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1. On land and in space, IoT networks can now cover the planet2. IoT startup Zenatix secures US$1.2M to help enterprises save energy3. Feu vert gouvernemental aux Blockchains électriques4. IoT : HPE tente d’acclimater ses serveurs Moonshot aux usines5. Con Edison Selects C3 IoT for Big Data and Predictive Analytics - RTInsights6. DNV GL Launches Veracity to Unlock Potential of Big Data (Scandinavian Oil-Gas

Magazine)7. IoT and smart cities: meeting sustainable development goals

On land and in space, IoT networks cannow cover the planetSource URL: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3168758/internet-of-things/on-land-and-in-space-iot-networks-can-now-cover-the-planet.htmlNokia's worldwide IoT grid is a managed service that ties together private andcarrier networks with satellitesThe whole idea of the internet of things is to connect more things, including devices farfrom a company’s data centers or maintenance crews. For enterprises that have devicesall over the world, vendors and service providers are starting to look at the big picture.

At Mobile World Congress later this month, Nokia will show off what it calls WING(worldwide IoT network grid), a virtual global infrastructure that may include multipleprivate and carrier networks and satellite systems, depending on what an enterpriseneeds to connect and how it intends to use the data that’s collected.

“A global enterprise can actually have what they think is their own virtual network ofglobal connectivity for their IoT devices,” said Phil Twist, vice president of mobilenetworks marketing & communications, in a briefing this week. WING will be commerciallyavailable in the second half of this year.

Nokia announced WING on Friday, just days after Inmarsat started talking about its ownforay into global IoT. The venerable satellite operator is linking low-power, unlicensedLoRaWAN networks with its worldwide fleet of spacecraft. Real-world use cases for thatsetup, including cattle-tracking in Australia and water monitoring on a remote plantation inMalaysia, hint at what’s possible with that combination.

WING is a broader vision of a managed service that may include low-power networks,cellular, Wi-Fi and wired infrastructure in addition to satellites. It doesn’t rely on Nokiahardware, so it can run on networks built by competing vendors. Nokia can virtually stringtogether a set of networks for a service provider or for a multinational enterprise.

Companies could use WING to stay connected to networked cars or freight containers asthey move around the world, automatically getting handed off from satellite to cellular andother networks as they come into range, Nokia says.

Nokia’s Impact IoT platform will manage all the devices and the subscriptions to variousservice providers. It can use eSIMs, a software-defined form of the Subscriber IdentityModules in cellphones, to shift devices from one carrier to another as they move acrossborders.

Impact will also analyze data coming from IoT devices, primarily for operational purposeslike optimizing security and customer experience, but also for some vertical applications.The vertical-markets focus will be on the energy, health care, public safety, transportationand auto industries, plus smart cities. Impact already includes an analytics platform forstreaming video, designed for things like monitoring traffic patterns.

IoT startup Zenatix secures US$1.2M tohelp enterprises save energySource URL: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/iot-startup-zenatix-secures-us-1-2m-help-042909832.htmlZenatix Solutions, a data-driven energy efficiency company, has raised US$1.2 million inpre-Series A round of funding led by pi Ventures, an early-stage fund co-founded byLetsVenture Co-founder Manish Singhal.

The round also saw participation from existing investor Blume Ventures.

Zenatix has previously raised funding from a group of angel investors led by RahulKhanna of Trifecta Capital, Google Indian Head Rajan Anandan, and Snapdeal Co-founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal, besides Blume Ventures.

The current round of capital will be used primarily for hiring across all its functions —technology, product, operations and sales. The company aims to become profitable bymiddle of 2018.

Founded by Rahul Bhalla, Vishal Bansal and Dr. Amarjeet Singh, Zenatix helps empowerbusinesses and take control of their energy usage in real time. It does this through

technology, analytics, control, and operations.

