How IoT can Make Cities Smarter
Volker Hirsch
@vhirsch
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IoT is like this superhero

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She can be invisible
Sue Storm, The invisible woman

Iot has hidden treasures
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Yerebatan Sarnici, Istanbul

Relayr, Iot World Europe, Berlin 2015
And sometimes
hidden is fine

The Rise of the City: Iot amplified
UN Habitat Report 2012

lots of ideas...
World economic forum, Top ten urban innovations, 2015
Clusters
- infrastructure
- traffic
- energy
- food
- planning
- mobility
- citizens

At the heart: The quest for Data

Data:
Who
tweets

Data:
Where are the
highest buildings
http://morphocode.com/data-city-urban-visualizations/

Data:
Where
is the
money

The challenge of Data
Access
+
Action Minority Report

Access: The quest for Open Data
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World Bank: data.worldbank.org
UK Government: data.gov.uk
Open Data Institute: theodi.org
Global Open Data Index: index.okfn.org
Open Data examples
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However:
mostly guarded
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Change it !!!

Proprietary Data impedes
usefulness
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http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs16/f/2007/141/6/1/Size_Matters_by_seenew.jpg Metcalfe’s Law
V N2~

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Action,
Real-time action
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context

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Visualising Context

IoT is multi-faceted
(that means hard)
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flipped iceberg, antarctica

The Start of a city
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Is People!https://luggagetagtravels.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/img_1486.jpg

Regular
d e s i g n
Process
???
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The people it really speaks to are the
city managers who can say, ‘It wasn’t me who
made the decision, it was the data.’
Smart City Vernacular De-coded
In: Steven Poole, The Guardian, 17 Dec 2014, “The truth about smart cities: ‘In the end, they will destroy democracy’"
Usman Haque, Umbrellium
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consumers are clueless!
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IOT isawesome
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Smart Grid
Smart Motoring
Smart logistics
Smart buildings
= 7.8 Gt Co2 saved
http://www.smart2020.org/_assets/files/02_smart2020Report.pdf
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7.8 Gt
= 7.8 trillion kg
???http://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/life/technology/2014/06/26/tv_watching_other_screens_increases_death_rate/tv_watching.jpg

= 66 billion
Dwayne “The Rock” johnsons
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7.8 Gt

= 1.4 billionafrican elephants
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7.8 Gt

= 15,600
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7.8 Gt

? ??

We need
the people

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Cities People
Love to
live in

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Win
People
over
so they
won’t be
scared

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concerns
privacy
security
control
surveillance
overload ...

We need to tell the story right
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Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London

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The last mile

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The last mile
FIRST

Focus on the User

gapingvoid.com

Smart homes as we see them
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Smart homes as a user sees them
Thanks Louisa Heinrich for Inspiration!

Thanks Louisa Heinrich for Inspiration!

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Who is at the centre?
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Who is at the centre?
You !
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Build Amazing things
with the user in mind
always!
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Thank You!
@vhirsch
me@vhirsch.com
+44 7843 599 678
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