Smart City Standards

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• Smart city: development in Russia

2022: Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation approved the standard of a smart city

On May 18, 2022, the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation announced the approval of the smart city standard. It included 18 thematic blocks - in addition to the already existing sections on the digitalization of urban services, blocks appeared related to innovations in the social sphere, including in education and health care.

As explained in the Ministry of Construction, the standard defines the implementation of measures for the digital transformation of the urban economy and the management system. The ministry added that the most effective measures to introduce modern technological solutions were implemented in the largest cities with a population of 1 million people and in small cities with a population of up to 100 thousand people. It was these settlements that showed the largest IQ growth over the past three years, the ministry emphasized.

Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation approved the standard of a smart city

As part of further work on the project, it is extremely important for us to ensure the involvement and consideration of the best regional practices for the implementation of high-tech projects in the field of Smart City technologies in order to possible participation in the project, further adaptation and pilot implementation, "said Dina Safiullina, head of the project directorate of the Ministry of Construction of Russia.

The departmental project for digitalization of the urban economy "Smart City" is being implemented as part of the national project "Housing and Urban Environment" and the national program "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation." By May 2022, 213 cities are participating in the project, the number of inhabitants of which exceeds 100 thousand people. Agreements have already been signed with 87 pilot cities from 47 regions that have assumed increased obligations to implement smart city standard measures.

The goal of the Smart City project is to increase the share of residents of cities participating in the process of managing the city to 60% by 2024, and the average IQ of cities to 30%.^[1]

2021: The Ministry of Digital Affairs and the Ministry of Transport have begun to develop standards for smart roads

In early June 2021, the Russian Ministries of Transport and Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications agreed to jointly develop standards for the construction of so-called smart roads - those that are adapted to the use of digital technologies.

Unmanned vehicles need infrastructure. We believe that one of the immediate tasks with us together with the Ministry of Transport is to create standards by which new roads will be built so that they are initially ready for the introduction of new technologies. It is clear that capex [capital expenditures] are required a lot, and it is clear that this needs to be done at the level of uniform standards, "said Maksut Shadaev, head of the Ministry of Digital Affairs.

Maksut Shadaev: The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport will develop a standard for smart roads in Russia

He also noted that "there will be no more money for the construction of new roads," but the Ministry of Transport has all the necessary levers to "build more effectively smart roads without any serious budget increase."

According to Shadaev, drones are the "main cool thing" that can turn the transport industry around. However, before the mass introduction of autonomous cars, it is necessary to solve problems with digitalization. We are talking, first of all, about the complete rejection of paper bills, as well as expanding the use of biometrics - this will help simplify both the payment of travel and transport control. Another task is to create infrastructure for unmanned vehicles, the Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications added.

The timing of the introduction of smart road standards in Russia by June 3, 2021 in the Ministry of Digital Arts and the Ministry of Transport is not called.

Earlier, the Ministry of Transport reported on the implementation of joint pilot projects with China and Kazakhstan on the joint use of Russian digital services in transport, which are designed to create "green" barrier-free corridors for transit. These projects were proposed to be used to create a single standard for secure digital interaction in transport.^[2]

2020

RVC create 3 new national standards for smart cities

In September 2020, the Cyber-Physical Systems Technical Committee on the basis of RVC, with the participation of market organizations, as well as federal and regional executive authorities, created three new national standards in the field of smart cities. They are published on the website of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart):

• PNST 439-2020 "Information technologies. Smart city. Data Compatibility ";
• PNST 441-2020 "Information technologies. Smart city. Top level ontology for smart city indicators ";
• PNST 445-2020 "Information technologies. Smart city. General scheme of development and functioning. "

RVC introduced 3 new national standards for smart cities

The new standards are designed to increase the efficiency of projects in the field of informatization and automation of urban economy, as well as to simplify the introduction of new digital technologies in the urban environment.

As the publication D-Russia notes with reference to the earlier statement of the Ministry of Construction, the preliminary standards of the "smart city" are a logical continuation of the basic and additional requirements for smart cities ("Smart City Standard") developed by the department.

