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Smart Citizens in Smart Cities: Open Innovation, Living Labs & Future InternetManchester and the Connected Smart Cities Network

Dave Carter, Head, Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)City of Manchester (UK)Chair, European Connected Smart Cities Portfolio Network

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Smart City Agendas• Smart, inclusive & sustainable growth• Green & Digital• Transformational services• Open innovation, open data, open networks

Future Internet enabled services in Smart Cities• Internet of Things + Cloud + Open Data + 3D printing +

nano...• mapping current experience & knowledge• identifying challenges and opportunities• creating open networks for Smart City collaboration

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What can Smart Cities be about?• Usage of digital spaces and technologies, e.g.

sensors & networks, to enhance the city and city life

• Digital dimensions of cities – digital ’master-planning’ + digital design guides

• Future Internet as medium & catalyst for organizing collective intelligence of cities

• Local Digital Agendas to promote future city innovation strategies

• Smart people and smart technologies: making cities become smarter together

• Smart citizens in smart cities – urban OPEN systems

Urban Open Systems• Smart Cities:

– Smart: innovation, invention & entrepreneurship– Inclusive: multiple deprivation & scale of social exclusion in

urban areas– Sustainable: cities generate 75%+ of emissions = problem &

solution

• Cities as engines of regional growth = Smart Regions– Manchester City Region – MCR = 5% of national economy, 40%

of regional economy– City Region = larger economic unit than Wales, Northern

Ireland or North East of England

• Urban Open Systems = People + Open Data + Co-production

– “From Human Factors to Human Actors” Bannon, J Liam. 1991. “The Role of Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction Studies in System

Design”.

Global connectivity

• UK less than 1% (not actually ‘on the map’)

• Domestic broadband is cheap, widely accessible but slow (20 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up)

• High speed connectivity (100 Mbps+) is very expensive, often more than €500 per month

• Difficult for new businesses to enter the market

Report: Will Video Kill the Cloud Star?http://www.diffractionanalysis.com/

• new ideas needed• Future Internet means

future thinking• new test-beds• new demonstration sites• fully IP media

environments• unlimited content

distribution networks

Critical Infrastructures• Green, Mobile & Digital• Digital as the new real estate of the 21st century• UK as world leader in creativity and content – way behind in connectivity• MCR is 2nd largest digital & creative sector in UK• Only globally connected Internet Exchange

outside of London• Digital Hub Network: connecting key sites via the Metrolink tram network• Creating transformational digital infrastructure

• open access networks – fibre + wireless• digital hubs – where networks interconnect• backbone networks – build your own networks

• Infinite Bandwidth, Zero Latency (IBZL)

Fibre to the People – key attributes• Fully point-to-point• Fully open to the passive layer• Fully open co-location• Direct connection to carrier neutral Internet Exchange• A ‘Free Trade Fibre’ Enterprise Network to encourage investment:

– open innovation ‘Living Lab’ test-bed for new applications– maximum technical flexibility for property owners and developers to build

their own networks and connect– trialling new business models including shared passive infrastructure and

local patchwork– Potential to scale up re-using public assets, especially the roll-out of the

tram network and other transport corridors

Infrastructure for Mobility

Manchester Living Lab & SMARTiP project

• Test-bed smart environments network along Corridor• Affordable and accessible sensors including DIY (Arduinos)• Potential for wearables (clothes, bikes etc.) and micro-

production• Links to Corridor fibre and wireless networks• Future links to transport network and GM wide deployment

CITY OF THINGSPartnership of SMEs and universitiesTSB IoT Covergence CompetitionPreparatory study of IoT potential for users and suppliersInput into the TSB’s development of a ‘Convergence Demonstrator’

Business opportunitiesPublic sector service providersData ‘intermediaries’Sensor production and deploymentData hosting and managementEnabling data creation and use at citizen/user level C2C

Partners involved:Swirrl IT Ltd (lead) * Littlestar * Manchester Digital Lab – MadLab * The Customer's Voice *Manchester Business School (University of Manchester) * University of Aberdeen *MDDA (unfunded partner)

 

‘Geek’ Power! Entrepreneurs + InnovatorsManchester Digital Lab + Omniversity

MadLab Creativity Innovation Diversity

Stimulating: new ideas new business new skills new jobs

Smart City development - future vision:

• Using Future Internet to transform the way we live and work• more flexible ways and locations of working: smart mobility,

smart environments, smart learning• Co-designing and co-producing services for ourselves and others

• new services being designed and delivered by users, e.g. e-health and telecare services

• Enabling our environments to be greener, cleaner and healthier• smart buildings, smart energy, low-carbon neighbourhoods

• Making smart cities more democratic, resilient and attractive• social networking to promote civic engagement

• Generating and celebrating creativity, innovation and diversity• arts and culture linked to technology supporting jobs and skills

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Thank You!d.carter@manchesterdda.com