An expert document on smart cities is summarized as follows:
1) A smart city is described as a "system of systems" that instruments, interconnects, and gains intelligence from the flows of data between the many interconnected systems that make up a city like transportation, energy, infrastructure, and people.
2) Cities face systemic challenges around congestion, aging infrastructure, and increasing urbanization that exacerbate issues, which reductionist thinking will not fully address.
3) A smart city approach seeks to understand cities as single, complex systems by integrating information across city agencies to better coordinate resources and enable more intelligent decision-making.
2. We can now measure and sense almost everything
Camera phones in
existence able to
document accidents,
damage, and crimes
1 billion
RFID tags
embedded into our
world and across
entire ecosystems
30 billion
Of new automobiles
will contain event data
recorders collecting
travel information
85%
Instrumented Interconnected Intelligent
3. People, devices and systems can communicate freely
Instrumented Interconnected Intelligent
Mobile phone
subscribers globally
4 billion
People on the
internet by 2011
2 billion
Connected devices in
the “internet of things”
1 trillion
4. We can use vast amounts of data in totally new ways
Instrumented Interconnected Intelligent
Or one quadrillion
operations per second
can be calculated
1 petaflop
Of new information
generated every day and
can now be managed
15 petabytes
Of granularity for weather
prediction can be
modeled and measured
1 kilometer²
6. What is a system?
“Definition: A System* (from Latin systēma, in turn from Greek
σύστημα systēma, "whole compounded of several parts or members“,
literary "composition“) is a set of interacting or interdependent
system components forming an integrated whole”
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7. Cities are a complex collection of systems
PEOPLE
ENERGY
WATER
ICT COMMERCE
TRAFFIC FACILITIES
…and silos
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8. Cities have systemic challenges
In a small business district in
Los Angeles, driving around for
parking in one year generated
the equivalent of 38 trips
around the world, burned
47,000 gallons of gas, emitted
730 tons of carbon dioxide.
Congested roadways cost $78
billion annually in the form of
4.2 billion lost hours and 2.9
billion gallons of wasted gas.
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9. Urbanization makes all the challenges even harder
In 2007, for the first time in history, the majority of the world’s
population - 3.3 billion people - lived in cities. By 2050, city
dwellers are expected to make up 70% of Earth’s total
population, or 6.4 billion people.
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12. Intelligence cameras
Automatic ticketing
Access control
Identification systems
Intrusion alarms
Video surveillance
Fire detection and alarms
…..
Alternative energy sources
Energy management
Building management
Energy distribution
Street lighting
Water distribution
Water treatment
Sewers
……
Traffic management
Radar cameras
Traffic signaling
Tolling
Pedestrian crossings
Subways
Trains
Buses
Roads
Parking
……
Fire engines
Ambulances
Emergency room
Healthcare
Public Health
K-12
Universities
Continuing education
Economic development
Social care
……
*a philosophical position that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts,
and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents
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All this complexity is typically dealt by applying reductionism
13. We argue that we will not understand cities through reductionism
Source: Sterman, John, “Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World,” 2000, p. 187
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14. We argue that we will not understand cities through reductionism
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15. ‘Smarter Cities’ is a way to approach the complexity of the real world
in terms of the flows of information by integration across multiple
government agencies
Atlantic Council Awards Dinner, Washington, D.C., April 29, 2009
“And a city is a system - indeed, a city is a complex system of systems. All the
ways in which the world works - from transportation, to energy, to healthcare, to
commerce, to education, to security, to food and water and beyond - come together
in our cities.”
Sources
• Meters
• Traffic loops
• Toll sensors
• Surveillance cameras
• Environmental sensors
• Water flow, depth,….sensors
• Energy flow sensors
• Vehicle telematics (bus, taxi…)
• Mobile telephone (anonymous)
• People as sensors (environmental…)
• People as data collectors (text, image, video…)
Uses
• “Understanding the city”
• Multi-agency alarms and emergency response
• Multi-factor predictive models (congestion
prediction…)
• Multi-factor risk analysis (impact of storms…)
• Input to government processes (“Fix that hole”)
• Polling (planning preferences…)
• Billing (resource consumption, transit, parking…)
• Visualizations (many kinds)
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16. A Smarter City is considered to be a single system with many
interconnecting and interdependent sub systems. The ability to
instrument, interconnect and gain intelligence is a fundamental
requirement for a Smarter City.
