Explanatory presentation of my final project for Technicity course. It consists of an analisys about what are the general conditions to take into account when setting up a framework for an Intelligent City project. These general conditions form the meta-framework. To develop the present work, I hav econsidered a concrete example: that of i-Coruña, the Intelligent City Project for A Coruña (North-Western Spain)

1. i-CORUÑA
Setting the meta-framework for an intelligent city project
Pedro A. González Pérez
A Coruña (Spain), March-April 2015

2. Introduction
The city
The city model
The meta-framework
1. Definition
2. Previous actions
3. i-Coruña Lifecycle
4. Legal framework
5. i-Coruña Components
6. Data layer
7. Indicators
8. Services and applications
9. User interfaces
CONTENTS:

3. Introduction:
Smart City: fuzzy concept (and, very often, also confusing)
Most popular definition: a City is "Smart" when last hour technological solutions are
used to manage it and its urban services => Simplistic and reductionist
Intelligent Community Forum: an Intelligent Community is the one “which have –
whether through crisis or foresight – come to understand the enormous challenges of
the Broadband Economy, and have taken conscious steps to create an economy
capable of prospering in it”. => Still biased
Spanish National Plan for Intelligent Cities: “Intelligent City (Smart City) is the holistic
vision of a city that applies ICT to improve the quality of live and accessibility of their
inhabitants and assures a permanently improving economical, social and
environmental sustainable development. An Intelligent City allows the interaction of
citizens in a multidisciplinar way and gets adapted, in real time, to their needs, in an
efficient way regarding both costs and quality, offering open data, citizen (conceived as
individuals) oriented solutions and services, to solve the negative effects of city
growing, within both public and private sectors, through the innovative integration of
infrastructures and intelligent managing systems. ” => Complete and comprehensive

4. Introduction:
Falconer and Mitchell: Need to setting up a “general smart framework” previously
to implementing any “Smart” managing system, becomes a rule of thumb to start any
intelligent city project.
Framework basements:
● The knowledge about how does the city "work"
● The definition of what are the goals to achieve and what is the role that each of the
city stakeholders (administration, citizenship, companies, academic institutions)
must play
● The knowledge about what is the role of ICT regarding municipal managing and
urban services providing.
Source:
Falconer & Mitchell: “Smart City Framework. A Systematic Process for Enabling
Smart+Connected Communities”. CISCO Internet Bussiness Solutions Group (IBSG),
September 2012

5. Introduction:
Consequence:
An "intelligent city project" (ICP) will not be coherent, sustainable and efficient enough if
it is not based upon a previously defined "target city", or, in other words, a city model.
Target of this research:
Defining and setting the foundations, the set of rules and concepts that would inspire
the defintion of the general framework of an ICP for the city of A Coruña (its “meta-
framework”), making it rely upon (and tightly relate to) a given city model. This project
will be identified from now on as "i-Coruña".
This metaframework should become the document from which all of the stakeholders
will begin to discuss the actual contents of i-Coruña framework.

6. The city:
Pop: 245,000 Hab
Area: 3761.54 Km2
Pop. Density: 65 Hab/Km2:
Officially founded in 1208 AD
Pre-Roman and Roman
settlements before

7. The city model:
BASIC PRINCIPLES
ACTION AREAS
PUBLIC ACTIVITY

8. The city model:

9. The meta-framework:
DEFINITION:
i-Coruña meta-framework consists of the general description and definition of the
principles, components, rules, stakeholders' roles, goals, etc to be taken into
consideration when working in the set up of the intelligent city framework for i-Coruña
project.

