A recent presentation on Amey's role in creating smarter, more sustainable, socially mobile cities and communities in partnership with our customers in local government, central government, transport and utilities taking into account Trends and technologies such as platform capitalism, automated/autonomous systems and artificial intelligence.
I gave this presentation at the launch of the British Standards Institutes Smart Cities programme - http://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/smart-cities/ . Open Standards will be enormously important in expressing visions for Smart Cities; winning investment to create them; and successfully implementing their social, governance, engineering, environmental and technology infrastructures. This presentation gives some examples of the issues that it's crucial for Smart Cities standards to address, based on my experience delivering large-scale technology solutions within business change programmes; and on my more recent experience delivering technology infrastructures that help to improve cities. The presentation has full speaker notes in the downloadable Powerpoint file.
Smart Cities - Why they're not working for us yet.Rick Robinson
My presentation to the April 2016 Eurocities Knowledge Sharing Forum in Rennes. My focus was on describing Smart Cities as an economic and political challenge; and exploring the policy mechanisms that could be used to incentivise private sector investments in business and technology to support local social, economic and environmental outcomes. Further description and supporting evidence for these ideas can be found at https://theurbantechnologist.com/2016/02/01/why-smart-cities-still-arent-working-for-us-after-20-years-and-how-we-can-fix-them/
Smart Cities: why they're not working for us yetRick Robinson
This is my January 2016 presentation to the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development as part of their preparation of a report on Smart Cities. The idea of a “Smart City” (or town, or region, or community) is 20 years old; but it has so far achieved comparatively little. The vast majority of Smart City initiatives to date are pilot projects funded by research and innovation grants: there are very, very few sustainable, repeatable solutions yet. This is partly because Smart Cities is usually discussed as a technology trend not an economic and political imperative; and so it has not won the support of the highest level of political leadership, and the widest level of community and citizen engagement. In a few cases where that level of leadership and engagement does exist, however, some cities have shown that existing policy tools and spending streams - such as procurement practises, planning frameworks and property investment - can be been used to create sustainable projects and programmes that can deliver real change.
Smarter Cities briefing for the Technology Strategy Board's Future Cities Cat...Rick Robinson
I recently spent the afternoon briefing the UK Technology Strategy Board's Future Cities Catapult team on IBM's engagement in the Smarter Cities market. This presentation covers our Research projects and "Smarter Cities Challenge" through which we developed our understanding of urban challenges and the opportunities for technology to address them; through to our engagement with entrepreneurs and other innovative ecosystems; through to case studies from our work with customers. The downloadable powerpoint file has speaker notes and links to further material.
Despite the hype about Smart Cities, many IoT startups find this sector daunting, thinking smart city applications are complex, hard to sell and require intensive support. Rick Robinson thinks this is a myth and in this talk he will look at the current state of Smart Cities and where some of the most interesting challenges lie.
Smart cities uk 2018 stream 2 - infrastructureScott Buckler
This document summarizes presentations from a conference on smart infrastructure and cities. The first presentation discussed using IoT technologies for smart city applications like structural health monitoring, waste management, air quality monitoring, noise monitoring, traffic management, and smart street lighting. The next presentation discussed an EU project called Sharing Cities that is testing smart city measures across several cities, including citizen engagement, building retrofits, sustainable energy services, and smart mobility services. Another presentation discussed using an adaptive city platform to collect, analyze, predict and adapt to real-time urban data from sensors. Additional presentations covered asset sharing platforms for smart cities, using transit-oriented development principles to plan growing cities, and potential parking management solutions using biometric tags.
Across the UK we are seeing more and more examples of smart city transformation. Key 'smart' sectors utilised by such Cities include transport, energy, health care, water and waste. Against the current background of economic, social, security and technological changes caused by the globalization and the integration process, cities in the UK face the challenge of combining competitiveness and sustainable urban development simultaneously.
A smart city is a place where the traditional networks and services are made more efficient with the use of digital and telecommunication technologies, for the benefit of its inhabitants and businesses.
With this vision in mind, the European Union is investing in ICT research and innovation and developing policies to improve the quality of life of citizens and make cities more sustainable in view of Europe's 20-20-20 targets.
The smart city concept goes beyond the use of ICT for better resource use and less emissions. It means smarter urban transport networks, upgraded water supply and waste disposal facilities, and more efficient ways to light and heat buildings.
And it also encompasses a more interactive and responsive city administration, safer and secure public spaces.
Smart Cities UK lead the way on addressing the best practice examples on smart transformation from across Cities within the United Kingdom whilst disseminating guidance and information transformation within waste, energy, transport and other key smart sectors.
I gave this presentation at the launch of the British Standards Institutes Smart Cities programme - http://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/smart-cities/ . Open Standards will be enormously important in expressing visions for Smart Cities; winning investment to create them; and successfully implementing their social, governance, engineering, environmental and technology infrastructures. This presentation gives some examples of the issues that it's crucial for Smart Cities standards to address, based on my experience delivering large-scale technology solutions within business change programmes; and on my more recent experience delivering technology infrastructures that help to improve cities. The presentation has full speaker notes in the downloadable Powerpoint file.
Smart Cities - Why they're not working for us yet.Rick Robinson
My presentation to the April 2016 Eurocities Knowledge Sharing Forum in Rennes. My focus was on describing Smart Cities as an economic and political challenge; and exploring the policy mechanisms that could be used to incentivise private sector investments in business and technology to support local social, economic and environmental outcomes. Further description and supporting evidence for these ideas can be found at https://theurbantechnologist.com/2016/02/01/why-smart-cities-still-arent-working-for-us-after-20-years-and-how-we-can-fix-them/
Smart Cities: why they're not working for us yetRick Robinson
This is my January 2016 presentation to the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development as part of their preparation of a report on Smart Cities. The idea of a “Smart City” (or town, or region, or community) is 20 years old; but it has so far achieved comparatively little. The vast majority of Smart City initiatives to date are pilot projects funded by research and innovation grants: there are very, very few sustainable, repeatable solutions yet. This is partly because Smart Cities is usually discussed as a technology trend not an economic and political imperative; and so it has not won the support of the highest level of political leadership, and the widest level of community and citizen engagement. In a few cases where that level of leadership and engagement does exist, however, some cities have shown that existing policy tools and spending streams - such as procurement practises, planning frameworks and property investment - can be been used to create sustainable projects and programmes that can deliver real change.
