This document summarizes key points about smart cities and the value they can provide:
1. As more people migrate to cities, urban centers face unprecedented challenges around congestion, emissions, and resource use. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can help cities tackle these challenges through strategic initiatives.
2. While some cities have started smart programs around transportation, energy use, and services, most have yet to realize the full potential value of integrated, strategic smart city development. There is an untapped opportunity to create economic, social and environmental benefits through technology innovation.
3. Beyond visible infrastructure, cities have a "hidden surplus" of complex interactions around resource use, consumption, and waste where huge inefficiencies
The document summarizes a presentation given in Bangkok, Thailand on green ICT and pathways to a low-carbon society beyond 2050. The presentation discusses imagining different possible futures 50 years from now with low or zero emissions, including scenarios where energy generation is integrated into new buildings, transportation is highly efficient, and energy consumption is closely monitored. It also overviewed the work of the APEC Center for Technology Foresight in conducting foresight studies and scenario planning to help organizations and governments strategically plan for emerging technologies and climate change.
Laurie Reilly - NY Community solar confluence presentationJoy Hughes
Laurie Reilly of sustainable CUNY presents on the New York City solar map. Presented at the Community Solar Confluence, April 23, 2012. Used by permission.
The Future of Sustainable Products and Services - Conference Day 1CSCP
Presentation shown at the international conference "The Future of Sustainable Products and Services" in Essen, Germany. 28-29 September 2009. Slides created by CSCP in Wuppertal, Germany.
Master thesis Frans Dijckmeester - Collaborating with CommunitiesFrans Dijckmeester
The document outlines a master's thesis project that designed a service for the Dutch grid operator Stedin to help local energy communities become their own electricity suppliers and play a role in the transition to renewable energy. The project involved understanding the ecosystem of stakeholders involved in energy communities, designing a concept "LEF Explorer" service through co-creation workshops, prototyping key touchpoints, and validating the design. The goal was to determine Stedin's role in enabling local energy communities and how this role could be fulfilled through a new service.
This document summarizes a presentation about Alcatel-Lucent's transition to a social intranet called Engage. The summary is:
Alcatel-Lucent transitioned from traditional top-down communications to a more open, participatory approach using Engage, a social intranet platform. Engage now has over 54,000 users collaborating in 3,300 groups. While this empowered employees, it also introduced challenges around governance, transparency, and information overload that required addressing new risks and opportunities. The CEO and management have supported Engage, seeing it make collaboration and sharing ideas easier across the company.
ARA Rail & Sustainability Conference P11 M38 LiAndrea Hoymann
The Australasian Railway Association announces “Rail and the Sustainability Challenge 2011”. The two day event will examine the challenges and opportunities that sustainability goals and climate change will bear for the rail industry. The conference will take a closer look at the policy framework necessary to introduce an economically sound pathway into a more productive and sustainable future.
Tsp fab fuse-promoting sustainable developmentevoltas
Twinning Sustainable Production is a research projekt which wants to find partners which are interested to share their knowledge about renewable energy infrastructure and open production infrastructure like fablabs or sustainable village
The document summarizes a presentation given in Bangkok, Thailand on green ICT and pathways to a low-carbon society beyond 2050. The presentation discusses imagining different possible futures 50 years from now with low or zero emissions, including scenarios where energy generation is integrated into new buildings, transportation is highly efficient, and energy consumption is closely monitored. It also overviewed the work of the APEC Center for Technology Foresight in conducting foresight studies and scenario planning to help organizations and governments strategically plan for emerging technologies and climate change.
Laurie Reilly - NY Community solar confluence presentationJoy Hughes
Laurie Reilly of sustainable CUNY presents on the New York City solar map. Presented at the Community Solar Confluence, April 23, 2012. Used by permission.
The Future of Sustainable Products and Services - Conference Day 1CSCP
Presentation shown at the international conference "The Future of Sustainable Products and Services" in Essen, Germany. 28-29 September 2009. Slides created by CSCP in Wuppertal, Germany.
Master thesis Frans Dijckmeester - Collaborating with CommunitiesFrans Dijckmeester
The document outlines a master's thesis project that designed a service for the Dutch grid operator Stedin to help local energy communities become their own electricity suppliers and play a role in the transition to renewable energy. The project involved understanding the ecosystem of stakeholders involved in energy communities, designing a concept "LEF Explorer" service through co-creation workshops, prototyping key touchpoints, and validating the design. The goal was to determine Stedin's role in enabling local energy communities and how this role could be fulfilled through a new service.
This document summarizes a presentation about Alcatel-Lucent's transition to a social intranet called Engage. The summary is:
Alcatel-Lucent transitioned from traditional top-down communications to a more open, participatory approach using Engage, a social intranet platform. Engage now has over 54,000 users collaborating in 3,300 groups. While this empowered employees, it also introduced challenges around governance, transparency, and information overload that required addressing new risks and opportunities. The CEO and management have supported Engage, seeing it make collaboration and sharing ideas easier across the company.
ARA Rail & Sustainability Conference P11 M38 LiAndrea Hoymann
The Australasian Railway Association announces “Rail and the Sustainability Challenge 2011”. The two day event will examine the challenges and opportunities that sustainability goals and climate change will bear for the rail industry. The conference will take a closer look at the policy framework necessary to introduce an economically sound pathway into a more productive and sustainable future.
Tsp fab fuse-promoting sustainable developmentevoltas
Twinning Sustainable Production is a research projekt which wants to find partners which are interested to share their knowledge about renewable energy infrastructure and open production infrastructure like fablabs or sustainable village
The Charity Engine is a project that harnesses the unused computing power of internet-connected computers and devices around the world to form a volunteer computing grid. This grid would be over 10 times more powerful than the world's fastest supercomputers combined. The Charity Engine aims to incentivize participation through regular $1 million prize drawings for volunteers. It would also donate $1 million regularly to top international charities. With just 2% of the world's PCs participating, the Charity Engine grid could transform scientific and medical research while having minimal costs and environmental impact by utilizing existing hardware.
This document discusses the World Tech Jam, which engaged over 11,000 people in 84 countries to generate ideas around creating a global digital society. Participants discussed innovations in healthcare, education, transportation, public policy, and other areas. The event tapped into the ideas of young innovators and brought diverse networks together. An action plan was unveiled in Montreal that highlighted leading ideas, industry commitments to action, and policy recommendations in areas like digital skills, smart cities, and public health. The goal is to harness human knowledge and ingenuity to accelerate progress towards a more networked and intelligent world.
The Environmental Impact Initiative 2008 Annual Report summarizes the organization's programs and accomplishments from the past year. EII operates programs in education, public initiatives, and corporate sustainability to promote environmental stewardship and economic progress. A key success was their Go Green Schools initiative which helped Patterson Elementary in Naperville reduce cafeteria waste by 52% and implement other green practices like recycling and composting. EII also conducted research on using hybrid taxis in Chicago which could significantly improve air quality while saving operators money. Going forward, EII aims to continue implementing innovative environmental solutions and serving as a model for sustainable urban development.
The document summarizes the green initiatives undertaken by Infosys to reduce its environmental impact and energy consumption. It details how the green initiatives team launched innovative projects like occupancy sensors, daylight sensors, and smart power strips to reduce electricity consumption. These initiatives helped Infosys cut its per capita electricity consumption by half and achieve its sustainability goals. The author believes Infosys' disruptive innovations can influence business design and potentially lead to significant reductions in global energy consumption.
The document discusses IBM's Smarter Cities solutions portfolio. It provides an overview of IBM's solutions for making cities smarter by leveraging information to improve decision making, coordinating resources to operate effectively, and anticipating problems proactively. The solutions focus on industries like transportation, energy, healthcare, water, government, and education. It also highlights some key Smarter Cities projects from 2011 and discusses where IBM is heading with its Smarter Cities engagements and growth markets.
07.10.12 Gk3 Core Programme Desc Public V21 E BmN S
The document provides information on the core programme for the Third Global Knowledge Conference (GK3) held from December 11-13, 2007 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The conference brought together 2,000 global leaders from private sector, government, civil society and international organizations to discuss emerging people, markets and technologies. Sessions over the three days covered topics such as opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, knowledge management and more. The programme provided panels, workshops and networking opportunities for participants to share knowledge and solutions.
This document provides an agenda for the UNIDO International Conference on Green Industry in Asia to be held in Tokyo, Japan from November 16-17, 2011. The event will include opening and closing plenary sessions, two high-level panels on innovative solutions for green industry, and technical sessions on topics like efficient use of resources, renewable energy, and responsible chemical management. Government officials, business leaders, and experts from countries in Asia and beyond will discuss policies and strategies for developing green industries.
The global summit_2012_program_overview_intro_impact_365David Wortley
The Global Summit 2012 is a three-day event taking place in London in August that aims to unite social, economic, and environmental movements to ensure a sustainable future. It will include a Future Faire showcasing sustainable technologies, a Cross-Cultural Celebration with art and music, and a 1PIE Convergence where thought leaders from different sectors collaborate on solutions. The 1PIE Convergence will feature a SEED Change Speaker Forum, community impact training using the 7 Stages to Sustainability framework, and Millennium Solutions Councils where community champions work to meet UN Millennium Development Goals.
