What makes a City smart? Copyright : Futuretext Ltd. London

Transcription

1 What makes a City smart?

2 Ajit Jaokar World Economic Forum - future of the Internet UK based - Hands on Publisher (futuretext) - Author (Mobile Web 2., Social Media Marketing, Open Mobile) - Chair: Oxford University's Next Gen Mobile Applications panel - PhD student UCL/UK - Consulting Operators, Governments/EU, Startups Recent and forthcoming talks include Mobile world congress(27,28,29, 211), CEBIT, Stanford University - MIT Sloan - Web 2. expo - Ajaxworld Supernova - CNN money - BBC - Oxford University European parliament Global top 2 wireless blogger According to fierce wireless 1

3 Deja Vu... Boulder Dr George Arnhold (NIST) Can you build a smart grid WITHOUT a Smart meter? Yes! (Telecoms + DLNA + Homeplug etc) 2

4 What makes a city dumb? What makes a city dumb? Are the vendors who drive the idea of Smart cities say that the city is currently dumb?

5 Exponential trends are hard to see.. Imagine a magic pipette such that every drop of water that comes out of it will double in size every minute. This is an example of exponential growth. Now, imagine that you dropped the first magic drop from this magic pipette in the middle of a large stadium (such as the Wembley Stadium in London) at 12pm. How much time would this drop take to flood the whole stadium right to the very top seat? (considering exponential growth i.e. the first minute there is one drop, the second minute there are two drops, the third minute four drops, the fourth minute eight drops and so on). The answer is at 12:49pm i.e. less than 5 minutes to fill a whole football stadium with water. But even more interestingly, even as late as 12:45pm, the stadium is still 93% empty. Thus, the water fills the stadium only in the last 4 minutes. So, for a vast majority of the time, you would see nothing since the water is below the grass. Then in the last four minutes, you will drown even if you sat at the topmost seat of the stadium. 4

6 Boulder Colorado Boulder Colorado Smart grid city is a smart grid flop? (gigaom) Xcel + GridPoint, Accenture, Current Group, SmartSynch, Ventyx and OSISoft, That s an expensive bit of research. (estimated 15m actual 42m costs and rising) at taxpayers expense with customers footing extra bills..

7 Wisdom of the earth? Internet + Internet of things = Wisdom of the earth - Wen Jiabo

8 1. Songdo, South Korea The world s most expensive privately developed city (cost: $35 billion and climbing) is also the flagship of Cisco s Smart + Connected Communities Songdo will be the test bed Cisco s vision of ubiquitious telepresence 1 smartest cities Fast company

9 2. Lavasa, India If all goes according to plan, next year Lavasa will become the first city in history to float itself in an IPO worth 2 billion rupees ($437 million) as part of a spin-off from its parent, Hindustan Construction Company. The smarts will be provided courtesy of Wipro and Cisco

10 3. PlanIT Valley, Portugal The first city to be designed like software complete with its own Urban OS is slated to break ground this year in the hills outside Porto. brainchild of software startup Living PlanIT, plans call for 15, residents, nearly all of whom will be its partners employees. In turn, they ll be expected to experiment on themselves. Buildings, sensors, and services alike will be connected through the cloud, and obsolete buildings will be decommissioned

11 Scheduled to break ground next year, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev s pet project is his country s second attempt to build its own Silicon Valley the Soviet-era version didn t work out so well. Technopolis Skolkovo s centerpiece will be the campus of the Moscow School of Management.In June, Cisco pledged to invest $1 billion in the project and establish Skolkovo as Russia s first smart city, focused on smart grids, transportation, education, and health care.

12 5. Masdar, United Arab Emirates Masdar is low-tech in its design, according to The Guardian's Rowan Moore: The Masdar plan has been accused of being gated and exclusive. It is not, although there is something spooky in the controls it employs in the name of the environment a touch of eco-orwell or at least eco-huxley. A hidden brain, for example, knows when you enter your building, so that your flat can be cooled before you arrive, while in public places flat screens broadcast uplifting news on the environmental performance of the complex.

13 6. Wuxi, China Little Shanghai is the epicenter of China s evolving strategy to own the Internet of Things, an effort which kicked into high gear this summer after Chinese premier Wen Jiabao gave a speech in the city in which he offered the equation Internet + Internet of Things = Wisdom of the Earth. China appears ready to win the smart city market as surely as its manufacturers conquered solar panels.

