This document discusses how smart cities are a fertile ground for internet innovation and how the European Union is supporting their development through various programs. It outlines the Digital Agenda for Europe's goals and how smart cities can help achieve them. It then describes the roles of smart cities and living labs in the Future Internet Public Private Partnership and FIRE initiative, as well as an open innovation program for internet-based services in smart cities. The overall message is that smart cities are ideal environments for testing and demonstrating new internet technologies and services.

1. 1"The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission""The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"
Smart cities: a fertile ground
for Internet innovation
Living Labs and Smart Cities:
Open Innovation for the Future Internet
Ghent, 14 December 2010
Dr Max Lemke
European Commission - DG INFSO
New Paradigms and Experimental Facilities
max.lemke@ec.europa.eu

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ICT is making cities “smarter”
 Smart Cities and regions
are at the core of the
implementation of the
European Digital Agenda
 Smart Cities are a
fertile ground for
Internet innovation

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• The European Digital Agenda
and Smart Cities
• Smart Cities in the EU ICT
Research & Innovation Programmes:
Roles and Opportunities
– Role of Living Labs in FIRE
– Role of Smart Cities and Living Labs
in the Future Internet PPP
– User-driven open innovation for
internet-based services
in Smart Cities
Smart cities: a fertile ground
for Internet innovation

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Europe 2020
…vision of Europe's social market economy for the 21st century.
smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
InnovationUnion
Youthonthemove
DigitalAgendafor
Europe
Resourceefficient
Europe
Industrialpolicyfor
theglobalisationera
Agendafornewskills
andjobs
Europeanplatform
againstpoverty

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A Digital Agenda for Europe
The 7 pillars:
 digital single market
 openness & interoperability
 online trust & security
 Internet for all
 ICT research & innovation
 digital inclusion
 digital public services
These challenges are as well
key challenges for cities
in becoming “smarter”

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Who is the target
of the Digital Agenda for Europe?
Patients
Consumers
Workers
Doctors
SMEs
Artists
Authors
Musicians
Environment
Researchers
Disabled
• The target audience is concentrated in cities
• Smart cities are ideal catalysers for experimenting with
new ICT and services before roll-out across regions
“Every
European
Digital”
N. Kroes

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• The European Digital Agenda
and Smart Cities
• Smart Cities in the EU ICT
Research & Innovation Programmes:
Roles and Opportunities
– Role of Living Labs in FIRE
– Role of Smart Cities and Living Labs
in the Future Internet PPP
– User-driven open innovation for
internet-based services
in Smart Cities
Smart cities: a fertile ground
for Internet innovation

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Smart cities – a fertile ground for
ICT innovation
• Cities offer an excellent infrastructure for Internet research
and innovation
– Broadband broadly available
– Active local research labs
– Efficient innovation ecosystems
– Functioning service infrastructures
• Energy consumptions and emissions are concentrated in cities
– ICT as a major consumer
– ICT enabling energy reduction
– Green Digital Charter
• The EU Research and Innovation Programmes support a wide
range of initiatives with smart cities as key stakeholders
– Smart cities are key catalysers for applications & services
– They are the core of large scale experiments

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Future Internet:
A Comprehensive EU Approach
Time to
Market
Technology
Risk
FP7/PPP
Future Internet
• market oriented R&D
• cost-efficiency
• Common enablers
• adaptation to specific
demands…
• large scale trials
(using existing
technology)
• service innovation
Piloting
deployment
2-3 years 5-10 years
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• longer-term R&D
• integration of new
ICT & new ideas
• open platforms and
interoperability
CIP/ICT PSP
FP7

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• The European Digital Agenda
and Smart Cities
• Smart Cities in the EU ICT
Research & Innovation Programmes:
Roles and Opportunities
– Role of Living Labs in FIRE
– Role of Smart Cities and Living Labs
in the Future Internet PPP
– User-driven open innovation for
internet-based services
in Smart Cities
Smart cities: a fertile ground
for Internet innovation

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Test bed 1 Test bed 2 Test bed 3
Test bed 4
Test bed 5
Test bed 6 Test bed 7 Test bed 8
Test bed 9
Test bed 1 Test bed 2 Test bed 3
Test bed 4
Test bed 5
Test bed 6 Test bed 7 Test bed 8
Exp
1 Exp3
Exp2
Exp4
Exp5
User Communities
FIRE
Future Internet Research & Experimentation
requirements
validation
Research Large Scale
Experiment.
• Supporting research and innovation on new network
and service architectures
• Through large scale experimentation, predict
behavior and assess non-technical impact
FIRE Research
FIRE Experimental Facility
Onelab2, Federica, PII, and Wisebed
are offering their prototype services

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Role of LLs and Smart Cities
in the FIRE Initiative
• Smart cities as multifaceted
testbed environments
• Living Labs to bring end-users to the
experiments – not only preach it but do it!
• FIREball as the link between ENoLL and FIRE
• Relevant Calls:
– FIRE Experimentation:
ICT Obj. 1.6, 15 M€, Small STREPs, Call 8, autumn 2011
– Open Calls of FIRE Facility projects for Experiments
>20 experiments, ~5M€ funding, calls in 2011/12

