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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be…
Positioning your Agency for an Unimaginable Future
April 9, 2019 Dave Zelenok, PE
Gov’t Services Mgr
DZelenok@HRGreen.com
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 Impact of Technology on Infrastructure
 Emerging technologies –
 Utilities, Fiber Optics & Municipal Broadband
 Smart Cities - Street lights, Signals, Infrastructure
 The Real Impact of Driverless Cars & Technology
 Secondary Consequences
 What can you do today to position for the future?
TONIGHT’s DISCUSSION…
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
 Impact of Technology on Infrastructure
 Emerging technologies –
 Utilities, Fiber Optics & Municipal Broadband
 Smart Cities - Street lights, Signals, Infrastructure
 The Real Impact of Driverless Cars & Technology
 Secondary Consequences
 What can you do today to position for the future?
TONIGHT’s DISCUSSION…
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
First – A Little Background…
Example: No New “Fortress Malls,”
Replaced by “Urban Centers” – No Driving Needed
Residential + Recreation + Retail
12% of ALL retail is now on-line
Q: What ELSE IS DYING?
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•Fortress Malls?
•Road Widening Projects?
•Privately Owned Vehicles?
•Car Ownership - Car Dealers?
•Parking Garages & Lots
•Mass Transit (Yes, $1B Light Rails)?
•Gasoline Stations?
•Traffic Signals (Really!)
•Three-car garages – who needs to own 3 cars?
•Congestion– profound changes
R.I.P
R.I.P
R.I.P
R.I.P
The END of the LINE… Say GOODBYE to:
2040
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
•Electric DRIVERLESS CARS
•Sensors Everywhere: “V2V” & “V2I”
•5G Telecom – Cell Towers every 300’
•Street lights Reimagined
•Streets without Traffic Signals
•Fiber, Fiber Everywhere
Say Hello To:
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
Autonomous – Self-Driving - Driverless
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So – WHAT’s the BIG DEAL?
Transit – 5% (maybe)
Carpooling – 5 % (maybe)
Telecommuting – 10-20% (maybe)
Driverless Capacity – 300 (yes) 300%
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
So – WHAT’s the BIG DEAL?
Transit – 5% (maybe)
Carpooling – 5 % (maybe)
Telecommuting – 10-20% (maybe)
Driverless Capacity – 300 (yes) 300%
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Has This Ever Happened Before - ?
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
Has This Ever Happened Before - ?
Complete Modal Transformation: 12 Years
Infrastructure – Catching up 100 years
Cell Phone – SMART Phone
10th Anniversary – June 2017
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
Has This Ever Happened Before - ?
Complete Modal Transformation: 12 Years
Infrastructure – Catching up 100 years
Cell Phone – SMART Phone
10th Anniversary – June 2017Think 2040 is a long time in the future?
The “Soup Nazi” debuted 23 years ago
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
Has This Ever Happened Before - ?
Complete Modal Transformation: 12 Years
Infrastructure – Catching up 100 years
Cell Phone – SMART Phone
10th Anniversary – June 2017Think 2040 is a long time in the future?
The “Soup Nazi” debuted 23 years ago
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
Are just roads affected? Quick “DEEP DIVE:”
PARKING GARAGES ~50% increase in capacity
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
Are just roads affected? Quick “DEEP DIVE:”
PARKING GARAGES ~50% increase in capacity
Q: Who wants to pay for parking when you can
send your car to run an errand for you:
OR - Park itself in the neighborhood
OR - Go for a joyride – CLOG the FREEWAY(?)
With the demand dropping for parking garages –
 Should downtowns stop investing in them?
 Should you stop building parking garages with
slanted floors and low ceilings?
 Can your parking garage be repurposed into
condos or retail?
Do You Have a Plan – Is It “Futureproofed?”
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
Examples of real time alerts to city departments
 Stolen vehicle on a corridor
 Signal malfunction
 Abnormal vehicle congestion
 Obstruction on the road (tree falls tornado)
 Unusually large crowd
 Gunshots
 Water leak from aging pipeline
 Carbon monoxide levels, indicating a fire
 Flood warning
 Rain event = 1 Sec “all red” on traffic Signals: reduced accidents
 Citizens don’t care about General City Wide Alerts
 Citizens do care about conditions at kids’ school: self-defined data & alerts
Sensors Dashboards Action“Fog” Cloud
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
Examples of real time alerts to city departments
 Stolen vehicle on a corridor
 Signal malfunction
 Abnormal vehicle congestion
 Obstruction on the road (tree falls tornado)
 Unusually large crowd
 Gunshots
 Water leak from aging pipeline
 Carbon monoxide levels, indicating a fire
 Flood warning
 Rain event = 1 Sec “all red” on traffic Signals: reduced accidents
 Citizens don’t care about General City Wide Alerts
 Citizens do care about conditions at kids’ school: self-defined data & alerts
Sensors Dashboards Action“Fog” Cloud
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
What Are Others Doing – and Why?
