Accelerated Development & Harmonization

of
Standards for Smart Energy and Smart Cities
One of the most challenging Imperatives
for
Standard Development Organizations
IEC Systems Committee on Smart Energy & Theme-G:
Cross Cutting Themes Standards
Narang N. Kishor
Mentor & Principal Design Architect

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 Smart Infrastructure
for
Smart Sustainable n Secure Cities
One of the most challenging Imperatives
for
Smart City Stakeholders
 Carbon
footprint

Cities have a very large

environmental footprint.
There is a huge
business opportunity in
reducing that footprint
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The energy challenge:
Energy use is a big challenge
for ours and the next Generations!

The same way

of thinking that
got you into
trouble wont get
you out of it.

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 Standards are chromosomes

of the

Smart Infrastructure
With no apologies to my esteemed friend Richard Schomberg
Definition of Smart Cities

The ISO Technical Management Board (TMB) in its 63rd

meeting held on 17-18 June 2015 passed a resolution and
approved the working definition of a Smart City in ISO as
follows:
''Smart City'' should be described as a city that:
dramatically increases the pace at which it
improves its sustainability and resilience, by
fundamentally improving how it engages society,
how it applies collaborative leadership methods,
how it works across disciplines and city systems, and
how it uses data and integrated technologies in
order to transform services and quality of life to
those in and involved with the city (residents,
businesses, visitors)

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The smart grid deployments !!!
smart
grid

The Key Economic & Social Driver for SMART

GRID Initiatives Globally is nothing but Energy
Efficiency.

The goal is to create a smart grid that will

change the way power is deployed for
sustainable energy around the world.

It will transform the way we use Energy

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The Imperatives:

The success & failure of the new Electricity

Infrastructure shall highly depend on the
Electronics, IT & Telecommunication
Technologies used & deployed.

A single mistake in choosing the wrong

technology might result in a set-back that
shall take many years to rectify the
problems and move forward in the right
direction, and thus, jeopardizing the
progress of the nations itself

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The Imperatives:

The technological trends in Smart

Homes, Smart Buildings, Smart Cities
& Smart Grid are being considered and
pursued in isolation from each other by
the respective stake holders. In fact, they
form a very tightly interwoven &
homogenous confluence of similar
technologies being applied in different
domains for a common cause of making
our planet earth smart, green n secure.

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The most profound technologies are
those that disappear

They weave themselves into the fabric

of everyday life until they are
indistinguishable from it

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The Internet of Things (IoT):

Most Disruptive Technology of the decade

Disruptive technology, is the bearer of
tremendous opportunity and equally, a
harbinger of obsolescence.
Technologys impact on society and business is
substantial, if not underestimated.
Though product cycle times are accelerating,
the underlying technologies unfold over many
years.
Within each trend there are multiple enabling
technologies, all at various stages of maturity
and adoption.

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Defining the IoT Systems:

Internet of Things is all about

heterogeneous and aware
devices interacting to simplify
peoples life
in some way or the other

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Hurdles in fast growth of IoT:
It is difficult for innovation to happen
across disjointed platforms & technologies

Creating the opportunity for ecosystem partners to

work across common open platforms facilitates
faster innovation
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Hurdles in fast growth of IoT:
The IoT value chain is perhaps the most diverse
and complicated value chain of any industry or
consortium that exists in the world.
In fact, the gold rush to IoT is so pervasive that if
you combine much of the value chain of most
industry trade associations, standards bodies,
the ecosystem partners of trade associations
and standards bodies, and then add in the
different technology providers feeding those
industries, you get close to understanding the
scope of the task.
In this absolutely heterogeneous scenario,
coming up with common harmonized standards
is a major hurdle.
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IoT Paradigm & challenges ! ! !

Global Neural Network of Networks

Homogeneous Network of
Heterogeneous Devices
Industrial IoT v/s Consumer IoT
Services v/s Applications
Infrastructure v/s Enterprise v/s Homes
End to end Security in the Signal
Chain

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Smart Infrastructure ! ! !
System of Systems ..
Smart Grids
Smart Buildings..
Smart Homes
Smart Cities
M2M or IoT
Smart Networks
homogeneous & Secure paradigm for
heterogeneous devices, systems & solutions..

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Global Scenario
As per GSMA and Machina research, top ten connected applications
with approx. business impact in 2020 :-
S.No. Top Ten Connected Applications in Value to the Connected Life
2020
1 Connected Car US$600 billion
2 Clinical Remote Monitoring US$350 billion
3 Assisted Living US$270 billion
4 Home and Building Security US$250 billion
5 Pay-As-You-Drive Car Insurance US$245 billion
6 New Business Models for Car Usage US$225 billion
7 Smart Meters US$105 billion
8 Traffic Management US$100 billion
9 Electric Vehicle Charging US$75 billion
10 Building Automation US$40 billion