Business Of Green Sustainabiility Sept 29 NYCStanAlpert
This document provides the agenda for a seminar on sustainability laws and initiatives. The seminar will cover topics such as emerging product liability laws relating to sustainability, federal and state incentives for green businesses, New York State's sustainability programs, New York City's sustainability plan, and how companies like IBM are developing green technologies. Government agencies and industry leaders will discuss sustainability guidelines, regulations, and how being proactive about sustainability can benefit businesses economically and mitigate legal risks.
Company Profile GreenMax Capital Advisors January 2012Fabio de Vita
This corporate presentation provides an overview of GreenMax Capital. It focuses on renewable energy including CHP, biomass, biofuels, wind, and solar. GreenMax has a network of offices across Europe and the Americas, with experience in 41 countries globally since 1994. The presentation highlights GreenMax's track record in M&A transactions, project finance deals totaling over $2 billion, and advisory work for many leading renewable energy companies. It introduces the principals of GreenMax and provides examples of their experience in the renewable energy sector.
This document announces a conference on developing commercially successful large-scale photovoltaic (PV) projects to be held from March 28-31, 2011 in Milan, Italy. The conference will allow attendees to:
1) Meet with directors from 17 project developers who have installed over 700 MW of PV capacity and have over 400 MW in development pipelines.
2) Hear best practices case studies on building profitable ground-mounted and rooftop PV projects across Europe.
3) Receive advice from investment banks and private equity players on how to raise project finance.
4) Examine latest technology options to increase plant efficiency and solar yields.
This document provides an overview and summary of the 2013 Global Information Technology Report. It discusses networked readiness and the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in supporting economic growth and job creation. The report ranks 144 economies on their networked readiness and contains essays and case studies on developing ICTs and their impact. It also includes country/economy profiles and data tables with indicators and rankings.
This document is the Insight Report for The Global Information Technology Report 2013. It examines how information and communication technologies (ICTs) can promote economic growth and job creation in a hyperconnected world. The report is published by the World Economic Forum and INSEAD and edited by Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, Soumitra Dutta, and Bruno Lanvin. It contains nine chapters that analyze different aspects of how countries and organizations can maximize the economic and social benefits of ICT adoption.
The document discusses how ICT can both contribute to and help mitigate climate change through more efficient production and use of technology, enabling remote work and services to reduce transportation needs, and providing tools to monitor climate data and support decision making for mitigation and adaptation strategies. ICT also faces risks from climate impacts but can help enhance resilience through applications that measure risks, inform networks, and support predictive and adaptive planning.
The document outlines an agenda for a session on sustainable cities, including speaker presentations on case studies of overcoming barriers to sustainable solutions in cities. Some of the case studies discussed include a project in an unnamed city between the environment department, Cisco and citizens, challenges around density and transport in Barcelona vs Atlanta, and sustainable practices for the Shanghai World Expo. The session aims to examine technologies, stakeholders, barriers to adoption of sustainable technologies, and examples of overcoming barriers.
Leveraging Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the Base of the...Ericsson France
These documents present the conclusions of the study “Leveraging ICT for the BoP” sponsored by AFD-Proparco, Ericsson, ICCO, France Telecom-Orange, and TNO and conducted by Hystra and Ashoka from October 2010 to June 2011. This study aimed to learn from “what works” in terms of full projects (as opposed to technologies) combining both an economically viable model and socio-economic impacts on their end-users, in the field of ICT for development (ICT4D). This work is thus based on the screening of existing projects led by various types of actors (social entrepreneurs, NGOs, private companies…), in 4 sectors of “development” where ICT has already shown it could play a key role: healthcare, education, agriculture, and financial services. 15 of the most ground breaking market-based business models, with a proven scale and results on the ground showing that ICT can be a lever improving the living standards of the BoP, are analysed in depth in the report to support the main conclusions.
We hope that this report, like ICT itself, will not be an end but part of the means to create more effective approaches to foster development.
Horizon 2020 & EC Innovation policy and Smart Cities EIPby Director Mario Campolargo, European Commission, Directorate F: Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures. DG INFSO. Smart Cities & the Future Internet organised by Fireball, Eurocities and ENoLL on January 25th, 2012.
This document provides an overview of an online experience called the Smart City Experience that is designed to help users light cityscapes in an energy efficient manner. It contains the following key details:
1. The Smart City Experience is an interactive online tool that provides expert design advice on selecting and applying energy efficient lighting across 26 common city areas, from bus stations to road tunnels to stadiums.
2. By using the Smart City Experience, users can access application guides, suggested lighting product options suitable for different applications, and review case studies.
3. The document encourages users to visit the Smart City Experience website to make use of this resource and provides basic instructions on how to access and navigate the tool.
CUD Conference BREAKOUT Agenda - Amsterdam 23-24 September 2008Shane Mitchell
Breakout sessions agenda detailing speakers and themes across the two day conference bringing together thought leaders from business, city governments and academia to share knowledge, experiences and collaborate to drive forward the CUD program.
Megacities on the move. Your guide to the future of sustainable urban mobility in 2040.
Forum for the Future is the UK’s leading sustainable development NGO. We work internationally with government, business and public service providers, helping them to develop strategies to achieve success through sustainability, to deliver products and services which enhance people’s lives and are better for the environment, and to lead the way to a better world.
www.forumforthefuture.org
The Charity Engine is a project that harnesses the unused computing power of internet-connected computers and devices around the world to form a volunteer computing grid. This grid would be over 10 times more powerful than the world's fastest supercomputers combined. The Charity Engine aims to incentivize participation through regular $1 million prize drawings for volunteers. It would also donate $1 million regularly to top international charities. With just 2% of the world's PCs participating, the Charity Engine grid could transform scientific and medical research while having minimal costs and environmental impact by utilizing existing hardware.
This document discusses the World Tech Jam, which engaged over 11,000 people in 84 countries to generate ideas around creating a global digital society. Participants discussed innovations in healthcare, education, transportation, public policy, and other areas. The event tapped into the ideas of young innovators and brought diverse networks together. An action plan was unveiled in Montreal that highlighted leading ideas, industry commitments to action, and policy recommendations in areas like digital skills, smart cities, and public health. The goal is to harness human knowledge and ingenuity to accelerate progress towards a more networked and intelligent world.
The Environmental Impact Initiative 2008 Annual Report summarizes the organization's programs and accomplishments from the past year. EII operates programs in education, public initiatives, and corporate sustainability to promote environmental stewardship and economic progress. A key success was their Go Green Schools initiative which helped Patterson Elementary in Naperville reduce cafeteria waste by 52% and implement other green practices like recycling and composting. EII also conducted research on using hybrid taxis in Chicago which could significantly improve air quality while saving operators money. Going forward, EII aims to continue implementing innovative environmental solutions and serving as a model for sustainable urban development.
The document summarizes the green initiatives undertaken by Infosys to reduce its environmental impact and energy consumption. It details how the green initiatives team launched innovative projects like occupancy sensors, daylight sensors, and smart power strips to reduce electricity consumption. These initiatives helped Infosys cut its per capita electricity consumption by half and achieve its sustainability goals. The author believes Infosys' disruptive innovations can influence business design and potentially lead to significant reductions in global energy consumption.
The document discusses IBM's Smarter Cities solutions portfolio. It provides an overview of IBM's solutions for making cities smarter by leveraging information to improve decision making, coordinating resources to operate effectively, and anticipating problems proactively. The solutions focus on industries like transportation, energy, healthcare, water, government, and education. It also highlights some key Smarter Cities projects from 2011 and discusses where IBM is heading with its Smarter Cities engagements and growth markets.
07.10.12 Gk3 Core Programme Desc Public V21 E BmN S
The document provides information on the core programme for the Third Global Knowledge Conference (GK3) held from December 11-13, 2007 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The conference brought together 2,000 global leaders from private sector, government, civil society and international organizations to discuss emerging people, markets and technologies. Sessions over the three days covered topics such as opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, knowledge management and more. The programme provided panels, workshops and networking opportunities for participants to share knowledge and solutions.
This document provides an agenda for the UNIDO International Conference on Green Industry in Asia to be held in Tokyo, Japan from November 16-17, 2011. The event will include opening and closing plenary sessions, two high-level panels on innovative solutions for green industry, and technical sessions on topics like efficient use of resources, renewable energy, and responsible chemical management. Government officials, business leaders, and experts from countries in Asia and beyond will discuss policies and strategies for developing green industries.
The global summit_2012_program_overview_intro_impact_365David Wortley
The Global Summit 2012 is a three-day event taking place in London in August that aims to unite social, economic, and environmental movements to ensure a sustainable future. It will include a Future Faire showcasing sustainable technologies, a Cross-Cultural Celebration with art and music, and a 1PIE Convergence where thought leaders from different sectors collaborate on solutions. The 1PIE Convergence will feature a SEED Change Speaker Forum, community impact training using the 7 Stages to Sustainability framework, and Millennium Solutions Councils where community champions work to meet UN Millennium Development Goals.
Business Of Green Sustainabiility Sept 29 NYCStanAlpert
This document provides the agenda for a seminar on sustainability laws and initiatives. The seminar will cover topics such as emerging product liability laws relating to sustainability, federal and state incentives for green businesses, New York State's sustainability programs, New York City's sustainability plan, and how companies like IBM are developing green technologies. Government agencies and industry leaders will discuss sustainability guidelines, regulations, and how being proactive about sustainability can benefit businesses economically and mitigate legal risks.
