Join the Open Mobile Alliance and uCIFI this Thursday to learn how to benefit from and influence the direction of this critical open standard.

In the race to build smarter, more connected cities, one challenge consistently emerges: interoperability. With cities integrating diverse technologies across transportation, energy, public safety, and other services, ensuring these systems can seamlessly communicate with one another is critical. Without interoperability, smart city initiatives are siloed, inefficient, and costly to maintain. In fact, the lack of interoperability has stalled many deployments.

The foundation of interoperability lies in open standards and protocols, which ensure that vendors and service providers build solutions that can integrate seamlessly with one another, fostering innovation and preventing vendor lock-in.

Many open standards are helping to drive smart city interoperability but Lightweight M2M (LwM2M) is seeing a surge in momentum because of its inherent design for managing IoT devices and data efficiently and its priority on security.

LwM2M excels at device management with cloud platforms and uses a common language for IoT devices that ensure different manufacturers’ sensors, devices and platform can communicate without proprietary integration. Also, by enabling remote provisioning and updates (firmware-over-the-air, FOTA), device diagnostics, troubleshooting and security monitoring, LwM2M offers the most efficient way to manage the millions of connected devices on which smart cities rely. Smart city devices, such as smart meters and parking sensors, often operate on low-power networks (LPWAN, NB-IoT, LTE-M). LwM2M is optimized for constrained devices, consuming minimal energy and bandwidth while maintaining real-time communication.

Security is also a crucial consideration for smart cities, as breaches could disrupt essential services. LwM2M provides built-in security features, including DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security) for encrypted communication; device authentication to prevent unauthorized access; and data integrity checks to ensure accurate and tamper-proof information sharing. Recent momentum for LwM2M is being seen in applications like traffic management, air quality monitoring, smart metering and public safety.

For smart cities to reach their full potential, interoperability must be a priority from the outset. Policymakers, technology providers, and city planners must work together to develop frameworks that prioritize interoperability, enabling smart cities to evolve and scale seamlessly. There are only so many resources, though, and a plethora of technologies. But not all technologies are created equal. LwM2M is rising to the top.

Stay in the know and join us this Thursday, March 6 at 7 am PT/10 am ET/3 pm CET. You’ll learn what’s happening directly from the community doing the work. Become a part of it.

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