Smarter Cities briefing for the Technology Strategy Board's Future Cities Cat...Rick Robinson
I recently spent the afternoon briefing the UK Technology Strategy Board's Future Cities Catapult team on IBM's engagement in the Smarter Cities market. This presentation covers our Research projects and "Smarter Cities Challenge" through which we developed our understanding of urban challenges and the opportunities for technology to address them; through to our engagement with entrepreneurs and other innovative ecosystems; through to case studies from our work with customers. The downloadable powerpoint file has speaker notes and links to further material.
Despite the hype about Smart Cities, many IoT startups find this sector daunting, thinking smart city applications are complex, hard to sell and require intensive support. Rick Robinson thinks this is a myth and in this talk he will look at the current state of Smart Cities and where some of the most interesting challenges lie.
Smart cities uk 2018 stream 2 - infrastructureScott Buckler
This document summarizes presentations from a conference on smart infrastructure and cities. The first presentation discussed using IoT technologies for smart city applications like structural health monitoring, waste management, air quality monitoring, noise monitoring, traffic management, and smart street lighting. The next presentation discussed an EU project called Sharing Cities that is testing smart city measures across several cities, including citizen engagement, building retrofits, sustainable energy services, and smart mobility services. Another presentation discussed using an adaptive city platform to collect, analyze, predict and adapt to real-time urban data from sensors. Additional presentations covered asset sharing platforms for smart cities, using transit-oriented development principles to plan growing cities, and potential parking management solutions using biometric tags.
Across the UK we are seeing more and more examples of smart city transformation. Key 'smart' sectors utilised by such Cities include transport, energy, health care, water and waste. Against the current background of economic, social, security and technological changes caused by the globalization and the integration process, cities in the UK face the challenge of combining competitiveness and sustainable urban development simultaneously.
A smart city is a place where the traditional networks and services are made more efficient with the use of digital and telecommunication technologies, for the benefit of its inhabitants and businesses.
With this vision in mind, the European Union is investing in ICT research and innovation and developing policies to improve the quality of life of citizens and make cities more sustainable in view of Europe's 20-20-20 targets.
The smart city concept goes beyond the use of ICT for better resource use and less emissions. It means smarter urban transport networks, upgraded water supply and waste disposal facilities, and more efficient ways to light and heat buildings.
And it also encompasses a more interactive and responsive city administration, safer and secure public spaces.
Smart Cities UK lead the way on addressing the best practice examples on smart transformation from across Cities within the United Kingdom whilst disseminating guidance and information transformation within waste, energy, transport and other key smart sectors.
On 6 and 7 June 2013, André Bouffioux, CEO of Siemens Belgium-Luxembourg, presented our Siemens’ view on how Smart Cities will develop and generate new business. He made this presentation during the European Young Innovator Forum’s unique Unconvention in Brussels, where young Europeans with innovative ideas and those who will inspire, guide and support them, were brought together.
This document discusses what constitutes a smart city. It provides several definitions of a smart city, including one that describes it as using technology to make city infrastructure and services like administration, education, healthcare, public safety, real estate, transportation and utilities more intelligent and efficient. Another definition describes a smart city as having sustainable economic development and high quality of life through management of resources and engagement between citizens and government. The document also discusses why smart cities are needed due to population growth, climate change and new technologies. It outlines some characteristics of a smart city model and challenges to implementing smart city initiatives.
I developed this presentation as a member of the Union Square Redevelopment Civic Advisory Committee (CAC) and its Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee. The presentation was made to fellow CAC members, members of the public, Somerville City Government staff, US2 (the Master Developer) staff, and other group representatives including Union Square Main Streets, Union Square Neighbors, and the Union United Coalition on 7-14-15. The purpose of the talk is to present underlying concepts, benefits, and options related to smart city infrastructure in the context of Union Square Somerville. My intent was to spark discussion and further consideration including the idea of making Union Square an urban innovation lab (to attract employers, improve civic life, and support public and private services and benefits) for the entire city and beyond.
Smart cities in context to urban developmentPalak Shah
This document discusses smart cities. It begins with an introduction defining a smart city as one that identifies important trends to implement solutions that address cities' immediate needs. It outlines objectives of smart cities like reducing emissions and energy consumption. Key characteristics are developed infrastructure and competitive environment. Concepts that make a city smart include ICT, innovation, and e-governance. Top smart cities are identified and India's plans for smart cities like Lavasa are examined. The document concludes that as urbanization increases, smart city initiatives will be important for governments globally.
The document summarizes initiatives by Amsterdam Smart City to create a more livable city through smart technologies and open data. It discusses projects like:
1) A startup in residence program that provides training and support to startups working on smart city solutions, helping them pilot projects and access potential customers in the city administration.
2) Sharing traffic and other data openly through partnerships with companies like Google and TomTom to improve traffic flow and parking.
3) A "City Alerts" system to exchange emergency information between first responders to provide all relevant details during incidents.
4) A "Rainproof Amsterdam" project testing a smart roof that recycles rainwater, provides urban cooling, and supports urban
Smart City Fever. The sunny and darker sides of a technology-driven urban hypeIzabela-Mironowicz
This document provides an overview of smart cities including:
- Many city governments are promoting smart urban technologies using citizens' interest in new technologies.
- Smart city technologies aim to integrate digital technologies like smartphones, big data, IoT into urban life.
- While smart cities offer benefits like improved services, they also pose risks like loss of privacy and increased corporate influence. Careful monitoring is needed to avoid negative social and economic impacts.
Smart city planning in the era of post COVID-19Junyoung Choi
The document discusses smart city planning in South Korea in the era of post-COVID 19. It provides an overview of Korea's response to COVID-19, what constitutes a smart city in Korea, how smart city systems and technologies supported Korea's COVID-19 response, and considerations for smart city planning in the future post-pandemic. Some key points include how COVID-19 tracking systems leveraged existing smart city data hubs; concerns about public surveillance during outbreaks; the potential impacts of COVID-19 on urban planning like increased suburbanization and demand for alternate transport. The document also outlines approaches for data-driven, socially distant smart city planning going forward.
Elizabeth Kellar, president and CEO of the Center for State and Local Government and deputy executive director for ICMA, spoke on the topic of smart cities during the 2016 Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam. These were the slides that accompanied her speech.
