In the research and testing center of new infocommunication equipment, technologies and services, according to the work plan, the following research and development is carried out:

1. Development of a test segment of the local registry LHS architecture of digital objects
2. Development of a fragment of the LPWAN network for identifying IoT devices based on the architecture of digital objects
3. Development of the channel and network layer of SNB technology as part of the creation of a synchronous technology for a narrow-band wireless communication network SNBWAN
4. Development of software for a fragment of the core of a distributed model network 5G Open RAN
5. Development of a pilot area for testing IoT and industrial IoT devices, including penetration testing
6. Development and research of a signaling protocol to ensure the interaction of industrial Internet of things and their digital twins

In the research and testing center for new infocommunication equipment, technologies and services, according to the work plan, testing is being carried out:

1. Comprehensive testing of the UDTP transport protocol (Up/Down Transport Protocol – UDTP)
2. Testing the shared use of IoT device identification and distributed registry services to control the chain of changes in the state of a record about a digital object
3. Testing to identify threshold levels of functioning of the LoRaWAN base station with directional electromagnetic effects in accordance with GOST R52863-2007
4. Testing of image transmission over mesh networks based on LoRa technology

During the ITU-T study period 2016-2021, SPbSUT together with PJSC Rostelecom developed 15 ITU-T Recommendations and submitted more than 100 contributions. The following is a list of ITU-T Recommendations:

1. Q.3055 Signalling protocol for Heterogeneous IoT gateways
2. Q.3056 Signalling procedures of the probes to be used for remote testing of network parameters
3. Q.3060 Signalling architecture of the fast deployment emergency telecommunication network to be used in a natural disaster
4. Q.3745 Protocol for time constraint IoT-based applications over SDN
5. Q.3952 The architecture and facilities of Model network for IoT testing
6. Q.3963 The compatibility testing of SDN-based equipment using OpenFlow protocol
7. Q.4060 The structure of the testing of heterogeneous Internet of Things gateways in a laboratory environment
8. Q.4061 Framework of SDN controller testing
9. Q.4062 Framework for IoT Testing
10. Q.4063 The framework of testing of identification systems used in IoT
11. Q.4065 Framework of model network for Tactile Internet testing
12. Q.4066 Testing procedures of Augmented Reality applications
13. Q.5022 Signalling procedure of energy efficient device-to-device communication for IMT-2020 network
14. Y.3116 Traffic typization IMT-2020 management based on an artificial intelligent approach
15. Y.4808 Digital entity architecture framework to combat counterfeiting in IoT

In 2022, it is planned to initiate the development of two international standards:

1. Development of an open protocol for monitoring industrial Internet of things equipment
2. Development of a signaling protocol between physical devices and their digital twins