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Sunday, April 4, 2021

How Standards Help Make Smart Cities a Reality

Role of Standards in Smart Cities

One of the key problems in smart cities is that cities are managed by a multitude of service providers and government organizations. Component systems are acquired by separate program offices and run by separate operation units. These organizations are not even connected by common membership or any structure. Component systems of the smart city ecosystem are independently managed and evolve on their own.

For example, the digital evolution features of a surveillance system deployed by city police, ambulatory services system deployed by hospitals, and e-governance systems deployed by municipalities are independent and based on business process changes in the managing organization. The city command center has no role to play in the evolution of the individual systems managed by these organizations.

Let us look at an example scenario of citizen safety and see how multiple physical, digital, and human systems need to come together.

Citizens utilize social networking platforms to reach out for help or assistance. A proactive citizen safety solution would require integration of different component systems and automation of workflows between these systems. In the example scenario, a citizen tweets that he/she is in danger via public social networking platforms using key hashtags. Collaboration systems orchestrate this information by creating tickets to be resolved in appropriate e-governance systems. Systems controlling the digital infrastructure employ digital twin systems and utilize a geospatial system for identifying the appropriate assets to control and to notify service providers about the tickets.

Smart City Danger System

It is apparent that though city command centers do not play a role in the evolution of component systems. They do specify common operational goals and constraints for all the component systems which are part of the smart city ecosystem. These operational goals and constraints differ during various time periods based on the needs of the city.

Component systems should have the ability to negotiate autonomously to meet the operational goal within the specified constraints. There is a need to discover component systems deployed in a city, identify the entities managed by component systems in a standard way, and communicate the goal and constraint across component systems in a standard data exchange format by invoking a standard set of interfaces.

List of IEEE Standards for Smart Cities

The IEEE SA Foundational Technologies Practice is committed to smart cities standardization and offers a portfolio of standards and programs to address key aspects of the smart cities’ framework:

 

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