Presentation by Kenji Hiramoto Chief Strategist (IT), Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan FIWARE Global Summit 23-24 October 2019 - Berlin, Germany

1. Scale Up for a Real Smart Future
Berlin, Germany
23-24 October, 2019
The Smart City Program in Japan
- Cities as Enabler of the Society 5.0 -
Kenji Hiramoto
Chief Strategist(IT),
Cabinet Secretariat,
Government of Japan

2. Overview of Digital Strategy in Japan
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Other Acts
Privacy act and
Info. disclosure act
Society 5.0 (2016)
Economic Growth Strategy
(2019-6)
Innovation Strategy (2019-6)
Digital Strategy (2019-6)
Data Strategy (2019-6)
Digital Government Policy (2017-5)
• Connected Industries
Vision
National Strategies
Digital Strategies
IT ACT
(2000)
DATA ACT
(2016)
Digital First ACT
(2019)
Society 5.0
Reference
Architecture
Data
Exchange
Platform
Government
Interoperability
Framework
(IMI)
Data
Strategy / Policy
Rule
Organization
Business
Data harness
functions
Data
Data broker
function
Asset
Sensor, Actuator,
Hardware, Network
Gathering, Integration,
Cleansing, Device management
Data definition, Data model,
Code
Catalogue, Search,
AI, Analysis
Business process
Business Rule
Coordination
Team
Legislation
Regulation
Vision
Priority domain
Security/Authentication
Lifecycle
Open Data Policy (2017-5)
AI Principal
(2019-3)
AI Strategy
(2019-6)
AI Strategy

3. What is a smart city?
• A smart city is an effort to improve the efficiency and sophistication
of urban and regional functions and services through the use of
advanced technologies, to solve various problems, and to create
new value including comfort and convenience. It can be said that it
is a place for the advancement of Society 5.0.
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Logistics
Transportation
& Mobility
Health &
Medical
service
Urban planning, O&M
Disaster response
Infrastructure O&M
EnvironmentEnergy
Security,
Monitoring
Tourism,
Community
Agriculture,
Fishing

4. Overview of Smart City program in Japan
▪ There are so many smart city projects in Japan.
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Main data
Parking data
Traffic data
People density data
Noise data
Atmospheric data
Garbage data
Streetlight data
Crime data
3D model of the city
Main areas
Mobility
Safety
Health
Energy
Water
Garbage
Economy and Housing
Community
Smart City
Smart
Industries
Digital
Government
(Base Registries)
Government Data
Infrastructure Data Sensor data
Application
Certification data
Reporting data
Basic
Data
▪ The government and private sectors provide
wide-area services related to smart cities.

5. Mobility(Person)
▪ The private sector provides a variety of services to help people move.
Map Underground map Directions AR direction guide Wheelchair map
The blue line is the history of
wheelchair movement.
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6. Mobility(Public transportation)
▪ Public transportation provides information from the user's point of view.
Train location Human density in train Bus location Taxi location Share bike
Station
Station
Station
Station
Express
Local
Local
Local
Crowdy
Not crowdy
Bus Bus stop
Taxi
Share bike station
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7. Sensors
▪ There are many real-time sensor information services in cities.
Human density Rain Pollen Air condition
Calculated by Mobile phone density Data from X-Band radar 7

8. Safety
▪ There are traffic safety and crime prevention information services. In addition to that, disaster
prevention information is critical in Japan.
Sinndo
Kasenn
Sudden car brakes Crime Wind Water level of river
Seismic intensity
of earthquake
Accidents
Brakes
Stranger
Peeping
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9. We have great potential, but not maximize its value.
▪ We should use many applications on my smart phone.
▪ We can’t compare and analyze these data.
▪ How do you connect existing services?
Hotel
Information
Restaurant
Information
Urban
planning
Disaster risk
management
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10. The Role of Smart City Stakeholders
▪ To spread smart cities, framework at the national level and international interoperability are
essential.
Private sectors
- Services
Municipalities
- Strategy & planning
- Services
National
-
International
- Interoperability
- Open data
- Coordination  Strategy
 Architecture
• Rules
• Standards
• Open data
• Base registries
• Platform tools
 Community
 PoCs10

