HE INTERNET OF THINGS; Contents; List of Acronyms; Introduction; Part I M2M AREA NETWORK PHYSICAL LAYERS; 1 IEEE 802.15.4; 1.1 The IEEE 802 Committee Family of Protocols; 1.2 The Physical Layer; 1.2.1 Interferences with Other Technologies; 1.2.2 Choice of a 802.15.4 Communication Channel, Energy Detection, Link Quality Information; 1.2.3 Sending a Data Frame; 1.3 The Media-Access Control Layer; 1.3.1 802.15.4 Reduced Function and Full Function Devices, Coordinators, and the PAN Coordinator; 1.3.2 Association; 1.3.3 802.15.4 Addresses; 1.3.4 802.15.4 Frame Format; 1.3.5 Security. 1.4 Uses of 802.15.41.5 The Future of 802.15.4: 802.15.4e and 802.15.4g; 1.5.1 802.15.4e; 1.5.2 802.15.4g; 2 Powerline Communication for M2M Applications; 2.1 Overview of PLC Technologies; 2.2 PLC Landscape; 2.2.1 The Historical Period (1950-2000); 2.2.2 After Year 2000: The Maturity of PLC; 2.3 Powerline Communication: A Constrained Media; 2.3.1 Powerline is a Difficult Channel; 2.3.2 Regulation Limitations; 2.3.3 Power Consumption; 2.3.4 Lossy Network; 2.3.5 Powerline is a Shared Media and Coexistence is not an Optional Feature; 2.4 The Ideal PLC System for M2M. 2.4.1 Openness and Availability2.4.2 Range; 2.4.3 Power Consumption; 2.4.4 Data Rate; 2.4.5 Robustness; 2.4.6 EMC Regulatory Compliance; 2.4.7 Coexistence; 2.4.8 Security; 2.4.9 Latency; 2.4.10 Interoperability with M2M Wireless Services; 2.5 Conclusion; References; Part II LEGACY M2M PROTOCOLS FOR SENSOR NETWORKS, BUILDING AUTOMATION AND HOME AUTOMATION; 3 The BACnetTM Protocol; 3.1 Standardization; 3.1.1 United States; 3.1.2 Europe; 3.1.3 Interworking; 3.2 Technology; 3.2.1 Physical Layer; 3.2.2 Link Layer; 3.2.3 Network Layer; 3.2.4 Transport and Session Layers. 3.2.5 Presentation and Application Layers3.3 BACnet Security; 3.4 BACnet Over Web Services (Annex N, Annex H6); 3.4.1 The Generic WS Model; 3.4.2 BACnet/WS Services; 3.4.3 The Web Services Profile for BACnet Objects; 3.4.4 Future Improvements; 4 The LonWorks R? Control Networking Platform; 4.1 Standardization; 4.1.1 United States of America; 4.1.2 Europe; 4.1.3 China; 4.2 Technology; 4.2.1 Physical Layer; 4.2.2 Link Layer; 4.2.3 Network Layer; 4.2.4 Transport Layer; 4.2.5 Session Layer; 4.2.6 Presentation Layer; 4.2.7 Application Layer. 4.3 Web Services Interface for LonWorks Networks: Echelon SmartServer4.4 A REST Interface for LonWorks; 4.4.1 LonBridge REST Transactions; 4.4.2 Requests; 4.4.3 Responses; 4.4.4 LonBridge REST Resources; 5 ModBus; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 ModBus Standardization; 5.3 ModBus Message Framing and Transmission Modes; 5.4 ModBus/TCP; 6 KNX; 6.1 The Konnex/KNX Association; 6.2 Standardization; 6.3 KNX Technology Overview; 6.3.1 Physical Layer; 6.3.2 Data Link and Routing Layers, Addressing; 6.3.3 Transport Layer; 6.3.4 Application Layer; 6.3.5 KNX Devices, Functional Blocks and Interworking.

An all-in-one reference to the major Home Area Networking, Building Automation and AMI protocols, including 802.15.4 over radio or PLC, 6LowPAN/RPL, ZigBee 1.0 and Smart Energy 2.0, Zwave, LON, BACNet, KNX, ModBus, mBus, C.12 and DLMS/COSEM, and the new ETSI M2M system level standard. In-depth coverage of Smart-grid and EV charging use cases. This book describes the Home Area Networking, Building Automation and AMI protocols and their evolution towards open protocols based on IP such as 6LowPAN and ETSI M2M. The authors discuss the approach taken by service providers to interconnect the protoco.