The document discusses how cities are becoming smarter through the use of new technologies that are improving infrastructure systems. Key systems discussed include transportation, energy grids, water management, data collection and analytics. These smarter systems allow cities to better accommodate growing populations, improve services for residents, and address challenges around issues like traffic, resource use and public safety. The technologies described are helping to transform cities and make them more efficient, sustainable and livable.
Smart city simply means the use of information technology(IT) at the city level, which was first applied to the desk in 1980s and then expanded to the office or the home and the building in that order. Smart city enables citizen to make the right decision and act like an expert by moving intelligence from human to city structure. Smart city has four characteristics; self-orarnizing city, generative city, citizen-centric city, and realtime city. In order to succeed in building smart city, emphasis should be put on the city platform. Without a city-wide platform, it is impossible to combine data from different sources and to create smart services. This slide explains what is smart city, how to start smart city, and what benefits smart city will accompany.
Describing society's entry into the fourth industrial revolution, the impact of the digital era, and the emergence of participatory democracy as the right system to manage smart cities.
A smart city uses technology to provide services and solve problems in order to improve policy efficiency, reduce waste and inconvenience, and improve social and economic quality. Key elements of a smart city include smart people through education and participation; a smart economy through entrepreneurship and productivity; smart governance through efficient e-government services; smart mobility through optimized transportation; and a smart environment through renewable energy and resource management. The main goals are to apply smart solutions to infrastructure and services to make cities better, reducing vulnerabilities and using fewer resources to provide cheaper services.
1) Amsterdam Smart City is a public-private partnership initiated in 2009 to transform the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region into a smart city with over 100 partners from different sectors.
2) Key focus areas include smart mobility (dynamic traffic control, smart parking, electric vehicles), smart energy (smart grids, cooling and heating districts, renewable energy), connectivity, e-health, open data, and urban living labs.
3) Three urban living labs - IJburg, Zuidoost, and Nieuw-West - serve as testbeds for smart city projects and citizen engagement across themes like mobility, energy, healthcare, and education.
A Quintessential smart city infrastructure framework for all stakeholdersJonathan L. Tan, M.B.A.
Smart City Infrastructure Framework provides guidance to open government data and infrastructure essentials for ICT \ Telecom, Energy \ Renewable Energy, Water \ Waste Water, Transportation, Education, Health and Government Services systems
I. Smart City Drivers
Smart City Definition
Smart City Elements
II. Smart City Infrastructure Frameworks
III. Technology Ecosystem
Stakeholders
ICT Essentials
OGD
ICT for Building Automation
Smart Water
Smart Energy
Smart Transportation
Smart Education
Smart Healthcare
Smart City Services
IV. Smart City Applications
V. Smart City Systems Infrastructure
Top SC Vendors
Smart cities use digital technologies and data to improve city services and quality of life. Key components of smart cities include smart infrastructure to provide reliable utilities like energy and water, smart mobility options through transportation technologies, and smart governance with accessible public services and engaged citizens. Benefits of smart cities include improved sustainability through efficient resource use, economic growth from new industries and jobs, and an enhanced living experience for residents through connected, livable communities. However, barriers to developing smart cities include limited funding for new technologies, lack of established business models, skills gaps in local governments, challenges integrating data and departments, and privacy/security concerns around new data sources.
How I herd cats - teamwork, persuasion and communicationRick Robinson
Most of us can only accomplish what we need to at home and at work through communication with others. I use this presentation with university students to give them an idea of the types of teamwork, persuasion and communication that they'll find useful in their careers.
Riba nbs live rick robinson smart cities 281014Rick Robinson
My presentation on Smart Cities to the RIBA and NBS Live Digital Thinking, Smart Buildings conference on 4th November 2014. The presentation gave examples of technologies that are disrupting the services, infrastructures and economies of cities, and examples of applying those technologies in ways that not only create efficiencies and resilience in cities, but that enable local communities and businesses to create their own innovations.
On 6 and 7 June 2013, André Bouffioux, CEO of Siemens Belgium-Luxembourg, presented our Siemens’ view on how Smart Cities will develop and generate new business. He made this presentation during the European Young Innovator Forum’s unique Unconvention in Brussels, where young Europeans with innovative ideas and those who will inspire, guide and support them, were brought together.
This document discusses what constitutes a smart city. It provides several definitions of a smart city, including one that describes it as using technology to make city infrastructure and services like administration, education, healthcare, public safety, real estate, transportation and utilities more intelligent and efficient. Another definition describes a smart city as having sustainable economic development and high quality of life through management of resources and engagement between citizens and government. The document also discusses why smart cities are needed due to population growth, climate change and new technologies. It outlines some characteristics of a smart city model and challenges to implementing smart city initiatives.
I developed this presentation as a member of the Union Square Redevelopment Civic Advisory Committee (CAC) and its Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee. The presentation was made to fellow CAC members, members of the public, Somerville City Government staff, US2 (the Master Developer) staff, and other group representatives including Union Square Main Streets, Union Square Neighbors, and the Union United Coalition on 7-14-15. The purpose of the talk is to present underlying concepts, benefits, and options related to smart city infrastructure in the context of Union Square Somerville. My intent was to spark discussion and further consideration including the idea of making Union Square an urban innovation lab (to attract employers, improve civic life, and support public and private services and benefits) for the entire city and beyond.
Smart cities in context to urban developmentPalak Shah
This document discusses smart cities. It begins with an introduction defining a smart city as one that identifies important trends to implement solutions that address cities' immediate needs. It outlines objectives of smart cities like reducing emissions and energy consumption. Key characteristics are developed infrastructure and competitive environment. Concepts that make a city smart include ICT, innovation, and e-governance. Top smart cities are identified and India's plans for smart cities like Lavasa are examined. The document concludes that as urbanization increases, smart city initiatives will be important for governments globally.
The document summarizes initiatives by Amsterdam Smart City to create a more livable city through smart technologies and open data. It discusses projects like:
1) A startup in residence program that provides training and support to startups working on smart city solutions, helping them pilot projects and access potential customers in the city administration.
2) Sharing traffic and other data openly through partnerships with companies like Google and TomTom to improve traffic flow and parking.
3) A "City Alerts" system to exchange emergency information between first responders to provide all relevant details during incidents.
