Standards – building blocks of the Smart City Michael Mulquin

There are a lot of standards relevant to smart cities

Standards can help at every level of the value chain

Standards define building blocks

– Not “a one size fits all” city!

Benefits of smart city standards

• Enable integration between different city systems• Underpin common understanding

• Between partners• In procurement

• Help to obtain funding• Help to prevent vendor lock-in • Enable scale• Support benchmarking and evidence gathering

International standards organisations

ITU

JTC1

IEC ISO

Founded 1865Standards is only a partArea of work - ICTUN bodyMembers countries, private sector and universitiesMembers are national standards bodies

Founded 1906Electrical and Electronics

Founded 1987ICT2,776 (ISO) standards

Founded 1947Everything else!19,500 standards

European Standards Organisations

ETSICENELEC CEN

ICT standardsMembers: Industry, National standards bodies etc

Members: European National Standards bodies

Other standards organisations

OGC

W3C

IEEE

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Oasis

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International standards work on smart cities

IEC Systems Evaluation Group on smart cities is just about to finalise its reportJTC1 Smart Cities Study Group is developing its phase 2 reportITU Focus Group on smart and sustainable cities developed useful technical reports A new phase of work about to start on IoT and Smart CitiesISO TC268 is developing standards for sustainable development and smart community infrastructuresCEN/CENELEC/ETSI Coordination group reviewing standards for smart and sustainable cities and communities

Cybersecurity

• ITU – Technical report on Cyber-Security, Data Protection and Cyber-Resilience in Smart Sustainable Cities

• JTC 1 Smart Cities Study Group – Risk Assessment methodologies• ISO TC268 – Smart Community Infrastructures – looking at risk

assessment• ISO TC268 - Indicators for Resilient Cities

Key lessons

• India has a lot to learn• India has a lot to contribute• One key way in is via the Bureau of Indian Standards

michael@citybuildingblocks.com

ITU-T SSC Technical reports

• Smart Water Management for Smart Sustainable Cities• EMF Considerations in Smart Sustainable Cities• ICTs for Climate Change Adaptation in cities• Overview of Smart Sustainable Cities Infrastructure• Best practices and use cases on infrastructure for smart sustainable cities• Technical Specifications on Building Smart Sustainable Cities • Smart Sustainable Buildings for Smart Sustainable Cities• Cyber-Security, Data Protection and Cyber-Resilience in Smart Sustainable

Cities • Integrated Management for Smart Sustainable Cities• Best practices and use case on integrated management for smart

sustainable cities• Anonymization Infrastructure and Open Data for Smart Sustainable Cities • Standardization Activities and Gaps for SSC and Suggestions to SG5 • Engaging Stakeholders for Smart Sustainable Cities • Assessment of Energy and GHG Emission from ICT in Cities