Benchmark study of the key players and newcomers in urban data Scope: San Francisco, California & Paris, France

1. Prepared by Anne-Laure Desjardins from ENSAE ParisTech
For PRIME Paris Region International Mission Enterprise
June 2014
Open data & the city
A democratisation of urban data

2. Introduction
Paris – San Francisco: sister cities for a collaboration on the digital economy
and smart cities
In March 2013, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the two
mayors, Bertrand Delanoë and Edwin M. Lee, to support research programs on these
subjects, serve as experimental sites and share their data.
These cities chose to support Inria (French National Institute for Research in Computer
Science and Control) and CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the
Interest of Society, University of California) to carry out joint research on smart cities.
 Joint project « Democratizing Urban Data for Healthy Cities »

3. Following this agreement, PRIME (the Paris Region International Mission
Enterprise, based in San Francisco) has become a partner of Inria and CITRIS, to
support their collaborative programs on smart cities.
 This benchmark on « Open Data & the city: a democratization of urban
data » is a non-exhaustive survey on innovative companies, initiatives and
ideas covering California and the Paris Region with a focus on open data for
noise, air pollution and transportation applications.
Introduction

4. About open data
What is open data ?
“machine-readable information, particularly government data, that is made available
to others” (McKinsey Global Institute)
What are the benefits?
 Government transparency
 Social and economic impact
 State modernization lever
What is at stake?
 Data quality: standard have still to be set
 Data security: how to protect data privacy and intellectual property?
 Governments’ involvement
 Citizens’ involvement

5. About open data
An economic opportunity with more than $3 trillions a year in additionnal
value could be generated in 7 sectors as a result of open data
*Includes US values only
Source: McKinsey Global institute Analysis, Oct 2013 Free access to full report here

6. Open data is at the heart of democratizing
urban data Various sources
- Automatically generated data
- proactively sourced data
- crowdsourced data
 Data collection is democratized
Innovative products
are developed for
companies and
governments to
release their data
publicly. It makes it
easy for citizens to
access and
understand the
data.Data has value that companies
can leverage to provide economic
opportunities & positive fallout
for citizens
A win-win connection
- Citizens benefit from
these platforms
- It becomes a new
source of data for
cities

7. Ecosystem in California (and the US)
Big companies Startups
Non profits Universities
Government
& Citizens

8. Ecosystem in the Paris Region
Big companies
Startups
Non profits
Universities
& research labs
Government
Citizens

9. How Open Data is changing the game
2011
Obama administration stepped into open data
French government created Etalab, a public agency in charge of opening
public data
Economic fallouts
 Development of companies in data publishing
 New startups leveraging open data
 With public datasets added to their solution, some SMEs boomed
Disruption in lifestyle & consumption habits
Ex: Uber, that makes mobile apps connecting drivers and passengers thanks to
geolocalization data, is present 70 cities around the world and could worth $17
billions. Uber also reaches other sectors, by being for example already involved in
delivery services.

10. California | Paris Region
Data publishingData collection
Leveraging data for the cityCivic platforms
An overview of quoted companies

11. 1. Data collection
1.1. By monitoring transportation
and public spaces
1.2. By sensoring air and
noise pollution

12. 1.1. By monitoring transportation and
public spaces
Waze USA - Mountain
View
2008 By simply driving around with Waze open, you're already contributing tons of
real-time traffic & road info to your local driving community. You can also
actively report accidents, hazards, police and other events you see on the
road, and get road alerts on your route too.
Ambientic France 2011 Support and optimize communication among individuals collaborating on a
domain-specific task. With "Boîte à Sardines", passengers provide
crowdedness information collaboratively to help you choose the best time and
train for your journey.
OpenStreetMap
Foundation
UK (origin)
USA
France
2004 OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the
world. Begins to cartography indoors.

