Wi-SUN's Director of Standards, Bob Heile, who is also the chairman of IEEE 802.15, IEEE 2030.5 on smart energy, and the Communications Working Group for the IEEE 2030 Smart Grid Guidance, agrees. "As the industry's need to deploy smart city applications and secure, robust Internet of Things applications grows, there is an increasing need to move away from proprietary, closed protocols in favor of solutions that use internationally recognized open standards. Wi-SUN's FAN solution is ideal for these applications, providing interoperable, multi-service, and secure IPv6 communications between multiple vendors over a wireless mesh network based on IEEE 802.15.4g."
The Wi-SUN Alliance's FAN solution utilizes IEEE 802.15.4g™, a global wireless communications standard, IETF IPv6 protocols including UDP/TCP, 6LoWPAN header compression and adaptation, routing using RPL, and IEEE 802.1x enterprise-grade security to enable robust, high-performance, long-range, low-power networks. A certification program to ensure full interoperability among multiple vendors will be offered later this year.
Smart Ubiquitous Networks (SUN)
SUN's Wi-SUN Alliance solutions provide resilient, secure, cost-effective, and energy-efficient wireless mesh connectivity with superior coverage across a spectrum of topographic environments, from dense urban neighborhoods to rural areas, with minimal additional infrastructure. Rather than focusing on networks designed for indoor applications, the Wi-SUN suite of solutions is more precisely tailored to the much more demanding needs of utilities, smart cities, and infrastructure management and control, including support for both resource-rich and resource-constrained devices.
