smart city lab - opportunities and challenges in estonia
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Smart City Opportunities and Challenges
Tartu 29 June 2015
Agenda13.00 Smart City Country OverviewsWelcome- Urmas Klaas, Mayor of Tartu Smart City: Cluster, Actions and Lessons Learned Hannes Astok, Development Director of Smart City LabEstonian Smart City Competences and Entrepreneurship Eero Pärgmäe, Development Director of Tallinn Science Park TehnopolSmart Building: Challenges and OpportunitiesTõnu Hein, Director R&D, Rakvere Smart House Competence Centre
Agenda
Public Procurement of Innovation as an Instrument for Smart City needsSigrid Rajalo, Head Specialist of Economic Development in Ministry of Economic Affairs and CommunicationsMain Smart City Initiatives and Challenges in LatviaInete Ielite, Board Member of Riga Energy Agency14.30 – 15.00 Coffee break15.00 Panel Discussion “Smart City Challenges”16.00 Walk to Tartu City Hall16.30 Smart City Demo Centre Opening and Networking
Smart City challenges
Hannes AstokSmart City Lab Tartu
Development ManagerTartu. 29 June 2015
Estonian Smart City landscape
• Estonia 1,3 M citizens• Tartu (100 000)– ICT as enabler for the smart city– Sustainable energy solutions
• Tallinn (420 000): Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol area as smart city development
• Rakvere (16 000): smart house issues
Tartu Smart City Lab
Cluster and cooperation environment for
smart mobile and web solutions for cities
Tartu Smart
City Lab
ICT compan
iesTartu
University
Tartu City
Tartu Science
Park
Infrastructure companies
SMART PRODUCTS
Task: more competitiveness
To develop competitiveness of the enterprises (mainly SMEs), focusing on:• ICT companies as developers of the e- and m-
solutions for the cities;• Technical infrastructure companies (electricity,
transport, distant heating, water and sewage, etc.) as ICT products implementers
Task: more innovative environment for all stakeholders
• Tartu as city environment (businesses, citizens, government, R&D institutions, innovation infrastructure) will work as test site
• Living lab - for development, testing and implementation of the e- and m- services
• Developed services are scalable -companies can sell services and products around the world
Focus topics
• Intelligent transport (incl. public transport)• Modern infrastructure and networks• Tourism and leisure time services• Digital TV-based interactive services• Participative and efficient governance services
Why Tartu as test site
• 100 000 citizens, compact university city• Good development environment • Proactive city government• Demanding cross-sectorial cooperation• Internationally competitive R&D institutions • Number of ICT SMEs and start-ups
Partners• City of Tartu Infrastructure • Elion • EMT • Tartu Veevärk• Sebe • Eesti EnergiaR&D• Tartu University (Mobility Lab;
Idealab, DDVE, Institute of Computer Sciences)
• Garage48 • STACC• Tartu Science Park
ICT • Microsoft • Mobi Solutions• Nutiteq • Positium LBS• Quretec • Regio / ReachU• EMT• Elion• Ericsson• Biometry• Samsung• Uniflex
• Open for joining
Vision
In 2020 Tartu and Smart City Lab is internationally recognized
European leading smart city e- and m-services solutions
developer and exporter
ACTIVITIES
From bottlenecks to smart products
Going global with products
Tartu as the first customer?
Prototyping
Finding ideas (city- companies cooperation)
Describing bottlenecks
Pilots
• Opening city GIS data to the citizens• Tools for inspections in the city• Tourist mobile app• NFC-supported public transportation data app• Bluetooth beacons for the public transport
ticketing• Others
Developing Smart City development methodology
Methodology enables:• Evaluate current situation and position as
Smart City• Develop roadmap for next activities: how to
be smarter?
Smart City demonstration center in Tartu City Hall
Opening TODAY!
HOW TO MAKE SMART CITY INITIATIVES SUSTAINABLE?
White paper for Estonian Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure October 2015
The problem• Cities are not aware about the latest
technology development• Business do not know how the city is
functioning• Cities do not know how to participate in
technology implementation processes• Early procurement dialogue is missing• Few cooperation between the cities on best
practices sharing
Key issues
1. Developing capacity of the city administrations and citizens to act as smart city
2. Reducing and sharing risks3. Procurement capacities and best practicies
development
1. Developing capacity of the city administrations and citizens
• Development of the city organizations:– Chief Innovation Officer– Business processes re-engineering and innovation
support unit• Developing city officials skills and awareness• Developing innovation readiness among the
users of the smart solutions
2. Reducing and sharing risks
• Developing sectorial competences nationally/regionally: practitioners, experts, R&D, companies
• Developing tools and collecting data for modelling
• Supporting innovative procurement, including early dialogue
• Developing standards and guidelines• Supporting large scale demonstrations
3. Supporting export activities
• Designing products, not solutions• Promoting and supporting export activities
(networking, demonstrations, expos)
How to cover activities and risks in the sustainable way?
• EU funds – limited and not forever• National government support - limited• Cities want to get clear socio-economical
benefits from the smart solutions and activities
• Companies want to make profit at the end of the day
