[2024]Digital Global Overview Report 2024 Meltwater.pdf
Smart City Next Steps
1. Smart City Next Steps
IoT Conference
Bruce Lazenby
Head of BD for the Regional Group
Former CEO Invest Ottawa
Governors Council, i-CANADA
Board Member, ICF
2. So What – Who Cares – Why Bother?
• Urbanization- it’s a thing
• Better quality of life
• Talent attraction and
retention.
3. The Smart City: What is it?
• A Smart City is any
community, large or
small, central or remote,
that enjoys the
economic development,
job growth and social
prosperity that bloom
when software
applications are used to
engage the energy of all
sectors of the
community.
6. Malaysia: Multimedia SuperCorridor
• Provide Malaysia with a way to do business
with the world
• High-speed backbone, open standards, and
competitive pricing
• A state framework wove together ideas,
resources and relationships
7. Suwon, Korea: “Happy Suwon”
• Access to
government through
unified web gateway
• Focused on
development of
“human software”
8. Boston: Greenovate
• Most energy-efficient city in
the U.S.
• Greenovate community
engagement program with
interactive modules for
tracking, reporting, promote
online citizen engagement
9. VIENNA:
• “Most Liveable City”
• Comprehensive policy focused
on life in the city “The Viennese
Way”
• Smart City Wien Framework
Strategy:
• Best quality of life for all
inhabitants of Vienna
• Minimize the consumption of
resources.
• Realize through comprehensive
innovation.
10. Delhi: SmartCane
• Radar on cane avoids
collisions with objects
above the knee
• Collaboration of Delhi
academia, industry and user
community
• Designed for developing
economy infrastructures:
affordable, simple
11. Barcelona: Smart Trash
• Sends out alert when container
is full
• Cost saving, health
improvement from timely pick-
up
12. Dearborn, MI: Autonomous cars
• Ford will be the first automaker to test
self-driving cars, at the Mcity testbed
• Automakers are striving to deliver the
next level in connectivity, mobility,
autonomous vehicles, the customer
experience and big data, while making
millions of people’s lives better
13. New York: Superfast WiFi
• Google smart city Sidewalk Labs
spin-off, is creating new technology
to fix urban problems
• Eg.: LincNYC - replaces over 7,500
pay phones across the five
boroughs with new structures
called Links. Each Link will provide
superfast, free public Wi-Fi, phone
calls, device charging and a tablet
for Internet browsing, access to
city services, maps and directions.
14. Singapore: OneMap
• OneMap brings together public sector
data, including information on land and
community development, transportation,
education, sports and more.
• The diverse datasets are then visualised
onto a single dynamic mapping platform
• Provides information on traffic disruptions,
historical property sales prices, hospital
and school locations, commercial real
estate opportunities, local retail
promotions, plus data for analytics
15. Helsinki: Mobility As A Service (2025)
• Car ownership is not highly valued by
young people
• New city program matches car
convenience with purchase of
customized mobility plan
• Smartphone app plans route the
meshes options such as mini-buses,
driverless cars and uber service
16. Shiroji: Child Tracking Project
• Shiroji Innovation Plaza attracts and nurtures
outside companies specializing in embedded
systems, the industrial software that runs the
precision machinery Shiojiri companies
manufacture. SIP is also home projects like the
Child Tracking Project.
• Each child carries a cordless handset. While a
child is walking, the radio signal is emitted every
three minutes. A child who feels in danger must
pull the strap of the cordless handset, setting off
a buzzer and sending an emergency radio signal
is emitted. An emergency e-mail message is then
sent to the child’s parents reporting the location
of the emergency site, with map references.
