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IEEE INTRODUCES GROUNDBREAKING STANDARD FOR BODY AREA NETWORKING

IEEE 802.15.6™ 2012 helps enable a next generation of intelligent implantable devices, and provides a variety of new opportunities in healthcare and personal entertainment

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PISCATAWAY, NJ, 21 May 2012 - IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, today announced a new standard, IEEE 802.15.6™-2012, optimized to serve wireless communications needs for ultra-low power devices operating in or around the human body. Created for a variety of applications, IEEE 802.15.6-2012 is designed to address and compensate for the effects of a body on network performance. It will help enable a new generation of wireless implantable devices, assist in the development of new opportunities for delivering better healthcare as well as support other innovative uses for wearable computing devices.

IEEE 802.15.6-2012 specifies a short range, low power, and reliable wireless communication protocol for use in close proximity to, or inside, a human body. Data rates, up to 10 Mbps, are offered to serve a wide and evolutionary set of personal entertainment and healthcare services. The standard helps support the combination of security, reliability, quality of service, low power, data rate and interference protection needed to address the breadth of unique body area network applications not supplied by other wireless communications standards.

“The IEEE Standards Association is a global leader and innovator in communications standards development and this standard is in keeping with that tradition,” said Art Astrin, chair of the IEEE 802.15.6 Task Group. “It underscores our commitment to the realization of a true body area network to meet the challenges of achieving far-ranging and futuristic solutions for healthcare, prosthetics, implants and a variety of novel consumer uses.”

Examples of the applications served by the IEEE 802.15.6-2012 standard include routine diagnostic testing such as EEGs (electroencephalogram), ECGs (electrocardiogram) and monitoring of vital signals such as temperature, heart rate, oxygen, and blood pressure. It may also find use in automated drug delivery systems for treatment of such chronic conditions as diabetes, to interconnect a wearable or implanted glucose sensor with an insulin pump, in deep brain or cortical stimulators to address conditions such as Parkinson’s, in retinal implants to give vision to the blind, or in sensors to aid in sport training.

Similarly, IEEE 802.15.6-2012 could find unprecedented uses for personal entertainment and gaming, including body-centric solutions for future wearable computers. “The existence of a body area network standard provides a myriad of opportunities to create a wide variety of new products and capabilities aimed at enhancing people’s comfort and well being in ways we can only begin to imagine,” continued Astrin.

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IEEE ANNOUNCES NEW, REVISED AND REAFFIRMED STANDARDS AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

Smart Grid, EPONs, Train Control, Medical Information Transmission and Social Networking Among the Applications Addressed by Newly Approved Standards and Development Projects

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PISCATAWAY, NJ, 17 May 2012 - IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, today announced a host of new, revised and reaffirmed standards and standards-development activities. Detailed information on the standards and projects recently approved by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board is available on the IEEE-SA website.

Among the new standards that have been published is IEEE 1409™ “IEEE Guide for Application of Power Electronics for Power Quality Improvement on Distribution Systems Rated 1 kV Through 38 kV.” A standard of prime relevance to the global smart grid, IEEE 1409 is designed as a resource for electric utility providers seeking to implement electronic-based equipment in distribution systems in order to improve power quality. The standard presents guidelines and performance expectations for such custom power devices. IEEE 1409 is available for purchase at the IEEE Standards Store.

Newly published revised standards include IEEE 367™ “Recommended Practice for Determining the Electric Power Station Ground Potential Rise and Induced Voltage from a Power Fault.” The updated standard for power and telecommunications engineers offers guidance for calculating and managing power-station ground potential rise (GPR) and longitudinal induction (LI) voltages in metallic telecommunication protection design. IEEE 367 can be accessed with subscription at IEEE Xplore® Digital Library.

Among the standards-development projects that the IEEE-SA approved are four that are intended to expand the IEEE 802® family of standards covering personal, local and metropolitan area network interfaces for evolving wired and wireless networking technologies:

IEEE-SA also reaffirmed a number of standards, including IEEE C57.13.1™ “IEEE Guide for Field Testing of Relaying Current Transformers,” which is intended to describe field-test methods that assure that current transformers are connected properly, are of marked ratio and polarity and are capable of performing as designed. IEEE C57.13.1 is available for purchase at the IEEE Standards Store.

