European Standards for the

development of Smart Cities

Ljubljana Forum, Ljubljana
26. September 2014

Partner Relations Management * Business Network Development 1

 Smart City Background
1. EU Policy
– Coordinator of EU Commission’s Smart City Strategy Group in
Finance Working Group of EIP’s Smart City Stakeholders Platform
– Member of the EU Commission’s Smart City RoadMap Group
2. Standardization
– Permanent representative of the Polish Standardization
Committee to the Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities
standardization negotiations at the EU-level (CEN-CENELEC-
ETSI)
3. Economic Development
– Chairman of the Communication & Marketing Committee of the
American Chamber of Commerce in Poland
– Managing Director of The Keryx Group advisory to companies,
institutions, regional authorities in CEE.

The Keryx Group│Partner Relations Management│Business Network Development 2

 Discussions Points
1. Intro: Current Smart City Projects, and
current Smart City Standards
2. New ISO 37120: 2014 - The Smart City
Standard
3. Advantages for cities, regional
governments & firms alike.
4. CEE experience for the Western
Balkans

The Keryx Group│Partner Relations Management│Business Network Development 3

Examples of Smart City Projects

4
EU Commission’s Smart City priorities

28th Feb 2014, OIP

http://ec.europa.eu/eip/smartcities/files/operational-implementation-plan-oip-v2_en.pdf

5
Smart City visions

6
Smart City visions

7
Smart City visions

8
Role of Smart City Standards

BSI for CEPS, April 2014

9
Smart City technical Standards

Idem, April 2014

10
 Smart City technical Standards
National developments (BSI)
• PD 8101 Planning Guidelines for Smart City
Developments: to enable new urban
developments to be planned with smart city
requirements in mind. (May 2014)
• PAS 180 Smart City Vocabulary: to establish
common terminology that can be used across
services and delivery channels. (Feb 2014)
Idem, April 2014

11
 New global ISO Certifiable
Standard for Smart City Indicators:
ISO 37120:2014 - Sustainable development
of communities indicators for city services
and quality of life
• http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=62436
• 1st ISO certifiable global standard for Smart City
Indicators
• Published: June 2014

12
 ISO 37120:2014
Need to Know:
1. ISO Indicators cover 17 themes
– Economy, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Fire &
Emergency response, Governance, Health, Recreation, Safety,
Shelter, Solid Waste, Telecommunications & Innovation,
Transportation, Urban Planning, Water & Sanitation
2. Each themes has “core” and “supporting”
indicators, as well as indicated “Data Source” (!)
3. ISO will required 3rd party verification of data
sources and quality for ISO standard certification.

The Keryx Group│Partner Relations Management│Business Network Development 13

 100 Smart City Indicators

ISO 37120:2014 is:

• 46 core indicators, cities “shall” (core)
track and report,
• 54 supporting indicators, cities “should"
(supporting) track and report.

The Keryx Group│Partner Relations Management│Business Network Development 14

 100 Smart City Indicators
Examples
Theme 15: Shelter
• Percentage of city population living in slums (core indicator)
• Number of homeless per 100 000 population (supporting indicator)
• Percentage of households that exist without registered legal titles.
(supporting indicator)

Theme17: Telecommunication and innovation

• Number of internet connections per 100 000 population (core
indicator)
• Number of cell phone connections per 100 000 population (core
indicator)
• Number of landline phone connections per 100 000 population
(supporting indicator)

The Keryx Group│Partner Relations Management│Business Network Development 15

 How do Cities gain?
ISO 37120:2014 to be used for:
• assess the performance of services,
infrastructure, institutions (esp. outsourced),
• improve city operations,
• benchmark themselves,
• prioritize city budgets (assess quality of life)
• support open data, app development,
• build better case for public/private funding
for infrastructure investments.

The Keryx Group│Partner Relations Management│Business Network Development 16

Global Smart City Standards

Idem, April 2014

17
Role of Smart City Standards

BSI for CEPS, April 2014

18
 The Keryx Group
Smart Cities & Communities Advisory

Anya Margaret Ogorkiewicz, MSc. MA.

ao@keryxgroup.com
+48 510419141

Thank You!

Partner Relations Management * Business Network Development 19