Presentation to Location Intelligence 2014 on 20 May 2014, during Opening Plenary/LI Vision Panel:" Location Analytics & Visual Data Discovery … New Pathways to Business Intelligence" My presentation identifies how rich location information is vital to the success of smart cities. Topics addressed included benefits for location infrastructure in Smart Cities. Spatial architecture from geospatial, infrastructure, buildings - indoor, outdoor and urban settings. OGC Smart Cities Testbed as convergence of many technologies to meet the needs of urban citizens and services. http://www.locationintelligence.net/dc/agenda/

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New Pathways to Business Intelligence:
Urban IoT for Smart Cities
George Percivall
OGC Chief Engineer
20 May 2014
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Smart Cities are rich in “where” information
• As of 2008:
– More than half of the world lives in cities
– Mobile access to the Internet exceeded fixed
– Devices connected to Internet exceeds people
Townsend, Smart Cities, 2013
• “The need is urgent for an integrated, quantitative,
predictive, science-based understanding of the dynamics,
growth and organization of cities.”
Bettencourt and West, Nature, p912, v467, 2010
• See also: “The new Science of Cities,” M. Batty
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Location Services for Smart Cities
• Citizen Services
– Location-aware municipal services
using open data and standards
• Energy and Utilities management
– Smart Energy
– Smart Water Management
• Disaster and Emergency Response
– Common Operational Picture
• Urban Maps
– 3D City Models
– Indoor Venue Maps
– Interoperability with BIM
• Sensor Webs
– Situational awareness from
fusion of sensor observations
Source; Thomas Kolbe, Berlin TU

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OGC IndoorGML
Integrated Outdoor / Indoor Information
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Emergence of IoT
• IoT is the long-prophesied phenomenon of everyday
devices talking to one another — and us — online
– “Internet of things to give $10-15 trillion boost to global economy” -
General Electric
– Increasingly inexpensive sensors and open source hardware, add
intelligence to ordinary objects. – IoT reached “Apple II stage”
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m2m IoT

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Intelligence from location based sensors
Embedding sensors everywhere
– Application of Sensor Web Enablement to IoT
Analytics of Big Data
– Analytic exploitation of the space-time features will usher in
advances in high-quality prediction systems.
– Space time features: the highest order bits - Jonas, Tucker
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52North SenseBoxTwine http://www.aircasting.org/
AirCasting Air Monitor

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Balance of Issues
"On the one hand, concerned citizens and privacy advocates
recognize the immense potential for government
malfeasance and corporate abuse of this technology…
....On the other hand, many scientists, corporations, and
individual consumers see immense social and monetary
value in this technology.
- “Is human mobility tracking a good idea?”, Daniel Soper,
Communications of the ACM, V.55 Issue 4, April 2012
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1st Open, Multi-Vendor Augmented Reality
Interoperability Demonstration
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>50 Million
users+ + =
AR content
encoded in
OGC ARML 2.0
draft standard
Organized by
AR Standards
Community
Demonstrated
at Mobile World
Congress 2014
http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/1967
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2014/02/augmented-reality-interoperability-demo/

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OGC Urban IoT Testbed Concept
• “Spatial Intelligence Architecture
for Smart Cities” : a vendor-
neutral best practice for any city
• Seamless integration of
– GIS, Imaging, Augmented Reality,
3D modeling, sensor networks,
GPS, IoT, and location services
• Interoperability testing of
multiple implementations using
an open framework
• Market opportunities through
innovations in open standards
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CityGML graphic source; Thomas Kolbe, Berlin TU
OGC Sensor Web Enablement
Contact: George Percivall (gpercivall@opengeospatial.org)