The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), a leading standards development organization for interoperable mobile and IoT technologies, is pleased to announce the launch of its Government & Education (G&E) Participation Program — a new initiative that invites government agencies and academic institutions to engage in OMA’s technical work without the obligations of full membership.

The evolution of smart cities is marked by a continuous push towards greater efficiency, responsiveness, and autonomy. A significant step in this direction is the publication of the *uCIFI Schedule Framework, a promising development from the Smart City Working Group aimed at empowering smart city devices with the intelligence to act independently based on predefined conditions.

Combined Organization to Add New Focus on “Smart City” Technical Specifications Development to Further Extend Interoperability

OMA SpecWorks and the uCIFI® Alliance announce today that uCIFI® has transferred its specification-setting work to OMA SpecWorks, establishing a new “Smart City” Working Group that will be created within OMA.
uCIFI®'s initial mission focused on creating a data model to represent objects and use cases for Smart Cities in an open format, enabling true interoperability between devices and applications.

OMA SpecWorks (openmobilealliance.org) is a global organization and excited to announce our next LwM2M Specification Validation Event (SVE #42) to be held in Düsseldorf, Germany on October 28-31st, 2024. Member organization, Cumulocity IoT, will be hosting this specification validation event at their facilities. OMA SpecWorks invites both members and non-members to participate in the validation and verification of the LwM2M Open Protocol for clients and servers.

OMA SpecWorks (openmobilealliance.org) is proud to announce the LwM2M Specification Validation Event (SVE #41) in Raleigh, North Carolina to be held June 10-13th, 2024. Member organization, Itron, will host this specification validation event at their Raleigh office. OMA SpecWorks will welcome both members and non-members to validate and verify (client and server) the LwM2M Open Protocol where we connect systems, equipment, and operations to enable M2M and IoT use cases across key verticals.

In an era where digital transformation is paramount, the utility sector stands on the brink of a significant evolution. The recent OMA SpecWorks Workshop delved deep into the transformative potential of the Lightweight Machine to Machine (LwM2M) protocol in revolutionizing utility management, offering innovative solutions to age-old challenges.

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is excited to announce a groundbreaking event: Virtual-SVE-40 (Specification Validation Event). Hosted by OMA, this event is set to take place in November 2023. Virtual-SVE-40, also known as the Virtual TestFest, is an exceptional opportunity for all LwM2M implementers, and it's coming your way! Get ready for a week filled with exploration, testing, and innovation.
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Are you ready to take your utility management to the next level? Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) presents the OMASpeWorks Utility Benefits with LwM2M Workshop, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at promoting the adoption and understanding of the OMA LightweightM2M (LwM2M) protocol within the utility industry. In this blog, we'll delve into why this workshop is a game-changer for the utility sector.

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This workshop addresses the needs of the utilities sector as they deploy new functionality through adoption of the LwM2M protocol.

Why is LightWeight M2M important for Utilities?

As the developer of the LwM2M protocol, OMA aims to help the industry deploy better and more reliably interoperable implementations of the LwM2M specification.

To apply for the presentation materials, please request by filling out the Utility Web Form.

Latest News from OMASpecWorks ...

We have published a revision of LwM2M v1.2!

In December 2020, we published LwM2M v1.2, which included a range of new features. Since then, we received developer feedback – both from member companies and from the open source community through our Github issue tracker, see Issues. As a result of all this feedback, we have clarified the specification text and we are happy to announce the publication of LwM2M v1.2.1 - the revision of LwM2M v1.2.

OMASpecWorks announces the creation of a new Work Item, LwM2M Device Bootstrapping in Cellular Networks The Lightweight M2M protocol (LwM2M) has proven itself to be well suited to operating within Cellular networks, supporting a wide range of Device Types from Low Latency critical IoT applications (e.g., remote performance monitoring) to high latency massive IoT applications (e.g., water metering).

Concerns with supply chain security have steadily increased over the past several years. Economics has “shrunk” the world and most supply chains now include, at some point, components (hardware/software) that are sourced from various suppliers around the globe. Governments are no longer the only ones worried about their critical infrastructure – news coverage of hacks and attacks exploiting component vulnerabilities have increased awareness of this threat, spreading it into every industry sector. No industry is more acutely aware of the cybersecurity risks than the information and communications technology (ICT) sector.

Formed in 2002, the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) combined several industry fora working on mobile application protocols. It is a standard developing organization, which develops interoperable protocols. In late 2017, OMA merged with the IPSO Alliance to form a new organization called OMA SpecWorks. Within OMA SpecWorks the technical work is conducted in several working groups. One of those groups develops the Lightweight Machine-to-Machine (LwM2M) protocol to manage Internet of Things (IoT) devices over their entire lifecycle.

The uCIFI Alliance, see https://ucifi.org, collaborates with the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) to standardize a unified data model for smart city, energy and water utility companies. The uCIFI Alliance recently announced the public release of their data model to provide interoperability between the billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices around the world and frees companies from the costly and time–consuming task of bridging a variety of vendor systems and equipment.

The standardization work on the LwM2M v1.2 specification has been completed and the specification bundle is now available for public download.Originally proposed in 2012, LwM2M v1.0 was finally published in early 2017 after comprehensive research with developers across multiple industries and application areas. The original standard was a compelling solution for device lifecycle management with focus on constrained IoT devices. With LwM2M adoption observed across a broader range of device types and the benefit of feedback from real use cases, releases including v1.0.1 and v1.0.2 were published to keep up with ever increasing demand and expansion of LwM2M use. With v1.1 published in 2018, OMA SpecWorks increased the functionality of the protocol by adding support for Cellular IoT, LoRaWAN as well as in enterprise networks with CoAP over TCP/TLS.