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Overview of BSI and

standardisation (Smart
Cities & Big Data)
Tim McGarr Tom Digby-Rogers
Market Development Lead Programme Manager
Manager (Governance & (Sustainability & Energy)
Resilience)

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BSI as the BSI

National
as aStandards
NationalBody
Standards Body
• Established in 1901, Royal Charter Company

• Representing UK interests in international and European standards matters

(ISO, IEC, CEN, CENELEC, ETSI)

• BSI is a Royal Charter company independent of government and industry

• Developing voluntary consensus Standards, not Regulations

• Respected around the world, catalogue of 37,000 Standards

• Publishes 2,200 Standards each year (and withdraws 1,000)

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What are Standards?

Voluntarily developed 
Terminology Method

Developed by experts 

Consensus-based / public consultation  Management

Code of
Practice System
Documented good practice 

Voluntarily applied 
Guidance Specification
Tested against 

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Types of Standards
International
Standards (eg:
ISO X)

European Standards (eg: EN X)

National Standards (eg: BS X)

Publicly Available Specifications (PAS X)

Private Standards

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Corporate Technical Specifications 4
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Committee coverage Central Government

BEIS, Defra, Cabinet Office, UKTI,
Academia No. 10, Innovate UK,
IPO, Research Councils
Cambridge, Edinburgh, ICL
Strathclyde, Surrey, UCL Regional
Government
Business Government Scotland, Wales
CBI, IoD, FSB,
Digital Catapult,
Future Cities Catapult, Industry
Transport Systems Catapult,
High Value Manufacturing Catapult,
Regulators
Energy Systems Catapult Stakeholders Energy (Ofgem)
Finance (FCA, Lambert)
Health (CQC, DoH)

Professions Authorities
EI, ETI, ENA Trading Standards Institute
Societal
NGOs
Consumers Charities
RNIB, Alzheimer’s Society, Age UK
Which?
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How standards
are made

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Using standards to make cities smarter

Common city challenges
Socio-economic
• Growing population  Provide good practice
• Aging population for developing smart
cities
• Economic prosperity
• Healthcare issues
• Skills & market access  Increase
• Job creation & retention confidence in
• Infrastructure stress procurement of
Political infrastructure and
services
• Public sector budget
• Changing service needs
Environmental
 Allow the development of
• Climate change replicable solutions
• Resource scarcity
• Energy/carbon emission

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Consortium of Partners
Cities, businesses, government and other organisations
Decide how new and existing standards & best practice should be
developed and implemented

Objectives
Create right conditions for future UK cities market growth
Addressing key market barriers
Standards uptake through urban innovation projects

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BSI Smart City Portfolio of Standards
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PAS 212 Automatic resource

PD 8100 Smart city Overview Discovery for IoT
Leadership engagement guide, providing useful Specification that works with linked-data for exposing
assessment, and navigation to key BSI guidance information about IoT over the web

PD 8101 Smart city Planning PAS 183 Decision Framework

for Data Sharing & info. services
Best practise for delivering smart development and Decision making framework addressing wider data-
infrastructure programmes sharing issues

PAS 181 Smart city Framework PAS 184 Good Practices

for delivering SC solutions
Overarching smart city framework addressing key Leadership guide providing insight on alternative
issues in delivering smart programmes business models and use-cases to support these
PAS 180 Terminology PAS 185 Specification for
Basic lexicon of terms establishing and implementing
a security-minded framework
PAS 182 Smart city Data
Concept Model Published Planned/Under development
Ontology that sits above data sets to make city data 9
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Sustainable cities and communities standards activity

Guidance for Management system
Strategic/
community sustainable for community [city]
leadership development sustainable development
(BS 8904) (ISO 37101) Smart city
Indicators for city framework
services and Indicators for city
(ISO 37106)
quality of life smartness
based on PAS 181
(ISO 37120) Vocabulary for smart (ISO 37122)
Process/ sustainable cities
management (ISO 37100)
KPIs for smart input from PAS 180 Smart city data
infrastructure concept model Data exchange for
projects (ISO/IEC 30182) smart infrastructure
(ISO/TS 37151) based on PAS 182 (ISO 37156)

