Smart Cities: Fertile Ground for Internet Innovation Living Labs and Smart Cities, 14 December, Ghent (Belgium)

1. Smart cities: a fertile ground
for Internet innovation
Living Labs and Smart Cities:
Open Innovation for the Future Internet
Ghent, 14 December 2010
Dr Max Lemke
European Commission - DG INFSO
New Paradigms and Experimental Facilities
max.lemke@ec.europa.eu 1
"The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"

2. ICT is making cities “smarter”
 Smart Cities and regions
are at the core of the
implementation of the
European Digital Agenda
 Smart Cities are a
fertile ground for
Internet innovation
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3. Smart cities: a fertile ground
for Internet innovation
• The European Digital Agenda
and Smart Cities
• Smart Cities in the EU ICT
Research & Innovation Programmes:
Roles and Opportunities
– Role of Living Labs in FIRE
– Role of Smart Cities and Living Labs
in the Future Internet PPP
– User-driven open innovation for
internet-based services
in Smart Cities
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4. Innovation Union
Youth on the move
Digital Agenda for
Europe
Resource efficient
Europe
Industrial policy for
the globalisation era
Europe 2020
Agenda for new skills
and jobs
smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
European platform
against poverty
…vision of Europe's social market economy for the 21st century.
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5. A Digital Agenda for Europe
The 7 pillars:
 digital single market
 openness & interoperability
 online trust & security
 Internet for all
 ICT research & innovation
 digital inclusion
 digital public services
These challenges are as well
key challenges for cities
in becoming “smarter”
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6. Who is the target
of the Digital Agenda for Europe?
SMEs “Every
Workers Musicians European
Digital”
Doctors N.
Consumers
Kroes
Patients Environment
Researchers Artists
Authors Disabled
• The target audience is concentrated in cities
• Smart cities are ideal catalysers for experimenting with
new ICT and services before roll-out across regions 6

7. Smart cities: a fertile ground
for Internet innovation
• The European Digital Agenda
and Smart Cities
• Smart Cities in the EU ICT
Research & Innovation Programmes:
Roles and Opportunities
– Role of Living Labs in FIRE
– Role of Smart Cities and Living Labs
in the Future Internet PPP
– User-driven open innovation for
internet-based services
in Smart Cities
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8. Smart cities – a fertile ground for
ICT innovation
• Cities offer an excellent infrastructure for Internet research
and innovation
– Broadband broadly available
– Active local research labs
– Efficient innovation ecosystems
– Functioning service infrastructures
• Energy consumptions and emissions are concentrated in cities
– ICT as a major consumer
– ICT enabling energy reduction
– Green Digital Charter
• The EU Research and Innovation Programmes support a wide
range of initiatives with smart cities as key stakeholders
– Smart cities are key catalysers for applications & services
– They are the core of large scale experiments
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9. Future Internet:
A Comprehensive EU Approach
Technology
Future Internet
Risk
FP7
FP7/PPP
CIP/ICT PSP • market oriented R&D
• longer-term R&D
• integration of new
• cost-efficiency
• large scale trials • Common enablers ICT & new ideas
(using existing • adaptation to specific • open platforms and
technology) demands… interoperability
• service innovation
Time to
Market
Piloting 2-3 years 5-10 years
deployment
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10. Smart cities: a fertile ground
for Internet innovation
• The European Digital Agenda
and Smart Cities
• Smart Cities in the EU ICT
Research & Innovation Programmes:
Roles and Opportunities
– Role of Living Labs in FIRE
– Role of Smart Cities and Living Labs
in the Future Internet PPP
– User-driven open innovation for
internet-based services
in Smart Cities
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11. FIRE
Future Internet Research & Experimentation
• Supporting research and innovation on new network
and service architectures FIRE Research
validation
• Through large scale experimentation, predict
Research Large Scale
behavior and assess non-technical impact Experiment.
FIRE Experimental Facility
requirements
User Communities
Test bed 1 Test bed 2 Test bed 3 Exp5
Exp2
Test bed 9
Test bed 1 Test bed 4 Test bed 2 Test bed 3
Test bed 5
Test bed 4 Exp Exp4
1 Exp3 bed 5
Test
Test bed 6 Test bed 7 Test bed 8
Test bed 6 Test bed 7 Test bed 8
Onelab2, Federica, PII, and Wisebed
are offering their prototype services 11

