By Stuart Wilson, Director at Urban Control In this paper, Stuart looks at the current methods of asset control available on a city level and discuss the options being opened up by the smart city revolution. The practicality of how smart city technology will actually work is the main barrier to entry for many new systems. Can a living network of equipment make this transition easier and simpler to those at the coal face who are having to implement these changes and manage them day to day?

1. 21-Apr-2016
The Stadium of Light, Sunderland
Smart Cities
How can this help Local Authority Asset Owners
Stuart Wilson BEng (Hons) MSc MHEA
Director

2. Presentation Outline
• Introduction
• The Future is Smart
• Main Considerations
• Pressures on Asset Owners
• Highways Asset Management
• The key driver
• The Key Issues
• A new hope
• Summary

3. The Future is Smart
Culture
• People want instant information
• People also want to feel safe and
their data is secure
Technology
• Rapid advancement in new technology
and consequent availability of
hardware
• Adoption of open standards = more
vendor choice and innovation
Environment
• Increase in urban population
• Increase to detrimental effects from
pollution
• Restrictions on available resources

4. Considerations
The Silo Effect
• To achieve the greatest reward we need to promote
cross departmental collaboration
The Chief Digital Officer
• Promote dynamic horizontal integration

5. Considerations
• Why do we need to deploy
additional infrastructure if it is
already collecting useful data?
• Use open platforms to allow
interoperability
Transport for London and Bristol is Open
• Release of data such as traffic promotes
innovation

6. Considerations
Infrastructure
• The UK does not have the luxury of new infrastructure
• Therefore need investment and strategic management

7. Street Lighting
The Smart City Enabler?
• Great timing with LED technology, giving impetus for
joined up business cases
• Provides network infrastructure that can be truly open
(network and software) and totally interoperable –
opening up vendor choice and innovation.
The Smart City Creator?
• Are street lighting owners the most tech savvy?
• Do you know what urban users need?

8. Pressure on Asset Owners
Budget Cuts - CSR
More for less including resources
Public expectations of 1st class
cities

9. Highway Asset Management
To help Local Authority Asset Owner they need
• A strategic approach to manage their infrastructure
• that can influence funding decisions and investment by their
Cabinet Member
• and ensure that highway maintenance is optimised and meeting
the required levels of service whilst being efficient

10. Key Driver
Asset Management is about making the right strategic decisions to
provide the most “whole life value” and not giving the “biggest bang
for the buck”
It is all about:
• Knowing your assets
• What is it’s current condition
• How it degrades
• How and when to fix it, and
• When is the optimal time to replace it
And it gives you the tools like
• “What if” decision making tools
• Lifecycle planning
• Degradation modelling

11. Key Issues
If Asset Management can give us this insight and deliver both
efficiencies whilst ensuring fit for purpose infrastructure for the Smart
City agenda, what are the key issues?
• General adoption from local authorities
• Resource hungry
• It is a day job
• Has been a lack of guidance
• It’s Expensive
• Due to large amounts of data and
difficulties collecting it

12. A New Hope?
With the advancement of Smart Cities we can now start looking away
from Central management Systems (CMS) to Asset Intelligence
Platforms
• Using technology to the benefit of asset owners & key
stakeholders
• Use of real time conditional data
• Targeted/ risk based approach to maintenance
• Degradation modelling
• Whole life costing
• “What if” analysis
• CIPFA returns
…….Whilst still delivering a 1st class connected City

13. Thank you…
26 April 2016