It works fairly well in the EU and non "IT" areas, where introduction of an ISO standard is required to gain wider market access and consumer approval. It could

It works fairly well in the EU and non "IT" areas, where introduction of an ISO standard is required to gain wider market access and consumer approval. It could be sufficient to point out that there are X organizations that created accepted standards, any device needs to implement a standard from at least 2 orgs. A standard would specify transport (HTTPS), schema and meaning for all messages, authentication and authorization protocol. Most importantly, there should be a standardized way to poll devices for data.