12. Role of LLs and Smart Cities
in the FIRE Initiative
• Smart cities as multifaceted
testbed environments
• Living Labs to bring end-users to the
experiments – not only preach it but do it!
• FIREball as the link between ENoLL and FIRE
• Relevant Calls:
– FIRE Experimentation:
ICT Obj. 1.6, 15 M€, Small STREPs, Call 8, autumn 2011
– Open Calls of FIRE Facility projects for Experiments
>20 experiments, ~5M€ funding, calls in 2011/12
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13. SMART SANTANDER
A large research project focused
on Internet services in the city
• unique in the world
city-scale experimental
research facility in
support of typical
applications and services
for a smart city
• more than 20,000
sensors based on a real
life IoT deployment in
an urban setting.
• EU funding 6M€ at shared
cost with project partners
• Additional city/regional
support for sensor Funded under
Challenge 1 of
infrastrcutures the ICT theme
of FP7
www.smartsantander.eu
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14. Smart cities: a fertile ground
for Internet innovation
• The European Digital Agenda
and Smart Cities
• Smart Cities in the EU ICT
Research & Innovation Programmes:
Roles and Opportunities
– Role of Living Labs in FIRE
– Role of Smart Cities and Living Labs
in the Future Internet PPP
– User-driven open innovation for
internet-based services
in Smart Cities
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15. Future Internet Public Private Partnership:
Towards an Internet enabled service economy
Service-
More
based
flexibility,
business
trust, self-*
models Delivering
Clouds
tailored
becoming
services to
reality
citizens
Reducing
Wealth of costs,
real world carbon,
data energy
footprint
Europe to
All-
lead the
connected
future
intelligent
service
objects
economy
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16. FI PPP: leadership beyond R&D
Making the world ‘smarter’ and accelerate sustainable innovation
Competitiveness
& Innovation ICT applications research EU
Programme
ICT-PSP
Policies
Application Pull
Trade-offs:
 + user-driven FI Platform  Private/Public
holistic/system  Infrastructure
 + social benefit
perspective/market
 - time to market impact  Openness
 Regulation
Technology push
European
Technology ICT technology research
Platforms
ICT Programme Challenge 1
Making Europe a world leader in Future Internet technologies
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17. FI PPP – The core principle
Balance of technology push & application pull
– Core platform activities driven by ICT technology providers
– Usage area activities driven by usage area actors
– Capacity building activities influenced by innovation ecosystem
stakeholders (e.g. smart cities – learning from CIP pilots)
Domain-
specific
Domain- Domain-
Smart Energy
specific Smart
specific Living
General-purpose
Communication
and Service
(Core)
Domain-
Platform Domain-
Smart Health
specific Smart
specific Transport
Domain-
specific
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18. Role of LLs and Smart Cities
in the FI PPP
• Smart cities as catalysers for Internet
services – a perfect environment to
demonstrate services/application mash-up
• Living Labs building the bridge between
technologies and users
• Relevant Work Programme Objectives
– Use case scenarios (phase 1) / trials (phase 2),
use case expansian phase (phase 3);
– Capacity building & Infrastructure (Phases 1+2);
– SME innovation (phase 3).
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19. FI PPP: programme architecture
Call 1 300M€ planned in 2011-13
Call 2 Call 3
Up to 8 Use Case Scenarios
Up to 5 Trials
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 19

20. Smart cities: a fertile ground
for Internet innovation
• The European Digital Agenda
and Smart Cities
• Smart Cities in the EU ICT
Research & Innovation Programmes:
Roles and Opportunities
– Role of Living Labs in FIRE
– Role of Smart Cities and Living Labs
in the Future Internet PPP
– User-driven open innovation for
internet-based services
in Smart Cities
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21. Motivation for the EC to act under
the CIP-PSP Programme
• New and often “revolutionary” internet
technologies are maturing
– Ready for a new wave of internet-based services
– Transforming our way of life
• New broadband infrastructures are emerging
– Digital Agenda for Europe
– Spectrum policy – digital dividend
• Fragmented market of island solutions
– a barrier for broad take-up
– Single solutions in individual cities
– Pilots of limited scope
– Fragmented groups of stakeholders
– Need for open platforms for internet-based services
• Innovation ecosystems can bridge
– Work well locally in cities or regions
– High potential for exploiting synergies across borders
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22. Open Innovation for Future Internet-
enabled Services in “Smart” Cities
• 7 pilots starting 2010
15 M€ EU funding
• Similar Initiative envisaged
for 2011 – focus on:
– Ultra-fast wireless connectivity User-driven
open innovation
Cross-border
networks of
– Internet service platforms ecosystems “smart” cities
– Catch up for less developed
urban areas
25 Smart Cities in
15 Member States Innovative
Internet-based
services
Supported by the Competitiveness and Innovation
Programme under ICT Policy Support 22

23. Conclusions
The Digital Agenda for Europe and the ICT
related initiatives under the EU research and
innovation programmes strongly contribute
to making our cities smarter thereby
supporting the integrated and intelligent
growth of urban areas
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24. Further Information
• ec.europa.eu/livinglabs – livings labs, smart cities
• ec.europa.eu/foi – read about the many activities the
EC undertakes on Future Internet
• www.future-internet.eu – The European Future
Internet Portal – the community site
• cordis.europa.eu/ict/ch1 – Ongoing European FI
research & development activities
• ec.europa.eu/ict_psp – Competitiveness and
Innovation Programme
• ec.europa.eu/ict4ee; www.eumayors.eu/
Green Digital Charter
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