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Smart Cities & Smart Infrastructure
A sample Indian business case for next 5-10 years:
200 million Smart Electricity Meters are going to be procured & deployed
under the NSGM (National Smart Grid Mission).
All these Smart Meters are going to use 200 million Communication Modules
and minimum 0.4 million Gateways/DCUs (Data Concentrator Units).
Smart Streetlights are going to use more than 100 million Communication
Modules and at least half a million of DCUs/Gateways
Smart Buildings are going to deploy more than 50 million smart Sensors and at
least 100K 200K DCUs/gateways
Automobiles shall be using at least 100-200 million communication nodes for
Vehicle O & M, V to V, V to I & other telematics applications
Similarly, various applications of the Smart Infrastructure paradigm like Smart
Water, Smart Gas, Smart Traffic, Smart Environment, Smart sewage Disposal
etc. are going to use a few billions of Smart Sensors with Communication
Modules
To summarize, India ALONE, is going to need a minimum of 5 - 10 billion
Communication modules to be integrated into the Smart Sensors and
Controllers and 10 50 million Gateways that shall be needed to
operate and maintain the Nation Wide Critical Infrastructure that needs
to be deployed to enable and empower the citizens to lead a
sustainable, safe and secure life
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The shifting paradigms

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The rise of new paradigms:

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The rise of new paradigms:

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One of the most challenging Imperatives
for
Standard Development Organizations

Harmonization of Standards
in
Smart Homes, Smart Buildings, Smart Grid & Smart Cities
for
smart, sustainable & secure communities

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Critical Infrastructures:

Critical Infrastructure are the assets that

are essential for the functioning of the
society and economy.

Those facilities, systems, or functions,

whose Incapacity or destruction would
cause a debilitating impact on national
security, governance, economy and
social well being of a nation.

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Critical Infrastructures:

A few essential components of the

Critical infrastructure are:
Smart City
Smart Health
Smart Water
Smart Surveillance
Smart Grid
Smart Street Lighting etc.
They all need highly reliable
Communication Backbone.

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Critical Information Infrastructures:

The critical Information Infrastructure is

the backbone and foundation of any
modern society/community today.

Those ICT infrastructures upon which, the

core functionality of Critical Infrastructure
is dependent.

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The contrast:

The contrast between IT and critical

infrastructure networks is the fact
that humans are the central feature
for IT networks, but are only a side
focus of critical infrastructure.
In fact, the more effective and
capable a critical infrastructure
network becomes, the less a human
will be involved in any way.

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Infrastructure Protection

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ICT Architecture for a Smart City

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Information Security Infrastructure

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Security Architecture for a Smart
City

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The Smart Meter:
A chain is only as strong as its weakest Link

currently the weakest link in the Smart Grid

Signal Chain is our Smart Meter.
A robust Communication & IT Infrastructure shall
be no good if we continue to use the Meters,
which are not Equally Secure. So, the new
imperative for the Metering Industry is to Design
not simply a Smart Meter but a Smart &
Secure Meter.

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The Smart Meter:

Otherwise, an enemy nation shall not need any Nuclear

Weapons to bring our nation down; they would need just a
bunch of good Hackers to get thru our Smart Meters (maybe
thru a In Home Display Unit or a User App on a Mobile Phone
or Tablet) into the Command Centre of our Smart Grid
Network and shut down the power to the nation causing
unpredictable catastrophe

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The Imperatives:

It is imperative to explore these crucial

aspects of our new Electricity
Infrastructure; the challenges, the current
Practices & Technologies, Architectures,
Interfaces & Protocols.
And, identify the way forward for Unified
& Secure Communication Architecture
to provide a Scalable, Versatile & Robust
Communication Backbone for the Next
generation Electricity Infrastructure.

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The Interplay
Smart Grid Smart Cities
The relationship between Smart Grids and Smart Cities
needs to be understood in this context:

In a smart city, energy, water, transportation, public

health and safety, and other key services are managed in
concert to support smooth operation of critical
infrastructure while providing for a clean, economic and
safe environment in which to live, work and play.

Hence, the perspective in Infrastructure Design for any city

has undergone a paradigm shift with advent of
convergence and networking technologies, solutions for
information, communication, entertainment, security and
surveillance; which are beginning to have a profound
impact on the way we look at the Buildings Design (be it
residential or commercial) and Town Planning.
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From a vertical, silod approach
Transportation Gas Water Power
Waste
Management

Servers & Servers & Servers & Servers &

other ICT other ICT other ICT other ICT Servers &
Infra Infra Infra Infra other ICT
Infra
Other City
Services and
Departments

Sensors Meters Meters Meters Sensors

Coordination, collaboration and harmonization can be

better implemented by the effective use of open,
common and shareable, information and communication
technologies that allows the creation of a truly
interconnected system with seamless communication
between services. Even though the services and
applications can be diverse, they could leverage the use
of common infrastructure to achieve this objective.

