Manchester smart cities presentation Mar 2012 by Dave Carter for the Dutch Light Study Tour

1. Fibre to the People (FttP)
Stimulating Demand for
Future Internet Enabled
services in Smart Cities
Dave Carter, Head, Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA),
Manchester City Council, UK.
Chair, EU Smart Cities Portfolio Working Group

2. ROAD - 50AD
CANAL - 1734
RAIL - 1830
SHIP CANAL -
1894
AIR - 1938
FIBRE - 1970s-
Next Generation
Access 2010-
Digitisation Global Market Connectivity

3. Future Smart Cities
• Digital Agenda for Europe and Going Local
• Green & Digital
• Open Innovation, Open Data & Open Networks
• Future Internet enabled Smart Cities
• Internet of Things + Cloud + Open Data +

5. The Battle for Control of Smart Cities

6. Urban Open Systems
• Smart Cities:
– Smart: innovation, invention & entrepreneurship
– Inclusive: multiple deprivation & scale of social exclusion in
urban areas
– Sustainable: cities generate 75%+ of emissions = problem &
solution
• Cities as engines of regional growth =
Smart Regions
– Manchester City Region – MCR = 5% of national economy, 40%
of regional economy
– City Region = larger economic unit than Wales, Northern
Ireland or North East of England
• Urban Open Systems = People +
Open Data + Co-production
– “From Human Factors to Human Actors”
Bannon, J Liam. 1991. “The Role of Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction Studies in System Design”.

7. Critical Infrastructures
• Green, Mobile & Digital
• Digital as the new real estate of the 21st century
• UK as world leader in creativity and content –
way behind in connectivity
• MCR is 2nd largest digital & creative sector in UK
• Only globally connected Internet Exchange
outside of London
• Digital Hub Network: connecting key sites via the
Metrolink tram network
• Creating transformational digital infrastructure
• open access networks – fibre + wireless
• digital hubs – where networks interconnect
• backbone networks – build your own networks
• Infinite Bandwidth, Zero Latency (IBZL)

8. Global connectivity
• UK less than 1% (not
actually ‘on the map’)
• Domestic broadband is
cheap, widely accessible
but slow (20 Mbps
down, 2 Mbps up)
• High speed connectivity
(100 Mbps+) is very
expensive, often more
than €500 per month
• Difficult for new
businesses to enter the
market

9. MCR NGA deployment One Central
Park
Connectivity
Power
100 gigabit+ sharp project Space
DARK FIBRE LOOP
Connectivity Sport City
via Metrolink
Manchester
College
Connectivity
CITY
CENTRE
via Metrolink
Media
City
Central Salford Corridor
test-bed
Connectivity
Internet Peering with
Power Exchange JANET
Space
Digitisation – next phases + Next Generation Access

10. Fibre to the People – key attributes
• Fully point-to-point
• Fully open to the passive layer
• Fully open co-location
• Direct connection to carrier neutral Internet Exchange
• A ‘Free Trade Fibre’ Enterprise Network to encourage investment:
– open innovation ‘Living Lab’ test-bed for new applications
– maximum technical flexibility for property owners and developers to build
their own networks and connect
– trialling new business models including shared passive infrastructure and
local patchwork
– Potential to scale up re-using public assets, especially the roll-out of the
tram network and other transport corridors

11. Infrastructure for Mobility
The £1.5bn GM Transport Fund has funded Metrolink to Chorlton with further extensions to East Manchester, Wythenshawe and the
Airport underway

12. Smart, inclusive & sustainable growth
• Manchester City Region – low carbon economic
area for the built environment
• Future Cities Technology Innovation Centre
• Green procurement framework
• Low carbon investment model
- generate economic opportunities
- ensure skills & training matches ambition
- underpin with innovative investment models
• Partnership commitment
- partners include Siemens, Arup, universities, SME
networks, voluntary & community sector

13. Manchester Living Lab & SMARTiP project
• Test-bed smart environments network along Corridor
• Affordable and accessible sensors including DIY (Arduinos)
• Potential for wearables (clothes, bikes etc.) and micro-
production
• Links to Corridor fibre and wireless networks
• Future links to transport network and GM wide deployment

14. ‘Geek’ Power! Entrepreneurs + Innovators
Manchester Digital Lab + Omniversity
MadLab
• Creativity
• Innovation
• Diversity
Stimulating:
• new ideas
• new business
• new skills
• new jobs

15. Smart City development - future vision:
• Using Future Internet to transform the way we live and work
• more flexible ways and locations of working: smart mobility,
smart environments, smart learning
• Co-designing and co-producing services for ourselves and others
• new services being designed and delivered by users, e.g. e-health
and telecare services
• Enabling our environments to be greener, cleaner and healthier
• smart buildings, smart energy, low-carbon neighbourhoods
• Making smart cities more democratic, resilient and attractive
• social networking to promote civic engagement
• Generating and celebrating creativity, innovation and diversity
• arts and culture linked to technology supporting jobs and skills

16. Future Internet Research
& Experimentation By
Adopting Living Labs
Thank You!
d.carter@manchesterdda.com