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ITU standards supporting the wide range of
technologies under the banner of the Internet of
Things will assist both developed and developing
countries in transforming city infrastructure,
benefiting from the efficiencies of intelligent
buildings and transportation systems, and smart
energy and water networks.
The new ITU-T Study Group 20 is building on over 10 years
of ITU-T experience in IoT standardization, developing
international standards to enable the coordinated
development of IoT technologies, including machine-to-
machine (M2M) communications and ubiquitous sensor
networks. An important aspect of the group’s work is the of these indicators is undertaken on the basis of cities’
development of standards that leverage IoT technologies to experiences with their implementation. Manizales, Montevideo,
address urban-development challenges, assisting the transition Buenos Aires, Valencia, Rimini and other selected cities have
to smart cities and communities. also agreed to trial these KPIs.
ITU and UNECE have launched the United for Smart ITU-T has developed standardized methodologies to
Sustainable Cities (U4SSC), a global initiative which advocates assess the environmental impacts of ICTs, both in terms of
for public policy to encourage the use of ICTs in enabling the ICT greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the emissions
transition to smart sustainable cities. savings created through green ICT applications in other
industry sectors. The latest standard in this series provides a
Dubai and Singapore were the world’s first cities to join a uniform means of quantifying ICTs’ energy consumption and
two-year pilot project to implement ITU-standardized key greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the city level, providing a
performance indicators for smart sustainable cities. This pilot methodology to assist in making the case for smart sustainable
project will assist ITU in ensuring that any future refinement cities.

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