4) A "Rainproof Amsterdam" project testing a smart roof that recycles rainwater, provides urban cooling, and supports urban
Smart City Fever. The sunny and darker sides of a technology-driven urban hypeIzabela-Mironowicz
This document provides an overview of smart cities including:
- Many city governments are promoting smart urban technologies using citizens' interest in new technologies.
- Smart city technologies aim to integrate digital technologies like smartphones, big data, IoT into urban life.
- While smart cities offer benefits like improved services, they also pose risks like loss of privacy and increased corporate influence. Careful monitoring is needed to avoid negative social and economic impacts.
Smart city planning in the era of post COVID-19Junyoung Choi
The document discusses smart city planning in South Korea in the era of post-COVID 19. It provides an overview of Korea's response to COVID-19, what constitutes a smart city in Korea, how smart city systems and technologies supported Korea's COVID-19 response, and considerations for smart city planning in the future post-pandemic. Some key points include how COVID-19 tracking systems leveraged existing smart city data hubs; concerns about public surveillance during outbreaks; the potential impacts of COVID-19 on urban planning like increased suburbanization and demand for alternate transport. The document also outlines approaches for data-driven, socially distant smart city planning going forward.
Elizabeth Kellar, president and CEO of the Center for State and Local Government and deputy executive director for ICMA, spoke on the topic of smart cities during the 2016 Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam. These were the slides that accompanied her speech.
The document discusses how cities are becoming smarter through the use of new technologies that are improving infrastructure systems. Key systems discussed include transportation, energy grids, water management, data collection and analytics. These smarter systems allow cities to better accommodate growing populations, improve services for residents, and address challenges around issues like traffic, resource use and public safety. The technologies described are helping to transform cities and make them more efficient, sustainable and livable.
Smart city simply means the use of information technology(IT) at the city level, which was first applied to the desk in 1980s and then expanded to the office or the home and the building in that order. Smart city enables citizen to make the right decision and act like an expert by moving intelligence from human to city structure. Smart city has four characteristics; self-orarnizing city, generative city, citizen-centric city, and realtime city. In order to succeed in building smart city, emphasis should be put on the city platform. Without a city-wide platform, it is impossible to combine data from different sources and to create smart services. This slide explains what is smart city, how to start smart city, and what benefits smart city will accompany.
Describing society's entry into the fourth industrial revolution, the impact of the digital era, and the emergence of participatory democracy as the right system to manage smart cities.
A smart city uses technology to provide services and solve problems in order to improve policy efficiency, reduce waste and inconvenience, and improve social and economic quality. Key elements of a smart city include smart people through education and participation; a smart economy through entrepreneurship and productivity; smart governance through efficient e-government services; smart mobility through optimized transportation; and a smart environment through renewable energy and resource management. The main goals are to apply smart solutions to infrastructure and services to make cities better, reducing vulnerabilities and using fewer resources to provide cheaper services.
1) Amsterdam Smart City is a public-private partnership initiated in 2009 to transform the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region into a smart city with over 100 partners from different sectors.
2) Key focus areas include smart mobility (dynamic traffic control, smart parking, electric vehicles), smart energy (smart grids, cooling and heating districts, renewable energy), connectivity, e-health, open data, and urban living labs.
3) Three urban living labs - IJburg, Zuidoost, and Nieuw-West - serve as testbeds for smart city projects and citizen engagement across themes like mobility, energy, healthcare, and education.
A Quintessential smart city infrastructure framework for all stakeholdersJonathan L. Tan, M.B.A.
Smart City Infrastructure Framework provides guidance to open government data and infrastructure essentials for ICT \ Telecom, Energy \ Renewable Energy, Water \ Waste Water, Transportation, Education, Health and Government Services systems
I. Smart City Drivers
Smart City Definition
Smart City Elements
II. Smart City Infrastructure Frameworks
III. Technology Ecosystem
Stakeholders
ICT Essentials
OGD
ICT for Building Automation
Smart Water
Smart Energy
Smart Transportation
Smart Education
Smart Healthcare
Smart City Services
IV. Smart City Applications
V. Smart City Systems Infrastructure
Top SC Vendors
Smart cities use digital technologies and data to improve city services and quality of life. Key components of smart cities include smart infrastructure to provide reliable utilities like energy and water, smart mobility options through transportation technologies, and smart governance with accessible public services and engaged citizens. Benefits of smart cities include improved sustainability through efficient resource use, economic growth from new industries and jobs, and an enhanced living experience for residents through connected, livable communities. However, barriers to developing smart cities include limited funding for new technologies, lack of established business models, skills gaps in local governments, challenges integrating data and departments, and privacy/security concerns around new data sources.
How I herd cats - teamwork, persuasion and communicationRick Robinson
Most of us can only accomplish what we need to at home and at work through communication with others. I use this presentation with university students to give them an idea of the types of teamwork, persuasion and communication that they'll find useful in their careers.
Riba nbs live rick robinson smart cities 281014Rick Robinson
My presentation on Smart Cities to the RIBA and NBS Live Digital Thinking, Smart Buildings conference on 4th November 2014. The presentation gave examples of technologies that are disrupting the services, infrastructures and economies of cities, and examples of applying those technologies in ways that not only create efficiencies and resilience in cities, but that enable local communities and businesses to create their own innovations.
Open data, kebabs and town planning: how to build Smart Cities as if people m...Rick Robinson
My presentation to the ODI Futures "Scaling Open Smart Cities" event. More background on the ideas and projects in the presentation can be found at http://theurbantechnologist.com/
TEDxBrum: From concrete to telepathy: how to build future cities as if people...Rick Robinson
My presentation from TEDxBrum 2014, bringing together examples from my work for IBM in Smarter Cities with examples of great, innovative projects in Birmingham and around the world. A transcript of the accompanying talk is here: http://theurbantechnologist.com/2014/11/11/from-concrete-to-telepathy-how-to-build-future-cities-as-if-people-mattered/
Big data, open data and telepathy: technologies for smart, human-scale cities...Rick Robinson
How will cities and communities be successful in the future? Why will people want to live in them and what challenges will they face? Technologies such as big data, 3D printing, the internet of things and social media will be crucial enablers of resilient, vibrant and equitable cities and communities in the future; and technologies invented in coming years will quickly create possibilities that are hard for us to imagine today. But applying them successfully to create better places to live and do business is a challenge for personal and community leadership and business innovation, not just engineering.
