, namely industry, should be involved
in creating many of the enabling standards. Certainly, the public
sector could and should participate to provide inputs on requirements as
stakeholders, but should not be the drivers of technical decisions.
From this perspective, we believe that the most effective DSM standards
in ITS will come from those individual contribution-driven standards
organizations already active in the ICT arena: ETSI and 3GPP, to name
two key SSOs. Consideration should also be given to related industry
initiatives, such as oneM2M (which we believe will be of significance in
ITS) and WTO-level standards organizations, such as ISO. The approach
should be for primacy for those standards aimed at fostering private
sector innovation for consumer markets, with additional consideration of
public-driven standards - rather than the reverse.
Q2.6 - Would your organisation be prepared to invest resources in standard-setting to achievethe priority standards within the proposed time-frames?
Please answer this question only if you are responding as the representative of an
organisation/company/institution.
YESYES, provided some conditions are metNONo opinion
*Please explain your choice and specify conditions:
As described earlier Qualcomm recognizes the importance of standards and
participates significantly in standards development, often in a
leadership capacity. This is true in the ITS sector, where we have
invested significant resources to support the development and
implementation of eCall. We anticipate continued across-the-board
participation in standards to foster European competitiveness and
consequential consumer, industry and societal benefit in the ITS arena.
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*Q2.2 - For the and the subdomains which you have selected,Domain 8: Internet of Thingsplease explain briefly how the criteria indicated in Box I apply to them.
:We copy the criteria for your convenience
Link to DSM objectives and other EU policies
Competitiveness of the European industry
Clear and achievable targets
Evidence of market relevance and stakeholders needs
Domains where standard setting has direct benefits for consumers
Competitiveness of the European Industry. IoT standards will have
direct benefit for non-ICT industries and consumers: interoperability,
comfort, energy efficiency, productivity, healthcare, emergency services
etc.
Q2.3 - The Priority ICT standards plan should lead to the production of technical specifications,standards or architectures where there is a need/gap, but could also propose any other type ofstandardisation action such as landscape analysis, gap finding, roadmaps or, ecosystembuilding that could contribute to ensure that standardisation plays its role in achieving a DigitalSingle Market. Please explain if a standardisation need/gap exists in the Domain 8: Internet of
and the subdomains which you have selected. Please also indicate within whichThingstime-frame such need could be addressed. Please limit to a maximum of five needs/gaps perdomain or sub-domain:
A lot of proprietary technologies for IoT exist and a number of
standards are being developed. There is a need for consolidation: EC
should push for consolidating efforts in different domains (ITS,
Consumer Electronics, Building/Home automation/eHealth). In many cases a
horizontal platform (aka Service Layer) can be used across different
domains. Data models should be defined in standards for each domain.
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Q2.4 - Among those below, which action could be a priority in the Domain 8: Internet ofand the subdomains which you have selected? Please rank the list below and explain Things
your choice.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
• Mandating EuropeanStandardisation Organisations(ESOs) for fast delivery ofstandards/technicalspecifications.
• Foster cooperation amongstandards developmentorganisations for ICT priorities
• Support Research & Innovationprojects to contribute tostandardisation
• Community Building
• Support creation ofpublic-private partnerships - PPP
• Increase strategic coordinationof ICT standardisation at EUlevel.
• Ensure consistent application ofexisting standards
• Accelerate the identification ofICT technical specifications mostcommonly used for theirreference in public procurement
• Other
• No opinion
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*Please explain:
N.B.: #1 is the highest priority.
Mandating ESOs could help, since too many proprietary solutions
currently exist within the EU that will lead to fragmentation. However,
some stakeholders ignore efforts for consolidation, horizontal
solutions. Appropriate partnership of SDOs already exist to resolve
this: oneM2M. There is a need to foster cooperation in order to avoid
incompatible and proprietary solutions. Ensuring consistent use of
existing standards is important to ensure proper interworking when
existing standards are sufficient. Support for R&D should be coupled
with support for contributions to standards, given the benefits that
flow to the public when better standards are created.
Q2.5 - Please indicate any other standardisation initiatives which would help achieving theDigital Single Market in the and the subdomains which you haveDomain 8: Internet of Thingsselected, and who in the standardisation landscape would be best placed to lead on theseinitiatives:
oneM2M (see above), AllSeen (consumer domain), KNX (building
automation), ETSI ITS.
Q2.6 - Would your organisation be prepared to invest resources in standard-setting to achievethe priority standards within the proposed time-frames?
Please answer this question only if you are responding as the representative of an
organisation/company/institution.
YESYES, provided some conditions are metNONo opinion
*Please explain your choice and specify conditions:
IoT is a critical vertical for the industry.
