The document discusses The Urban Institute (UI!), a leading startup in smart city technologies. It provides a real-time open urban platform called UrbanPulse and best-in-class smart services. UI! has a strong customer base and the largest smart city network in Germany. It also participates in the European Innovation Partnership initiative to develop open standards and has contributed a project called CROSSFLEET to optimize electric car sharing.

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[ui!] Group
Berlin, Brisbane, Budapest, Chemnitz, Darmstadt, New York City, Walldorf
About us
Leading
start-up in
Smart
City
real-time
open
urban
platform
Best in
class
smart
services
World
wide
operation
[ui!] - the urban institute®
[ui!] Trusted Advisor
 Strong customer
base
 Largest Smart
City network in
Germany
 EU Thought
Leader
[ui!] UrbanPulse
 In production
since 2014
 True urban IoT
platform
 Scalable to suite
any use case
[ui!] Smart Services
 Revenue
generating
 Disruptive
business models
 Small
infrastructure
investment
[ui!] Group
 Cloud-based
services
 Offices in
Europe, USA,
Australia
 Worldwide
partner network
…knows …how …to create value …for you

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European Innovation
Partnership
Smart Cities and Comunities
The EU Perspective

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Engagement Model of the
European Innovation Partnership Smart
Cities and Communities
How to address it

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400 initiatives of 3000 Partners
What has been achieved

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initiated by
meanwhile
supported by
 30+ vendors
 30+ cities
 EU
 Standards
bodies
Goal:
Open APIs based
on city-lead
needs
What will be a game changer
MoU on “Open Urban Platforms”

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EnBW
RheinEnergie
Alliander
Euroimpresa
IRE Spa
SiTI
Trento RISE
Cedint
ENEA
Univarra
ABB Schweiz
Algorab
Philips
Orange
Schneider Electric
Schréder Group
Urban Institute
Amey
Arkessa
SilverSpring
Bosch
Europoles
ISA Energy
Luxintec
Arup
Connectivity Alliance
UrbanDNA
The Hague
Torino
Terrassa
Sabadell
• Nea Ionia, Athens
Glasgow
Eindhoven
Cork
(Sco) SCA
Wiesloch
Santander
London
Borough of
Greenwich
Barcelona
Almere
DSA
Southend
Breda
Huawei
Rakvere
Tampere
Ferrovial
TNO
GIB
EIB
Eurac
Sodercan
“1,000,000 Humble Lampposts”
a pan-European Effort
What will be a quick win
40+ Partners in Europe to work on
integrated multi-functional
street lighting infrastructure
Goal: 1,000,000 public street lights
turned into Humble Lamppost
Approach: Agree on common
standard components and
features to develop a reference
tender framework for fast market
take-up
Engage suppliers / vendors,
operators, cities, and
financial institutions
in a common
approach
Standards: The German
Standards organisation
DIN started a DIN SPEC project.

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Goal
Development and publication of a DIN SPEC specification on „an
integrated multi-functional street lighting infrastructure – aka Humble
Lamppost“
Input to international standardization bodies (BSI, CEN, ISO)
Input to the European Innovation Partnership „Smart Cities and
Communities“ lead initiative “Humble Lamppost”
Create a market take-up in Europe within the next 24 months
DIN SPEC Humble Lamppost

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EV4SCC – Scaling-up electro mobility solutions in Europe
Lead Initiative of the Action Cluster “Sustainable Urban Mobility”
Core initiative since 2014
Coordinated by Urban Foresight
Endorsed by DG MOVE and Commissioner Bulc as
one of the two lead initiatives of SUM in EIP SCC
For details:
http://urbanforesight.org/projects/projectsites/ev4scc/
[ui!] Our contribution:
• [ui!] CROSSFLEET – optimizing the utlization of
eCars in public and commercial fleets by sharing
• New mobility service, i.e. fleets purchase time
shares of fleet cars
• Sharing with other enterprises to achieve same
TCO than traditional cars
• Intense testing since mid 2014
• Operational since March 2015
• Roll-out in Germany and selected countries in EU

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Urban IoT
- Real-time data feeds using open connectors to large variety of types of urban sensor
- Pre-processing of incoming data feeds for real-time event management (sub-second)
- Visualization of the data to provide insight to decision makers
- Operational worldwide leveraging best in class cloud infrastructures (Azure®)
UrbanPulse
[ui!]CONNECTOR
Open&StandardInterfaces

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