My presentation on Smart Cities to the RIBA and NBS Live Digital Thinking, Smart Buildings conference on 4th November 2014. The presentation gave examples of technologies that are disrupting the services, infrastructures and economies of cities, and examples of applying those technologies in ways that not only create efficiencies and resilience in cities, but that enable local communities and businesses to create their own innovations.

1. ibm.com/smartercities
Big Data, Open Data & Telepathy
Technologies for vibrant, sustainable communities
Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP, FRSA, AoU
Executive Architect, IBM Smarter Cities
Open Group Distinguished Certified IT Architect
rick_robinson@uk.ibm.com @dr_rick http://theurbantechnologist/com/
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2. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.51444/-0.13387

3. Photo of Shades Records from http://www.thrashhits.com/2008/07/in-memoriam-of-shades/
Photo of Celtic Frost poster by Ryan Snyder http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryansnyder/6054663084/

4. Dublin’s transport systems
Water usage in Dublin

6. Smarter property management: US General Services Administration
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 Presidential target of 30%
reduction in energy use
 81 buildings / 47 millon sq ft
integrated nationally
 85,000 sensors polled every 5
minutes
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Issue
identified
Saving
Thermostat
failure
AHU running with 100%
open cooling valve, 24x7
Cooling Setpoint Out of
Range
$26k
Cooling
setpoint out
of range
Changed setpoint from 69
to 73 degrees
$4.6k
FAHU
Cooling and
Heating
Cycling
AHU was cycling between
heating and cooling to
maintain space temp since
smarter buildings system
came online
$16k
AHU Outside
Damper
Stuck Open
Bird stuck in damper; BMS
indicated it was closed $15k

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“Massive / Small” and smart digital urbanism
Town plan for Edinburgh’s New Town from the JR James archive
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrjamesarchive/
Photo of pedestrian roundabout in Shanghai, China, by Chris UK
http://www.flickr.com/photos/_chrisuk/7580861928/
Photo of Masshouse Circus, Birmingham, before its redevelopment, by Birmingham City Council
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=Planning-
Management%2FPageLayout&cid=1223092740947&pagename=BCC%2FCommon%2FWrapper%2FWrapper
Kelvin Campbell’s “Massive / Small”
http://engagingcities.com/post/5012064472/massive-small-the-operating-system-for-smart-urbanism

8. http://www.insuranceclaims.co.uk/news/freaky-car-crashes/
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jun/17/birmingham-stops-muslim-surveillance-scheme
Packages from Amazon delivered to Google’s San Francisco office.
Photo bymoppet65535
https://www.flickr.com/photos/9880707@N02/

9. Getting to Grips with Touch by Steve Paine
https://www.flickr.com/photos/umpcportal/8294098216/in/photolist-dCVqro-5M2Tff-95VuYr-4HfNDa-62wuSf-62sdu4-62seaB-62sdBp-817iiR

10. Smarter cities “as if people mattered”
http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2013/05/inspiring-social-sustainability-one-village-at-a-time.html
http://www.syngentafoundation.org/index.cfm?pageID=562
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/sport/rugby-trytracker/10630406/ibm-big-data-analytics-dublin.html
Coders taking part in “Smart Hack” at Birmingham Science Park Aston in 2012 by
Sebastian Lenton: https://twitter.com/sebastianlenton

11. Montpellier: citizens as the authors and sensors of a Smarter City
Paving
Stone
http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2013/06/27/montpellier-france-invites-citizens-author-smart-city
http://www.ibm.com/news/ca/en/2013/454e42662t01.html © 2014 IBM Corporation

12. The city council which governs &
provides public services?
Transportation
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Administration
Environment
Culture
Economy
Planning and
Management
Communities
Social
Services
Public Safety
Energy
Infrastructure
The energy, utility & infrastructure
companies who build, manage &
support the urban environment?
The urban lifestyle
that we enjoy?
The shops & farmers who feed
us?
The businesses who employ
us, & the property
developers who house us?
Town plan for Edinburgh’s New Town from the JR James archive http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrjamesarchive/
The transport systems
that move us?
Who will build a Smarter City?

13. Local Government
• Drivers: finance, demographics, inequality
• Barriers: financing autonomy, capacity
Transportation
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Administration
Environment
Culture
Economy
Planning and
Management
Communities
Social
Services
Public Safety
Energy
Infrastructure
Infrastructure & utilities
• Drivers: resilience, outcomes-based
procurement criteria
• Barriers: national nature of ESCO licenses
Culture
• Limiting factor:
consumer adoption
Food & consumer goods
• Driver: sustainability as a business driver
• Barrier: local transport models
Business & property
• Drivers: sustainability as a
business driver, consumer demand
• Barriers: public / private
understanding of risk / reward,
planning policy
Town plan for Edinburgh’s New Town from the JR James archive http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrjamesarchive/
Transport
• Barrier: cross-modal
business models
Market drivers and barriers

14. ibm.com/smartercities
Thankyou
Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP, FRSA, AoU
Executive Architect, IBM Smarter Cities
Open Group Distinguished Certified IT Architect
rick_robinson@uk.ibm.com @dr_rick http://theurbantechnologist/com/
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