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
What Are Others Doing – and Why?
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
Cellular Trends – LTE to 5G
Think: B&W to COLOR TV
SMALL CELLS: DOWNTOWN Porcupines!?!?
• A Transmitter on Every Block per provider: 3 Miles to 300 FEET
• 5G will require fiber optics into each transmitter
Fiber solutions can:
Create revenue
Control aesthetics
Abandon the mega sites?
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
VAIL: Street lighting & FREE Wi-Fi
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
Imagine Your Future –
Should Your Downtown Look Like a PORCUPINE?
Courtesy – City of Centennial
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
Imagine Your Future –
Should Your Downtown Look Like a PORCUPINE?
Courtesy – City of Centennial
DOWNTOWN Houston:
ACTUAL small cell APPLICATIONS
By four wireless entities.
Hundreds of applications
~10 Blocks, 20 YES 20 - TOWERS
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
It’s “Just” a (Very Important) Streetlight
 Agencies: Purchasing Streetlights
 Owning will reduce costs
 More important: asset value
 Even more savings: LED
 Lighting at the Next Level
 “Smart” Streetlights
 5G Cellular Enabled Small Cells
 Digital Signage
 Sensors & Counters
 Events / Wayfinding
* Graphic by IntelliStreets, Inc.
“ACORN” Light
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
LED’s – reduce power expenses by 50%+
But – power often < 20% of total expenses
Cities now municipalizing lighting,
Paying separately for energy
Up-front capital and conversion costs
 R.O.I.s ~ 5-10 years
MILLIONS in cost savings possible –
Re-purposing street lights: Conduit Most Valuable!
Traffic signals, utilities and public broadband!
Street Light Municipalization
Streetlights…
From Cost to Revenue Source
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
How do you get there?
Where are you going anyway?
 Area-wide audio system
 Technology interpretive
displays
 Imaginative smart lighting
 Programmable signage
 Business district wayfinding
 Temperature
 Air quality
 Smoke
 Leaking pipelines
EXPERIENCE SENSORS
Sooooo…..
How can you Get SMART?!?!
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
So – IF Smart Cities are Inevitable
What Can YOUR DOWNTOWN do TODAY?
1. FIBER OPTICS = the common thread
2. Lacking Today
3. Under Your Control
4. You Can Do TODAY
5. Low Cost, High Impact
6. 20 to 1 returns (?)
7. PLAN – PLAN – PLAN!
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
So – IF Smart Cities are Inevitable
What Can YOUR DOWNTOWN do TODAY?
1. FIBER OPTICS = the common thread
2. Lacking Today
3. Under Your Control
4. You Can Do TODAY
5. Low Cost, High Impact
6. 20 to 1 returns (?)
7. PLAN – PLAN – PLAN!
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
#1: Short Term: Update Your Public Policies
• Develop fiber friendly policies
• Develop co-location program
• Consider street light municipalization
• Review your street cut program
• Create revenue recovery systems
• End city subsidization of street cutters
• Apply revenues to new program
• Update your management systems -
• New underground requirements
• Every inch of every utility should be mapped in
3D in your GIS at no expense to the city
• Small Cell Regulations = #1 PRIORITY!
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
#2: Intermediate: Create Community Fiber
Identify fiber-related assets:
 GIS layers, records, conduits, strands, agreements, splice points, vaults, etc.
