Selection of Leading Smart City Case Studies in the USA

Tekes Smart City ProjectFutures Session Planning

25 September 2013

U.S. Smart City Project – First Phase Analysis

• Survey U.S. urban development in the USA, noting both the hard science of cutting-edge smart technology innovations as well as the soft science of shaping appealing and sustainable smart city environments.

• Identify and summarize a representative group of leading smart city case studies.

• Based upon above, target select municipalities and associated smart city programmes for in-depth field analysis and/or benchmarking by Tekes-led Finnish delegation.

ICT is changing urban geography

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2011 2017Source: Markets & Markets, September 2012

Global Internet of Things Market Projection

(Billion Dollars)

Source: http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/4804.html

It offers connectivity to distant spaces/people

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1,84

3,47

6,58

2003 2010 2015 2020Source: Cisco IBSG, April 2011

Projected Connected Devices Per Person Globally

5,8%10,1,%

2011 2012Source: StatCounter, May 2012

Proportion of Global Web Page Views from Mobile

Devices: 2011-2012

Social Media Landscape

It promises to create broadly connected sustainable communities

Cisco’s Blueprint for Smart & Connected CommunitiesConnected & Sustainable

Work

Connected & Sustainable

Mobility

Connected & Sustainable Buildings

Connected & Sustainable

Energy

Sustainable Socio –

Economics Smart Work

CentersSmart

Transportation Pricing

Homes Renewables & Co-Generation

Active Community & Eco Maps

Digital Swarming & Hub Pavilions

Personal Travel Assistant

Office Buildings Urban Monitoring & Measurement

Innovative Green Business Models and Sustainability

ClustersConnected Workplaces

Connected Public Transit

Public Spaces Citizens Energy Efficiency

Connected Workforce

Public Transit Hubs

Hospitals & Schools

← Sustainable Urban Planning →Broadband Platform

IP-Enabled Homes & Offices, Roads, Utilities, Workplace DesignSource: http://ict4green.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/ict-companies-focused-on-smart-city-effort-cisco-cud/

Today’s view of Smart City development

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20,2

2012 2020

Source: Pike Research, January 2013

Global Smart City Technology Market Forecast

(Billion Dollars)

IDC Government Insights states: In 2013, 70% of Worldwide Spending onSmart City Projects Will Be Focused on Energy, Transportation, andPublic Safety.

Source: http://revistamoviles.blogspot.com.es/2012/03/telefonica-convertira-alcala-de-henares.html

Current Smart City Applications

Selected Smart City Case Studies

Seattle-Portland-Vancouver Living Building Challenge

Houston Municipal 4G Network

San Francisco SFPark Pilot

San Francisco WalkFirst

NYC Midtown in Motion

Ann Arbor Connected Vehicles

Las Vegas, Driverless Vehicles

San Francisco Architecture at Zero

Sacramento Municipal LEED Platinum Campus

Fort Collins FortZed

Greenprint Denver

Portland Plan

LA Food Truck Nation

NYC Digital

Boston Innovation District

Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Airport = “Aerotropolis”

NYC CityScan

Chattanooga Small City Broadband Network

San Francisco DataSF

NYC Hyper-localSmart Screens

Fort Wayne Smart Hospital

Tacoma Sustainable City Return on Investment

Houston “Coolest City”

Boston Municipal Food Truck Web Page Locator

Urban Smart Glasses Applications: Police in MD, MN, UT…

Santa Rita Jail Microgrid

Examples that collectively offer a glimpse into the future

New York City’s Smart Screens City24/7 Pilot converted 250 obsolete public telephone booths, which will incorporate touch, voice, and audio technology to deliver a wide array of hyper-local (about two square city blocks) information, services, and offerings in real time. The Smart Screens can also be accessed via Wi-Fi on nearby smartphones, tablets, and laptop computers. There is the potential to convert a further 12 800 booths whose licenses will be expiring in October 2014.

DFW Airport computer-generated customer-service agent hologram greets and responds verbally when asked questions on everything from where the nearest restroom is to where customers should head for a connecting flight.

Laurel [Maryland] Police Department is using a…new generation of police video camera in their sun glasses that provides an officer's point of view [POV] during stops. Smart glasses are seen as a future tool for crime control.

