Building and Managing an Intelligent City

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The open platform

No city has implemented yet a fully open platform.

- open innovation, partnering and cooperative models between public and private sector. The platform enhances operational efficiency by enabling fully automated service interoperability via a central hub, different domains and stakeholders can “speak” the same language.

- Platform is modular and more readily scalable. New components of the overall infrastructure can be replaced and integrated with minimal impact on the overall structure.

- the platform enables city services to be delivered in a leaner fashion.

Some projects

- Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure Systems (CVIS) – share data about the traffic. Strategic Platform for Intelligent Traffic Systems (SPITS) – in the Netherlands, also applications for smartphones.

Intelligent services

Sustainable development and operation

Energy

Building technologies to create a living and working environment that utilizes fewer resources and generates less waste;

- need to adapt or retrofit existing structures to be more energy and water efficient (Charlotte’s Ville, Paris, Chicago, Sidney).

- Smart meters to help consumers to identify actions they can take to save resources and money.

- Building codes, standards, and certifications are other important aspects of creating smarter buildings (Seoul, London, Singapore).

- Decentralized energy: Cities like Sydney, London and Chicago have committed to increasing distributed energy systems, which can significantly improve the efficiency of power delivered. As more than 60% of the fossil energy is lost in production, transmission and distribution.

- Combined heat and power or trigeneration (Helsini, Sydney).

- Water resources – storm water and better water treatment (Singapore’s Marina Barrage, Tokyo).

- Smart grids – electricity networks merged with information and communications technologies.

- Renewable energy (Sao Paulo, Växjö – more than 50% of its energy).

Transportation

Making transportation smarter (Singapore – MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART)). The modeling technique serves as a decision support tool for city leaders and urban planners.

Health and safety

An intelligent healthcare system is built on storage systems and an open communications platform. The patient records can be accessed wherever they are needed. Those data may be used to facilitate diagnosis, facilitate research, faster-response emergency services, …

Taiwan - Telehealth Pilot Project, senior no longer need to journey to big hospitals far away from their homes. Copenhagen – home-monitoring for chronic disease to permit patient to be at home or translation for non Danish speakers to communicate with the staff. Tokyo –pratical training for doctors. The Secure City Technology Alliance (SCTA) (Canada).

Waste management

“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”

- Reduce waste sources as packaging and plastic bags.

- Reuse, analyse were come the major waste and find new approach to reuse them – Chicago.

- Recycling – environmental and financial benefits – Curitiba (70%), Amsterdam (43% - used to supply electricity to 75% of households), Seoul, London (RecycleBank scheme), Chicago (90% by 2020). Convert waste into energy, Paris, Amsterdam, Sidney.

Improve municipal waste collection – to avoid the negative effects of illegal dumping. It also involves rethinking the logistic to be cleaner and less labour – Amsterdam, Paris, Singapore.

Competitiveness and attractiveness of the city

Education and culture

Helping citizens understand and then take consistent action through changes behaviours is a long process. Citizens should be closely involved while the strategy and vision of the city is defined (Melbourne – nomination for the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize, Copenhagen - “Eco-City”, Portland – CivicApps to address city issues by collaboration between citizens and government).

BC Hydro’s Power Smart program provides innovative education and outreach initiatives across British Columbia and has led to increased awareness. In Philadelphia, collaboration with Dow Chemical to diminish the energy usage for the houses that participated.

Public administration

Innovative Cities for Next Generation (ICING) is a European project coordinated by the Dublin Institute of Technology examining a multi-modal, multi-access concept of e-Government. The technology platform will gather indicators from the city, process the information, propose actions to be taken with human intervention and supervision and connect the city with its constituency.

Conclusion

City must become sustainable and remain attractive.

- is to assess the city’s starting point, based on its unique geographic, economic and political situation.

- assess scenarios of the costs, impacts and tradeoffs of various programs

- begin to plan the technology, strategy, process, training, governance

- management aspects of a development program.

Engagement of the private sector and the citizens (emotional component). Create financial models that are up to the challenges and opportunities ahead.