Team Finland Future Watch Report

1. Selection of Leading Smart City
Case Studies in the USA
Tekes Smart City Project
Futures Session Planning
25 September 2013

2. U.S. Smart City Project – First Phase Analysis
• Survey U.S. urban development in the USA, noting both the hard
science of cutting-edge smart technology innovations as well as the
soft science of shaping appealing and sustainable smart city
environments.
• Identify and summarize a representative group of leading smart city
case studies.
• Based upon above, target select municipalities and associated
smart city programmes for in-depth field analysis and/or
benchmarking by Tekes-led Finnish delegation.

3. ICT is changing urban geography
Global Internet of Things
Market Projection
(Billion Dollars)
290
Source: http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/4804.html
44
2011
2017
Source: Markets & Markets, September 2012

4. It offers connectivity to distant spaces/people
Projected Connected Devices Per
Person Globally
6,58
Proportion of Global Web
Page Views from Mobile
Devices: 2011-2012
10,1,%
5,8%
3,47
2011
2012
Source: StatCounter, May 2012
Social Media Landscape
1,84
0,08
2003
2010
2015
2020
Source: Cisco IBSG, April 2011

5. It promises to create broadly connected
sustainable communities
Cisco’s Blueprint for Smart & Connected Communities
Connected &
Sustainable
Work
Connected &
Sustainable
Mobility
Connected &
Sustainable
Buildings
Connected &
Sustainable
Energy
Sustainable
Socio –
Economics
Smart Work
Centers
Smart
Transportation
Pricing
Homes
Renewables &
Co-Generation
Active Community
& Eco Maps
Digital Swarming
& Hub Pavilions
Personal Travel
Assistant
Office Buildings
Urban Monitoring
& Measurement
Connected
Workplaces
Connected Public
Transit
Public Spaces
Citizens Energy
Efficiency
Innovative Green
Business Models
and Sustainability
Clusters
Connected
Workforce
Public Transit
Hubs
Hospitals &
Schools
← Sustainable Urban Planning →
Broadband Platform
IP-Enabled Homes & Offices, Roads, Utilities, Workplace Design
Source: http://ict4green.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/ict-companies-focused-on-smart-city-effort-cisco-cud/

6. Today’s view of Smart City development
Current Smart City Applications
Global Smart City
Technology Market Forecast
(Billion Dollars)
20,2
6,1
2012
Source: http://revistamoviles.blogspot.com.es/2012/03/telefonicaconvertira-alcala-de-henares.html
2020
Source: Pike Research, January 2013
IDC Government Insights states: In 2013, 70% of Worldwide Spending on
Smart City Projects Will Be Focused on Energy, Transportation, and
Public Safety.

7. Selected Smart City Case Studies
SeattlePortlandVancouver
Living Building
Challenge
Tacoma
Sustainable City
Return on
Investment
Portland Plan
San Francisco
Architecture at Zero
San Francisco
SFPark Pilot
San Francisco
DataSF
LA Food
Truck Nation
Urban Smart
Glasses
Applications:
Police in MD,
MN, UT…
Ann Arbor
Connected
Vehicles
Sacramento
Municipal LEED
Platinum Campus
Las Vegas,
Driverless
Vehicles
Boston Municipal Food
Truck Web Page Locator
NYC Midtown in Motion
Fort Wayne
Smart Hospital
Santa Rita Jail
Microgrid
San Francisco
WalkFirst
Boston
Innovation
District
NYC Digital
NYC Hyper-local
Smart Screens
Greenprint Denver
Fort Collins
FortZed
Chattanooga Small City
Broadband Network
Dallas-Fort Worth
(DFW) Airport =
“Aerotropolis”
Houston
“Coolest
City”
NYC CityScan
Houston Municipal
4G Network

8. Examples that collectively offer a glimpse into the
future
New York City’s Smart Screens City24/7 Pilot
converted 250 obsolete public telephone
booths, which will incorporate touch, voice,
and audio technology to deliver a wide array
of hyper-local (about two square city blocks)
information, services, and offerings in real
time. The Smart Screens can also be
accessed via Wi-Fi on nearby smartphones,
tablets, and laptop computers. There is the
potential to convert a further 12 800 booths
whose licenses will be expiring in October
2014.
DFW Airport computergenerated customerservice agent hologram
greets and responds
verbally when asked
questions on everything
from where the nearest
restroom is to where
customers should head
for a connecting flight.
Laurel [Maryland] Police Department
is using a…new generation of police
video camera in their sun glasses that
provides an officer's point of view
[POV] during stops. Smart glasses
are seen as a future tool for crime
control.