11. Smart city architecture = Society 5.0 Reference Architecture
▪ Smart City is the showcase of the society 5.0 that is the future society model of Japan.
Strategy / Policy
Rule
Organization
Business
Data harness
functions
Data
Data broker
function
Asset
Sensor, Actuator,
Hardware, Network
Gathering, Integration,
Cleansing, Device management
Data definition, Data model,
Code
Catalogue, Search,
AI, Analysis
Business process
Business Rule
Coordination
Team
Legislation
Regulation
Vision
Priority domain
Security/Authentication
Lifecycle
Society 5.0
Innovation Strategy
Smart City program
Data
Exchange
Platform
Government
Interoperability
Framework
Services
Function for data management
Function for connection
Search Distribution Privacy Community
Catalogue Taxonomy Simulation Quality
Assurance
Convert Merge Integrate Anonymize
Cross-domain
data exchange
platform
Data exchange
platforms
In industries
Rule
Services
Function for data management
Function for connection
Search Distribution Privacy Community
Catalogue Taxonomy Simulation Quality
Assurance
Convert Merge Integrate Anonimize
Services for each industries
• Taxonomies
• Codes
• Functions
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12. Data Exchange Platform(DEP)
▪ Each function consists of building blocks and is connected by API. Users can use a combination
of the blocks they need.
Services
Function for data management
Function for connection
Search Distribution Privacy Community
Catalogue Taxonomy Simulation Quality
Assurance
Convert Merge Integrate Anonymize
Cross-domain
data exchange
platform
Data exchange
platforms
In industries
Rule
Team
CSTI, CAO IT HQ, CAS METI IPA
DTA DPC
Services
Function for data management
Function for connection
Search Distribution Privacy Community
Catalogue Taxonomy Simulation Quality
Assurance
Convert Merge Integrate Anonimize
Services for each industries
• Taxonomies
• Codes
• Functions
EU
US
・・・
CSTI: Council for Science, Technology and Innovation
CAO: Cabinet Office
IT HQ: IT strategy Headquarter
CAS: Cabinet Secretariat
METI: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
IPA: Information Technology Promotion Agency
DTA: Data Trading Alliance
DPC: Data Platform Consortium
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13. Service images
https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/tyousakai/juyoukadai/14kai/siryo2-1.pdf
Data
consumer
Data
distributer
Data
provider
Agriculture Satellite
Production Sunshine
Automobile Geography
Car
navigation
Dynamic
map
Road Bridge
Surface Strain
Disaster
area
Meteorolog
y
Damage
Rain
Wind
Health Factory
Vital material
Cross-domain data exchange platform
Service Portal Function（Search, Privacy protection）
Common Function（Catalogue, Taxonomy, Analytics）
Data Exchange function（Data fusion, Cleansing）
Infrastructure
data
Traffic data
Health data
Urban data
Agriculture data
Production data
Administration
data
Environment
data
Productivity Improvement
Services
Navigation service Emergency response
service
Productivity Improvement
Services
Logistics service
Common data
Proprietary
data
Common data
Proprietary
data
Common data
Proprietary
data
Common data
Proprietary
data
Common data
Proprietary
dataLogistics
company
IT
company
Security
company
Sensor
company
Retail
company
Smart agriculture Autonomous car Smart citySmart factoryEmergency response
Government Interoperability Framework / Base Registries
Service
provider
Open data
DEP DEP DEP DEP
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14. Government Interoperability Framework
▪ Data is fuel for smart cities. We should provide the structured and high-quality date.
Gov. Date exchange Std.
Core vocabulary
Templates
Characters
Code
Service
Data
Tourism
Date, Address, Phone …
Sensor Data
Data item
(Data definition)
Information
(Data model)
Healthc
are
Transpo
rtation
Disaster
Public
service
Infrastru
cture
Manufa
cture
・・・
Format
Service catalogue
Latitude Base
registries
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15. PoCs & Smart city public-private partnership platform
▪ In order to accelerate smart city initiatives through
public-private partnerships, we established the
“Smart City Public-Private Partnership Platform” with
members from companies, universities / research
institutions, local governments, and related
ministries.
• 353 Private sectors(Companies, Universities)
• 112 Municipalities
• 11 ministries
• Total 465
▪ Through this platform, we will support members'
smart city initiatives through business support,
holding of subcommittees, matching support, and
promotion activities.
http://www.mlit.go.jp/scpf/index.html
100+ projects15

16. Conclusion
▪ It is necessary to work together with the excellent services already
provided.
▪ We need to share the experience of smart city projects in each city.
▪ Architecture and data standards are needed to create and deploy
new services.
▪ The city's readiness is also important to make a smart city. Especially,
it is necessary to prepare the base registry and improve the quality of
the data.
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17. Thank you!
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