Supporting smart cities with international standards

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Cities are complex systems of systems and hives of activity such as healthcare, transport, education, commerce and more. For this reason, they generate a huge amount of data. Smart cities are those who use this data and technologies to accelerate improvements in quality of life, city services, sustainability and resilience.

International standards are instrumental tools for smart cities as they can help them make sense of data effectively and put it to good use. and IEC is at the forefront of this, developing specific solutions for smart cities about data use as well as those that support the vast number of technologies that support city systems.

The role of the IEC System Committee on Smart Cities (SyC Smart Cities) is to foster the development of standards in the field of electrotechnology to help with the integration, interoperability and effectiveness of city systems.

In other words, it is to help ensure that all the many standards of relevance to cities that are being developed by IEC and other standards development organizations (SDOs) provide a consistent and helpful set of guidance.

In addition, they have developed a number of publications themselves, aimed at helping city planners and other city stakeholders. These include IEC SRD 63320 on smart urban planning use cases collection and analyses, the IEC 63152 series on city service continuity and IEC SRD 62373 on use case collection and analysis for city information modelling.

We spoke to the IEC SyC Smart Cities Vice Chair Nand Kishor Narang about the challenges of smart cities and the work and approach of the SyC, using the example of health, and how it helps.

Watch here.