Supporting the Standardization Process of Smart City Systems

Marion Gottschalk

2016

Abstract

The continuous development in information and communication technologies (ICT) and the resulting research area Internet of Things (IoT) enable the connection of more and more hardware and software systems. IoT describes a global infrastructure for the information society to enable interconnecting physical and virtual things based on existing and evolving ICT. Regarding the development of smart cities that constitutes a system of systems concept using ICT, a defined, or, better still, a standardized way to define and to link various systems is necessary. Smart cities are innovative cities that use ICT to make urban operations and services more efficient for improving the quality of life. Smart cities are difficult to realize because they are complex based on their system of systems concept. It starts with the specification process. Each smart city system has many requirements – functional and non-functional requirements – which have to be matched with each other and have to be complemented with further requirements to connect systems – interface requirements. For supporting the requirements specification process, the IEC adapts the use case methodology to offer a standardized template for describing all functional requirements of a complex systems in the same way and for detecting standardization gaps (IEC 62559-2). On the basis of these requirements, complex systems are implemented. If errors are occurred or rather detected during the implementation process of smart cities, it can be very time consuming and expensive to correct these errors. Thus, it is important and sensible to invest time and money in the specification process of future smart cities to get consistent requirements and to prevent errors. Aim of the PhD project is to create and to evaluate an approach to support the standardization and the management of requirements for complex systems by automated consistency checks.

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Gottschalk M. (2016). Supporting the Standardization Process of Smart City Systems . In Doctoral Consortium - DCSMARTGREENS, (SMARTGREENS 2016) ISBN , pages 17-27


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author={Marion Gottschalk},
title={Supporting the Standardization Process of Smart City Systems},
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year={2016},
pages={17-27},
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