The understanding about Smart Cities in general, is limited. One of the main reason behind this is, because it is a new concept. So to reduce ambiguities, there are standards developed.
ISO 37120 Sustainable development of communities – Indicators for city services and quality of life defines and establishes methodologies for a set of indicators to steer and measure the performance of city services and quality of life. This standard was developed by ISO project committee ISO/TC 268.
Standards are important for consistency and comparisons over time or across cities.
17 Themes and 100 Indicators are used to certify cities into five categories:
And based on these criteria, WCCD (World Council of City Data), gives a city one of the following certification levels –
The WCCD Global Cities Registry, has a total of 88 cities as of Aug 2018. The city distribution among the various certification levels is, 14 Aspirational, 0 Bronze, 0 Silver, 9 Gold and 65 Platinum. You can view the entire list here: http://www.dataforcities.org/global-cities-registry
4 cities from India have made it to the list. Jamshedpur(Gold), Surat(Gold), Pune(Platinum) and Ahmedabad(Platinum).
(The above slides are from the excellent and inspiring talks of Prof Raj Jain)