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Smart City challenges in Estonia
Hannes Astok
Smart City Lab Tartu
Development Manager
Riga, 11 February 2015
Estonian Smart City landscape
• Rakvere (16 000): smart house topics
• 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
Tartu Smart City Lab
Cluster and cooperation
environment for
smart mobile and web solutions
for cities
Tartu Smart
City Lab
ICT companies
Tartu University
Tartu City Tartu
Science Park
Infrastructure companies
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 Energia
R&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
Budget
• 3-year activities plan • Budget 630 000 EUR • 85% financed by Enterprise Estonia and City of
Tartu • Other: contribution of the stakeholders
ACTIVITIES
Mapping city services
• Review and business processes mapping of the City of Tartu services
• Serves as baseline for the services and business processes re-engineering and online services
Pilots
• Finding ideas (city- companies cooperation)
• Describing bottlenecks
• Prototyping
• Tartu as the first customer?
Pilots
• Opening city GIS data to the citizens
• Tools for inspections in the city
• Turist mobile app
• NFC-supported public transportation data app
• NFC 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 June 2015
BALTIC URBAN FORUM CONCEPT
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
• Few cooperation between the cities on best practices sharing
Solution
Baltic Sea Region Urban Forum
For Smart Cities
• Cooperation platform for the Baltic Sea Region cities, based on UBC network
• Open for cities, businesses, NGOs and other citizens organizations
Tasks
• To develop concept and tools, assisting BSR cities to develop innovative solutions
• To support much strengthened cooperation on green growth and sustainable development between cities and towns, including between 3Helix actors, in the Baltic Sea Region
• To support BSR cities with a vast knowledge pool and resource on available technologies, innovations and proven smart city concepts and solutions
• To initiate a number of synergies with related projects and initiatives in the EU and Baltic Sea Region.
Baltic Sea Region Urban Forum for Smart Cities
FOLLOW-UP PROMOTION
ACTION ASSESMENT EVALUATION INTERVENTION
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• COMMUNICATION PLATFORM • MARKET PLACE • COMPETENCE AND ASSISTANCE CENTER • MENTORING AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING CENTER
• Disseminates the success stories • Fosters a deeper understanding of the smart city practices • Presents BSR as the most innovative region in the world • Connects and networks with both global and EU level
stakeholders and initiatives • A new approach to the smart city movement by placing a
worldwide trends into a regional context
Preparations
• Seed money project from EUBSR Seed Money facility
• INTEREG pre-proposal submitted in January 2015 for proof-of-concept project
HOW TO MAKE SMART CITY INITIATIVES SUSTAINABLE?
White paper for Estonian Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure October 2015
Key issues
• Developing capacity of the city administrations and citizens to act as smart city
• Reducing and sharing risks
Developing capacity of the city administrations and citizens
• Development of the city organizations:
– Chief Innovation Officer
– Business processes re-engineering and innovation support units
• Developing city officials skills and awareness
• Developing innovation readiness among the users of the smart solutions
Reducing and sharing risks
• Developing sectorial competences nationally/regionally: practitioners, experts, R&D, companies
• Developing tools and collecting data for modelling
• Supporting innovative procurement
• Developing standards
• Supporting large scale demonstrations
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
Smart City Lab
Hannes Astok
W smartcitylab.eu
M +372 5091366
S hannesastok