What is this standard about?
This is a guide on how to adopt and implement smart city products and services to rapidly develop an effective smart city.
Who is this standard for?
It will help city leaders in the public, private or community sectors find the standards that are related to what they’re doing.
It’s particularly relevant to:
- National and local government departments
- Utility companies
- Healthcare providers
- Transport service providers
- Construction companies
- Network companies
- City planners and developers
- Designers
- ICT solution vendors of any size
- Clients of all of the above
Why should you use this standard?
It gives a detailed description of the potential benefit of smart city strategies; provides recommendations on how to identify the first steps towards making the city smarter; and covers the role of technology and data in providing the tools in this process.
The guide is also part of the smart cities suite of documents. Other relevant titles in the suite include:
- PAS 180, Smart cities – Vocabulary, which defines terms for smart cities, including smart cities concepts across different infrastructure categories
- PAS 181, Smart city framework – Guide to establishing strategies for smart cities and communities, which gives guidance on a good practice framework for decision-makers in smart cities and communities (from the public, private and voluntary sectors) to develop, agree and deliver smart city strategies that can transform their city’s ability to meet future challenges and deliver future aspirations
- PAS 182, Smart city concept model – Guide to establishing a model for data interoperability, which provides a framework that can normalize and classify information from many sources so that data sets can be discovered and combined to gain a better picture of the needs and behaviours of a city’s citizens (residents and businesses)
- PD 8101 Smart cities – Guide to the role of the planning and development process, which gives guidance on how the planning and implementation of development and infrastructure projects can equip cities to benefit from the potential of smart technologies and approaches