The term was coined in their book, La Smart Metrology: De la métrologie des instruments à la métrologie des décisions.
[1] It was then adopted by Deltamu, a French company providing services in the field of industrial metrology.
The approach promoted by Smart Metrology applies the exploitation of data and information, including that provided by big data,[2] to implement an approach based on the three pillars of metrology[3] (uncertainty,[4] calibration and traceability) in industrial applications.
[5] The approach suggested by Smart Metrology is fully framed within the ISO 9001 recommendations.
Usual metrology is often regarded as a pure cost and is actually not following the ISO 9001 quality standards.