 Look for abandoned infrastructure
 Identify underutilized capacity
 AGAIN: DEFINE OWNERSHIP OF EVERYTHING IN YOUR STREETS
• Identify community partners and seek mutual benefit
• Leverage Federal/Local grant programs
• E-Rate (School/Libraries)
• Healthcare Connect Fund (Medical)
• RUS (Electric Providers)
• CDBG Funding
• State DOT Fiber
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
•Facilitate private sector competition and consumer choice
•Exploring making some public assets available to private sector
•Encourage internet-based economic development, job creation,
new business start-ups and entrepreneurs
•Encourage the private sector to invest
•Franchise Agreements
•Encourage new private sector providers
•Facilitate access in public places
•Monetize access to connectivity assets
•Consider Legal Exemption, Analysis of Alternatives, gig-city
3 Step Program: LONG-TERM
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
•Facilitate private sector competition and consumer choice
•Exploring making some public assets available to private sector
•Encourage internet-based economic development, job creation,
new business start-ups and entrepreneurs
•Encourage the private sector to invest
•Franchise Agreements
•Encourage new private sector providers
•Facilitate access in public places
•Monetize access to connectivity assets
•Consider Legal Exemption, Analysis of Alternatives, gig-city
3 Step Program: LONG-TERM
Sooooo…..
How can you Get SMART?
 PLAN NOW
 “FUTUREPROOF” YOUR DOWNTOWN!
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
Final Thoughts – Did we cover everything?
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
Final Thoughts – Did we cover everything?
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
Final Thoughts – Did we cover everything?
The FUTURE is –
Not what it “used to be”
PS - It arrives tomorrow!
Q: How’s your schedule?
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DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen
The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be…
Positioning your Agency for an Unimaginable Future
April 9, 2019 Dave Zelenok, PE
Gov’t Services Mgr
DZelenok@HRGreen.com

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Smart City Lessons for a Small Town | Dave Zelenok

  • 1. 1 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be… Positioning your Agency for an Unimaginable Future April 9, 2019 Dave Zelenok, PE Gov’t Services Mgr DZelenok@HRGreen.com
  • 2. 2 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen  Impact of Technology on Infrastructure  Emerging technologies –  Utilities, Fiber Optics & Municipal Broadband  Smart Cities - Street lights, Signals, Infrastructure  The Real Impact of Driverless Cars & Technology  Secondary Consequences  What can you do today to position for the future? TONIGHT’s DISCUSSION…
  • 3. 3 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen  Impact of Technology on Infrastructure  Emerging technologies –  Utilities, Fiber Optics & Municipal Broadband  Smart Cities - Street lights, Signals, Infrastructure  The Real Impact of Driverless Cars & Technology  Secondary Consequences  What can you do today to position for the future? TONIGHT’s DISCUSSION…
  • 4. 4 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen First – A Little Background… Example: No New “Fortress Malls,” Replaced by “Urban Centers” – No Driving Needed Residential + Recreation + Retail 12% of ALL retail is now on-line Q: What ELSE IS DYING?
  • 5. 5 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen •Fortress Malls? •Road Widening Projects? •Privately Owned Vehicles? •Car Ownership - Car Dealers? •Parking Garages & Lots •Mass Transit (Yes, $1B Light Rails)? •Gasoline Stations? •Traffic Signals (Really!) •Three-car garages – who needs to own 3 cars? •Congestion– profound changes R.I.P R.I.P R.I.P R.I.P The END of the LINE… Say GOODBYE to: 2040
  • 6. 6 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen •Electric DRIVERLESS CARS •Sensors Everywhere: “V2V” & “V2I” •5G Telecom – Cell Towers every 300’ •Street lights Reimagined •Streets without Traffic Signals •Fiber, Fiber Everywhere Say Hello To:
  • 7. 7 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen Autonomous – Self-Driving - Driverless
  • 8. 8 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen So – WHAT’s the BIG DEAL? Transit – 5% (maybe) Carpooling – 5 % (maybe) Telecommuting – 10-20% (maybe) Driverless Capacity – 300 (yes) 300%
  • 9. 9 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen So – WHAT’s the BIG DEAL? Transit – 5% (maybe) Carpooling – 5 % (maybe) Telecommuting – 10-20% (maybe) Driverless Capacity – 300 (yes) 300%
  • 10. 10 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen Has This Ever Happened Before - ?