13. Birdi USA – San
Francisco
2013 Smart air monitor. Birdi tracks air quality, fire and carbon monoxide fumes
to keep you healthy and safe, and informs you through an app.
Azimut monitoring France -
Grenoble
Developped monitoring tools, Greenbee®, Ladybird® (sensoring noise,
pollution, meteo,..) that are autonomous (solar energy) and communicating.
"Care City" is their Smart city programm: services for Nice, Narbonne,
Grenoble, Annemasse, Genève, Bruxelles ; noise observatories for Paris,
Acoucité, Grand Lyon, Nice.
M2OCity (Veolia
and Orange
collaboration)
France - Paris 2010 The m2o cityjoint-venture offers as of today a complete turnkey service
based on an ultralow consumption radio network to local authorities,
through their municipal agencies or agents for water services. In addition to
information from water meters, this network will be able to collect data
from environmental sensors (to combat noise or pollution for instance).
Withings France - Paris 2009 Connected devices to monitor health. Their Smart Body Analyzer has a
sensor to monitor air quality (through temperature and carbon dioxide
measuring)
1.2. By sensoring air and noise
pollution

14. 2. Solutions for data publishing
How to go from open data to
valuable data?

15. 2. Solutions for data publishing
Junar USA – Palo Alto 2010 Cloud-based Open Data Platform that is the fastest, easiest, and most
affordable way to transform government data into resources that your citizens
can use.
Accela USA - San Ramon Civicdata.com simplifies how open data is published and managed, provides
standard, cross-jurisdictional data in one place.
CloudMade USA - Menlo Park 2007 CloudMade's platform makes geospatial data from hundreds of different sources
accessible for different devices and automotive manufacturers, developers and
enterprises.
OpenGov USA - Mountain
View
2012 The OpenGov platform provides instant access to the budget and visualizes
current and historic revenue and expenses; Government officials and citizens use
the platform to understand, analyze, and share the data.
Urban Mapping USA – San
Francisco
2004 Collection, maintenance and distribution of high-value data. Mapfluence, their
hosted geoservices platform, allows developers to tap into their massive catalog
of data on-demand.

16. 2. Solutions for data publishing
Opendatasoft France – Paris 2011 Hosted software solution dedicated to Open Data publishers.
Easter-Eggs France – Paris 1997 Developped Données-libres.fr and Metanol, an Open Data portal for regions,
cities (to transfer national data).
Data Publica France – Paris 2011 It develops and maintains the most complete and the richest directectory of
French data, it operates a DataStore for French data and performs data hunting
on demand (dashboard of territories).

17. 3. Leveraging data for the city
3.1. Urban services
leveraging urban data
3.2. Big Data solutions for
cities
3.3. Interactive mapping
and data visualization

18. 3. 1. Urban services leveraging open
data
Real Estate
Trulia USA – San
Francisco
2005 Trulia gives home buyers, sellers, owners and renters the inside scoop on
properties, places and real estate professionals. We have unique info on the
areas people want to live that can’t be found anywhere else: users can learn
about agents, neighborhoods, schools, crime and even ask the local
community questions.
Kelquartier France – Paris 2010 Kel Quartier is a free Internet website that gives you the information you
need to find the neighborhood that is right for you (400 public sources
- 42,000 neighborhoods and villages covering France)
MeilleursAgents France – Paris 2008 MeilleursAgents.com provides an outstanding heatmap of Paris real estate
prices and allows sellers to safely price their property and hire the best
brokers to execute the sale.
Home'n'go France – Paris 2011 We then help you get information on your potential neighborhood such as
the average square meter price, where are the closest shops around, how
far you'd be from your key locations (job, school, etc.).
Ecology
1-800-
recycling.com,
ERI's subsidiary
USA – Fresno 1-800-RECYCLING.com features a comprehensive recycling location
database that gives the user the ability to easily assemble a recycling to-do
list.

19. 3. 1. Urban services leveraging open
data
Tansportation
Embark USA - SF bay
area
They make free, fast, and simple mobile apps for mass transit riders
worldwide.
Recargo USA – Los
Angeles
2010 Recargo, Inc., provides software and services for plug-in electric vehicle
drivers and industry, incuding the #1 EV charging station finder app.
Nextbus USA – San
Francisco
1997 NextBus is dedicated to providing cost effective, high quality, reliable, real-
time transportation information to the passengers and managers of public
transit.
Arrive Labs USA – San
Francisco
2011 Software solutions for urban transit challenge.
TeleNav USA – Sunnyvale 1999 Their personalized navigation services help people make faster and smarter
daily decisions about where to go, when to leave, how to get there, and
what to do when they arrive. They have approximately 34 million
subscribers worldwide.
Uber USA – San
Francisco
2009 Uber connects riders to drivers through apps to make
cities more accessible, opening up more possibilities
for riders and more business for drivers.
Sharette France – Paris 2013 A mobile app/webite that combines carpooling and the public transport
network to compute shorter itineraries.

