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Associated Press
5 days ago
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- Associated Press
Spatial Web Foundation Announces IEEE Approval of Spatial Web Standards
LOS ANGELES, June 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Spatial Web Foundation (SWF) proudly announces that The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has officially ratified the P2874 Spatial Web standards: the Hyperspace Modeling Language (HSML) and the Hyperspace Transaction Protocol (HSTP). These global standards establish the technical foundation for a secure, interoperable, and intelligent Spatial Web—enabling collaboration between AI agents, IoT devices, robotics systems, and digital infrastructure across real-world environments. The Spatial Web Protocol, Architecture, and Governance Standards were developed over a five-year period by IEEE Working Group comprised of members from industry, government, academia, and civil society. The Standards were developed within the IEEE Artificial Intelligence Standards Committee, under the auspices of the IEEE Computer Society, the largest global community of computer scientists and engineers. The Spatial Web standards are not just a technical protocol, but a global framework for how intelligent systems interact with both the physical and social worlds. By encoding semantic meaning, spatial context, and temporal logic, these standards enable the digital representation of people, places, objects, and processes in a manner that machines can understand and act upon—while ensuring alignment with human-designed systems of law, governance, and coordination. Just as past IEEE standards laid the foundation for technologies like Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth®, the Spatial Web standards (HSML and HSTP) provide a common language that manufacturers, developers, and engineers can rely on to build interoperable, compliant systems, reducing friction, accelerating deployment, and lowering integration costs. At the same time, they provide governments, regulators, and institutions with a technical foundation for developing policies, laws, and safeguards that help ensure these systems operate safely and ethically in the real world. By defining the methods and the rules for intelligent agents to interact with both digital systems and physical environments, the Spatial Web standards unlock new possibilities for automation, coordination, and control in sectors such as smart cities, logistics, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, aerospace, and virtual worlds. Key benefits include: 'The ratification of the Spatial Web standards marks a turning point—akin to the launch of TCP/IP for the internet,' said Bastiaan den Braber, Director of Operations at the Spatial Web Foundation. 'The standards lay the groundwork for a network that is not just informational, but spatial and intelligent—bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds. This is how we prepare for, build, and benefit from the next era of the Web.' 'The Spatial Web standard offers the blueprint for harmonizing activities across digital twins, physical infrastructure, and AI and human agents,' said George Percival, Vice-Chair of the IEEE P2874 Working Group. 'This is a foundational leap toward scalable, semantic interoperability across domains.' About Spatial Web Foundation The Spatial Web Foundation is dedicated to the development and implementation of socio-technical standards that will provide a safe and secure and interoperable foundation for the Spatial Web. These standards ensure that exponential technologies are not only technically robust but also socially beneficial, safe, compliant with existing laws, and in alignment with societal norms and values. SWF is a community of developers, creators, scientists, and innovators with a shared mission to enable a hyper-connected, contextually aware, ethically-aligned network of humans, machines, and artificial intelligence. On behalf of the Company Press Inquiries: You can find more information at: and
Technical.ly
28-04-2025
- Business
- Technical.ly
AI is driving the fourth industrial revolution — and Philly companies are helping lead the way
AI is no longer a buzzword — it's one of the technologies powering a new industrial revolution, experts agreed at a recent conference in Philadelphia. Industry 4.0, the sweeping digitization of how goods are designed, used and maintained, is being driven by new technology, changes in workforce demographics, reindustrialization, regulation enforcement and a push towards sustainability, said Nick Lopez, principal at Deloitte, said at Phorum 2025. From life sciences to advanced manufacturing, emerging technologies are reshaping entire industries, panelists said at the event last week. 'AI, [Internet of Things], 3D geospatial data, the list goes on and these technologies are accelerating very quickly,' Lopez said. 'There's huge potential to improve efficiency and productivity across industries, which will have a positive impact on all of our lives.' More than just efficiency, Industry 4.0 is about reimagining what's possible when technology augments human expertise, whether that's catching errors before they happen, building smarter cities or accelerating life-saving medical breakthroughs This fourth wave of industrial progress builds on previous revolutions — mechanization, electrification and computerization — by adding a new digital layer. AI now joins forces with technologies like the Internet of Things and digital twins, virtual models of real-world systems that can be used to simulate and improve operations in real time. More AI pharma coming soon Right now, AI is good at generating content and analyzing data, but a 'neuroscience approach' to AI is what's coming, said Denise Holt, cofounder of the SpatialWeb Foundation. 'AI that can actually mimic biological intelligence and model predictions for the future,' she said. 'To be able to have an understanding of the world and operate with knowledge of a digital representation of visible things.' One version of this is active inference AI, which takes in sensory data, collects feedback and updates its understanding of its surroundings, she said. Another example is spatial web protocol, which would be a digital representation of physical things. Similar work is happening in the life sciences industry with knowledge graphs, which collect information about what happens in manufacturing and can then be used to make predictions. While pharma companies face tight regulations, momentum is building, said Vishal Prasad, CTO at GSK. 'People are adopting it,' he said. 'With an LLM engine and basically a knowledge graph behind it that is really allowing them to make very good decisions in a very short period of time with very little effort.' AI infrastructure analysis to plan construction Companies are investing in tools that don't just process data, but adapt and learn from it. Philadelphia-based companies are among those pushing the frontier. Patrick Cozzi, chief platform officer at Bentley Systems and founder of Cesium, described how Cesium worked with Epic Games to create 3D tiles for real-time digital modeling. The tech started in gaming, but now powers everything from urban planning to national defense. Cozzi explained how drones, GPS sensors and dash cams are being deployed to detect infrastructure issues like broken towers and cracked roadways. AI is even helping plan developments more intelligently — estimating parking needs, for instance, before a single shovel hits dirt. The next hurdle: data security Still, security and data ownership are looming concerns for developers, especially in regulated industries like healthcare. 'The protocol of the spatial web, it has security baked in,' Holt said. 'Whereas right now, we're trying to use all these emerging technologies in the most unsecured environment, the World Wide Web.' In this context, the security permissions would have set expirations, she added. Plus, there is so much data out there and so much more data that will be coming in, companies have to think about how they're keeping up with it and its security, Lopez said. 'We're seeing more of this in terms of being able to analyze what's on your servers, what's in your cloud, understanding what's important,' Lopez said. 'Where it needs to be stored, in terms of security policies. Sarah Huffman is a 2022-2024 corps member for Report for America, an initiative of The Groundtruth Project that pairs young journalists with local newsrooms. This position is supported by the Lenfest Institute for Journalism.
