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2 Contents Smart Cambridge What is a smart city? 3 How smart is Cambridge already? 4 What does it mean for residents? 5 Smart City Management Platform 6 What are our next steps? 7 World-class innovation in Cambridge 7 Contacts 8 Smart Cambridge is exploring how data, innovative technology and better connectivity can be used to transform the way people live, work and travel in the Greater Cambridge area and beyond. The pioneering programme, set up by the Greater Cambridge City Deal, is harnessing emerging technologies to improve the economic strength and sustainability of the area. Local councils, technology businesses, university researchers and partner organisations are working together to find smart ways to tackle city challenges such as transport, air quality, energy and health care. The work is supported by the Connecting Cambridgeshire partnership programme, which is improving the county s digital infrastructure with better broadband, free public WiFi and wider mobile coverage. Who is involved? Smart Cambridge is overseen by a Project Board and an Advisory Group has been formed to steer the work and give technical guidance. The programme is working with a wide range of cutting edge technology businesses and is keen to collaborate with anyone who can contribute. Greater Cambridge City Deal partnership includes: Cambridgeshire County Council, Cambridge City Council, South Cambridgeshire District Council, University of Cambridge and Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership. Smart Cambridge Advisory group includes: ARM, Anglia Ruskin University, BT, Cambridge Network, CCS, University of Cambridge Computing Laboratory, Information Services and Engineering Departments, Cambridge Cleantech Smart Cities SIG, Microsoft, Redgate, Thingful, TTP and others. 2 The Greater Cambridge City Deal is investing 300,000 in the Smart Cambridge programme to develop a smart city management platform. Find out more about smart transport and other projects as they evolve, using the contacts on the back page.

3 Smart City Solutions What is a smart city? Transport Environmental Management Health and Care Smart Living Digital technology underpins almost every aspect of modern living across work, travel leisure and health, and increasingly impacts on the economic strength, sustainability and quality of life of our communities. Smart cities technology builds on this, using digital connectivity, data and sensors in innovative ways to address city challenges in four key areas: Transport: making travel easier, reducing congestion, and exploring intelligent mobility Environment: managing our water, energy, air quality and waste Healthcare: catering for an ageing population and providing public health Smart living: improving the quality of life for communities in and around the city. Smart Cities Strategy Financing and resources Smart City Vision and strategic direction Governance Funding opportunities Collaborative working Intelligent Mobility T E S T Sensors Water Energy Air Quality Waste Architecture Internet of things Connectivity Ageing population Public Health B E D Data Community Quality of Life Liveable Cities & Towns Smart Cambridge aims to make Greater Cambridge a smart city by providing the infrastructure needed to collect and analyse data that can be used to develop solutions to some of the city s challenges. Interoperability Privacy Security The work supports the wider economic impact of the City Deal, which is investing in transport infrastructure, housing and skills to facilitate sustainable economic growth in the area. Cambridge is a city of considerable magic. We are determined to use smart technologies, better connectivity and smart engineering to tackle transport and other city challenges. We can achieve so much more through our partnership with universities and our world-leading technology clusters Lewis Herbert, Chair of Greater Cambridge City Deal Executive Board. 3

4 How smart is Greater Cambridge? Greater Cambridge already has significant infrastructure that is connected and produces valuable data - laying the foundations for more smart city technologies. Traffic lights, parking meters, traffic information screens, waste bins, CCTV cameras, air quality monitors, street lights and bus times are just some of the networked services that can be seen connecting the city every day. Smart Cambridge is looking to work with others to build upon this by joining these networks up and using the data in a smarter way. Cambridge already publishes data through a partnership, county wide, open data platform Cambridgeshire Insight. The platform is a shared research knowledge base for the Cambridgeshire area. It allows users an easy way to access and share data, information and research for deeper insights about their local area. The platform has been recognised as a leading open data site by the Cabinet Office. 4

