Open 5G innovation platform in Helsinki: UrbanSense and UIA Hope

Hanna Niemi-Hugaerts

Director, IoT

@CitySDK_Hanna

What is Forum Virium

Helsinki and what we

do? • City of Helsinki innovation company established in 2005.

• Co-creating urban futures with companies, universities, cities and

citizens.

• Focus: Smart City, Smart Mobility and Open IoT, Data & AI.

• 90 successfull EU-funded Smart City projects.

▪ Horizon 2020

▪ European Regional Development Fund

▪ Interreg Central Baltic

• 7 M€ project portfolio in 2019 funded by EU and Helsinki.

• Very popular partner: Net Promoter Score 73.

Internet of Things (IoT)

Vekotinverstas

“Gadget workshop” SELECT for Cities SynchroniCity

Biotope mySMARTLife Climate smart

housing companies

CircVol Quasimodo UIA Hope

AI4EU CroBoDDit Urban Eco Islands

● Team of 11

● Portfolio of 11 projects

● 5 million euros for upcoming

three years

● Funding from H2020, ERDF,

CBC and City of Helsinki

● More than 100 European

partners

Internet of Things (IoT):

solutions for everyday

challenges • Real-time data on urban environments and new

applications and funding for companies for scaling their

IoT solutions

• We develop the ways data is collected, managed, shared

and used

• We test software and devices and promote building of an

open, modular IoT platform and provide opportunities for

connectivity related POCs

• The biggest achievements: Vekotinverstas (Gadget

Workshop), IoT platforms with consent-management

readiness and harmonised IoT interfaces

Helsinki as innovation platform through data, IoT and AI

CitySDK

H2020 CIP-ICT-PSP.2011.5.1

•3 Interoperable

APIS

•Dev engagement

2012 Ease into using open data

Towards AI- and mydata ready Urban Platform, a ”System of systems”

CitySDK

H2020 CIP-ICT-PSP.2011.5.1

•3 Interoperable

APIS

•Dev engagement

6AIKA Open data and APIs spearhead project ERDF

•4 Interoperable APIS

•Data business

•POC funding

2012 Ease into using open data

2014 Support for data-driven business

Towards AI- and mydata ready Urban Platform, a ”System of systems”

MySMARTLife H2020

CitySDK

H2020 CIP-ICT-PSP.2011.5.1

•3 Interoperable

APIS

•Dev engagement

6AIKA Open data and APIs spearhead project ERDF

•4 Interoperable APIS

•Data business

•POC funding

BIoTope H2020

SynchroniCity H2020

•Interoperable APIS

•Reference architectures

•Real-time data

•Sensor experiments

•Connectivity

•Scale-up funding

•Climate-positive actions

2012 Ease into using open data

2014 Support for data-driven business

2016 City as a platform for scalable, impactful IoT solutions

Select4Cities PCP H2020

•Pre-commercial procurement

•Open, modular, interoperable & engaging Internet of everything platform

•Consent and access management

Towards AI- and mydata ready Urban Platform, a ”System of systems”

Climate neutral housing companies ERDF

AI4EU H2020

MySMARTLife H2020

CitySDK

H2020 CIP-ICT-PSP.2011.5.1

•3 Interoperable

APIS

•Dev engagement

6AIKA Open data and APIs spearhead project ERDF

•4 Interoperable APIS

•Data business

•POC funding

BIoTope H2020

SynchroniCity H2020

•Interoperable APIS

•Reference architectures

•Real-time data

•Sensor experiments

•Connectivity

•Scale-up funding

•Climate-positive actions

UIA Hope UIA

2012 Ease into using open data

2014 Support for data-driven business

2016 City as a platform for scalable, impactful IoT solutions

2018 Connectivity & consent for climate-neutral, data-enabled smart cities

UrbanSense

City innovation fund

Select4Cities PCP H2020

•Pre-commercial procurement

•Open, modular, interoperable & engaging Internet of everything platform

•Consent and access management

•5G & LoRa

•Smart Buildings

•Data-enabled decision making & behavior change

•Crowdsourcing

•Mydata

•Energy effiency

•Air quality

Towards AI- and mydata ready Urban Platform, a ”System of systems”