It uses advanced machine learning-based models and claims to deliver 10 per cent to 30per cent energy efficiency to large commercial consumers of electricity.The models arebuilt by collecting and analysing more than 30 million of previously unseen data pointsevery day from electrical assets. These models allow for automated and intelligentcontrols along with predictive and preventive maintenance of these assets, resulting inconsistent and comfortable consumer experience in retail and banking sites whiledelivering high energy savings.

Zenatix aims to address the energy efficiency problem across a range of customers andeventually help grids turn smarter. Its first solution, WattMan addresses the problem forlarge retail chains and banking/financial set-ups. WattMan is built over a scalable Internetof Things (IoT) stack and includes connected hardware developed in-house by Zenatix.

Given the distributed nature of retail/banking set-ups (hundreds of thousands ofoutlets/branches, spread across the country), having a control over the electricity spendand providing the right customer experience at the same time is a big challenge. Forexample, in a Quick Service Restaurant, maintaining the right temperature in customerareas, kitchen areas and cold storages is crucial. Also, they need to make sure that alltheir air-conditioning, kitchen and refrigeration appliances are working optimally all thetime.

WattMan addresses these challenges in an automated manner through its cloud-basedintelligent controls driven by advanced machine learning algorithms. While it ensures theright quality of service with consistent temperature maintenance, the savings resultingfrom it, pays for the solution by itself. This value proposition in retail/banking segmentalone will allow Zenatix to capture significant portion of more than US$2.5 billion marketopportunity (in ARR terms), in India and Southeast Asia, it said in a statement.

WattMan was launched in April 2016 and since then around 20 customers (large retailchains/banks) have signed up. The company aims to continue adding more customerswith additional focus on scaling up with the existing customers.

“We have a subscription based engagement model — the customer doesn’t have to payanything upfront. It is a fixed annual fee whereby the energy efficiency benefit itselfoutweighs the fee. Additionally, there are multiple other benefits such as improvedconsumer experience and ability to automatically audit the usage of electricity. Typically,the customers become cash flow positive from 1st quarter itself,” said Rahul Bhalla, Co-founder and CEO, Zenatix.

The company is currently focused on the India market, with a plan to expandinternationally over next six to 12 months.

Singhal said: “Zenatix’s integrated approach of building connected hardware, withsophisticated machine learning algorithm to work on resulting dark data generated iswhat will set them apart. In India cost of electricity is same as in the US, despite thepurchasing power parity. Thus it’s a big space with plenty of innovation & upsidepossibility, given the kind of data, Zenatix is starting to lay its hands on.”

“One obvious solution for solving world’s electricity problem is to increase the generation

capacity. However, since the demand for electricity is increasing much faster than thesupply, only sustainable solution is energy efficiency. Zenatix is committed towardsdelivering data driven energy efficiency with the aim of building a sustainable planet. Weare now at an inflection point in our journey. We now have a strong base of almost 20customers, each of whom have a very large presence across the country. The money cannow be used to expand the customer base and deliver additional value from the productin an automated fashion,” Bhalla added.

Feu vert gouvernemental auxBlockchains électriquesSource URL: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/feu-vert-gouvernemental-aux-blockchains-%C3%A9lectriques-marc-lipskierMarc LipskierLa France, en adaptant sa réglementation, prend la tête du peloton mondial pour lesusages énergétiques des Blockchains.

Le 28 juillet 2016, l'Ordonnance relative à l'autoconsommation d'électricité (Ordonnancen° 2016-1019 du 27 juillet 2016 relative à l'autoconsommation d'électricité) a étépromulguée.

Elle permet à chacun de produire de l'électricité et de revendre le surplus d'énergieproduite à ses voisins.

Cette libéralisation ouvre la voie aux micro-réseaux énergétiques décentralisés pilotés pardes Blockchains.

