Executive Summary

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Executive Summary of the ITU-T Study Group 20 Meeting and 
Joint Coordination Activity on Internet of Things and Smart Cities and Communities 
(Wuxi, China, 3-13 December 2018)

Major accomplishments:
Approval of the report of the last ITU-T SG20 meeting
The report of the last ITU-T SG20 meeting held in Cairo, 6-16 May 2018 was approved as contained in​ Report​ 5​.

Recommendations consented by ITU-T SG20 for Last Call (AAP – Recommendation ITU-T A.8)
The ITU-T SG20 plenary meeting gave consent (AAP) to 11 draft new ITU-T Recommendations for Last Call, according to Recommendation ITU-T A.8:

New Recommendations

Draft Supplements agreed

New work items

• Resolution 25 - Strengthening the regional presence;
• Resolution 165 - Deadlines for the submission of proposals and procedures for the registration of participants for conferences and assemblies of the Union;
• Resolution 169 - Admission of academia to participate in the work of the Union;​
• Resolution 180 - Promoting deployment and adoption of IPv6 to facilitate the transition from IPv4 to IPv6;
• Resolution 188 - Combating counterfeit telecommunication/information and communication technology devices;
• Resolution 197 - Facilitating the Internet of Things and smart sustainable cities and communities; and
• Resolution COM5/3 - Encouraging the participation of small and medium enterprises in the work of the Union.​​  

List of stale work items
TSB provided information on the list of stale work items as contained in T​D942. The Rapporteurs of the concerned Questions were encouraged to discuss these work items during their sessions and take appropriate action when needed. The table below provides information on the results of the discussions concerning the stale work items​.​

Action plans for implementation of WTSA-16 Resolution 78 (Rev. Hammamet, 2016) and Resolution 98 (Hammamet, 2016) (ICTs for e-health services; IoT and smart cities and communities for global development)
TD980 contains a proposed Action Plan for the implementation of Resolution 78 (Rev. Hammamet, 2016) and Resolution 98 (Hammamet, 2016). ITU-T SG20 members have been requested to provide inputs and review it at the next SG20 meeting. 

Map of Working Party Meeting reports 

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Work Programme
The updated work programme can be found here.

• TD976 "Newcomers' welcome pack for SG20 meeting (Wuxi, China, 3-13 December 2018)"​
• ​TD970 "E-learning course on Recommendation ITU-T A.1 : Working Methods of ITU-T Study Groups"
  
• TD946 "Guidelines for the preparation of Contributions to ITU-T: Relevant ITU A-series Recommendation"
  
• TD947 "ITU-T Document templates and delegate resources"
• TD945 "Template for A.25 justification information"​
• TD982 "MyWorkspace". This document was presented remotely by TSB IT team.​

Question 1/20 –"End to end connectivity, networks, interoperability, infrastructures and Big Data aspects related to IoT and SC&C" summary
The Rapporteur of Q1/20 (Mr Jun Seob Lee) opened the discussions and presented the draft agenda contained in TD951-R3.
Question 1/20 discussed two Contributions. During the meeting, Q1/20 progressed two ongoing draft Recommendations, ITU-T Y.isms “Technical framework for integrated sensing and management system” and ITU-T Y.nmm-isms “The node metadata model for integrated sensing and management system”. At the meeting, Q1/20 produced four output documents including the meeting report, two revised texts of ongoing draft Recommendations and one outgoing Liaison Statement.
The meeting report of Q1/20 (TD961-R2) was approved at the closing plenary of WP1/20.

Question 4/20– "e/Smart services, applications and supporting platforms" summary
The Rapporteur of Q4/20 (Mr Gyu Myoung Lee) opened the discussions and presented the draft agenda contained in TD954-R7. Question 4/20 experts discussed 22 Contributions. Q4/20 experts submitted three draft Recommendations for consent to SG20 closing plenary. Q4/20 experts produced 21 output documents including draft Recommendations ITU-T Y.IoT-SQ-fns “Service Functionalities of Self-quantification over Internet of Things” (TD1089), ITU-T Y.SC-Residential “Requirements and Functional Architecture of Smart Residential Community”(TD1094-R2), ITU-T Y.SSL “Requirements and Functional Architecture of Smart Street Light Service” (TD1105-R1). Four new work items were approved including, draft Recommendations ITU-T  Y.IoT-VLC “Framework of IoT Services based on Visible Light Communications” (TD1093) [A.1 TD1092]; ITU-T Y.IoT-AR “Framework for AR and VR based control in IoT” (TD1107) [A.1 TD1106]; ITU-T Y.IoT-Lift “Framework of IoT based monitoring and management for Lift” (TD1096) [A.1 TD1095​] and draft Supplement Y.Sup.4409 “Implementation Guidelines to ITU-T Y.4409” (TD1097), [A.1 TD1098​]. Additionally, one outgoing liaison statement was drafted.
The meeting report of Q4/20 (TD964-R1​) was approved at the closing plenary of WP1/20.

