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What makes a city dumb?

What makes a city dumb?

Are the vendors who drive the idea of Smart cities say that the city is currently dumb?

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Exponential trends are hard to see ..

Imagine a magic pipette such that every drop of water that comes out of it will double in size every

minute. This is an example of exponential growth. Now, imagine that you dropped the first magic drop

from this magic pipette in the middle of a large stadium (such as the Wembley Stadium in London)

at 12pm. How much time would this drop take to flood the whole stadium right to the very top seat?

(considering exponential growth i.e. the first minute there is one drop, the second minute there are two

drops, the third minute four drops, the fourth minute eight drops and so on).

The answer is at 12:49pm i.e. less than 50 minutes to fill a whole football stadium with water. But even

more interestingly, even as late as 12:45pm, the stadium is still 93% empty. Thus, the water fills the

stadium only in the last 4 minutes.

So, for a vast majority of the time, you would see nothing since the water is „below the grass.‟ Then in the

last four minutes, you will drown even if you sat at the topmost seat of the stadium.


Boulder Colorado

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Boulder Colorado – Smart grid city is a smart grid flop? (gigaom)

Xcel + GridPoint, Accenture, Current Group, SmartSynch, Ventyx and OSISoft,

That’s an expensive bit of research. (estimated 15m – actual 42m costs and rising)

at taxpayers expense with customers footing extra bills ..


Wisdom of the earth?

Internet + Internet of things = Wisdom of the earth - Wen Jiabo

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1. Songdo, South Korea

The world‟s most expensive privately developed city (cost: $35 billion and

climbing) is also the flagship of Cisco‟s Smart + Connected Communities

Songdo will be the test bed Cisco‟s vision of ubiquitious telepresence –

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10 smartest cities – Fast company


2. Lavasa, India

If all goes according to plan, next year Lavasa will become the first city in history to

float itself in an IPO worth 20 billion rupees ($437 million) as part of a spin-off from its

parent, Hindustan Construction Company. The smarts will be provided courtesy of

Wipro and Cisco


3. PlanIT Valley, Portugal

The first city to be designed like software – complete with its own “Urban OS” – is

slated to break ground this year in the hills outside Porto. brainchild of software

startup Living PlanIT, plans call for 150,000 residents, nearly all of whom will be its

partners‟ employees. In turn, they‟ll be expected to experiment on themselves.

Buildings, sensors, and services alike will be connected through the cloud, and

obsolete buildings will be “decommissioned”


Scheduled to break ground next year, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev‟s pet

project is his country‟s second attempt to build its own Silicon Valley – the Soviet-era

version didn‟t work out so well. “Technopolis Skolkovo‟s” centerpiece will be the

campus of the Moscow School of Management .In June, Cisco pledged to invest $1

billion in the project and establish Skolkovo as Russia‟s first smart city, focused on

smart grids, transportation, education, and health care.


5. Masdar, United Arab Emirates

Masdar is low-tech in its design, according to The Guardian's Rowan Moore: “The Masdar plan

has been accused of being gated and exclusive. It is not, although there is something spooky

in the controls it employs in the name of the environment – a touch of eco-Orwell or at least

eco-Huxley. A hidden brain, for example, knows when you enter your building, so that your flat

can be cooled before you arrive, while in public places flat screens broadcast uplifting news

on the environmental performance of the complex.”


6. Wuxi, China

“Little Shanghai” is the epicenter of China‟s evolving strategy to own the Internet

of Things, an effort which kicked into high gear this summer after Chinese

premier Wen Jiabao gave a speech in the city in which he offered the equation

“Internet + Internet of Things = Wisdom of the Earth.” China appears ready to win

the smart city market as surely as its manufacturers conquered solar panels.


7. King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia

Rising from the sands near Jeddah, King Abdullah Economic City – abbreviated KAEC,

pronounced “cake” – is just one of four new instant cities explicitly intended create a million-

plus jobs and to house nearly half of the 10 million Saudis under the age of 17 -- a largely

uneducated workforce described as a “human time bomb.” To that end, KAEC was conceived as

Saudi Arabia‟s Silicon Valley (along with a port expected to open next year). KAEC‟s developers

have promised a smart city that is “7-24-60,” as in services are ready to go 24 hours a day,

seven days a week, and are ready within 60 minutes.


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8. Dubuque, Iowa

In 2009, IBM declared Dubuque would become the “first integrated, smart city” in

America, with interlocking systems watching the interplay between water, electricity,

and transportation.


9. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

IBM dispatched a SWAT team of executives to Vietnam‟s largest city this year

on a mission to develop a strategy for upgrading the city‟s infrastructure. The

plan is to create a software model capable of predicting when the city‟s

busiest thoroughfares will clog with motorbikes – so the city can change

traffic signals as needed or dispatch extra traffic cops to the scene.


