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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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 won’t 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.
 Technology’s 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
people’s 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
Communication Backbone.
reliable
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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, silo’d approach
Transportation
Gas
Water
Power
Servers &
other ICT
Infra
Servers &
other ICT
Infra
Servers &
other ICT
Infra
Servers &
other ICT
Infra
Sensors
Meters
Meters
Meters
Waste
Management
Servers &
other ICT
Infra
Other City
Services and
Departments
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
Common
Information
Infrastructure
Multiple Network Topologies
Common
Network
Common
Data Platform
Secure VPN
Internet
Integrated Data Acquisition /Integrated Data Management
Secure Open Data
Platform
Public Utility
Companies
Transportation
Gas
Master Data
Management System
Water
Infrastructure Business
Support Systems (BSS)
Power
Waste
Manageme
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
Framework for Smart Infrastructure
Architecture
 Work Group 2: Communication
Protocols & Interfaces…
 Work Group
Ontology…
3:
Data
Modeling,
&
Architecture,
Semantics
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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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