Closed Activities

Explore Closed Activities: Review Outputs and Results

Here is a comprehensive list of our closed IC activities, which are no longer active. Click on any activity to explore its outputs and publications and discover the accomplishments achieved during their course.

IC22-014

Coalition for Advanced Reactor Licensing (CARL): Facilitating Licensing for Advanced Reactors (PDF)

The goal of CARL is to identify priority topics of Uncertainty that would be of concern to the regulator and develop targeted position papers, case studies and other output that would directly support the license applicant in their Advanced Reactor license application.

IC22-010

Sustainability for Connectivity & Telecom Systems (PDF)

The ICAID will be focused on all Information and Communication Technology (ICT) standards, products, services, and organizations that are actively involved in ICT industry.

IC22-004

Unmanned Aerial Systems Forum (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to analyze the ecosystem of Unmanned Aerial Systems with the emphasis on India.

IC21-014

IEEE Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Standards Tracking and Standards Development-Related Research Needs (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to identify IEEE standards and standards development activities that are relevant to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).

IC21-012

AI Impact Use Cases Initiative (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to create a database of AI use cases across key sectors, categorized according to the proposed European Commission risk categories.

IC21-011

Big Data Governance Focus Group (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to provide clarity on what constitutes data governance and where this definition is applicable, e.g., IoT, AI, privacy, etc.

IC21-010

Fiber Attach Technology (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to analyze available fiber attach designs and develop a guide to their use for engineers, scientists, and designers.

IC21-008

Needs Assessment for Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Standards (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to assess the education and standards needs around Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT).

IC21-004

User-Centered Approach to Designing a User Interface for Rural Communities (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to develop a model for the design and implementation of user interfaces for rural communities.

IC21-003

Mobile Health Applications Standards & Laboratory Services (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to establish a certification and associated conformity assessment process for mobile health apps and creating a global mobile health application registry.

IC21-002

Micro-Mechanical-Universal-Switches (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to build a cross-industry coalition of partners to jointly define a family of standards that will help to facilitate the deployment of micro-mechanical universal switches across numerous end markets.

IC21-001

Cybersecurity in Agile Cloud Computing (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to raise awareness of cloud remote access security risks via workshops and conferences.

IC20-028

2030.5 Ecosystem Steering Committee (PDF)

This goal of this activity was to work to promote the IEEE 2030.5 standard and ease the integration of distributed energy resources (DER), including responsive generation, storage, and load into the electric grid.

IC20-027

Responsible Innovation of AI and the Life Sciences (PDF)

This goal of this activity was to address biosecurity and safety of artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous intelligent systems (AIS) in human health and human biology.

IC20-026

Alliance for Best Practices and Standards in Smart Cities (PDF)

This goal of this activity was to bring together technologists, academia, smart city leaders and other stakeholders to help improve the adoption of standards by cities.

IC20-025

Trustworthy Technical Implementations of Children’s Online/Offline Experiences (PDF)

This goal of this activity was to create an ecosystem that lowered the barriers to engagement and enables a collaborative community that builds, develops and continually iterates best practices for products and services intended for children.

IC20-024

IEEE SA Industry Rapid Activator Program (IRAP) (PDF)

This goal of this activity was to showcase/demonstrate recently published, or soon to be published, IEEE standards at related industry events to accelerate the commercial implementation and/or adoption of those standards.

IC20-022

Disaster Recovery for Blockchain Nodes and Enterprise Workloads (PDF)

This goal of this activity was to develop disaster recovery strategies for distributed financial applications.

IC20-017

Association for Digital Transformation (PDF)

This IC activity is dedicated to advancing the adoption and integration of Digital Transformation in various industry sectors by providing standards, recommended practices, guides, and reference implementations.

IC20-015

The Earth Lab (PDF)

This goal of this activity was to develop a Green Guide to Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS) that will serve as a pragmatic roadmap for engineers, corporations and policy makers to leverage AIS innovation for an effective transition to a green economy.

