by the National Institute of Standards and Technology

“ Busan Global Smart City Testbed Project is an IoT-based Smart City building project whose goal is to secure global references by developing an Open Smart City Platform on which new commercializable urban services can be suggested and tested, demonstrate IoT-based promising urban services by building a testbed in Haeundae Busan for the realization of a sustainable city, and establish a governance for the operation of a smart city in order to vitalize a public self-sustainable ecosystem. ”

“ Who Smart cities is a growing market and a global one with significant competitiveness implications for both industry and municipalities. NIST, as lead partner, is coordinating this activity through its Cyber-Physical Systems Program, part of the NIST Engineering Laboratory, to pursue its responsibilities for assisting industry in the development of measurements, measurement methods, and basic measurement technologies; and assuring the compatibility of United States measurement standards with those of other nations. ”

“ The output of the working group will be a white paper providing a common, voluntary, consensus foundation of language/taxonomy and common architectural principles that can align these existing efforts to produce complementary, coherent, language/taxonomy and common architectural principles that will support interoperable and portable smart applications. Thus, the working group effort will facilitate the work being done by the various standards organizations, consortia, and others. ”

“ Comprise technical experts and city stakeholders from industry, academia, and government worldwide; Make its deliverables freely available on the web; Hold regular working meetings virtually to eliminate barriers of geography; and Develop a technical white paper on consensus principles for smart city architectures derived from comparative analyses of existing concepts (including M2m, IoT-A, FIWARE, NIST’s CPS Framework, and others) and their mapping to exemplary smart city deployments (including those arising from the Global City Teams Challenge and others as the group may select) . ”

“ There are many teams of implementers and cities pioneering applications all over the globe. There are also many consortia and standards organizations developing architectures of various scopes appropriate for Smart City integrations. ”

“ This real world test bed has deployed environmental sensors to detect a variety of factors including: smoke, carbon dioxide and monoxide, some toxic gases, humidity, temperature, particulates, and some forms of pollen. Sensors also detect water consumption and contaminants. The data compliments information related to the health of a resident that comes from health devices such as blood glucose monitors, heart monitors, and oxygen machines. It can even detect events such as falls, unauthorized access to sensitive areas, or a resident that has wandered off. ”

“ The project leverages Chicago’s Array of Things (AoT) initiative, which uses resilient embedded systems technology developed at Argonne National Laboratory. The AoT provides an urban scale testbed to embed new technologies and services in the built infrastructure, enabling application developers to access near-real time, high spatial-temporal resolution data about urban air quality, weather, and other factors. ”

“ Deploying technologies in urban spaces is costly, so the project leverages existing street furniture, integrating AoT’s air quality and environmental sensors into solar powered, networked waste stations built by BigBelly, a waste solutions company. BigBelly operates nearly 30,000 waste stations in cities globally, and provides a vehicle through which sensors can be deployed in many diverse urban settings. ”

“ And they do not want to wait to deploy these capabilities in anticipation of the arrival of some grand scheme. A desirable architecture would draw on the existing work to minimize the barriers to integrating critical as well as new and novel applications to the benefit of citizens and city managers. ”