ETRI to lead international standardization related to Smart City

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced that it achieved good results at the 10-day International Telecommunications Union (ITU) conference held in Geneva, Switzerland in July.

The achievements of the researchers include the establishment of two international standards at the SG20 (Internet of Things and Smart Cities) meeting under the ITU Telecommunications Standardization Division (ITU-T), getting the approval for eight new proposals for international standards, and securing four seats for the chairperson of the new international standardization meeting.

This is meaningful because it was the first meeting since ETRI Director Kim Hyung-joon was appointed as chairman of SG20 at the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA) in March, and Director Kim Hyung-joon attended the meeting as a chief representative of the Korean delegation and is said to have successfully conducted the meeting.

ETRI not only achieved standardization and achievement of two international standards and eight new proposals for international standards in the field of digital transformation such as IoT, digital twin, smart agriculture, smart energy, and smart health. It achieved the achievement of securing a total of four seats at the International Standardization Conference, including SG20 Chairman Kim Hyung-joon.

In particular, for the first time in the world, it has achieved the establishment of 'requirements and functions of the smart city digital twin system', which includes the definition of a general digital twin.

Moreover, two new proposals defining the Digital Twin Alliance reference structure and information exchange model were approved based on the Digital Twin Alliance requirements for a mutual alliance between domains underway by ETRI, drawing attention.

The international standards (drafts) in eight areas in which ETRI got approval as a new proposal at this meeting are as follows.

▲Autonomous driving delivery robots in the IoT and smart cities ▲Digital Twin Alliance ▲Smart Greenhouse Service ▲Intelligent Energy Control ▲Accessibility for the vulnerable ▲Smart Agriculture ▲Smart City Control and Monitoring ▲Intelligent IoT Service.

Meanwhile, ETRI has produced a total of four chairs related to the IoT and Smart City Research Group (SG20).

By leading the development of new international standards, ETRI researchers will be able to lead the development of digital transformation and digital twin international standards, which are key technologies for establishing digital platform governments in the future.

"Korea has been pushing for international standardization in the digital twin sector since 2018, centering on ETRI, and it is an important achievement to push for follow-up standards that can be used for alliances between industrial domains," and "In the future, we will collect various opinions from industry, academia, and research institutes related to digital twin and expand it to the base technology for the establishment of digital platform government," said Kim Hyung-joon, head of ETRI.

He also said, "We will continue to support Korean industries' international standardization activities by leading international standardization leadership as the chairman of ITU-TSG20, which is a key technology such as IoT and smart city in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution."

In March, ETRI Director Kim Hyung-joon was selected as the chairman of the research group of the fourth Korean national since joining the ITU of the Korean government in 1952 at the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA -20).

Reported by Smart City Today