An Energy Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)

TL;DR

This paper develops a standardized ontology for representing energy-related indicators within the ISO 37120 framework, facilitating measurable improvements in smart city initiatives through semantic web technologies.

Contribution

It introduces a novel ontology for the Energy Theme indicators of ISO 37120, enabling structured representation of definitions and data for smart city performance measurement.

Findings

Created a standard ontology for energy indicators

Enhanced semantic representation of city performance data

Supported better measurement and comparison of city energy initiatives

Abstract

To create tomorrow's smarter cities, today's initiatives will need to create measurable improvements. However, a city is a complex system and measuring its performance generates a breadth of issues. Specifically, determining what criteria should be measured, how indications should be defined, and how should the identified indicators be derived. This working paper is one in series that addresses the creation of a Semantic Web based representation of the 17 different themes of ISO 37120 indicators as part of the larger PolisGnosis Project (Fox, 2017). We define a standard ontology for representing general knowledge for the Energy Theme indicators, and for representing both the definition and data used to derive the Energy indicators.