Smart City: A New Professional Platform for Modern Engineers Lecture at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Graduates Club Dr Thiti Vacharasintopchai August 27, 2020 Video available at: https://youtu.be/EurzQAmQsNM

1. Smart City
A New Professional Platform
for Modern Engineers
Thiti Vacharasintopchai, D.Eng., ATSI-DX, CISA
August 27, 2020
FOR GENERAL AUDIENCE

2. DISCLAIMER
All views expressed are my own and
do not represent the opinions of any entity with which
I have been or am now affiliated
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22 years in construction
12 years in tech management
10 years in real estate
6 years in university
3 years in healthcare
ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
ATSI DX expert, funded by Thailand’s NBTC
D.Eng. (Structural Engr, AIT 2007)
M.Eng. (Structural Engr, AIT 2000)
B.Eng. (Civil Engr, Chula 1998)
About Me
as of 2020

4. Starting with Why…
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5. The Cities
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6. 6Source: The ASEAN Post; Photos from DEPA
ASEAN before Covid-19
Over the past decade, most of ASEAN’s
growth has been and expected to continue
to be driven by urban centers.
It is forecasted that by 2030,
• the 90 million people expected to
urbanize cities and
• “middleweight” cities of between
200,000 and two million residents
will drive 40 percent of the region’s growth.
Rapid urbanization bring issues: congestion, water / air quality, urban-rural divide, housing and more.
Technology and non-technological means are identified as a solution to resolve such issues.
Enhance the quality and accessibility of services,
thereby improving people’s lives as well as creating new opportunities.

7. What?
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8. 8Source: Personal Trips; Thailand Digital Economy Promotion Agency; Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
What is the common ground in 2020’s ?
© Henning Larsen, proposal for 5.1 km city center in Shenzhen, CTBUH
Ari District, Bangkok 2020

9. 9Source: United Nations
UN sustainable development goals
Smart Cities hold the key to
sustainable development
Ms. Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana,
Executive Secretary of the United Nations
Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

10. 10Source: McKinsey & Company – May 2020
Reconfirmation
Asia in Covid-19

11. How?
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12. 12
The ASEAN Smart Cities Framework
Source: https://asean.org/storage/2019/02/ASCN-ASEAN-Smart-Cities-Framework.pdf

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The ASEAN Smart Cities Framework
Source: https://asean.org/storage/2019/02/ASCN-ASEAN-Smart-Cities-Framework.pdf
Smart Cities are not (only) about
IT, consumer apps, e-commerce,
service / industrial robotics

14. 14Source: IDC
Encouragements
and more

15. How Technically?
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16. How.. Technically?
Technical Enablers
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17. 17Source: Visual Capitalist
Communication Networks

18. Things have already started
and 5G will be more exciting
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19. 19Source: Personal Trips; NUS-SlideShare
Sensors, Data Stream and Monitoring

20. E-commerce and Logistics Have Matured
Other Technical Domains are not (quite)
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21. O&M
ERP
BIM
Chatbot
Concierge
Context
Location
Big Data and Life-Cycle of Built Environments
© 2019-2020 TEAM Consulting Engineering and Management PCL - Dr. Thiti Vacharasintopchai. All Rights Reserved. BIM background image by courtesy of Autodesk Asia Pte. Ltd.

22. 22Source: datanami; neo4j; Francois Faure, University of Grenoble
The Brain
prediction models
knowledge graphs
reasoner, computational logicMore: papers.thiti.it

23. Physical Interactions
from labs to fields
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24. 24Source: Apple; CNET

25. 25Source: TEAM Group; VTT Technical Research Center of Finland Ltd ; Tekla, Trimble Solutions; SuperMap GIS
Field Simulation (VR) and Companion (AR)

26. 26Source: Financial Times; Unity Technologies; MIT
VR, AR, Physical Interactions

27. 27Source: Vollert; WSJ; Fabbaloo
How We Make Things

28. How.. Financially?
ROI / ROE / ROA / IRR / …
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29. How.. Financially?
Purposeful Investment
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ESG Environmental, Social and Governance
SRI Socially Responsible Investment

30. How.. Financially?
30Source: LinkedIn – August 23, 2020

31. How.. Financially?
Who are Involved? Everyone.
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We buy products and services
Government and Corporates issue bonds
Insurance, mutual funds, pension / retirement funds
invest in capital markets

32. How.. Financially?
ESG / SRI Investments
32Source: Bloomberg; https://www.sustainalytics.com/sustainable-finance/2019/03/19/green-social-and-sustainability-bonds

33. 33Source: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BritishBornChineseUK/posts/2682543825355754; Bill Gates https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/Climate-and-COVID-19
How.. Financially?
Who are Involved? Everyone

34. Challenge for Us
Professionals
What we do and will be doing
in the next years
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Governments, Banks, Enterprises,
Research & Education,
NGOs … or even Customers
To influence / shape the World
such that technologies are leveraged and
efforts are focused / put into reality
towards sustainability
inclusively
as

35. Join us on the Journey
LINE LinkedIn
Covid-19 is a great reminder of
how unsustainably the world had been moving.
Throughout history great inventions are born
during the time of crisis. Covid-19 is an
opportunity for us to rethink, rebuild and
recover into a better world.
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