- Hold regular working meetings virtually to eliminate barriers of geography; and
- Develop a technical white paper on consensus principles for smart city architectures derived from comparative analyses of existing concepts (including M2m, IoT-A, FIWARE, NIST’s CPS Framework, and others) and their mapping to exemplary smart city deployments (including those arising from the Global City Teams Challenge and others as the group may select).
This activity builds on the work of two related NIST efforts – the Global City Teams Challenge[1] that encourages “action clusters” to form and collaborate to demonstrate technologies at city scale, and, the CPS Framework[2] which provides for a scientific underpinning of the description of the Internet of Things.
The working group will produce a streamlined architecture that emphasizes Pivotal Points of Interoperability (PPI) (see inset to the right).
To determine these PPI the participants will review the following:
- Analysis of current architectures
- Success stories about how seamless integrations and portability of applications across cities were achieved
- Standards that support the modular integration of function at city scale
- Standards that support updates, publication and access to information coming from different sources describing what is going on in the city
- Best practices on how to integrate PPIs into existing infrastructures
- Educational materials and tools that facilitate consumer/commercial understanding and usage of smart city capabilities and technologies
Smart cities is a growing market and a global one with significant competitiveness implications for both industry and municipalities. NIST, as lead partner, is coordinating this activity through its Cyber-Physical Systems Program, part of the NIST Engineering Laboratory, to pursue its responsibilities for assisting industry in the development of measurements, measurement methods, and basic measurement technologies; and assuring the compatibility of United States measurement standards with those of other nations.
