Chris Greer, Senior Executive for Cyber-Physical Systems at NIST discusses Smart Cities / IoT at Tech Jam. February 12-13, 2015

1. Global City Teams Challenge
Chris Greer
Senior Executive for Cyber-Physical Systems
Tech Jam
February 12-13, 2015

3. • Major assets
– ~ 3,000 employees
– ~ 2,800 associates and facilities users
– ~ 1,300 field staff in partner organizations
– Two main locations: Gaithersburg, Md., and
Boulder, Colo.
– Four external collaborative institutes: basic
physics, biotech, quantum, and marine
science
– Nobel Prize Winners: 1997, 2001,
2005, 2007, 2013
NIST: Basic Stats and Facts
FY 2015 Budget Request $900 M
Industrial Tech.
Services ($161 M)
Construction
($59 M)
NIST Labs ($680 M)

4. Compositionality -
the principle that the meaning of a
complex expression is determined by
the meanings of its constituent
expressions and the rules used to
combine them.

5. CPS: Scale and Compositionality
SCALE
Discrete
CPS
Systems
of
Systems
Meta
Systems
of
Systems
Communications Energy
Smart City
Transportation Environment

6. Modularity
City NCity 2City 1
Sensors &
Actuators
Control
Systems
Networks Analytics Applications Etc.

7. 7
Having all these different standards efforts practically ensures one thing: There’s
no way all of these devices will actually be able to all talk to each other until all
this gets settled …. Ina Fried, July 2014
Interoperability

8. Let’s Work Together!
Contact:
chris.greer@nist.gov