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In 2024, CEN/TC 465 ‘Sustainable Cities and Communities’ will continue its efforts to provide a link between smart appliances and a sustainable living. It is currently drafting two documents which will be issued for public enquiry in 2024:

• ‘Sustainable Cities and Communities – Nature Based Solutions (NBSs) – Vocabulary’;
  
  
• ‘Sustainable Cities and Communities: a framework for standardization of services to the citizen’.

While the former will be published as a European Standard (EN), the latter will be a Technical Report. Its aim will be to establish a best practice in the design and execution of smart and sustainable services made available to citizens, both for residents and for visitors to a community. This Technical Report will lay down a framework for a European Standard to set out the basic principles that will need to be observed across the full range of services to be provided.

In 2024, the CEN-CENELEC-ETSI Coordination Group on Smart Grids will continue providing advice on European standardization requirements related to smart electrical grid and multicommodity smart metering standardization, including interactions between commodity systems (such electricity, gas, heat, water), and assess ways to address them. This includes interactions with end users, including consumers and prosumers.

The Coordination Group will also promote the deployment of open and interoperable data architectures, the industry’s wider implementation of standards for smart grids and meters. The Group has ongoing Task Force activities related to cybersecurity, consumers empowerment and flexibility, as well as data format and procedures. Additionally, it will foster international cooperation with relevant partners and focus on the interoperability of energy smart appliances.

QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES

Quantum Technologies (QT) is one of the most promising key technologies in the coming decades. They hold immense importance due to its potential to revolutionize various fields. The current level of maturity and the key components of various quantum domains differ. Therefore, aligning terminology can be the first step and standards can play an important role.

In 2024, newly established CEN and CENELEC JTC 22 ‘Quantum Technologies’ will start the discussion on the creation of several new work items mainly focusing on best practices and terminology.

SMART HOME

CLC/TC 72 ‘Automatic electrical controls’ provides standards in fields such as smart grid, power consuming applications, and local power generators communicating via the Internet, wirelessly or with dedicated networks, such as HBES/BACS, with a focus on Cyber-security, Functional Safety, intelligence in products, and the Internet of Things.

Therefore, in 2024, this TC will continue working on a series of standards. Among them, EN IEC 60730-2-23 ‘Automatic electrical controls - Part 2-23: Particular requirements for electrical sensors and sensing elements’, EN IEC 60730-2-24 ‘Automatic electrical controls-Part 2-24: Particular requirements for displacement sensing controls’ and EN IEC 60730-2-25 ‘Automatic electrical controls - Part 2-25: Particular requirements for current sensing controls’.

Another TC, CLC/TC 205 ‘Home and Building Electronic Systems (HBES)’ works closely with CEN/TC 247 ‘Building Automation, Controls and Building Management’ on standards targeted at achieving smart zero-emission building (ZEB).

In 2024, they will continue working on improvements to the ‘Energy efficiency systems’ standards series EN IEC 63345 and EN IEC 63402 ‘Energy Efficiency Systems - Smart Grid - Customer Energy Management Systems’. The TC will also work on the Technical Specification TS 50491-7 for ‘IT security and data protection’.