Une Ordonnance pour trois avancées

Aujourd'hui, les réseaux d'électricité ont pour objet de produire des quantités importantesd'énergie qui sera acheminée à un très grand nombre de consommateurs répartis sur unterritoire relativement vaste (région, pays, continent). Ils reposent de ce fait sur desinfrastructures massives. Tant pour la production que pour la distribution. Ainsi, enFrance, la longueur cumulée des réseaux dits "de grand tarnsport et d'interconnexion" et"de répartition" représente environ 100.000 kilomètres. Quant aux "réseaux publics dedistribution de l’électricité", qui acheminent l’énergie électrique jusque chez leconsommateur final (particuliers, artisans, PME, petites industries) et collectent,également, l’énergie produite par la plupart des fermes éoliennes, les installations deproduction photovoltaïque et la majorité des installations de cogénération, leur longueurcumulée représente plus de 1,3 millions de kilomètres. L’interface entre le réseau publicde transport et les réseaux publics de distribution est constituée par environ 2.200 postesde transformation HTB/HTA dits « postes sources ». L’interface entre les réseaux HTA etles réseaux BT est constituée par plus de 700 000 postes de transformation dits « postesde distribution ». (Chiffres : Commission de Régulation de l'Energie).

Les réseaux actuels sont donc gigantesques et lourds. Ils souffrent de ce fait denombreux inconvénients.

Difficile évaluation en temps réel : Producteurs et distributeurs d'énergie disposentrarement d'informations pertinentes en temps réel sur la consommation d'énergiede chaque client final. Au niveau microscopique du réseau, il en résulte un dificileéquilibre entre production et consommation ;L' "Effet Joule" : "Tout réseau électrique connait des pertes actives ou passivesd’électricité, dites « pertes en ligne ». Les pertes passives en ligne sont d'autantplus importante que le réseau est long, que le matériau « conducteur » (câbleélectrique) offre de la résistance à la circulation des électrons (perte sous forme decalories à cause de l'effet Joule) et que la tension électrique (voltage) est faible.(...)Les pertes en ligne doivent être prises en compte dans l’équilibre offre/demande(coût de la production supplémentaire nécessaire pour compenser la perte enligne), dans le calclul économique et électrique des « distances électriqueséquivalentes » pour l'allocation des pertes, dans les coûts de transmission del’électricité dans les réseaux transfrontaliers ou partagés" (Source : Wikipedia).La complexité du système : L'infrastructure complexe se double d'uneréglementation elle-aussi complexe, pour réguler les droits d'accès au réseau desproducteurs et des consommateurs, selon des tarifs variables. L'ensemble reposesur de multiples "tiers de confiance".

L'Ordonnance du 28 juillet tente de réduire ces inconvénients. En effet, ce texte portetrois avancées fondamentales :

(1) Il pose les bases légales de l'autoconsommation et favorise son expansion ;

(2) il crée la notion d'autoconsommation collective ; et

(3) il établit un tarif d'utilisation des réseaux publics de distribution spécifique auxconsommateurs participant à des opérations d'autoconsommation individuelle oucollective, en tenant compte du niveau de tension auquel sont effectué les injections etles soutirages d'électricité. Notamment, les installations de petites tailles enautoconsommation avec injection du surplus bénéficieront d'une dérogation à l'obligationd'être rattachés à un "périmètre d'équilibre". De sorte que le surplus de productionélectrique pourra être affecté aux pertes réseau sans frais. Ce qui, vraisemblablement, estde nature à faciliter la réalisation de projets.

Ainsi, l'Ordonnance devrait-elle faire apparaître un "marché de proximité" de la productionet de la consommation d'énergie. Ce tant en milieu urbain, pour la consommation desménages, qu'auprès de consommateurs industriels, agricoles ou tertiaires.

En somme, l'Ordonnance favorise l'émergence d'une multitude de micro-réseauxdécentralisés d'électricité, en plus - à coté ? au-dessus ? - de l'actuel macro-réseaucentralisé d'énergie.

Or, les Blockchains sont l'instrument idéal de gestion de micro-transactions d'énergie,rémunérées en temps réel par des micro-paiements.

