Conceptual approach to smart cities, for public servants & private enrerprises

1. Curs Smart Cities
Associació Catalana d’Enginyers de Telecomunicació – ACET-març
2014

2. Session 1.- Smart City Concepts
Index
The idea
The dimensions
Drivers and relations
Technology model
The services
The players
Issues

3. City Services / Urban Services. The needs
(1 of 2)
Water supply & draining, 100% capillarity
Energy distribution
Electricity, 100% capillarity
Fuel distribution clusters
Food supply & waste collection
Food distribution clusters
Waste collection clusters

4. City Services / Urban Services. The needs
(2 of 2)
Security (police & firemen & ambulances)
Health clusters (hospitals, health centers …)
Education clusters (schools, universities …)
Mobility management (by feet, by bike, by car)
Cultural clusters (theaters, cinemas, museums,
libraries, auditoria…)
Social needs

5. The Name “Smart City”
Is it a new concept?
Is it a new brand?
Is it a fashion?
Is it a “renaming” of an old concept?

6. Smart City Essentials
Technology
Attitudes

7. Smart City Assets
Hard infrastructure, “physical capital”
Social infrastructure, knowledge
communication, “intellectual capital”

8. Smart City Axes (or Dimensions)
Smart Economy
Smart Governance
Smart Environment
Smart People
Smart Mobility
Smart Living

9. Smart City Drivers
Efficacy in delivering services
Efficiency in management of resources
Transparency in communication & participation,
Engagement in democracy

10. Smart City cross-relations
Technology for the efficient management of the city
(mobility, parking, lighting, waste, environment ...)
Attitudes & technology for the efficient & transparent
management of services to citizens (e-health, e-government)
Attitudes for social & political engagement for e-democracy

11. Technology Needs for Smart Cities
Data collection
Data transmission
Data storage
Data analysis
Data platforms

12. Technology Specifics for Smart Cities
Internet of Things
Big Data
Open Data
Cloud computing

13. The 4 layer technology model
 D.- Applications and services (infinite)
C.- Platform (transversality & city operating system)
- Asset management
- Big data processing
- Interface to other platforms
- Interface to apps
 B.- Communications
- MAN Metropolitan Area Network (Wi-Fi, 3G, LTE ....)
- WLAN, Wireless Local Area Network (zig bee protocols)
 A.- Information gathering subsystem
- Sensors & other information gathering

14. The Smart City Services
a) Resource-linked Services
Urban Mobility
Transport
Energy efficiency,
Waste management
Environmental sustainability
Infrastructures & Facilities management

15. The Smart City Services
b) Personal Services
Public Security,
Governance & Participation
E-Health Services,
Education Services,
Culture & Arts Services
Tourisme Services
E-Commerce

16. Smart City Players
Citizens (final users)
Administrations (responsible)
Urban service operators (executors, big
contractors)
Solution providers (technology innovators)

17. Solution Providers
Integrators
Apps makers
Device makers

18. Vertical Solutions
Parking facilities management
Mobility management
Solid waste management
Energy management
Water management (in & out)
Lighting management
Environment management
Citizen participation & engagement pushing

19. Smart City Issues
Propriety of Data
Security
Privacy

20. Thank you
ramon.palacio@gmail.com
march 2014