The Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand (SCCANZ) has released a guidance note on smart cities standards and frameworks. The guidance note is designed to raise awareness as to what standards and frameworks are currently available for smart cities and to provide foundational information on global smart cities standards and frameworks. The guidance note has been prepared in collaboration with the Professional Construction Strategies Group (PCSG).

Key smart city elements used to categorise the standards in the document include:

• Building Information Modelling
• Internet of Things
• Sustainable communities
• Smart cities frameworks and process standards

Three levels of standards, strategic, process and technical, are listed in the document. Strategic level standards are considered most relevant to government bodies with process and technical level standards of relevance to management positions.

The guidance note is the first step to building a culture in the built environment industry that will embrace the value of standards and support the advancement of standards.

More information here.