This move will allow a larger constituency (including small towns and SMEs) to have access and benefit from the standard.
This standard is based on the Reference Architecture and Design Principles for an urban platform deliverable of the Urban Platform initiative of the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP SCC) (consisting of 93 industrial partners and 110 cities) and the H2020 project ESPRESSO.
The deliverable defines high-level specifications for an urban platform, which meets the needs of the cities and which is open and interoperable thus allowing cross-sector applications and their portability and fulfilling the goals of the initiative to address the lack of interoperability, vendor lock-in, city reluctance to procure and deploy and a fragmented market.
It is aimed at opening the market and allowing a host of smaller and bigger players to provide innovative solutions thus fostering the creation of local ecosystem and contributing to jobs and growth. It complements the efforts for cross sector Internet of Things solutions and standardisation and allows concrete implementations to get wider acceptance by the city procurers and industry players.
The reference architecture and the standard are getting an ever-increasing traction and acceptance in many European markets. The DIN standard has been incorporated in the input for the global standard organisations ITU-T, ISO and IEC in their current work towards common global standards.
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