STANDARDS DIVISION

ROLE, STRUCTURE OF SABS AND

BENEFITS OF STANDARDIZATION

YN NDLHOVU

INTRODUCTION

!   OVERVIEW AND THE ROLE OF SABS

!   STANDARDIZATION BODIES

!   COMMITTEES: Role and structure

!   STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

!   SIGNIFICANCE OF ITS STANDARDS

!   ASSESSMENT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC BENEFIT OF STANDARDS

OVERVIEW AND THE ROLE OF SABS

!   Standards Act of 1945, amended in 2008

!   DTI mandate

!   Develop and maintain SANS

!   Testing, certification and training services

!   Facilitates standardization process

!   Neutral body and a publishing house

STANDARDIZATION BODIES

!   International (IEC, ITU,ISO)

!   Regional (SADC, CEN, CENELEC)

!   National (DIN, ANSI, BSI, SABS, JISC, etc)

!   Consortia (W3C, OASIS, etc)

!   Regulatory bodies (NRCS, ICASA, etc)

COMMITTEES : role and structure

!   Backbone in standard development !   Project approach and consensus building process !   Participation through organizations !   Choice of membership levels

!   Balanced representation of all stakeholders: - manufactures - service providers

- public sectors - private sectors

- consumers - regulators - academia

Committee structure

ISO International Standard Review: 5 years

Final text of International Standard

Final text for processing as FDIS (Final Draft International Standard) 2/3 Maj of P-members less than 1/4 negative votes

DIS. • 2/3 Maj of P-members

First CD (Committee draft) • Simple Maj of P-members

Publication of International Standard

Formal vote on FDIS (proof check by secretariat)

NP (new work item proposal)

Building expert consensus

Consensus building within TC/SC

Enquiry on DIS (Draft International Standard)

TC/SC route Deliverables

SABS ITS COMMITTEE

!   SABS SC 71H: Intelligent transport systems

!   Scope: Standardization of information, communication and control systems in the field of urban

and rural surface transportation, traveler information, traffic management, public transport, commercial transport, emergency services and commercial services, generally referred to as “Intelligent Transport Systems”

!   P member of ISO/TC 204: Intelligent transport systems Benefits of membership (avoid reinvention of the wheel, influence international stds,

adoption, etc)

!   Members of SABS SC71H: 36 (P,O and L)

!   Number of standards published: 43

!   POW : 4

!   Working Groups - WG 1: ITS architecture - WG 4: Automatic vehicle and equipment identification - WG 5: Fee and toll collection (EFC) - WG 8: Public transport/emergency (including fare payment) - WG14: Vehicle/Roadway Warning and control systems

SIGNIFICANCE OF ITS STANDARDS !   Primary enabler of the dissemination of ITS technologies

!   Allow successful transfer of data from devices to be translated into useful info for location based services

!   Avoiding premature obsolescence

!   Facilitating coordination among operating agencies

!   Reducing life-cycle costs

!   Enabling a competitive marketplace

!   Improve safety

!   Increase productivity

!   Reduce costs

!   Protect the environment

Categories of ITS standards

!   ITS Infrastructure standards Standards that facilitate interoperability between infrastructure

components, most often connected via wireline. Referred as Center-to-Center(C2C) and Center-to-field (C2F)

interconnectivity standards. - traffic signal controllers, - ramp meters, - dynamic message signs - Traffic information centers

!   Cooperative systems standards Standards associated with vehicle to vehicle (V2V), vehicle to

infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle to device connectivity. Enable the cooperative nature of the transformative, multi-modal

technologies and applications

SOCIO-ECONOMIC BENEFIT OF STANDARDS

!   Establishment of new department – Economic Impact and IP

!   To gauge, measure, and monitor and evaluate the economic impact of standards on the South African economy.

!   Programmes

- Development of suitable methodology to measure the impact of standards on the SA economy

- Industrial policy and WTO/TBT enquiry point

- Advisory services and gap analysis

- Publications

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