Presentation by Chris Greer
Senior Executive for Cyber Physical Systems, NIST Engineering Laboratory
FIWARE Global Summit
23-24 October 2019 - Berlin, Germany
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To promote innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing
measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that
enhance economic security and improve our quality of life
NIST Mission
6. GCTC Objectives
• Establish and demonstrate
replicable, scalable and sustainable
smart city models
• Demonstrate measurable benefits
to residents
• Enable measurement science for
smart city technologies
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7. Over 160 Participating Cities and Communities
• Genova, Milano, Torino, Perugia (Italy)
• Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Coruna, Valencia (Spain)
• Saint-Quentin (France)
• Saitama (Japan)
• Shirahama (Japan)
• Abuja City, Obia-Akpor City (Nigeria)
• Busan, Seoul, Daegu (Korea)
• Portland, OR
• Newport News, VA
• Greenville, SC
• Raleigh, NC
• Montgomery County, MD
• Winooski, VT
• San Mateo County, CA
• New York, NY
• Washington, DC
• www.globalcitychallenge.org for the full list
And over 400 companies, universities,
non-profits, government agencies7
8. GCTC Structure
Action Clusters
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10. GCTC Structure
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11. Photo by Anthony Quintano via Flickr / CC BY
Public Safety SuperCluster
12. PSSC Action Clusters
Alameda / San Francisco CA Clarity Amid Chaos: How AI is Enhancing Emergency Preparedness
Austin / Denton / Tarrant County TX Smart Emergency Response System (SERS)
Conover NC GEO Fencing Predictive Policing Solutions to Reduce Response Times
Denton TX / UNT / PSU Deployable Communications & Incident Command System
Fairfax County VA / GMU SMART Emergency Medical and First Response Multi-Team System
Genova / Milano / Torino, ItalyResilience Data Treatment Tools for Real-Time Decision-Making
Grand Rapids / Detroit MI Responder to Vehicle Communication for Public Safety
Harris County TX / Arlington County VA Indoor, GPS-Denied First Responder Location and Tracking
Lafayette LA Louisiana Business Emergency Operations Center (LABEOC)
Las Vegas NV Serving the Underserved with IoT Solutions
Midlothian / Fort Worth TX NextGen Resilient Warning System for Tornados and Flash Floods
Montgomery County MD Smartphone-based Snow Emergency Network
Montgomery County MD/Gainesville Safe Community Awareness and Alerting Network (SCALE)
Nashville TN Integrated Analytics & Scheduling of 1st Responders
Newport News / Norfolk / VA Beach Storm Sense Inundation and Flood Prediction Modeling
Orlando FL Video Analytics for Public Safety during Special Events
Reno NV / Wake County NC Addressing Incarceration, Homelessness, and Mental Health
Ronart / Santa Rosa CA Advanced Flood Warning & Environmental Awareness
San Francisco CA Mobi Micro-Grids: Sustainable, Resilient Mobile Power
Taichung City, Taiwan Community Traffic Guidance and Control for Disaster Response
Taipei City, Taiwan Tech-secure City
Taoyuan City, Taiwan Taoyuan City Water Resources Information System
Wakayama / Nagano / Miyagi NerveNet Regional Resilient IoT Platform for Smart Cities and Towns
Prefectures, Japan
Washington DC / Loudon County VA Cyber City Education Platform: Functional Training and Practice
Westminster, MD MAGIC Smart Home/Smart Community Project
13. GCTC SuperClusters
• Transportation (TSC)
• Leading city: Portland, OR, Columbus OH
• Public Safety (PSSC)
• Leading City: Washington DC
• Utility (USC)
• Leading City: Atlanta, GA, San Leandro,
CA
• Wireless (WSC)
• Leading City: San Mateo County, CA, San
Leandro, CA, Schenectady, NY
• Data (DSC)
• Leading City: Kansas City, MO
• Agriculture and Rural (ARSC)
• Education (ESC)
• Smart Buildings (SBSC)
• Crosscutting – Cybersecurity and
Privacy Advisory Committee (CPAC)
The GCTC Wireless SuperCluster published its Municipal
Internet-of-Things Blueprint, in July 2019, offering three
business models for adopting smart city networks.
https://pages.nist.gov/GCTC/super-clusters/
NOW Wireless SuperCluster (WSC)!
SUPERCLUSTER EXAMPLE:
14. Internet-of-Things-Enabled Smart City Framework
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A Framework Document Set of Artifacts
“The draft framework is very important and timely, and will hopefully help
increase the shared understanding of all involved in Smart City (standards),
as well as accelerate the deployment of standards based ICT solutions” – ETSI
“We see this document as having the potential to enable a common
vernacular, a common framework, and a means of allowing disparate cities
to exchange information in a way that allows cities to adopt best practices
from one another” – I3 Consortium
IES-City Framework
International Working
Group (led by NIST)
Goal: Distill a common set of
smart city architectural
features and identify “Pivotal
Points of Interoperability” for
incremental and composable
Smart Cities
15. Pivotal Points of Interoperability - PPI
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• If you standardize everything, you freeze out
innovation.
• If you standardize nothing, you get non-interoperable
clusters that can’t be easily integrated.
zThe principle of Pivotal Points of Interoperability is to
find consensus standardized interfaces that deal with
composition of CPS without constraining innovation.
17. Proposed Smart Cities and Communities Framework
• Through GCTC, NIST collected a large
amount of information on best
practices in the field of smart cities
and communities.
• NIST will work with partners worldwide
to coordinate the development of a
consensus Smart Cities and
Communities Framework (SCCF)
publication series to consolidate and
extend this information
• The central goal is to assist innovators
worldwide in developing safer and
more secure, livable, and workable
communities.
Theory/Principles
PublicSafety
Utility
PublicWiFi
Agriculture/Rural
SmartBuildings
Transportation
Smart City Introduction/Overview/Context
IES-City Framework
Cybersecurity and Privacy Guidebook
Data/City platform
Municipal IoT
KPI/maturity assessment
Cross-cutting/foundational
Vertical/sector-specific
18. Global Cities
Thank you!
chris.greer@nist.gov
• Contact
• Sokwoo Rhee (sokwoo.rhee@nist.gov)
• GCTC websites and Wiki:
• https://pages.nist.gov/GCTC/
• https://www.nist.gov/el/cyber-physical-systems/smart-
americaglobal-cities
• https://gctc.opencommons.org/Category:ActionCluster
• NIST SCF website: Coming soon
(Fall 2019)
• To sign up for updates:
• Mailto:gctcinfo@nist.gov with
“Subscribe” in the subject line.