We are talking about a standard that makes recommendations for the introduction of digital technologies in the areas of housing and communal services, public and environmental safety, the formation of the urban environment, and traffic management. The basic provisions of the standard, in particular, include the creation of a single intellectual center for urban management, the introduction of digital platforms for involving residents in solving current urban problems, the introduction of intelligent accounting systems for the consumption of municipal resources, the creation of smart lighting, and the improvement of energy efficiency of state and municipal institutions. In addition, the standard of the Ministry of Construction involves the distribution of automatic photo and video recording systems for violations of traffic rules and tracking the movement of urban transport and communal equipment.^[3]

In Russia, approved the first national standards of smart cities

On August 13, 2020, it became known about the approval of Rosstandart the first Russia national development standards. smart cities Their development was carried out by the technical committee "Cyber-physical systems" on the basis of RVC market organizations, as well as federal and regional executive bodies.

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According to the head of the RVC programs, the chairman of the Cyber-Physical Systems technical committee, Nikita Utkin, whose words are quoted in the company's message, the approved series of standards regulate the basic approaches to implementing the concept of a smart city - terminology, general principles and guidelines for creating infrastructure, the implementation of which will ensure accessibility and openness of data in the urban environment. The following regulatory documents should define specific protocols for the exchange and use of data in a smart city, requirements for the equipment and products used to ensure their compatibility both at the level of an individual city and at the level of regions, he said.^[4]

The list of approved standards is as follows:

• PNST "Information Technologies. Smart city. Interoperability ";
• PNST "Information Technologies. Smart city. ICT indicators ";
• PNST "Information Technologies. Smart city. Top level ontology for smart city indicators ";
• PNST "Information Technologies. Smart city. Guidelines for Data Sharing and Sharing ";
• PNST "Information Technologies. Smart city. General provisions for the integration and functioning of smart city infrastructures ";
• PNST "Information Technologies. Smart city. Guidelines on Best Practices in Transport ";
• PNST "Information Technologies. Smart city. General scheme of development and functioning ";
• PNST "Information Technologies. Smart city. Standard Smart City ICT Indicator Architecture. Part 3. Engineering systems of a smart city. "

Eight new standards have been developed to help smart cities in Russia

The Technical Committee "Cyber-Physical Systems" together with the All-Russian Certification Institute on March 11, 2020 presented for public discussion eight preliminary national standards (PNST) in the field of smart cities.^[5]. Public discussion of documents will last for two months. This was reported by the RVC on March 11, 2020.

The following preliminary national standards are put forward for public discussion:

• "Information technology. Smart city. Information and communication technology (ICT) indicators. " Identifies a comprehensive set of indicators that relate to the implementation and use of ICT in smart cities;

• "Information technology. Smart city. Standard Smart City ICT Indicator Architecture. Part 3. Engineering systems of a smart city. " Defines a standard architecture structured according to the levels of information and communication technologies necessary for the functioning of smart cities;

• "Information technology. Smart city. Interoperability. " Defines the requirements for building a conceptual smart city model that can provide a basis for interoperability of components of smart city systems by harmonizing ontologies used in different sectors;

• "Information technology. Smart city. Top-level ontology for smart city indicators. " Defines the general principles for top-level ontology, which allows you to represent the definitions of indicators and the data used to obtain them.

• "Information technology. Smart city. General scheme of development and functioning. " Defines the methodology of planning, development, operation and maintenance for harmonizing each infrastructure as part of a smart city and ensuring interaction between several infrastructures.

• "Information technology. Smart city. General provisions for the integration and functioning of smart community infrastructures. " Defines the interaction scheme - the interaction between several infrastructures, between infrastructures and stakeholders, as well as between infrastructures and the external environment;

• "Information technology. Smart city. Guidelines on Best Practices in Transport. " Defines general guidelines for the planning, design, development, organization, monitoring, maintenance and improvement of intelligent transport systems and infrastructures that can help solve urban and long-distance problems.

• "Information technology. Smart city. Data Exchange and Sharing Guides. " Defines general guidelines on the principles and structure used to share and share data by organizations with the authority to develop and operate smart city infrastructure.

Since the development of smart cities is based on the introduction of digital technologies and cyber-physical systems into the urban economy, two basic standards for regulating cyber-physical systems have also been put forward for public discussion. The documents define the basic level of standardization: terms, definitions and general provisions in the field of cyber-physical systems.

The draft national standards submitted for public discussion are based on relevant international standards with a sufficiently studied and technologically neutral development process. Russian experts from the Cyber-Physical Systems technical committee took part in the creation of part of these international documents. This fact will ensure the unity of basic approaches in the development of smart cities. Also, reliance on international standards, according to the head of the RVC programs, chairman of the Cyber-Physical Systems TC Nikita Utkin, means the unconditional compatibility of documents with international theory and regulatory practice in the field of smart city.

