This document discusses opportunities for industrial IoT (Internet of Things) applications in cities from the perspective of the Future Cities Catapult organization. It outlines plans to build demonstrator testbeds of IoT technologies in cities to prove their economic and market viability for small businesses and municipalities. It also discusses creating a global database to measure the economic impacts of IoT in cities to inform policymaking and identify opportunities for technology interventions that can benefit local and national economies. The organization is developing experimental city testbeds and smaller testbeds to allow companies to showcase their IoT capabilities as part of building the market case for IoT technologies in cities.

1. OPPORTUNITIES IN
INDUSTRIAL IOT –
A CITIES PERSPECTIVE
DR CATHERINE MULLIGAN
HEAD OF DIGITAL STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS
@API_ECONOMICS

2. THE
CATAPULT
FAMILY
SEVEN WORLD-LEADING
INNOVATION CENTRES
MAKING CONCEPTS COMMERCIAL
TAKING UK INNOVATIONS TO
THE REST OF THE WORLD
OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY
Glasgow
HIGH VALUE MANUFACTURING
AFRC - Strathclyde
CPI - Wilton/Sedgefield
AMRC & NAMRC - Rotherham
WMG - Coventry
MTC - Ansty
NCC - Bristol
TRANSPORT SYSTEMS
Milton Keynes
CONNECTED DIGITAL
ECONOMY
London
FUTURE CITIES
London
CELL THERAPY
London
SATELLITE APPLICATIONS
London

3. BUILDING DIGITAL
STRATEGY IN CITIES
• Building a series of demonstrator test-beds
for IoT in cities
• Creating the world’s first database of
economic impact of IoT in cities
• Proving the market exists and that the
economics are viable for SMEs and cities
alike

4. • Measurement
informs:
– Policy
at
local
and
na4onal
levels
– Which
data
sets
should
be
opened
up
– What
data
sets
need
to
be
gathered
– Realis4c
interven4ons
that
can
have
real-­‐world
impact
on
local,
regional
and
na4onal
economies
WHY MEASURE?
• Currently,
measures
on
“Digital”
are:
• Anecdotal
• Comparing
oranges
to
apples
• Mainly
qualita4ve
case
studies
• Poorly
structured
• Gives
widely
varying
impacts
of
the
value
of
digital
technologies
• This
is
problema4c
for
a
broad
number
of
reasons…

5. TRADITIONAL
APPROACH

6. OPPORTUNITY
WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE DO 6
£200bn
Annual global market for
integrated urban solutions
by 2030
US$40tr
Global infrastructure
investment needed
to 2030
£16bn
Architecture and civil
engineering firms’
contribution to UK GVA
in 2012

7. OPPORTUNITY

8. WHERE DO I
INVEST?
WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE DO8
HOW DO I AIM
MY PRODUCT?

9. THE FUTURE IS URBAN
Direct
Impact
Indirect &
Induced
Impact
Global Impact
of IoT in Cities
Market
Case
for
SMEs
Market
Case
for
Ci4es
and
Regions
Market
Case
Na4ons
and
Globe

10. BUILDING
DEMONSTRATORS
• Two main types of test beds are required:
• Experimental city test beds
• Smaller test beds that allow SMEs to illustrate
their capabilities

11. GREATER
MANCHESTER
DATA
SYNCRONISATION

12. SENSING
LONDON

13. SENSING
LONDON

14. SUPPORTING SMES – AN EXAMPLE
Mobile
Internet
Edge
Cloud
App
Service
Device
Testbed
Mobile
Network
APIs
Developer
Communi4es
Adapted
from
ETSI

15. CITIES STANDARDS INSTITUTE – DRIVING MARKET
INSIGHTS GLOBALLY
!
s Standards Institute Overview
CITIES
STANDARDS
INSTITUTE

16. THANK
YOU
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