Smarter cities: design thinking and market forcesRick Robinson
A presentation to the UK Government Office for Science describing the design thinking and awareness of urban design necessary for "Smarter City" technology solutions to improve lives, communities and economies in cities. Includes a set of early "design patterns" for re-applying successful "Smarter City" ideas in new contexts; and a high-level analysis of the market drivers and barriers that are determining the speed at which investment can be unlocked to apply these ideas in cities everywhere.
Smart Cities that don't go "bump" in the night: delivering interoperable smar...Rick Robinson
This document discusses concepts related to smart cities and their information modeling. It begins by defining a smart city and outlining some of its key components. It then provides examples of concepts that could be included in an information model for city systems, such as organizations, alerts, incidents, assets, and locations. It also discusses existing standards that could be leveraged for modeling these concepts and provides examples of their current use. Finally, it presents an approach for developing a semantic model called SCRIBE that is aligned with standards, customizable for different city needs, and extensible.
Smarter Cities and Communities: technology and collaboration - a presentation...Rick Robinson
I was honoured last year to be asked to address the 16th session of the United Nations’ Commission on Science and Technology for Development in Geneva on the topic of Smarter Cities and Communities. I was invited to speak following the Commission’s interest in my article “Open urbanism: why the information economy will lead to sustainable cities“, which was referenced in their report “Science, technology and innovation for sustainable cities and peri-urban communities“. A transcript of the presentation can be found at http://theurbantechnologist.com/2013/06/06/an-address-to-the-united-nations-science-technology-and-innovation-for-sustainable-cities-and-peri-urban-communities/
CIO Event - Big data, open data and telepathy: building better places to live...Global Business Intel
Big data, open data and telepathy: building better places to live, work and travel
Presented by: Rick Robinson, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology, Amey
The document discusses how cities and technology have evolved over the past century and how new technologies like Big Data and the Internet of Things will transform cities in the future. It notes that by 2050, there will be 3 billion more urban citizens, and that traditional businesses are being disrupted by new platform models. New opportunities exist at the intersection of technology and industries like transportation, utilities and waste management to create smarter cities and a circular economy. Entrepreneurs need to focus on creating value by getting the right resources to the right places at the right time through new business models and technologies.
Housing continues to face many challenges across the globe paul young cpa, cga
This document summarizes the housing markets in Canada and the United States. It discusses rising housing costs and debt levels in both countries. Solutions discussed include modular housing, urban planning reforms, and using technology like 3D printing to help make housing more affordable. The document also covers issues like homelessness and reviews recent housing start and price data for key cities in Canada and the US.
INTERNET OF THINGS - THE NEXT WAVE OF INNOVATIONRajat Maheshwari
IoT is the new wave of innovation.
IoT has the potential to enable extensions and enhancements to fundamental services in transportation, logistics, security, utilities, education, healthcare and other areas, while providing a new ecosystem for application development.
A concerted effort is required to move the industry beyond the early stages of market development towards maturity, driven by common understanding of the distinct nature of the opportunity.
The document discusses trends related to the Internet of Things (IoT) and cybersecurity. It provides definitions and statistics about the growing IoT landscape, including predictions that 50 billion devices will be connected by 2020. It also discusses the financial value of IoT being in the trillions of dollars annually by 2025. Other sections cover five key areas of focus for IoT, including consumer, industrial, networking, analytics, and autonomous technologies. The document outlines technology trends like automation, robotics, AI, and 3D printing that are enabling IoT. It also discusses policy issues, enablers of IoT like lower sensor/bandwidth costs, and vertical areas like smart cities, transportation, health, and more. Cyber
The Business Power of Cognitive IoT Data sudha jamthe predictive analytics su...Sudha Jamthe
Sudha Jamthe talks about the power of Cognitive IoT Data.
She shares her prediction about Deep learning leading to Driverless cars that will act as catalyst to speed up Cognitive IoT in city infrastructure and a Driverless world. She talks about Digital Twins and IoT usage in Industrial IoT.
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The document discusses using megatrends to transform businesses by leveraging IoT and data analytics. It provides background on the speaker, Dr. Tan Guan Hong, who has experience in government, research, and private industry related to industrial automation, IoT, and data analytics. The document then covers several global and local trends that are opportunities for business transformation, including the growth of IoT devices, aging populations, ecommerce, and more. It argues that businesses must innovate and transform to leverage these trends or risk becoming obsolete. The document provides examples of innovative business models related to IoT and discusses challenges businesses may face in transforming.
IoT-Where is the Money? - Chandrashekar Raman, Engagement Manager, IoT Strate...Lounge47
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Big data, open data and telepathy: building better places to live, work and travel
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Big data, open data and telepathy
Building better places to live, work and travel
Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP FRSA AoU, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology
rick.robinson@amey.co.uk http://theurbantechnologist.com @dr_rick
Smart Data & Technology
2. Smart Data & Technology
Why do we need smart cities (and towns, villages and infrastructure …)?
The Barnett Graph of Doom
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/may/15/graph-doom-social-care-services-barnet
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Why do we need smart cities (and towns, villages and infrastructure …)?
UK social mobility is low, and it kills people early
http://life.mappinglondon.co.uk/
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Why do we need smart cities (and towns, villages and infrastructure …)?
2050: 3 billion more citizens competing for jobs & resources
The United Nations World Urbanisation Prospects: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/
5. Smart Data & Technology
Why do we need smart cities (and towns, villages and infrastructure …)?
Threats to resources from climate change
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-
business/asda-food-waste-risk-climate-change
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews
/australiaandthepacific/kiribati/9127576/Enti
re-nation-of-Kiribati-to-be-relocated-over-
rising-sea-level-threat.html
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Community engagement and open innovation
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Social and demographic Economic
Weather
Geospatial and infrastructure
Sensors
Operational and assets
Crowdsourced
Joint works
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Smart aspirations: regions, cities, communities
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Disruptive Innovation
• Founded in 1919
• Over 680,000 rooms in 91 countries
• Over 310,000 employees and franchise
employees
• Market capitalisation $29.64B
1997 2003 2006 2006 2007
• Founded in 2008
• Over 800,000 rooms in 192 countries
• 600 employees (2013)
• Estimated value $13B (2014)
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The importance of a good diet
http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la?language=en
20. Smart Data & Technology
Smart Hack Birmingham 2012
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Birmingham Smart City Alliance
http://birminghamsmartcityalliance.wordpress.com/
22. Smart Data & Technology
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/sport/rugby-trytracker/10630406/ibm-big-data-analytics-dublin.html
The “unusual suspects”
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http://harbornefoodschool.co.uk/
27. Smart Data & Technology
What is the bounty of the information revolution?
