5. Standards and languages

Standardizing IoT components will be a long-term project. But it is essential. Initially, as always, competing groups will form, but it is unlikely that any one of them will be able to impose a proprietary standard: this will inevitably become open in the emerging network economy. In reality, it's not the tensions over telecom technology that are the concern of specialists and companies in the sector. On the other hand, it is currently important to ensure the installation of common languages for the exchanges themselves, i.e. on the one hand to clearly define the actors, the types of action, the types of objects, the data dictionaries and on the other hand, to identify the different hardware, components, etc. in a reference base. Fortunately, this work has largely begun at international level for health data and materials, but only for medical devices in the strict sense and implantable...