Converging Technologies
Standardization area
Converging Technologies
is a term which is widely used in areas where different or similar
technologies address the same market segment. Typical examples are
the convergence of consumer electronics and telecommunications with
a wide range of different services provided in combined equipment
interconnected to a range a different networks and e-business with
secure transactions.
Although (competing)
technologies will use there specific media, the common purpose requires
interoperability and consequently a co-ordinated standardization
approach.
The ICTSB has
selected few areas for which the standardization activities are
identified and - as far as the ICTSB membership is concerned - co-ordinated.
- Machine
readable cards, related devices, interfaces and operation
for banking, telecommunications, transport/logistic, pay TV,
access control, identification cards including electronic signature
- Intelligent
Transport Systems (ITS) and telematics including telematics
in public transport, multi-modal and traffic information, road
and traffic data, network and traffic management, fleet management,
electronic fee collection, short range communication etc.
- e-commerce Business-to-Business
issues and Business-to-Consumer
issues, m-commerce, e-signature, e-payment, data privacy, network
security including end-to-end QoS, localisation services
- In-house
technologies including smart house, in-house cabling, alarms,
Internet and multimedia related in-house technologies like powerline
communications etc.
- Last mile fixed network technologies including
cable TV, Powerline etc.
- Man-machine
interfaces and human factors
