OC#3 2026

In my role as a circular economy expert, I actively contribute to the advancement of Smart Circular Economy Standards for Europe. I ensure that standards align with EU policies like the European Green Deal, advocating for their integration into standardisation efforts. 

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.

My work supports the development of smart energy grids, allowing to integrate a high share of renewable energy sources and to support new usages such as transports electrification (e-mobility). 

The result of my current fellowship is a gap analysis and technical report including advice to all relevant major SDOs on how to develop or change their standards to fit better together. The JWG will also lay the foundation for producing an international reference architecture for LDT:s aligned with the international reference architectures for Digital Twins, IoT and Smart Cities among others.

With this fellowship, the aim is to create and continue working on a Technical standard proposal, and I decided to push such action to Joint Working Group 4 which is directly in liaison with ISO/SC27 in charge of the security of IT systems. 

This standardisation project will boost the creation of a certification system for biometric solutions to be used in different scenarios. One of the first scenarios to be addressed is the remote identification of citizens using videoconference tools, i.e., using facial recognition with the users’ own personal devices (either computers or mobile devices).

The targeted ICT standards development activity aims to address the dynamic changes in the European Union's financial services landscape, driven by the Payment Services Directive (PSD3), Payment Services Regulation (PSR), and financial data access (FIDA). The objective is to adapt and enhance existing standards to align with the regulatory updates introduced by PSD3, PSR, and FIDA.

A successful standardisation of Ambient IoT will enable SMEs to create devices, applications and services that use Ambient-IoT-enabled chipsets. For instance, novel applications for inventory management are specific battery-less sensors for the use in industrial IoT.

This work is addressing the demand of harmonised standards for radio regulations certification. In particular it is addressing RFID in the UHF frequency bands 865-868 and 915-921 MHz. 

The aim of the analysis within ITU is to identify existing gaps and market needs in the area of P2P crowd charging systems. Special focus has been given to smart city vertical areas, as well as technological enablers such as battery ageing mitigation, social information management, standardised prototyping.

The objective of this fellowship is to include European contributions on viable methodologies on semantic interoperability in ISO standards: ISO SC41 IoT and Digital Twin, with a focus on practical use cases in the domains of health/well-being.

Standardisation work continues with the integration of new technologies, new insights, and new requirements of different verticals. It is very important that EU science, industry, and also users are well represented and engaged in this process.