This lecture presents a first compendium of established and emerging standards in pervasive
computing systems. The lecture explains the role of each of the covered standards and explains
the relationship and interplay among them. Hopefully the lecture will help piece together the
various standards into a sensible and clear landscape. The lecture is a digest reorganization
and a compilation of several short articles that have been published in the Standards and
Emerging Technologies department of the IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine. The articles have
been edited and shortened or expanded to provide the necessary focus and uniform coverage
depth. There are more standards and common practices in pervasive systems than the lecture
could cover. However systems perspective and programmability of pervasive spaces which are
the main foci of the lecture set the scope and determined which standards should be included.
The lecture explains what it means to program a pervasive space and introduces the new
requirements brought about by pervasive computing. Among the standards the lecture covers are
sensors and device standards service-oriented device standards service discovery and delivery
standards service gateway standards and standards for universal interactions with pervasive
spaces. In addition the emerging sensor platform and domestic robots technologies are covered
and their essential new roles explained. The lecture also briefly covers a set of standards
that represents an ecosystem for the emerging pervasive healthcare industry. Audiences who may
benefit from this lecture include (1) academic and industrial researchers working on
sensor-based pervasive or ubiquitous computing R&D (2) system integrator consultants and
firms especially those concerned with integrating sensors actuators and devices to their
enterprise and business systems (3) device smart chips and sensor manufacturers (4)
government agencies (5) the healthcare IT and pervasive health industries and (6) other
industries such as logistics manufacturing and the emerging smart grid and environment
sustainability industries. Table of Contents: Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Sensor
and Device Standards Service-Oriented Device Architecture (SODA) Sensor Platforms Service
Discovery and Delivery Standards The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi ) Universal
Interactions Domestic Robots for Smart Space Interactions Continua: An Interoperable
Personal Health Echosystem References Author Biography
