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iCity is a project of urban innovation
Marc Garriga - @mgarrigap
Sabadell Smart City Congress
Thursday, April 3rd 2014
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• Opening data?
• Collaborating with 3rd parties in co-create
public services?
• Developing a control layer to manage the
access to your internal systems?
• Thinking how to harmonize the access of
your systems?
• Squeezing your brain in order to have
more public services with less budget?
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Are you a city that is...

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• is using open data in your products?
• Creating products for several govs and
you want to simplify this development?
• Is searching how expand your business
increasing the market of your products?
• Thinking how to complement your
products with value added services?
• Yearning to use a real Open Services
Platform, not using a promised platform.
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Are you a SME that is...

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Obviously iCity is your answer!
• is using open data in your products?
• Creating products for several govs and
you want to simplify this development?
• Is searching how expand your business
increasing the market of your products?
• Thinking how to complement your
products with value added services?
• Yearning to use a real Open Services
Platform, not using a promised platform.

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• An European project
• Goal:
 To make easier the opening of City ICT infrastructures
(information systems) and offer them to third parties
to develop services of public interest.
• Main deliverables:
 A software platform that manages this access
 An engagement methodology to enrol developers
 A community formed by cities, infrastructures’ owners
and developers (SME).
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What is iCity?

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What is iCity?
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• Cities: that want go further in open data and
want co-create services with third parties.
• Responsible of IT infrastructures: That are
opening up processes and want to foster their
use, but want to control this access.
• Developers (SME): That want to create new
services and need the access to public IT
infrastructures.
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What is the iCity target?

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• An European project that it’s in production.
• Synergies among several cities.
• A secured way to open its IT infrastructures.
• Separate internal systems and external services that
are using them.
• Log.
• Use statistics (not yet).
• Data analytics (not yet).
• Development portal (supports the relationship
between cities and developers).
• Engagement methodology (and support on it).
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What iCity offer to Cities?

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• More uses of his/her IT infrastructure.
• The owner decide the rules.
• Orchestration  Total control over the access to
the infrastructure.
• Save the infrastructure’s operation against DoS
attacks.
• Statistics of access (not yet).
• Serialization of calls (not yet).
• Cache (not yet).
• API Translation (if needed).
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What iCity offer to
infrastructures’ owners?

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• Free technical support to help Cities, and Infrastructure
responsible, open new infrastructures using iCity
Platform.
• Free exploitation of the platform until the end of the
project (June 2015) (This date is the end of the EC
funding, it isn’t the end of the service).
• Capability to evolve the platform according to the cities
needs.
• Sustainability once the project have finished.
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What can iCity provide
now to new cities and
infrastructures’ owners?

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• Access to read-only and read-and-write IT infras.
• Currently, access to 14 IT infrastructures.
• Common APIs in different cities, (currently SOS OGC
and Open311).
• Automatic routing of the calls to the right city.
• Developer portal:
• News.
• Documentation (wiki) & Forum.
• Statistics (not yet).
• Communication channel with the cities.
• It’s a way to internationalize your products.
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What iCity offer to
developers (SME)?

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What can iCity provide now
to new developers (SME)
http://icity-devp.icityproject.com/

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What IT
infras.
are
currently
open by
iCity?
Barcelona Bologna Genoa London Private
organizations
Lamia*
Generic
Sensor Data
SentiloBCN. Smart Citizen
Platform.
Abertis Smart
Zone.
Transport
and
citizens’
mobility
QueryHelloBus.
QueryHelloBus4ivr.
QueryResale.
CISIUM Events.
CISIUM Metropolitan
Traffic.
CISIUM Parking.
Journey
Planner.
Public
Transportation*
Environment SentiloBCN. Weather
Station.
Air
Quality
Sensor.
Smart Citizen
Platform.
Weather
Conditions*
Citizens’
complaints
and
information
systems
IRIS
(Citizens’
Complaints
System)
Citizen’s
Desk.
Issue Reporting*
WiFi WiFi BCN* HotSpot Places*
Tourism Tourism
Information*
Live Streaming*
GIS GISInformation
System*

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BCN: iCity sustainability confirmed
Mr. Josep Ramon Ferrer
Director of Smart City
Deputy CIO
Barcelona City Council
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• Open Data is for data.
• iCity is for data and for services.
• In many cases, Open Data is for static data.
• iCity is (always) real time data.
• Open Data portals could have APIs.
• iCity Platform must have APIs.
• Open Data portals offer free and unrestricted data.
• iCity Platform open information systems in a
secured and controlled way.
• Open Data is a quite well known concept.
• iCity is a kind of service of a new concept.
iCity goes beyond Open Data

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What cities are involved?

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Do you want to be the next
City/SME of open/using IT
Infrastructures?

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Website
www.icityproject.eu
e-Mail
mgarrigap@bcn.cat
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How to start with iCity
Let’s do it together !