Smart City Lab - Opportunities and Challenges in Estonia

1. Smart City
Opportunities and Challenges
Tartu
29 June 2015

2. Agenda
13.00 Smart City Country Overviews
Welcome- Urmas Klaas, Mayor of Tartu
Smart City: Cluster, Actions and Lessons Learned
Hannes Astok, Development Director of Smart City Lab
Estonian Smart City Competences and Entrepreneurship
Eero Pärgmäe, Development Director of Tallinn Science Park
Tehnopol
Smart Building: Challenges and Opportunities
Tõnu Hein, Director R&D, Rakvere Smart House Competence
Centre

3. Agenda
Public Procurement of Innovation as an Instrument for Smart
City needs
Sigrid Rajalo, Head Specialist of Economic Development in
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications
Main Smart City Initiatives and Challenges in Latvia
Inete Ielite, Board Member of Riga Energy Agency
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee break
15.00 Panel Discussion “Smart City Challenges”
16.00 Walk to Tartu City Hall
16.30 Smart City Demo Centre Opening and Networking

4. Smart City challenges
Hannes Astok
Smart City Lab Tartu
Development Manager
Tartu. 29 June 2015

5. Estonian Smart City landscape
• Estonia 1,3 M citizens
• Tartu (100 000)
– ICT as enabler for the smart city
– Sustainable energy solutions
• Tallinn (420 000): Tallinn Science Park
Tehnopol area as smart city development
• Rakvere (16 000): smart house issues

6. Tartu Smart City Lab
Cluster and cooperation
environment for
smart mobile and web solutions
for cities

7. Tartu
Smart
City Lab
ICT
compani
es
Tartu
University
Tartu
City
Tartu
Science
Park
Infrastructure
companies
SMART PRODUCTS

8. Task: more competitiveness
To develop competitiveness of the enterprises
(mainly SMEs), focusing on:
• ICT companies as developers of the e- and m-
solutions for the cities;
• Technical infrastructure companies (electricity,
transport, distant heating, water and sewage,
etc.) as ICT products implementers

9. Task: more innovative environment
for all stakeholders
• Tartu as city environment (businesses,
citizens, government, R&D institutions,
innovation infrastructure) will work as test site
• Living lab - for development, testing and
implementation of the e- and m- services
• Developed services are scalable -companies
can sell services and products around the
world

10. Focus topics
• Intelligent transport (incl. public transport)
• Modern infrastructure and networks
• Tourism and leisure time services
• Digital TV-based interactive services
• Participative and efficient governance services

11. Why Tartu as test site
• 100 000 citizens, compact university city
• Good development environment
• Proactive city government
• Demanding cross-sectorial cooperation
• Internationally competitive R&D institutions
• Number of ICT SMEs and start-ups

12. Partners
• City of Tartu
Infrastructure
• Elion
• EMT
• Tartu Veevärk
• Sebe
• Eesti Energia
R&D
• Tartu University (Mobility Lab;
Idealab, DDVE, Institute of
Computer Sciences)
• Garage48
• STACC
• Tartu Science Park
ICT
• Microsoft
• Mobi Solutions
• Nutiteq
• Positium LBS
• Quretec
• Regio / ReachU
• EMT
• Elion
• Ericsson
• Biometry
• Samsung
• Uniflex
• Open for joining

13. Vision
In 2020 Tartu and Smart City Lab is
internationally recognized
European leading
smart city e- and m-services solutions
developer and exporter

14. ACTIVITIES

15. From bottlenecks to smart products
Going global with products
Tartu as the first customer?
Prototyping
Finding ideas (city- companies cooperation)
Describing bottlenecks

16. Pilots
• Opening city GIS data to the citizens
• Tools for inspections in the city
• Tourist mobile app
• NFC-supported public transportation data app
• Bluetooth beacons for the public transport
ticketing
• Others

18. Developing Smart City
development methodology
Methodology enables:
• Evaluate current situation and position as
Smart City
• Develop roadmap for next activities: how to
be smarter?

19. Smart City demonstration center in
Tartu City Hall
Opening TODAY!

20. HOW TO MAKE SMART CITY
INITIATIVES SUSTAINABLE?
White paper for Estonian Ministry of Economy and
Infrastructure October 2015

21. The problem
• Cities are not aware about the latest
technology development
• Business do not know how the city is
functioning
• Cities do not know how to participate in
technology implementation processes
• Early procurement dialogue is missing
• Few cooperation between the cities on best
practices sharing

22. Key issues
1. Developing capacity of the city
administrations and citizens to act as smart
city
2. Reducing and sharing risks
3. Procurement capacities and best practicies
development

23. 1. Developing capacity of the city
administrations and citizens
• Development of the city organizations:
– Chief Innovation Officer
– Business processes re-engineering and innovation
support unit
• Developing city officials skills and awareness
• Developing innovation readiness among the
users of the smart solutions

24. 2. Reducing and sharing risks
• Developing sectorial competences
nationally/regionally: practitioners, experts,
R&D, companies
• Developing tools and collecting data for
modelling
• Supporting innovative procurement, including
early dialogue
• Developing standards and guidelines
• Supporting large scale demonstrations

25. 3. Supporting export activities
• Designing products, not solutions
• Promoting and supporting export activities
(networking, demonstrations, expos)

26. How to cover activities and risks in
the sustainable way?
• EU funds – limited and not forever
• National government support - limited
• Cities want to get clear socio-economical
benefits from the smart solutions and
activities
• Companies want to make profit at the end of
the day

27. Smart City Lab
Hannes Astok
E hannes@astok.ee
W smartcitylab.eu
M +372 5091366
S hannesastok