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#SmartCampus is an electrotechnical transformation.   There is no other industry more sensitive to competitor claims of “smartness” than the education industry in any nation.

Though there are many open source consortia moving rapidly to claim ownership of this space these consortia may not meet the criteria for large scale adoption that often results from market acceptance, recognition and endorsement by local, state and federal government.   At the moment the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers is the first name in consensus standards for artificial intelligence technology.  Today we list three standards early in their trajectory in which the education facilities industry — as a user of this technology — can have an influence guaranteed by ANSI Due process requirements for American national standards:

P7008 – Standard for Ethically Driven Nudging for Robotic, Intelligent and Autonomous Systems

Nudges, as exhibited by robotic, intelligent or autonomous systems, are defined as overt or hidden suggestions designed to influence human behavior or emotions. Sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, IEEE P7008 delineates the concepts, functions and benefits necessary to establish and ensure ethically driven methodologies for the design of robotic, intelligent and autonomous systems in accordance with worldwide ethics and moral theories, with an emphasis on aligning the ethics and engineering communities to understand how to pragmatically design and implement these systems. Prospectus: IEEE Artificial Intelligence Standard P7008

P7009 – Standard for Fail-Safe Design of Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Systems

Malfunctioning autonomous and semi-autonomous systems can disadvantage and harm users, society, and the environment. Effective fail-safe mechanisms can help mitigate risks related to system malfunction and provide developers, installers and operators with clear technical criteria to terminate unsuccessful or compromised operations in a safe and consistent manner. Sponsored by the IEEE Reliability Society, IEEE P7009 establishes clear procedures for measuring, testing, and certifying a system’s ability to fail safely on a scale from weak to strong, with instructions for improving system performance. The standard provides a basis for developers, as well as users and regulators, to design robust and transparent fail-safe mechanisms for increased accountability.  Prospectus: IEEE Artificial Intelligence Standard P7009

P7010 – Wellbeing Metrics Standard for Ethical Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems

Today, with the advancement of autonomous and intelligent systems, programmers, engineers, and technologists need to consider how the products and services they create can increase human wellbeing based on a wider spectrum of measure than economic growth and productivity alone (i.e., emotional health, societal impacts, environment, etc.). Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, IEEE P7010 identifies wellbeing Indicators and metrics relating to human factors directly affected by autonomous and intelligent systems and establishes a baseline for aligning the types of objective and subjective data these systems should analyze and include, in both programming and functionality, to proactively utilize these technologies to increase human well being.  Prospectus: IEEE Artificial Intelligence Standard P7010

All three standardization projects completed balloting in December 2018.   This is a milestone in the technical committee’s work before the drafts are released for public review and posted in the link below:*

IEEE Standards Association Public Review

While the influence of these standards may not show up directly, or even discernably in facility management operations budgets we will keep an eye on them.  We will collaborate with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee where such collaboration can be effective.  We are happy to discuss these standards any day at 11 AM Eastern time during our daily livecast.  Log in with the credentials at the upper right of our home page.

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Issue: [18-290] [18-291] [18-292]

Category: #SmartCampus, Electrical, Telecommunications, Information and Computer Technology, Facility Asset Management

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jim Harvey, Kane Howard, Richard Robben

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