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2014-06-04/new-world-order
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Photo of Masshouse Circus, Birmingham, before its redevelopment, by Birmingham City Council
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=Planning-Management%2FPageLayout&cid=1223092740947&pagename=BCC%2FCommon%2FWrapper%2FWrapper
29. Images and concept from Kelvin Campbell’s “Smart Urbanism” movement:
http://www.massivesmall.com/
Massive / Small: what are the characteristics of cities that give rise
to “massive” amounts of “small-scale” innovation?
Smart urbanism
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Smart digital urbanism
• Accessible and adaptable
• A digital environment of Open Data, Open Architectures, Open
APIs, Open Standards, Cloud Computing and Open Source
• Engaging
• Informed engagement enriched by Open Data and Social Media
• Top down and bottom up:
• Planning frameworks, procurement policies, and soft
infrastructures that incentivise and enable
• Entrepreneurial and enterprising:
• Enabling more people to make a better life for themselves
http://theurbantechnologist.com/2015/02/01/smart-digital-urbanism-creating-the-
conditions-for-equitably-distributed-opportunity-in-the-digital-age/
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“Private investment shapes cities, but social ideas (and laws) shape private investment. First
comes the image of what we want, then the machinery is adapted to turn out that image. The
financial machinery has been adjusted to create anti-city images because, and only because,
we as a society thought this would be good for us. If and when we think that lively, diversified
city, capable of continual, close- grained improvement and change, is desirable, then we will
adjust the financial machinery to get that.”
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities
http://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/smart-cities/Smart-Cities-Standards-and-Publication/PD-8101-smart-cities-planning-guidelines/
32. Smart Data & Technology
Some (more) questions
• How can we esimate the cost of delivering services to new areas and communities?
• How could we deliver our services differently – or how could they be complemented
– in order to reduce crime, increase social mobility or contribute to economic
growth where we operate?
• How can we stop accidents before they happen?
• How can we survey assets more frequently, completely, cheaply and safely – at a
distance, at height and underground?
• What social, economic and environmental insights could our customers find in the
data we require to operate our business?
• Where will technological solutions (robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomous /
remote systems) replace human activity in our market …
• … and how will human skills and jobs evolve to complement them in a competitive,
effective business?
But most importantly …
• What have a forgotten to think about?
• And how could you help us?
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Thankyou
Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP FRSA AoU, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology
rick.robinson@amey.co.uk http://theurbantechnologist.com @dr_rick
Smart Data & Technology
Editor's Notes
As a company that delivers services to the public sector organisations and regulated industries that support the daily lives of millions of people, why do we need to do things differently?
One answer is the “Barnett Graph of Doom” in the top left of this slide. Barnett were the first local authority in the country to project ahead the rising costs of providing social care to an ageing population, and the falling level of income from central government. They predicted they would run out of money for everything except critical social care by the mid-2020s – there would be no money left for parks, libraries, business development and community support. Some local authorities expect to reach this crisis much more quickly. This illustrates the general point that with an ageing population, meaning more people out of work and requiring support services and less people in work paying taxes, the cost base of public services has to change.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/may/15/graph-doom-social-care-services-barnet
At the same time, though, there is a widespread belief that simply finding a way to afford to deliver what we already deliver is not good enough, and the graph in the top right illustrates why that is the case. This work from UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analytics plots life expectancy at birth today across London, against the Underground network. The graph shows that babies born today in the least wealthy part of London are likely to die on average more than 20 years younger than those born in the most wealthy areas. That astonishing discrepancy is repeated in all of our major cities. There are many complex factors that lead to it, but many of them – fuel poverty, the quality of the urban environment, the opportunity to reach places of education and employment – are affected by the services we deliver.
http://life.mappinglondon.co.uk/
And we need to address these issues in a context of increasing competition for basic resources and economic activity.
Between now and 2050 the United Nations estimate that about 2 billion more people will live on the Earth; that population rise will be accounted for almost entirely by the growth in the population of megacities of populations between 10 and 35 million in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Over the same time period, about 2 billion more people around the world will acquire the affluence to afford what we would consider a middle-class lifestyle; as they do so their diets will change to include significantly more meat, which requires considerably more water to produce than plant and fish-based diets. To feed a growing population and to address existing food shortages, the UN estimate that about 70% more food needs to reach people’s plates than it does today; but we already use 60% of the world’s fresh water supplies to produce food. These numbers don’t add up unless we change the way we support our lifestyles: especially when we take into account the rising sea levels caused by global warming, which will reduce the fresh water and land available to us to produce food in the future – this is why Asda reported last year that 95% of their supply chain of fresh produce is vulnerable to the effects of climate change. What all of these figures add up to is a future in which there is more competition everywhere for economic activity, jobs and resources; and the need for more resilient and efficient public services and infrastructure to support and supply them.
http://esa.un.org/unup/
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/35571/icode/
http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats
https://water.usgs.gov/edu/wuir.html
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/asda-food-waste-risk-climate-change?CMP=new_1194#start-of-comments
As a company that delivers services to the public sector organisations and regulated industries that support the daily lives of millions of people, why do we need to do things differently?
One answer is the “Barnett Graph of Doom” in the top left of this slide. Barnett were the first local authority in the country to project ahead the rising costs of providing social care to an ageing population, and the falling level of income from central government. They predicted they would run out of money for everything except critical social care by the mid-2020s – there would be no money left for parks, libraries, business development and community support. Some local authorities expect to reach this crisis much more quickly. This illustrates the general point that with an ageing population, meaning more people out of work and requiring support services and less people in work paying taxes, the cost base of public services has to change.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/may/15/graph-doom-social-care-services-barnet
At the same time, though, there is a widespread belief that simply finding a way to afford to deliver what we already deliver is not good enough, and the graph in the top right illustrates why that is the case. This work from UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analytics plots life expectancy at birth today across London, against the Underground network. The graph shows that babies born today in the least wealthy part of London are likely to die on average more than 20 years younger than those born in the most wealthy areas. That astonishing discrepancy is repeated in all of our major cities. There are many complex factors that lead to it, but many of them – fuel poverty, the quality of the urban environment, the opportunity to reach places of education and employment – are affected by the services we deliver.
http://life.mappinglondon.co.uk/
And we need to address these issues in a context of increasing competition for basic resources and economic activity.
