1. Smart City platforms, methodologies and indicators: the European Commission perspective
Cristobal Irazoqui
Smart Cities & Sustainability
Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technologies

2. European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities
Supporting Europe's cities in getting smarter
DG CONNECT, DG MOVE , DG ENER initiative
The European Innovation Partnership for Smart Cities and Communities combines Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), energy management and transport management to come up with innovative solutions to the major environmental, societal and health challenges facing European cities today.
With the aim of coming up with scalable and transferable solutions to contribute to the EU’s 20/20/20 climate action goals, it looks to reduce high energy consumption, green-house-gas emissions, bad air quality and congestion of roads.
The Partnership aims to overcome bottlenecks impeding the changeover to smart cities, to co-fund demonstration projects and to help coordinate existing city initiatives and projects, by pooling its resources together.
It ultimately looks to establish strategic partnerships between industry and European cities to develop the urban systems and infrastructures of tomorrow.

3. The EIP Smart Cities 'Philosophie'
ict
 enabling effect 
Districts and Built Environment
Integrated Infrastructures
Sustainable Mobility
Tackle common challenges together (cities, industry, SMEs, academia)
Develop innovative, replicable solutions
Bundle the needs of cities and regions
Include business and banks
Create markets
Triple bottom line gain for Europe
EIP wants to integrate energy, transport and ICT sectors by connected all involved actors
Cities are different but face similar challenges in these areas (sectors)> learn from each other and tackle them together
Many solutions available, but need to be integrated and replicable > knowledge sharing
Working together and sharing of experiences and ideas/ initiatives allows for joint procurement in future to bring down costs
Money is available but demand and supply for financing have to work together, new business models for solutions
Goal: social, environmental, economic sustainability

4. Action Clusters launched on 09 October 2014
Sustainable Urban Mobility
Sustainable Districts & Built Environment
Integrated Infrastructure & Processes, Data
Citizen Focus how we build society into the process as an integral actor for transformation and beneficiary of gains
Policy & Regulation, Integrated planning creating the enabling environment to accelerate improvement
Business Models, Procurement & Funding integrating local solutions in an EU and global market
Action Clusters to be launched in 2015 (tbc)
Metrics & Indicators enabling cities to demonstrate performance gains in a comparable manner
6 action clusters launched on 09 October 2014 where committers met for the first time to share knowledge
2 action clusters to be launched in 2015 (standards; metrics & indicators), CSAs on both topics in H2020 focus area SC will deliver first mapping
All commitments with full details published on online marketplace, serves also as online collaboration tool in the future
Participants are invited to browse the commitments online and join the action clusters
Roadmaps (next steps) are being established for all Action Clusters
Next General Assembly on 21 May 2015, Berlin where first deliverables will be presented
Standards providing the framework for consistency commonality and repeatability, without stifling innovation

5. Three key elements Smart City platforms
Methodologies & standards for the environmental impact assessment of ICT.
Key Performance Indicator

6. Three key elements
Smart City platforms

8. Three key elements
Methodologies & standards for the environmental impact assessment of ICT.

9. Methodologies for the assessment of the environmental impact of ICT:
Out of the research program (enabling effect of ICT): Gr
Transport sector -> Methodology to evaluate the impacts of ITC/ITS measures on mobility, vehicle energy consumption and CO2 emissions (2013)
Buildings -> The ICT PSP methodology for energy savings measurement (2011)
Out of standardization organizations
L1400 series: methodologies for the assessment of the environmental impact of ICT:
L1410: Goods Networks and Services
L1420: Organizations
L1430: Projects
*L1440: Cities
Under ITU-T SG5: Environment and climate change - WP3 Q18
L.1400 : Overview and general principles of methodologies for assessing the environmental impact of information and communication
Very active involvement of the EC with many contributions in all methodologies (GNS, organizations, projects), physical presence, e-meeting presence and finally accepting the chief editor role for the Cities methodology.
In 2012 the EC facilitated the piloting of various methodologies* among which ITU-T L.1410, ETSI and ITU-T L Thereafter a request for a joint ITU-ETSI deliverable around GNS was introduced.
Joint Methodology for Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of information and communication (ICT) goods, networks and services.
Chief editor for L.ICT in Cities .
Following work under this FG SSC
Co-organizing with ITU-T some of the sessions at the Green Standards Week in Paris September 2012, in Genoa June 2014.
Also following activities in other areas like Q17, Q16.

10. Available and piloted by ICT under the initiative of DG CNECT
Towards Macro: Aggregation of information in the level of analysis
ICT Projects L-1430
ICT in Organizations-L- 1420
ICT in Cities L-1440
ICT in Countries
LCA of ICT Goods, Networks and Services
ICT Product Category Rules Guidance IEC 62725
ICT Product Category Rules
L-1410
ETSI TS
Bilan Carbone FR (Reporting)
GHGP
IEC
GHGP
Bilan Carbone FR (Reporting)
DG ENV – Product environmental footprint
ITU
ETSI
Available and piloted by ICT under the initiative of DG CNECT
IEC
Towards Micro :Breakdown and increase in details of information in the level of analysis

11. Overview of the structure of L.1440 ICT in Cities
Organizations are split in :
- ICT organizations.
- Non-ICT organizations.
- Public Administration
Consent expected Dec'14 in Kochi, India

12. to the environmental impact of a city
ICT contribution
to the environmental impact of a city
ICT footprint
ICT projects
Two Tiers:
- Tier 1: use phase
- Tier 2: full LCA
Assessment of ICT footprint at city level
Set city boundaries
Inventory of ICT goods within city boundaries
households,
public administration,
other organisations
Use patterns (modes and time) of ICT goods
Energy consumption of ICT goods (simplified)
Emission factors
Assessment of impact of an ICT project
at city level
Set project boundaries
Identify project activities
Identify ICT goods
Assess emissions of baseline scenario
Assess environmental impact after project

13. Three key elements
Key Performance Indicator

15. Action Clusters launched on 09 October 2014
Sustainable Urban Mobility
Sustainable Districts & Built Environment
Integrated Infrastructure & Processes, Data
Citizen Focus how we build society into the process as an integral actor for transformation and beneficiary of gains
Policy & Regulation, Integrated planning creating the enabling environment to accelerate improvement
Business Models, Procurement & Funding integrating local solutions in an EU and global market
Action Clusters to be launched in 2015 (tbc)
Metrics & Indicators enabling cities to demonstrate performance gains in a comparable manner
2 action clusters to be launched in 2015 (standards; metrics & indicators), CSAs on both topics in H2020 focus area SC will deliver first mapping
Focus Environmental, economic and social KPIs- TBL
Standards providing the framework for consistency commonality and repeatability, without stifling innovation

16. Thank you very much Questions?
Cristobal Irazoqui
Policy Officer - ICT Environmental Sustainability
Smart Cities & Sustainability Unit
be.linkedin.com/pub/irazoqui-cristobal/0/611/283/
DG CONNECT
EUROPEAN COMMISSION