*
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*Q2.2 - For the and the subdomains which you have selected, pleaseDomain 9: Smart Citiesexplain briefly how the criteria indicated in Box I apply to them.
:We copy the criteria for your convenience
Link to DSM objectives and other EU policies
Competitiveness of the European industry
Clear and achievable targets
Evidence of market relevance and stakeholders needs
Domains where standard setting has direct benefits for consumers
Both an open urban platform and exposure to a suite of robust APIs will
assist the industry with achieving significant improvements in
interoperability and allow for the implementation of a Smart
Cities/Industrial Internet developer community. Today’s solutions, in
the Smart Cities/Industrial Internet space are highly proprietary (as
the platforms and application running on the platforms belong solely to
the solution provider). These solutions are pushed on end customers,
such as utilities and municipalities, by incumbent solution providers.
This sets up an environment where the cost of solutions are extremely
high, solutions are a ‘walled garden’ and enhancements, such as new
applications to address new use cases, are very expensive and slow to
develop given the lock-in created.
An open, standardised urban platform and robust suite of APIs will
change the way business is managed (by solution providers and end
customers) and require an evolution in business processes, procedures
and potentially policy. The first of these changes will be the need for
customers, such as municipalities and public utilities, to develop a set
of requirements, defining their use cases and applicable standards to be
followed. These requirements, with guidance of several industry forums,
will clearly state the need for interoperability as well as key features
(security, data transport, environmental, etc.) to address the rapid
changes in technology that are being presented to the community.
Embedded within these requirements will be pointers to specific
standards. It is anticipated that gaps in standards will be identified
by industry and forums. Qualcomm is already looking at these gaps and
plans to address them with specific contributions over the coming months
and years. Many of these anticipated gaps are due to the fact that many
of incumbent systems and solutions are based on product architectures
and technologies that are inefficient - and more than 30 years old.
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Q2.3 - The Priority ICT standards plan should lead to the production of technical specifications,standards or architectures where there is a need/gap, but could also propose any other type ofstandardisation action such as landscape analysis, gap finding, roadmaps or, ecosystembuilding that could contribute to ensure that standardisation plays its role in achieving a DigitalSingle Market. Please explain if a standardisation need/gap exists in the Domain 9: Smart
and the subdomains which you have selected. Please also indicate within whichCitiestime-frame such need could be addressed. Please limit to a maximum of five needs/gaps perdomain or sub-domain:
At this time, the major gaps that exist are within the area of
requirements, rather than standards because existing solutions in the
verticals of water, electric grid, transportation (not automotive),
building efficiency and automation rely on requirements that have been
established and set forth by solution providers, rather than by end
customers. The areas that need to be addressed are:
• Interoperability between verticals (e.g. water, electric grid,
gas, oil, transportation)
• Interoperability within verticals (e.g. multiple solutions
within water or oil)
• Device Management: It is anticipated that the number of new
devices (i.e. sensors) that will be on-boarded will be orders of
magnitude greater that what municipalities and cities have seen in the
past. This will drive a radical evolution of technologies, processes
and procedures to discover, configure, secure and manage these new
resources/assets.
• Security: At numerous levels including data and information
security, device security, data and information integrity.
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Q2.4 - Among those below, which action could be a priority in the andDomain 9: Smart Citiesthe subdomains which you have selected? Please rank the list below and explain your choice.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
• Mandating EuropeanStandardisation Organisations(ESOs) for fast delivery ofstandards/technicalspecifications.
• Foster cooperation amongstandards developmentorganisations for ICT priorities
• Support Research & Innovationprojects to contribute tostandardisation
• Community Building
• Support creation ofpublic-private partnerships - PPP
• Increase strategic coordinationof ICT standardisation at EUlevel.
• Ensure consistent application ofexisting standards
• Accelerate the identification ofICT technical specifications mostcommonly used for theirreference in public procurement
• Other
• No opinion
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*Please explain:
N.B. : The Form does not allow to get the same 'Priorities".
Our answers are below. #1 is the Highest Priority.