20. Entertainment
Mom maps (New
Media Parents)
USA – San
Francisco
2009 Mom Maps helps you find kid friendly locations on the go! Search an
extensive list of parks, playgrounds, restaurants, museums and indoor play
areas.
Yelp USA – San
Francisco
2004 Help people find great local businesses like dentists, hair stylists and
Mecanics. Yelp had an average of approximately 132 million monthly unique
visitors in Q1 2014.
Urban Pulse France – Paris
(USA – NY)
2012 Urban Pulse is a mobile application that brings together everything you need
for a great time out: deals and ideas for places to go, tools for finding and
meeting up with friends, and a journey planner offering all the possible ways
to get there. An initiative from Veolia Transdev.
Governance
Building Eye USA – San
Francisco
2011 Buildingeye takes local government data on building permits in different
locations and visualizes this information on its map.
Govini USA – San
Francisco
Govini takes big data generated by numerous federal, state, and local
agencies and transforms it into analytics, benchmarks, trends, and custom
research.
Politify USA - SF bay
area
2011 Politify is a platform that provides Americans with data-backed financial
projections of political scenarios (mapping).
Accessibility
Kernix France - Paris With the support of CRT Ile-de-France (promoter of Paris Region for tourism),
Handistrict presents public spaces according to their accessibility for disabled
persons (all kind of handicaps).
3. 1. Urban services leveraging open
data

21. Synthicity USA - Berkeley 2012 Visualization and analysis for urban development professionals.
Coordinates UrbanSim, an open source urban simulation system to support
metropolitan land use, transportation, and environmental planning.
Predpol USA – San
Francisco
2012 Based on models for predicting aftershocks from earthquakes, PredPol’s
technology forecasts highest risk times and places for future crimes.
The Omega
Group
USA - San Diego 1992 Solutions for law enforcement, public safety and education agencies.
Industry-leading developer of innovative GIS software designed to assist
public agencies with their daily data driven decisions. (cf website
CrimeMapping)
IBM100 USA Predictive Crime Fighting. IBM has been working closely with the law
enforcement community to help departments collect, manage and deploy
the vast amount of information at their disposal, in such a way that it can
be accessed and used at moment’s notice.
Urban Engines USA – Los Altos 2012 Urban Engines reduces congestion by combining insights and incentives to
ease the time and stress of daily commutes. With patent-pending
technology grounded in spatial analytics and behavioral economics theory,
Urban Engines powers the essential systems -- like transportation -- at the
heart of every city.
3. 2. Big data solutions for cities

22. Spallian France - Paris 1998 European leader in geodata management. Smart city solutions, crime
mapping.
Snips France - Paris 2012 Technology that predicts population and infrastructure behavior, providing
actionable insights to city operators and impactful products to citizens.
Tranquilien: app developed by Snips and SNCF to predict crowdedness in
trains (open data & crowdsourcing)
Dataiku France - Paris 2012 Integrated and ready-to-use platform to unlock the value of Data. Use Big
Data to provide solution for cities. (ex: parking finding)
Canal TP (Keolis
subsidiary)
France - Paris 2001 Canal TP provides information services, including journey planning services,
for public transport companies and authorities.
CityZenith USA – Menlo
Park
2009 Cityzenith helps cities convert their massive amounts of data into monetizable
assets, consolidating public (Open Data), commercial (M2M), and citizen
(Social Media) data sources to provide unprecedented access to
comprehensive information through the company’s 5D SMART City™
platform.
3. 2. Big data solutions for cities

23. Esri USA - Redlands 1969 Esri pursues mapping and spatial analysis for understanding our world with
visionary products and services that define the science of GIS.
Stamen USA – San
Francisco
2011 Interactive mapping and live data visualization. Created CrimeSpotting.
Opensource projects.
GIS Planning USA – San
Francisco
1998 GIS Planning is the world leader in online economic development solutions.
Over 13,000 U.S. cities in 43 states are served by GIS Planning’s Geographic
Information System (GIS) Software, which provides real estate, demographic,
and industry data.
Ubimix France - Paris 2010 Ubimix provides a software for creating zoomable user interfaces – indoor /
outdoor maps, images, timelines – allowing to dive into information
progressively.
3. 3 Interactive mapping and data
visualization