Les Blockchains : instrument idéal de développement des micro-réseaux

d'électricité

Dans le schéma envisagé par l'Ordonnance,le producteur du surplus d'électricité la venddirectement à ses voisins qui en ont besoin, sans intermédiaire ni "tiers de confiance".Ainsi, les micro-réseaux décentralisés qui devraient résulter de l'Ordonnance sont desréseaux de pairs-à-pairs (peer-to-peer). Les micro-réseaux d'électricité seront doncstructurellement proches des Blockchains.

En outre, les Blockchains se présentent comme l'instrument idéal de gestion des micro-réseaux décentralisés.

En effet, les Blockchains :- permettent des paiements de petits-montants à faible coût ;- identifient précisément les utilisateurs ;- certifient et sécurisent chaque transaction, réduisant ainsi le risque de fraude ;- en toute transparence pour les utilisateurs ;- et en temps réel.

Ainsi, les transferts de fonds sont plus plus rapides et les processus simplifiés. Ce quipourrait aider la population non bancarisée ou démunie, en permettant un paiement del'électricité immédiat, en fonction de la consommation effective.

Le producteur d'électricité, corrélativement, pourra s'assurer de la rentabilité réelle de soninvestissement, avec des encaissements instantanés.

La France en tête

Il existe de nombreux projets d'utilisation des Blockchains dans l'énergie. En France parexemple (Hackpad,CItizenWatt, Solar Coin), au Royaume-Uni (Open Energy Monitor), àAndorre (Electricity Chain), ou encore aux Etats-Unis (LO3 Energy, GridSingularity, Brooklyn MicroGrid, Electricity Chain).

En libérant le secteur de l'autoconsommation d'électricité, la France donne ainsi auxprojets qu'elle abrite le moyen de passer à une phase d'implémentation sur le territoirenational, préalable nécessaire à la conquête du monde.

Espérons que les investisseurs suivent !

IoT : HPE tente d’acclimater ses serveursMoonshot aux usinesSource URL: http://www.silicon.fr/iot-hpe-acclimater-serveurs-moonshot-usines-

168563.htmlHPE lance la commercialisation de ses serveurs Edgeline, dédiés à l’IoT. La stratégie duCalifornien consiste à déporter une partie de la puissance de calcul au plus près desmachines.

Présentés lors de Discover 2016, l’événement annuel de HPE aux Etats-Unis, les serveursde périphérie du constructeur pour l’IoT sont en passe d’être commercialisés. Rappelonsque la stratégie du Californien revient à miser sur un déport d’une partie des capacités decalcul au plus proche de là où les données sont capturées, soit dans les usines, lesateliers, sur les machines…. « Dans le monde industriel, les opérationnels n’ont pastoujours le luxe d’attendre un traitement de données effectué dans le Cloud, expliqueOlivier Frank, le directeur des ventes de la gamme HPE Edgeline, cette nouvelle ligne deserveurs destinés à s’installer en périphérie du réseau. Nous croyons à une solutionhybride, où un premier niveau local échange avec un second niveau, situé dans le Cloud. »

Cet échelon local prend la forme de serveurs durcis, conçus pour les environnementsindustriels. La première machine, le Edgeline 1000 (en photo ci-dessus), commercialiséemi-mars, embarque une carte Moonshot (un serveur sous forme de cartouche) etcomprend deux emplacements pour des disques de 2,5 pouces. Deux options sontproposées par HPE : soit une carte Moonshot à base de GPU (la 710x) pour des besoinsde Machine Learning ou de traitement de média, soit une carte plus classique intégrant 8à 16 cœurs Xeon et jusqu’à 128 Go de mémoire.Serveurs en environnements hostilesPour des besoins plus importants, le constructeur propose un format 1U intégrable dansun rack, le Edgeline 4000 (commercialisé mi-février), et capable de recevoir jusqu’à 4cartouches Moonshot. « Ce modèle peut aussi être monté sur un mur, dans un atelier ouune usine », reprend Olivier Frank. Selon HPE, ces boîtiers sont en mesure de fonctionnerdans des environnements non protégés (jusqu’à 55° C par exemple) et possèdent uneconnectivité tant filaire que sans fil (Wifi et 3G/4G) pour s’intégrer à des milieux où descâbles Ethernet ne sont pas toujours disponibles. Signalons que ces serveurs Edgelinesont complétés par des passerelles (Edgeline 10 et 20), des mini-machines à base depuces Atom ou Core i5 capables d’assurer l’agrégation des données et des calculslégers, par exemple dans des lieux ne disposant pas de connexion.

