FROM SMART PEOPLE TO SMART CITY – EVOLUTION
Sergi Figuerola
Chief Technology and Innovation Officer
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i2cat
Nov 2014
OR REVOLUTION?
“A smart city / Region with smart citizen and smart business
ecosystem.
The Barcelona’s and Catalonian’s strategy, supported by the
City OS and the Smart Region strategy initiatives”

Barcelona’s VISION
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Key drivers for a Smart City strategy
The Barcelona City OS strategy
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Barcelona Local Program
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Conceptual model:
anatomy of a Smart City
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Barcelona Urban lab activities
(Open ecosystem for trials)
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Smart City technical strategy
Smart City Ecosystem I
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Citizens
Business
Intelligence
Data Acquisition Platform
Public
Administration
API for 3rd
party apps
CEP Semantic
DBs
Analytics
Big Data
BCN
City OS
Regoin
BCN CITY OS Initiative
“ the mind of the city”
(2M€ Project starting on January 2014)

SMART REGION
City/ Region Resiliency
Community Services
and Citizens
Information
platform
infrastructure
Mobile Web Social
networks
BI
APPs
Open data Semantics,
analitycs
Big Data
CPD’s Cloud HPC
Networks Sensors IoT
Use case validations
City/Region services and
functionalities
Multi‐Region
interconnectivity
Multichannel strategy &
citizen interaction
From data to knowledge (i.e
Big Data), new semantic
schemas
Inter/intra datacenters,
Openstack, e‐infrastructure
integration
Multitechnology platforms,
SDN, IoT & Net integration
New Business Model
Innovation /Incubators
OPEN & Standard API’s
Converged infrastructures: From the device (app)
to the physical network and sensor/IoT
Community building
& User/Citizen access
Anonymity & Privacy
BCN Open “City OS” the core of the sistem
Value Chain
Smart City EcoSystem II
“Intelligent” Semantics and models
Policy Regulation proactivity

Need of a large Pilot that integrates Technologies,
IoT, users, communities and services for 5G
end‐user services core services
platforms
mgmt
platforms
mgmt
App‐
1
App‐
2
App‐
3
Service Development Kit
data presentation layer
data pre‐processing services
information models
gw/drv gw/drv gw/drv gw/drv gw/drv
parki
ng
traffic
gates
smart
grid
weath
er
sensor
s
public
transport
data collection engine
App‐
4
App‐
5
sync async
…
CityOS
mgmt
(FCAPS)
services
CityOS
user
space
CityOS
kernel
platforms
Exp‐
1
OpenStack,
etc.
Enhanced SDK
SDN controller
HPC
gw/drv gw/drv
City/regions/comunity platforms aux
stora
ge
platforms
platforms
mgmt
platform virtualization/slicing
srv1 … srvN
Smart‐phones
cars
citizen
platforms
City and other network(s)
gw/drv gw/drv
Video
surveil
lance
Public
buildings
….
…. home
meters …. … ….
experimental
services (aka
City Lab)
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Catalan Government, Ubristol,
i2CAT, NXW

Catalonia’s Smart Strategy
“from Smart City to Smart Society”
ICTs must become a fundamental tool
if Catalonia is to become a 21st-century
economy
 Improving resource and environmental management
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Smart
Catalonia
 Economic improvement and job creation
 Improving social factors and the quality of life
 Improving participative governance

The Digital Agenda for Catalunya 2020 (idigital), the Research and Innovation Smart
Specialization Strategy of Catalunya (RIS3CAT) and the Industrial Strategy of Catalunya
set the reference framework where Smart Catalonia will be deployed
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Smart
Catalonia
Reference framework

“from Smart City to Smart Region/Society”
“A Smart City is a city seeking to address public issues via ICT based solutions on the basis of a multi‐stakeholder,
municipally based partnership. These solutions are developed and refined through Smart City
initiatives, either as discrete projects or (more usually) as a network of overlapping activities. The strategies and
initiatives of a Smart City must include at least one of the following characteristics (objectives and/or modes of
operation): smart governance, smart living, smart mobility, smart economy and smart environment. (Source:
EU Parliament ‐ Mapping Smart Cities in the EU, 2014)
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What is a Smart City?
From Smart City to Smart Region
The definition of ‘smart city’ can be extended to ‘smart region’ and also
• Not all cities challenges can be resolved thinking only
along urban lines
• Not all municipalities can organisationally or economically
deal with all the challenges
• It is also necessary to arrange the Smart action of the
Government of Catalonia
• Be an Smart Region generates opportunities at the
economic level
Source: EU Parliament ‐ Mapping Smart Cities in the EU, 2014

