Week Summary

This week, we will see definitions of standards and regulations and why they are important in light of wireless communication

Why Wireless Standards are Important

Internet is the widely used standard offering lot of services in banking, shopping, entertainment etc fields. Wireless communication can be used to access those services (using WLAN) and there is need of standards for such communication. Following points discuss why wireless standards are so important

• Standards in wireless communication technology can offer seamless connectivity across borders.
• Standards in this technology can solve the problem of product incompatibility.
• Standards also simplify product development and reduce non-value-adding costs thereby increasing a user's ability to compare competing products.
• Only through the use of standards can the requirements of interconnectivity and interoperability be assured and the credibility of new products and new markets verified enabling the rapid implementation of technology.
• Standards can address consumer safety and health concerns.

Regulation Definitions

Let us consider some generalises definitions for regulations

• In the context of government and public services regulation (as a process) is the control of something by rules, as opposed to its prohibition. In economics, it is part of the government relationship with markets, often seen as the opposite of deregulation.
• The government function of controlling or directing economic entities through the process of rulemaking and adjudication.
• A governmental order having the force of law
• A rule or order issued by a federal or state executive-branch department or administrative agency, generally under authority granted by statute, that enforces or amplifies laws enacted by the legislature and has the force of law.

Standard Definitions

We consider here various definitions of standards which are generalised for any product

• A standard is a published document that sets out specifications and procedures designed to ensure that a material, product, method, or service meets its purpose and consistently performs to its intended use.
• A principle commonly agreed to by experts in the conduct and use of an evaluation for the measure of the value or quality of an evaluation (eg, accuracy, feasibility, propriety, utility).
• A definition or format that has been approved by a recognized standards organization or is accepted as a de facto standard by the industry. Standards exist for programming languages, operating systems, data formats, communications protocols, and electrical interfaces but are not limited to these fields but can extend too food products, car industry etc.