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THE STANDARD News From ETSI . Issue 1, 2018 ETSI creates City Digital Profile group on Smart Cities Cities to procure interoperable smart solutions for their citizens ETSI has created a new Industry cities and on a large scale. Smart objectives and reducing the overall cost Specification Group “City Digital Profile” services are intended to improve the of deployment. (ISG CDP). It will help accelerate the overall quality of living in the city delivery of integrated citizen services and make them attractive to citizens, Continued on page 2 > and provide a technology road map investors, business, innovators, visitors for city leaders who will benefit from and tourists. standardized solutions from their Releasing suppliers. The City Digital Profile ISG will enable cities to procure smart solutions the Flow In providing this technology framework with confidence that those solutions and clear roadmap for technology will be extendable, configurable and investment and deployment, interoperable with similar services market confidence levels in the city from other cities and providers. infrastructure investments should City administrators will therefore increase and in addition this will give deliver advanced services to their cities the possibility to replicate those citizens, whilst respecting essential solutions across domains, between environmental factors, sustainability First 5G New Radio Specifications approved Data protection and 3GPP has approved the first 5G he presented details of the group’s privacy in a data- specifications: the non-standalone approval of the Non-standalone 5G driven economy 5G New Radio specifications were NR specifications and also outlined approved on 20 December 2017. how RAN will now turn towards the Come to our ETSI Balazs Bertenyi, RAN Chair called completion of the first phase of 5G it “an impressive achievement in a radio, Release 15, by June 2018. summit, 19 April 2018 remarkably short time, with credit due particularly to the Working Groups”. To know more about 5G new radio, Get a grasp of the policy and In the 3GPP plenary meeting at the watch our CTO and 3GPP RAN and SA legislative landscape around end of December in Lisbon, Portugal, chairs: http://bit.ly/2pd9GgC data flow in EU and beyond. Discuss the interplay of data ETSI launches new group with regulation, legislation, technologies and standards. on Augmented Reality Hear viewpoints and debate ETSI has launched a new Industry and interfaces. It will provide technical with experts coming from Specification Group called Augmented requirements for AR specifications different points of the Reality Framework (ISG ARF). This new in order to ensure interoperable ecosystem. group aims to synchronize efforts and implementations that will benefit both identify key use cases and scenarios for technology providers and end-users. For more information: developing an Augmented Reality (AR) Continued on page 2 > http://www.etsi.org/ framework with relevant components etsisummit Welcome to the ETSI creates City Digital Profile group World of Standards on Smart Cities Continued (from page 1) Cities to procure interoperable smart solutions for their citizens “I am excited that this group will enable Other key issues such as citizen related city leaders and suppliers to work data retention and privacy protection together to embrace mass market will also be considered, in cooperation replication of citizen centric systems with such groups as oneM2M, the ETSI that are innovative, agile and creative founded partnership project and the while also fully standards compliant, ETSI Technical Committee Cyber. secure, resilient and cost effective,” says Paul Copping, chair of the City Digital Profile ISG. Initial cross domain city applications will include: h Health and social care (disability entitlement; housing benefit and rent payment; housing condition, assisted living and vulnerability) h Building management and connected homes Welcome to this first issue in 2018 h Urban lighting of our newsletter, The Standard. As you can see from our cover page h Water and waste management and logo, this year marks 30 years since energy the foundation of the institute. While h Transportation and mobility every new year offers new milestones h Environmental issues such as to honour, we prefer to look forwards pollution and resource optimization instead of backwards. 5G will dominate much of our work in ETSI and 3GPP in the near future. 2018 will be a major milestone for 5G, since 3GPP plan to complete the first full set ETSI launches new group of 5G specifications (3GPP Release 15) in June, and ETSI will publish on Augmented Reality Continued (from page 1) them shortly afterwards. 3GPP have already finalized an initial set of 5G The group held its kick-off meeting on Augmented Reality is the ability to specifications, you can read a note 30 November and 1 December 2017, mix in real-time spatially registered about that in these pages. and elected Ms Muriel Deschanel digital content with the real world. AR from b<>com as chair of the group technologies and applications will play Our articles in this edition will give and Ralf Schäfer from Fraunhofer HHI an essential role in Industry 4.0, and you some insight into other new as the vice chair. The work of the ISG the success of smart cities and smart technologies which may change our will start with an analysis of the AR homes. Mobility, retail, healthcare, day-to-day lives: augmented reality, standards landscape, the analysis of education, public safety are other automation, cybersecurity, quantum use case requirements and obstacles, examples of domains where AR will safe cryptography, software defined and the development of a framework bring significant value. AR is quickly radio, smart cities and much more. architecture. advancing into a new phase of enabling We’re preparing the innovation which context-rich user experiences that will bring us forward another 30 years. “There are huge differences in AR combine sensors, wearable computing, applications but mapping digital the Internet of Things and artificial Once again, information with the real world implies intelligence. That capability is a unique I hope you enjoy this edition. the use of a set of common components opportunity of value creation. The offering functionalities such as need for transparent and reliable tracking, registration, pose estimation, interworking between different AR localization, 3D reconstruction or data components is key to the successful Luis Jorge Romero, injection. The development of such roll-out of such services. Director General, ETSI a framework will allow components from different providers to interoperate Participation in the Augmented through the defined interfaces.” Reality Industry Specification Group says Ms Deschanel, chair of the is open to all ETSI members as well as ISG ARF. “This will in turn avoid the organizations who are not members. creation of vertical siloes and market For information on how to participate fragmentation and enable players in please contact [email protected] the eco-system to offer parts of an overall AR solution.” 2 | THE STANDARD Issue 1, 2018 Smart to Future Cities 25-26 April 2018, Radisson Blu Portman Square, London Join us for Europe’s only city centric event for citizen centric smart cities. The event will focus on practical, scalable applications of smart city initiatives to improve infrastructure and quality of life. Several ETSI groups and speakers will debate during the session on Accelerating Smart City Deployments Through Standards-Based Technology Solutions, in the afternoon of 26 April. Visit the event’s website to know more: https://tmt.knect365.com/smart-future-cities/ ETSI and OpenFog Consortium collaborate on Fog and Edge applications Leading organizations in fog and multi-access edge computing sign MOU to share work related to global standards development for fog-enabled mobile edge applications and technologies ETSI and the OpenFog Consortium will “Establishing a cooperation Reference Architecture will extend the collaborate to develop fog-enabled framework with OpenFog represents mobile edge with a physical and logical mobile edge applications and a significant step towards adoption multi-layered network hierarchy of technologies. The two organizations of our standards by the industry,” cooperating fog nodes that interface have recently signed a Memorandum said Alex Reznik, Chairman of ETSI between cloud and edge, allowing for of Understanding (MOU) with intent MEC ISG. “This alignment of a leading interoperability across operators. to benefit organizations working industry consortium and a leading to develop 5G, mission-critical and standards setting organization in the One of the first initiatives from data-dense applications through fog fog/edge space should make it easier the agreement will be focused on computing and networking and thus for both application developers and Application Programming Interfaces reduce technical overlap across the infrastructure solution providers to (APIs) which support edge computing multitude of domains. develop towards a common, open interoperability. The recently and interoperable edge computing released package of MEC APIs contain “This OpenFog-ETSI MOU is a environment.” important properties that can be significant step in our efforts to build adapted and used in the OpenFog interoperability for efficient and OpenFog will work with the ETSI reference architecture. The ETSI MEC reliable networks and intelligent Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC)