The US Department of Commerce has appointed 16 experts for its new IoT Advisory Board (IoTAB), to advise the IoT Federal Working Group. It will be chaired by Benson Chan, chief operating officer at Strategy of Things, who will be moderating online IMC panels in December and at January’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

The advisory board includes a wide range of stakeholders outside of the federal government with expertise relating to the IoT.

The board will advise the federal working group on matters including the identification of any federal regulations, programmes or policies that may inhibit or promote the development of IoT; situations in which IoT could deliver significant and scalable economic and societal benefits to the USA, including smart traffic and transit technologies, augmented logistics and supply chains, environmental monitoring, and health care; IoT opportunities and challenges for small businesses; and any IoT-related international opportunities for the USA.

The board consists of 16 members and represents a broad range of disciplines from across academia, industry and civil society. Board members will serve two-year appointments, and all meetings are open to the public.

The board will be chaired by Benson Chan, chief operating officer at Strategy of Things. Chan will also chair the IMC’s online panel on IoT bringing sustainability to public grids, which will be held on December 8. And he will be chairing IMC panels at CES from January 5 to 8, 2023.

The other members of the board are: Daniel Caprio Junior (vice chair), co-founder and chair of the Providence Group; Michael Bergman, vice president at the Consumer Technology Association; Ranveer Chandra, chief technology officer of agri-food at Microsoft; Nicholas Emanuel, product manager for CropX; Steven Griffith, senior industry director of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association; Tom Katsioulas, chair of the Global Semiconductor Alliance; Kevin Kornegay, professor and IoT security endowed chair at Morgan State University; Debra Lam, managing director of smart cities and inclusive innovation at the Georgia Institute of Technology; Ann Mehra, adviser to the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University; Robby Moss, president and principal consultant at TGL Enterprises; Nicole Raimundo, chief information officer for the town of Cary in North Carolina; Maria Rerecich, senior director of product testing at Consumer Reports; Debbie Reynolds, chief executive officer at Debbie Reynolds Consulting; Arman Shehabi, staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Peter Tseronis, chief executive officer of Dots & Bridges.

The National Institute of Standards & Technology (Nist) will provide administrative support to the advisory board.

The appointments are the first for the recently established advisory board, which was created in accordance with the requirements of the William M (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for 2021, and in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended.