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This report entitled: “Future Standardisation Education Reflections and Recommendations“ is an outcome of the StandICT.eu online event which took place on the 18th January 2023, which organised this intense 3 hour workshop at a crucial time when the European Green Deal & the New Industrial Strategy for Europe as well as the geopolitical environment call for a strong European presence in international standardisation development. Building up a strong and sustainable pool of European standardisation competent professionals who are ready to engage in European and International Standardisation is crucial. The report showcases some of the achievements the project has produced thanks to its funded fellows within the various technological domains where standards are critical including: Digital Twins, Blockchain & DLT, 5G, Digital Product Passport, Artificial Intelligence, Fintech and RegTech, Spatial Computing and Geospatial Standards, eHealth. The results from these domain areas are being picked up in the efforts in defining multiple landscape and gap analysis reports, StandICT.eu delivers, through the work within the Technical Working Groups (TWGs) targeted around specific, important technologies supporting the EU Green Deal and the Industrial Strategy for Europe. The report outlines some of the key opportunities and activities organisations are working on to acknowledge what is happening in Europe, appreciate the benefits of standardisation and to make Europe’s voice heard in international standardisation efforts. The report considers this approach, discusses what is happening already in Europe and provides some recommendations for future priorities within the Standardisation and education space. &nbsp

The goal of this report is to capture the landscape of edge computingactivities and edge computing documents/specifications published and/or under publication by SDOs, Alliances and OSS Initiatives. The report was produced by the Technical Working Group TWG-IIoT & EDGE established under the remit of the EU-funded StandICT.eu 2023 project. The TWG operates in full autonomy and transparency. Read the rest of the StandICT.eu 2023 reports here:https://www.standict.eu/landscape-analysis-reports

The goal of this report is to capture the landscape of IoT activities and IoT documents/specifications published and/or under publication by SDOs, Alliances and OSS Initiatives. The report was produced by the Technical Working Group TWG-IIoT & EDGE established under the remit of the EU-funded StandICT.eu 2023 project. The TWG operates in full autonomy and transparency. Read the rest of the StandICT.eu 2023 reports here:https://www.standict.eu/landscape-analysis-reports &nbsp

International audience; Semantic technologies have recently gained significant support in a number of communities, in particular the IoT community. An important problem to be solved is that, on the one hand, it is clear that the value of IoT increases significantly with the availability of information from a wide variety of domains. On the other hand, existing solutions target specific applications or application domains and there is no easy way of sharing information between the resulting silos. Thus, a solution is needed to enable interoperability across information silos. As there is a huge heterogeneity regarding IoT technologies on the lower levels, the semantic level is seen as a promising approach for achieving interoperability (i.e. semantic interoperability) to unify IoT device description, data, bring common interaction, data exploration, etc.

International audience; This paper is co-authored by an informal group of experts from a broad range of backgrounds, all of whom are active in standards groups, consortia, alliances and/or research projects in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. This paper has two objectives: 1) explain the need for semantic interoperability, 2) provide recommendations for semantic interoperability standards using ontologies. The target audience for this paper are: ● IoT system product owners who need to understand how they can effectively ensure interoperability of their products. ● IoT system and standardization engineers without background in semantic technologies. The document is made available under the ​Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License​.

Commercial users of modern communications networks have benefited from a huge progress of the related technologies. However, Public Safety Networks (PSNs) and devices did not follow the same trend. Very often, they still rely on voice or low speed data communications, tempting first responders to use their own private devices when they need to exchange real-time video or geolocation information. Under this consideration, national authorities and specialized organizations have recently initiated the integration of more recent technologies, such as cellular Long Term Evolution (LTE), even though they need further developments to cope with the harsh usages that safety personnel may face. This report proposes to move the evolution of these networks towards the recent evolution of networking technologies started with Software Defined networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Based on the requirements derived from a standardized earthquake scenario and a study of the main improvements brought by this network softwarization, it analyzes how SDN and NFV can solve part of the issues raised with commercial LTE and enhance PSN communications. The capabilities of these new technologies are applied to a list of characteristics required by mission-critical networks, e.g., rapid deployment, reliability, security or resilience, taking advantage of features such as the separation between control and data planes or the simplified dynamic resources management. The resulting enhancements are then illustrated using example frameworks published in the literature for Cloud Radio Access Networks, resilient backhaul solution , isolated base stations, SDN-based architecture or Service Function Chaining.

Major emergencies or disasters may result in a need for additional resources in local telecommunications networks in order to maintain or enhance the ability of emergency services to respond and coordinate their activities effectively. Satellites can play a role in replacing or supplementing terrestrial telecommunications networks in these scenarios. However, there are currently no publicly available emergency management best practices that could provide standardized "user" requirements, particularly any based on realistic field activity and which are agnostic to the communications technology and yet provide enough elements to derive more technical requirements. Within the Working Group on Satellite Emergency Communication (SatEC) of ETSI’s Technical Committee for Satellite Earth Stations and Systems (TC SES) two specifications of "reference scenarios" were developed describing both the information exchanges between roles/actors and topology models of emergency services' deployment and movements. More precisely, two basic settings were addressed: (i) a major earthquake in an urban environment where responders from various emergency services are likely to be distributed over a large area, and (ii) a mass transportation accident in a countryside environment with few services involved and where responders are concentrated on a small area. Keeping track of all concurrent activities is a key objective of efficient emergency management. Vertical and horizontal information exchanges within emergency services, between the on-site and off-site area, but also between different services are mandatory. A simplistic characterisation of these information flows as "voice, video, and data" does not reflect the actual needs of the disaster response and therefore the scenario complexity. In fact, all required communication services are driven by "virtual topologies" which are defined by emergency service specialities, levels of hierarchies, tasks/roles, activities, and logistics. The aforementioned reference scenarios take this into account and provide detailed investigation of information flows as well as modelling instructions. In the presentation we will briefly introduce the objectives and contents of the new ETSI technical specifications and discuss the role of satellite communications for emergency management. As an outlook we will show that especially data applications need to be treated jointly with the underlying network technologies so that the requirements of emergency management can be met.