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IEEE STANDARDS ASSOCIATION IS NOW AN ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF INDIA SMART GRID FORUM (ISGF)

Membership to enable IEEE-SA to play a growing role in the rapidly evolving Indian smart grid market

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BANGALORE, 17 May 2012 - The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), a globally recognized standards setting body within IEEE, today announced that it has become an associate member of the India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF) promoted by Ministry of Power, Govt. of India. The membership will allow IEEE-SA to attend forum meetings and participate in initiatives driven by the forum. The growing role in the Indian smart grid market is in line with the stated commitment of IEEE-SA to play a macro role in evolving the right ecosystem for effective smart grid implementation here. IEEE-SA will bring its deep standards related knowledge and arising perspectives to the deliberations at the forum and thus make it more holistic. IEEE-SA has been continually investing over the past two years in creating wider awareness of Smart Grid as a concept and also in bringing multiple stakeholders together to transfer best practices and knowledge from other Smart Grid markets worldwide.

Commenting on the membership, Bill Ash, Strategic Program Manager, IEEE Standards Association, said “We believe ISGF is the apt platform for the facilitating role we have chosen to play and are pleased to be the first association to become a member. The membership marks a significant step forward in our growing engagement with the Indian Smart Grid market. Beyond participation, we will actively contribute and help ISGF achieve the objectives it has set for itself.”

IEEE-SA has launched key standards and guidelines such as the IEEE 2030® Smart Grid Interoperability Guide, the first such standard that aids interoperability of energy, information and communications technologies; IEEE 1547™, the first guide for implementation of Microgrids and the IEEE 1901™ standard for Broadband over Power Line. More standards are in the pipeline providing among the most comprehensive, globally accepted and validated set of standards that enable better interoperability, connection, communication and management of the various elements that go into a Smart Grid. Currently, IEEE-SA has over 100 standards and standards-in-development spanning the entire Smart Grid spectrum.

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IEEE APPROVES NEW IEEE 802.1aq™ SHORTEST PATH BRIDGING STANDARD

IEEE 802® standard designed to help reduce complexity and human error, enabling more dynamic, easier-to-use deployments

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PISCATAWAY, N.J., USA, 8 May 2012 — IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, today announced that it has approved the IEEE 802.1aq™-2012 Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Bridges and Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks. Also known as Shortest Path Bridging (SPB), the standard will help dramatically reduce the complexity of Ethernet networks while increasing their scale. Part of the IEEE 802® family of standards for local and metropolitan area networks, IEEE 802.1aq encompasses all functionalities of existing technologies, such as Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and Multiple MAC Registration Protocol (MMRP) into a single, easy-to-use link state protocol.

The new IEEE 802.1aq SPB standard is expected to significantly streamline the creation and management of enterprise, carrier, and cloud networks, and is designed to virtually eliminate human error during network configuration. IEEE 802.1aq preserves the plug-and-play nature that established Ethernet as the de facto protocol at Layer 2. It leverages a proven carrier-grade link state protocol for automatic and instantaneous building of the most logical, optimized topology between access points. This simplifies endpoint provisioning, decreases configuration burdens, and reduces errors. It also helps enable more dynamic deployments that are easier to use and maintain than other technologies.

“Ethernet is a uniquely enabling technology that has indelibly changed the face of the networking and communications landscape; yet, for all of the benefits it brings – improved interoperability and enhanced functionality, for example – it is still subject to challenges like increased complexity in network architectures and simple human error,” said Tony Jeffree, chair, IEEE 802.1™ Working Group. “IEEE 802.1aq will help minimize these issues by providing a robust control plane that delivers greater scale, resiliency, and efficiency in Ethernet networking, simplifying operations and minimizing human error.”

Based on a proven link state routing protocol, SPB combines Intermediate System To Intermediate System (IS-IS) and Ethernet to deliver more power and scalability than its predecessors. Using the IEEE’s next-generation VLAN, called a Service Interface Identifier (I-SID), it is capable of supporting 16 million unique services compared to the VLAN limit of four thousand. Once the I-SID is provisioned at the edge, the network core automatically interconnects like I-SID endpoints to create a contiguous fabric leveraging all links and equal cost connections using an enhanced shortest path algorithm.

Already being deployed by users around the world, IEEE 802.1aq consolidates multiple existing functionalities, including STP, Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP), Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), and MMRP into in a one link state protocol.

