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Realizing Smart CityEco-systems

dr. Wouter Haerick

IBBT – Future Internet DepartmentGhent University – IBCNGhent University - FUSION

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Smart Services in/by/for cities … Smart Citizen Networks Realizing Smart City eco-systems

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Smart Services Cities

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Our view on smart cities …

As ICT Innovation Research Center (Future Internet)

As Living Lab Center (member of ENoLL)

As University involved in Smart City projects, brainstorms, …

As catalysator to facilitate impact (economic, societal) http://www.fusion-iof.eu

EERAJP Smart Cities

FIREPROJECTS

CONVENANTOF MAYORS

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Smart Services Cities

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a) Which Services? Which needs?

b) Differences between cities

c) Indirect Business cases

Source: ey.com

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Cities31 common services

Public Utilities

Citizens

Companies Visitors

EC Directives

Eco-objectivesParticipation

Collective “brain”

Collective “sensing”

Transparency

Sustainable growthSeamless city information

Short-term profitable services

TrafficEnvironmentCrime/Disaster/SafetyPersonal HealthPublic FacilitiesPublic Administration

Directives (Electricity, Energy Services,

Measuring Instruments, …

a) Which Services? Which Needs?

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a) Which Services? Which Needs?

Smart City Demonstrators

Brazil, Rio de JaneiroDubuque, IowaBornholm, DenmarkAmsterdam, The NetherlandsSantander, SpainGhent Living Lab, Belgium….

Cities and citizensCollaborative roadmap

Who is defining the next generation

Smart City?

Get inspiration fromvisual city dashboards!

Companies / Cities / Research Centers / Blogs

2050

Europeandirectives

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b) Differences between cities

While the basic platform could be similar,

the “use case”, actions and priorities should be adapted to your city

Historical city Many suburbs?

Young city:City planning (traffic, parking, …)

Recent infrastructure (networks, …)Recent buildings (energy prestation, …)

Where in the process?

Priority domains are setInitial Audits performedObjectives and future visionRegular MonitoringRealtime MonitoringCitizen involvementEco-system action!

Density of people?Density of cars?

Open land?% green inside core city

Demographics?

Cross-city dependencyWater mgmt

Air qualityAir quality

Industry?

Sustaining cost/benefit

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c) Indirect business models

Situation today Investments from city, regional, european governments to setup smart city concepts Commercial Sponsorships in return for “product testing” and visibility What about the running/operational costs for large scale services?

Should cities invest in a Smart City platform just like they used to invest in new road infrastructure (metro lines, …)? And bear all the costs?

Cost drivers: internet connectivity, data, services, reach-out Indirect Business models should leverage:

Low-cost city-wide Connectivity Free data, cheap convenience apps Free data, advertisements inside apps Free data, city-sponsored apps

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c) Indirect business models

OPENPLATFORM

OPENDATA

CONNECTIVITYOPEN

INTERFACESProfitable

APPs

Costs from technological perspective

Should we consider “premium” models?Should we consider peer-to-peer fairness models?

“Information is the currency of the future”

?Expensive

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Smart Services in/by/for cities … Smart Citizen Networks

Technology Trends / Community trends Networked Services: City dashboards

Realizing Smart City eco-systems

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Smart Citizen Networks

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Technological Trends Community Trends

2010

20157 billion devices with cellular subscription

source: CISCO

Global, virtualcommunity platforms

?Create city-branded platform?Scale?

Or Embed Your City in global framework?

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WirelessNOISE

AIR QUALITYSENSORS

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Inter-connecting ….

People/Communities

Additional Sensor-data

Public City Infrastructure Data

Public meets private

FON connectivitySocial Media

Public & privatesensor investments

Opening upCity-data

Internet-of-Things

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HEAT MAPCITY OF GHENT

Smart Citizen Networked Services

ENERGY BALANCEZERO ENERGY VILLAGE

(GHENT eCUBE)

NOT REALTIME

REALTIME

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City Threads

SOCIAL MEDIA

WATER MGMT

PERFORMANCETRAFFIC LIGHTS

Smart Citizen Networked ServicesCitizen dashboards: examples

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Smart Citizen Networked Services

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MAIA Intelligence – Mumbai CEO Dashboard

http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/citywide-performance-reporting-dashboard-for-nyc/

City wide dashboard

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/bi/198100280

http://blog.maia-intelligence.com/2008/09/01/a-dashboard-for-mumbai-ceo/

WATER

SAFETY

CITYNEW

S

POPULATION TOURISM

DEPARTMENTPERFORMANCE

SAFETYINCIDENTS

Citizen dashboards: examples

http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/CityDemographics-Dashboard_rss.png

http://sustainableca.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/lucid-design-dashboard1.png

ENERGY

DEMOGRAPHICS

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Smart Services in/by/for cities … Smart Citizen Networks

Technology Trends / Community trends Networked Services: City dashboards

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DemonstatorsLeverage demonstrationSustain smart services

Smart CityEco-System

Behavorial Change

Improve efficiency

Facilitate collaboration

Knowledge Labs Outdoor Labs

IdeasFrustration

Contributions

Ideas tomake money

Ability to translate into execution

Power of citiesIncentives

Deployment of Public infraLarge datasets

Facilitate collaboration

Research

Industry (incl SMEs)

Citizen

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Realizing Smart City eco-systems

Scaling up Smart City Services

Smart City SimulatorsICT discrete event simulator

Power flow simulatorWater flow simulator

KnowledgeControl algorithms

Network technology

ResearchLab

High scalabilitysimulations/emulations

HPCVirtualWall

Field Tests(1000 buildings involved)

TechnologyUser acceptance

SustainedOperations

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Realizing Smart City eco-systems

Scaling up Smart City Services

Open Infrastructure

City parking mgmt

Waste mgmt

200 wireless nodes60 mobile nodesIndoor + outdoor

Living Lab City EnvironmentsSmart Santander

OlouGhent GreenWeCan

Infrastructure is open for companies, cities, researchers

For feasibility tests For joint European projects For defining profitable business models For low-energy efficiency tests

Realizing Smart City eco-systems

Wrap Up Adapt to your city needs … As a city facilitate open data and invest in integration Get inspired by other city dashboards … Leverage open infrastructure and demonstrators

Contact: Dr. Wouter Haerick – IBBT / Ghent University Wouter.haerick@intec.ugent.be www.fusion-iof.eu / www.ibbt.be