Company Profile GreenMax Capital Advisors January 2012Fabio de Vita
This corporate presentation provides an overview of GreenMax Capital. It focuses on renewable energy including CHP, biomass, biofuels, wind, and solar. GreenMax has a network of offices across Europe and the Americas, with experience in 41 countries globally since 1994. The presentation highlights GreenMax's track record in M&A transactions, project finance deals totaling over $2 billion, and advisory work for many leading renewable energy companies. It introduces the principals of GreenMax and provides examples of their experience in the renewable energy sector.
This document announces a conference on developing commercially successful large-scale photovoltaic (PV) projects to be held from March 28-31, 2011 in Milan, Italy. The conference will allow attendees to:
1) Meet with directors from 17 project developers who have installed over 700 MW of PV capacity and have over 400 MW in development pipelines.
2) Hear best practices case studies on building profitable ground-mounted and rooftop PV projects across Europe.
3) Receive advice from investment banks and private equity players on how to raise project finance.
4) Examine latest technology options to increase plant efficiency and solar yields.
This document provides an overview and summary of the 2013 Global Information Technology Report. It discusses networked readiness and the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in supporting economic growth and job creation. The report ranks 144 economies on their networked readiness and contains essays and case studies on developing ICTs and their impact. It also includes country/economy profiles and data tables with indicators and rankings.
This document is the Insight Report for The Global Information Technology Report 2013. It examines how information and communication technologies (ICTs) can promote economic growth and job creation in a hyperconnected world. The report is published by the World Economic Forum and INSEAD and edited by Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, Soumitra Dutta, and Bruno Lanvin. It contains nine chapters that analyze different aspects of how countries and organizations can maximize the economic and social benefits of ICT adoption.
The document discusses how ICT can both contribute to and help mitigate climate change through more efficient production and use of technology, enabling remote work and services to reduce transportation needs, and providing tools to monitor climate data and support decision making for mitigation and adaptation strategies. ICT also faces risks from climate impacts but can help enhance resilience through applications that measure risks, inform networks, and support predictive and adaptive planning.
The document outlines an agenda for a session on sustainable cities, including speaker presentations on case studies of overcoming barriers to sustainable solutions in cities. Some of the case studies discussed include a project in an unnamed city between the environment department, Cisco and citizens, challenges around density and transport in Barcelona vs Atlanta, and sustainable practices for the Shanghai World Expo. The session aims to examine technologies, stakeholders, barriers to adoption of sustainable technologies, and examples of overcoming barriers.
Leveraging Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the Base of the...Ericsson France
These documents present the conclusions of the study “Leveraging ICT for the BoP” sponsored by AFD-Proparco, Ericsson, ICCO, France Telecom-Orange, and TNO and conducted by Hystra and Ashoka from October 2010 to June 2011. This study aimed to learn from “what works” in terms of full projects (as opposed to technologies) combining both an economically viable model and socio-economic impacts on their end-users, in the field of ICT for development (ICT4D). This work is thus based on the screening of existing projects led by various types of actors (social entrepreneurs, NGOs, private companies…), in 4 sectors of “development” where ICT has already shown it could play a key role: healthcare, education, agriculture, and financial services. 15 of the most ground breaking market-based business models, with a proven scale and results on the ground showing that ICT can be a lever improving the living standards of the BoP, are analysed in depth in the report to support the main conclusions.
We hope that this report, like ICT itself, will not be an end but part of the means to create more effective approaches to foster development.
Horizon 2020 & EC Innovation policy and Smart Cities EIPby Director Mario Campolargo, European Commission, Directorate F: Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures. DG INFSO. Smart Cities & the Future Internet organised by Fireball, Eurocities and ENoLL on January 25th, 2012.
This document provides an overview of an online experience called the Smart City Experience that is designed to help users light cityscapes in an energy efficient manner. It contains the following key details:
1. The Smart City Experience is an interactive online tool that provides expert design advice on selecting and applying energy efficient lighting across 26 common city areas, from bus stations to road tunnels to stadiums.
2. By using the Smart City Experience, users can access application guides, suggested lighting product options suitable for different applications, and review case studies.
3. The document encourages users to visit the Smart City Experience website to make use of this resource and provides basic instructions on how to access and navigate the tool.
CUD Conference BREAKOUT Agenda - Amsterdam 23-24 September 2008Shane Mitchell
Breakout sessions agenda detailing speakers and themes across the two day conference bringing together thought leaders from business, city governments and academia to share knowledge, experiences and collaborate to drive forward the CUD program.
Megacities on the move. Your guide to the future of sustainable urban mobility in 2040.
Forum for the Future is the UK’s leading sustainable development NGO. We work internationally with government, business and public service providers, helping them to develop strategies to achieve success through sustainability, to deliver products and services which enhance people’s lives and are better for the environment, and to lead the way to a better world.
www.forumforthefuture.org
'Greening IT' is an internationally collaborative, non-profit, creative commons licensed book dedicated to the preservation of the most important resource - planet earth itself. As the book details, our approach to preservation is not accomplished via pure environmentally focused policies, but instead by leveraging the most important and potent enabler of the Low-Carbon society - Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
Smart Communities & Built Environments (SISV Campaign)marcus evans
This document provides an agenda for the "Smart Communities & Built Environments" conference taking place from July 25-27, 2016 in Singapore. Day 1 of the conference includes plenary sessions and presentations on topics like building world-class urban systems, urban mobility, leveraging digital technology, and developing integrated smart and green built environments. It also lists spotlight sessions, case studies, and panels featuring experts from various organizations. Day 2 continues with more plenary sessions, case studies, and panels on topics such as formulating a liveability framework, smart townships, biophilic design, and creating public spaces. The document provides details on presentation topics, speakers, and the overall schedule of events across the three days of the
Design London in partnership with Living Labs Global invite you to a one day symposium on how innovation in services and mobility contribute to creating sustainable cities. The event coincides with the launch of a new publication “Connected Cities: Your 256 Billion Euro Dividend”. This is the first practical guide to the market for innovation in services and mobility in cities, showcasing how cities are exploiting digital technologies to enhance their sustainability and to transform the nature, value and effectiveness of public services.
Manuel Martinez, will showcase Ferrovial's vision on "Smart Cities and Service Innovation in Cities"
This conference was held at the Imperial College London, on March 9th 2010
More info at:
http://www.livinglabs-global.com/Events_2010_Well-Connected-City.aspx
This document contains testimonials from various clients and professionals praising the services provided by Urban Circus. Key points mentioned include:
- Urban Circus helped improve communication, design, and gain community and stakeholder support for large infrastructure and development projects through their use of 3D interactive models and virtual planning tools.
- Clients note Urban Circus delivered projects on time, provided additional value, had excellent quality and attention to detail. Their tools helped streamline approval processes and save significant time.
- Professionals found Urban Circus' virtual planning tools revolutionized how designs were communicated and contributed to award-winning designs. The tools also identified safety and design issues.
Better World Light Reading Conference Nyc V3Salem Kimble
This document discusses how information and communication technologies (ICT) can help drive the transition to a low-carbon economy. It notes that while ICT contributes to global warming, it also has great potential to help reduce emissions from other sectors through solutions that enable remote work, virtual meetings, and telecommuting. Examples are presented showing how companies have significantly reduced their carbon footprints and costs by allowing more flexible and remote work arrangements for employees. A framework called "BetterWork" is introduced that aims to quantify the financial and environmental impacts of implementing flexible work programs across different enterprise scenarios. The conclusion is that the ICT sector is well-positioned to create meaningful carbon mitigation through industry cooperation and by marketing solutions that promote substitution away from
Connected and Sustainable Mobility WhitepaperShane Mitchell
Urban mobility problems are rapidly turning into an urban mobility crisis.
ICT offers enormous capabilities, but most are vastly underutilized in urban transportation.
Public- and private-sector organizations must partner in adopting a vision for the sustainable city of the future where transportation continues to play a key role in enabling mobility—yet is dramatically transformed by innovative ICT.
Smart City - French- Dutch Young Talents 2014 - 2015 Ahmad AFANEH
FNI Conference
20-21 November 2014
CNIT, La Défense, Paris
Le Réseau franco-néerlandais
Coopération universitaire franco-néerlandaise au service de l’intégration européenne
Digital transformation is enabling rapid change in every industry and across every aspect of our lives. As a direct result of three fundamental ICT forces—mobility, broadband and the cloud—a new service economy is emerging where value chains are being reshaped, business models are becoming digitalized, distance is being overcome and increasingly, people can share goods and services instead of buying and owning them—all examples of how the digital age is unleashing innovative new business models and changing lives.
The new Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, set out a shared global agenda for human development based on prosperity, social inclusion and environmental sustainability. The SDGs include several bold objectives to be achieved by the year 2030, including universal coverage in health, education, poverty eradication and modern energy services. This is the 2030 Agenda.
Five ways ICT can help
According to the OECD, “more ubiquitous access to and use of broadband Internet networks, which are available in a competitive market and at affordable prices, will help foster innovation and drive the growth of the Internet Economy and the economy in general.”4
To achieve the SDGs ICT needs to be combined with innovative policies, services and solutions to deliver transformation at unprecedented speed and scale. It can be a powerful means of implementation in five major ways:
1. Accelerated upscaling of critical services in health, education, financial services, smart agriculture, and low-carbon energy systems.
