Lift, Escalators and Moving Walks ICT Standards

Within Smart Cities Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks are essential. Safe transportation of all users and accessibility for all is a precondition that those cities can be filled with live and all social processes are working. ISO/TC 178 covers currently 44 published documents (25 standards, 8 technical specifications and 11 technical reports), 12 documents are under development and totally 21 projects initiated. https://www.iso.org/committee/53970.html

Until 2022 no dedicated ICT standard was available within ISO/TC 178 Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks, where the philosophy was to incorporate all subjects into the core product standards.
Given the importance of this topic and lacking in comprehensive coverage, given its rapid advancement, under my chairmanship ISO/TC 178/WG 12 “Cybersecurity” was found in 2019 and ISO 8102-20 “Electrical requirements for lifts, escalators and moving walks - Part 20: Cybersecurity" published in 2022.
In addition, ISO/TC 178/AHG1 was found with the mission to provide a study in the field of new technologies and how to deal with this topic in the future.

Based on this, ISO/TC 178/WG 13 “New technologies” was found end 2022 and 2 new projects being started in 2023:

• ISO TS 8102-21 Electrical requirements for lifts, escalators and moving walks — Part 21: On-site and off-site software updates
• ISO TS 8100-10 Lifts for the transport of persons and goods — Part 10: Building
  Information Modelling

Continuing the analysis for additional ICT standards this year another new project was started:

• ISO TS 8100-11 Electrical requirements for lifts, escalators and moving walks — Part 11: Interoperability between lift and other systems

Further on it was decided to start the revision of

• ISO 8102-20 Electrical requirements for lifts, escalators and moving walks — Part 20: Cybersecurity

to meet relevant EU regulation, which requires enhancing cybersecurity requirements to a state-of-the-art level. This work will be done under the Vienna Agreement to become EN ISO 8102-20 under ISO lead.

For all projects the dedicated development time, considering the ISO process with all the relevant voting’s will 3 years. If you're interested in more information, I'll be happy to provide it.