Open standards: The answer to the smart city data dilemma

Source: Smart Cities Dive Posted: Oct. 3rd 2019

We are at risk of a smart cities stalemate, with potential technological or monetary barriers rendering services inaccessible for residents. Future success rests on the flow of data between systems.

Editor's Note: The following is a guest post from Kary Främling, professor of computer science at Aalto University, Finland, and chair of the IoT Work Group, The Open Group.

Data-driven smart cities are rapidly emerging across various parts of the world, becoming more attractive places to live. These cities are heavily reliant on open data and yet, in reality, data is still published in an unusable way for the majority of data analysis that needs to take place.

Many organizations involved in smart services are privately owned and use their own proprietary service platforms. This approach tends to discourage competition for more cost-effective services.

These complexities mean we are at risk of a smart cities stalemate, with potential technological or monetary barriers rendering services inaccessible for residents. So, could open standards be the answer to this data dilemma?

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