2. Reduced deployment costs.
3. Enhanced public awareness and engagement.
4. Innovation, connectivity, productivity and efficiency across many sectors.
5. Faster upgrading in the quality of services and jobs.
Issues and Challenges
No technology is without risks and widespread uptake of ICT raises a number of issues that will need to be addressed and managed. Several issues have been identified which governments, industry and other stakeholders must work together to address:
1. Privacy and surveillance
2. Cybersecurity
3. Loss of human skills
4. Possible public concern about health effects
5. Electronic waste and carbon emissions
6. Digital exclusion
7. Child protection and the Internet
The document discusses the environmental impact of the ICT industry and potential solutions. It notes that the ICT industry consumes 6-10% of global energy and emits 2-3% of CO2, similar to aviation. However, ICT can help reduce emissions in other industries and monitor climate change. The document outlines a Green Planet initiative to create documentaries, a book, and website highlighting green ICT stories and solutions from around the world. The goal is to educate about reducing the industry's carbon footprint and role in sustainable development.
This document provides an introduction to Cradle to Cradle and the Cradle to Cradle Network project. It discusses key Cradle to Cradle concepts like moving from a linear "Cradle to grave" model to a cyclical one focused on technical and biological nutrients. It also introduces the Cradle to Cradle Network project partners and objectives to develop knowledge about Cradle to Cradle applications and transfer knowledge through case studies. The document is a guide that describes selected cases and initiatives related to industry, buildings, spatial development and governance that aim to implement Cradle to Cradle principles.
This document is Siemens' 2010 sustainability report which discusses their efforts to promote sustainability through innovative products and solutions. It highlights projects in major cities like London, Shanghai, Houston, and Singapore that help address challenges of increasing energy demand, clean energy needs, and improving quality of life. The report emphasizes Siemens' goal of generating €40 billion in revenue from green products by 2014 to help customers reduce carbon emissions by 300 million tons annually.
This document discusses the Green ITU initiative, which aims to make the IT University of Copenhagen fossil free by 2020. It will take a holistic approach to reducing electricity consumption through both building improvements and influencing user behavior. Instrumentation of buildings will provide energy consumption data, which can be used with models and analysis of user behavior to inform decisions and policies. Feedback and visualization tools may help encourage sustainable practices. The initiative provides an ideal test bed for exploring challenges of moving to a fossil free future.
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The document discusses the concept of smart and connected communities. It describes how technological trends like mobile, cloud, and the internet of things are impacting communities. It also outlines Cisco's vision of using information and communication technologies to create smart cities that improve sustainability, quality of life, and economic growth. Various case studies of smart community implementations from around the world are also mentioned.
Citi aims to partner with cities on urban transformation by leveraging its expertise in financing infrastructure projects, driving efficiency reforms, and digitizing public services. As urbanization accelerates, Citi works with governments and clients to address challenges around modernizing infrastructure, improving efficiency, and fostering sustainable growth. Citi's solutions include financing urban infrastructure projects, implementing city-wide efficiency initiatives, and digitizing services to make them more accessible.
CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society)New Cities Foundation
The document discusses CITRIS, a multi-campus research institute across 4 UC campuses charged with creating IT solutions for society's problems. It has an annual research income of $50-60 million from university funds and has started 35 companies. The CITRIS Cities Initiative aims to use new data gathering technologies to help cities make more effective decisions, reduce dependence on imports, support planning for climate change and population growth, and enhance quality of life through partnerships with 3 cities and state agencies working on projects related to water, energy, transportation, and air quality data.
The document discusses cities as interfaces between human social and economic activity and computational systems. It notes that data will create more connected cities and is critical to their sustainable success. It also discusses how the feedback loops between different data types and physical experiences are becoming more symbiotic. The interface between public and private infrastructure and personal systems is key to consider the appropriate level of presence for these interfaces. The document advocates for designing technological experiences in cities to support and enhance the "flow" of human enterprise in cities.
Naseej Properties is a real estate development company based in Bahrain that provides integrated real estate solutions across the MENA region, with a focus on affordable housing projects. The company has over 30 projects in its pipeline and aims to collaborate with organizations like the New Cities Foundation to promote sustainable urban development and influence governments to adopt more efficient building practices. CEO Christopher Sims outlined Naseej's vision, current projects in Bahrain and Morocco, and desire to work with groups like the NCF to raise standards for urban planning.
The City of Pittsburgh has managed to reverse the inner-city decline. New Cities Foundation speaks to the Director of the Remaking Cities Institute at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture about the changes.
The annual New Cities Summit is the centerpiece of the New Cities Foundation’s work and aims to place the city at the heart of the global discussion. The theme of the Summit, Thinking Ahead, Building Together, reflects our belief that understanding and contributing to our common urban future will require audacity, analysis and, above all, partnership.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Anthony Townsend's Social Nexus article from Scientific American. This article explores how to find creative solutions for cities by harnessing citizen networks.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
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Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
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Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
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We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
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Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
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Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
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This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
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Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
3. Foreword
Mark Kenber | The Climate Group
A Clean Revolution is quietly underway Our SMART 2020 report found that
around the world. deploying smart technologies in key areas
of electricity grids, transport, logistics,
In city halls, boardrooms and cabinet buildings, and industrial motors could save
offices, government and business leaders are 15% of global emissions in 2020, and around
embracing what humanity has been doing $900 billion a year by 2020 in energy savings
best throughout its history: Change. They are to global industry.
changing the way we produce and consume
energy and natural resources. Their motives The report you hold in your hands outlines
for embracing change vary: from ensuring how smart cities could pay off hugely in
corporate profitability to meeting the the coming decades if we act now. This
challenge of an expanding urban populace isn’t only a technical challenge, it is a
to ensuring energy security in an uncertain leadership challenge. As the report shows,
world. Whatever their reasons, they all cities are already making investments in
realise the opportunities in the low carbon low carbon ‘smart’ services from cycle hire
economy – and they are already benefiting schemes to real time transportation apps,
from them. and are increasingly the site for smart grid
and distributed electricity generation pilot
But what precisely is the Clean Revolution? projects. But the explosion in access to data
– 400% growth since 2005 – means that
In short, it is a swift and massive scaling-up more low carbon services could be developed
of clean technologies and infrastructure, today. To make this opportunity real, cities
combined with a fundamental shift to can set ambitious visions, measure track and
sustainable production and consumption manage their progress to sustainability goals
patterns. It is the only viable route to cut enabled by the digital infrastructure, and test
global emissions and avoid dangerous new business models to scale up solutions.
climate change. It can create jobs,
strengthen economic growth and enhance We hope this report inspires city leaders
energy security. It is a revolution based on across the world in their efforts to take
leadership and the belief in a better, more transformational action on the low carbon
prosperous future for the 9 billion people economy and bring on board in the process
that will be on the planet by 2050. private sector partners who will benefit by
providing “smart” solutions.
And most of those 9 billion people are going
to be living in cities. The 21st century is an The Clean Revolution is underway. It is our
urban century. Cities are going to be in the best hope for the future. And cities all over
forefront of driving the Clean Revolution the world are driving the effort for a smarter,
forward. cleaner better world. For all.
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4. Foreword
Volker Buscher | Arup
Time for change Technology as a driver of change
Cities deliver opportunities; providing The technology has reached a critical point;
efficient access to essential services as well as cloud computing, the internet of things,
a rich tapestry of culture and entertainment. hyper connectivity and modern analytics
But cities and their citizens face new are providing opportunities at affordable
challenges. Economic uncertainty, austerity, cost that only a few years ago would have
growth within a new ecological context and been described as science fiction. The
the demands of citizens for a great place success of Information and Communications
to live and work is driving leaders to seek Technologies (ICT) at home and at work
opportunities to innovate. has meant that citizens now have access to
powerful smart devices wherever they go.
Over centuries, cities have developed
sophisticated solutions for many of the Time for leadership
physical aspects of urbanity: architecture,
transport, utilities and the public realm to Continuing with the status quo will not
name a few. However the use of information capture this opportunity. Our research has
and the role of technology in cities has shown that the city that makes the change
barely progressed. from fragmented use of technology projects
to a systemic approach will improve local
Some leaders in cities around the globe are conditions and gain export opportunities for
starting to move beyond the physical city; the solutions they develop.
they are conceiving Digital Infrastructures
and Information Products as a platform for Leaders in government, small to large
economic development. This is the missing businesses and academia need to redefine
link in the ecological age and in creating great their roles in this emerging world. Civic
urban centres for people to live and work in. leaders can determine priorities and set
strategic frameworks. Industry is providing
Politicians around the world are faced with innovative combinations of capabilities,
new choices due to emerging technologies, products and services in new partnerships.
how they respond to these has become a Academia is developing the human capital and
factor in how people will vote. demonstrator campuses for all to learn from.
We produced this report with our partners to
help cities capture this opportunity. Our aim
was to provide a coherent framework that
government, academia and industry can use
to move forward in this exciting new world
of: “New Economics of Cities”.