Automatic resource
Technical discovery for IoT
(PAS 212)

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Industrial Strategy • How to get Engagement/participation
PD 8100 •
•
Understand needs, city challenges, well-being, etc.
Citizen in control
How to move from traditional planning to smart city planning
Circular Cities • Rapid consultation
ISO 37101 & ISO 37104
Consider legalistic approach to planning

Core Cities

Role for politicians / policy makers

Vision & Purpose Defined by Senior Management
ROI
Management System

in consultation with People

ESPRESSO

Feedback loop, reflecting maturity

Efficiencies
PAS 184
Resilience Make it easy for cities to get funding
City limit Business case
Activity sign-off

of control ESPRESSO maturity tool

Strategy Smart City/Operational Strategy
ISO 37153
City concept model information ISO 37151 KPIs &
PAS 181/ISO 37106 Maturity

Communications
Consider Finance Metrics Assessing what you have and what
you could have
IEC systems PD 8101
approach Planning Smart City Planning BIM
ISO 37154
market relations future Planning process varies
Energy Transport ISO 37157
work to inform strategy
ISO 37120 Real-time Water Waste ISO 37158
Constant measurement
Dynamic
ISO/IEC Indicators ICT
a security-minded approach

Digital
30146 to show direction
Infrastructure Projects & Services
CITY KEYS Commissioning
Data ontology (how Encourage adding bespoke Consider Finance
PAS 183 – data sharing & IT
PAS 185

you derive data and indicators & assessment

how you think about PAS 184
data) Monitor and analyse
Different business models
data INSPIRE & commercial models (new)
ISO/IEC 30145 (data infrastructure) e.g. circular, leasing, joint procurement
reference architecture
Data
PAS 182/
Urban IoT Consequences
ISO/IEC 30182 ISO 37156
Data concept model (to Data exchange
compare data usefully) PAS 212
Hypercat
International work means standards
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Urban Platforms (data sharing)
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PD 8100 Overview and roadmap

PAS 181->ISO 37106
Sustainable development and communities - Guide to
Vision, Goals, establishing strategies for smart cities and communities
Strategy Purpose

Capability Performance Goals &

Assessment Measurement Targets

Smart City
Business
Roadmap
Case

Enabling Service Impact

Capabilities Transformation

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ISO 37101 Management system Attractiveness Appeal to citizens, investors, etc.

for sustainable development Preservation &

improvement
Reducing GHG emissions; biodiversity and
ecosystem services; reduced health hazard.
of environment
Climate change mitigation/adaptation; economic
Resilience
shocks; social evolution.
Responsible Consumption; land management; reducing,
resource use reusing and recycling of materials, etc.
Accessibility; culture; heritage; inclusiveness;
Social cohesion
inequalities reduction; social mobility, etc.
Access to opportunity; education; happiness;
Well-being
prosperity; quality of life; security; welfare, etc.

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PAS 182->ISO-IEC 30182 Model for data interoperability

Make city data discoverable:
To describes data from From ISO/IEC 30145-2:
any sector
Reduce barriers to
sector interoperability
Focuses on semantics
of data from many
sectors

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Smart sustainable cities standards map
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PD 8100 (smart overview)

CITY INFORMATION
ISO 37101/ISO 37104

defined by top management

with consent of the people descriptive
vision & purpose
framework
SMART knowledge
ISO 37105
strategy framework
PD 8101 PAS 183
ISO 37120 ontology (data sharing)
smart/operational concept model
strategy ISO/IEC 30182
planning ISO 37106 axiom
ISO/IEC 30146 data
smart city PAS 184
(biz models)
ISO 37156
indicators used as (data exchange)
planning
evidence/KPIs
ISO/TS 37151 PAS 185
(data security)
commissioning (KPIs)

energy, water,
infrastructure transport, waste, IT
projects &
services ISO 37153
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