The government of Catalonia will promote collaboration between public administration
and the private sector to boost the deployment of Smart City projects in Catalonia
Smart City Smart Region
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Smart City projects deployment support
Coordination and exchange of experiences from local
initiatives
Promoting the sharing of data and services
(e.g. cloud services)
Establishing a route map for smaller local
councils
Establishing agreements with private companies
Smart City
Smart City

Smart Economy I
The deployment of the Smart Region also involves the deployment of smart initiatives in
the sectorial scopes where the government of Catalonia has competencies and offers
public services.
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Smart sectorial project deployment support Sectorial Smart strategies
Tourism
• Tourists patterns of behaviour (places most visited by country of origin).
• Tourist Interaction points with NFC or QR. Points of tourism information in urban furniture.
• Augmented reality (interest info, virtual visits, translation of banners, etc.).
• Tourism offices 2.0. Wifi HotSpots. Webcams.
Retail
• Data analysis tools to know patterns of consumption.
• Use of Big Data at the point of sale.
• Portals & Apps for bidirectional communication.
• Contactless systems of paying.
Health
• Health card at the mobile phone.
• Platform &marketplace of medical applications.
• Telemedicine. Management of chronic patients with mobile applications.
• Open Data & Big Data of medical information. Predictive systems.
Education
• Use of mobile handsets at the classroom BYOD. Touch tables.
• Optimization of school management with ICT.
• Management and analysis of student information.
• Content repositories & marketplaces with geocoding, QR, NFC, etc.

Smart Economy II
Data is the oil of the XXI century, and position Catalonia in this sector is absolutely strategic. The goal
is to impulse in our country a new data industry related to emerging Big Data technological sectors
like Analytics, Cloud, Social and Mobile.
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Impulse of new economy of data
Nova
indústria de
les dades
Mobile
Social
Cloud
Analytics
Data ‐ driven
Economy

Data-driven Economy (Big Data)
“90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone”
(IBM, 2014)
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Data-driven Economy (Big Data)
Big Data Strategic Plan for Catalunya
 Telecommunications sensors and networks
 Hub of Data centres with cloud platforms
 Supercomputing (HPC).
 Open Data & Big Data tools
 Interoperability & Standards
 Training of professionals
 Promotion of R&D related to Big Data
 Attraction of multination Big Data centres
 Public-private collaboration projects
Company creation and growth support
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Create a
data culture
Data infrastructures
and services
3
Impulse data
industry
Use of Big Data at
public administration
2
4
 Workgroup and excellence centre of Big Data
 Reference events
 Legal framework and security environments
Awareness of citizens and companies
 Strategy and governance of Big Data at the Generalitat
 From Business Intelligence to Big Data
 Open Data and reuse of public information
 Generation of products and services from data

Public administration and citizens
Smart Government & Smart Citizen
There is no point in having an Smart Region without “smart citizens”, they have to decide and condition
which city, region or country they want. We have to impulse initiatives which engage citizens encouraging
them to participate in making decisions and in the improvement of public services.
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Mobile
Cloud Social
Smart
Government Smart Citizen
• Promoting of training for
citizens in digital
competences.
• Boost new initiatives in Social
Innovation, Open Innovation
and Living Labs.
• Take advantage of the
opportunities in ICT jobs
(new ICT jobs)
• Bidirectional communication channels between
administration and citizens (omnichannel, simple
and accessible).
• Portals of transparency, participation and
collaboration.
• Implementation of a Smart Tax system in the
new model of tax administration ( collaborative ,
open and efficient use of the data ) .
• Promoting Open Data and its use by citizens and
companies.
• Active and passive participation of
citizens to generate information
• Exploit the capacities of the Citizen
as a Sensor as a data generator
• Use of mobile devices, internet
information, internet of things,
credit cards, etc.
Citizen
participation
to obtain
data
New digital
citizens
Open
Government

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Sergi Figuerola (sergi.figuerola@i2cat.net)
CTIO i2cat
Mobile: +34.675.780.950