- Mandating European Standardisation Organisations (ESOs) for fast
delivery of standards/technical specifications. --> Rank 4
- Foster cooperation among standards development organisations for ICT
priorities --> Rank 2
- Support Research & Innovation projects to contribute to
standardisation --> Rank 4
- Community Building --> Rank 1
- Support creation of public-private partnerships - PPP --> Rank 6
- Increase strategic coordination of ICT standardisation at EU level -->
Rank 5
- Ensure consistent application of existing standards --> Rank 1
- Accelerate the identification of ICT technical specifications most
commonly used for their reference in public procurement --> Rank 3
- Other, Mandating ESO minimum requirements, across the industry, to
ensure a common set of requirements are driving the needs areas
described above in 2.3. --> Rank 1
The central premise here is the need to have industry customers
(utilities companies and municipalities) take more responsibility for
defining solution requirements. This can happen with some assistance by
the ESO (joint industry development of a common set of base
requirements) plus strong collaboration/coordination within the industry
via well-defined industry forums. The forums should address the needs
of specific verticals (forums in water, oil, gas, electric grid,
transportation, etc.) and also have working groups that coordinate
across vertical value chains. Especially with municipalities
implementing technologies to enhance the ‘smartness’ of their cities,
municipalities can no longer afford to operate their verticals in a
‘siloed’ fashion and must enhance their cross vertical cooperation and
interoperability. This fundamental change in business process and
structure will allow solutions to provide their greatest benefits and
enhancements in terms of efficiencies gained in capital expenditures,
operating expenditures and the realization of new service revenue
opportunities.
Q2.5 - Please indicate any other standardisation initiatives which would help achieving theDigital Single Market in the and the subdomains which you haveDomain 9: Smart Citiesselected, and who in the standardisation landscape would be best placed to lead on theseinitiatives:
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Q2.6 - Would your organisation be prepared to invest resources in standard-setting to achievethe priority standards within the proposed time-frames?
Please answer this question only if you are responding as the representative of an
organisation/company/institution.
YESYES, provided some conditions are metNONo opinion
*Please explain your choice and specify conditions:
There is a strong need for harmonised standards in the smart cities
domain.
II.3 Other Comments
Other comments:
-- Comment # 3 --
The mobile evolution has transformed into a digital revolution. By 2020,
people and the objects around them at home, at work and in transit will
be connected to networks and to each other, through vastly faster, more
robust and more secure wireless communications.
Tremendous diversity of industries will get connected ranging from
automotive, to healthcare and electricity, to cities infrastructure and
agriculture. Extremely dense and reliable networks and technology
standards enabling them will be needed.
Users will be at the centre of this digital revolution and the results
will be astonishing. Intensive investments in networks, open standards
for technology and wireless spectrum optimization will be required in
order to create a world-class communication infrastructure for Europe
and enable the growth of smart, efficient and globally competitive
applications and services.
The Digital Single Market is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to put
Europe in the driving seat to define and shape the next digital era.
Turning the DSM into reality requires very significant investment in
fundamental innovation and quickly evolving networks. Continuing upfront
investments in R&D and infrastructure throughout the industry is needed
to strengthen connectivity, boost data speed, tighten security, build
robust networks and enhance consumers’ experience. And such investment
will be needed on a rolling bases to improve, evolve and optimize these
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networks. Companies in the mobile industry invested $1.8 trillion in
capital expenditure and R&D from 2009 through 2013, and, worldwide, to
meet the expected demand in connections they will need to invest
approximately $4 trillion in R&D and capital expenditure worldwide. The
world region that facilitates those investment first will gain the most
from it.
This is why we encourage the European Commission to adopt policies that
promote innovation and reward investment in in standardisation that
brings all industry players together for the sake of efficient
interoperability that benefits consumers and promotes competition.
Europe needs to create an expectation that the investors and companies
creating innovative technologies and networks roll-outs can earn and
retain reasonable returns if their investment succeed. And Europe needs
to discourage free riding on those investments, as this will reduce the
incentives to ongoing investments. Tactics to free-ride those
investments will impact the whole of Europe’s ecosystem and its value
chain.
Indeed, a coherent intellectual property rights framework, based on a
high quality patent system, allows the inventor to seek to commercialize
the technology and, if successful, to earn returns on their efforts and
ingenuity. In a standards context this is requires FRAND-based IPR
policies that have proved flexible in ensuring technology dissemination
and encouraging re-investment in the next generation of technologies.
When others are allowed to “free-ride” – profiting from the invented
technologies without paying for them – the European innovation suffers
and its value chain diminishes. The key asset of innovators, and in
particular smaller players, is their ideas, their technology. If they
cannot get a return on investment, their ability to do business, attract
venture capital, grow and create jobs is fundamentally weakened. To
foster innovation, it is critical to maintain strong patent protection
and enforcement and prevent devaluation and erosion of patent-protected
inventions. As such European standardisation policy should continue to
promote FRAND-based IPR policies that continue to encourage
contributions to standards, avoiding one-size-fits all definitions,
especially given the flexibility that FRAND licensing provides in the
ensuring the dissemination of the multitude of standards, sector and
business models involved in fulfilling the DSM.
Background Documentsanalysis.pdf (/eusurvey/files/f2d6718c-7e07-4955-9505-c94113bbbe0f)
Contact
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