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5. Foreword
Mark Spelman | Accenture
We are at a point of inflection. As the processing power and storage capacity
of computer chips double every 18 months4
The size and economic output of cities is and the global sales of smart phones is set to
becoming on par with small nations. Today rise to over 1 billion by 20165 – we have the
only 600 urban centres generate about 60% ability to apply technological innovation. ICT
of global GDP1. Tokyo, with 35 million people can be applied to our built environment and
and nearly $1.2 trillion in economic output, will not only help address the problems that
ranks among the world’s top 15 economies, we see in our cities today – like congestion
larger than India and Mexico2. and wasted energy – but also offer exciting
new consumer experiences and convenience,
The pace and scale of the change is and help to stimulate the much needed
unprecedented. economic growth and job creation, that is
particularly required in the Western world.
Cities alone will have to spend a staggering
$350 trillion or 7 times current global GDP Whilst technology is a core enabler, Smart
in the next 30 years on urban infrastructure. Cities are not just a technological issue;
With 180,000 new people moving into cities they also require innovative business and
each day3, the 21st Century will be a century operating models.
of urbanisation.
1
http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/
publications/urban_world/index.asp
For any city, the first step is to understand 2
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/
The challenges posed to our national and the diverse value that smart technologies jobs-and-economy/2011/09/25-
most-economically-powerful-cities-
municipal governments, to businesses can deliver. City leaders need the tools and world/109/
and individual citizens are immense. vocabulary to be able to translate the value
3
http://youthink.worldbank.org/
issues/urbanization
The interconnectedness of our national of their technology investments in to terms 4
http://www.economist.com/
economies, supply chains, talent and that resonate with their voters and to the node/15557443
5
http://imsresearch.com/press-
resource pools, means that this is a businesses that would like to invest in their release/Global_Smartphones_Sales_
collective problem to solve. Fortunately, the city. City leaders will need to nurture their Will_Top_420_Million_Devices_
in_2011_Taking_28_Percent_of_all_
opportunity of technology to help address digital economies. Leaders will need to step Handsets_According_to_IMS_
these challenges has also never been greater. outside of their traditional focus on the Research
physical footprint of their cities and put in
place the appropriate strategic direction,
operating frameworks, and incentives that
will enable the digital aspects to flourish.
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6. Contents
Executive Summary 7
Chapter 1: Cities in Transition 11
Chapter 2: Connecting Smart Cities to Value 21
Chapter 3: The Smart City Value Chain 31
Chapter 4: Smart City Vision and Leadership 37
Appendix 1 47
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7. Executive Summary
Now is the time for government and business leaders to recognise
the value created by smart city thinking. The technology-enabled
city is an untapped source of sustainable growth and represents
a powerful approach for tackling unprecedented environmental
and economic challenges. By unlocking technology, infrastructure
and public data, cities can open up new value chains that spawn
innovative applications and information products that make possible
sustainable modes of city living and working. While smart initiatives
are underway in urban centres around the world, most cities have
yet to realise the enormous potential value from fully-integrated,
strategically-designed smart city development programmes. We
believe that through clear vision and, most of all, leadership,
civic leaders and executives can help cities make the transition to
initiatives that maximise the smart city value opportunity.
Home to more than half of the world’s Cities that face choking congestion from
population, cities around the world must traffic, rising CO2 emissions, or brown-outs
think ‘smart’ to deal with the growing during times of peak energy demand now
pressures of urbanisation. Cities are have new options to solve those challenges
economic drivers and places of opportunity; by building on this digital infrastructure.
but they also face unprecedented An ‘intelligent’ or ‘smart’ city is one that
environmental and social challenges as meets its challenges through the strategic
more and more people migrate to cities and application of ICTs to provide new services
demand ever higher standards of living. to citizens or to manage its existing
infrastructure.
Information and Communications
Technologies (ICTs) are also transforming Cities are already ‘smart’ in tackling their
our lives. Social media, the internet, ‘cloud’ challenges by implementing cycle and car
computing, sensors and mobile phones are hire schemes to get vehicles off the road,
creating a ‘smart’ or digital infrastructure and building performance monitoring to
that is more powerful every year, allowing us drive down peak demand. While more of
to do everything from communicating with this should be encouraged, our findings
one another to solve problems collectively, to show that cities may be missing some of the
making our electricity grids more efficient, value that is at stake if they do not think
to providing new options for services such as strategically about how to manage technology
using video conference instead of driving to innovation. Beyond the visible roads and
the office. building infrastructure of the city is a hidden
set of complex interactions from resource
use, to consumption and waste, where huge
inefficiencies are occurring all the time.
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8. Sources: We call this the ‘surplus’ city where value The risk is that this potential for value
http://www.sustainable-innovations. is not being recognised or captured today. creation does not come to pass, and benefits
org/GE/UNEP%20%5B2009%5D%20
A%20global%20green%20new%20 Tackling this complexity and delivering for citizens are not realised. A key first step
deal.pdf value is a leadership opportunity that brings to realising the potential is to set a vision and
http://www.itif.org/files/2010-1-27- vast rewards. Cities will be able to access create common metrics for cities, allowing
ITS_Leadership.pdf
economic, social and environmental benefits them to access new financing options and
from economies of scale in combining build new partnerships and business models
resources across projects, stimulating their that involve the private sector. As cities
economies and international competitiveness, improve their ability to manage the digital
improving existing services, mitigating risk infrastructure, they will be able to not only to
through better planning and prediction, and build an ecosystem of service providers and
engaging citizens in the process. value chain at home, but will be able to take
the lead internationally, learn from what has
Our findings show that there is an explosion been invented elsewhere, collaborate, and
of interest in ‘smart’ solutions and we are at transfer knowledge to reap the most benefits.
the first stage of realising this opportunity
today. Open Application Interfaces (APIs), It is time for cities to step in and create a
(the interfaces between developers that market, or citizens will lose out.
enable new data-driven services) have grown A smart city can’t be measured by internet
at 400% since 2005 and government, retail, connectivity alone, and it will be just as
transportation and utility APIs have grown important to have a Chief Information Officer
faster than any other area. In addition, or policy for including small businesses
existing literature shows the potential for (SMEs) in their procurement process as it is
smart grid investments to yield 50% more to have ubiquitous broadband. It is time for
jobs than the typical infrastructure projects, political and private executives to achieve
and Integrated Transportation Systems to a strategic view of innovation to meet its
drive economic benefits 25 times the original challenges, setting a high level vision and
investment. working iteratively to manage a process of
organisational change to unlock benefits
for citizens.
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9. 5billion people will be living in cities in 2020
Buildings use
40%
of world’s energy
Smarter savings and up to 40%
of energy savings are
logistics
not captured today
€27billion 15%
Access to public data is estimated to be worth could yield 27% fuel savings
in the EU
of emissions can be saved in
ICT-enabled energy efficiency 2020 through ICT-enabled
€600billion
could translate into over energy efficiency
worth of cost savings for the public and private sector
Smart grid creates South Korea’s
Green New Deal
50% more jobs than the average
infrastructure project
and low carbon strategy create over 500,000 jobs
Smart grid
initiatives
5billion people have mobile More than
have created over 12,000
jobs in Silicon Valley
50%
phones today
of web
connections
will be mobile
by 2013
1
http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/Business_Strategy/
Smart-grid-equals-jobs-at-least-for-Silicon-Valley-4128.html
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10. The promise of a data-driven city is to measure and manage progress
toward a city’s sustainability goals
Interview with Adam Freed, Deputy Director of Long Term Planning and Sustainability, New York City, October 2011
Already, 3,000 government buildings in New York City benchmark and publicly
disclose their energy use. Next year, under New York City’s Greener Greater
Buildings Plan, every building in the city over 50,000 square feet will be required
to annually benchmark and disclose their energy use. This is one of 132 initiatives
in PlaNYC, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s data-driven strategy to create a greener,
greater New York.
Adam sees the benefits of this approach, but knows it will not be easy. Cities
aren’t built to collect the data to make that cost benefit analysis work: “There used
to be one energy bill for the city of New York. Now, the major city departments
are getting charged separately so that they can figure out how to save money.”
In addition, utilities are not set up to easily provide detailed data—often facing regulatory obstacles and legacy
data systems. But measurement is a key part of knowing how to effectively reduce energy use and greenhouse
gas emissions, two of the key goals of PlaNYC. That is why the City has adopted a data-driven approach to target
investments and track progress toward its sustainability goals. The City uses its GHG inventory, benchmarking data,
and energy audits to prioritize $100 million in annual energy efficiency investments to reduce municipal government
GHG emissions. “We need the data, to show what could be saved, and then we can make it happen.”
Adam’s approach is to carefully sequence the interventions they can implement based on the data they have
collected. “If you don’t have a good understanding of your buildings, which begins with benchmarking, you
shouldn’t be investing in a ‘bells and whistles’ system to manage an entire network.”
The carbon inventory is the city’s roadmap, but they are starting with what they are able to tackle first. In
transportation, the Midtown in Motion project uses algorithms to speed up traffic and GPS units were placed in
cabs to better understand how drivers were using the streets and what caused congestion. With 90,000 miles of
underground cables in the city today, the smart grid has to be done gradually. “We need an incremental system or
retrofit, so that when we have a high impact area or challenge, we can tackle that first. This is also why when we get
pitched a ‘smart grid for the city’ it doesn’t work. The wholesale rebuilding of an enormous system like New York
City’s energy grid just isn’t practical from a fiscal or regulatory standpoint.”
