A Review of Technical Standards for Smart Cities

Abstract

Smart cities employ technology and data to increase efficiencies, economic development, sustainability, and life quality for citizens in urban areas. Inevitably, clean technologies promote smart cities development including for energy, transportation and health. The smart city concept is ambitious and is being refined with standards. Standards are used to help with regulating how smart cities function and contributing to define a smart city. Smart cities must be officially recognized by national and international authorities and organizations in order to promote societal advancement. There are many research and review articles on smart cities. However, technical standards are seldom discussed in the current literature. This review firstly presents the study of smart city definitions and domain. The well-known smart city standards will be presented to better recognize the smart city concept. Well-defined standards allow meaningful comparisons among smart cities implementation. How smart city initiatives make a city smarter and improve the quality of life will be discussed for various countries. This review highlights that technical standards are important for smart cities implementation. This paper serves as a guide to the most recent developments of smart cities standards.

Designing a Transportation-Strategy Decision-Making Process for a Supply Chain: Case of a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

“… Improving the proposed framework to be adapted for designing a smart transportation strategy through the employment of the digital and telecommunication technologies like information and communications technology (ICT) and the Internet of things (IoTs). The design of such transportation system will have numerous benefits including improving the life quality of the entire population and maximizing the sustainability and environmental conservation [ 100 ]. Another issue that deserved investigating is to use other multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methods adapted to be applied in the group decision-making context participation to evaluate and analyze the performance of the decisions to be made.…”

“…Improving the proposed framework to be adapted for designing a smart transportation strategy through the employment of the digital and telecommunication technologies like information and communications technology (ICT) and the Internet of things (IoTs). The design of such transportation system will have numerous benefits including improving the life quality of the entire population and maximizing the sustainability and environmental conservation [ 100 ].…”

Towards a National Harmonized Framework for Urban Plans and Strategies in Romania

“…To achieve objective (1b), we performed an analysis of the literature related to SUMP, SECAP, and smart city strategies [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] together with a brief analysis of strategic and urban planning frameworks in several former communist countries: Serbia, Hungary, Poland, and Bulgaria. We complemented the above research with a study on the Wien suite of strategies and explored the idea of harmonization used in the Sustainable Integrated Multi-sector Planning (SIMPLA) project.…”

MAG Welding Process with Micro-Jet Cooling as the Effective Method for Manufacturing Joints for S700MC Steel

“…A smart city is an urban area that uses different types of electronic methods and sensors to collect data [1]. This includes also data about transportation systems and communication technology [2][3][4].…”