Derby. Presentation to INCA Ultra-Connected Smart Cities Launch

1. Graham Bennett

2. Launch of INCA’s
Ultra-Connected Smart Cities
Special Interest Group

3. Derby is not 1 of 10:
‘super-connected cities’
Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff,
Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Manchester, or
Newcastle.
Derby is not 1 of 8:
‘Core cities’
Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester,
Newcastle, Nottingham, or Sheffield.

4. Derby is 1 of 27:
Aberdeen, Brighton & Hove, Cambridge, Chelmsford,
Coventry, Derby, Dundee, Exeter, Gloucester, Hull,
Leicester, Londonderry, Newport, Norwich, Oxford,
Perth, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Preston,
Salford, Southampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland,
Swansea, Wolverhampton, York.
Still missing from 10 & 27:
Liverpool, Nottingham, and Sheffield.

5. Why Derby should be an
Ultra-Connected Smart City
1. Global competitiveness, to
rebalance the national
economy for growth

7. UK’s No.1 high-tech city. . .

8. Why Derby should be an
Ultra-Connected Smart City
1. Effective resource
management:
• Energy
• Transport
• Security
• Health & Social care
• Smart Citizens

9. Why Derby should be an
Ultra-Connected Smart City
1. Local employment:
• 1,000 more jobs every year . . .
• Boost start-up rate
• 21st Century skills

10. What Derby is doing to become
an Ultra-Connected Smart City
1. Core Network
Connecting:
•Public sector agencies
•Major businesses/business parks
•Major new developments

11. What Derby is doing . . . . .
2. The Osmaston vision

12. At Osmaston . . .
There will be:
•330 new homes
•Significant enterprise units
•A new GP surgery
•A new school
•Refurbishment of up to 2,500 homes
•Genuine resident engagement
Plus:
•Neighbourhood wide superfast broadband
•Sensors and actuators in all homes

13. The Osmaston approach
• Sensors will provide vital evidence for
city-wide refurbishment programmes
• Sensors & actuators will support local
effective management of energy
• New GP surgery will enable development
and delivery of telecare and telehealth
• Training facility for GPs in use of
data/technology

14. What Derby is doing . . . . .
3. Smart Derby City
• Osmaston trail-blazer will support city-
wide roll outs
• Will link into smart transport management
• Data generated could allow development
of “app’s” to support the citizen
All part of developing Derby as a smart city

15. Conclusions: (1)
Our shared context:
•The future is unpredictable
•Greater interconnectedness than before
•Scale & speed of change is increasing
•‘Impacts’ are quicker & greater
•Quality, current information is essential
•Data infrastructure can help cope . . . ?

16. Conclusions: (2)
We need to:
•Think comprehensively - ‘whole system’
•Address fragmented market – not ignore!
•Business model, inc stimulating demand
•Confront threat of ‘spoiling tactics’
•Recognise no single “killer App’”
and most of all, accept that . . . . .

17. Partnership Matters!