Between now and 2050 the United Nations estimate that about 2 billion more people will live on the Earth; that population rise will be accounted for almost entirely by the growth in the population of megacities of populations between 10 and 35 million in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Over the same time period, about 2 billion more people around the world will acquire the affluence to afford what we would consider a middle-class lifestyle; as they do so their diets will change to include significantly more meat, which requires considerably more water to produce than plant and fish-based diets. To feed a growing population and to address existing food shortages, the UN estimate that about 70% more food needs to reach people’s plates than it does today; but we already use 60% of the world’s fresh water supplies to produce food. These numbers don’t add up unless we change the way we support our lifestyles: especially when we take into account the rising sea levels caused by global warming, which will reduce the fresh water and land available to us to produce food in the future – this is why Asda reported last year that 95% of their supply chain of fresh produce is vulnerable to the effects of climate change. What all of these figures add up to is a future in which there is more competition everywhere for economic activity, jobs and resources; and the need for more resilient and efficient public services and infrastructure to support and supply them.
http://esa.un.org/unup/
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/35571/icode/
http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats
https://water.usgs.gov/edu/wuir.html
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/asda-food-waste-risk-climate-change?CMP=new_1194#start-of-comments
As a company that delivers services to the public sector organisations and regulated industries that support the daily lives of millions of people, why do we need to do things differently?
One answer is the “Barnett Graph of Doom” in the top left of this slide. Barnett were the first local authority in the country to project ahead the rising costs of providing social care to an ageing population, and the falling level of income from central government. They predicted they would run out of money for everything except critical social care by the mid-2020s – there would be no money left for parks, libraries, business development and community support. Some local authorities expect to reach this crisis much more quickly. This illustrates the general point that with an ageing population, meaning more people out of work and requiring support services and less people in work paying taxes, the cost base of public services has to change.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/may/15/graph-doom-social-care-services-barnet
At the same time, though, there is a widespread belief that simply finding a way to afford to deliver what we already deliver is not good enough, and the graph in the top right illustrates why that is the case. This work from UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analytics plots life expectancy at birth today across London, against the Underground network. The graph shows that babies born today in the least wealthy part of London are likely to die on average more than 20 years younger than those born in the most wealthy areas. That astonishing discrepancy is repeated in all of our major cities. There are many complex factors that lead to it, but many of them – fuel poverty, the quality of the urban environment, the opportunity to reach places of education and employment – are affected by the services we deliver.
http://life.mappinglondon.co.uk/
And we need to address these issues in a context of increasing competition for basic resources and economic activity.
Between now and 2050 the United Nations estimate that about 2 billion more people will live on the Earth; that population rise will be accounted for almost entirely by the growth in the population of megacities of populations between 10 and 35 million in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Over the same time period, about 2 billion more people around the world will acquire the affluence to afford what we would consider a middle-class lifestyle; as they do so their diets will change to include significantly more meat, which requires considerably more water to produce than plant and fish-based diets. To feed a growing population and to address existing food shortages, the UN estimate that about 70% more food needs to reach people’s plates than it does today; but we already use 60% of the world’s fresh water supplies to produce food. These numbers don’t add up unless we change the way we support our lifestyles: especially when we take into account the rising sea levels caused by global warming, which will reduce the fresh water and land available to us to produce food in the future – this is why Asda reported last year that 95% of their supply chain of fresh produce is vulnerable to the effects of climate change. What all of these figures add up to is a future in which there is more competition everywhere for economic activity, jobs and resources; and the need for more resilient and efficient public services and infrastructure to support and supply them.
http://esa.un.org/unup/
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/35571/icode/
http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats
https://water.usgs.gov/edu/wuir.html
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/asda-food-waste-risk-climate-change?CMP=new_1194#start-of-comments
As a company that delivers services to the public sector organisations and regulated industries that support the daily lives of millions of people, why do we need to do things differently?
One answer is the “Barnett Graph of Doom” in the top left of this slide. Barnett were the first local authority in the country to project ahead the rising costs of providing social care to an ageing population, and the falling level of income from central government. They predicted they would run out of money for everything except critical social care by the mid-2020s – there would be no money left for parks, libraries, business development and community support. Some local authorities expect to reach this crisis much more quickly. This illustrates the general point that with an ageing population, meaning more people out of work and requiring support services and less people in work paying taxes, the cost base of public services has to change.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/may/15/graph-doom-social-care-services-barnet
At the same time, though, there is a widespread belief that simply finding a way to afford to deliver what we already deliver is not good enough, and the graph in the top right illustrates why that is the case. This work from UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analytics plots life expectancy at birth today across London, against the Underground network. The graph shows that babies born today in the least wealthy part of London are likely to die on average more than 20 years younger than those born in the most wealthy areas. That astonishing discrepancy is repeated in all of our major cities. There are many complex factors that lead to it, but many of them – fuel poverty, the quality of the urban environment, the opportunity to reach places of education and employment – are affected by the services we deliver.
http://life.mappinglondon.co.uk/
And we need to address these issues in a context of increasing competition for basic resources and economic activity.
Between now and 2050 the United Nations estimate that about 2 billion more people will live on the Earth; that population rise will be accounted for almost entirely by the growth in the population of megacities of populations between 10 and 35 million in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Over the same time period, about 2 billion more people around the world will acquire the affluence to afford what we would consider a middle-class lifestyle; as they do so their diets will change to include significantly more meat, which requires considerably more water to produce than plant and fish-based diets. To feed a growing population and to address existing food shortages, the UN estimate that about 70% more food needs to reach people’s plates than it does today; but we already use 60% of the world’s fresh water supplies to produce food. These numbers don’t add up unless we change the way we support our lifestyles: especially when we take into account the rising sea levels caused by global warming, which will reduce the fresh water and land available to us to produce food in the future – this is why Asda reported last year that 95% of their supply chain of fresh produce is vulnerable to the effects of climate change. What all of these figures add up to is a future in which there is more competition everywhere for economic activity, jobs and resources; and the need for more resilient and efficient public services and infrastructure to support and supply them.
http://esa.un.org/unup/
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/35571/icode/
http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats
https://water.usgs.gov/edu/wuir.html
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/asda-food-waste-risk-climate-change?CMP=new_1194#start-of-comments
Why is technology part of the answer to these challenges?
