IoT Advisory Board Meeting #1

Target Outcomes
IoT Advisory Board Meeting # 1 Outcomes

• Understanding of advisory board goals, charter, and the operating guidelines

• Know your board members and NIST team

• Consensus on report approach, framework, and outline; content/topic area 

roles and responsibilities

• Initial identification of potential challenges, gaps, opportunities on the 

specific topic areas identified in charter

• Report content writing assignments

• Agenda topic items for Meeting 2
IoT Advisory Board Report 

Outline - Draft

Report may be done in Word format, but using this ppt format just for illustrative 

purposes showing what content and how it may look in final report
IoTAB and IoT FWG alignment

Developing and Growing the Internet of Things (DIGIT) Act

IoTAB

~ 1 year

IoT AB Report

- Oppties, Benefits

- Gaps

- Recommendations

IoT 

FWG

6 months

IoT FWG Report and 

Implementation Plan

Congress, 

Agencies
Table of Contents

• Executive Summary

• Introduction/Background

• Approach

• IoT Definition (put higher, scope of this report/work, what is IoT

device for this report)

• Analysis Model/Framework

• Opportunities and Value of IoT

• Key challenges and opportunities

• Summary

• Detailed challenge descriptions

• Technical maturity

• Infrastructure - technical

• Infrastructure - standards

• Policies

• Funding

• Cost

• Risk

• User/adopter

• Regulations

• Organizational

• Innovation

• Governance

• socioeconomic

Sector specific challenges

• Summary

• Detailed descriptions

• Intelligent traffic and transportation

• Supply chain

• Critical and sustainable infrastructure

• Environmental monitoring

• Agriculture

• Healthcare

• Small businesses

• International

Cross sector challenges – security, privacy, international, 

skillsets/education, algorithms/bias

Discussion and analysis of select topics

• tbd

Recommendations

• Summary of recommendations

• General Recommendations

• Topic specific recommendations

• Agency recommendation mapping (break down by agency?)

• Prioritization

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

Current state/where we are (data informed)

Socioeconomic impact/growing aging population

Innovation – state of innovation, how to accelerate, fu

Place based IoT – physical, virtual (put at conclusion/c
Analysis Model/Framework for capturing and classifying 

challenges

J

Category Develop Adoption/Deployment Operate/Use

Technical maturity

Infrastructure - technical

Infrastructure - standards

Policies

Funding

Cost

Risk

User/adopter

Regulations

Organizational

Innovation

Governance

Commerce/trade

Intellectual property

Safety

Accessibilty, inclusion, equity

The gaps and challenges will likely fall into one or more of these categories. 

There may be other categories, and we can add them as feedback comes in.

Development, Adoption and Operation/Use are parts of the IoT lifecycle.

Foundation means that the gap or challenge is an essential one.

We expect each industry area to have some similar challenges, and some 

industry specific ones. We will capture them in this framework.
Key challenges – overall

• Description

• Summary table

Challenge 

Category

Challenge Description Impact severity Industries 

impacted

Timeframe to 

act

Hi, med, low All industries now

Mfg, 

healthcare

5 years

Challenge categories

Technical maturity, Infrastructure – technical, Infrastructure – standards, Policies, Funding, Cost, Risk, User/adopter, Regulations, Organizational, Innovation, Governance

A

This is a high level table that shows, at a glance, all the key 

challenges. The more detailed information is shown in the 

next page for each challenge.
Key challenges - Technical maturity

Technical maturity challenge #1

- Description

- Impact

- Industries impacted

- Timeframe to act

Sidebar

Real life example showing 

impact of this challenge

B

We expect that there will be an industry flavor to 

these challenges. We may potentially create one that 

is industry specific, as it makes sense.
Key challenges – topic specific

• Description

• Summary table

Challenge 

Category

Challenge Description Impact severity Industries 

impacted

Timeframe to 

act

Hi, med, low All industries now

Mfg, 

healthcare

5 years

Topic categories

Intelligent traffic, agriculture, healthcare, environmental monitoring, supply chain, small business, international

C
Key challenges – topic specific: Healthcare

Healthcare IoT challenge #1 

- Description

- Impact

- Industries impacted

- Timeframe to act

Sidebar

Real life example showing 

impact of this challenge

D
Recommendations - summary

• Description

• Summary table

Recommend

ation

Description Challenge 

Category 

and 

challenges 

addressed

Industries 

impacted

Topic areas 

impacted

Timeframe 

to act

Agencies 

impacted

E
Recommendations – general

General recommendation #1

- Description of recommendation

- Value/benefits

- Potential issues in implementing 

recommendation to be aware of

- Challenges and challenge categories 

addressed

- Industries impacted

- Topic areas impacted

- Timeframe to act

- Agencies impacted

F

Sidebar

Maybe some discussion, or real 

life impact if this 

recommendation were to be 

implemented

Or maybe some example of 

what this could look like if 

implemented
Recommendations – topic specific

Topic specific recommendation #1 for topic 

area 1

- Description of recommendation

- Value/benefits

- Potential issues in implementing 

recommendation to be aware of

- Challenges and challenge categories 

addressed

- Industries impacted

- Topic areas impacted

- Timeframe to act

- Agencies impacted

Sidebar

Maybe some discussion, or real 

life impact if this 

recommendation were to be 

implemented

Or maybe some example of 

what this could look like if 

implemented

G
Recommendations – agency mapping

• Agency #1

Recommendati

on

Description Challenge 

Category and 

challenges 

addressed

Industries 

impacted

Topic areas 

impacted

Timeframe to 

act

H

Just mapping of recommendations to agencies, so each agency would have a list 

of the recommendations relevant to them
Recommendations – prioritization

Ease of implementation

Impact of implementation

Recommendations

1

2

3

4

5

6

4

1

3

6

5

2

High

Recommendation 1 name

Recommendation 2 name

Recommendation 3 name

Recommendation 4 name

Recommendation 5 name

Recommendation 6 name

Low

Difficult Easy

I
Topic Specific Discussions

Day 2: 11:15 am to 3:15 pm EST
Discussion topics

• Smart traffic and transit technologies [Nicole, Steve, TomK, Benson]

traffic and traffic management systems and vehicle technologies, including 

electric and autonomous vehicles (trucks, cars, and others used for 

transportation

• Augmented logistics and supply chains [Robby, Steve, TomK, Ann]

those activities involved in supply chain and logistics including freight 

transport, logistics, warehousing, distribution, etc.

• Sustainable and critical infrastructure [Arman, Benson, Nicole, Steve, TomK]

refers to infrastructure (roads, rail, transit, buildings, broadband, 

waterways, energy/grid, etc.) that is used to support the needs of a 

growing population while being environmentally and financially 

sustainable, operationally scalable and resilient against a number of future 

threats like climate change, disasters, economic and others

• Precision agriculture [Arman (energy), TomK, Ranveer]

crop farming, livestock, greenhouse and indoor farming, aquaculture and 

associated activities

• Environmental monitoring [Arman, Ranveer]

Broadly refers to air, water, soil/land, forests, energy, etc. 

• Public safety [Nicole]

refers to the prevention, detection, mitigation, response and recovery to 

natural and manmade incidents and events, such as fires, disasters, 

pandemic, etc.

• Health care [Ann]

refers to patient physical and mental health care related topics, from 

wellness, prevention to recovery, and other related activities

What are the opportunities for IoT and 

benefits it brings? 

• How do these impact small businesses 

and international trade?

What are the barriers hindering IoT 

development, adoption and operation? 

• How does this impact small businesses 

and international trade?

What are some potential 

recommendations?

Who else should we consult or speak to us?

Who wants to write about this?
Analysis Model/Framework for capturing and classifying 

challenges

Category Develop Adoption/Deployment Operate/Use

Technical maturity

Infrastructure - technical

Infrastructure - standards

Policies

Funding

Cost

Risk

User/adopter

Regulations

Organizational

Innovation

Governance

Commerce/trade

Intellectual property

Safety

Accessibilty, inclusion, equity
Closing and Wrap Up

Day 2: 4:15 pm to 5 pm EST
Key Takeaways – Day 1

• tbd
Key Takeaways – Day 2

• tbd
Actions 

– Day 1

Action Who When
Actions 

– Day 2

Action Who When
Meeting #2 agenda items (proposed)

• tbd