1. Smart City challenges in Estonia
Hannes Astok
Smart City Lab Tartu
Development Manager
Riga, 11 February 2015
2. Estonian Smart City landscape
• Rakvere (16 000): smart house topics
• 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
3. Tartu Smart City Lab
Cluster and cooperation
environment for
smart mobile and web solutions
for cities
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. Vision
In 2020 Tartu and Smart City Lab is
internationally recognized
European leading
smart city e- and m-services solutions
developer and exporter
11. Budget
• 3-year activities plan
• Budget 630 000 EUR
• 85% financed by Enterprise Estonia and City of
Tartu
• Other: contribution of the stakeholders
13. Mapping city services
• Review and business processes mapping of
the City of Tartu services
• Serves as baseline for the services and
business processes re-engineering and online
services
14. Pilots
• Finding ideas (city- companies cooperation)
• Describing bottlenecks
• Prototyping
• Tartu as the first customer?
15. Pilots
• Opening city GIS data to the citizens
• Tools for inspections in the city
• Turist mobile app
• NFC-supported public transportation data app
• NFC for the public transport ticketing
• Others
16.
17. Developing Smart City
development methodology
Methodology enables:
• Evaluate current situation and position as
Smart City
• Develop roadmap for next activities: how to
be smarter?
20. 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
• Few cooperation between the cities on best
practices sharing
21. Solution
Baltic Sea Region Urban Forum
For Smart Cities
• Cooperation platform for the Baltic Sea Region
cities, based on UBC network
• Open for cities, businesses, NGOs and other
citizens organizations
22. Tasks
• To develop concept and tools, assisting BSR cities to
develop innovative solutions
• To support much strengthened cooperation on green
growth and sustainable development between cities
and towns, including between 3Helix actors, in the
Baltic Sea Region
• To support BSR cities with a vast knowledge pool and
resource on available technologies, innovations and
proven smart city concepts and solutions
• To initiate a number of synergies with related projects
and initiatives in the EU and Baltic Sea Region.
23. Baltic Sea Region Urban Forum for
Smart Cities
FOLLOW-UP
PROMOTION
ACTIONASSESMENT EVALUATIONINTERVENTION
GLOBAL&
EUROPE
BSR
URBAN
FORUM
CITY
• COMMUNICATION PLATFORM
• MARKET PLACE
• COMPETENCE AND ASSISTANCE CENTER
• MENTORING AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING CENTER
• Disseminates the success stories
• Fosters a deeper understanding of the smart city practices
• Presents BSR as the most innovative region in the world
• Connects and networks with both global and EU level
stakeholders and initiatives
• A new approach to the smart city movement by placing a
worldwide trends into a regional context
24. Preparations
• Seed money project from EUBSR Seed Money
facility
• INTEREG pre-proposal submitted in January
2015 for proof-of-concept project
25. HOW TO MAKE SMART CITY
INITIATIVES SUSTAINABLE?
White paper for Estonian Ministry of Economy and
Infrastructure October 2015
26. Key issues
• Developing capacity of the city
administrations and citizens to act as smart
city
• Reducing and sharing risks
27. Developing capacity of the city
administrations and citizens
• Development of the city organizations:
– Chief Innovation Officer
– Business processes re-engineering and innovation
support units
• Developing city officials skills and awareness
• Developing innovation readiness among the
users of the smart solutions
28. Reducing and sharing risks
• Developing sectorial competences
nationally/regionally: practitioners, experts,
R&D, companies
• Developing tools and collecting data for
modelling
• Supporting innovative procurement
• Developing standards
• Supporting large scale demonstrations
29. Supporting export activities
• Designing products, not solutions
• Promoting and supporting export activities
(networking, demonstrations, expos)
30. 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
31. Smart City Lab
Hannes Astok
E hannes.astok@smartcitylab.eu
W smartcitylab.eu
M +372 5091366
S hannesastok
