Standards Development

Scope

This SRD provides a technical description and stakeholders use cases within smart Cities and Regions for Multi-Functional Integrated Services Pole (MFISP) and their supported devices.

Purpose

This document provides technical guidance for governance, procurement, operations and management. It provides a generic set of systems concepts for MFISP’s to enable flexibility and interoperability between poles and their primary use cases (streetlights) and other secondary use cases (e.g. sensors, CCTV, EV- Charging, etc.). It also provides technical guidance for governance, procurement, operations and management. The street pole industry sector and consumers (typically government agencies) withconsideration and guidance in adopting best practice design to provide certainty for product design and procurement and investment certainty.

This document excludes the following:

(a) Detailed information about the technology that is attached on or within the MFISP (beyond the basic standards to which it should conform).

(b) Tenancy issues where ownership models may differ (i.e. infrastructure may be owned by the government or by non-government, or by non-government leased to government via Facilities Access Agreements to third party owned devices. 

(c) Advice about the location of the MFP in the streetscape or with respect to other poles.

NOTE 3 Refer to jurisdictional requirements. This may include local or state authorities, and territory road authority requirements, including, where applicable, The Austroads Guide to Traffic Management and local Service Installation Rules (SIR) in individual states and territories.

Methodology:

Review national and international guidelines to identify common good practice and identify gaps in current and future use cases to meet Smart City and regional needs.

 Possible structure:

Smart Pole current and future use case descriptions as a taxonomy check of existing standards. Gap analysis of relevant street pole

- Physical and Mechanical construction (pole, ducts, fibre, sensor, (material, light size, position, etc)

- Smartness standards (Data capture, store, process, Cybersecurity, interoperability)

- Affordable total lifecycle cost including Maintenance.

- Low carbon minimal waste impact considerations.

- Acceptance, Operations & Management indicators

The new standard aligns the Smart City Reference Architecture Methodology (SCRAM) adopting a systems approach to identify common requirements and gaps that can inform technical standards committees and by doing so supports common manufacturing processes to acceptable levels of quality and certainty in procuring activities to accelerate the operation and use of smart infrastructure in urban areas.

 Lampposts do not have a permanent energy supply or permanent dedicated data connectivity. There is no standard for “smart lamppost”. Primary use cases support lighting. Secondary cases are many and varied depending on manufacturer and consumer needs (e.g. smart sensors, electrical car charging, smart networks, support to deliver other services such as Wi -Fi or alert information).

A user-centric approach to documenting requirements and design as a standard can maximise the potential of digitising street poles to support smart city and community needs.

A modular infrastructure design approach ensures street poles have flexibility to meet future needs whilst maintaining current foundational standards

Liaisons are welcome from other SDOs to support the development of this standard.

Benefit/Impact:

To support other IEC standards and SDOs to develop their technical standards that support

- Procurement certainty and investment in smart infrastructure

- Quality protector to optimise the use of smart infrastructure resources

- Affordable cost to make smart infrastructure available to all

- Low carbon, low energy, low pollution, low e-waste to deploy and save the planet, supporting UN SDGs