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4. Smart Places
• Not a technocratic construct …
not designed to sell products and services
• Start with people …
communities …
places …
priorities …
outcomes
6. Smart Places
Issues like:
• building standards
• water, waste and energy – production, use and demand
management at the micro level
• seamless connectivity - 5G, wireless and broadband
connections
– all adds up to greater sustainability and reduced
environmental impact
7. Smart Places
e.g. improving air quality:
not helped by squeezing ever more motorised vehicles onto
our roads at the expense of walking, biking and e-
commuting
10. The Smart City myth
• Smart cities are the future – tech innovation, investment
• Most people live in cities
The case for smart places, building on smart city concepts
where people and geography lie at the heart of design
So much more than travel, transport and parking apps –
but location intelligence is central
12. • Technology – reliable, effective, agile, amendable
• Standards and standardisation
• People – designing for intuitive, safe and secure access
• Data, Data, Data – and information from data
• Geo data – location, buildings, ‘things’, people
Critical components
13. Why it matters
1.Travel and mobility within and between urban areas and
across the UK.
2.Environmental management, protection and access to
areas.
3.Business growth and investment, stimulating a digital
economy.
4.Education, skills, digital apprenticeships and jobs for
everyone, anywhere.
5.Democratic rebirth, changing how politicians and public
services engage with citizens.
6.Social and Community, improving resilience, safety, health
and wellbeing.
7.Digital Infrastructure and technology for local business,
public services and individuals.
14. Smart Places – Changing the Face of Local Public Services
IoTOpen data
Smart learning
Mesh of Broadband,
Mobile and Wifi
Smart energy
Smart mobility
Smart home
Smart care
Smart retail
Communiti
es
Business
Environmen
t
Public
Services
Education
Travel
Connectivit
y
Resources and
Environmental
Protection
Digital
industry
growth and
digital
citizens
Connected
Infrastructure
and Public
Services
Unified View
of travel and
movement
Collaborative
Governance
and regional
planning
Smart parking
Digital democracy
Smart
Policing
Safe at home
leisure
Jobs, skills &
digital citizens
Smart
Logistics
Economic
Prosperity &
jobs
Social
Cohesion &
sustainable
communities
Strong &
accessible
Public
Services
Sustainable
Resources &
environment
15. Smart Cities concepts are widening to whole regions,
reflecting better how we all live, work and spend our
leisure. Geospatial data is at the core of this, connecting
people, communities, ‘things’, services and wider
information with a locality.
“Geo-based technologies create digital transformation
at its very best – with ‘people and places’ at the heart of
design for economic and social value.”
16. • Massive growth in structured & unstructured
data about people, places and things
• Massive growth in data collecting devices
BUT
• Our ability to keep pace and turn this into
usable information has not kept pace.
• There is a ‘white noise’ of data
17. The Challenge
• Professional silos
• Data islands/reusability
• Standards and safety
• Information tools
• Advocacy for geosystems
• Technology innovation
• Data shortage
• Skills
• Demand
• Opportunity and need
NOT
Is ……
18. Public Services
PolicyandPlanning
LeisureActivity
Business Services
• Resource targeting and policy testing
• Minimising avoidable cost
• Enhanced democracy and engagement
• Safety – Org.s, community and individual
• Prediction and influence of behaviours
• Transparency, open data, accountability
In Smart Places these interconnect
around a location and people in ways
never before possible:
19. Key Message – “Everything Happens Somewhere”
• Location-based data is central to the future of all smart places – ‘engine room and services’
• This depends however in connections being made – more than data layers over maps
• ‘Location’ is more than geography – region, area, town, building, virtual places, our bodies
The value is immense:
Predictive analysis
Collaboration
Identity management, control and protection
Building management, design and use
Policy formulation and democratic engagement
Energy, transport, environment
Health, well-being and safety (geo-medicine)
Future technology exploitation (IoT)
22. Panel:
Noelle Godfrey – Programme Director Connecting Cambridgeshire
and Head of Digital Infrastructure, Cambridgeshire County Council
James Harris – Policy and Networks Manager, Royal Town Planning
Institute
David Hodcroft - Principal (Strategic Planning), Greater Manchester
Combined Authority
Raj Mack - Head of Digital Birmingham
Dylan Roberts – Chief Digital Officer, Leeds City Council
Dr Larissa Suzuki - Senior Project Manager at Greater London
Authority
23. Summary policy position
• Socitm and the Local CIO Council’s position on the
capacity and capabilities needed to deliver a smart
places approach across the diverse geographies that
make up the UK
24. Our asks of new Government
• Cyber security – invest in regional capacity
and capability
• Counter terrorism – implications for local
public services infrastructure
• Health and social care – invest in place-
based implementation
• Invest in digital and leadership skills,
retention and retraining
• Invest in standards and shared platforms
Smart cities are the future – but a technocratic construct, underpinned by technology and producer-led investment
Most people live in cities, but most geography is outside cities
The case for smart places, building on smart city concepts where people and geography lie at the heart of design
So much more than travel, transport and parking apps
Starts with people, how they live – their homes, their education, their work, their leisure time, their health, their safety, their spaces, their creativity, their contribution (social capital), their democratic engagement …
Issues like building standards, water, waste and energy – production, use and demand management at the micro level – all adds up to greater sustainability and reduced environmental impact, improving air quality – not helped by squeezing ever more polluting cars onto our roads at the expense of walking, biking and e-commuting.
This is the challenge for geo spatial systems providers and analysts
Social media, wearables, IoT
Note – not like central gov which is nationally based
Digital economy growing at 10% per annum, 3.4billion people (50% of everyone on the planet)
Deloitte – Collaborative Economy report – businesses that collaborate are 5 times more likely to grow, twice as likely to be profitable and twice as likely to outperform competitors
Going Places – into a different future
Innovation - Jim Carroll - The Future belongs to those who are fast (book title)
65% children in pre-school today will work in a job or career that doesn’t yet exist - smartphone gps spatial databases location intelligence professionals geographic-based applications
Any degree today based on science - what we learn in year one will be obsolete by the day we graduate. Our success will come from our ability to ingest change e.g. citizen expectations
Moore’s law defines innovation velocity - LIDAR and autonomous cars
Massive business model disruption - Amazon two hour delivery - Amazon disrupt the future of highway solution - pay for high speed lanes
Collaborative creativity accelerates ideas NASA scientists - real time health diagnostic monitor (rHealth)
Science exponentiates - LI-On batteries collapsing cost - accelerating take-up of wind and solar technologies, backyard energy production, microgrids
Attention spans collapse - scanning 12 foot supermarket shelf in a second - shorter attention spans than a goldfish - little patience left
Edge thinking dominates - water usage - lawn sprinklers each head addressable - Whirlpool is now a company that connects things.
AI accelerates - financial transactions via Amazon Echo’s Alexa
Processes being re-imagined - 3D print houses, office building in Dubai.
Participatory sensing - device on every golf club that measures - sensing my behaviour - fitbits for cities. B
Predictive diagnostics tell us when something is about to go wrong.