Smart City Standardization

Smart City Standardization: International and National Implementations contains presents the current state of smart city standards at both international and national levels and demonstrates how smart city innovation is clarified via standardization and how competitive solutions compromise under international and national negotiations in standardization bodies. The book starts with international and supranational levels and proceeds to national approaches. It is a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers, and other practitioners who need to understand how they can use smart cities to strengthen city resilience, but it is also ideal for instructors of courses in urban studies, ICT, security, public health, and more.

Chapters address the problem of smart city standardization and aims to provide answers to the crucial questions: 1. What is the purpose of standardization in smart cities? 2. How is smart city standardization established, and by whom? 3. Which standards exist for smart cities? 4. How do national standards transform international recommendations into smaller scale norms? Moreover, the standardization ecosystem is depicted, and the existing international standards are briefly explained. Finally, the interrelation between international and national standardization helps readers understand how the standardization is brought from high-level policymaking to national practices.