Smart Cities

The Ad Hoc Group operates at the intersection of smart city development and Europe’s climate-neutrality ambitions. While these two agendas are frequently linked in policy discussions and strategic frameworks, their joint implementation in practice remains limited. The group identifies standards as a vital tool to scale and replicate successful practices across Europe.

The IETF Internet-Draft, titled "Challenges and Opportunities in Management for Green Networking" [1], explores the environmental impact of networking and identifies strategies to make it more energy-efficient and sustainable. It highlights several key challenges, opportunities, and approaches to achieving green networking. The draft aligns well with the principles and goals of smart cities, offering solutions that support sustainability, IoT integration, resource optimization, and scalability.

Within Smart Cities Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks are essential. Safe transportation of all users and accessibility for all is a precondition that those cities can be filled with live and all social processes are working. ISO/TC 178 covers currently 44 published documents (25 standards, 8 technical specifications and 11 technical reports), 12 documents are under development and totally 21 projects initiated. https://www.iso.org/committee/53970.html

The green digital transition is an opportunity for communities to achieve environmental sustainability, address climate change, and meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The transition leverages digital technology to enhance energy efficiency, foster circular economy, reduce emissions, and boost resilience.

My activity is to contribute to prepare the ISO/TC 204/WG 17 Intelligent transport systems document. I led the team that developed the ISO 23795-1:2022 standard. This standard specifies a method for the determination of fuel consumption and resulting CO2 emissions to enable fleet managers to reduce fuel costs and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a sustainable manner.

The existing Standardization Landscape, mainly related to the main 5G and T&L standardization organizations consists of:

Technical reports on:

• Balanced Wireless Crowd Charging with Mobility Prediction and Social Awareness
• Wireless Crowd Charging with Battery Aging Mitigation