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NEW IEEE STANDARD PROJECT DESIGNED TO HELP CONSUMERS JUDGE CAMERA-PHONE IMAGE QUALITY WHEN MAKING PURCHASING DECISIONS

IEEE Acquires CPIQ Initiative from International Imaging Industry Association (I3A)

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INTERNATIONAL CTIA WIRELESS® 2012, NEW ORLEANS, USA, 7 May 2012 — IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, today announced that it will be spearheading the global industry effort to evolve camera-phone image quality. The new IEEE P1858™ – Draft Standard for Camera Phone Image Quality (CPIQ) – development project is designed to specify methods and metrics for measuring and testing camera-phone image quality, enabling consumers to more easily and accurately compare and choose camera phones and to ultimately enjoy a better user experience.

With the launch of the IEEE P1858 working group, IEEE is building on the CPIQ initiative of the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A), and making a strategic addition to the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) suite of mobile-video standards designed to improve the customer experience. IEEE has acquired I3A’s CPIQ program and other assets, and the new IEEE effort involves many of the same corporate members that contributed to I3A’s five-year-old groundbreaking activity.

“IEEE is the obvious choice to take CPIQ to the next level,” said Lisa Walker, president of I3A. “The overlap in membership between IEEE and I3A will allow for continuity in work toward a globally relevant CPIQ standard, and the competency that IEEE has built around assessing mobile-video quality provides an opportunity for an easy transition and expansion of the work to important, related areas such as video.”

Though they may possess identical image-resolution capabilities, today’s camera phones produce vastly different quality images. Vendors and consumers lack sufficient standardized metrics to compare one handset to the next. IEEE P1858 is designed to create a CPIQ rating system that will help consumers identify the camera phones that best meet their needs.

“Camera phones are the device of choice with consumers, but they need a more accurate and reliable way to ensure that the camera phones they purchase deliver the image quality they desire—it’s not just about the megapixels,” said George John, ad-interim chair of the IEEE P1858 working group and principal program manager with Microsoft. “This is the need that I3A uniquely identified in 2007, and we believe IEEE provides the ideal environment—tremendous worldwide and technological scope, proven abilities for building consensus and a globally respected standards-development process—for building on I3A’s groundbreaking work.”

I3A successfully identified the fundamental attributes that contribute to CPIQ, as well as existing standards and other useful information related to those attributes. The IEEE P1858 working group intends to continue that effort by defining a standardized suite of objective and subjective test methods for measuring camera-phone image quality, as well as tools and test methods to facilitate standards-based communication and comparison among carriers, handset manufacturers and component vendors.

“We applaud I3A for the crucial work that it accomplished in ushering the CPIQ specifications to where they are today,” said Karen Kenney, senior director, IEEE-SA. “This is an exciting new opportunity for IEEE that fits nicely with many of our other established standards activities. We look forward to driving the CPIQ standard to fruition and supporting its market implementation through a suite of available services, including access to conformity assessment programs.”

PC, tablet, smartphone, camera component and sensor manufacturers; application developers; telecom service providers and other interested parties are invited to participate in the IEEE P1858 working group. For more information, please visit the working group website.

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IEEE 802.11™ EXPANDED TO SUPPORT FASTER, HIGHER-QUALITY, SIMPLER WIRELESS LAN COMMUNICATIONS IN MORE ENVIRONMENTS

IEEE-SA Standards Board Approves New Revision of Wireless LAN Standard Leveraged in Devices and Networks Around the World

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INTERNATIONAL CTIA WIRELESS® 2012, NEW ORLEANS, USA, 7 May 2012 — IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, today announced the publication of IEEE 802.11™-2012, which defines the technology for the world’s premier wireless local area network (LAN) products.

The new IEEE 802.11-2012 revision¹ has been expanded significantly by supporting devices and networks that are faster, more secure, while offering improved Quality of Service and, improved cellular network hand-off. IEEE 802.11 standards, often referred to as “Wi-Fi®,” already underpin wireless networking applications around the world, such as wireless access to the Internet from offices, homes, airports, hotels, restaurants, trains and aircraft around the world. The standard’s relevance continues to expand with the emergence of new applications, such as the smart grid, which augments the facility for electricity generation, distribution, delivery and consumption with a two-way, end-to-end network for communications and control.

