Smart and Sustainable Cities

Marios Angelopoulos

Description of Activities

My work in ITU addresses the priorities of the call pertaining to smart cities and communities, technologies and services for smart and efficient energy use, and citizen centric digital public services and EMC radiation.

Fellow's country

United Kingdom

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

The development of international standards will help provide SMEs, policy makers and regulators with common references thus helping overcome market barriers such as technology fragmentation, thus promoting market growth.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

A clear trend is being formed of moving from vertical energy management that distributes energy in a wired, centralized manner towards more open and distributed architectures adopted close to the edge of the population networks, which among other technologies also utilize the wireless power potential. In this new paradigm, energy will be distributed, shared and managed locally, thus closing the distance between citizens and the available energy sources.

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Open Call

OC#5 2026

Organisation type

Government/Public Services

Organization

Professor of Networked and Sensing Systems, Bournemouth University

Organization website

ANVUR

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Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Leading the development of ITU standards for IoT and Metaverse in smart cities and communities

Role in SDO

vice-chair

Standards Development Organisation

ITU-T

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

2024

Topic (5th Open Call)

Smart and Sustainable Cities

Gero Gschwendtner

Description of Activities

There is a strong emphasis on safety, accessibility, energy & environment and highly relevant for the future ISO/TC 178 activities are also focusing now to a strong extent on ICT.

Fellow's country

Austria

Open Call Topics

Smart and Sustainable Cities

Impact on SMEs (3rd Open Call)

ISO/TC 178 has a liaison to:
- ELA European Lift Association
- SBS - Small Business Standards with EFESME (European Federation for Elevator Small and Medium-sized Enterprises aisbl) as an expert member for lifts.
Both associations are highly interested in this topic and with this liaison they participate actively at the ISO/TC 178 meetings as well as at the relevant WG meetings.
Chairing the meeting and giving them also relevant time in the meetings to talk and bring up their issues is essential for them; this is under my responsibility and highly considered within my leadership.

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

Impact on society (3rd Open Call)

Lifts, escalators and moving walks are essential elements for the transportation of society.
With this work safe access and accessibility for all is provided. Furthermore, this work encompasses energy efficiency and adherence to the United Nations’ sustainability goals namely 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 which are integral components of the standards.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

Lifts, escalators and moving walks are essential elements for the transportation of society. With this work safe access and accessibility for all is provided. Furthermore, this work encompasses energy efficiency and adherence to the United Nations' sustainability goals namely 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 which are integral components of the standards.

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Open Call

OC#3 2026

OC#4 2026

Organisation type

Academia/Research

Organization

Prof. Mechanical Engineering (HTL St. Pölten) and Independent Consultant, Gschwendt

Organization website

HTL St. Pölten

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