IC20-012

Roadmap for the Development and Implementation of Standard Oriented Knowledge Graphs (PDF)

This goal of this activity was to provide the framework and general construction method to developers and users of standard-oriented knowledge graphs so that standard-oriented knowledge graphs can be integrated, implemented, and applied more simply and efficiently.

IC20-011

IoT Ecosystem Security (PDF)

The motivation behind this activity is to raise awareness at consumer and manufacturers sector and work with regulators to promote secure practices in the IoT ecosystem.

IC20-010

Labeling Cybersecurity Data for AI Automation (Single-and-Multi-Modal) (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to bring together industry stakeholders to engage in building consensus on priority issues for standardization activities, and provide a platform for IEEE thought leadership to industry.

IC20-008

The IEEE Trusted Data & Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS) Playbook for Finance Initiative

This goal of this activity was to develop an industry-specific implementation guide (playbook) that encourages technologists in the financial services to prioritize human well-being and ethical considerations in the application of data in Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS).

IC20-006

The IEEE Applied AIS Risk and Impact Framework Initiative (PDF)

This goal of this activity was to develop an applied risk framework or assessment for artificial intelligence systems (AIS).

IC20-005

Global Initiative on Digital Transformation of Pandemic Surveillance (PDF)

This goal of this activity was to investigate digital technologies such as blockchain to improve the efficiency and transparency of pandemic surveillance.

IC20-004

Assessment of Standardization Gaps for Safe Automated Driving (PDF)

This goal of this activity was to assess existing automated driving standards to identify gaps and propose new standards for safe automated driving.

IC20-003

AI-Driven Innovation for Cities and People (PDF)

This goal of this activity was to develop blueprints to deploy beneficial and responsible artificial intelligence (AI) systems that are used for the public good.

IC20-002

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Testbed Development for Dynamic Road Traffic Management and Control at Electronic City — Bangalore INDIA (PDF)

This goal of this activity was to develop a test bed for traffic management and control applications for Electronic City (Bangalore, India).

IC20-001

Pre-Standardization Activities on Industrial AI (PDF)

This activity aimed to identify overlaps and gaps in standards governing industrial artificial intelligence (AI) applications and consumer AI applications.

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IC19-008

Arc Flash Calculator (PDF)

This activity aimed to establish a volunteer peer review team to assess the complimentary arc flash calculator.

IC19-007

Pre-standardization Studies for Indian Language Resources (PDF)

This activity aimed to identify use cases for standards to govern language resources for Indian languages.

IC19-006

Data Trading System Initiative (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to propose that the sharing of data should shift from a centralized system to an autonomous distributed sharing model, called the data trading environment.

IC19-005

Public Knowledge Graphs (PDF)

This activity aimed to identify and support the creation of open, federated graphs of knowledge, using available protocols for storage and mirroring, alignment of different graphs, clustering and disambiguation, annotation, tracing and adding provenance.

IC19-003

Transforming for Digital Medicine (PDF)

MyData Health sought to create a participatory design process for creation of whitepapers on the topic of creating a fair health data economy.

IC19-002

Social Impact Measurement Framework (PDF)

This activity focused on investors being increasingly interested in making investments that can have both a social and a financial impact.

IC19-001

Global Initiative to Standardize Fairness in the Trade of Data (PDF)

This activity aimed to draft and propose a standards framework that could assist consumers, communities, corporations and countries to operate in a new agreement around the fair trade of human and personal data.

IC18-004

Ethics Certification Program for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (ECPAIS) (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to provide the world’s first (based on our research) specification and body of its kind to enable a badge or mark for A/IS products, services and systems.

IC18-003

2030.5 Ecosystem Steering Committee (PDF)

This activity aimed to engage the ecosystem of organizations interested in promoting the IEEE 2030.5 standard.

IC18-002

IP Security (PDF)

This activity was a forum for Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) and Research Libraries to coordinate their efforts in securing IP from piracy (e.g. SCIHUB).