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To a converged common ICT
infrastructure pool

Cities with Homes

with Multiple
Smart Meters

Multiple Network Topologies

Infrastructure

Common Secure VPN

Information
Common

Network
Internet

Common Integrated Data Acquisition /Integrated Data Management

Data Platform
Secure Open Data Master Data Infrastructure Business
Platform Management System Support Systems (BSS)

Waste
Transportation Gas Water Power
Public Utility Manageme
Companies nt

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Integrated Management Centre
There is also a recursive cycle to the data in a Smart City.
Information that is generated is information that is
consumed which in turn adds to the information
generated which becomes information used again.

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Integrated Management Centre

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The Final Imperative:
Unified & Secure Communication Architecture,
Protocols and Interfaces for
Critical Information Infrastructure Deployments.
The need for proven, scalable, and standards
based solutions for Critical Infrastructures
deployment scenario, with inherent complexity
and tradeoffs, requires specialized, skilled, and
multi-stakeholder engagement. THUS, we need
to undertake this task of global importance,
which shall make a significant contribution in
building a Robust Foundation for Critical
Information Infrastructures along with paving
ways to make our community smart, green n
secure.

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The Final Imperative

To delve, deliberate, peruse the Standards,

Technological & Interface Models being
considered or deployed globally and come up
with Unified and Harmonized Set of Documents
Defining the way forward for all the stakeholders of
Smart Grid, Smart Home, Smart Building, Smart City,
Smart Infrastructure, rather the Comprehensive &
Collaborative Homogenous Ecosystem
encompassing the Critical Infrastructures
Deployments globally.

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Dichotomy
The question on one hand:
Who is going to invest in developing New
products, systems and solutions based on the
UNIFIED, HARMONIZED & SECURE Information &
Communication Architecture or even a
Framework for such a heterogeneous scenario
with such diverse challenges, when there is
absolutely NO Co-ordination or even realization
of the problems each stakeholder is going to
face in the very near future?

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Dichotomy
The question on the other hand:
Who is going to create the Architecture
and/or Framework, if there is no demand
or even realization of this NEED?

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The Way Forward:

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Systems Approach the IEC way

The multiplicity of technologies and their

convergence in many new and emerging
markets, however particularly those involving
large-scale infrastructure demand a top-down
approach to standardization, starting at the
system or system-architecture rather than at the
product level.

Therefore, the Systems Work will define and

strengthen the systems approach throughout the
technical community to ensure that highly
complex market sectors can be properly
addressed and supported.

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 Panel on
Smart Infrastructure
Technical Committee: LITDC/P2
Under
Electronics & Information Technology Division Council
Bureau of Indian Standards
Convener
narang n. kishor
International Work
Presently, the following committees / groups are
functioning under ISO and IEC

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SG1- Smart Cities

IEC SyC AAL - Active Assisted Living
IEC SyC - Smart Energy
IEC SyC - Smart Cities
IEC SMB/SG 8 - Industry 4.0 - Smart Manufacturing
IEC SMB/SG9 - Communication Technologies
IEC ahG 60 - Disruptive Technologies
The panel shall identify & nominate Indian experts in
each of the committees and working groups under the
committees
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Areas to work in

Smart City
Smart Energy
AAL (Active Assisted Living)
Smart Manufacturing Industry 4.0
Communication Technologies
Disruptive Technologies

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Areas to work in

+
Unified, Sustainable, Secure n Resilient
end-to-end ICT Infrastructure
For Smart Cities

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Next steps

The work has been segregated in three different

categories:

Mirror Committees to map & sync up with

respective Global SDOs

Study Groups on Smart Infrastructure

Work Groups on Smart Infrastructure

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Work Allocation:

Study Group 1: Smart City Proposals Review &

identifying pain points and gap areas(macro level)
from ICT perspective.
Study Group 2: Comprehensive Mapping of Global,
Regional & National ICT Standards relevant to Smart
Infrastructure.
Study Group 3: Review of challenges and gaps in ICT
aspects of various Utilities & other Physical
Infrastructures.
Work Group 1: ICT Reference Architecture &
Framework for Smart Infrastructure
Work Group 2: Communication Architecture,
Protocols & Interfaces
Work Group 3: Data Modeling, Semantics &
Ontology
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Deliverables
The Mirror Committees shall explore the work being pursued
at the international level, the need for standardization in the
national context and guide the council for further action in
their respective technology areas.
All the Study Groups shall conduct studies in their respective
focus areas and come out with periodic Interim Reports, and
Final Reports to act as Guiding & Advisory Collaterals for the
Stakeholders of Smart Infrastructure & Smart City
ecosystems
All the Work Groups shall work on the specific technology
aspects of their respective work areas, and in the first phase,
come up with specific Technical Reference Documents for
the Stakeholders of Smart Infrastructure & Smart City
ecosystems
The Work Groups shall also identify the gap areas in
standardization in their respective focus areas and Advise BIS
on the Adoption and/or Development of Standards in
relevant areas to the Finest Granularity, as a next phase of
activity
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Resilience.

Let us not pray to

be sheltered from
dangers but to be
fearless when
facing them

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 design is our religion
&
we are fanatically religious

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