18. San Francisco: Integrated Street Lighting
• Region-wide version of motion-
detecting lighting
• Lighting systems adjust to traffic
volumes over large areas
19. Detroit: Street Lamp Gunshot Tracker
• Remote monitors have
microphones and circuitry in a
weatherproof shell, attached to
street lights
• Pinpoints address locations of
shots
• With many streetlight installations,
can show shooter’s speed and
direction of travel
20. Stratford?: Li-Fi - Digital streetlights and car
headlights
• Light-wave transmission of digital
signals
• Street Lights’ LED beam is transmitter
• Could deliver 10 Gbps under
streetlights or between car headlights
• Stratford was approached to test the
service…an advantage to being
known as a Smart City
21. Charlotte NC: Smart Irrigation
• Charlotte Water incentivizes smart water
use through the Smart Irrigation Program
• A special water use rate is given to
customers who use a Smart Controller,
activating irrigation in response to site
specific data – such as plant material, soil
conditions, sun, and evapotranspiration
rate
• The controller maintains a live link to a
weather satellite to factor in current
weather conditions and recent rain events
22. Rio: Integrated Operations
• Integrates information and
processes from 30 different city
agencies
• A single ops centre provides a
holistic view of how the city is
functioning
23. Canada: Emergency Response
• Integration driven by need to save
money, achieve better results and
combat new trends in crime (car
theft can be done by remote
satellite control)
• Canadian Interoperability
Technology Interest Group (CITIG)
combines police, fire services and
paramedics; key focus on interop
(voice and data) technology
24. • Hello Bruce
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• I thought you may know start-ups and SMEs that would be interested in this opportunity. Could you share this with them?
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• BRE and the Mayor of London are looking for technologies to help the UK capital’s major infrastructure
providers gain a shared understanding of the combined underground asset base.
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• For more information, please visit this link. The deadline for applications is tomorrow, 29th of April.
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• Winners will earn the opportunity to pitch their innovations directly to organisations involved in providing key infrastructure across
the capital, including UK Power Networks, National Grid and Thames Water.
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• I am happy to discuss further if you have any questions.
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• Kind regards,
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• Aukse Ruseckyte
• Innovation Sourcing Analyst
25. Soooo?
• We all need to look for Smart City Opportunities in Ottawa.
• City Pilot Program
• We will be doing our part. You?
Notas do Editor
Canada is the world’s leading Smart City nation: more award-winning Smart Cities than anywhere else
The key to being a “Smart Community 3.0”, is that applications are used to bring all the sectors and function together!
We often focus too much on the technology behind one sector, like Security. You can indeed have good applications-driven Security solutions, but they will not contribute to the smart COMMUNITY unless they are interwoven with Smart Energy (for street lighting), Smart Health (for ambulances and emergency treatment), Smart Governance (for programs that prevent crime) and so on.
A Smart Community is built on applications that work together. And 90% of the work involved in making a Smart Community is soial, not technological.
The key to being a “Smart Community 3.0”, is that applications are used to bring all the sectors and function together!
We often focus too much on the technology behind one sector, like Security. You can indeed have good applications-driven Security solutions, but they will not contribute to the smart COMMUNITY unless they are interwoven with Smart Energy (for street lighting), Smart Health (for ambulances and emergency treatment), Smart Governance (for programs that prevent crime) and so on.
A Smart Community is built on applications that work together. And 90% of the work involved in making a Smart Community is soial, not technological.
London has a larger economy than many European countries, and the concentration of businesses and people puts upward
pressure on the productivity of travel.
Transport for London (TfL) has the job of moving a million commuters every day into the city (expected to grow by a third coming decade).
The challenge for TfL is to be able to deliver accurate travel information to these commuters. It needs to deliver the information that people want, in a usable manner, no matter where they are.
Fortunately, London’s commuters are high users of mobile devices; more than 80% use the Internet for maps and directions, and three-quarters of all Londoners visit the TfL web site.
TfL has created an Open Data program, where developers can use City data to create potentially useful applications for people to explore. The response has been so good that new Open Data applications have surged more than 85% in the past year.
Malaysia wanted to become a significant contributor to the global knowledge economy. It set a goal of becoming a “Digital Economy”.
Given limited resources, an effective approach is to create clusters; the Multimedia SuperCorridor is a way to kick-start the transition of the nation to a information society.
The MSC contributed $10-billion to GDP (2004 – 2010), $25-billion through corporate growth, and 100,000 new knowledge-based jobs. This does not include its considerable impact on Foreign Direct Investment and the $9-billion it generated in exports.
Flagship applications include e-Government, Smart School and Telehealth, to improved socio-economic conditions.
The project covers an area 50km long and 15km wide. Originally five cyber-cities were involved: the Cyberjaya - the science park that forms a key part of the corridor - KLCC, Kuala Lumpur Tower, Technology Park Malaysia and University Putra Malaysia-Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (UPM-MTDC). Now there are 30, all supported by a high-capacity, digital telecommunications infrastructure.
Incentives for companies locating in the cities include total tax exemption, duty-free importation of digital equipment, no censurship of the Internet, and excellent R&D facilities.