  • 11. 11 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen Has This Ever Happened Before - ? Complete Modal Transformation: 12 Years Infrastructure – Catching up 100 years Cell Phone – SMART Phone 10th Anniversary – June 2017
  • 12. 12 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen Has This Ever Happened Before - ? Complete Modal Transformation: 12 Years Infrastructure – Catching up 100 years Cell Phone – SMART Phone 10th Anniversary – June 2017Think 2040 is a long time in the future? The “Soup Nazi” debuted 23 years ago
  • 13. 13 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen Has This Ever Happened Before - ? Complete Modal Transformation: 12 Years Infrastructure – Catching up 100 years Cell Phone – SMART Phone 10th Anniversary – June 2017Think 2040 is a long time in the future? The “Soup Nazi” debuted 23 years ago
  • 14. 14 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen Are just roads affected? Quick “DEEP DIVE:” PARKING GARAGES ~50% increase in capacity
  • 15. 15 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen Are just roads affected? Quick “DEEP DIVE:” PARKING GARAGES ~50% increase in capacity Q: Who wants to pay for parking when you can send your car to run an errand for you: OR - Park itself in the neighborhood OR - Go for a joyride – CLOG the FREEWAY(?) With the demand dropping for parking garages –  Should downtowns stop investing in them?  Should you stop building parking garages with slanted floors and low ceilings?  Can your parking garage be repurposed into condos or retail? Do You Have a Plan – Is It “Futureproofed?”
  • 16. 16 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen Examples of real time alerts to city departments  Stolen vehicle on a corridor  Signal malfunction  Abnormal vehicle congestion  Obstruction on the road (tree falls tornado)  Unusually large crowd  Gunshots  Water leak from aging pipeline  Carbon monoxide levels, indicating a fire  Flood warning  Rain event = 1 Sec “all red” on traffic Signals: reduced accidents  Citizens don’t care about General City Wide Alerts  Citizens do care about conditions at kids’ school: self-defined data & alerts Sensors Dashboards Action“Fog” Cloud
  • 17. 17 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen Examples of real time alerts to city departments  Stolen vehicle on a corridor  Signal malfunction  Abnormal vehicle congestion  Obstruction on the road (tree falls tornado)  Unusually large crowd  Gunshots  Water leak from aging pipeline  Carbon monoxide levels, indicating a fire  Flood warning  Rain event = 1 Sec “all red” on traffic Signals: reduced accidents  Citizens don’t care about General City Wide Alerts  Citizens do care about conditions at kids’ school: self-defined data & alerts Sensors Dashboards Action“Fog” Cloud
  • 18. 18 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen What Are Others Doing – and Why?
  • 19. 19 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen What Are Others Doing – and Why?
  • 20. 20 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen Cellular Trends – LTE to 5G Think: B&W to COLOR TV SMALL CELLS: DOWNTOWN Porcupines!?!? • A Transmitter on Every Block per provider: 3 Miles to 300 FEET • 5G will require fiber optics into each transmitter Fiber solutions can: Create revenue Control aesthetics Abandon the mega sites?
  • 21. 21 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen VAIL: Street lighting & FREE Wi-Fi
  • 22. 22 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen Imagine Your Future – Should Your Downtown Look Like a PORCUPINE? Courtesy – City of Centennial
  • 23. 23 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen Imagine Your Future – Should Your Downtown Look Like a PORCUPINE? Courtesy – City of Centennial DOWNTOWN Houston: ACTUAL small cell APPLICATIONS By four wireless entities. Hundreds of applications ~10 Blocks, 20 YES 20 - TOWERS
  • 24. 24 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen It’s “Just” a (Very Important) Streetlight  Agencies: Purchasing Streetlights  Owning will reduce costs  More important: asset value  Even more savings: LED  Lighting at the Next Level  “Smart” Streetlights  5G Cellular Enabled Small Cells  Digital Signage  Sensors & Counters  Events / Wayfinding * Graphic by IntelliStreets, Inc. “ACORN” Light
  • 25. 25 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen LED’s – reduce power expenses by 50%+ But – power often < 20% of total expenses Cities now municipalizing lighting, Paying separately for energy Up-front capital and conversion costs  R.O.I.s ~ 5-10 years MILLIONS in cost savings possible – Re-purposing street lights: Conduit Most Valuable! Traffic signals, utilities and public broadband! Street Light Municipalization Streetlights… From Cost to Revenue Source
  • 26. 26 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen How do you get there? Where are you going anyway?  Area-wide audio system  Technology interpretive displays  Imaginative smart lighting  Programmable signage  Business district wayfinding  Temperature  Air quality  Smoke  Leaking pipelines EXPERIENCE SENSORS Sooooo….. How can you Get SMART?!?!
