INFORMATION CITIEScreating liveable, sustainable and resilient urban conglomerates

Gerhard Schmitt, ETH Zürich

Director, Singapore-ETH Centre

SMART CITIESComparison of Europe, Americas and Asia

Smart City =Big Data +

Information & Communication

Technology (ICT)

TOP SMART CITIES (Forbes 2017)New York

London

Paris

Boston

San Francisco

Washington

Seoul

Tokyo

Berlin

Amsterdam

Smart City Motivations – Hong Kong 2017

„Chinese Dream“ (Prof. Li)

• Urbanization

• Industrialization

• Informationizing

• Low Carbon

• Green

• Sustainability

„Swiss Dream“

• Liveability

• Industrialization 5.0

• Domesticate Big Data

• De-carbonization

• Sustainability & Resilience

• Responsiveness

Smart City Web Search April 4, 2017

• New York 17‘100‘000

• Singapore 11‘600‘000

• San Francisco 10‘600‘000

• Hong Kong 8‘100‘000

• Barcelona 4‘100‘000

• Sydney 4‘060‘000

• Kopenhagen 2‘480‘000

• Hamburg 1‘580‘000

• Zürich 748‘000

• Lagos 676‘000

• Wien 579‘000

• Masdar 144‘000

• Songdo 101‘000

Smart City Web Search Oct 29, 2017

• New York 22‘700‘000

• Singapore 14‘000‘000

• San Francisco 7‘580‘000

• Hong Kong 14‘600‘000

• Barcelona 3‘130‘000

• Sydney 3‘170‘000

• Kopenhagen 925‘000

• Hamburg 1‘120‘000

• Zürich 379‘000

• Lagos 617‘000

• Vienna 1‘150‘000

• Masdar 134‘000

• Songdo 93‘000

https://www.rolandberger.com/publications/publication_pdf/ta_17_008_smart_cities_online.pdf

https://www.rolandberger.com/publications/publication_pdf/ta_17_008_smart_cities_online.pdf

||

World Top 10

Europe No. 1

12

ETH Zürich

2017ETH ZürichSource: www.topuniversities.com

||

International Profile of ETH Zurich Students

62%

38%

Master

30%

70%

Doctorate

87%

13%

Bachelor

Swiss Students International Students

+55

%

Students (all levels)

Feb-2017ETH Zürich 13||

12758

19815

2005 2016

||

2 6 1 18

Information and

Communications Technology

4

Biotechnology

and Pharma

Advanced Materials Chemical processes

and compounds

Mechanical Engineering

and Aerospace

Micro- and

Nanotechnology

Electrical

Engineering and

Electronics

Consulting and

Services

Feb-2017ETH Zürich 15||

Spin-off Companies founded 2016, by sector

11

SINGAPORE ETH CENTRE SECETH Zurich’s only major institute outside Switzerland

Established in 2010 in association with Singapore’s National Research Foundation

Part of NRF CREATE

Platform for two research projects: Future Cities Laboratory & Future Resilient Systems

WHY SINGAPORE?Different perspective and great academic peers

Competitiveness and innovation

BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENTSConstruction Robotics

BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENTConstruction Robotics

BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT3 FOR 2: MORE COMFORT WITH 60% LESS ENERGY

Stocks and Flows - Origins

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/StockFlow.gifBIGGEST ACHIEVEMENTSEC Tanjong Pagar Scenarios

Future Cities Laboratory – Value Creation

Value Lab Zürich: Established 2008, Visualization and Data Analytics, Spin-off

Value Lab Asia: Established 2012, Visual Data Analytics, SEC Forum

Value Wall Zürich: Established 2015, Teaching, MOOCs, Visual Data Analytics, Telepresence

Singapore-ETH Centre SECConstruction of CREATE Campus, October 26, 2009

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/StockFlow.gifBIGGEST ACHIEVEMENTBecame Part of the Singapore Community

NEXT BIG PROJECTPRECISION PREDICTIVE MEDICINE

TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESSLORA? PERSONAL DATA OWNERSHIP?

Responsive City =

People

+

Smart City Technology

Ludovico Muratori 1749

Steps

• Smart Cities: technology and

infrastructure - building blocks for:

• Responsive Cities: Citizens and

their responsibility

RESPONSIVE LOCAL PEOPLELAKE INLE, MYANMAR

RESPONSIVE LOCAL PEOPLECHEMREY MONASTERY, LEH, LADAKH, INDIA

BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT

• Construction Robotics

RISKSWATER – TOO LITTLE AND TOO MUCH

Future Resilient Systems

RISKSPHYSICAL AND CYBER – PROF. HANS RUEDI HEINIMANN

Future Resilient

Systems

Develop concepts

and tools to make

interdependent

infrastructure

systems more robust

and resilient

MACHINES: IOT & BIG DATAVINT CERF, GOOGLE & GERI SCHROTTER, ZH @ SEC

PEOPLE: STRUCTURED KNOWLEDGEBIBLIOTHEK WERNER OECHSLIN, EINSIEDELN

Future Resilient Systems

MAKE PEOPLE MORE RESPONSIVETHE ONLY GUARANTEE FOR A RESILIENT FUTURE

Thank you!fcl.ethz.ch | frs.ethz.ch