IC18-001

Facilities Joint Use (PDF)

The Joint Use group was a forum for Electric Power Utilities, Telecomm and Cable Companies, Regulators, etc. to coordinate and develop consistent approaches/methodologies/rules for joint use of facilities.

IC17-017

Blockchain Asset Exchange (PDF)

This activity aimed to design and develop a decentralized trading platform where entities and individuals could collaborate on creating, transferring, and capitalizing intellectual properties.

IC17-016

Industry Consortium on Learning Engineering (ICICLE) (PDF)

This activity aimed to offer guidance concerning the capabilities and limitations of the underlying technologies; how to use them to accomplish instructional goals; and how to evaluate the effectiveness of both the technologies and the various pedagogical innovations they allow.

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IC17-015

Optical Networks 2020 (PDF)

Optical Networks 2020 (ON2020) was a global collaborative that drove innovative optical network solutions to better meet the optical networking demands in the cloud era towards year 2020 and beyond.

IC17-014

Digital Intelligence (DQ) (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to put in place tools that will help ensure that digital literacy receives the attention and investment it deserves in the context both of domestic and overseas development policies.

IC17-013

11073 PHD Cybersecurity (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to build common ground about cybersecurity in the Personal Health Device community and create an “information security toolbox” appropriate for the IEEE 11073 PHD family of standards.

IC17-012

Supply Chain & Trials Standardized Technology and Implementation (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to address the issue of security and authenticity of the food and drug supply through interoperability of data systems.

IC17-011

Connectivity Harmonization of the Digital Citizen (PDF)

This activity proposed a multi-stream effort to address the design implications and technology implementations with a unique, core focus on the development of the immersive environment that will impact all present and future Digital Citizens.

IC17-010

Automotive Emerging Technology Initiative (PDF)

This activity aimed to provide a platform that brings together the global technical community working across these automotive industry topics in a collaborative environment to share knowledge, discuss issues and identify standards related solutions to drive innovation and accelerate emerging technology adoption.

IC17-008

PLC-IoT Interoperability and Compliance Testing (PDF)

This activity focused on selection of the labs for the testing, analysis and publication of the results, identification of the ambiguities and gaps in the IEEE 1901.1 standard and related test procedures.

IC17-006

Big Data Governance and Metadata Management (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to guide how big data and big data exchange is governed.

IC17-004

Electric Vehicle In-Motion Wireless Power Transfer (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to create a whitepaper on how in-motion wireless charging could be used in a smart city context.

IC17-003

India Robotics Roadmap (PDF)

This activity focused on India are to better understand and identify what existing Robotics and Automation solutions exist across public and private sectors.

IC16-006

International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS) (PDF)

This activity will focus on an International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (“IRDS”) via establishment of an interest group closely aligned with the new electronics industry ecosystem.

IC16-005

Consumer Healthcare Alliance (PDF)

This activity convened a community of global industry and academic leaders dedicated to improving consumers’ health with innovations in healthcare electronics.

IC16-004

Augmented Reality in the Oil/Gas/Electric Industry (PDF)

This activity convened stakeholders to identify requirements, standards needs and other issues, to help enable augmented reality solutions, as well as potentially mixed and virtual reality solutions, that can benefit the oil, gas and electric industries.

IC16-003

Internet of Things Interest Group (PDF)

This activity helped drive consensus development, engage industry and other relevant constituencies.

IC16-001

Open Data (PDF)

This activity convened stakeholders to assess existing Open Data initiatives and proposed new standards for making data “open.”

IC15-003

Smart City Compliance Indicators (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to define the factors that determine the “smartness” of a city.

IC15-002

Smart Glasses Roadmap (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to analyze the markets, use cases and technology considerations that must be addressed to accelerate enhanced reality technology readiness and adoption.

IC15-001

Fiber Optics Sensors (PDF)

This activity convened companies that manufacture fiber optic sensing systems or components for fiber optic sensing systems to identify gaps in standards related to fiber optic sensors and develop a plan to address these gaps.

