Participant Organizations

LOGOS

Madrid Positioning

Madrid, through the Digital Office of the Madrid City Council, is actively deploying IoT and 5G technologies across city services to improve interoperability and cybersecurity. It works in partnership with the Polytechnic University of Madrid, OMA, AIOTI, and EIRA/EggoVERA, among others.

The Madrid City Council participates in the Smart Cities SIG as:

• A public administration undergoing a digital transformation process.
• An organization committed to delivering the highest-quality services to its citizens.
• A facilitator of open ecosystem collaboration, working with the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Madrid's primary interest in the initiative is to bridge real municipal interoperability needs with a coherent digital twin supported by a selected set of standards, using a practical, collaborative approach to analyze needs, identify the best available solutions, and carry out testing and validation activities.

Madrid views the Smart Cities SIG as a practical environment for interoperability coordination and requirements incubation, where ecosystem participants can collaboratively:

• Analyze interoperability challenges, where city experts can contribute their knowledge of how the digital twin should represent reality.
• Refine reusable interoperability requirements, including the data models needed to represent the real world, maintain historical data linked to city spaces rather than devices, compare information collected by different technologies, and preserve the same semantics across all layers in an EIRA/EgovERA context.
• Validate reusable approaches by deploying them in real Smart Urban Spaces, and support a catalog of devices for city-service providers, as well as a catalog of data models to help manufacturers understand the needs defined in the cities' mid- and long-term roadmap.

Madrid believes that direct collaboration with other municipalities and the wider ecosystem of incumbents, grounded in a shared and well-defined interpretation, will help everyone create long-term value.

The collaboration methodology proposed for the Smart Cities SIG may contribute to:

• Specifying real needs and translating them into reusable interoperability profiles.
• Defining semantic mappings from real-world operations into digital twins.
• Ensuring semantic continuity by incorporating context through Smart Data Models and NGSI-LD.
• Providing interoperability guidance based on collaboration at every level.
• Developing reusable validation methodologies through a dual-step process: first in the laboratory, such as IoTMADLab, and then in real city settings, such as Smart Urban Spaces.

Madrid supports the initiative by providing coordination based on these principles:

• Transparency.
• Citizen-centricity.
• Openness.
• Implementation neutrality.
• Practical ecosystem collaboration.

Madrid views the Smart Cities SIG as a collaborative ecosystem initiative intended to complement, not compete with, existing standards organizations, ecosystem alliances, interoperability programs, and industry initiatives.

Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Positioning

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) participates in the Smart Cities SIG as:

• a supporting standards organization,
• an interoperability enabler,
• and a facilitator of open ecosystem collaboration.

OMA’s primary interest in the initiative is to help bridge real municipality interoperability needs with reusable and standards-based interoperability approaches through practical collaboration and interoperability validation activities.

OMA views the Smart Cities SIG as a practical interoperability coordination and requirements incubation environment where ecosystem participants can collaboratively:

• analyze interoperability challenges,
• refine reusable interoperability requirements,
• validate reusable approaches,
• and identify practical interoperability gaps and opportunities.

OMA believes that direct collaboration with municipalities and ecosystem participants can help improve the practical relevance, interoperability alignment, and ecosystem applicability of reusable interoperability approaches and related standards activities.

OMA is particularly interested in understanding how reusable interoperability approaches identified through the Smart Cities SIG may contribute to:

• reusable interoperability profiles,
• semantic mappings,
• Smart Data Models,
• interoperability guidance,
• reusable validation methodologies,
• and interoperability testing approaches.

OMA also supports the initiative by providing lightweight program coordination intended to help maintain:

• transparency,
• openness,
• implementation neutrality,
• and practical ecosystem collaboration.

OMA views the Smart Cities SIG as a collaborative ecosystem initiative intended to complement existing standards organizations, ecosystem alliances, interoperability programs, and industry initiatives rather than compete with them.