City
Water
Energy
Transportation
Security
Waste
COEmissions
ICT
Buildings
Smarter City is a system of systems
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17. Example: Holistic and integrated approach to city operation
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Smarter City Operations Center and City Operators as new
professions, who can coordinate city operations intelligently
and automatically between city agencies
18. Intelligent City Operations Center
Integrated Collaboration
(Visualization, Dashboards, KPI’s, Events, Incidents etc.)
Integrated Operations
(Process Optimization, Asset Management, Predictive Analytics, Real-Time Analytics,
Business Intelligence)
Integrated Information
(Data Acquisition, Data Management, Data Storage)
Smart city technology architecture - high level view
23. The Rise of the Analytics Driven Asset Management
City-wide
Monitoring
Innovative technology
merges with existing
infrastructure
Key decisions based
on fact not assumptions
Controls react
real time for optimal
performance
“Our assets are talking to us, we are not listening” – Mujib Lodhi
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Gigabytes of real-time traffic data available today.
But by the time it is received, it is no longer
representative of the actual traffic
Issue: “real-time” is too late
IBM’s Traffic prediction: intelligence combining
sensor data & sophisticated algorithms that create
relevant insights from the raw data
IBM Innovation: forecast the future
IBM’s Traffic prediction tool (TPT) accurately forecasts future traffic conditions
30 minutes in advance with high accuracy
volume
blue = forecast black = actual red = incident
time
From real time information into predictions
25. Fire
Functionality
checks,
Detector service
Water
Smart Meters,
Use / Flow Sensing
HVAC
Fans, Variable Air
Volume, Air Quality
Elevators
Maintenance,
Performance
Access/Security
Badge in,
Cameras, Integration
Perimeter, Doors,
Floors, Occupancy
Lighting
Occupancy
Sensing
24/7 Monitoring
Condition Monitoring,
Parking Lot Utilization
Energy
Smart Meters,
Demand response
Voice/Video/Data
Community
Services
Transportation,
Traffic, Events
Community
Services
Transportation,
Traffic, Events
Utilities
Demand Mgmt,
Cost Control
Utilities
Demand Mgmt,
Cost Control
Weather
Current
Predictions
Weather
Current
Predictions
Emergency
Services
Alerts, Actions
Emergency
Services
Alerts, Actions
Commercial
Potential
Advertisement
Commercial
Potential
Advertisement
Integrated Building & Communications Services
AnalyticsandOptimization
ExternalIntegration
Portfolio
Estates Mgmt
Portfolio
Estates Mgmt
Occupancy
Space Mgmt
Occupancy
Space Mgmt
Waste Mgmt
Trash/Water/Recycle
Waste Mgmt
Trash/Water/Recycle
Compliance
Environmental reports
Compliance
Environmental reports
Tenant Services
Help Desk
Tenant Services
Help Desk
Asset Mgmt
Lifecycle
Asset Mgmt
Lifecycle
Building Services
Maintenance
Building Services
Maintenance
Industry Specific
Hospital, hotel, etc.
Industry Specific
Hospital, hotel, etc.
Energy Use
Passive/Active
Energy Use
Passive/Active
Building is a ‘miniature city’ – a collection of complex systems
26. Infrastructure
Operators
Infrastructure
Engineering/Integrators
Traditional IT
Manages and
operates
physical
infrastructure
systems such
as highways,
bridges,
airports, electric
grids, etc.
Plans, advises,
designs and
builds urban
physical
infrastructure
often with
property owners,
developers, and
local
governments
Provides physical
components for
urban systems
and serve as
system
integrators for
complex projects
Supplies IT
components,
serves as an
advisory or
integrator;
provides
information
backbone, data
analysis and
associated
services
Architecture/
Engineering/Construction
Integrated End-to-End
Smarter Cities Capabilities
The emerging Smarter Cities ecosystem is characterized by different
industries that are beginning to converge