TC Cyber-Physical Systems does not expect significant changes or revolutionary adjustments to draft national standards.

Based on the results of the public discussion, the committee expects that the draft national standards will be studied by as many participants as possible in the professional community. Making changes and adjustments to documents, as Utkin noted, are also expected and desired by the committee.

However, this is not the case when we expect significant changes or revolutionary adjustments. This is due to the fact that the bulk of this series of documents is fundamental, basic and does not bear a deep technological specificity or, even more, discrimination. In addition, part of the documents of this series refers to the so-called modified documents - that is, related to international standards, which means already having some testing, "explained TAdviser Nikita Utkin.

He also stated that the draft national standards were fully harmonized and correctly integrated into the national regulatory and technical system.

The goal of the new series of standards, as stated in the RVC, is to increase the efficiency of projects in the field of informatization and automation of urban economy, as well as to simplify the introduction of new digital technologies in the urban environment.

Examples of smart city projects, the effectiveness of which could increase thanks to them, according to Nikita Utkin, are found everywhere.

For example, a system of barriers for apartment buildings. Currently, all of them are built by different contractors and service organizations on different systems, operate using different exchange formats and protocols, there is no possibility of centralized management for the benefit of utilities, etc. Unified approaches to building such systems will significantly change their efficiency and functionality, "said TAdviser Nikita Utkin.

The head of the TC "Cyber-Physical Systems" also shared with TAdviser some details about the fate of the already public discussion of the project of the first national standard in the field of smart city - PNST "Information Technologies. Smart city. Indicators. " According to Utkin, the committee received proposals and comments from a little more than a dozen organizations on this document. Overall, fewer than 100 reviews were received.

The secretariat of the Cyber-Physical Systems Technical Committee prepared a summary of feedback from the public discussion of the NRTAP "Information Technologies. Smart city. Indicators. " It is this summary of reviews that we plan to discuss during the face-to-face meeting of the relevant working group on "smart cities" of our technical committee. Naturally, with the participation of everyone from among those who sent their proposals during the public discussion. Following the meeting, unambiguous decisions will be made to take into account or not take into account the proposals and adjustments received during the public discussion, "said TAdviser Nikita Utkin.

An important fact, in his opinion, is the planned participation in a face-to-face meeting of the leadership of the recently reorganized technical committee "Services (works, processes) in the field of housing and communal services and the formation of a comfortable urban environment," headed by Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services Maxim Egorov.

Smart cities in Russia will have the first standard

On January 14, 2020 RVC , it reported that the Technical Committee "Cyber-physical systems" had jointly Rostelecom developed a draft preliminary national standard (PNST) "Information Technologies. Smart city. Indicators. " According to the Vice President for Strategic Initiatives of Rostelecom, the Boris Glazkov document will allow assessing how correctly and effectively they develop Russia in smart cities and regions.

As of January 15, 2020, the draft preliminary standard is posted on the official website of the Cyber-Physical Systems Technical Committee and is undergoing a public discussion procedure, which will end on February 29, 2020. download the draft preliminary standard and download the explanatory note to the draft preliminary standard.

Further, the document will be sent for approval to the technical committee. Upon completion, the project will be submitted to Rosstandart for approval. The committee plans to do this in 2020, TAdviser said in the RVC.

The standard under discussion, as noted by the head of the RVC programs, chairman of the Cyber-Physical Systems technical committee Nikita Utkin, is the first among a series of standards in the field of smart city that the committee develops with the participation of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation, as well as with the support of experts. What exactly standards related to the smart city are developed by the committee and when they will be created in the TAdviser RVC were not reported.

Draft preliminary national standard "Information technologies. Smart city. Indicators "establishes a list of indicators for assessing the development of smart cities and a methodology for determining them. As noted in the RVC, in this way the document will systematize the assessment of the effectiveness of the provision of urban services and the quality of life in the city.

