Presentation at Union Station Technology Center about Smart City projects in South Bend. South Bend is part of the Metro Lab Network, and these projects aim to further our vision of an open and connected community where everyone can thrive.
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Smart City: Making South Bend a SmartER & Connected City
1. What IS a Smart City?
Making South Bend a SmartER & Connected
Community
How South Bend Redefines itself as a Smart
City
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2. Cities Across the Globe Face:
• New digital expectations
• Rapid rate of change
Demographic
Change
• Water management
• Roads and Bridges
Aging
Infrastructure
• Catastrophic events
• Changing context
Climate
Change
• Reduced revenue
• Transparency
Fiscal
Constraints
Challenges Opportunities
• Residents and Things are
interconnected in embedded
environments
• Data can be generated, analyzed,
and consumed at low cost
Internet of
Things
• Information technologies simplify
service delivery
• Metrics and accountability at the
service level
Service
Orientation
• More data and more computational
power at lesser cost
• Big data relevant in a local context
Analytics
3. Confronted by constraints and the double-edged
sword of data, as city managers we need frameworks
that allow us to abstract technical complexity and
focus on prioritizing and communicating decisions in
an accessible way to politicians and residents.
12. Education /
Experience
Level
Available
Programs
South Bend
Youth Task
Force
Highschool
University Student /
Pre-Professional
Fellowship /
Developmental
Rotation
Long-term
Professional
PlacementMiddle-School
Office of
Innovation
South Bend
Community School
Corporation
South Bend
Code School
Riley
Engineering
Bowman Creek Educational
Ecosystem Internship Program
Office of Innovation
Internship Program
Society of Women
Engineers
EnFocus Fellowship
Program
Americorps Vista
Program
Notre Dame Staff
SB Public Works
Internships
Other City of South
Bend Departments
South Bend Tech
Startups
Regional
Organizations
Enfocus Internship
Program
Talent Ecosystem: Pipeline
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13. Civic Analytics & Policy Engine
• The city produced a number of successful applications of data science
during the first four years of the Buttigieg administration
• These have been ad-hoc engagements managed through the Office of Innovation
(V&A Analysis, City Report Card)
• These have not up to this point leveraged the talent of Notre Dame faculty/staff,
only students (Undergrad through PhD)
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Editor's Notes
Rapidly changing demographics
Changes in population size
Changes in the expectations of government (digital devices)
Access to data
Prices and access to Connectivity are dropping
Streams of data both to and from
Richer data visualization opportunities – more engaging and intuitive representations of data
Connectivity:
MetroNet – Fiber Optics
Wireless – research test bed
Talent
Code School
enFocus
Code for America
Transportation
Using real-time control with sensors and valves, we were able to optimize the usage of our combined sewer-storm water network
The solution including R&D cost $6 Million USD
The alternative gray solution would have costed $120 M USD
The solution was the product of collaboration between the University of Notre Dame and the City
A resulting company EmNet, has kept growing and selling their solution in many other cities across the US
It has created high quality jobs that attract and retain top talent
Disruptive technology
$6 million for this dynamic real time monitoring and control versus $ 120 million for conventional store and convey solution.