Executive Summary on the First Meeting of
ITU-T Study Group 20
“IoT and its applications including smart cities
and communities (SC&C)” Meeting
19-23 October 2015
Nasser Almarzouqi, Chairman, ITU-T SG20
Statistics
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Participation: 179 participants (18 delegates connected via remote participation); 82 Member
States, 1 Associate, 11 Academia, 18 Recognized Operating Agencies, 9 ROIO, 37 SIO, 1
WTSA-08 Palestine and 15 Guests.
94 Contributions
123 TDs
7 Incoming Liaison Statements & 17 Outgoing Liaison Statements
Final list of participants by sector
Final List of Participants
Study Group 20
Sector
Academia
Associate
Guest
ITU Staff
Member States
Recognized Operating Agencies (ROA)
Regional or other International Organizations (ROIO)
Scientific or Industrial Organization (SIO)
WTSA-08 Palestine
Grand Total
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Qty
11
1
15
5
82
18
9
37
1
179
2
82
37
18
15
11
1
5
9
1
Attendance
 Remote participation
Region
Africa
Participants by region
Qty
1
22
29
Americas
6
Arab
1
Asia & Pacific
7
Europe
3
Grand Total
Americas
23
15
CIS
7
18
5
 Participants by Region
Region
Americas
Europa
CIS
Africa
Asia & Pacific
Arab
Other
Total
Europa
Africa
Asia & Pacific
Arab
Qty
22
23
7
5
78
15
29
179
78
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Other
Results of the 1st Meeting
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Rapporteurs and Associate Rapporteurs have been designated
 http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2013-2016/20/Pages/rapporteurs.aspx
Liaison rapporteurs to the collaborating international organizations have been designated
 http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2013-2016/20/Pages/representatives.aspx
Terms of reference of the Joint Coordination Activity on Internet of Things & Smart Cities and
Communities (JCA-IoT&SCC) have been agreed (TD24Rev2)
 Next JCA-IoT&SCC meeting to be held in conjunction with the next SG20 meeting
Participation of SMEs (C58Rev.1)
 It was agreed that SG20 will volunteer to carry out a pilot project to promote the participation of
SMEs if this option is made available by Council Working Group on Financial and Human
Resources and ITU Council
Mailing Lists are available at: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2013-2016/20/Pages/ifastructure.aspx
Meeting reports:
 The draft Report of Working Party 1/5 can be found in TD87Rev4
 The draft Report of Working Party 2/5 can be found in TD88Rev2
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Next SG20 Meeting
 Next SG20 Meeting: 18-26 January 2016, Singapore
 Forum on IoT & Smart Cities: 18 January 2016, Singapore
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SG20 Structure – agreed
TD03Rev.5
Title
PLEN
Question 1/20
Working Party 1
Internet of Things (IoT)
Question 2/20
Requirements and use cases for IoT
Question 3/20
IoT functional architecture including signalling requirements and protocols
Question 4/20
IoT applications and services including end user networks and interworking
Working Party 2
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Research and emerging technologies including terminologies and definitions
Smart cities and Communities (SC&C)
Question 5/20
SC&C requirements, applications and services
Question 6/20
SC&C infrastructure and framework
See: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2013-2016/20/Pages/structure.aspx
List of Questions: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2013-2016/20/Pages/questions.aspx
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Results (Q1/20)
 Promotion of ITU-T SG20
 5 Liaison statements
 ITU to build synergies with the IoT Week conference in June 2017
through a joint event to promote SG20’s work
 Some potential areas of work for consideration in the next meeting
 Internet of Things testbeds and crowdsourcing potential for IoT
standardization and smart cities
 IoT framework and roadmap for rural areas in developing countries
 Personal data protection and privacy impact on IoT standardization
 Study the impact of IPv6 transition on IoT standardization
 Identify and study emerging IoT technologies
 Report of Q1/20: http://www.itu.int/md/T13-SG20-151019-TD-GEN0077/en
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Results (Q2/20)
 Discussion started on Q2/20 work plan:
 To develop further requirements of IoT in the different vertical fields (plan to be defined for
involvement of stakeholders)
 To collect IoT-enabled use cases in support to the requirements studies (inputs from regions
already in progress)
 To identify relevant ecosystems and associated models in the different IoT-enabled fields
 To identify requirements for services based on the integration with advanced ICT (e.g. Cloudenabled IoT services)
 Q2/20 is now responsible for studies on:
 Big Data in IoT, IoT Accounting and Charging, Wearables, network requirements,
device management
 Q2/20 Living list: http://www.itu.int/md/meetingdoc.asp?lang=en&parent=T13SG20-151019-TD-GEN-0109
 Q2/20 Report: http://www.itu.int/md/meetingdoc.asp?lang=en&parent=T13SG20-151019-TD-GEN-0108
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Results (Q3/20)
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Discussion started on Q3/20 work plan:
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To develop new architecture aspects required to realize convergence based on IoT (plan to be defined
for involvement of stakeholders)
To identify requirements for signalling and control architectures for IoT and SC&C
To identify requirements for enhancements to existing signalling requirements and protocols required
in the Internet of things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M) communication services and/or
applications
Q3/20 is now responsible for ongoing studies on:
 IoT-Self Organization Networking (draft Y.IoT-son) , IoT-constrained device networking
(draft Y.IoT-cdn),
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New studies include:
 IoT architecture aspects, requirements for signalling and control architectures in IoT
 Q3/20 Living List:
http://www.itu.int/md/meetingdoc.asp?lang=en&parent=T13-SG20151019-TD-GEN-0118
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Q3/20 Report: http://www.itu.int/md/meetingdoc.asp?lang=en&parent=T13-SG20151019-TD-GEN-0086
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Results (Q4/20)
 Discussion started on Q4/20 work plan:
 To progress the work on Y.WoO-hn, Y.IoT-ASF, etc.;
 To discuss new work items including liaison statements.
