The Battle of IoT Standardisation for Smart Cities

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from

Andrew Tannenbaum, Computer Scientist

Machina Research White Paper, 2016

A smart sustainable city is an innovative city that uses information and communication

technologies (ICT) and other means to improve quality of life, efficiency of urban operation and services, and competiveness, while ensuring that it meets the needs of present and future generations with respects to economic, social

and environmental aspects

What makes a standard? (1)

Specification available to all member bodies and sufficiently detailed to enable one to make a fully interoperable device

purely from the specification

What makes a standard? (2)

Fair and reasonable access to any Intellectual property Rights (IPR)

What makes a standard? (3)

Testing and certification regime that ensure the logo on devices provides

assurance of its compliance and therefore interoperability with other

certified devices

What are the Results of Using Standards

Competition

Price

Cost Sharing

pauseperspective

Where does light fit?

Monitor

Maintain

Control

Is the pole more important than the light for IOT?

Image Ford: Ford fully autonomous Fusion Hybrid research vehicle on streets of Dearborn, MI.

Data

Standard Data ExportWrangle ChoiceAvoid Data RansomPublic DataNew Revenue Sources

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Security Standards

Cybersecurity – Inventory and Vulnerability assessments

Insurance

Security

Alan Grau, President and co-founder of Icon Labs

Fundamental security capabilities that should be included in any IoT device.

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A successful security standard will provide…

Alan Grau, President and co-founder of Icon Labs

Protection for the device

Protection for data

Awareness of attacks

Security management

Machine to machine authentication

Recommendations

Street Lighting infrastructure should be installed as “connection ready” via NEMA 7

pin connectors

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Re asses your asset’s life-cycle and your expectations.

From 25 years to <10-15

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Use 3rd party Data Analytics Platforms

Avoid Data Ransoming

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Engage Data Scientists

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Seek Security Standards.

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