  • 27. 27 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen So – IF Smart Cities are Inevitable What Can YOUR DOWNTOWN do TODAY? 1. FIBER OPTICS = the common thread 2. Lacking Today 3. Under Your Control 4. You Can Do TODAY 5. Low Cost, High Impact 6. 20 to 1 returns (?) 7. PLAN – PLAN – PLAN!
  • 28. 28 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen So – IF Smart Cities are Inevitable What Can YOUR DOWNTOWN do TODAY? 1. FIBER OPTICS = the common thread 2. Lacking Today 3. Under Your Control 4. You Can Do TODAY 5. Low Cost, High Impact 6. 20 to 1 returns (?) 7. PLAN – PLAN – PLAN!
  • 29. 29 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen #1: Short Term: Update Your Public Policies • Develop fiber friendly policies • Develop co-location program • Consider street light municipalization • Review your street cut program • Create revenue recovery systems • End city subsidization of street cutters • Apply revenues to new program • Update your management systems - • New underground requirements • Every inch of every utility should be mapped in 3D in your GIS at no expense to the city • Small Cell Regulations = #1 PRIORITY!
  • 30. 30 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen #2: Intermediate: Create Community Fiber Identify fiber-related assets:  GIS layers, records, conduits, strands, agreements, splice points, vaults, etc.  Look for abandoned infrastructure  Identify underutilized capacity  AGAIN: DEFINE OWNERSHIP OF EVERYTHING IN YOUR STREETS • Identify community partners and seek mutual benefit • Leverage Federal/Local grant programs • E-Rate (School/Libraries) • Healthcare Connect Fund (Medical) • RUS (Electric Providers) • CDBG Funding • State DOT Fiber
  • 31. 31 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen •Facilitate private sector competition and consumer choice •Exploring making some public assets available to private sector •Encourage internet-based economic development, job creation, new business start-ups and entrepreneurs •Encourage the private sector to invest •Franchise Agreements •Encourage new private sector providers •Facilitate access in public places •Monetize access to connectivity assets •Consider Legal Exemption, Analysis of Alternatives, gig-city 3 Step Program: LONG-TERM
  • 32. 32 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen •Facilitate private sector competition and consumer choice •Exploring making some public assets available to private sector •Encourage internet-based economic development, job creation, new business start-ups and entrepreneurs •Encourage the private sector to invest •Franchise Agreements •Encourage new private sector providers •Facilitate access in public places •Monetize access to connectivity assets •Consider Legal Exemption, Analysis of Alternatives, gig-city 3 Step Program: LONG-TERM Sooooo….. How can you Get SMART?  PLAN NOW  “FUTUREPROOF” YOUR DOWNTOWN!
  • 33. 33 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen Final Thoughts – Did we cover everything?
  • 34. 34 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen Final Thoughts – Did we cover everything?
  • 35. 35 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen Final Thoughts – Did we cover everything? The FUTURE is – Not what it “used to be” PS - It arrives tomorrow! Q: How’s your schedule?
  • 36. 36 DCI Colorado – IN THE GAME - Aspen The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be… Positioning your Agency for an Unimaginable Future April 9, 2019 Dave Zelenok, PE Gov’t Services Mgr DZelenok@HRGreen.com

Notas do Editor

  1. Across the state, communities are make positive movement to address these challenges. In Centennial, our own staff pioneered a public policy approach to deploying conduit and fiber at pennies on the dollar, creating a municipal fiber backbone in the community. Leveraging an open-access model across this network, Centennial selected Ting Fiber to provide broadband services to the community. Ting is in signup mode currently and plans to begin turning up customers in 2018. Electric cooperatives like Delta Montrose Electric have leveraged their strong position with their customers to deploy fiber to the home services. Steamboat Springs has created a community fiber network linking its anchor institutions with an eye toward a more robust future deployment to businesses and residents. In Longmont, community leaders made a decision to leverage their municipal electric utility to create NextLight, This communications utility offered a dramatically different promise. Gigabit internet for $50 a month… for life for its charter members. Longmont, now known as the fastest internet city in America, has experienced rousing success with its NextLight service. They have seen overall take rates of 54% since buildout began and are significantly outperforming the original financial pro-forma. Economic Development lists its broadband utility as the second most important economic differentiator… right after cheap electric rates, and the expansion of the community network is indirectly credited with bringing at least 4,000 jobs to the community recently. It is expected that Longmont will be returning cash to the community over time, making it a benefit for both residents AND the city’s balance sheet. In fact, this year, while other providers were raising rates, Longmont actually lowered the cost of its services… keeping millions of dollars in its citizens’ pockets. In fact, across the state, more than 110 communities and counties have passed ballot initiatives under SB 152 that enable them to explore broadband improvements, including more than 43% of your electric utility’s customers who reside in El Paso County, which is currently studying the issue. We want to stress that this is not a “new thing”… Nationally, there are more than 750 municipal broadband projects operationally. And there is, easily, more activity in Colorado right now than in any other state in the country. So, while Fountain has an opportunity to be on the leading edge, our fundamental philosophy is to help our clients avoid the bleeding edge. In fact, our primary goal is to help Fountain navigate the key decisions that must be made regarding ownership, risk and control so that you can make informed decisions on how best to serve your constituents.