14 7. King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia Rising from the sands near Jeddah, King Abdullah Economic City abbreviated KAEC, pronounced cake is just one of four new instant cities explicitly intended create a millionplus jobs and to house nearly half of the 1 million Saudis under the age of a largely uneducated workforce described as a human time bomb. To that end, KAEC was conceived as Saudi Arabia s Silicon Valley (along with a port expected to open next year). KAEC s developers have promised a smart city that is , as in services are ready to go 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and are ready within 6 minutes.

15 8. Dubuque, Iowa In 29, IBM declared Dubuque would become the first integrated, smart city in America, with interlocking systems watching the interplay between water, electricity, and transportation.

16 9. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam IBM dispatched a SWAT team of executives to Vietnam s largest city this year on a mission to develop a strategy for upgrading the city s infrastructure. The plan is to create a software model capable of predicting when the city s busiest thoroughfares will clog with motorbikes so the city can change traffic signals as needed or dispatch extra traffic cops to the scene.

17 1. Nano City, India Maybe 211 will be the year Hotmail creator Sabeer Bhatia finally starts construction of his dream city, which he hatched in 26 as you guessed it India s answer to Silicon Valley.

18 Hammer and nail If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. (Maslow) For example: For Microsoft, convergence is a software problem: to be solved using an upgrade of the windows operating system (Microsoft s strength). Intel sees convergence as a microprocessor problem, - Intel inside everything! Cisco sees convergence as a home networking problem, to be solved with.. guess what.. networking! Translated to video conferences Yahoo and Google see convergence as an online services problem. To them, the solution lies through the web browser a common element in all devices. Sony sees convergence as a consumer hardware problem, to be solved with consumer devices, new standards built around its own strengths like the playstation Handset vendors: Nokia, Google, Samsung etc all look at the device as the on ramp to convergence..

19 Instrumentation (recording of data) is not enough.. Instrumentation (recording of data) is not enough.. In Star Trek, tricorders are handheld devices used for sensor scanning, data analysis and recording data. A company called Vital Technologies intentionally replicated it in the mid-9s with a device that it called the TR-17 Mark 1. Like its fictional counterpart, the device included several scientific functions such as an electromagnetic field meter, thermometer, barometer and light meter. the company sold about 1, of these units before it went out of business.

20 ERP for Smart cities? Sounds like the ERP systems of the late 199s.. A consultant s dream.. A customer s nightmare..

21 Data.gov Google powermeter MSFT hohm Data.gov 35m to 8m Vivek Kundra, Google powermeter, MSFT hohm

22 Complex ecosystems cannot have a business model.. Complex ecosystems are like ant colonies.. They don t have a business model per-se which can be Proven.. If anyone says otherwise, run as fast as you can..

23 So what makes a city smart? What makes a city Smart? A non vendor driven definition of a Smart City The closer a city behaves to the ethos of the Internet, the smarter it is That means, the city is a platform an enabler for the people.. So, empowering people is at the centre of the perfect storm

24 SMS, WAP, Voice MMS, V.s Facebook, iphone, Android, Twitter

25 Platform - light bulbs and transmission towards Source-

26 Edge of the network innovation Edge of network innovation: Why no Wikipedia button on your Sky TV remote

27 Barriers dropped It is a mistake to think of the Internet merely as as faster broadband.. Barriers opened? Messaging - location - payment - address book (social network) Data: Amazon apple ebay Countries and Cities? (smart city) Open source hardware - Arduiono

28 The magic wand The phone becomes a magic wand to the cloud services: Mobile sensor based interface to the cloud to jump start the Internet of things..

29 Pachube There are now hundreds of radiation-related feeds from Japan on Pachube, monitoring conditions in realtime and underpinning more than half a dozen incredibly valuable applications built by people around the world. They combine 'official' data, 'unofficial' official data, and, most importantly to us, realtime networked Geiger counter measurements contributed by concerned citizens. Now we're even seeing some tracking radiation measurements of tap water.

30 Pachube

31 Amsterdam Smart city The owners of Amsterdam Smart City are its inhabitants Sustainable Living Sustainable Working Sustainable Mobility Sustainable Public Space

32 Amsterdam smart city.. Project Description Lessons learnt #1 Neighbourly Living in Geuzenveld Over five hundred Smart Meters installed in the New West district (Geuzenveld) and 6 connected in-home energyfeedback displays give customers insight into their energy consumption. A user participation programme enables neighbours to interact with one another by discussing sustainability topics. #2 West Orange 5 households in Amsterdam are testing innovative energy feedback displays which are connected to a smart meter. The most important lesson learnt in terms of the engagement of the residents in the neighbourhood is that the use of local influentials to create awareness for the project and to generate support is necessary to succeed. An important question which keeps occurring is: what is the best way of establishing an effective collaboration between nine partners that all have their own objectives?