• Draft Recommendation ITU-T Y. CrowdSystems “Requirements and reference model of IoT-related crowdsourced systems” was proposed for consent as contained in TD1013-R1.
  
• Following on from the discussions during the SG20 meeting held in Cairo and the subsequent e-meetings, it was agreed to submit for consent draft Recommendation ITU-T Y.SCC-Terms "Vocabulary for Smart Cities and Communities" as contained in TD1048-R1.
  
• The draft Supplement Y.MEDT "Methodology for building digital capabilities during enterprises' digital transformation" was revised and proposed for agreement during the meeting.
  
• The meeting agreed to convert the two draft Technical Reports, earlier referred to as TR.Interact-P-D-cities TR.AI4IoT and into draft Supplements.​
  

• Click here for the complete list of SG20 management team
• Click here for the complete list of SG20 Rapporteurs and Associate Rapporteurs.
• Click here for the complete list SG20 Liaison Rapporteurs and other representative roles.

Focus Group on Data Processing and Management to support IoT and Smart Cities & Communities (FG-DPM)
The FG-DPM Chairman presented the incoming liaison statement (iLS) from the FG-DPM on progress report as contained in TD913. This iLS was noted by the meeting.
The report of the fourth meeting of FG-DPM (Egypt, Cairo, 1-3 May 2018) was noted by the meeting as contained in TD973.
The report of the fifth meeting of FG-DPM (Tunis, Tunisia, 17-20 September 2018) was noted by the meeting as contained in TD974.

ITU-T SG20 Regional Groups
ITU-T SG20 Regional Group for Africa (ITU-T SG20RG-AFR)
The Chairman of ITU-T SG20RG-AFR informed that the second meeting of the ITU-T SG20RG-AFR is planned to take place Abuja, Nigeria. It is planned that this meeting is held in conjunction with ITU-T SG5RG-AFR meeting. During the ITU-T SG20 meeting the official invitation from Nigeria was received and accepted with thanks.

ITU-T SG20 Regional Group for Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Transcaucasia (ITU-T SG20RG-EECAT)
The report of the SG20RG-EECAT meeting, 4-5 June 2018 (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation) was presented as contained in TD975​.

Joint Coordination Activity on Internet of Things and Smart Cities and Communities (JCA-IoT and SC&C) 
The twentieth meeting of the JCA-IoT and SC&C took place on 6 December 2018 under the Chairmanship of Hyoung Jun Kim. All the meeting documents can be found here. The Final Report of the 20th JCA-IoT and SC&C meeting can be found here (also TD1083-R1).

• ​TD979 - New Report: Implementing ITU-T International Standards to Shape Smart Sustainable Cities: The Case of Moscow;
• TD960 - United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) initiative;
• TD959 - Key performance indicators for Smart Sustainable Cities project;​
• TD993 - Presentation on ITU-T standardization on IoT and smart city, in the International Forum on ITS (ITS-2018) and the Collaboration on ITS Communication Standards (CITS), Nanjing, China, 6-7 September 2018.​

• TD948 - Bridging the standardization gap and Regional Groups; and
  
• TD978 - WTSA-16 Resolution 86 - Facilitating the implementation of the Smart Africa Manifesto
  

• ITU Forum on Exploring the Potential of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things, 6 May 2018, Cairo, Egypt.​
  
• 1st Forum on Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things in Smart Sustainable Cities in Latin America, 29-30 May 2018, Buenos Aires, Argentina. An Information Session on “Exploring the Role of Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Linking AI and IoT in Smart Cities" took place on 30 May 2018 in Buenos Aires.​
  
• IoT Week 2018, 4-7 Jun 2018, Bilbao, Spain.
  
• The 4th Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on Smart Sustainable Cities and e-Government 2018, 4-6 July 2018, Vietnam.
  
• World Smart City Forum, 29 November 2018, Santa Fe, Argentina.
  
• ITU Forum on Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Smart Cities, 3 December 2018, Wuxi, China.
  

• The next meeting of the FG-DPM will take place in Bundang, Seoul, Korea (Rep. of) from 14 to 18 January 2019. This meeting will be preceded by the Third Workshop on Data Processing and Management for IoT and Smart Cities & Communities on 14 January 2019.
• The next meeting of ITU-T SG20 is planned to take place from 9 to 18 April 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland.
• The IoT Week 2019 will take place from 17 to 21 June 2019 in Aarhus, Denmark.​
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Executive Summary from previous meetings: 2018-05​ | 2018-01 | 2017-09 |​ 2017-03