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SMART SANTANDER
A large research project focused
on Internet services in the city
• unique in the world
city-scale experimental
research facility in
support of typical
applications and services
for a smart city
• more than 20,000
sensors based on a real
life IoT deployment in
an urban setting.
• EU funding 6M€ at shared
cost with project partners
• Additional city/regional
support for sensor
infrastrcutures
www.smartsantander.eu
Funded under
Challenge 1 of
the ICT theme
of FP7

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• The European Digital Agenda
and Smart Cities
• Smart Cities in the EU ICT
Research & Innovation Programmes:
Roles and Opportunities
– Role of Living Labs in FIRE
– Role of Smart Cities and Living Labs
in the Future Internet PPP
– User-driven open innovation for
internet-based services
in Smart Cities
Smart cities: a fertile ground
for Internet innovation

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Future Internet Public Private Partnership:
Towards an Internet enabled service economy
Reducing
costs,
carbon,
energy
footprint
Europe to
lead the
future
service
economy
Delivering
tailored
services to
citizens
More
flexibility,
trust, self-*
Clouds
becoming
reality
Wealth of
real world
data
All-
connected
intelligent
objects
Service-
based
business
models

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FI Platform
holistic/system
perspective/market
impact
Making the world ‘smarter’ and accelerate sustainable innovation
Trade-offs:
 Private/Public
 Infrastructure
 Openness
 Regulation
EU
Policies
ICT technology research
Making Europe a world leader in Future Internet technologies
ICT applications research
FI PPP: leadership beyond R&D
 + user-driven
 + social benefit
 - time to market
Application Pull
Technology push
European
Technology
Platforms
ICT Programme Challenge 1
Competitiveness
& Innovation
Programme
ICT-PSP

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FI PPP – The core principle
Smart Energy Smart Living
Smart TransportSmart Health
General-purpose
Communication
and Service
(Core)
Platform
Domain-
specific
Domain-
specific
Domain-
specific
Domain-
specific
Domain-
specific
Domain-
specific
Balance of technology push & application pull
– Core platform activities driven by ICT technology providers
– Usage area activities driven by usage area actors
– Capacity building activities influenced by innovation ecosystem
stakeholders (e.g. smart cities – learning from CIP pilots)

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Role of LLs and Smart Cities
in the FI PPP
• Smart cities as catalysers for Internet
services – a perfect environment to
demonstrate services/application mash-up
• Living Labs building the bridge between
technologies and users
• Relevant Work Programme Objectives
– Use case scenarios (phase 1) / trials (phase 2),
use case expansian phase (phase 3);
– Capacity building & Infrastructure (Phases 1+2);
– SME innovation (phase 3).

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Call 3Call 1 Call 2
Up to 8 Use Case Scenarios
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Up to 5 Trials
FI PPP: programme architecture
300M€ planned in 2011-13

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• The European Digital Agenda
and Smart Cities
• Smart Cities in the EU ICT
Research & Innovation Programmes:
Roles and Opportunities
– Role of Living Labs in FIRE
– Role of Smart Cities and Living Labs
in the Future Internet PPP
– User-driven open innovation for
internet-based services
in Smart Cities
Smart cities: a fertile ground
for Internet innovation

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Motivation for the EC to act under
the CIP-PSP Programme
• New and often “revolutionary” internet
technologies are maturing
– Ready for a new wave of internet-based services
– Transforming our way of life
• New broadband infrastructures are emerging
– Digital Agenda for Europe
– Spectrum policy – digital dividend
• Fragmented market of island solutions
– a barrier for broad take-up
– Single solutions in individual cities
– Pilots of limited scope
– Fragmented groups of stakeholders
– Need for open platforms for internet-based services
• Innovation ecosystems can bridge
– Work well locally in cities or regions
– High potential for exploiting synergies across borders

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Open Innovation for Future Internet-
enabled Services in “Smart” Cities
• 7 pilots starting 2010
15 M€ EU funding
• Similar Initiative envisaged
for 2011 – focus on:
– Ultra-fast wireless connectivity
– Internet service platforms
– Catch up for less developed
urban areas
Cross-border
networks of
“smart” cities
Innovative
Internet-based
services
User-driven
open innovation
ecosystems
Supported by the Competitiveness and Innovation
Programme under ICT Policy Support
25 Smart Cities in
15 Member States

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Conclusions
The Digital Agenda for Europe and the ICT
related initiatives under the EU research and
innovation programmes strongly contribute
to making our cities smarter thereby
supporting the integrated and intelligent
growth of urban areas

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Further Information
• ec.europa.eu/livinglabs – livings labs, smart cities
• ec.europa.eu/foi – read about the many activities the
EC undertakes on Future Internet
• www.future-internet.eu – The European Future
Internet Portal – the community site
• cordis.europa.eu/ict/ch1 – Ongoing European FI
research & development activities
• ec.europa.eu/ict_psp – Competitiveness and
Innovation Programme
• ec.europa.eu/ict4ee; www.eumayors.eu/
Green Digital Charter