Smart City Challenge calls - presentation by Steven Keen, Peter Brett Associates on behalf of the Thames Valley Berkshire, Smart City Cluster at the IoT Thames Valley Meetup on 8th May, 2019. https://www.meetup.com/Internet-of-Things-Thames-Valley/

1. IOT Meetup
Update to Smart City Cluster
Project
Steve Keen – Peter Brett Associates
Simon Beasley – Reading Borough Council
8th May 2019

2. Project Partners

3. What are we Delivering?
Smart City Platform
LPWAN Network
Open Data Platform
£1.73m Capital Funding through LEP
Smart City Governance –
Cross Sector and Cross
Authority
Challenge funding of
smart city solutions
through competition

4. Outline Programme and Calls
• Launched 1st Challenge Fund Call (£400k) – Mid April to end May
2019 (9 month delivery programme for applicants)
• Launch 2nd Challenge Fund Call (approx. £500k) – around End July
2019
• Deploy Core LoRa Network – March to June 2019

5. Call One Programme
Publish 1st Challenge Fund Call 11th April 2019
Optional Information Event 24th April 2019 (evening)
Call Close 31st May 2019 @ midday
Evaluation and identification of the
top two scoring for each Challenge
14th June 2019
Interviews (preferred 2) for each
Challenge
20th June 2019
Award 21st June 2019
Completion of Challenge Feb 2020

6. Application Download
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/readingbc/aspx/Tenders/Current

7. Grant Funding
• This Call is allocating up to £400k of grant funding through four separate
Challenges
• We anticipate awarding up to £100k of grant funding for each of the four
Challenges. There will be no specific benefit in requesting less than £100k
although it should be noted that the evaluators will not score a project well
who’s scope is clearly of a lower value than the grant funding requested.
• The grant funding will be paid in instalments in arrears based on
appropriate reporting and agreed milestones being met. In addition, we
will make an advance payment of up to 30% of the grant value to help with
project start-up costs.
• Applicants are required to confirm that they will be able to provide match
funding in accordance with the funding requirements which reflect the size
of the applicants business.

8. Funding Priorities
We welcome bids for funding from projects that will address the four Challenges and which support
the following funding priorities:
• Utilise IoT and / or data analytics.
• Will be able to share open data, so far as is practicable, that will help build a strong open data
platform.
• Maximise the potential for solutions that not only address a single issue but have a wider cross
sector application.
• Will have measurable outputs (what you have spent the money on) and outcomes (what
objectives you have achieved) and must meet the requirements of the challenge being addressed.
• Accord with the expected categories of Research and Development as detailed in this Guideline
and include a real-world pilot to demonstrate the benefits.
• Will include monitoring and evaluation to be able to demonstrate a business case for scaling up.
• Will be able to demonstrate that it meets relevant data security standards for the application.

9. Challenge One - Monitoring household
condition for energy and health
Reading Borough Council
“To deliver a system that can cost effectively
monitor the condition of housing used by the
Council, both Council owned and privately owned,
to monitor energy use, temperatures, building use
and dampness. Include a local authority interface
for easy monitoring, provide data insights including
energy efficiency and to provide alerts.”

10. Challenge Two - Prolonging
independence through reducing falls
West Berkshire Council
“Falls in the elderly population are a major problem for West Berkshire Council. Half of over
80s fall at least once every year and a third of over 65s fall at least once every year and 10%
to 25% of people who fall suffer a serious injury. Often, the first fall that people have is not so
serious, but is a progressive problem and further falls often lead to hospitalisation and
moving to a care home. There are a number of factors that impact on the likelihood of
further falls, such as temperature of the home (too hot / too cold), level of lighting (e.g. at
night), balance or gait, and dehydration. The challenge is to develop a low-cost package of
connected devices to reduce the likelihood of further falls, enable the individual who has
fallen to take ownership and remain in control of their own environment, give them the
confidence to continue to be independent, and extend the length of time that they can live
independently”.

11. Challenge Three - Reduce Isolation
for the Elderly
Wokingham Borough Council
“To deliver a system / service that will address the issue of
isolation and loneliness for the elderly to reduce pressure on
primary carers, encourage interaction with more people and
encourage engagement with groups such as walking groups.
The solution should include non-intrusive monitoring to give
Wokingham Borough Council information to better
understand the level of isolation across the Borough and the
success of the system. The solution should be secure,
managed and trusted by users.”

12. Challenge Four - Help Vulnerable
People to Travel Independently
Bracknell Forest Council
“To deliver a system / service that will enable
vulnerable people and those isolated through lack of
transport to easily, safely and confidently travel
using existing public transport services and / or
through community support. The solution should
look to reduce the burden of social transport services
on the Council whilst also improving accessibility for
individuals within Bracknell Forest.”

13. Collaboration Portal
http://www.thamesvalleyberkshire.co.uk/tvbsmartcity.htm

14. Questions?
kwalton-melhuish@peterbrett.com