Standards – building blocks of the Smart City - Michael Mulquin (Securing Asia 2015)

1. Standards – building blocks of the Smart City
Michael Mulquin

3. There are a lot of standards
relevant to smart cities

5. Standards can help at every level
of the value chain

7. Standards define building blocks
– Not “a one size fits all” city!

12. 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

13. International standards organisations
ITU
JTC1
IEC ISO
Founded 1865
Standards is only a part
Area of work - ICT
UN body
Members countries, private
sector and universities
Members are national standards bodies
Founded 1906
Electrical and
Electronics
Founded 1987
ICT
2,776 (ISO)
standards
Founded 1947
Everything else!
19,500 standards

14. European Standards Organisations
ETSICENELEC CEN
ICT standards
Members: Industry,
National standards
bodies etc
Members: European National
Standards bodies

15. Other standards organisations
OGC
W3C
IEEE
???
Oasis
???

16. International standards work on smart cities
IEC Systems Evaluation Group on smart cities is just about
to finalise its report
JTC1 Smart Cities Study Group is developing its phase 2
report
ITU Focus Group on smart and sustainable cities
developed useful technical reports A new phase of
work about to start on IoT and Smart Cities
ISO TC268 is developing standards for sustainable
development and smart community infrastructures
CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Coordination group reviewing
standards for smart and sustainable cities and
communities

17. 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

18. 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

19. michael@citybuildingblocks.com

20. 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