A state framework wove together ideas, resources and relationships, and provided an enduring foundation for global industry
In the Asian financial crises of 1997, Suwong’s largest employer, Samsung, moved out.
Suwon has now created an economy based on small-to-midsize enterprises specializing in IT, biotech and nanotechnology. The government has not been shy about backing that goal with public investment. Today, two-thirds of Suwon companies specialize in one of its targeted industries and companies with 50 or fewer employees make up 94% of all employers in the city.
The city government established the Ubiquitous Suwon Master Plan, branded as U-Happy. It provides transparent access to government through a unified web gateway.
Digital business incubators and multi-tenant buildings were created, with financial incentives. Suwon has also built a web of collaborative relationships among industry, universities and government. The tangible result is a large number of public-private research centers and institutes.
It developed its own governmental network despite South Korea's impressive broadband infrastructure, currently ranked number one in the world. It was able to trim operating costs by eliminating leased lines, and the use of conduit already installed for the transportation management system kept construction costs low. Control of its own network allowed Suwon to boost connection speeds from 32 Mbps to a blazing 1 Gbps (in 2010).
It focused less on technology than on Suwon’s development of the “human software” within this highly-educated community.
It spent 360m in upgrading school facilities, opening new schools and expanding staff, and a further $186m is funding the 2010 Suwon Education Development Support Plan, which includes 74 individual projects focusing on education for a global economy and workforce. In addition, as the city replaces computers in its offices, the old units are refurbished and distributed to children’s centers, libraries and social welfare facilities.
The City continues to look to the future, hosting the EcoMobility World Festival in 2013.
Boston was voted as the most energy-efficient city in the US by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (2013)
Global energy needs are set to increase 40% by 2030, bringing pressure on prices, competition for resources, and raising difficulties to provide access to societies’ poorest citizens. It is also wrapped up in the issues of climate change, and the impact on economic growth.
Four areas that helped the City of Boston take top honors in, all of which relate to its building energy and community engagement efforts:
-Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s 2009 Executive Order and 2011 Climate Action Plan, which set energy savings goals for the City’s municipal operations and the entire community;
- The progress the City has made towards these goals, which has been supported by the Mayor’s Greenovate Boston initiative and by the business and institutional leaders on the Boston Green Ribbon Commission;
- The effective outreach and partnerships the City has formed with community groups and utility companies to bring energy savings to residents and small businesses through its Renew Boston program; and
- The City’s 2013 Building Energy Reporting and Disclosure Ordinance, which requires all large buildings to rate and report their energy use to improve energy management.
Programs like Renew Boston, the city has shown an impressive commitment to cutting down on energy waste, which will result in lower energy costs for residents and businesses, a more robust economy, and healthier environment.
Websites like Greenovate have interactive programs that track implementation and measure progress. Greenovate Boston is a collective movement to help Boston reach its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 25% by 2020 and 80% by 2050.
Smart technologies are the key to achieving a low carbon eonomy.
Smart City Strategy covers a cross-section of the city, covering all areas of life, work and leisure activities in equal measure, and includes everything from infrastructure, energy and mobility to all aspects of urban development.
Open Government Data policy
World’s Number One “Most Liveable City” six times in a row (Mercer)
Exemplary public transport (1st Place in the TripAdvisory ranking for “Getting Around in the City”)
Smart infrastructure with green buildings, accessible universities
Smart technology with free wifi, apps, developer aids
Sustainable Vienna program includes organic farms and recycling.
LinkNYC is completely free because it’s funded through advertising. Its groundbreaking digital OOH advertising network not only provides brands with a rich, context-aware platform to reach New Yorkers and visitors, but will generate more than a half billion dollars in revenue for New York City.
Japan
https://itunews.itu.int/En/4295-The-Shiojiri-child-tracking-project-in-Japan.note.aspx
The key to being a “Smart Community 3.0”, is that applications are used to bring all the sectors and function together!
We often focus too much on the technology behind one sector, like Security. You can indeed have good applications-driven Security solutions, but they will not contribute to the smart COMMUNITY unless they are interwoven with Smart Energy (for street lighting), Smart Health (for ambulances and emergency treatment), Smart Governance (for programs that prevent crime) and so on.
A Smart Community is built on applications that work together. And 90% of the work involved in making a Smart Community is soial, not technological.
Car theft reference: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/03/emergency-services-integrate-theresa-may