« Nous sommes les premiers à amener, dans les environnements industriels, un tel niveaude puissance de calcul, tout en y associant le niveau de management qu’on connaît dansles datacenters », plaide Olivier Frank. Les Edgeline 1000 et 4000 sont ainsi pilotables àdistance au travers la technologie ILO (Integrated Lights Out).

La stratégie IoT de HPE repose également sur des partenariats. Le constructeur metnotamment en avant son association avec l’éditeur PTC, qui au fil de rachats s’est bâtiune plateforme IoT (appelée ThingWorx), et avec National Instruments, qui fabrique descapteurs. C’est par exemple cet attelage qu’on retrouve chez le fabricant de pompesFlowserve, qui a exploité ces technologies afin de déployer des scénarios demaintenance prédictive sur ses équipements.

Con Edison Selects C3 IoT for Big Dataand Predictive Analytics - RTInsightsSource URL: https://www.rtinsights.com/con-edison-c3-iot-big-data-predictive-analytics/C3 IoT’s platform is becoming a popular choice for large utilities seeking digitaltransformation.

C3 IoT has beenselectedby Con Edison, one of the largest utilities in the United States,and Orange & Rockland Utilities, to provide an analytics platform to assist in thecompanies’ digital transformation.

The partnership lets Con Edison, which provides power to New York City andWestchester County, to operationalize data from 5 million smart meter. Con Edison willensure the health of the sensor network, as well as provide products and services thatleverage artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The C3 IoT Platform will allow Con Edison and O&R to unlock business insights to reduceoperating costs, deploy and monitor the smart meters, and improve customer experience,the company stated in their announcement.

“Con Edison and O&R have an impressive digital transformation plan,” said Ed Abbo,president and CTO of C3 IoT. “Together, we will harness the power of elastic cloudcomputing, big data, analytics and machine learning, and the Internet of Things tojumpstart Con Edison’s ability to realize operational efficiencies, better serve customers,and meet the challenges and opportunities of the changing energy industry with precisionand accuracy.”

Con Ed and O&R will be able to collect and store massive amounts of data from manydifferent sources including customer data, data from sensors and devices, and externaldata such as weather and traffic using C3 IoT’s big data and predictive analytics tools.The data will be kept in a single cloud-based image and use machine learning at scaleand advanced analytics to provide real-time insights. The companies estimate datavolumes will exceed 115 terabytes, growing by 104 gigabytes per day, from 480 millionmeter reads each day.

C3 IoT will also train Con Ed and O&R employees to adapt and develop new applicationsform the platform.

RTInsights view:Data from smart meters is increasingly being used by utilities for a variety of use cases:pinpointing outages on the grid to restore power faster to specific areas; as demandresponse to reduce energy use; prevention of energy theft; dynamic pricing based on timeof use; and to assist in the planning of distribution grid assets. The C3 IoT platform inparticular is becoming a popular choice among large utilities — the tech company’scustomers include two of the world’s largest electric companies: Enel, based in RomeandENGIE, based in France. C3 IoT sees use cases in the utility and energy sector aseasily transferable to other industries such as manufacturing, aerospace and defense,

transportation, and healthcare.