Climate neutral housing companies ERDF

AI4EU H2020

MySMARTLife H2020

CitySDK

H2020 CIP-ICT-PSP.2011.5.1

•3 Interoperable

APIS

•Dev engagement

6AIKA Open data and APIs spearhead project ERDF

•4 Interoperable APIS

•Data business

•POC funding

BIoTope H2020

SynchroniCity H2020

•Interoperable APIS

•Reference architectures

•Real-time data

•Sensor experiments

•Connectivity

•Scale-up funding

•Climate-positive actions

UIA Hope UIA

2012 Ease into using open data

2014 Support for data-driven business

2016 City as a platform for scalable, impactful IoT solutions

2018 Connectivity & consent for climate-neutral, data-enabled smart cities

UrbanSense

City innovation fund

Select4Cities PCP H2020

•Pre-commercial procurement

•Open, modular, interoperable & engaging Internet of everything platform

•Consent and access management

•5G & LoRa

•Smart Buildings

•Data-enabled decision making & behavior change

•Crowdsourcing

•Mydata

•Energy effiency

•Air quality

2019-> AI & MyData ready interoperable system-of-systems supporting carbon-neutral life

Urban Eco Islands

Interreg

AI4Cities PCP H2020

•Platform capabilities

•Twin-city platform •AI readiness

•Support for AI-based solutions

•Enabling carbon-neutral cities

FINEST Twins

H2020

Towards AI- and mydata ready Urban Platform, a ”System of systems”

Helsinki as an innovation platform through 5G

https://5gobservatory.eu/observatory-overview/5g-scoreboards/

• 3.4-3.8 GHz

• In May 2018, the Finland’s Ministry of Transport and Communications launched a consultation on plans to make available 5G-suitable spectrum in the 3.5GHz band (3410-3800 MHz).

• 3.4-3.8 GHz spectrum auctions began on September 26, 2018 and ended on October 1st, 2018. The same amount of spectrum was proposed for sale in three licences valid 15 years from January 1st, 2019 to YE2033.

• The 130 MHz licences were awarded to the three players in place. The 3410-3540 MHz slot was allocated to Telia Finland at 30.3 million EUR. Elisa paid 26.3 million EUR for the 3540-3670 MHz range. DNA paid 21 million EUR for frequencies in 3670-3800 MHz.

• Overall, the auction raised 77.6 million EUR, a fairly reasonable amount, in line with government base prices.

Helping companies get started with 5G

UrbanSense project

Open 5G innovation

platform

Three thematic

experimental rounds

Innovation Challenge Open Calls for 5G

experiments

Ecosystem

Scalable real-time air

pollution sensing with

low cost devices

Collaboration with:

● Forum Virium Helsinki

● University of Helsinki

● City of Helsinki

5G

Three experiments & innovation

challenge

Massive

IOT AR / VR

5G services

(Edge

Computing)

Experimentation

phase, kick off

22.5.2019

Experimentation

phase, kick off

19.6.2019

Open later Q2-3

Innovation

Challenge

Open call until

30.9.2019

Open plan

● The competition will seek solutions to promote smart

5G services in the City of Helsinki.

● The winners of the competition will be selected for a

trial program worth up to € 8,000 (+alv 24%)

● Three challenges:

a) Sensor data with crowdsourcing

b) Urban 5G service

c) Suggest your own 5G concept

Innovation

Challenge

Open call

until 30.9.2019

Open call for 5G Innovation challenge ! Open

STARLIT 5G

● The experiment will develop a concept and study to utilize

the data generated by the winter maintenance vehicles

● and bringing machine-generated data to services using ISO

11783 and NB-IoT technologies during the project

● Luonnonvarakeskus (Luke)

● Wapice

● EEE Innovations

● STARA

Massive

IOT

experimentation phase

Helsinki ajassa

● Helsinki in time - Teatime Research Oy

● Concept - A mobile app that lets a user explore Helsinki

historical layers of urban life and urban structure added with

real-life photo and video footage.