9. Indicating profound change ahead
Smart City ICT Building Blocks
REQUIREMENT
DESCRIPTION
Ubiquitous connectivity
Essential element: competitively-priced anytime/anyplace access to high-bandwidth
Anytime/anyplace devices
Devices designed to access cloud services via a Wi-Fi or 3G network
Collaboration platforms
Unified: voice, text, video, calendars, office automation tools, online meetings
Cloud computing
Processing, storage, & applications as Internet or pay-as-you go private network service
Open standards
Interoperable hardware and software systems within Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
Geospatial platforms
Easier, faster, and cheaper abilities to present and manipulate data on a map or aerial image
Internet of Things
Increasing real-time data possibilities for connecting a wide range of sensors to the Internet
Advanced analytics
Innovation = making fact-based decisions & controlling events based on real-time data
Open access to public data
Government agencies with “more eyes” that add value to data
Rea;-time digitally controlled
devices
Integration into computerized home, building, and infrastructure control systems
Social networking
Enabling and supporting community interactivity
Source: Alcatel Lucent, 2012

10. Rise of augmented urban spaces
Augmented Space refers to group of
emerging technologies that are unified
by their ability to overlay physical space
with information. It is a paradigm that
succeeds Virtual Reality; instead of
disembodied occupation of virtual
worlds, the physical and virtual are seen
together as a contiguous, layered and
dynamic reality.
Keiichi Matsuda
See: http://www.keiichimatsuda.com/augmentedcity.php

11. Entering the next evolutionary phase
Augmented Reality (AR)
Revenue Forecast for Mobile
Devices Split by Category
Augmented Virtuality (AV):
In-place Technologies
(Billion Dollars)
$5.2 billion in 2017
$5.2 billion in 2017
Source: Juniper Research
See LHN App & near-term future of urban living:
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=8486178

12. Finding balance in Smart City Development
Cohen’s Smart
Cities Wheel*
Personal Observations from
a rapidly growing young
urban professional population
Houston, Texas,
Inner City
Living
Image Source: Enterra Insights, 26 April 2013
*See: http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680538/whatexactly-is-a-smart-city

13. Initial cities targeted
Portland,
Oregon
Seattle,
Washington
• Tekes selected Portland & Seattle initially as collective field trip
targets.
• Both cities score highly in numerous metrics relevant to broader smart
city development.
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http://www.travelportland.com/media/archive/
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http://www.seattle.gov/economicdevelopment/press_newsRankings.ht
m

14. Relevant Smart City cases from Oregon &
Washington
• Systems Dynamic Modeling for Smart
City Development: City of Portland,
Oregon’s Portland Plan example
• Sustainable City Return on Investment
Tool: City of Tacoma, Washington,
seeking solution; relates to
participation in LLGA Cities Pilot the
Future initiative
• Sustainable Innovation Horizon for
Buildings, Neighborhoods &
Communities: Cascadia Region’s
International Living Futures Institute’s
Living Building Challenge

15. Living Building Challenge (LBC) Profile
“LBC…a holistic standard…that could yield an entirely new level of integration between
building systems, transportation, technology, natural resources, and community.”
“… this is the future. It’s
where innovative
developers, planners and
construction companies
should be looking...“
See: http://living-future.org/lbc/about

16. Additional Examples & Opportunities
City of Portland
City of Seattle
• PortlandMaps.com - Public access to City of
Portland datasets:
http://www.portlandmaps.com/about.cfm
• Data.Seattle.Gov website– Public access to high
value, machine readable City of Seattle datasets:
https://data.seattle.gov/
• SmartTrips (Facebook & Twitter access):
http://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/43
801
• Seattle City Mobile Applications & Sites:
http://www.seattle.gov/html/citizen/mobileApps.ht
m
• Portland Development Commission Cluster
Development (cleantech among four target
areas): http://www.pdc.us/our-work/economicdevelopment/cluster-development.aspx
• Live traffic video on mobile devices via
TrafficLand (includes Seattle & Portland):
http://trafficland.com/city/SEA/index.html
• Neighborhood-scale development & District
Energy:
http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/34943
7
• District Energy Recommendations:
http://www.seattle.gov/environment/district_ener
gy.htm
• Seattle 2030 District (downtown building
reduction goals for energy, water & CO2e of auto
and freight):
• City of Portland waste management crisis:
http://www.2030district.org/seattle/district-goals
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2013/05/15/

17. Proposed field trip broadened
Cascadia
Region
AK
• Anchorage, Alaska, also offers
potentially interesting
linkages.
• Anchorage, Seattle and
Portland, representing the
Cascadia Region of North
America, is a logical place to
start Finnish-American smart
city technology networking.