The document discusses standards for smart cities and digital transformation. It addresses the current status and trends in standards, potential governance models for smart city standards, and the role of standards in enabling sustainable digital transformation of cities. It emphasizes that while standardization will take time due to the many organizations involved, cities can help drive priorities by focusing on interoperability and reusing standards.

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Interoperable digital solutions and
transformation of cities and communities
Lindsay Frost
Chief Standardisation Engineer,
NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH

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What should I be talking about?
▌Present status quo, trends and relevance of standards
▌Potential governance of standards for smart cities
▌Role of standards for sustainable digital
transformation of smart cities & communities

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What should I be talking about?
▌Present status quo, trends and relevance of standards
▌Potential governance of standards for smart cities
▌Role of standards for sustainable digital
transformation of smart cities & communities
The situation is hopeless, but not serious!
Hundreds of SDOs talk nice… but none listen!
We Must All Hang Together, or Most Assuredly,
We Will All Hang Separately!
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What should I be talking about?
▌Present status quo, trends and relevance of standards
▌Potential governance of standards for smart cities
▌Role of standards for sustainable digital
transformation of smart cities & communities
Don’t panic: we are in the same situation as 1840,
standardising screw threads. Civilization survived.
Don’t panic: You (cities) are the “buyers” and you CAN
set the priorities and evaluate merits of various standards!
Don’t panic: Standards change unpredictable risk into
manageable risk … If dozens of cities have implemented
some standardised systems, you can know what to expect.

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What should I be talking about?
▌Present status quo, trends and relevance of standards
▌Potential governance of standards for smart cities
▌Role of standards for sustainable digital
transformation of smart cities & communities
DO: step by step, work on interoperability
DO: continue pooling expertise, crowdsourcing,
aim for control of Acceptance Testing
DO: Compare, set KPIs, organize certification,
do interops and bakeoffs, aim for replicability

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What is NEC talking about (and actually doing) ?

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NEC builds what the customer asks for … so ask!

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NEC is extremely concerned about Resilience

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Just 35 / 60 index cities with integrated disaster planning
https://safecities.economist.com/safe-cities-index-2019/

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NEC promotes standards ( integrating chaos is a nightmare !)
JTC1
De Jure SDOs De Facto SDOs
Open-Source
ITU-T ITU-R
SG-20
SG17 Q4 QKD
CEN
CENELEC
SF-SSCC
BOARD !
These are just examples where
I personally have involvement
ETSI ISG CIM Chairman
Industry Specification Group
Context Info Management
ETSI Board Member
ETSI Delegate for:
CEN/CENELEC/ETSI SF-SSCC
(Sector Forum on Smart and
Sustainable Cities and Communities)
CEN/CENELEC/ETSI CG-
SmartManufacturing

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Mindmap of Standardisation Organisations for SF-SSCC
Source: CEN/CENELEC/ETSI SF-SSCC PLenary, 23 Oct. 2019
• Interactive “drill down” display of topics possible in mindmap
• Topics chosen by SF-SSCC, based on WHO, UN SDGs, SDOs
• The mindmap is generated from a excel file of Alliances
and SDO WGs, with topics. Can also be exported to Word
• Over 600 groups are listed, so far, with URLs, titles and scope of their work
• Topics/categories of SDOs can be (re)assigned by any user, under CC4.0
license
• Specifications listed in separate part of excel file, creating a 2nd mindmap
MINDMAP
WORD

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Smart Cities … don’t panic, crowdsource !
Think of Wikipedia
Think of LINUX Foundation and ECLIPSE
Look at IEEE expert groups
Look at OASC Academy
Watch for EC CSA projects promoting / coordinating experts
GOAL: Create a mix & match menu of standards/solutions
NEEDED: Enthusiasts with expertise in managing
large volunteer projects and/or MOOC training platforms,
with a desire to help the world transform.

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Smart Cities … when you crowd in, agree Ontologies too!
Libraries of thousands of overlapping vocabularies/ontologies exist:
ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registries
FAIRsharing.org
Project Open Data
Open Metadata Registry
BARTOC Basel Register of Ontologies
Biomedical Ontologies
…
Matching up ontologies is MUCH harder than (re)using same ones !
ETSI SmartM2M and SAREF working to consolidate/bridge ontologies

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SmartM2M and oneM2M create basis for SAREF
SMARTM2M_DASILVA_ETSITCSmartM2M.pdf 2019-10-22 9:21 849,1 KB
SAREF_EU_PICTURE_EC_MIHAYLOV.pdf 2019-10-23 12:27 276,6 KB
SAREF_ONTOLOGY_UPM_BOVEDA_GARCIA.pdf 2019-10-23 12:27 1451,2 KB
SAREF_PORTAL_IMT_MINES_LEFRANCOIS.pdf 2019-10-23 12:27 1710 KB
STF566_UPM_GARCIA-CASTRO.pdf 2019-10-23 12:27 2719,8 KB
Recent ETSI IoT Week (21-15 Oct 2019) presentations related to TC SmartM2M, oneM2M and SAREF
https://docbox.etsi.org/Workshop/2019/201910_ETSIIoTWEEK
And particularly
https://docbox.etsi.org/Workshop/2019/201910_ETSIIoTWEEK/ETSIIoTWORKSHOP/S06_SEMANTIC_SMART_APPS

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Meet ETSI’s
ISG CIM’s
NGSI-LD API
Industry Specification Group
for cross-cutting
Context Information Management

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ETSI ISG CIM (Context Information Management)
User Apps IoT Open Data
Context Information Management Layer

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ETSI ISG CIM (Context Information Management)

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NGSI-LD: Context Information Management API
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<occupancy>1
10</...>
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a foaf:Person ;
foaf:name "Jimmy
Wales" ;
foaf:mbox
<mailto:jwales@b
omis.com> ;
foaf:homepage
<http://www.jim
mywales.com>
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id="GU
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<overallSeverity>
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/overallSeverity>
"contextRegistration": [
{ "entities": [ { "id": "E1",
"type": "T1",
“ isPattern": "false" },
{ "id": "E2",
"type": "T2", “
isPattern": "false" } ],
Entity (type, identifier)
Property
Relationship
link to
video
link to
3D model
speed
location,
speed
location
location
address
owns
livesAt
isAttached
Clipart is under Creative Commons BY 4.0 Licence from https://www.svgrepo.com,
CREATE
DIGITAL
TWINS

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NGSI-LD Information Model supports Provenance Meta-Data
A provenance-aware quality ontology [567]
[567] Baillie, Chris, Peter Edwards, and Edoardo Pignotti. "Qual: A provenance-aware quality model." Journal of Data and Information Quality
(JDIQ) 5, no. 3 (2015): 12. Accessed 20170818 at http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/2164/6051/baillie_acm_jdiq_15.pdf?sequence=1
Knowing the
data source
Is essential
for decision
…
AI or human!

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What should I be talking about?
▌Present status quo, trends and relevance of standards
▌Potential governance of standards for smart cities
▌Role of standards for sustainable digital
transformation of smart cities & communities
Convergence will happen, but do not expect “fast”
The situation is … complex, but Cities can choose
Interop, interop, interop ! MIMs, MIMs, MIMs !