Adam also sees the benefits to industry beyond a cost benefit analysis. He wants to create the energy efficiency
industry in New York – where companies can be located near world class engineering schools, to drive the market.
The case for the Greener, Greater Buildings Plan showed that 17,000 jobs could be maintained or created while
saving New Yorkers $750 million a year in energy costs.
Technology and data are necessary enablers of solutions. And the benefits can be measured: On September 19,
Mayor Bloomberg announced that city-wide Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions are down 12% since 2005, and the
government’s own emissions fell 5% in the last year.
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12. Smart thinking holds great
promise for urban centres;
it’s time city leaders recognise
the opportunities
If you are a city leader looking for ‘smart’ What is a smart city?
solutions to meet sustainability challenges,
you are not alone. The problems of The technology-enabled city is
mass urbanisation – from overburdened an untapped source of sustainable
infrastructure and transport congestion to growth
soaring energy consumption and inter-city
competition for investment – are becoming Cities now represent the core hubs of the
6
http://ec.europa.eu/information_ so complex that those offering solutions global economy, acting as hives of innovation
society/activities/
sustainable_growth/green_digital_ are finding a receptive audience willing in technical, financial and other services.
charter/index_en.htm to listen and act. Indeed, the proliferation Globalisation has led to the creation of a
7
Egger, Determining a Sustainable City
Model, 2006 of smart grid, smart city and sustainable hierarchy of cities across the world7 within
8
Nolan, Global Business Revolution, city initiatives announced by all levels of which cities compete for access to natural
Cascade Effect and the Challenges for
Catch-up for Large Indigenous Chinese government is creating an audible ‘smart’ resources and skilled workers. Cities must
Enterprises, 2006 and ‘sustainable’ city buzz. In cities around not only create traditional employment
9
http://www.theclimategroup.org/_
assets/files//BTCDJune08Report.Fin. the world, such as Lavasa in India, Songdo in opportunities, but also help create and
pdf, p.20 Korea and Masdar in Abu Dhabi, ambitious attract new industries to their areas. To
10
http://www.unfpa.org/swp/1996/
ch3.htm attempts are being made to build new ‘smart maintain and secure global competitiveness,
11
http://www.brookings.edu/~/ and sustainable’ cities from the ground up. cities today must tackle their own challenges
media/Files/rc/papers/2010/03_
china_middle_class_kharas/03_ In Europe, 23 cities have signed up to the while also maintaining growth.
china_middle_class_kharas.pdf Green Digital Charter mission of developing
12
http://m2m.vodafone.com/
insight_news/2010_12_03_m2m_ ‘green digital’ pilot projects that meet the Technology has already had a profound
and_enterprise_innovation.jsp greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction impact on the way corporations do
goal of 30%6. For the C40 global network of business, leading to the creation of global
city mayors, measurement and monitoring conglomerates that sit atop the ‘apex’ of
tools are regarded as underpinning thriving, massive value chains that span the world.
sustainable cities. 17 of the C40 cities have This helps to make those companies more
smart metering projects underway, 18 have productive through more efficient use
made real-time traffic information available of resources.8
to citizens.
The value chains achieved in the world of
Smart thinking holds huge potential for business, however, have yet to be realised in
cities, but the full value of smart cities is not cities. The connected, technology-enabled
being realised. While it is encouraging to ‘smart city’ is today more vision than reality,
see pilot initiatives and even some large- and its features are as varied as the citizens
scale projects, few cities are maximising who reside in them. For some, the smart city
the full opportunities offered by digital is about its infrastructure: how efficiently
infrastructure development. It is time for are its services delivered? For some it is
city leaders – working with other levels of about the knowledge and information that is
government, universities and large and small available to citizens and what they do with
companies – to recognise the opportunities it to create new services and become more
and take the lead in creating strategies and sustainable.
policies for managing the wave of innovation
that comes from citizens who have greater
access to new technologies.
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13. In the context of this report, we use the Cities share a set of challenges related
following definition: to climate change, globalisation and
sustainability. They have the challenge of
A city that uses data, information and maintaining and raising living standards for a
communications technologies strategically to: growing population with only 1/10th of the
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions we emit
• provide more efficient, new or enhanced
today9. As one million rural people resettle
services to citizens,
in cities every week, cities will be home to Information Product:
• monitor and track government’s progress almost 5 billion people in 202010, with more
A tangible asset to drive the
toward policy outcomes, including than 3 billion people moving into the middle economy forward.
meeting climate change mitigation and class11. Such explosive growth will escalate
adaptation goals, the need for upgrading aging infrastructure,
tackling rising costs of service delivery, and
• manage and optimise the existing
infrastructure, and plan for new more
meeting ambitious targets for innovation and
sustainability agendas. Cities must do this
Smart cities
effectively,
all within a post-financial crisis, risk-averse are driven by
• reduce organisational silos and employ
new levels of cross-sector collaboration,
funding environment.
the need to
• enable innovative business models
At the same time, Information and tackle long
for public and private sector service
Communications Technologies (ICTs) are
rapidly changing our world. 5 billion people
term challenges
provision.
have access to mobile phones, and 2 billion such as
By aligning the interests of stakeholders,
of these are ‘smart’ phones with an internet
connection. In India alone, there are 20
climate change
employing new technologies and new market
mechanisms, cities will be better able to
million new mobile subscribers each month. and aging
obtain the full value of the smart city. This
More than 50% of web connections will
be mobile by 2013. Furthermore, ICT is
infrastructure,
report explores specifically how cities and
companies can begin to capture value by
becoming part of the citizens’ expectations and short
making infrastructure management more
of a great place to live and work.
term problems
efficient and by supporting the market for an
entirely new kind of digital infrastructure-
Computing in ‘the cloud’ means crunching such as traffic
based product: the information product.
data is cheaper and data services are more
powerful than ever. Communications are
congestion,
Why do we need smart cities?
increasingly possible not only between peak energy
people but also between sensor-embedded
digital devices, appliances and databases,
demand and
Cities today need the tools to tackle
unprecedented environmental and
a system known as the Internet of Things rising energy
economic challenges
(IoT). Ubiquitous connectivity, super fast
internet access, and falling costs of sensors
costs.
and instrumentation mean that ‘big data’
will grow in size while better mining and
management of that data will be possible.
As many as 412 million ‘machine to machine’
applications are expected by 2014, enabled
by 50 billion connections by 2025.12
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14. In 2050 cities will need to
meet the needs of future
citizens with 1/10th of the
carbon we generate today
‘Smart‘ holds the promise of finding new How is this value actually
ways for citizens get the services they realised?
crave, without using exponentially more
resources. The marriage of technology with By unlocking information, ideas and
the physical and built environment enables energies, smart city applications
more efficient construction and management and services create more sustainable
of infrastructure, and the potential to change modes of living and working
behaviour for personal or public good.
In economic Through better use of information and
terms, ICT The SMART 2020 Report13, the definitive communications, our cities have the potential
report on ICT and climate change, highlights
enabled energy the promise created by the convergence of
to be ‘mined’ for surplus capacity, by using
data and information to improve services for
efficiency could the environment and digital infrastructure. citizens at a low cost.
The report found that globally, ICT-enabled
transalte into solutions of smart grid, smart buildings, Opportunities arise from:
over €600 smart logistics and industrial processes can
• Measurement, automation and
potentially reduce urban global greenhouse
billion worth of gas emissions by as much as 7.8 Gigatonnes feedback to decision-makers, creating
cost savings for in 2020 – a reduction larger than total more efficient use of infrastructure,
including buildings and roads,
emissions produced by China in 2010.
the public and In economic terms, ICT enabled energy enabling both short term benefits
private sector efficiency could translate into over €600 from crisis management and long
term benefits from better planning.
billion worth of costs savings for the public
and private sector. Some of this value is For instance, as we better understand
being captured today, but not all, as we will energy use in buildings through
explore in Chapter 2. benchmarking and monitoring, building
operations can be better managed. The
Recent research conducted global by Booz tools used plan and construct buildings
& Co. finds that cities alone will have to can be fine-tuned to match intended
spend a staggering $350 trillion, or 7 times use with operational realities, saving
current global gross domestic product over construction time and material costs
the next 30 years, on urban infrastructure, along the way. Smart grid solutions
including energy systems, residential and enable utilities to have more transparency
commercial buildings, water and waste over the electricity distribution networks
systems, roads and transportation, and and manage supply and demand
supporting information and communications dynamically, a crucial tool for managing
technology.14 To do so without applying the growing peaks in demand from home
transformative solutions will be appliances. In future, utilities will need
unsustainable. The same research shows to manage the growth in electric vehicles
that additional $22 trillion invested today in as a mobile energy storage option to help
ICT to improve building and transportation balance supply and demand for power.
efficiency would save cities $33 trillion and
reduce future emissions by as much as 50%.
