Let us focus on the issue within the topic “Twelve projects for the 2012 Single Market” of European services standards as distinct from the impact of the effectiveness, efficiency and inclusiveness of the European standards system on that question.

While of course to separate these issues removes the very interesting political and philosophical debate whether it is wise or not to revise the European standardisation system to extend it to services based upon the performance of the European standards system to deliver relevant services standards to the market. My rationale is that the best predictor of future performance is past performance. Those who believe that the European standards model largely oriented to products has performed well in the past will see benefits to its extension to services in the future. And those who believe other standards models have better served markets in the past will reach negative conclusions.
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Here is this week’s week in standards.

Web Standards

Mobile Apps “May Soon Be Dead”

On the day that Gartner reports the growth of the smartphone market by 85%, comes the counter intuitive suggestion that very soon mobile apps will be dead. Apps are, of course, the main reason people buy smartphones.
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It has been a long two weeks in the UK with celebrations of the Royal wedding and now we are back after a bit of a break.  Again we have a wide range of standards related news and I hope you enjoy it!

Web standards

Adhering to OGC SWE Standards Simplifies Sensor Web Development

The SWE Common Service Model interface standard can be applied across services, which either require information from sensors or give information about sensors. In all the cases involving access and management of sensors through service interfaces the OGC SWE Interface standard can be applied.
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The Standardisation and Information Technology conference (SIIT) is a conference held every two years with the intention of bringing together standardisation researchers from different disciplines to exchange insights on standards and standardisation.

The year the event will be held in Berlin on 28 – 30 September 2011, hosted by Talkstandards affiliates Berlin Institute of Technology (TU-Berlin) and Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, represented by talkstandards regular Knut Blind (talkstandards.com/author/k-blind).

Note: the organisers have extended the submission deadline.

For more information please see the event’s homepage:

http://projects.inno.tu-berlin.de/siit2011/

The launch of concurrent efforts to implement standards-based infrastructural re-engineering of massive proportions in three separate political, geographic, and economic settings provides an unparalleled opportunity to compare what works – and what doesn’t – in the modern world.  Those settings are China, Europe and the United States.

Consider the differences:

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Europe is committed to the 20-20-20 targets to reduce carbon emissions and to secure energy supply. Energy efficiency and renewable energy are seen as key to reach this goal. Both measures call for changes in our energy supply system leading to smart grids as key enablers for the required innovation. To promote this transformation the European Commission has taken a number of actions including a mandate on standardization.

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The Smart Grid technology will prove essential in meeting the European Commission’s EU2020 objectives (cutting greenhouse gases and energy consumption by 20%, meeting 20% of the EU’s energy needs through renewable resources) (see here). Similarly, the PRC considers Smart Grids as being instrumental in substantially lowering energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions [1], as shown again in the recently promulgated Chinese Government’s12^th Five-Year Plan.

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This article is co-authored by James Bryce Clark, General Counsel, and Laurent Liscia, Executive Director, of OASIS

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I have been following smart grid standards especially since the talkstandards meeting in Boulder Colorado (the world’s first smart grid city) and also as a part of the Week in Standards posts on Talkstandards. And these standards are evolving rapidly. Here I give a flavour of what I mean in terms of the current and the future.

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International Standards for the Smart Grid

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On Tuesday 10th May (see times below), Talkstandards will host an online discussion regarding standards in the Smart Grid space looking at recent developments from an international perspective:
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