Sokwoo Rhee, Associate Director | Cyber-Physical Systems National Institute of Standards and Technology give an overview of the Global City Teams Challenge

1. Sokwoo Rhee
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
US Department of Commerce
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2.  Integrated, hybrid networks of cyber
and engineered physical elements
 Co-designed and co-engineered to
create adaptive and predictive
systems
 Respond in real time to enhance
performance
Examples: • Emergency Response Networks
• Smart Robots/UAVs
• Autonomous Vehicles & Traffic Management Networks
• Smart Grid
• Network-enabled Healthcare Solutions
• Advanced Manufacturing Plants
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3. Smart Cities
 Use smart technologies such as IoT and CPS to
improve the quality of life in cities and
communities
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4. Opportunity for Smart Cities
 Smart Cities/Communities are increasingly turning to advanced
technologies to improve services, promote economic growth, and
enhance the quality of life.
 Many IoT/CPS innovators already have technologies (i.e.,
building blocks) and their impact can be maximized by fostering
collaboration among the innovators to create interconnected
solutions to provide tangible benefits to end users.
 Current deployments of IoT/CPS are fragmented lacking
interoperability and standards.
 Many smart community efforts are one-off projects with heavy
emphasis on customization and inadequate consideration for
future upgradability and extensibility, which end up causing
increased cost and inefficiency. As a result, many Smart
Cities/Communities deployments are isolated and do not enjoy
the economy of scale.
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5. The Strategy of Global City Teams
Challenge
 Establish and demonstrate replicable, scalable and
reproducible models for incubation and deployment of
interoperable, adaptable and configurable IoT/CPS
technologies and solutions in Smart
Communities/Cities.
 Identify common elements from different projects and
encourage consensus building on the core technical
architecture of smart city solutions.
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6. The Approach
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Smart City
Projects
San Jose
U.S.
Detroit
Austin
Montgomery
County
Washington DC
Others …
Europe
City 1
City 2
City N
Asia
City 1
City 2
City N
Africa, South America,
Australia, etc.
Technology
Innovators
Sensor
Systems
Wearable devices
Cloud
Services
Utilities
Infrastructure
Cyber/Physical
Security
Visualization
Robotics
Medical
Services
Building
Controls
Etc. …
Emergency response,
Disaster resilience
Renewable energy, Green
Technologies, Microgrids
Building
automation,
Manufacturing
Healthcare
Security, Others …
Action Clusters
(Teams)
Air quality, Climate,
Traffic management

7. Current Partners include:
 US-Ignite
 National Science Foundation
 International Trade Administration
 US Department of Transportation
 US Department of Health and Human Services
 US Department of Energy
 IBM, Intel, Qualcomm, Cisco, ARM Holdings, GE,
Juniper Networks
 Many other corporations and academic institutions are
participating
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8. Current Status
 Currently more than 35 action clusters
 Project implementations are under way with the goal of
city/community deployment by June 2015
 More than 170 corporations/organizations
 Large corporations, startups, universities, non-profits,
research institutions and high schools!
 Working to initiate the discussions on Smart City and
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9. Current Participating Cities include:
 Portland, OR
 Annapolis, MD
 Greenville, SC
 Ammon, ID
 Chicago, IL
 Montgomery County, MD
 Columbus, OH
 Chattanooga, TN
 New York, NY
 Washington, DC
 San Francisco, CA
 Kansas City, MO
 Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (Observer)
 In discussions with cities in UK, Holland, Spain, Poland, India, Korea,
Japan, South Africa, and others
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10. Tech Jam
 Existing GCTC participants with an opportunity to present their project
plans and identify additional project partners.
 We have 35+ action clusters presenting today and tomorrow
 An opportunity for entities not yet participating in the Challenge to
explore a new project idea and/or identify partners and develop a new
Action Clusters.
 We currently have 170+ entities participating and we want more!
 An opportunity to hear from global leaders and experts of
IoT/CPS/Smart Cities.
 We have a stellar line-up of speakers from the White House, O’Relly
Media, Montgomery County, European Commission, Amsterdam, Tel
Aviv, and the leading experts representing action clusters.
 Attendees with an opportunity to hear from government agencies on
funding programs relevant to GCTC participants and IoT/CPS/Smart
Cities more generally.
 National Science Foundation and Department of Transportation
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11. Smart Cities/IoT Framework
 The Smart Cities/IoT Framework will be based on the inputs from the
action clusters participating in GCTC.
 We recommend each action cluster to document their process and
accomplishment of the real-world implementation and deployments in
cities/communities.
 Project description and its tangible benefits to cities/communities
 Contribution from the team member organizations
 Overview of the technical architecture
 Sustainability and replicability of the solution
 Platforms, functions, interfaces, communication protocols, security,
middleware, analytics, hardware, etc.
 Business needs/models of the action cluster
 Best practices of working with cities/communities to deploy smart
city/IoT solutions
 Any issues/problems encountered and resolved in the process
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12. CPS
Testbed
Binding Information
Data
Warehouse/Buffer
Data
Push/Pull
Pub/Sub
Security and Privacy
Manager
Local
Decision
Maker Control
Information
Data
Warehouse/Buffer
External Decision
Maker
Control
Information
CPS
Testbed
High Confidence
Network
Local Server
Remote Server
Local Server
API
Commands
Open Data Format
(ex: web object, XML,
JSON, CSV, etc.)
Open Messaging Protocols
(ex: DDS, MQTT, COAP,
AMQP,
RUDP, etc.)
Data Portal
Translation
Cache
Directory
Look-up Service
Real-Time Open Data Exchange
Authentication
Certificate Services
Authorization
Identification Management
Security / Trust Center
Security
and
Privacy
Manager
Example Architecture (Partial)
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13. Next Steps
 Action clusters will work toward completing the
milestone by June 2015
 Summer 2015: Global City Teams Festival(s)
 June 2015, location TBD
 Possible multiple events
 Demonstrations of the deployed solutions in
partnership with municipal governments
 Presentations from the action clusters on their
accomplishments and results of the deployments
 Discussions on the Smart City/IoT Framework
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14. For More Information
 Contact
 Sokwoo Rhee (sokwoo.rhee@nist.gov)
 Challenge web site: Meet and join the action clusters
 www.globalcityteams.org
 NIST information site
 http://nist.gov/cps/sagc.cfm
 Social Media
 Twitter #globalcityteams
 Webinar replay – Introduction to Global City Teams Challenge
 http://www.nist.gov/cps/global-city-teams-challenge-webinar.cfm
 Webcast replay of the kick-off event
 http://www.nist.gov/cps/global-city-teams-challenge-webcast.cfm
 SmartAmerica Round One web site
 http://www.smartamerica.org/
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