Draft preliminary national standard "Information technologies. Smart city. Indicators "will systematize the assessment of the effectiveness of the provision of urban services and the quality of life in the city, noted in the RVC

The indicators of the draft preliminary standard are divided into a number of categories. Among them, in particular - the economy, education, energy, environmental change, health, safety and transport. The criteria for selecting indicators are completeness and simplicity, technological neutrality, validity and verifiability, as well as data availability. There are 38 indicators in the list of the standard. In particular, they include the following:

• Proportion of urban service contracts using open data;

• The survival rate of new entrepreneurs in the ICT sector per 100,000 inhabitants;

• Number of computers, laptops, tablets or other digital learning devices per 1,000 students;

• the share of buildings in the city with intelligent resource counters;

• Number of remote air quality monitoring stations in real time per square kilometer (km2);

• The proportion of affordable urban services available online;

• annual number of medical appointments conducted remotely per 100 thousand inhabitants;

• The proportion of the area of the city covered with surveillance cameras;

• share of public garbage cans with sensor support;

• Share of public recreation services that can be booked online;

• Percentage of households with broadband Internet access;

• Proportion of city streets and highways covered by the online information system for road users and the real-time notification system;

• the area of the city displayed by interactive street maps in real time, as a fraction of the total area of the city;

• Proportion of public parking spaces equipped with real-time accessible spaces;

• the share of smart/smart traffic lights.

The draft preliminary standard provides for an annual assessment of the indicators contained in the city. However, the document allows each city to choose its own set of standard criteria for selecting the group of its indicators against which it will be evaluated, depending on individual development goals.

The standard, as noted in its explanatory note, will help cities determine indicators for the application of urban management systems and implement smart city policies to provide better services; providing a better habitat; achieving their sustainability and environmental goals in more innovative ways; Identifying intellectual infrastructure needs promoting innovation and growth; building a dynamic and innovative economy,

Commenting on the document, Nikita Utkina noted that the topic of the development of digital technologies is closely related to various aspects of the development of cities, agglomerations and regions.

An important task is to determine by which criteria to evaluate these processes. The approach proposed in this document focuses on the consumer properties of the city, which were taken into account in the set of indicators, said TAdviser Nikita Utkin.

The goal of the standard, he said, is to "bring some order and ensure uniformity" in the field of smart city, while "not being tied to specific solutions and products."

When developing the document, as Nikita Utkin noted, the experience of the committee's participation in the development of international standards in the field of smart cities was taken into account. In particular, his experience in developing a document close to the discussion on the topic of the international standard ISO/IEC "Information Technologies. Smart cities. Smart City ICT Indicators. " At the same time, only part of the indicators of the document submitted for discussion have already been tested abroad, in order to supplement them, the committee worked in Russia with a wide range of experts, Nikita Utkin explained.

I am sure that a public discussion will bring new indicators to the standard and justify their appearance, some indicators will also reasonably have to say goodbye, "said Nikita Utkin.

Speaking about possible participants in the public discussion of the document, the head of the technical committee said that he was not least expecting the inclusion of regional colleagues in the public discussion. According to him, in the context of the connection with real life and the feasibility of tasks, their opinion for the committee will be especially valuable.

Alena Vatbolskaya, Project Director of the Rostelecom Digital Economy Projects Office, informed TAdviser that in Russia there is not yet a single standard in the field of smart city, approved by Rosstandart in accordance with the requirements of the legislation. There are only departmental documents. According to Nikita Utkin, the existing documents in the field of smart city are either completely basic or are standards related to individual decisions. In addition, a whole niche is occupied by quasi-standards or "one-time" documents, which have nothing to do with regulatory documents.

The current task is to deal with the endless conceptual confusion and the seeming variety of documents in the field of the smart city, which are often duplicating, mutually exclusive and contain opposite positions, "said TAdviser Nikita Utkin.

Alena Vatbolskaya drew the attention of TAdviser that the concept of smart cities in Russia is undergoing a rethinking stage: on the one hand, the document should take into account the enormous capabilities of digital technologies to form a comfortable urban environment, on the other hand, do not ignore the obvious requirements that residents themselves make for the city. Issues related to them, in addition to digitalization, include the organization of work on overhaul, liquidation of emergency housing, modernization of the communal complex and many others.

Rostelecom, according to Alena Vatbolskaya, takes an expert part in the development of key documents in the direction of a smart city, including in the development of IQ cities.

2018: Start developing a set of standards in the field of quantum communications, AI and smart city

The Cyber-Physical Systems Technical Committee on the basis of RVC, together with the SeifNet Regional Engineering Center, began developing a set of standards for the markets of the National Technology Initiative (STI) and the digital economy on December 6, 2018. By March 2019, it is planned to develop technical standardization documents in the field of quantum communications, artificial intelligence and the "smart city," the RVC said. More details here.

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