Current Industry Connections Activities

Aims to bring together experts in the field of global data centers to accelerate the implementation of technological innovations.

Demonstrates GenAI’s role in advancing healthcare by fostering community engagement and digital autonomy.

Ethics principles that organizations can use when considering children’s rights and well-being in digital spaces.

Focus on low carbon building electrical technologies, including standards research and development in a variety of areas.

Focus on user experience improvements from multiple dimensions in WLAN Networks.

Establish a collaborative platform that bridges the gap between the household appliance industry and the ICT sector.

Develop proposals for IEEE standards to address aspects such as terminology, usability, metrics, and more for AgeTech products and services.

Efforts will help enable the Greater Bay Area to establish closer cooperation with international standardization organizations such as IEEE SA.

The goal of this initiative is to foster collaboration and connect technical & business communities to IEEE Computing and Network Convergence experts and resources.

The goal of this initiative is to quantify and evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of artificial intelligence in digital consumption and adopt appropriate strategies to maximize its positive impact and minimize its negative consequences.

Although the focus of discussion for this IC activity is expected to relate to Precision Time Protocol (PTP), other timing technologies are expected to be discussed.

Our workshops and events focus on ICT technologies, Smart Manufacturing, and Industry 4.0, and will become an important channel to promote and apply technology standards.

The goal for this Industry Connections Committee would be to identify gaps in technology and standards related to the use of green hydrogen primarily in the electrical power and energy sector, and subsequently initiate follow-on activities to address identified gaps.

The ocean is essential for achieving sustainability. Ocean ecosystem services are being heavily used. Ocean industries need to be made sustainable. The ocean has large potential for climate solutions.

The goal of this proposed group is to bring together organizations and companies working on DTEs who are interested in collaborating and making their digital twins more interoperable.

The proposed quantum applications roadmap plays a vital role in indicating application-readiness and providing guidance for the stakeholders including investors, researchers, start-up founders, existing industries, policymakers, regulators, and the like.

The motivation of this initiative is to provide guidelines and reference implementations for spatial computing where users can comfortably and enjoyably use spatial computing devices at a low cost while enhancing the compatibility of spatial computing technology’s hardware and software.

The Energy Water Nexus focuses on the interdependency between energy and water and identifies opportunities to develop this emerging market space.

The Impact Assessment Framework for Sustainable Mobility Systems aims to provide a consistent approach to assess sustainability initiatives’ impact on SDG/ESG parameters, built step-by-step based on use cases and informed by reliable data from cyber-physical testbeds.

The goal of the activity is to collaborate with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Technical Committee (TC) 106 on recommendations for a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) for the validation of Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) measurement systems.

The International Electrotechnical Commission Technical Committee 106 and IEEE International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety will jointly develop a Technical Report on the scientific assessment procedures for absorbed power density of mmWave exposures from wireless devices.

This activity aims to address the emerging need for a standardized framework for a Hybrid Quantum-Inspired Internet Protocol.

To accommodate the massive amounts of data that will converge into 6G and the Internet, trusted decentralized infrastructure must be built using various technologies such as blockchain, privacy computing, and information-centric networking.

To provide a broader environment for the application of smart IDs, there is a need to standardize the ID-related issues for all the IoT tags or devices when they are bound with things in order to benefit users of full IoT-based business. A broad, open, cross-industry dialogue is needed to exchange views, debate and agree upon common challenges and coordinated activities are needed.

The goal of this activity is to develop recommendations for a proposed family of standards that would address application interoperability to enable more entities (i.e., patients, caregivers, etc.) to have visibility for assessing the accuracy of EHR data thereby delivering higher quality medical records.

The goal of this activity is to deliver IEEE 1547 standards to ready DERs with capabilities that enable future utilization with increasing DER penetrations and to support industry stakeholders in the adoption of these standards.

The goal of this activity is to build conventional, general-purpose zero trust micro segmented IT infrastructure and guidelines in healthcare, that are aligned with IEEE standards.

The goal of the IC activity is to bring together all the stakeholders (policy, regulator, service provider and technologies across the telecom sector in India) to create a viable systematic and meaningful roadmap for the Indian market.

Internet of Things (IoT) sensors have experienced explosive growth during the last decade and are poised for continued mass-scale adoption. This explosive growth has exposed issues that are beginning to negatively affect the adoption of IoT sensors in many industries.

The motivation of this initiative is to provide guidelines and reference implementations for decentralized metaverse where could not only collaborate on creating, and capitalizing intellectual properties and virtual assets in decentralized ways, but also benefit from other features of decentralization in the economy and governance of decentralized metaverses.

The global maritime industry is facing significant challenges in moving towards more sustainable operational practices to align with international sustainable development goals.

The motivation of this initiative is to facilitate discussions and collaborations on Persistent Computing, steer and advise on metaverse research and development, and provide technical guidelines and reference implementations for persistent virtual worlds and metaverses.