5 What does it mean for residents? Smart city innovations are designed to improve the experience of all citizens living, working and travelling in and around the city - and also to engage them in the process. Digital screens to guide visitors arriving at Cambridge station, better travel planning tools plotting the best transport options, and improved real time bus updates are just some of the evolving practical applications that are being developed under the Smart Cambridge programme to make journeys smoother. And there s much more to come as Smart Cambridge is also exploring smart ways to help to reduce congestion, improve air quality and deliver health care. Connecting people Less visible, but just as vital, is the free Wifi now available in public buildings and open spaces in and around the city with Government funding and the support of the University of Cambridge. Connecting Cambridgeshire s roll-out of high speed fibre broadband access to over 100,000 homes and businesses that could not get it otherwise has seen record take-up, allowing people to work, socialise and access public services more flexibly. Find out more at: Have your say Citizens are playing their part by taking part in Smart Cambridge #hackathons to find creative solutions to city challenges. They are also helping Cambridge Ahead to map notspots to improve mobile, broadband and wireless connectivity. 5 Digital screens will help travellers plan their journeys Find out more at: The programme will look to further involve citizens in helping to develop citizen centric solutions to some of the challenges Cambridge faces.

6 PARKING USES BUSES AIR QUALITY TRAFFIC CONTROL AIR TEMPERATURE ROAD NETWORK DATA HUB Data Flows into the hub from sensors where it is processed and structured for use. WASTE WAST OTHER DATA SOURCES CITY M ANAGE M ENT Greater Cambridge Smart City Management Platform 3rd PARTY DEVELOPERS ANALYTICS DATA COLLECTION SATIO N AN D VISUALISATIO N ISA RANGE NETWORK LOW POWER LONG DATA HUB DATA TO END USERS Low Power Long Range Network This is the communication layer that transfers data from sensors to the hub. The technology allows it to cover most of Greater Cambridge. Apps for the public to use. Web based applications and analytics using combined data. Use data to create analysis to support policy, delivery and engage citizens by presenting data in a friendly way. Data driven City management applications Glossary Data Hub This includes storage for data on either the Cloud or server(s) and software to collate and analyse data. Platform A group of technologies that is used as a base on which other applications, processes or technologies are built. Open Data Open data is data that anyone can access, use and share. Internet of things Connection of physical objects to the internet which allows them to exchange information and be more joined up. Low Power Long Range Network Usually called a Wide Area Network used for sending small packages of data over a wide area. Open Standards Enables different systems to talk to each other and open to all. 6

7 What are our next steps? Smart Cambridge is developing a smart city management platform over the next two years with scope for myriad smart applications. These include a data network to support Internet of Things technology - allowing products to talk to each other, and a data hub to collate and process data from an array of sensors around the city. The platform will also allow third-party developers and citizens to use the data to build applications and to be able to analyse and visualise the data. There is an opportunity to use sensors to monitor a range of measures including air quality, traffic, cycle and pedestrian movements. The combined data can then be used to plan smart solutions including making transport systems more reliable and easier to use. Much of the technology required is still in development, so Smart Cambridge is looking to collaborate with commercial partners to test bed new solutions. If successful, the technology and applications developed as part of the City Deal could be used more widely to support new communities in Cambridgeshire, including the significant development at Northstowe. Intelligent Mobility Smart Cambridge is also paving the way for research into intelligent mobility including: gathering better transport data to help model future schemes integrated digital exploring ticketing to make public transport quicker and more attractive to use wayfinding to help people move around the city more easily the potential for autonomous vehicles (driverless cars). World-class innovation in Cambridge Some of the world s most innovative engineers and data scientists are living, working and studying in Cambridge and its surrounding areas. Cambridge ideas change the world and the city has a well-developed network of accelerators, incubators and business networks that can contribute considerable expertise to finding smart city solutions. There are over 4,500 knowledge-intensive companies registered within 25 miles of Cambridge Cambridge 7 has nearly nine time the number of patents per head of the average of the next nine cities in the UK Cambridge companies are leading the way in the development of the Internet of Things and Smart Cities, building the chips to power devices, standards such as Hypercat, networks and on the ground solutions to city challenges. The University of Cambridge is also leading the way in Smart City and the Internet of Things innovation it is looking at how we can use the large amounts of data being collected through its Big Data initiative. The Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction is looking at the innovative application of the latest sensor technologies and data management tools and is working with industry to realise the potential they have to transform our approach to design, construction and management of infrastructure and cities. The engineering department has been involved in developing driverless vehicles for Milton Keynes and elsewhere.

8 Find out more Detailed information about the Smart Cambridge programme: Smart Cambridge projects as part of the Greater Cambridge City Deal: Cambridgeshire Insight Open Data: Contact Smart Cambridge Programme Team Call Published March PDF version available online. Designed by Rolando Ugolini