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Weaving a Smart City Together with
the Right Machine-to-Machine Fabric
January, 2014

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Demography
Urbanization
Population explosion
… Plenty of Marketing by Big Names
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• Home to half the world’s population
• Rapidly urbanizing – myriad challenges … take power
The Example of Asia
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Source: Bloomberg presentation, “Realising the Potential of Smart Energy”, Singapore July 2013
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Can technology that makes lights communicate
really help?
A fabric for the Internet of Important Things …
sounds like more Marketing.
What’s so different to a couple of years ago?
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Outdoor Lighting Market Overview
Market Overview
• 300M public, 300M commercial lights
• Segmentation: Within the 300M public lights, 100M are managed by utilities, remainder
by cities, DOT or other contractor
• 120M units shipped annually due to 3-5 year life of legacy lights
• <1% lights are networked
• Munis & Businesses often outsource lighting management to Utility or Lighting Operator
Market Trends & Growth Drivers
• LEDs are replacing HPS lights due to 50%+ EE and 3x life
• LED reliability is now proven, price is dropping rapidly - encouraging deployment
• LEDs provide compelling emergency and public safety applications.
• Concept of Networked LEDs is gaining acceptance
• Networked communications cost is dropping rapidly due to scale from Smart Grid
• ESCO packages are funding the replacement of the LED lights – either through EE riders
or financing
• “Smart City” provides a political impetus for cities to leverage technology infrastructure to
improve citizen services
Source: Pike / Navigant report “Smart Street Lighting” 4Q12
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We grew up in the Smart Grid market.
That taught us to think about networks
horizontally –
a platform on which vertical, specific
applications could reside.
Only then did the business case get really
compelling.
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Strict, Complex Networking Requirements
Reliable
Cost Effective
Secure
Broad Coverage
Extensible
High Performance
Scalable
Open Standards
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Smart Grid – Many Apps, One Network, Good
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290 280
Cost Benefits
AMI
~290 ~280
290 280
105
280
Cost Benefits
DA
AMI
~395
~560
290 280
105
280
30
105
10
85
Cost Benefits
DA
AMI
~435
~750
EE
DR
Average U.S. Smart Grid Business Case*
$/customer, electric only, PV over 20 years
AMI nearing
breakeven
AMI benefits used
to only cover 60-
70% of costs
AMI + DA =
positive business case
No need for customer
behavior change
Consumer apps =
upside
Requires customer
behavior change but can yield
significant benefits
Source: SSN analysis, public rate filings from a range of IOUs and municipalities
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Can’t Mobile Networks Do That?
While
mobile operator
technologies
have provided
increased coverage and
data rates
for users of expensive
smart phones …
… the missing piece
to the puzzle
has been
cost-effective
and
ubiquitous
Machine-to-Machine "dial
tone"
to millions
of sensors and
devices
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Cost-effective and ubiquitous wireless network
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Other
Apps, e.g.
Traffic
Lights …
AMI Demand Response EV Smart Charging
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Network-as-a-Service
• Computing Fabric
- Large
- Capable
- Distributed
- Standards-driven
- Secure
• InterMesh
• Basis of an Internet of
Important Things
• Coverage that offers:
- Storage
- Computing horsepower
- Immediate
communicative sensor
access
• Unique scale, scope,
capabilities
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Silver
Spring
Apps
SilverLink Vision
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SilverLink™ Sensor Network
Any network, Any sensor, Any data type
Utility Data
warehouse
Silver Spring Network
ISV
Apps
Utility
Apps
Industrial
networks
DA
network
Itron,
L+G,
Sensus
Utility back
office systems
Consumer
engagement
portals
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SilverLink’s Unique Approach
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Use the network
itself to deliver
complex event
analytics
Classic data
warehouse
In-network
Distributed
Network
processing
Complex
Event
Processing
Ad hoc
Query
Regular
Report
Historic Data
“Recent” Data
In the moment
data
Classic BI
tools
Think distributed intelligence
platform
Manage “services” not
“devices”
More real-time, not batch
Leverage innovators from
anywhere
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Expanding into The Everything Network™
Energy Network
Smart City, Buildings, Airports …
“Internet of Important Things”
Distributed Energy &
Customer Empowerment
Smart Meters
Time
10s of
Millions
100s of
Millions
Billions
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Recall: Our Vision for a Smart City Solution
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By connecting
and automating
key services
with the right network
cities are
becoming smarter,
finding new funding,
getting more efficient,
and
strengthening communities
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Copenhagen
Network-as-a-Service
Anchor tenant of 20k lights (first
phase) across five mfrs
Immediate plans to evaluate
range of potential sensors
EU’s most sustainable city
Aggressive carbon reduction
targets
Collaborative city departments all
leveraging the network to achieve
automation aims
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Paris
Network canopy of 18k
street lights
Citywide sub-GHz mesh
Traffic controls
Poodle protection devices
Capacity for more services
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In summary
Paris and Copenhagen are not the only ones
thinking like this
The right network architecture underpins the
roadmap
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Software-defined Sensors
IPv6 to RESTful: apps simply subscribe to services
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Disagg Billing
Transformer
Load
Temperature Voltage
2020
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Smart Cities: Drag-and-Drop
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Street Light
Controls
Streetlight
Box
Monitoring
Ripple
Replacement
Traffic Light
Control Box
Traffic Light
Control Box
Traffic Light
Control Box
IPv6 Wi-SUN Mesh
High Speed Wi-Fi Mesh
Public Wi-Fi Network
City Services Wi-Fi
Network
City Fiber
Network
Electric
Vehicles
Parking
Meters
Traffic Light
Cameras
Mobile
Workforce
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