Smart Cities and Communities: Achieving Smart Urban Growth

2. Achieving Smart
Urban Growth
Barney Smith
CEO
@barney_captain

3. Bristol is Open (BIO) is delivering programmable digital infrastructure, to
facilitate R&D, innovation and experimentation at a city scale.
A joint venture between the University of Bristol and Bristol City Council, BIO is a
unique combination of advanced infrastructure and an experimentation platform.
Collaborating with an ecosystem of academics, corporate partners, SMEs, and
the citizens and communities of Bristol, BIO facilitates experimentation, exploring
the development of software, applications and services.
Together, we are creating a smart society for smart citizens – and a smart future.

4. ABOUT BRISTOL

6. A Joint Venture Company between Bristol City Council &
the University of Bristol
‘Why’ are we doing this? ‘How’ are we doing this?

7. BIO Board & Advisory Boards
A Joint Venture Company between the Council & the University

8. BIO Board & Advisory Boards

9. BIO Board & Advisory Boards

10. BIO Board & Advisory Boards

11. BIO Board & Advisory Boards

12. BIO Management Team

13. BIO Management Team

14. SO WHAT HAVE
WE
DONE SO FAR

15. Funding partners who have helped make it happen so
far

16. Laying cables in rivers, modifying lamp posts

17. A city-scale digital research infrastructure with a fibre
core

18. Wireless connectivity: 3G, 4G, LTE & 5G Technologies

19. A mesh network IoT ‘canopy of connectivity’ across the
city

20. The Data Dome

21. OUR
ECOSYSTEM

22. Ecosystem of partners helping to make it happen

23. Who we are working with so far
LOCAL SMEs

24. OUR
ECOSYSTEM
ASPIRATIONS

25. Milestones

26. Milestones

27. Milestones

28. Milestones

29. Milestones

30. Milestones

31. WHAT ARE THE
CHALLENGES
WE ARE TRYING
TO SOLVE?

32. As well as technology and
networking, we are also
looking for use cases:
- Energy
- Mobility / Transport
- Air & Water quality
- Security / video analytics
- Health
- Public Services
- Buildings
- ……..

33. Smart City
Solutions
Innovation Grown
in Bristol
@barney_captain