Extract from CENELEC web site:
The ICTSB has recently established the Smart House Standards Steering Group (ICTSB/SHSSG) to act on its behalf as a forum, with the participation of market players, to make recommendations to the standards bodies, industry and the regulatory authorities on Smart House systems and services standardization issues. It shall focus on strategic coordination of standardization programmes, taking into account the need for longer-term planning of standards issues.
The Consumer interest in Smarthouse is defended by ANEC
Press
Release (IPV6 and Smart House) - Brussels - 12 January 2004
Terms
of Reference of the Code of Practice
The overall objective of this proposal is to grow and sustain convergence and interoperability of systems, services and devices for the Smart House that will provide the European Citizen with access to increased functionality, accessibility, reliability and security that a Smart House, with common and open architectures, will deliver in an expanding broadband infrastructure throughout Europe.
The specific objective of this second phase of the Smart House mission is to deliver a “Code of Practice” for all actors, systems, networks, protocols, applications and services involved in the Smart House, specifying functionalities, methodologies, recommended standards and working practices that ensure convergence, interoperability and interactivity of multiple (and competing) products, applications and services in and to the Smart House.
Brief
graphical overview of the Smart House "Code of Practice"
Proposal
for a "Code of Practice" (Presentation 
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Proposal
for a "Code of Practice" (Complete
proposal )
The introduction of eEurope 2005 notes the interdependencies of “services, applications and content” on one hand and “broadband infrastructure and security matters” on the other, with each requiring the establishment of the other to provide secure business environment.
eEurope 2005 aims to resolve this by providing the citizen with eGovernment, eLearning and eHealth reinforced with a review of eBusiness legislation and the establishment of solid security systems for electronic communication, eBusiness and entertainment (the Cyber Security Task Force).
The Smart House Standardisation Initiative aims to support these objectives by ensuring that there will be codes of practice in place that will ensure that Service Providers, Government, Health, Learning and local community Services can interact with all the citizens of the EU. They will then be confident that their systems are communicating into homes with networks, systems and equipment that are constructed, installed and set up to known standards, are interoperable and interactive and will deliver predictable information and receive intelligible responses from any home in the EU.
It is the contention of the Smart House Standardisation Initiative that while currently the majority of connected (to the Internet with or without broadband) citizens are reasonably well informed and can manage the multiple inconsistencies and incompatibilities of current services and broadband delivery.
However, when the objectives of eEurope 2005 and beyond are achieved, every citizen will have access to a range of Broadband services and applications. However, many will be uninformed, many will be in demographic groups that find the use of new systems non-intuitive, many will be disadvantaged by disability, poor health, poor education and by old age.
Many of the population that the new services will serve will need equipment, systems and networks in their newly “Smart Houses” that are easy to use, interoperable, provide intuitive interaction, are secure, safe and conform to open and transparent standards. Furthermore, their specifications should be compatible with public procurement rules since a significant proportion of the “Smart Houses” of the future will be equipped with help from public funds.
Similar requirements obtain for the services and applications provided by Service Providers. For both equipment and service providers there must be structure in their provision if the objectives of eEurope 2005 are to be met.
The Codes of Practice that the Smart House Standardisation Initiative aim to put into place are aimed at providing this structure:
The Codes of Practice will be careful to specify in general and generic terms. It is felt to be very important that technology advance and new services should not in any way be impeded.
It is the contention of the Smart House Standardisation Initiative that the Smart House Codes of Practice will contribute strongly to the aims of eEurope 2005 and greatly assist the “overall co-ordination of existing policies” in the area of the user of services, equipment and applications in and the services to the Smart House. It will help ensure that incompatibilities between equipment, networks and services or any other impediment to the growth of services and broadband penetration are minimised. This will accelerate the objectives of eEurope 2005.