ENEA&NIST together for the standardization of smart cities architectures

Mauro Annunziato (ENEA Smart Energy Division) has been appointed Italian Co-chair of  the ICT Working Group established by the Joint Declaration signed after the 12° Joint Commission meeting on Science and Technology Cooperation  held on January  14^th in Rome at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and  International Cooperation. From the American side Chris Greer from the National Institute of Technology (NIST) has been appointed Co-Chair of the same Working group.

Italian Delegation: Mauro Annunziato (ENEA), Giuseppe Anastasi e Roberto Baldoni (National Lab CINI/ University of Pisa), Simone Collabiano (IIT Genova), Ilaria Bencini (CNR), Nico Bonora (ISPRA), Stefano De Panfilis (FIREWARE), Donatella Lucchesi (INFN), Maria Luisa Rastello (INRIM), Michele Luglio (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Luigi Perissich (Confindustria). USA Delegation: Katya Delak and Chris Greer (National Institute of Technology, NIST) and Sonia Ortega (National Science Foundation, NSF)

The collaboration between NIST and ENEA started in October 2015 in Bologna, thanks to well-aligned interests in exploring international technical consensus around smart city architectures. NIST and ENEA agreed to collaborate in this field, inside an international technical working group (WG).

The NIST delegation came to Rome for a three day trip on January 12. The first day was dedicated to the visit of ENEA “smart village” at the Casaccia Research Centre. The second day, the first meeting of the ICT WG - chaired by Giulio Busulini, Scientific Attaché at Washington DC - was held at the ENEA  headquarters, at the presence of about 20 representatives of Italian Research Institutions.

Finally, during the plenary Joint Commission meeting, Annunziato and Greer presented the ICT WG composition, the specific topics of joint collaboration and the relative agenda for the first year.

In the afternoon, the ENEA and NIST delegation has been invited at the US Embassy to participate at the Open Forum event “From Basic Science to Commercialization, How Research Drives Innovation”; the Forum has been introduced by John Phillips, US Ambassador to Italy and by Stefania Giannini, Minister of Education, University and Research. Mauro Annunziato and Chris Greer have been invited as speakers of the round table “How Governments Support Innovation”.

In the framework of the NIST-ENEA collaboration, the two parties have agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding in order to explore international technical consensus around open, scalable, standard based, smart city architectures and to coordinate any relevant announcements, events or activities, promoting broad participation by technical experts in relevant stakeholder communities.

For more information please contact:

Mauro Annunziato, C.R. Casaccia, mauro.annunziato@enea.it