Today, there is a phenomenal variety of data available to us to help us understand and address them. As everything from our cars to our boilers to our fridges to our clothing is integrated with connected, digital technology, the Internet of Things, in which everything is connected to the internet, is emerging. As a consequence our world, and our cities, are full of data. The data tells us about the waiting time at road junctions; the location of buses; the number of free parking spaces and bicycles available to hire; sentiments expressed about the city through social media; and – as you can see in this visualisation of check-ins from Foursquare in New York and Tokyo – how people are moving about and transacting. We have never before had this level of insight available into our cities, economies and communities and it creates new opportunities to provide innovative, efficient services and infrastructure to support a high quality of life and accessible opportunity.
The roads that we maintain are not just tarmac surfaces: they connect people with their homes and offices, support community life, and are are used by a wide variety of people with different interests – pedestrians, office-workers, delivery drivers, schoolchildren and cyclists.
By using a “Smart City” technology platform we are combining information about the condition of the roads we maintain, and our plans to carry out corrective work, with information about the surrounding area – its communities, businesses, schools, hospitals and parks. We can take into account environmental and demographic information, as well as the plans of other organisations – such as telecommunications and utility companies – to carry out work in the same area.
All of this helps us to plan our work in a way that takes into account its impact on local communities and the issues that are important to them: we can identify areas that require a high level of maintenance and where renewal may be requried; we can identify preventative maintenance to reduce the impact of predicted weather or flooding events; and we can prioritise work to address issues on routes of particular importance to local communities, such as those between homes, schools, places of employment and local shops.
We are also exploring how we can make some of this information available as Open Data, where doing so in a responsible way can create mutual benefit for our customers, and for local residents and businesses. This approach can give residents, businesses and other stakeholders better visibility of our knowledge of current road conditions and plans to address them, and the opportunity to express their opinion. We are trialling the use of both Smartphone and Social media technologies as tools to do this, complemented by programmes of “real world” education and engagement with local communities.
This improved understanding of our own operations and the local communities and businesses around us gives rise to new opportunities for collaboration: for including local people and businesses in our supply chain; for planning work in ways that takes into account a better knowledge of the impact it will have; and by better understanding the issues that have the most importance for local people.
To achieve these objectives, we are investing in the creation of “Smart” technology platforms that integrate a rich and very interesting set of data sources, from obvious references such as geographic and asset data, to data from remote sensors and crowdsourcing.
Because our contract objectives often relate to the social, economic and environmental impact of our work, we are also integrating economic, demographic and community information into those platforms too.
Our customers in national and local government are aware of all of these possibilites. From County Councils to City Councils to national government to islands such as Guernsey, they are expressing visions for harnessing emerging technologies to create more vibrant communities and sustainable equalities in which opportunity is more fairly distributed.
The challenge is how to win investment in the technology infrastructures that are required. Many of the cities with the highest profile initiatives – Glasgow, Bristol, Milton Keynes for example – are supported by research and innovation grants. The UK benefits enormously from these grants, both from the UK government and the European Union, but research and innovation grants are there to support the exploration of new ideas, not to fund their widespread deployment across the company.
In Amey, our job is to take on outcomes risk for our customers and partners – the quality of the environment, the timeliness of transport, the availability of public assets, the successful functioning of utility services such as water and electricity. To serve our customers well and to operate successfully in our market, we are driven to invest in the Smart technology infrastructures that can support our customers’ expectations.
As a consequence we have seen a series of technology capabilities emerge that are dramatically changing the way that cities, infrastructure and services operate.
Airb’n’b was founded in 2008, a year after the iPhone introduced us to the touchscreen and the “always-on” mobile internet connection; it built on the availability of Cloud platforms, free Open Source software and Open APIs that allow developers to create new services for the vast networks of people using online social media platforms. In 6 years they created a service that provides travellers with access to a greater choice of accommodation than the Hilton Hotel group built in the best part of a Century, with 0.2% the number of employees. Of course these are very different business models, and the comparison isnt a direct one; but the example does illustrate how astonishing quickly the technologies we are inventing today can thoroughly change and disrupt the world we are used to.
(And the question we should be asking is: what has been invented after 2007 that’s now being exploited by the new disruptive business we’ll all be talking about next year?)
This is what happens when you give city data to people with the skills and passion to do something about it. These people spent a weekend together in 2012 asking themselves: in what way should Birmingham be better? And what can we do about it?
They wrote an app that connected spare food prepared in professional kitchens each day with soup kitchens in need of more food.
So what came of this?
The Smart City Alliance came together to promote “massive / small” innovation by creating a network of networks so that great ideas from one place can find great support from another. We convened a set of “unusual suspects” to explore how we could take the ideas generated in the hackathon forward, and create a systematic change to food culture in Birmingham.
Major James Swanston!
Introduced the Open Street Maps movement to city institutions, in particular the Longbridge development. In the Midlands, Open Street Maps now includes full coverage of all buildings in Birmingham and Solihull, with full postal address - the largest regional open address data set in the UK. Open Street Maps has 100% coverage of correct road names for all local authorities in the West Midlands except Coventry, including correction of all errors in Ordnance Survey mapping. The closure of Charles Street Queensway tunnels during the summer schedule was recorded and helped to achieve correct routing for participating navigation systems.
… and Two years later, it led to the Harborne Food School, which opened this month, offering training courses in cookery, sustainable food production and running small food businesses. And it intends in the near future to operate a local food distribution service based on the ideas from the Hackathon.
They will be like the concrete roads we built in the past that cut through cities and communities, and didn’t nurture and support them
We can learn from the past.
When concrete and cars were our new toys, this is what we did to Birmingham
Town planners have learned from this – Kelvin Campbell’s “Massive / Small” smart urbanism – ref his role in Birmingham
In recent decades, town planners and urban designers have driven forward our understanding of how to build cities and infrastructure in a way that is responsive and adaptable to local communities at the same time as meeting the large scale economic, transport and resource requirements of the city as a whole. Kelvin Campbell's "Smart Urbanism" movement asks the question: "What are the characteristics of large-scale urban environments and policies that give rise to massive amounts of small-scale innovation - I.e. That do not cut through cities and communities as Birmingham's old ring-road did but that enable people, businesses and communities everywhere to do better for themselves.