“IEEE 802.11 is obviously a standard of tremendous impact for developers and users of Wi-Fi-enabled devices, service providers, the global smart-grid community, manufacturers, healthcare workers and retail service providers around the world,” said Phil Solis, research director with ABI Research. “In the 15 years since the standard’s original publication, we’ve seen wireless networking evolve from a curiosity and nice-to-have capability to a must-have feature for doing business in a wide range of industries around the world. It’s a capability that today is expected to be embedded in almost any communications device, and it’s a service that’s expected to be available to employees and customers almost anywhere in the world.”

IEEE 802.11 defines one MAC and several PHY specifications for wireless connectivity for fixed, portable and mobile stations. IEEE 802.11-2012 is the fourth revision of the standard to be released since its initial publication in 1997. In addition to incorporating various technical updates and enhancements, IEEE 802.11-2012 consolidates 10 amendments to the base standard that were approved since IEEE 802.11’s last full revision, in 2007. IEEE 802.11n™, for example, defined MAC and PHY modifications to enable much higher throughputs, with a maximum of 600Mb/s; other amendments that have been incorporated into IEEE 802.11-2012 addressed direct-link setup, “fast roam,” radio resource measurement, operation in the 3650-3700MHz band, vehicular environments, mesh networking, security, broadcast/multicast and unicast data delivery, interworking with external networks and network management.

“The new IEEE 802.11 release is the product of an evolutionary process that has played out over five years and drawn on the expertise and efforts of hundreds of participants worldwide. More than 300 voters from a sweeping cross-section of global industry contributed to the new standard, which has roughly doubled in size since its last published revision,” said Bruce Kraemer, chair of the IEEE 802.11 working group. “Every day, about two million products that contain IEEE 802.11-based technology for wireless communications are shipped around the world. Continuous enhancement of the standard has helped drive technical innovation and global market growth. And work on the next generation of IEEE 802.11 already has commenced with a variety of project goals including extensions that will increase the data rate by a factor of 10, improve audio/video delivery, increase range and decrease power consumption.”

IEEE 802.11 is available for purchase for $5 at the IEEE Standards Store. For more information about the IEEE 802.11 working group, please visit the working group website.

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NEW IEEE STANDARD AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO AID SMART-GRID COMMUNICATIONS AND DISTRIBUTION AUTOMATION

Empowering Consumer Choice and Boosting Power Reliability and Efficiency Dependent on More Robust Communications and Distribution-Automation Capabilities

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PISCATAWAY, N.J., USA, 23 April 2012 — IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, today announced the publication of a new standard, as well as the launch of three new standards-development activities, all designed to enhance the communications and distribution-automation capabilities of the smart grid globally.

“Many of the benefits that the world hopes to achieve through smart-grid development—such as empowering greater consumer choice in energy use, improving the reliability of power generation and distribution and more efficiently meeting skyrocketing power demand—are dependent on integrating significantly more robust systems for communications and distribution automation,” said Dr. W. Charlton Adams Jr., past president of the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA). “The new standards activities approved by the IEEE-SA Standards Board are designed to enhance those very capabilities—and, in doing so, accelerate realization of the smart grid’s revolutionary promise.”

IEEE-SA has published IEEE 1591.1™-2012 – Standard for Testing and Performance of Hardware for Optical Ground Wire (OPGW). OPGW is being used in the smart grid to provide both grounding capabilities for transmission lines and communications back to utility systems such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA). IEEE 1591.1 provides manufacturing, testing and procurement specifications for use with OPGW hardware. The new standard is available for purchase at the IEEE Standards Store.

Smart-grid standards projects newly approved by IEEE-SA include the following:

With a portfolio of more than 100 active standards or standards in development relevant to the smart grid, the IEEE-SA is a global leader in smart-grid standards development, as well as smart-grid vision, awareness and education.

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IEEE C37.10™-2011 DESIGNED TO INFORM CONSISTENT, SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF FAILURES OF POWER CIRCUIT BREAKERS

Newly approved IEEE guide intended to encourage cooperation among circuit-breaker users and manufacturers

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PISCATAWAY, NJ, 5 April 2012 — IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, today announced the approval of IEEE C37.10™-2011 – Guide for Investigation, Analysis and Reporting of Power Circuit Breaker Failures. The newly revised IEEE guide provides practices for uniformly and systematically performing, analyzing and reporting investigations of failures of power circuit breakers.