DNV GL Launches Veracity to UnlockPotential of Big Data (Scandinavian Oil-Gas Magazine)Source URL: http://www.scandoil.com/moxie-bm2/news/dnv-gl-launches-veracity-to-unlock-potential-of-bi.shtmlThe maritime and energy industries are looking to boost their profitability and explore newbusiness models through digitalisation. However, companies are increasingly recognisingthe need to overcome data quality issues and manage the ownership, control, sharingand use of data. To facilitate frictionless connections between different industry players,domain experts and data scientists, DNV GL is launching an industry data platform.

Remi Eriksen, President and CEO of DNV GL, explains, “The potential for smarter use ofdata in our industries is enormous. Companies have always turned to us for independent,expert assessments and best practices – to build trust in the safety, efficiency andsustainability of their physical assets or operations. Now we are exercising this same rolein the digital domain with our Veracity industry data platform, designed to help companiesleverage the ever-increasing amount of data from multiple sources. This is an additionalway of fulfilling our purpose of safeguarding life, property and the environment.”

DNV GL is developing the platform by working together with several industry leaders onbig data projects in pursuit of reduced downtime, improved safety, predictivemaintenance, performance forecasting, energy efficiency and real-time risk management.

“This is the start of transforming some core elements of our 150-year-old company into aglobal digital-platform business. It will not happen overnight, but we have a uniquestarting point. DNV GL is already a trusted custodian of asset and performance data fromships, power grids, wind and solar farms, oil and gas installations, fish farms and thehealthcare sector. That’s why we’re building an industry data platform in collaborationwith Microsoft Azure and other leading companies. DNV GL is not looking to own data,but to unlock, qualify, combine and prepare data for analytics and benchmarking,” saysRemi Eriksen.

“A key learning from the big data projects we have worked on so far is that data quality isa major barrier to overcome. A distinctive element of our platform is that we combinedomain expertise and data science to put quality assurance of data – the veracity of data- at the centre and to facilitate open, industry-wide collaboration and innovation,” saysLars Petter Blikom, who is heading DNV GL’s digital platform business. “The datascientists and developers we have been working with across industries universally agreethat these are key issues that need to be tackled collaboratively.”

“Data is the key ingredient for companies in any industry looking to transform theirbusiness,” says Michel Van der Bel, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft EMEA. “DNVGL has a high level of trust within the industries it serves based on its strong track recordin handling customer data. Offering its customers more sophisticated data insightsthrough Microsoft’s cloud will help companies in the maritime and energy industries drive

digital innovation scenarios like predicting maintenance issues to reduce downtime toimprove business outcomes.”

IoT and smart cities: meeting sustainabledevelopment goalsSource URL: http://www.information-age.com/iot-smart-cities-sustainable-goals-123464394/

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Using sensors, the concept is based on connected technology that has connected‘things’ communicating ‘live’ information with each other. As part of her job, the author ofthis article (Eman Martin-Vignerte) must assess the relevant economics, structures, andprocesses required to drive greater understanding of the IoT, and to help to informgovernment decision making about its opportunities and challenges.

Potential for energy savings

Cities consume 75% of the energy produced globally, with buildings alone accounting for40%. However, this also means the potential for energy efficiency in cities is huge, withmarket experts estimating that by 2019, cities could cut approximately 11 billion dollars inenergy costs.

Technological advances have already been made in this area, with cities becoming moreintelligently connected in order to save energy and operating costs.

Virtual power stations, energy efficient heating, hot water and cooling systems, andenergy storage technology are all real technologies being enabled by the IoT to make ourcities more efficient and sustainable.

In Vorarlberg, in western Austria, Bosch and a number of partners are already in theprocess of developing a virtual power plant.

As part of the “Smart City Rheintal” project, the virtual plant aims to coordinate energybalance and to offer new energy services based on the existing infrastructure.