33 Amsterdam smart city.. Project Description Lessons learnt #3 emanagement Haarlem 25 Households in Haarlem were offered to test an energy management system over a four-month period to obtain insight into the energy consumption patterns of a number of domestic appliances. The participants clicking behaviour revealed that, on average, they check into their portals every 2.3 days. #4 Onze Energie Onze Energie (Our Energy) is an initiative to collectively finance seven windmills. Collective financing is intended to break the barrier of high investment costs for consumers wishing to generate their own energy. It takes time to explain the need for sustainable energy properly. Windmills apparently have a negative perception, people think it is expensive and unprofitable.

34 Amsterdam smart city.. Project Description Lessons learnt #6 ITO Tower Collecting, analyzing and visualizing energy consumption will help to make the modern and prestigious ITO Tower to be even more energy efficient. #7 Monumental Buildings Supporting monumental buildings in Amsterdam inthe process of becoming more sustainable makes it possible to learn more and analyze the opportunities of this large target group in Amsterdam. The precondition for the successful implementation of an energy management system is an engaged and properly trained facility manager. A bit surprising was the fact that the building manager was rather reluctant to the initiatives at the beginning The meaning of sustainability on monuments is interpreted differently by stakeholders.

35 Amsterdam smart city.. Project Description Lessons learnt #8 Decentral Generation: Fuel Cell Technology Introducing a 21st century technology in a 17th century monumental building will reduce CO2 emissions by 5%. Using this innovative local energygeneration technology will enable the building to provide in its own electricity. It took more than six months to set up a suitable consortium consisting of different partners with a shared interest that transcended their individual interests. It transpired however that the six-month period was needed for the group to be able to concretize the idea, the partnership, the role division, and potential follow-up steps. #12 Moet je Watt The New Motion develops electrical charging points for home and office use: their partnership with grid manager Liander will make it easy to charge electrical car batteries. once you start connecting people with the aim to connect devices, you ll immediately start to see how devices can be further improved.

36 Amsterdam smart city.. Project Description Lessons learnt #11 Ship to grid One hundred and ninetyfive ship to grid electricity points are being installed in the Amsterdam harbour. The ship to grid system will reduce CO2 emissions, noise pollution and air pollution. #13 Klimaatstraat The Klimaatstraat (Climate street) is a holistic concept for shopping streets with a focus on a number of different aspects: public space, logistics and entrepreneurial spaces. In the ship to grid project there where many stakeholders involved form the municipality but also from several service providers. Cooperation between these different parties is essential. Unfortunately the level of commitment from all these organisations differs. Therefore it is recommended to organize a project like this in a top down manner. Face to face communication with the entrepreneurs is essential in all the projects in which the user of the technology has a major influence on the energy saving potential.

37 Amsterdam smart city.. Project Description Lessons learnt #14 Smart Schools Contest Six primary schools in Amsterdam joined a contest to determine who can save the biggest amount of energy. During the contest they are provided with a specially developed teaching programme and an online energy portal. At the same time, the children also learn about energy and energy saving in a playful way. #16 Swimming Pools By linking up swimming pools in the region with sustainable initiatives, those public spaces learn how to use energy in a smarter way. To ensure that the teaching programme associated with the competition can be effectively incorporated into the syllabus, it is important for the participating schools to be recruited in the year prior to the school year in which the competition will take place and not in the course of the current school year. After a few months of introducing Heatsavr to different swimming pools we can say that there is many interest in Heatsavr. However, almost no pool is prepared to participate until the system has been approved by the controlling organisations.

38 Autotelic personality and ant colonies Autotelic is defined by one "having a purpose in and not apart from itself". It is a broad term that can be applied to missionaries, scientists, and innumerable other vocations. Autotelic is used to describe people who are internally driven, and as such may exhibit a sense of purpose and curiosity. This determination is an exclusive difference from being externally driven, where things such as comfort, money, power, or fame are the motivating force.

39 So what makes a city smart? What makes a city Smart? A non vendor driven definition of a Smart City The closer a city behaves to the ethos of the Internet, the smarter it is That means, the city is a platform an enabler for the people.. So, empowering people is at the centre of the perfect storm

40 @AjitJaokar Many thanks! Working with some of the leading organizations and governments globally to understand disruption across the value chain seeing both sides of the discussion and understanding what if scenarios (gedankenexperiments) Personal PhD research (UCL) on white space/privacy/healthcare apps 39