Slides from Prof Dr Pieter Ballon, Director Living Labs, iMinds and Professor, Vrije Universities, Brussels. Presented at CSC 2016, session 1: OASC 101 – getting hands-on with API, data models

1. Data-Driven Innovation in Smart
Cities
Prof Dr Pieter Ballon
Director Living Labs, iMinds & Professor, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel

2. DATA & SMART CITIES

3. Data & the Smart City
• Monitoring => Control => Optimisation => Autonomy3

4. Current opportunities
Maas.fi

5. Real-time data
opentransport

6. Real-time data
newsmonkey

7. Real-time data
newsmonkey

8. Real-time data
newsmonkey

9. Solving the Market Failure
• Marketplaces underdeveloped right now
• For a healthy marketplace to exist, market failure should be solved
• Market failure: e.g. in presence of public goods (like public data)
• “Data is the Fuel for the Smart City”
– e.g. London, Helsinki, Ghent
 From Open Data to Open Real-time Data
 From Datasets to API’s
 From Availability to Usage
9

10. Maturity Levels
Real-time cities progress heat map (source: Frost &
Sullivan, 2015)

11. ANTWE
RP
LEUVEN
GHENT
The Need to Connect
BRUSSE
LS

12. DATA-DRIVEN INNOVATION IN
CITIES

13. RDI-role for the city
• Reinvent organisation & services
• Solve maturity issues
• Raise knowledge
• Get feedback & buy-in from citizens
• Organise & prepare market
• Activate quadruple helix

15. Network layer
Deploying a city-wide network
connecting multiple wireless technologies
Data layer
Providing an open data platform with a
real-time view on the city
User & Business layer
Living lab approach to allow users and
business to interact with new technologies
Hardware layer
Innovating wearable and sensor technologies
City Lab with Four layers

16. Data-driven Approach:
architectureCity of Things Gateway
Controller
(CubieBoard 3)
Set of pluggable on-board sensors
Set of pluggable wirelessly
connected sensors
Zigbee
Communication
module
BLE
Communication
module
WiFi
Communication
module
DASH7
Communication
module
LORA
Communication
module
Sigfox
Communication
module

17. Data-driven Approach: business
innovation
iMinds Living Lab Assumption Board (Rits, Schuurman & Ballon, 2015)

18. Data-driven Approach: user
behaviour

20. A*Sign
Innovating parking sign systems
CITY PROJECT
PERIOD
October 2015 to December 2015
PROJECT
Real world user tests with the winner of Apps for
Antwerp who developed hard- and software for a
new parking sign system.
CITY OF THINGS offers:
Businessmodel support, FIWARE integration, real-life Living Lab testing.

21. City government system for
digital traffic signs
Digital traffic signs
Full planning & control system
Citizen service platform
New revenue opportunities
A*SIGN
APP
CITY
WORKER
PLATFORM
WE
B
CITIZEN
REQUEST
PLATFORM
SIGFO
X
GPS
NFC/Q
R
E-INK
BATT
ERY
ALAR
M
WE
B
CITY
CONTROL
NGS
I
Real-time data
CITY OF
THINGS

22. Thanks!
Pieter.Ballon@iminds.be
www.facebook.com/iminds
EMAIL:
@iminds

23. Living Labs & Data-Driven
Innovation
Permanent Living Lab
Local Ecosystem
Open Data
Open Enablers

24. Living Labs & Data-Driven
Innovation
Permanent Living Lab
Local Ecosystem
Open Data
Open Enablers
• Real-Life experiments
• Real-time Logging
• Large-scale Panel
• Public
• Private
• Real-Time
• iMinds Tech
• Partner Tech
• FIWARE
• SME community
• SME Acceleration
• Digital Transformation