Bosch is implementing three core projects for the plant, including load management forthe charging infrastructure of electric vehicles and consumption data predictions throughenergy management systems that manage electric water heater and heat pump demand.

The goal of the “Smart City Rheintal” project is to attain CO2-free energy autonomy asearly as 2050.

Enabling growth through mobility

As cities grow, they also need to ensure infrastructure can keep up with and withstand thepressures of a growing population. The IoT is playing a crucial part in keeping citiesmoving, with innovations such as environmental monitoring systems and connectedparking technologies, as well as fleet management, e-mobility, and intermodaltransportation solutions.

Take, for example, the scarcity of parking in urban areas. Studies show that one-third ofurban driving is taken up solely with finding a parking space, and in the UK, drivers spendover 60 hours annually trying to find a parking space.

With community-based parking, on-board sensors detect available spots and measurethe size of the space between parked cars, allowing cars to detect spots when drivingalong the street. The data gathered is then transmitted to a digital street map, and high-performance algorithms assess the plausibility of the data and make forecasts on theparking spot situation and the size of the parking space.

A real-time map is available to cars in the vicinity, and drivers can thus drive directly toavailable parking spots. Bosch, along with Mercedes Benz, is currently testing thecommunity-based parking concept in metropolitan Stuttgart, and pilot projects in the USare planned for 2017.

Building safer cities

While these technologies target mobility and road safety, the general safety and securityof citizens is also paramount as urban populations grow. Some of the technologiesalready being used in this space include fire protection technologies, access controlsystems, and video surveillance solutions.

There is also the increasing prevalence of apps for people on the move. Take for exampleBosch’s app Vivatar – via GPS and a chat function, users can stay in touch with friendsand family if they are feeling unsafe when they are out and about, for instance when theyare on their way home late at night, or when they are doing outdoor sports on roughterrain. In the event of an emergency, they can get quick help at the tap of a fingerthrough an emergency service function.

Smart cities of the future

From monitoring car parks and streets to ease congestion, to tracking the level of rubbishin a bin to ensure they’re emptied when necessary, smart cities and connectedtechnologies can be used for a better, more efficient way of life.

Many of the smart city principles are being embodied in the UK government’s GardenTown initiative.

Didcot Garden Town, situated in proximity to the Oxford universities and Oxfordshire’scentres of scientific research at Harwell & Culham Science Centre, is set to deliver 15,000new homes and 20,000 new jobs.

In the past, the benefits to be gained from technology in such initiatives have tended tofall in behind planning and policy. In contrast, Didcot is bringing forward new thinking bypartnering with technology innovators such as Bosch.

In the earliest stages of master planning design, collaboration between industry andcouncils is identifying viable sustainable deployable services and solutions in energy,mobility and big data. The aim is to deliver Garden Town benefits to community, visitorsand organisations that are designed, scalable and future-proofed.

A bit further from home, in San Francisco, Bosch is working as technology partner toFivePoint, who took the ruins of a former navy shipbuilding site and football stadium tocreate The San Francisco Shipyard and Candlestick Point, two new, attractiveneighbourhoods.

With plans for 12,100 homes, over 350 acres of parks and open space, an urban outletshopping mall, up to 5 million square feet of commercial space comprised ofresearch/development, makers space and office space, along with nearly 300 artists’studios, this is the biggest urban redevelopment project in San Francisco since the 1906earthquake. Bosch is working with FivePoint to develop smart solutions for these moderndistricts.

In the next five to ten years, smart cities will evolve steadily. There is increasingawareness of the benefits that smart cities can bring, including their ability to help meetsustainability development goals. And this awareness and dynamism will grow.

However, the vast amounts of data that the IoT will require into order for them to becomea widespread reality will entail the extensive implementation of 5G.

Once the right infrastructure and connectivity exists, the scope for smart cities to changethe way people live – and fulfil society’s sustainable development goals – is immense.

Sourced by Eman Martin-Vignerte, head of political affairs and government relations,Bosch UK