10. The meta-framework:
Action line 0:
A general inventory must be built up in order to have a thorough knowledge on what is
the current situation regarding the use of ICT by A Coruña municipality, as well as to
prevent that none of the previously developed tools or existing capacities results
deprecated without a good reason
Action line 1:
Setting up the rules for the interaction between all of the stakeholders

11. The meta-framework:
THE STAKEHOLDERS:
● City managers and planners: Politicians and technicians
● Companies & professionals (both technological and traditional)
● Educational, academical and research institutions
● Citizens

12. The meta-framework:
i-Coruña Lifecycle:

13. The meta-framework:
Legal framework: ● European level:
● Public Sector Information Directive (PSI)
● INSPIRE Directive on the setting up of an European Spatial
Data Infrastructure, and its set of implementation rules and
technical reccommendations
● Transparency
● Spanish level: Moreover the transposition to the Spanish
legislation of the above mentioned European legal
documents,
● Law on transparency, public information and good
governance
● Spanish National Schemae on Security and Interoperability
● Galician level: Basically, transposition of Spanish level
legislation
● Standards and other technical reccommendations:
● ISO: 37120:2014 + 37101 (Smart Community: services) and
TR 37150:2014 (Smart Community: infrastructures) and
their transposition to Spanish normative by Spanish
Normalization Agency (AENOR)
● Dublin Core for metadata

14. The meta-framework:
i-Coruña Components:
Rick Robinson's New architecture of Smart Cities
i-Coruña architecture

15. The meta-framework:
Data layer:
Questions:
- What are the data that are needed for each of the applications, services and indicators
that are to be implemented?
- In the opposite, what applications, services and indicators may be benefited from
currently available data?
- What are the data that may help fulfilling city model goals?
- Are all of the needed data currently available?
- Otherwise, what are the possible sources for the needed, missing, data?
- Will it be necessary to sign data sharing agreements with third parties?
- How should each dataset be captured and stored?
- How and under what conditions should each dataset be used, shared and distributed?
- How do the different datasets (pre-existent or newly built) relate one to each other? Is
it possible to map different datasets to stablish logical links between them?

16. The meta-framework:
Data layer:
Kinds of data sources:
● Owned or produced by the municipality:
● Data used in accordance with each of the currently available municipal
management applications or services
● Data provided by municipal companies (water supply, transportation, housing, ...)
● Data captured by municipal sensors
● Data provided by other Public Administration bodies
● Outsourced data:
● Borrowed from or shared with third parties (i.e. those served through Spatial Data
Infrastructures)
● Data bought from third parties
● Crowdsourced data: those provided by the public in a volunteer and conscious
way
● Crowdfed data: those provided by the public in an non-concious way

17. The meta-framework:
Indicators:
● Monitor the evolution of the city in relation with the adopted model, detecting
posible deviations or missfunctions, in which case failing actions should be re-
defined
● Monitor the effectiveness of i-Coruña project itself, again detecting posible
deviations or missfunctions, in which case the missfunctioning components or
policies should be re-defined
● By using a system of indicators whose core is based upon international standards
like ISO 37120:2014 + ISO 37101 (Smart Community: services) and ISO /TR
37150:2014 (Smart Community: infrastructures), A Coruña planners and
managers will be able to compare how does our city score in relation to other
intelligent cities in the World.

18. The meta-framework:
Services and applications:
Types:
● server applications
● desktop applications
● web services
● mobile apps
Functionalities:
● Managing the city and its urban services, networks and infrastructures
● Providing the citizens with the adequate tools to: interact with administration,
get engaged in city life, its managing and its governance
● Take as much advantage as possible of data gathered from the sensors,
crowdsourcing and crowdfeeding from citizens in order to improve the
knowledge about how does the city work and, as a consequence, to also
improve the performance of the city, its governance and its livability.
● Monitoring the city, its evolution and i-Coruña project itself

19. The meta-framework:
User interfaces:
Final user interfaces to the previously mentioned applications and services.
Common and easily identifiable visual design, so that all of them are clearly and quickly
perceived as individual parts of a common set.
Need for a corporative visual identity document and a coherent set of design rules for
menus, prior to develop any application, service or app. Pre-existent ones should be re-
designed to fulfill those new identity rules.
Corporative identity should be applied also to all of the documentation related to i-
Coruña

20. The author:
PEDRO A. GONZÁLEZ PÉREZ
Tech. Architect
Geographer
MSc in Geographic Information
MSc in Libre Software
Pre-PhD DAS in Computation
A Coruña (Spain), March - April 2015