 Question 4/20 discussed 6 Contributions including Liaison Statements.
During the meeting, Q4/20 has made progress on 2 draft
Recommendations and has accepted 4 new work items as initial draft
recommendations. At the meeting, Q4/20 produced 8 output documents
including revised texts of on-going and initial draft Recommendations,
living list and the meeting report.
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Q4/20 Report: http://www.itu.int/md/meetingdoc.asp?lang=en&parent=T13SG20-151019-TD-GEN-0089
Q4/20 Living List: http://www.itu.int/md/meetingdoc.asp?lang=en&parent=T13SG20-151019-TD-GEN-0074
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Results (Q5/20)
 Progress on draft Recommendations & Supplements:
Working title
Y.SC-Residential
Requirements of Smart Residential Communities
Y.SC-OpenData
Framework of Open Data in Smart Cities
Identifier service requirements for the interoperability of Smart City
applications
Overview of smart cities and communities, and the role of information and
communication technologies
Y.SC-Interop
Y.SC-Overview
Supplement Supp.SC-guide to
Y.4000 series
Supplement Supp.SCstakeholders to Y.4000 series
Supplement Supp.SC-buildings
to Y.4000 series
Supplement Supp.SC-plan to
Y.4000 series
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Title
Smart sustainable cities: a guide for city leaders
Setting the framework for an ICT architecture of a smart sustainable city
Intelligent sustainable buildings for smart sustainable cities
Master plan for smart sustainable cities"
Q5/20 Report: http://www.itu.int/md/meetingdoc.asp?lang=en&parent=T13SG20-151019-TD-GEN-0095
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Results Q6/20
 Progress on draft Recommendations & Supplements:
Working title
Title
Y.frame-scc
Framework and high-level requirements of smart cities and communities
Y.infra
Y.ism-ssc
Y.isw-ssc
Supplement Supp.IMSC to Y.4000
series
Supplement Supp.MSinfra to
Y.4000 series
Supplement Supp.Overview-SCinfra to Y.4000 series
Supplement Supp.frameworkarch-SC to Y.4000 series
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Overview of city infrastructure
A Technical Framework of Integrated Sensing & Management for Smart
Sustainable Cities
Integrated Sensor Web Resource Metadata for Smart Sustainable Cities
Integrated management for smart sustainable cities
Multi-service infrastructure for smart sustainable cities in newdevelopment areas
Overview of smart sustainable cities infrastructure
Setting the framework for an ICT architecture of a smart sustainable city
Q6/20 Report: http://www.itu.int/md/meetingdoc.asp?lang=en&parent=T13SG20-151019-TD-GEN-0097
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Coordination Sessions
 SG20 & SG16
 SG20 & SG5
 Approval of the terms of reference of the joint
correspondence group on Security and Privacy for
IoT (CG-IoTsec) with the purpose of facilitating
preparation of the report to be presented to TSAG
and to support effective collaboration on security
and privacy for IoT between SG17 and SG20.
 Co-conveners are SG20 and SG17 Chairmen.
 Mailing list: [email protected]
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Forum on “Internet of things: empowering the
new urban agenda ”
This forum provided a platform to
discuss why the Internet of things
will be at the heart of smart city
transformation.
When: 19 October 2015
Where: ITU Headquarters, Geneva,
Switzerland
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Programme & Presentations: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-andSeminars/iot/20151019/Pages/programme.aspx
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Overview
14 December: 10th ITU Symposium on ICTs, Environment & Climate Change - From the
New Climate Agreement to the New Urban Agenda, jointly organized with
UN-Habitat.
15 December: Forum on "Turning the E-waste Challenge into an Opportunity", jointly organized by
BCRC-Caribbean, CRBAS, ECLAC, ITU, UNESCO, UNIDO and UNU.
16 December: Training on “Green ICT Policies and Standards”, jointly organized by CRBAS,
ECLAC and ITU. (morning)
16 December: Forum on "Driving the Connect 2020 Agenda". (afternoon)
17- 18 December: Forum on "Powering Smart Sustainable Cities With the Internet of Things",
jointly organized by ITU, UN-Habitat and UNESCO.
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/gsw/201512/Pages/default.aspx
THANK YOU
 ITU-T SG20 “IoT and its applications including
smart cities and communities (SC&C)”
itu.int/go/tsg20
 Contact: [email protected]