IC14-002

Surgical Robotics (PDF)

This activity brought together academia and industry to build consensus and identify potential opportunities for standardization in the rapidly-growing field of medical robotics and computer-assisted medical technologies.

IC14-001

Green Power Generation (PDF)

This activity brought together enterprises and research institutions to overcome major issues and discuss potential technical standards relating to cleaner fossil fuel and especially coal-fired power generation in China and beyond.

IC13-009

Augmented Reality Directions and Standards (PDF)

This activity explored the full range of artistic, social and educational possibilities for augmented reality in smart mobile devices, including wearables.

IC13-008

Next Generation Ethernet Passive Optical Network (NG-EPON) (PDF)

This activity explored the market potential, desired features and technology options for a next generation EPON operating at data rates beyond 10 Gb/s.

IC13-007

Indian Low Voltage DC Forum (PDF)

This activity focused on utilizing a working DC microgrid, DC commercial building, and DC powered homes to investigate the issues and develop empirical data on the potential benefits of solar DC generation and usage in India, including parts of India not currently connected to the power grid.

IC13-006

Cloud Computing Innovation Council for India (PDF)

This activity convened a council of experts from across industry, academia and government agencies, serving as a think tank for driving technological innovations across the Cloud Computing ecosystem in India.

IC13-005

DC in the Home (PDF)

This activity explored the issues and work to be done to ensure DC electricity can be safely and conveniently accessed in the home.

IC13-003

Convergence of Smart Home and Building Architectures (PDF)

This activity focused on the pre-standardization efforts relating to the convergence of smart home and building communication network architectures.

IC13-002

Electric Vehicle Wireless Power Transfer (PDF)

This activity focused on the pre-standardization efforts for Electric Vehicle Wireless Power Transfer, with a particular focus on dynamic wireless charging.

IC13-001

IEEE SA Symposium on EDA Interoperability (PDF)

This activity aimed to organize an annual symposium to help members of the electronics/semiconductor design and verification community better understand the landscape of Electronic Design Automation.

IC12-007

Systems & Components for Energy Routers (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to promote new, solid-state energy routing technology to replace existing distribution-type transformers with more intelligent bi-directional power systems.

IC12-006

Actionable Data Book for Education (PDF)

This activity aimed to create and demonstrate prototypes for new methods of activity-based mobile learning via an open-standard e-book format with new forms of interactive learning technology and functionality.

IC12-005

Smart Energy Data Repository (PDF)

This activity aimed to create a global resource for smart energy/smart grid research data to enable open and collaborative research throughout industry, academia and regulatory bodies.

IC12-004

Higher Speed Ethernet Consensus (PDF)

This activity focused on building consensus related to the next speed of Ethernet for wireline applications.

IC12-003

IEEE Intercloud Testbed (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to bring industry and research institutions together to gain real-world experience in cloud-to-cloud interoperability with the IEEE Intercloud Testbed.

IC12-002

Power Matters Alliance (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to lead and organize the Power 2.0 ecosystem.

IC12-001

Standardization and Innovation in IT (SIIT) Conference (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to organize the IEEE SIIT Conference to promote and educate on the role standardization can play in helping technologies advance and reach market faster.

IC11-002

IEEE 802.11 Patent Pool Exploratory Forum (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to promote the IEEE 802.11 standard by promoting the availability of licenses essential to the IEEE standard on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.

IC11-001

Future Directions for Nanonetworking (PDF)

This activity considered two important aspects of future directions in nanonetworking: emerging trends and important open problems, and industrial applications and potential industrial partners.

IC10-001

Ethernet Wireline Bandwidth Needs (PDF)

The goal of this activity was focused on gathering information that will enable an evaluation of the bandwidth needs for Ethernet wireline applications, including, but not limited to, core networking and computing.

IC09-001

Industry Connections Security Group (ICSG) (PDF)

The goal of this activity was to convene computer security experts from around the globe to work together to combat malware and other computer security threats.

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