  2. Across the state, communities are make positive movement to address these challenges. In Centennial, our own staff pioneered a public policy approach to deploying conduit and fiber at pennies on the dollar, creating a municipal fiber backbone in the community. Leveraging an open-access model across this network, Centennial selected Ting Fiber to provide broadband services to the community. Ting is in signup mode currently and plans to begin turning up customers in 2018. Electric cooperatives like Delta Montrose Electric have leveraged their strong position with their customers to deploy fiber to the home services. Steamboat Springs has created a community fiber network linking its anchor institutions with an eye toward a more robust future deployment to businesses and residents. In Longmont, community leaders made a decision to leverage their municipal electric utility to create NextLight, This communications utility offered a dramatically different promise. Gigabit internet for $50 a month… for life for its charter members. Longmont, now known as the fastest internet city in America, has experienced rousing success with its NextLight service. They have seen overall take rates of 54% since buildout began and are significantly outperforming the original financial pro-forma. Economic Development lists its broadband utility as the second most important economic differentiator… right after cheap electric rates, and the expansion of the community network is indirectly credited with bringing at least 4,000 jobs to the community recently. It is expected that Longmont will be returning cash to the community over time, making it a benefit for both residents AND the city’s balance sheet. In fact, this year, while other providers were raising rates, Longmont actually lowered the cost of its services… keeping millions of dollars in its citizens’ pockets. In fact, across the state, more than 110 communities and counties have passed ballot initiatives under SB 152 that enable them to explore broadband improvements, including more than 43% of your electric utility’s customers who reside in El Paso County, which is currently studying the issue. We want to stress that this is not a “new thing”… Nationally, there are more than 750 municipal broadband projects operationally. And there is, easily, more activity in Colorado right now than in any other state in the country. So, while Fountain has an opportunity to be on the leading edge, our fundamental philosophy is to help our clients avoid the bleeding edge. In fact, our primary goal is to help Fountain navigate the key decisions that must be made regarding ownership, risk and control so that you can make informed decisions on how best to serve your constituents.
  3. Some communities are extending their reach by either municipalizing or enhancing street lights to become much more than just “dumb lights.” In the first use case, communities are making sustainability gains by moving to LED lighting, but some are also making a financial decision to own their lights. It’s not uncommon for a city to pay $20 per month, per street light to their utility provider. Muncipalizing your lights can reduce this cost to $2/month for the power. And moving to LED can drop that to a single dollar. Cities who municipalize are seeing a five to 10 year ROI. Beyond simply owning the light, there are myriad uses for poles positioned across your community. The future of cellular data is 5G, and we’re seeing concept designs for poles that are wired to provide an integrated system for future 5G cellular deployment and digital signage that can be customized to address dynamic communications needs. Think about having the ability to redirect vehicles to open parking ramps during a major festival or promoting an upcoming community event. You can track things like pedestrian traffic, weather status and even pipe music into your streets – all controlled digitally and integrated into a your community dashboard.
  4. Many communities will eventually determine that they need to own and manage their own fiber infrastructure in order to advance their strategy. You likely already have existing public fiber. SCADA – Utility Control Systems Intelligent Transportation Systems AMR/AMI – Utility / Automatic Meter Reading Street Lights As we saw in Centennial, the ability to leverage not only your assets but to create new partnerships and alternate funding streams is crucial to building at the lowest possible cost. Many of the programs you see require a defined partnership, which will pay for much of the base cost of the primary purpose of the initial fiber build. However, excess capability can be piggy-backed onto the project at cost and can then be utilized across a variety of municipal needs. There are significant dollars available to help you and your anchor institutions improve your communications infrastructure.