Smart-city solutions connected over an intelligent network platform are the foundation for city digitization. Cisco now offers application program interface (API) tools for developers to create applications for smart cities that frame and focus big-data streams, delivering relevant and timely content to improve city operations and enhance daily life. See how select visionary cities are already working with Cisco to leverage Smart+Connected Communities solutions and how an enormous opportunity now exists to develop applications that transform the data into useful information for city leaders, businesses, citizens and visitors as well as for use in other city processes. Cities are attracting new businesses and entrepreneurs and generating an economic boom in application development to meet urban service requirements of every stripe in cities today and broadly drive city digitization.

2. How APIs are Driving
City Digitization
Sunder Venugopal - Principal Engineer
DevNet-0093

3. • Smart Cities Solution Architecture
• Leverage existing API services in the IoT world
• Shielding users from the underlying technology
• Get started with your API and accelerate application Development
• Layered Models and facets, abstraction of business logic
• Use Cases, Consumption, deployment & services to deliver business results
Agenda

4. S+C Solution Architecture
City Services
 Parking and mobility
 Street lighting
 Environment monitoring
 Location analytics
Citizen Services
 Location-based services
 Wired and wireless network
management
 Remote interactive services
S+C City Wi-Fi Network
Network/FAN/DC Services
Management
Real-Time
DistributedSecurity
Event
Processing
Notification/
Alarm
Reporting/
Trending
Publishing
Device
Abstraction
Service
Assurance
City Infrastructure Management
Ref
Applications
Device
Normalization
Data
Store
Field resources from different verticals
Traffic Outdoor
Lighting
Public
Transport
Crowd
sourcing and
analytics
Citizen
Interaction

5. Three Challenges One Platform
1
Connecting
Apps &
Things
Connect on and/or off-premise
apps and systems to
automate process and gain
efficiency
Automate Operations
2 Sync Data
and Deliver
Content
Event driven data sync and
content delivery to empower
customers, partners and LOB
Deliver Content
3 API Enabled
Business
Create application services to
enable mobile apps or new
service offers that drive
revenue and retention
Engage and Transact

6. The next logical step …Sensor

7. • Cities need to deal with large wireless or wired network of sensors of diverse and multiple
types
• To enable services an horizontal approach is required where the IoE for Cities provides
interconnect/collect/store/organize/share functions for Sensor Networks
• A sensor abstraction model shall be provided to define a sensor/actuator, its capability,
how to access data and notifications
• Data from sensors with semantic should be stored in a repository, ideally the Linked Open
Data store. Stored sensor data can be used for public or private use
• Data mining and analytics are using sensor data
• Standards such as Sensor Web Enablement (SWE from OGC) and SSN (W3C), Internet of
Things (IoT), M2M should be used

8. • Besides simple sensors/actuators classified as embedded smart devices the city is also
using a network of other more complex devices or machines: CCTV cameras, Digital
Multimedia/Kiosk, etc.
• These devices need also to be integrated in the IoE for Cities in an horizontal manner
• A Machine Abstraction Model is required to enable Services Development and Deployment
via the IoE for Cities
• This model should allow to provide control/actuation functions across devices
• Standards: the M2M standard (ETSI, oneM2M) , and Ontologies around IoT (e.g. Open
IOT)

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APIs Transform IOE Data into Consumable Apps
Enable customers, partners and employees with data and apps
MobilityReal time
dashboard
TTFHW Availability
IOE Common APIs
IOE
Services
Exposed as APIs
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10. Decouple Business Logic from the
device model

11. Remote Management
System Management
Parking, Lighting, Traffic Mgmt., Citizens engagement. Applications
Inter Cloud and City Wi-Fi
Sensors and Other Data Sources
Versions & Policies
Cisco Smart cities Market Place
Partners
Robust API runtime
API
City Digital Platform – Urban Service Market place
IOT Integration Services
Promote and socialize
DevNet – Developer Platform
Certified Sensors
Certified Applications
Lighting, Parking, Traffic,
Environmental, incident resp,
License plate recognition, water,
Citizen engagement
Urban Service
Energy service, Parking service,
Crowd density monitoring service,
Speed monitoring service

12. Smart +Connected Cities - Logical Stack
Gateways
Lighting
API
Parking
API
Kiosk API
Traffic
API
Map API
BUSINESS LOGIC
CITY APPS
DOMAIN LOGIC
Models
DEVICE LOGIC
Facets
CIMModels
Business
City events
Policies
On/off state
Intensity
Location
API Providers
API Consumers
 Cisco device engine has
model-based query APIs
that empower developers
with full flexibility
Example
Things: light, parking, sensor,
multisensor
Properties: each has 2~4
Relationships: each has 1~3
Actions: each has 1~3
 Provider pre-defined APIs
often do not work exactly
the way consumers want
Model-Based Query APIs:
Any aspect of the models can be queried by
developers, without fixed constraints
Model Extensions:
Developers can extend
models without touching code
1 Query API:
Find {T}
Select {T}.{A}
Where {T}i.{R}={T}j.{R}
Act {T}.{A}
# of API combinations
needed for equivalent
flexibility: 31,104
Contextual and Normalized API
Decouples Business logic from comm layers

13. Semantic
Linkage
Pollution
(Sensor
Data)
311 service (illegal
dumping, rat
cases, Street
service, Public
works, Ped counts)
(Open Data)
Citizen volunteer,
scouts, Bike trails
(People data)
Lighting, Traffic
Flow, Vehicle count
(sensor, camera
metadata)
Linking different data sources from sensors, devices, people and open data
enables new services for city and citizens
• Location based Integrated services
• Helps service provider to position its location
sensitive personalized service
• Depending upon the location context, can provide
an aggregated service to citizen
• Location based customized interaction
• Location neighborhood information, services can
dynamically provide personalized interaction
• Infrastructure agnostic service delivery
• Service Provider can extend its install base by
decoupling from edge machines and make
service available on any compatible machine
• Service Pull through
• By being integrated with partners’ services, it can
have a pull through effect in right context

14. Use Case – Ped Counts over 100 in KCMO.org

15. • Current parking insufficient on-street parking and parking garage capacity
• Strong traffic disturbance due to lack of car park
• Impossibility to develop additional on-street parking
• Parking fee revenue collection notably insufficient
• Difficulties in managing of-regulated places (delivery, handicap)
• Environmental sensors will monitor atmospheric (temp, humidity, rain, fog), wind
(speed, direction) and pollution (Co2 emission) measurements
• A smart lighting control is capable of monitoring, activating, and controlling each
individual light point in the network in line with requirements
• Malfunctioning street light
• Camera with a dirty lens (used mainly for maintenance purposes)

16. • Vehicle stopping in the middle of the road
• Vehicle driving on the road shoulders, Vehicle driving in the wrong direction,
Vehicle loitering in a defined area
• Vehicle illegally parked in an unauthorized area
• Vehicle entering a restricted zone
• Pedestrian crossing the road in a dangerous/unauthorized area
• Pedestrian “caught” in a defined area for a duration exceeding a threshold
• Road debris (e.g. a box that has dropped off a truck)
• Abnormal traffic – based on the ability to automatically learn the traffic routine in
every segment, and based on this analysis identify abnormal traffic patterns

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