The end goal of this activity is to promote research and development on emerging Trust Technology, and help to realize the power of digital trust, solve the trust problem of the digital world and accelerate the decentralization and digitization of financial services and new digital economy.

The motivation for this IC activity is the increased focus on supply chain and asset traceability for electric grid components.

The goal of this activity is to create a working group of leaders and build a minimum viable product version of the SDP, pilot it through an ecosystem of educational institutions, corporations, and social organizations, develop standards for an SDP, come up with a strategy, business model, and action plan for scale out of the SDP to realize its full potential.

The high-level vision for 6G is to deepen the connection and integration between the digital, physical, and human worlds. Essentially, 6G will build on this foundation and introduce new capabilities far beyond the limits of 5G.

Development of a ‘wiki Best Practice Guide’ for new standards development in the ethical Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS) and Information Technology (IE) areas.

Assess data challenges and opportunities that involve data collection in producer planning and operations. The desired outcomes include the understanding of producer and supply chain data management needs to support better data sharing and integration across the lifecycle of production.

Assessing standards, technologies and applications associated with mobile and transportable energy storage solutions (ESS) to propose safety and performance standards for mobile and transportable ESS.

Assessing electric vehicle charging technology and proposing standards for interoperability, safety and testing of electric vehicle charging stations.

Exploring cyber security needs for special use cases with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. Also assessing the impact of upcoming areas such as Quantum Computing, Web 3.0, and 5G wireless technologies on current levels of cyber security and the need for a new cyber security architecture.

Assessing how to standardize synthetic data. Synthetic data is generated from original data and is statistically representative of the original data. When generated with appropriate privacy mechanisms, synthetic data is fully anonymous and impossible to re-identify.

Developing a structured sustainable framework/guideline to address the deployment, interoperability, configuration, fault management, and performance issues resulting from different Radio Access Network (RAN) standards and vendors.

Exploring how ethical assurance—supported by ethically sound and rigorous standards—can promote trust in the use of digital technologies for mental healthcare and support transparent communication between stakeholders.

Developing a structured, sustainable communication framework for 5G and future network applications and services that is flexible, adaptable, and scalable for newer and diverse ecosystems.

Experts with practical experience in cybersecurity addressing limitations in current cybersecurity approaches and technologies.

Developing a framework for deploying standardized technologies to address urgent needs during a crisis without sacrificing the well-being, rights, privacy or agency of people.

Working to develop solutions that increase access to telehealth for underserved and unconnected populations while protecting patient privacy and security.

An incubator to develop a global community, public presence, roadmaps and action plans around sustainable infrastructure and design, power sector transformation, and energy efficiency across IEEE. A focal point for activities, information and subject matter experts.

Developing reliable, efficient, and cost-effective broadband connectivity solutions for rural and remote areas globally.

Providing a framework for cooperation across a variety of disciplines and stakeholders to align technologies and jointly evolve networks, markets, standards and interoperable building blocks for if-and-when-needed mobility services.

Providing artificial intelligence systems (AIS) creators and end-users the resources, knowledge and tools to support a shift whereby AIS creators are able and willing to help safeguard and improve human well-being and ecological sustainability through their AIS creations.

Looking at the use of open technologies, patient data ethics and governance, KPIs on optimization of time and cost for recruitment and auditing trials of patients, and other issues to harmonize uses of technologies (AI, Blockchain/DLT, IoT/sensors, and VR/AR, etc.) to conduct remote patient trials.

Developing guidance, proposals and other inputs to support future IEEE standards development related to virtual and augmented reality applications.

Reviewing Brain-Machine Interfacing (BMI)/Brain Computer Interface (BCI) standards and deployments. Identifying gaps in existing standards and creating a plan to address the gaps.

Establishing a series of test deeds for Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). Providing an ecosystem for various stakeholders, from established industries to enterprising startups, to develop and test their solutions that have PLC as the core technology.

Identifying and creating consensus on technologies that have a potential to alter policy and business landscape, with particular focus on disruptive innovation. Addressing inclusion through trust and agency, working toward solutions that promote agency over our data, cyber-identity and internet-related security.

Assessing emerging requirements for IEEE 802-based communication infrastructures, identifying commonalities, gaps, and trends not currently addressed by IEEE 802 standards and projects, and facilitating building industry consensus for proposing new standards.

Bringing together experts in fields related to autonomous systems to identify and address the ethical considerations related to the design of autonomous systems and the issues they involve.

Assessing emerging requirements for enterprise, campus, and data center networks, identifying gaps not currently addressed by IEEE 802.3 standards, and facilitating building industry consensus towards proposals for new standards.

Proposing new standards around enabling 3D body processing which includes the capture, processing, storage, sharing and (augmented) representation for “Of-the-body” and “On-the-body” technologies.

Organizing an annual conference and exhibition on the application of Ethernet and Internet standards in the automotive environment.