Birmingham, a smart cityPresented by Raj Mack

OverviewRole of Digital Birmingham Lead on digital and smart city strategy and implementation Increasing digital capabilities Accelerating access and use of open data Devising digital inclusion activities Driving investment in digital infrastructure Leading smart cities development

Established Smart City CommissionEmbed smart city principles across all aspects of city life: Accelerate city outcomes

Established Smart City CommissionEmbed smart city principles across all aspects of city life: Accelerate city outcomes

Joining it togetherSmarterBirmingham

Technology & Places People EconomyCreating the infrastructure for growth

A: Connectivity

B: Planning for Digital Infrastructure

C: Information MarketPlaces

Creating an inclusive & skilled

society where citizens thrive

A: Digital Inclusion

B: Skills & Employment

C: Innovation

Creating a sustainable and

prosperous future

A: Health & Social Care

B: ICT & Energy Efficiency

C: Mobility

An opportunity!Smart City Demonstrator – East Birmingham

“a piece of the city to play with”

Working with smart city thematic leads

Spatial demonstrator

Focus on key outcomes Healthy Ageing

Economically active citizens

Greater connectedness along urban clusters

EAST BIRMINGHAMPopulation: 280,000

ErdingtonTyseleyStockland GreenNechellsSaltleyWashwood HeathHodge HillShard EndSouth Yardley

Capitalise on the skills and innovations that are expanding in high investment areas in the city centre and around UK central

Jobs and Skills

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DE - Semi-skilled & unskilled manual occupations, Unemployed and lowest grade occupations

Key Challenges – East Birmingham

Unemployment rates higher than city average (9.5% cf 6.5%)20% of claimants aged 18-24Low skills base – only 27% of jobs held by local people are in high skilled occupations cf. 38% for the cityAround 10,000 jobs remain vacant on monthly basis , which could be filled by local residents

Birmingham Connected – provision of Sprint Bus

Mobility

High level of congestion making it difficult to travel to work or do business both inside and outside of the area

Lack of high quality pedestrian and cycle routes

Limited alternative models of travel

Wider package of connectivity improvements – A45 corridor and proposed Metro route

Our shared agendaWork with the Future Cities CatapultIdentify core issues and baseline what is already happeningIdentify those key clusters of projects in the East Birmingham Corridor that have the potential to be integrated and enhanced by insights, data and technology and contribute to the opportunity and quality of life of people and businesses in the area.Work with those partners already delivering projects, existing / planned investments; those willing to make it happen.Develop 6-8 projects, outcome driven, delivered with focus, rigour and impactCreate vision and framework for Eastern Corridor but demonstrate how it will help crack the bigger nuts

Developing smart city demonstrator ideas – Stakeholder sessions

___________________________________________________________________Holistic and integrated approach

Layered strands of activity in areas of skills, mobility, health, and physical assetsEmbed smart city principles – data, integration, use of digital; citizen & business enabling

Birmingham Bikes; I-Centrum; HS2; Birmingham Connected; Sport England; Public Health; WM Police

_______________________________________________________TECHNOLOGY ENABLERSSensors & WearablesUrban IoT Behaviour economicsEconomic modellingData visualisationsIntegrated data hub

OUTPUTS & OUTCOMESEvidence based decisions validated / disprovedROI/ performance of solutionsNew collaborations (public/private/3rd sector)Influence the future council - urban innovation

KEY FILTERSBudget holder on-board / identifiedvisibility and impact in 12-18 monthsPriority / themesKey advocates / stakeholders

MAKING IT RELEVANTLiveWorkPlayLearnMove Organise

KEY DRIVERS / PROJECT IDEASHealthQuality of placeMobility

Active parks / Active Travel / CanalsTackling crime &perception of safetyHS2 Smart CampusUrban freight LEZ

Next StepsWork with Future Cities Catapult to further define projects from existing and emerging ideas

Identify those to lead and interested partners

Define governance and direction of travel

Work from project spending already there but liaise with them to raise level of ambition – initial starting point

Do user engagement to further develop project ideas – iterative design

Presenting the new roadmap – clearly articulated – ‘lived experience of citizens’

Use roadmap to unlock bigger projects that can help others test, develop and deploy for others

Using Open DataBirmingham Data Factory

What is Open Data?Open data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike. [OKF Open Data Handbook]

‘non-personal’ by default

Availability and Access: free of charge or at reasonable reproduction cost, download over the internet, in convenient and modifiable form

Reuse and Redistribution: licence permits reuse and redistribution including mashing with other datasets

Universal Participation: no limitation by purpose such as ‘non-commercial’ or ‘education only’

How can it add value?Growing resource at no cost Add local knowledge to your intelligenceStand-alone use to gain insightsDownload and mix with own sourcesUse real-data to test new apps Encourage others to shareMust check quality

• Made available an open data portal for SMEs and entrepreneurs to create new applications and services and working partners to make this available for and across the Combined Authority

• 40 datasets and growing,

• Hackathons with just transport data resulted in 10 applications

• Opportunities to replicate this around health, energy, waste etc…

Creating a platform for innovation and new applications

• Use of Data – Early deployments

Birmingham Heat Island

- Sensor array – 200 sites- Collecting real time heat variations and using predictive

analysis to model heat variations Smart Road Weather Forecasting Systems

- Collaboration b/n Amey and Aston University - Deployment of weather stations - Road sensors - De-icing strategy – through thermal mapping - Re-modelling gritting routes and risk assessment

OPTICITIES’ vision is to help European cities tackle complex mobility challenges

Aim is to optimise transport networks through the development of public/private partnerships and the experimentation of innovative IoT sensors an ITS services

Emerging opportunities for the deployment of sensors

Wheelie Bins (i) £30million investment (ii) Embedded Sensors in bins(iii) Deployment of Big Belly Bins

Cycling Revolution (i) £54million investment cycling infrastructure(ii) GPRS fitted bikes to capture real time data (iii) Linking wearable sensors data to deliver health outcomes

Future smart city aspirationsIncrease digital and smart city capabilities and businesses and cities Build demonstrators that are scalable and replicable Address social inequity, support healthy ageing and economic activity

To find out more please get in touch: raj.s.mack@birmingham.gov.ukdigitalbirmingham.co.uk@digibrum