Indicating profound change ahead

Smart City ICT Building BlocksREQUIREMENT DESCRIPTIONUbiquitous connectivity Essential element: competitively-priced anytime/anyplace access to high-bandwidth

Anytime/anyplace devices Devices designed to access cloud services via a Wi-Fi or 3G network

Collaboration platforms Unified: voice, text, video, calendars, office automation tools, online meetings

Cloud computing Processing, storage, & applications as Internet or pay-as-you go private network service

Open standards Interoperable hardware and software systems within Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)

Geospatial platforms Easier, faster, and cheaper abilities to present and manipulate data on a map or aerial image

Internet of Things Increasing real-time data possibilities for connecting a wide range of sensors to the Internet

Advanced analytics Innovation = making fact-based decisions & controlling events based on real-time data

Open access to public data Government agencies with “more eyes” that add value to data

Rea;-time digitally controlled devices

Integration into computerized home, building, and infrastructure control systems

Social networking Enabling and supporting community interactivity

Source: Alcatel Lucent, 2012

Rise of augmented urban spaces

Augmented Space refers to group of emerging technologies that are unified by their ability to overlay physical space with information. It is a paradigm that succeeds Virtual Reality; instead of disembodied occupation of virtual worlds, the physical and virtual are seen together as a contiguous, layered and dynamic reality.

Keiichi Matsuda

See: http://www.keiichimatsuda.com/augmentedcity.php

Entering the next evolutionary phase

$5.2 billion in 2017

Augmented Reality (AR) Revenue Forecast for Mobile

Devices Split by Category(Billion Dollars)

Source: Juniper Research

Augmented Virtuality (AV):In-place Technologies

$5.2 billion in 2017

See LHN App & near-term future of urban living: http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=8486178

Finding balance in Smart City Development

Cohen’s Smart Cities Wheel*

*See: http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680538/what-exactly-is-a-smart-city

Image Source: Enterra Insights, 26 April 2013

Personal Observations from a rapidly growing young urban professional population

Houston, Texas, Inner City Living

Initial cities targeted

Portland, Oregon

• Tekes selected Portland & Seattle initially as collective field trip targets.

• Both cities score highly in numerous metrics relevant to broader smart city development.

http://www.travelportland.com/media/archive/ http://www.seattle.gov/economicdevelopment/press_newsRankings.ht

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Seattle, Washington

Relevant Smart City cases from Oregon & Washington

• Systems Dynamic Modeling for Smart City Development: City of Portland, Oregon’s Portland Plan example

• Sustainable City Return on Investment Tool: City of Tacoma, Washington, seeking solution; relates to participation in LLGA Cities Pilot the Future initiative

• Sustainable Innovation Horizon for Buildings, Neighborhoods & Communities: Cascadia Region’s International Living Futures Institute’s Living Building Challenge

“… this is the future. It’s where innovative developers, planners and construction companies should be looking...“

Living Building Challenge (LBC) Profile

“LBC…a holistic standard…that could yield an entirely new level of integration between building systems, transportation, technology, natural resources, and community.”

See: http://living-future.org/lbc/about

Additional Examples & Opportunities

City of Portland• PortlandMaps.com - Public access to City of

Portland datasets: http://www.portlandmaps.com/about.cfm

• SmartTrips (Facebook & Twitter access): http://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/43801

• Portland Development Commission Cluster Development (cleantech among four target areas): http://www.pdc.us/our-work/economic-development/cluster-development.aspx

• Neighborhood-scale development & District Energy: http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/349437

• City of Portland waste management crisis: http://www.environmentalleader.com/2013/05/15/

City of Seattle• Data.Seattle.Gov website– Public access to high

value, machine readable City of Seattle datasets: https://data.seattle.gov/

• Seattle City Mobile Applications & Sites: http://www.seattle.gov/html/citizen/mobileApps.htm

• Live traffic video on mobile devices via TrafficLand (includes Seattle & Portland): http://trafficland.com/city/SEA/index.html

• District Energy Recommendations: http://www.seattle.gov/environment/district_energy.htm

• Seattle 2030 District (downtown building reduction goals for energy, water & CO2e of auto and freight): http://www.2030district.org/seattle/district-goals

Proposed field trip broadened

• Anchorage, Alaska, also offers potentially interesting linkages.

• Anchorage, Seattle and Portland, representing the Cascadia Region of North America, is a logical place to start Finnish-American smart city technology networking.

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