Gordon Feller, Meeting of the Minds, Urban Age, City Infrastructure as a Service

1. City Infrastructure as a Service
--Gordon Feller
phone: +1-4157178751

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City Issues: Rapid Urbanization, Economic
Constraints, and Environmental Sustainability
Rapid growth puts pressure on city
infrastructure, making it harder to
maintain citizen quality of life
Greater need to manage carbon footprint
and improve sustainability
Boosting livability index is more crucial
than ever to retain and attract trade,
commerce, and talent
Current Challenges faced by Cities Implication
Rapid urbanization
§ 50% of world population lives in cities
§ 6.3 billion will live in cities in 2050, up 70%
from 3.6 billion in 2010
Environmental pressure
§ Cities responsible for between 60-80% of world’s
energy and greenhouse emissions
§ Cities consume 60% of all water and lose as much
as 20% in leakage
Economic pressure
§ Large section of developed world will only grow
between 0-2% in 2013
§ Recent economic recovery has not resulted in
proportional job growth
The ability to improve city infrastructure management is increasingly defining social, environmental, and economic success

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Cities Have Traditionally Addressed These Issues
in Silos
This fragmented approach is inefficient, has limited effectiveness, and is not economical
Every city department makes investments independently resulting in:
§ No sharing of infrastructure costs and IT resources
§ No sharing of intelligence/information, e.g., video feeds, data from sensors, etc.
§ Waste and duplication of investment and effort
§ Difficulty in scaling infrastructure management
Waste
management
Pollution/
environment
City
lighting
Public
safety
Parking
optimisation
Traffic
management

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Smart City Solutions
Smart Parking
Give citizens live
parking availability
information to reduce
circling and
congestion
Smart Street
Lighting
Manage street lighting
to reduce energy and
maintenance costs
Public Wifi & Citizen
Engagement Platform
Leverage location data
for contextual content
and advertising
Smart City Traffic
Monitor and manage
traffic incidents to
reduce congestion
and improve livability
Smart City Safety
& Security
Automatically detect
security incidents,
shorten response
time, and analyze
data to reduce crime

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Constraints in scaling Smart City Solutions
Financing
Difficulty in scaling smart city pilots on account of:
• Challenges in obtaining financing for full fledged initiatives
• Current city budgets not accommodating larger cross sectorial projects
• Pilots being backed by special or non-repeatable Government funding
Unclear ROI
• Uncertainty in realizing the estimated incremental revenues / cost benefits
• City investment / spending not linked to business outcomes
Implementation
• Rate of deployment constrained by availability of Government Staff
• Roll-out of Smart City projects without causing any disruption to citizens’ quality of life
(closing roads, blocking of streets etc.)
• Delays in establishing the ecosystem
Accountability
• Achieving the right coordination & alignment across involved Government agencies
• Lack of a single source of accountability (single throat to choke) on account of the complex
landscape of solution providers required to deliver Smart City Solutions

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Introducing “City Infrastructure as a service” model
Effective Deployment
Smart City Solutions deployed by Cisco and its ecosystem Partners
Single point of accountability
Service Provider will be responsible for managing Smart City Services
External Financing Support
Asset Owner will finance the Smart City Infrastructure
Cities can provide Smart City Services to citizens without any capital investment

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Future State
• 80%-90% savings in Street Lighting costs
• 50%-60% reduction in Carbon Emissions
• 20%-30% increase in Parking Revenue
• Free Wifi services to Citizens
• Incremental revenue through Location based Advertising / Wifi Offload
• Leverage existing infrastructure to deploy Smart Traffic & Security solutions

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Cisco and its Industry partners offer to administer an
investment fund to 5 qualifying Cities for incubating and
scaling their City Digitisation agenda
Selected Cities have an opportunity to:
• Be Iconic showcases of Smart City at Scale for peers from around the world
• Benefit by partnering with Industry thought leaders in Smart Cities
• Improve City GDP and Livability Index
• Accelerate Local Innovation and Job Creation
• Environment Sustainability
City Digitisation Challenge
Which Partners?

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• Significant Capital Injection to be an “early mover” for building a Smart City
• Smart City Blueprint for the City
• Consortia for Innovating, Delivering and Operating Smart Services in the City
• Best Practices and Execution expertise from around the world
• Innovation Centre to promote local entrepreneurship
• University Partnership to link academic research with Growth agenda
What Cisco and Partners will bring to the table

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• Commitment to partner on 3 year transformation for being a “Digital City”
• Agreement to work with Industry on new partnership models which enable
private investments
• Buy in from respective City and Federal agencies to roll out program
• Baseline information on City and Joint Partnership to identify City Digitisation
Requirements, Develop Business Cases and appropriate Industry Consortia
• Launch an Innovation Centre and University Partnership for research and
innovation
What Cisco and Partners will expect from the City