IEEE C37.10 is designed to bring consistency and rigor to the process of determining the cause of failures in circuit breakers. By replacing subjectivity and inconsistency in assigning blame with a uniform, objective logic for determining the cause of a failure, the standard supports a process of continuous improvement across product manufacturing and application, minimizing the likelihood and negative impact of future events. In this way, IEEE C37.10 is intended to encourage cooperative efforts by users and manufacturers of circuit breakers in failure analysis.

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IEEE FORMS STUDY GROUP TO EXPLORE REDUCED TWISTED PAIR GIGABIT ETHERNET

New IEEE 802.3™ Group to Examine Market Demand and Technology Requirements for Achieving High Bandwidth Speed with Fewer Wire Pairs

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PISCATAWAY, NJ, 2 April 2012 — IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, today announced the formation of the IEEE 802.3™ Reduced Twisted Pair Gigabit Ethernet PHY study group.

IEEE 802.3 physical-interface transceivers (PHYs) are being deployed in ever-increasing numbers in a wide variety of application spaces. Recently, the global automotive industry has started to embrace Ethernet as a networking technology. The application areas range from a backbone for all data services to “infotainment” to driver assistance to vehicle control systems such as those used in brakes, suspension and transmission. To achieve Gigabit Ethernet networking speeds via 1000BASE-T for those applications, four pairs of wires would be required. Reducing the number of wire pairs would cut the size and weight of Ethernet wiring in a vehicle. Considering the market demand and technology requirements of achieving such performance gains via the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet and IEEE 802.1™ Audio/Video Bridging standards, the new IEEE 802.3 study group will explore the potential for an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standards project to define a Reduced Twisted Pair Gigabit Ethernet PHY.

“With a tremendous expansion in the number of Ethernet nodes in automobiles forecasted, the efficiencies to be realized in reducing wire pairs to achieve Gigabit Ethernet networking speeds will be of growing importance to that industry,” said Steve Carlson, chairperson of the IEEE 802.3 Reduced Twisted Pair Gigabit Ethernet PHY Study Group and president of High Speed Design, Inc.

Added Dr. Kirsten Matheus, project manager for Ethernet IP & Strategy at BMW: “The automotive industry is moving full speed towards Ethernet-based in-car networking. A reduced pair Gigabit Ethernet standard suitable for automotive use is the missing link toward the flexible, scalable and future-proof networking technology we would like to deploy. We are excited at the prospect of this IEEE 802.3 activity.”

Interested individuals are invited to contribute to the new IEEE 802.3 Reduced Twisted Pair Gigabit Ethernet PHY study group, which is scheduled to meet at the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Interim Session, May 14-18, 2012, at the Hilton Minneapolis.

“The formation of an IEEE 802.3 study group occurs when there is interest in developing a request to initiate an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standards-development project,” said David Law, chair of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet working group and distinguished engineer with HP Networking. “Reducing the number of wire pairs required to achieve high bandwidth could introduce additional, untapped markets for IEEE 802.3-based Ethernet technology, such as industrial-control and avionics, and have far-reaching impact across varied industries.”

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IEEE APPROVES IEEE P802.22b AMENDMENT PROJECT FOR ENHANCED BROADBAND SERVICES AND MONITORING APPLICATIONS USING TV WHITESPACES

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PISCATAWAY, NJ, 26 March 2012 — IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, today announced that it approved the IEEE P802.22b™ Amendment Project for Enhanced Broadband Services and Monitoring Applications. With this new enhancement, the IEEE 802.22™ Working Group proposes to bring advanced wireless technologies and applications to rural and under-served areas around the world.

The IEEE 802.22 Working Group has established Task Group ‘b’ for executing the activities for this amendment Project Authorization Request (PAR). The new PAR aims to enhance the IEEE 802.22-2011 standard capabilities to accommodate a wide variety of applications using cognitive radio technology in Television White Spaces (TVWS). These applications include long range and regional area smart grid, critical infrastructure monitoring, triple play services like providing voice, video and data, backhaul for broadband access, offloading cellular telephony traffic, regional area public safety and homeland security networks, emergency broadband services, monitoring rain forests, monitoring livestock, and border protection etc.

IEEE P802.22b Task Group is making calls for contribution from interested participants for the development of this standard. The group begins work on this project from the March IEEE 802® plenary session.

Additional information on this amendment PAR can be found on the IEEE 802.22 WG webpage.

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