24. IBM Many Eyes USA Data visualization for everybody. IBM Many Eyes, a web community that
connects visualization experts, practitioners, academics and enthusiasts,
offers this technology and expertise, along with ways to share and learn from
others.
Google Public
Data Explorer
USA - Mountain
View
Data visualization for everybody. Publish open data and allow users to upload
and visualize their own data sets.
Tableau software USA – Seattle 2003 Big public company that makes it easy for people to rapidly transform data
into smart business analytics: work with huge data live or in-memory, mash
up data sources, visualize data in multiple ways, build dashboards, create
interactive data applications
Dataveyes France – Paris 2010 We help people understand, operate and communicate their data.
We translate data into experiences, to share narratives, support new uses,
and make sense of a world increasingly shaped by algorithms.
3. 3 Interactive mapping and data
visualization

25. 4. Platforms connecting citizens and
governments
4.1. Reporting
platforms
4.2. Engaging platforms

26. 4.1. Reporting platforms
Citysourced USA – Los
Angeles
2006 CitySourced is a real time, intuitive mobile civic engagement platform that
lets residents identify civic issues (public safety, quality of life,
environmental issues, etc.) and report them to city hall for quick resolution.
Public stuff USA – New York 2009 Residents can submit, track and view nearby service requests online,
through the smartphone app, via SMS or traditional phone calls. Local
governments leverage our backend platform to automatically route, assign
tasks, and update residents on status. Used in Palo Alto, CA for example.
DansMaRue France - Paris 2013 Mobile app and website for citizens to report anomalies. Launched by Ville
de Paris.
La Netscouade France – Paris 2007 They created Beecitiz, a participative map where citizens can report
anomalies for the city hall (via internet and smartphones).

27. 4.2. Civic Engagement platforms
Civinomics USA - Santa Cruz 2011 Civinomics is a public policy hosting platform. You can use it to hold a vote or
fundraise for new policies or programs in your community.
Neighborland USA – SF bay area 2010 Neighborland is a platform for neighbors to take action on local issues. People
know what their neighborhood needs, and businesses and placemakers need this
intelligence from the street.
Granicus USA – San
Francisco
1999 Granicus, Inc. is the leading government cloud computing provider for
transparency, efficiency, and citizen participation. It offers the first cloud
platform and product suites designed specifically to help government agencies
establish meaningful connections with citizens.
MobilePD USA - Santa Cruz 2010 MobilePD is the leader in law enforcement mobile application development.
Promote Transparency and engage your community like never before. Interactive
crime maps.
Textizen USA - Philadelphia 2013 They open civic dialogue to new participants with a powerful mix of offline
outreach and online engagement. Textizen is a platform for collecting community
feedback via text message. Used in Oakland.
Accela USA - San Ramon From streamlining basic agency functions like land and asset management and
licensing to the outer edges of engagement like virtual town halls and mobile
citizen reporting tools, the Accela Civic Platform bridges the gap between your
agency and your community.
Appallicious USA – San
Francisco
2010 The Disaster Assessment and Assistance Dashboard (DAAD) uses open data to
assess community resiliency and utilize open data to promote economic recovery
in the wake of a disaster. DAAD enables citizens, businesses and governments to
meet to share resources, request assistance and better understand the potential
and timeline for recovery on a localized basis all in one application.

28. About PRIME & French Tech Hub
PRIME is a transatlantic innovation
platform promoting the Paris region as a
center of innovation and engaging in
activities to encourage and incentivize
American companies and organizations to
invest in the Paris region.
PRIME is a subsidiary of the Paris Region
Economic Development Agency.
French Tech Hub serves as the U.S. Hub
for entrepreneurial and innovative French
companies. We provide custom-tailored
services to help our clients strategize,
launch, expand, and achieve their
business potential.
For more info,
contact Marie-Perrine Durot
mdurot@paris-region.com
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contact Marie Buhot-Launay
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