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1. Project: IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title:SC WNG and Scmag Closing Report for July 2012 Date Submitted: 19July 2012 Source: Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC Contact: Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC Voice: +1 847 960-3715, E-Mail: pat.kinney@ieee.org Re: WNG and Maintenance Closing Reports for July 2012 Session Abstract: WNG and Maintenance Closing Reports for San Diego Purpose: Information to 802.15 WG Notice: This document has been prepared to assist the IEEE P802.15. It is offered as a basis for discussion and is not binding on the contributing individual(s) or organization(s). The material in this document is subject to change in form and content after further study. The contributor(s) reserve(s) the right to add, amend or withdraw material contained herein. Release: The contributor acknowledges and accepts that this contribution becomes the property of IEEE and may be made publicly available by P802.15. Slide 1 Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC

2. SC WNG Presentation The WNG meeting included one presentation: • Dependable Wireless M2M Network for Controlling - Applications for Cars, Energy, Medicine, Cities (15-12-0370-00) by Dr. Ryuji Kohno (Yokohama National University) Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC

3. Dependable Wireless M2M Network • Dependability in network” means to guarantee lowest performance enough high in a sense of highly reliable, safe, secure, fault tolerant, robust services in any predictable and even unpredictable worse environments • Demand for Dependable Networks • Need for Highly Reliable, Robust Communications for Controlling • Transition from Human centric communications to Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. • Highly reliable, safe, secure and robust communications for M2M Controlling is necessary • Integrated wired & wireless networks provide dependable, green and ecological networks adaptable for environment. • Emotion and Sustainability • Medicine, Robot, ITS, Energy Supply, and Manufacturing require more dependability in controlling network, integrated circuit, link in micro devices. • Medical equipment and industrial products need long life time, fault tolerance. • Dependable Network Architecture for M2M controlling. Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC

4. SC WNG Actions • Straw Poll: How many companies have an interest on this activity? Count was 31 • Do we establish an interest group or a study group within 802.15 to discuss it? Support for IGwas 18 with 5 for study group • Given the interest and the expected participation an interest group will be formed at the closing plenary if an IG chair can be named (perhaps Dr. Kohno?) Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC

5. SC Maintenance • Meeting objectives were to review the web site, review the request form, and define a process for this committee • Web site and request form were reviewed and approved • Process was defined using 802.1 maintenance as a baseline, and will be included in the 802.15 Operations Manual • Committee size will be 5 – 7, selected by WG chair • Committee will maintain maintenance database and make recommendations to WG Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC