Trying to make sense of Smart City standardization activities
Recently I’ve been trying to get a handle on Smart City standards for an IEEE trend paper I’ve been asked to write on Smart Cities. This blog post is an attempt to make some sense of the overwhelming mass of standards activities worldwide and in particular, to try and find a framework that enables me to even begin to categorize all the activity I come across.
First step – get some sort of framework to understand where different standards fit
The amount of activity in Smart City standardization is truly overwhelming – this is partly due to the breadth and scope of Smart City activities – from water pipes to people – and partly because it is early in the process and the standards bodies are still trying to understand how best to contribute.
After spending several days drowning in standards, I decided to step back and try and find a way of categorizing the different standards. I came across a useful framework from the UK’s standards body, the British Standards Institute (BSI), which is part of an excellent (and free) report they’ve written on Smart Cities (PD 8100 Smart city overview)
The Framework categorizes standards into 3 main levels, Strategic, Process and Technical
Levels of Smart City standards (Copyright BSI 2015)
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