Smart cities. Supplying data products and services for smart communities. Code of practice

Abstract

Smart communities require much more than just technology. Truly smart communities require citizen-centric and data-driven innovation – a new community operating model that cuts across organizational silos and sectoral barriers. The guiding principles for such a smart community operating model are set out in BS ISO 37106 (which supersedes PAS 181), with other documents in the BSI smart city publications giving more detail on specific elements – such as cross-silo data sharing (BS ISO/IEC 30182 and PAS 183), developing smart city projects and solutions (PAS 184), the implications for urban planning (PD 8100) and city security (PAS 185). The above existing publications are aimed primarily at community authority leaders, making recommendations and requirements for actions to take to implement smarter ways of working across the community. Implicitly, however, the BSI smart city publications also have significant consequences for the suppliers of smart services and smart products. This PAS makes these explicit, establishing recommendations for smart community suppliers at two levels:

• Product: recommendations for common specifications for data products and data services aimed at ensuring they have optimum impact on future development of the community; and
• People and process: good practice recommendations on how a smart community supplier engages with the community authority, covering the key roles, skills and business processes it deploys when developing, delivering and maintaining data products and data services.

This PAS is therefore a supplier-focused counterpart to the existing smart city publications. It aims to guide smart community suppliers of smart products and smart services during the implementation of smart city strategy by:

• helping to remove barriers for suppliers of data products and data services by defining a set of clear recommendations that help the design of products and services that meet city requirements;
• addressing market failures experienced by cities by ensuring data products and data services are not developed in isolation from solving real city problems and are based on a clear set of outcomes;
• addressing market concerns around ethics and security of smart city products and services, through embedding best practice in their design; and
• ensuring data products and services are developed in a citizen-centric and inclusive way.

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Scope

What is PAS 186:2020 about?

Joining a series of existing smart city publications (PAS 180, PAS 183, PAS 184 and PAS 185), PAS 186:2020 sets out recommendations for suppliers of data products and services to smart cities and communities.

Who is PAS 186:2020 for?

Organizations that supply smart and connected services to cities and local authorities regardless of sector, including:

• Engineering, architecture and infrastructure consultancies and suppliers
• Facilities management companies
• Organizations that provide back-end/outsourced services to cities and local authorities

In addition, stakeholders responsible for procuring, contracting or commissioning services might also benefit from this PAS by referencing it when detailing requirements for data products and data services within smart cities and/or smart communities.

Why should you use PAS 186:2020?

This PAS gives recommendations for suppliers of data products and services to smart cities and smart communities. It’s technology-neutral and supplier-impartial and its recommendations are independent of the underlying IT infrastructures that hold and deliver data products and data services.

The PAS was written by bringing together industry experts and consumers from across the globe to reach consensus. The steering group included expert representatives from electrotechnical, engineering, smart city, local government and consumer fields.

Use of PAS 186:2020 will:

• Help remove barriers for suppliers of data products and data services by defining a set of clear recommendations that ensure products and services are designed to meet city requirements
• Address market failures experienced by cities by ensuring data products and data services are not developed in isolation from solving real city problems and are based on a clear set of outcomes
• Address market concerns around ethics and security of smart city products and services through embedding best practice in their design
• Ensure data products and services are developed in a citizen-centric and inclusive way

© British Standards Institution 2022

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