Non-profit group Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) today announced the formation of a new Working Group (TPC-IoT), tasked with developing industry standard benchmarks for both hardware and software platforms associated with the Internet of Things (IoT).
“The Internet of Things is revolutionising the entire technology landscape, and impacts industries across all major sectors,” said Raghunath Nambiar, distinguished engineer at Cisco and elected Chairman of the new TPC-IoT Working Group.
“Analyst firm IDC predicts that the worldwide IoT market will grow to US $1.7 trillion by the year 2020. To put that in perspective, only 16 economies in the world had gross domestic product exceeding US $1 trillion in 2014. Formation of this Working Group is the first major step in bringing industry and the research community together – to develop a set of standardised workloads and metrics – which enable fair comparisons across technologies and products.”
“The TPC – with its lengthy history as one of the most respected standards bodies in the world – is perfectly positioned to develop such standards,” continued Nambiar. “Year after year, the TPC continues to introduce new Working Groups and define new metrics, to meet the needs of a continually evolving industry.”
Since 2009, the TPC’s annual Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC) has served as a forum for leading vendors and researchers to gather and identify innovative areas for benchmark research and development. The TPCTC has had a sustained impact on benchmark exploration, and past conferences have resulted in the creation of benchmark committees in Virtualization, Data Integration and Big Data.
The next TPCTC will be held on August 31, and will be collocated with VLDB 2015 in Kohala Coast, Hawai.
The non-profit corporation was founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry. The TPC currently has 22 full members including Actian, Cisco, Cloudera, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, Huawei and IBM.