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15. • Making both public and private work network in place, it could build a city-
datasets about the interaction wide, city-employee smart work strategy to
between people, infrastructure and allow people to work from home. This will
technology systems available to allow the city’s 20,000 workers to occupy
third-party service providers and 120 buildings instead of 200, a direct savings
developers. in energy and carbon, and save people time
For instance, city transportation sitting in traffic,” says Bas Boorsma, Cisco
departments, in a bid to reduce road Systems, who has been working on smart
congestion, are seeking to get people working solutions for the last five years. The ‘Surplus
out of their cars and into public City’ is our
transportation and onto their bicycles. Digital access to energy information similarly
Already, developers are creating mobile is opening up service provision options opportunity
phone apps that draw on city data that to non-traditional suppliers17, with the to turn
helps people use public transportation potential to create services and associated
more easily15. We will explore this further jobs and benefits beyond what the energy inefficiencies
in Chapter 3. industry could predict today. Cities that have into value by
participated in the Living Labs Global Award
But cities can do more than manage the process over the past 2 years have seen over understanding
construction, automation and use of 500 digital and IT service providers vie to the city as
infrastructure in cities. They can build an solve their challenges. See Appendix 1 for
industry around creating new services a list of solutions and enabling technologies a system,
for their citizens. In 2010, Clay Shirky envisioned in the coming decade. breaking
observed a phenomenon he called ‘Cognitive
Surplus’16, in which new digital technologies What are cities already doing? down silos
allow people to aggregate their individual and reducing
creativity with others online (sometimes The signs are encouraging: smart city
called ‘crowdsourcing’), creating valuable initiatives are underway in many fragmentation
projects such as open source software. urban centres
Today we can link not only people, but also Cities are already beginning to link solutions 13
The Climate Group and GeSI,
SMART 2020: Enabling the low
data and information to a city’s challenges, to policy goals and initiatives, assessing carbon economy in the information
to unlock a new untapped resource for smart city value either based on individual age, 2008
14
WWF- Booz, Reinventing the City,
solutions and economic growth, what we technology analysis, such as smart meters, or 2011
are calling the ‘surplus city’. Cities are vast grouping technologies as solution sets, such 15
http://www.mta.info/apps/
16
Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, 2010
interactions between people, infrastructure as smart grid systems. San Diego’s benefits 17
http://www.ey.com/GL/en/
and technology that can be accessed, shared from a planned smart grid implementation Newsroom/News-releases/Energy-
companies-must-reinvent-themselves-
and inter-connected thanks to new digital were estimated to be US$2.7 billion over to-compete
technology. Giving policymakers and citizens 20 years with an internal rate of return up 18
San Diego School of Law, San Diego
Smart Grid Study – Final Report
the opportunity to tap these resources, to 75% and payback period of 3.5 years18. Energy Policy Initiatives Centre, 2006
technology can ignite new applications and Some cities are also improving pricing
services, and, in turn, create better ways policies, through initiatives such as mobile
of living and working. In Amsterdam, for parking payment options, and infrastructure
instance, a new application service helps city management, such as smart building
workers find a ‘smart work centre’ to avoid management systems.
travelling during rush hour. “Amsterdam
realised a year ago that if the city had a smart
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16. Sector Actions Description Implemented Authorised
or awaiting
authorisation
Energy Smart grid Sensors and instrumentation to improve distribution network 6 11
efficiency, in conjunction with smart metering, helps match
energy demand and supply
Building energy Occupants can automate the energy-consuming systems in 13 3
management buildings
system
Smart building Building sensors and controls allow for better use of buildings, or 12 9
sensors and prediction of faults
controls
Smart energy Automated meter reading enables utility and occupants to access 17 14
metering information digitally
Outdoor lighting Dimming and other controls enable greater energy efficiency 3 3
smart controls
Transport Smart transport Ideally smart cards link multiple forms of transport and make 18 10
cards it more convenient to use, and for transport authorities to
understand mobility patterns
Car clubs Users can hire or share vehicles easily, and will ideally not buy a 6 1
car, but instead simply use one when it is convenient
Cycle hire Uses can hire bicycles instead of driving 10 7
programs /
sharing programs
Electric buses Buses that are more efficient and ideally run on renewable power 10 3
Electric trains Trains that are more efficient and ideally run on renewable power 8 3
Electric vehicles Vehicles that can become mobile storage for energy, helping to 14 14
balance peak demand
Real time Telematics and communications with drivers to optimse routes 7 0
information for
logistics
Real time Provides the basis for mobile applications for journey planning 18 10
transport
information
Real time Provides visibility to users and encourages uptake of public 12 7
transport displays transportation
Water Smart water Monitors and helps water managers reduce waste in the system, 12 3
metering saving 10-15% per household
Total 29 28
Figure 1.1 Technology-enabled actions by C40 cities.
Digital infrastructure: The pockets of success at the project level are (data centre capacity, prevalence of
encouraging. A survey of policies, initiatives smart grid, connectivity and bandwidth,
The hardware and software
assets, including mobile and activities by the C40 cities to address software and visualizations, etc.) and ‘soft
networks, mobile phones, climate change in 201119 clearly shows infrastructure’ that manages this technology
fixed broadband, sensors, numbers of initiatives already underway that and infrastructure. Although it is easiest to
databases, visual interfaces, require ICT or are improved by a significant describe the common elements in levels or
data assets generated from
ICT component (see Figure 1.1). stages as shown in the framework described
the movement of people and
things, and open APIs. in Figure 1.2, in practice, implementation
Although the specific path to a ‘smarter’ may not be necessarily a linear process. It
city will depend on context of the local city may be, for example, that infrastructure
challenges, such as congestion, rising costs development progresses before the
of water or heat provision, or reliability management is in place. Alternatively,
of electricity, for all cities some common, management and leadership capability may
core features will be part of the transition be more advanced than the technological
to a smarter city. One common feature is infrastructure. We will discuss the steps that
the development of ‘digital infrastructure’ cities can take to manage this process in
which includes the physical ICT assets chapter 4.
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17. Smart City
Project
Implementation
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
Soft Infrastructure
Value Assessment Individual project Some non-financial Holistic value Holistic value
business cases value assessed assessment (social/ assessment supporting
environmental/financial) diversification of
funding sources
Governance Departmental Some cross- Cross-departmental City-wide governance
governance structures departmental ‘Smart City’ management structures and
collaboration positions in place shared performance
targets combined
with international
collaboration
Strategic ICT Focus Limited ICT capability Some strategic focus on ICT vision for the city ICT vision and strategy
ICT overseen by dedicated
City CIO
Citizen Engagement Limited citizen Project-level, basic needs Citizen feedback loops Citizen participation in
with Service Design engagement analysis, pilots established integrated service design
Hard Infrastructure
IT project focus Little or no ICT projects Targeted ICT project Integrated ICT Real-time city
investments (e.g. Smart investments (including operations optimisation
Grid) embedded sensing,
control and actuation)
Integration of No data integration Small scale data Creative data mash Open data and crowd-
Data Streams integration ups pulling data to a sourcing initiatives
common platform
Digital Service Little or no digital Handful of digital Integrated digital Diversity of cloud-based
Provision service provision services services around the city citizen services
environment
Figure 1.2 Framework for a Smarter City
Why is the value not being city development programmes. Media hype 19
http://www.arup.com/Publications/
Climate_Action_in_Megacities.aspx
realised? and the political rhetoric aside, deployment 20
http://www.arup.com/Publications/
of smart city initiatives that maximise Climate_Action_in_Megacities.aspx
Several challenges are holding back integration opportunities is still limited.
the promise of smart city planning
and development Of the 36 cities interviewed for the C40
report20, very few had made the connection
While many smart city technologies – between the initiatives listed in Figure 1.1
including smart electricity grids, smart meters and ICT strategy. None had a strategic plan in
and real-time transportation information place to set a vision or policy framework for
– are already in pilot programmes and some putting major technology trends into their
cities are even implementing large-scale city planning. The vast majority of cities
smart transportation and grid projects, there are not more than level 2 on our smart city
are no examples to date of cities launching framework sketched in Figure 1.2.
fully-integrated, strategically-designed, smart
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18. This is perhaps not surprising. Capturing • Value objectives for one stakeholder
the benefits of converging technology to may not be aligned with social,
solve social, economic and environmental economic, environmental value for the
challenges is not straightforward in practice, city. European utilities, for instance,
and will happen once those technologies are estimated to gain between €22 and
make ‘common sense’. However, given the €29.3 billion annually from smart grid
urgency of the challenges cities are facing, it investments. However, the same smart
“We have so many service is worth accelerating the pace of innovation grid projects could produce energy for
providers coming to us with when the benefits are so vast. European consumers worth €3.6 - €18.2
a ‘smart city’ offer, but they billion, potentially cutting into utility
don’t seem to understand sales. The gap between utilities’ and
that it’s not just a matter of The implementation gap stems from several
cities’ societal value goals could slow
finding the newest, most challenges that we see within the smart
complex system available. development plans22.
cities context today, which arise from the
They know they have the
interaction between citizens and consumers, • Cities are complex organisations
product to sell and cities
know they would like to cities, national government and companies. and decisions that involve multiple
be smarter, but there are a departments can take time and can
• Smart city dialogue and plans that are
number of competing factors often be at odds with the sales cycles of
that go into making a match.” technology-led, rather than needs and
companies. Procurement cycles for cities
values-led, run the risk of compromising
Adam Freed, Director for can take up to three years from initiation
Long Term Planning and development plans. Smart metering
to sale, which can prevent innovative
Sustainability in New York is a case in point. In US markets, a
under-resourced companies from
technology-driven approach has led to a
participating in smart city development
backlash amongst consumers who do not
opportunities.
see the benefits of energy savings that
were promised21.
