Bristol faces challenges of a growing population, inequality, and environmental issues but seeks to become a leading green and digital city through its smart city initiatives. The smart city program focuses on smart energy, transport, and data projects including smart metering, traffic control, and open data portals. The goal is to use innovative technology solutions to reduce the city's carbon emissions through greater efficiency, sustainability, and citizen engagement.

1. Smart City Bristol
Cllr Mark Bradshaw
Assistant Mayor and Cabinet Member for
Transport, Planning, Strategic Houses and
Regeneration

3. Bristol – challenges & opportunities
• Population of 432,500
• 1 of fastest growing UK cities - 31% rise predicted by
2028
• Place where young people come to study & stay
• Knowledge-rich businesses & entrepreneurial
• Ambitious carbon targets – 40% reduction by 2020
• Inequalities in health and wealth
• Increasing need for more jobs
• Commuters from wide area

4. Bristol a Leading ‘Green Digital City’
• Top 20 European city by 2020
• Inclusive, green-digital economy
• Digital Infrastructure - B-Net &
UK Super Connected City
• Green Digital Charter:
– Green ICT
– Smart City
• Creative & integrated approach:
• environment, digital & economic development
• Bristol Smart City Programme won the Green Digital
Charter Award – Best set of Green Digital Charter Pilot
Projects

5. Smart City Bristol Report
• The purpose of the report is:
– An independent analysis of how smart city technologies
can contribute to Bristol’s carbon reduction objectives
– Benchmark Bristol against other world cities
– Set of objective recommendations that will contribute to
further emission reductions and provide city-wide
economic benefits
• Funded by DECC and available at
http://www.slideshare.net/Bristolcc/bristol-smart-city-report-7579696

6. Smart City Bristol - Opportunities
• Initial focus:
 Smart Energy
 Smart Transport
 Smart Data
• Moving into new areas through Future City
Demonstrator

7. Smart Energy
• Smart Metering:
3eHouses
• Smart Grid: So La Bristol
• Smart Spaces: reducing
energy demand in public
buildings using ICT
• STEEP: smart energy
master plan

8. Smart Transport
• Traffic Control Centre
• Freight Consolidation Centre
• ICT services for Electric Vehicles Enhancing the User
Experience (ICT4EVEU)
Integrated
Logistics
Reducing
Congestion

9. Smart Data
• B-Open - Open Data Portal
• Whose Data? – Knowle West Media Centre
• Hello Lamp Post?– Watershed

10. Working in partnership

11. Citizens as co-producers of Bristol Smart City
3e Houses Project
 The involvement of people - efficient but fun!
 Creating a space for innovation – living labs

12. Success factors for a Smart City
Smart Cities will have individual approaches, but key elements are:
 Strong city leadership
 Innovative use of technologies to tackle city challenges &
opportunities
 Stakeholder engagement - partnership models
 Identify investment streams - business model
 Strong citizen engagement
 Continuity of purpose

13. Future City Demonstrator
Bristol’s Future City Demonstrator £3m from UK TSB
 Integration of multiple systems in
novel ways to tackle city challenges
 Platform that allows innovative
companies, particularly SMEs, to test
their ideas
 Testing solutions in mobility on
demand, personalisation in health
and social care systems, city
governance & future workplaces.

14. Collaborating on shared city solutions
• We are open to new ideas and we are willing to learn
from other places and contexts
• We built our programme on principles of open
collaboration and sharing and we would welcome the
opportunity to hear about your experiences

15. Looking to the future
“Bristol is fast becoming
one of the UK’s most
creative, smart, green and
connected cities. In 2015
Bristol will be European
Green Capital, staging an
inspiring programme of
events centred around the
idea of Bristol as a
Laboratory for Change”
- George Ferguson, Mayor of
Bristol