The process for developing smart cities and communities standards should ensure

   - interoperability of solutions, i.e. adaptability of solutions to new user requirements and technological change as well as avoidance of entry barriers or vendor lock-in through promoting common meta-data structures and interoperable (open) interfaces instead of proprietary ones;
   - open and consistent data, i.e. making relevant data as widely available as possible – including to third parties for the purpose of applications development – whilst using common, transparent measurement and data collection standards to ensure meaningfulness and comparability of performance/outcome measurements.

The project should lead to

  • accelerating the deployment of Smart Cities and Communities solutions by ensuring the up-scaling of the process and  lowering their costs,
  • enabling the opening of market for multiple actors,
  • ensuring the front run position for European smart cities solutions, at forefront worldwide.

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