We point to possible ways through these
• The value of digital investments is challenges in later chapters.
not being clearly articulated for all
stakeholders. Cities may be unsure of the Given the size of the challenge ahead, we
payback or may not possess mechanisms need to proactively nurture smart city
to pay for up-front costs even if payback initiatives that are already underway and
is certain in the long term. support city leaders who are driving change,
especially those who are looking across
departmental silos in an effort to make
connections and achieve greater innovation.
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19. The vast majority of cities
are not yet developing fully
integrated physical, economic
and digital master planning
Making the Smart City Transition Meeting cities’ challenges will only
possible if the role of Information and
Making the move towards smart city Communications Technologies are made
development requires a full understanding of explicit. ICTs or ‘smart’ solutions are no silver
its strategic value bullet, and must be seen within the context
of what they can achieve.
The smart city offers a holistic, strategic
vision for bringing together innovative Real transformation in cities will require us 21
http://gigaom.com/cleantech/why-
the-smart-meter-backlash-story-isnt-
digital infrastructure solutions that address to look at the ‘surplus city’ hidden within the going-away/
a multitude of issues facing modern urban city. Beyond the public transport systems, 22
Geert-Jan van der Zanden, The
Smart Grid in Europe: The impact of
centres and communities. But if the smart micro-wind turbines, and parks there is an consumer engagement on the value of
city is to evolve from an infrastructure underlying system, connecting resources to the European smart grid, IIIEE Theses,
2011:33
concern to a strategic part of the urban waste to consumption in a set of complex
development, then city leaders will need to interactions. ICT can begin to help us manage
recognise its full value opportunities. this complexity – and redefine how we
operate our energy networks, our transport
This report intends to help address some of infrastructure, and the buildings in which we
the open questions within the industry today work and live.
and help expedite the transition to a smart,
more sustainable future. Within each chapter
3
we will work to uncover:
1. What value is derived from a ‘smart’ city
and how can it be better captured?
2. What is the “product” of a smart city and
how can we maximise its value?
3. What leadership and softer infrastructure
is required to realise the opportunity? billion people
will move to
cities by 2050
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20. Transparency helps departments in Rio de Janeiro work together for better
city services and outcomes
Interview with Rodrigo Rosa, Special Advisor to the Mayor on Sustainability, Rio, Brazil, May 2011
As Rio prepares to host one of the most anticipated climate change events in
2012, Rio+20, marking the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit, the city
is also gearing up to launch its own new sustainability initiatives. One of these
is the sustainable favela project, “Morar Carioca Verde”, a policy of urbanising,
retrofitting and improving the city’s favela slum areas. “We would love solutions to
be brought to us, and we can see how we could incorporate them,” says Rodrigo. He
hopes to find innovative ideas that will involve both public and private sector. Rio’s
power utility Light, which now provides service to Rio’s favela neighbourhoods,
offers discounted electricity bills to customers who recycle – a low-tech solution to
the problem of too much trash in the neighborhood.
For a city whose mayor was awarded a national prize for his innovative use of IT to solve the city’s challenges last
year, technology is also part of that sustainability agenda. Indeed, one of the most advanced operations centres has
recently opened in Rio. Built with the help of IBM and Oracle, it is a high tech ‘situation room’ designed to support
the city in managing its services.
Another promise of an operations centre is in delivering support crisis management, increasingly important
following the devastating mud slides that have hit Rio state in recent years. “Our biggest challenge is flooding
and landslides. We are learning a lot about crisis management and coordination. 25 people were killed last year in
the city, and 800 in the state. Better weather prediction will help avoid this. And we can better collaborate with
state officials.”
The operations centre is a powerful decision-support tool. “Sometimes we don’t even know what it can do for
us.” Rodrigo is considering the necessary training for municipal government employees who are not used to the
high tech tools they now have access to. “We have people out there on the ground working on their issue, such as
transport or security, but aren’t used to looking at the data to do something different.”
Rodrigo is sure that the city is better off just by having transparency between the different departments that may
not have worked together before. “Information is more clear - you can see it on screen. You have the concept of
geo-referencing everything that makes it easier to understand. If traffic is bad in a particular part of the city and
you know a waste management truck can help quickly to clean something up, that truck can be routed to the
location to avoid traffic.”
Rodrigo looks forward to seeing how the project develops and to measuring its impact. He hopes that it will
support knowledge-sharing between city officials and sub-national government that will ultimately lead to better
services for Rio’s citizens through more efficient use of resources.
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22. The time has come to clearly
understand and articulate the
smart city value proposition
The previous chapter introduced the Smart Measuring within a Common
City and its environmental, economic and Framework
social drivers, and explored reasons why the
value of the smart city is not fully exploited Setting common metrics will enable
today. In this chapter we look at how cities cities to evaluate different projects
can better recognise, capture, communicate on a like-for-like basis
and commercialise the value of their smart
city initiatives.
Use of a single Smart city initiatives are typically evaluated
using metrics that are specific to a sector or
set of metrics We introduce several limitations to department. For instance, smart grid projects
current approaches for valuing smart city
sheds light investments and highlight opportunities to
are measured by a reduction in energy
losses and efficiency gains, and Variable
on a smart provide a more holistic methodology for Road Pricing is measured by reduced traffic
assessing value. The value of smart city
technology’s projects is often assessed on an individual,
congestion. While the value of each project
can be readily assessed at the departmental
rate of return case-by-case basis, rather than as part of level, it is less easy to understand the
the greater jigsaw of the city. As a result,
on investment the benefits of economies of scope and
contribution of the project to the city’s
overarching objectives. For example, how
and enable scale created by smart projects are often would a city compare the relative value
not measured and consequently, not
comparison communicated. Value assessments tend
contributions of a Smart Grid and Variable
Road Pricing towards its city-wide aims
against other to overlook core benefits of smart city of economic development, livability, and
initiatives, such as cleaner air, new jobs,
technologies and entrepreneurship. City leaders need
environmental sustainability? Such questions
present a challenge to city leaders who need
to be able to better crystallise the benefits to make capital allocation decisions across a
of a smarter, faster, more environmental- portfolio of smart city initiatives. Cities do
friendly city and then, by applying business not yet have the necessary tools to deploy
model innovation, translate these desirable their finite resources in the most capital
outcomes into city revenues that support efficient way.
new financing mechanisms.
For the value of smart city projects to be
effectively compared, a common suite of
metrics needs to be developed that tie the
performance of individual initiatives to the
city’s long-term strategic aims. The aims
of a city will be unique to the challenges it
faces. Mexico City, for example, may aim
for greater public security, job creation and
reliability of electricity networks, while
Copenhagen may have its sights set on
being CO2 neutral capital by 2025. A single
city scorecard, based on specific objectives,
enables the city to understand the relative
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23. value of different smart technology context. While selecting and implementing
initiatives based on how well each delivers benchmarking metrics is no easy task,
on the city’s overall strategy. It helps city the benefits of greater understanding and
leaders decipher whether a smart buildings international credibility will only increase
scheme, for example, is more or less valuable over time as historical data is accumulated to
than an electric vehicles pilot to their city’s drive new insights about the city.
needs. As the value of smart city initiatives
change over time, using a single set of In the corporate world it is becoming
metrics sheds light on a smart technology’s common practice for companies to It is important
rate of return on investment and enable measure their performance against a set for city leaders
comparison against other technologies. of sustainability measures; the number of
companies producing sustainability reports to understand
As well as helping to select initiatives, a has increased by 600% between 1999 and which disclosure
common set of metrics enables the city 201028. To support this process, companies
to monitor its overall performance over have developed automated sustainability platforms best
time and compare this against other cities. measurement tools, such as Enterprise suits the city’s
Historical analysis of a city’s performance Resource Planning (ERP) of reporting
can reveal useful results that generate modules. Cities such as Singapore29 and needs
understanding and provide evidence for Abu Dhabi30 are starting to partner with
how well the city is meeting its targets. software vendors to create web-based 24
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participating in benchmarking activities be willing to invest in developing their own Respond/Pages/CDP-Cities.aspx
26
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to better understand their performance measurement tools, options are available index.php/about/#ungc
and to share lessons with other cities, for cities to purchase similar software as a 28
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UPLOAD/files/EIU_-_Sustainability_
from the Global City Indicators Program24, service. As more and more companies and Performance_Management[1].pdf
which now has over 180 city members, to cities recognise the value of having a single 29
http://www.carbonneutral.com/
about-us/media-centre/press-
the environmentally-focused disclosure set of sustainability metrics, the barriers to releases/singapore-to-lead-the-way-
platforms, including the Carbon Disclosure adopting measurement tool are decreasing. with-carbon-management-tool-pilot/
30
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Project for Cities25 and the United Nations Soon all cities will be able to measure and uae-news/environment/abu-dhabi-
Global Compact Cities Programme26. benchmark the performance of their smart to-monitor-
greenhouse-gas-emissions#
The proliferation of methodologies and initiatives, giving them a greater, connected
reporting frameworks in the marketplace understanding of their operations.
can, however, make the decision on where
and how to disclose potentially confusing
for cities. It is important that city leaders
choose the disclosure platform that best
suits their city’s needs. Once selected,
city leaders can then create customised
methodologies to gather local data against
the chosen set of standardised metrics. This
approach would enable a city to effectively
benchmark itself against a global audience
whilst still incorporating the city’s unique
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