Category Archives: Inside the IEEE-SA

OpenStand Principles in Action at the IEEE-SA

By admin in Inside the IEEE-SA on 05/13/2013 Leave a comment
At the IEEE-SA standards participants work within a market-driven standards model that has gathered maturity in certain key technology spaces, including the Internet. This paradigm for global, open standards is encapsulated in the "OpenStand" principles, and it is proven in its ability to help level regional barriers in the contemporary age of borderless commerce. The [...]

Omnipresent: When Virtual Meets Reality – IEEE at SXSW 2013

By admin in Inside the IEEE-SA on 05/09/2013 Leave a comment
At the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival, IEEE presented the “Omnipresent: When Virtual Meets Reality” panel where industry experts discussed Virtual and Augmented Reality. When the “virtual overlay” meets everyday life, everything changes, from the way we shop to the way we interact with the world around us. Today, augmented reality is moving beyond the virtual [...]

Digital Telepathy: When Every Thing Connects – IEEE at SXSW 2013

By admin in Inside the IEEE-SA on 04/25/2013 Leave a comment
At the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival, IEEE presented the “Digital Telepathy: When Every Thing Connects” panel where industry experts discussed the “Internet of Things” (IoT) – a future where people and objects communicate in unprecedented ways. This panel explored the dynamics of interconnection and convergence and address the need for a more interdisciplinary approach to [...]

IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet Working Group Honored by Ethernet Technology Summit

By admin in Inside the IEEE-SA on 04/18/2013 Leave a comment
The IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet Working Group has been honored by the Ethernet Technology Summit with its Ethernet Achievement Award, during the Ethernet Technology Summit’s 40th Anniversary Celebration on April 3 in Santa Clara, California, USA. The award recognizes the contributions of the working group in defining and promoting Ethernet technology and standards. “Without the time [...]

Standards are Making the Internet of Things Come Alive

By admin in Announcements, Inside the IEEE-SA on 04/08/2013 1 Comment
It’s predicted that by the year 2020, 50 to 100 billion things will be electronically connected in the Internet of Things (IoT), fueling technological innovation by creating the means for machines to communicate many different types of information with one another. The IoT is a future where people and objects communicate in unprecedented ways. It [...]

IEEE-SA at HIMSS 2013 Conference

By admin in Inside the IEEE-SA on 03/12/2013 Leave a comment
IEEE-SA recently participated at the HIMSS 2013 Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. HIMSS is one of the largest healthcare/IT conferences having a total of 34,696 attendees and 1,158 exhibiting companies. At the conference, IEEE-SA showcased how the IEEE 11073™ family of standards are used in health device communications. Dr. Malcolm Clarke, IEEE 11073 PHD Vice [...]

Improving Personal Health Device Communications Through Consensus Building

By admin in Inside the IEEE-SA, Standards at Work on 03/07/2013 Leave a comment
The IEEE 11073™ family of standards are designed to help healthcare product vendors and integrators create devices and systems for disease management, health and fitness, and independent living that can help save lives and improve quality of life for people worldwide. The growing list of IEEE 11073 standards is intended to support interoperable communications for [...]