● The application is designed for everyone in Helsinki's urban

environment for city dwellers and tourists.

AR / VR

experimentation phase

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Helsinki - 5G deployment enablers

• Common policies for co-operative

network construction agreed

together with operators

• 5G base station competition

• 5GKiri co-operation project to

speed up 5G deployment in

Finland (2019)

Urban Innovative Action: Healthy Outdoor Premises for Everyone – HOPE

Project Manager Jussi Kulonpalo (jussi.kulonpalo@hel.fi)

City of Helsinki, Economic Development Innovations and New Experiments

• Urban Innovative Action Healthy Outdoor Premises for Everyone - UIA HOPE

• Timeline: 3 years 11/2018 - 10/2021

• Budget: 5.7 M€ by European Regional Development Fund - Urban Innovative Action Initiative

• The project partnership: City of Helsinki University of Helsinki - Faculty of Science Vaisala UseLess Company Forum Virium Helsinki Oy - Ltd Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority HSY Finnish Meteorological Insitute FMI

oDeveloping the Air Quality monitoring in Helsinki

oAQ Data analysis development

oAir Quality Index 2.0

oAQ Data visualization applications

oAcademic research

oParticipatory budgeting excercises and Air Quality Interventions

o Innovation Competition

oBest Practices for Urban Planning

oCreating Awareness on AQ Issues

oHealthier and more livable city

University of Helsinki MegaSense team’s proprietary portable mobile AQ sensors carried by volunteering citizens, ‘Air Quality Troops’, crowdsourced by Forum Virium.

Six measuring campaigns in the three city districts, Kalasatama, Vallila-Kumpula and Pakila region in 2019-2021.

The participating citizens get personal Air Pollution Exposure Profiles based on the data from their sensors via an mobile phone app.

Vaisala has updated AQT420 sensors into new generation versions for the project.

Thirty new AQT sensors will be installed into volunteering citizens‘ balconies and similar locations in the three districts to form a highly optimized local measuring network planned by FMI and HSY. Both the mobile sensors and fixed sensors feed rich location specific real-time monitoring data into Finnish Meteorological Insititute’s ENFUSER modelling system.

AI and machine-learning analysis algorithms to be developed by utilizing monitoring data. The local and regional air quality maps as well as forecasting will also be developed.

Open APIs for the AQ data will be provided by University of Helsinki and FMI. Advanced Air Quality Index 2.0 will be developed for AQ information by using the data and analysis methods developed by the project.

Green Path mobile and web app using the AQ data and other environmental data.

Participatory budgeting will be organized in the three city districts in 2020-2021. UseLess develops HOPE mobile app for the citizens to document their personal district-specific daily activities related to air quality.

The project will procure Air Quality Interventions, services and products, which the citizens can vote for with the mobile app to be implemented in their own districts. By reporting their activities the citizens can increase their credit and voting power. Citizens, schools, sports clubs, housing co-ops, companies etc. can challenge each other too.

Innovation Competition will be organized for startups and SMEs to develop new AQ related services and products, preferably by utilizing the AQ data produced by the project. Best products or services can be procured as interventions for the participatory budgeting.

Connectivity platform over 5G networks available with “5G Innovation platform”

As part of the project’s dissemination activities, new solutions and best practices of taking AQ issues into account in City of Helsinki’s urban processes will be produced.

Better awareness on Air Quality issues will be created to help people make healthier and better choices in their daily lives.

Urban Innovative Action Initiative: https://www.uia-initiative.eu/en/uia-

cities/helsinki

Project website:

https://ilmanlaatu.eu/ https://hope-airquality.eu/

Twitter: @UIA_HOPE

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/ilmanlaatu/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UIAHOPE

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Hanna.niemi-hugaerts@forumvirium.fi @CitySDK_Hanna