10. Nano City, India

Maybe 2011 will be the year Hotmail creator Sabeer Bhatia finally starts

construction of his dream city, which he hatched in 2006 as – you guessed it –

India‟s answer to Silicon Valley.


Hammer and nail

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“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” (Maslow)

For example:

For Microsoft, convergence is a software problem: to be solved using an upgrade of the windows

operating system (Microsoft‟s strength). Intel sees convergence as a „microprocessor problem‟, -

Intel inside everything! Cisco sees convergence as a home networking problem, to be solved with ..

guess what .. networking! Translated to video conferences Yahoo and Google see convergence as

an online services problem. To them, the solution lies through the web browser – a common element

in all devices. Sony sees convergence as a consumer hardware problem, to be solved with

consumer devices, new standards built around its own strengths like the playstation Handset

vendors: Nokia, Google, Samsung etc all look at the device

as the on ramp to convergence ..


Instrumentation (recording of data) is not enough ..

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Instrumentation (recording of data) is not enough ..

In Star Trek, “tricorders” are handheld devices used for sensor scanning, data analysis

and recording data. A company called Vital Technologies intentionally replicated it in the

mid-90s with a device that it called the TR-107 Mark 1. Like its fictional counterpart, the

device included several scientific functions such as an electromagnetic field meter,

thermometer, barometer and light meter. the company sold about 10,000 of these units

before it went out of business.


ERP for Smart cities?

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Sounds like the ERP systems of the late 1990s ..

A consultant‟s dream .. A customer‟s nightmare ..


Data.gov – Google powermeter – MSFT hohm

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Data.gov 35m to 8m Vivek Kundra, Google powermeter, MSFT hohm


Complex ecosystems cannot have a business model ..

Complex ecosystems are like ant colonies ..

They don‟t have a business model per-se which can be

Proven .. If anyone says otherwise, run as fast as you can ..

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So what makes a city smart?

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What makes a city Smart? A non vendor driven definition of a „Smart City‟

The closer a city behaves to the ethos of the Internet, the smarter it is

That means, the city is a platform – an enabler for the people ..

So, empowering people is at the centre of the perfect storm


SMS, WAP, Voice MMS, V.s Facebook , iPhone, Android, Twitter

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Platform - light bulbs and transmission towards

Source- http://www.kulekat.com/led-home-lighting/installing-low-energy-light-bulbs.html

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http://www.kulekat.com/led-home-lighting/installing-low-energy-light-bulbs.html















Edge of the network innovation

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Edge of network innovation: Why no Wikipedia button on your Sky TV remote


Barriers dropped

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It is a mistake to think of the Internet merely as as faster broadband ..

Barriers opened? Messaging - location - payment - address book (social network)

Data: Amazon – apple – ebay

Countries and Cities? (smart city)

Open source hardware - Arduiono


The magic wand

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The phone becomes a magic wand to the cloud services: Mobile sensor based

interface to the cloud to jump start the Internet of things ..


Pachube

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http://community.pachube.com/node/611

There are now hundreds of radiation-related feeds from Japan on Pachube,

monitoring conditions in realtime and underpinning more than half a dozen

incredibly valuable applications built by people around the world. They combine

'official' data, 'unofficial' official data, and, most importantly to us, realtime

networked Geiger counter measurements contributed by concerned citizens.

Now we're even seeing some tracking radiation measurements of tap water.

http://community.pachube.com/node/611


Pachube

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Amsterdam Smart city

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The owners of Amsterdam Smart City are its inhabitants

Sustainable Living

Sustainable Working

Sustainable Mobility

Sustainable Public Space


Amsterdam smart city ..

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Project Description Lessons learnt

#01 Neighbourly Living in

Geuzenveld

Over five hundred Smart Meters

installed in the New West

district (Geuzenveld) and 60

connected in-home energy-

feedback displays give

customers insight into their

energy consumption. A user

participation programme

enables neighbours to interact

with one another by discussing

sustainability topics.

The most important lesson

learnt in terms of the

engagement of the residents in

the neighbourhood is that the

use of local influentials to create

awareness for the project and

to generate support is

necessary to succeed.

#02 West Orange

500 households in Amsterdam

are testing innovative energy

feedback displays which are

connected to a smart meter.

An important question which

keeps occurring is: what is the

best way of establishing an

effective collaboration between

nine partners that all

have their own objectives?



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#03 eManagement Haarlem

250 Households in Haarlem

were offered to test an energy

management system over a

four-month period to obtain

insight into the energy

consumption patterns of a

number of domestic appliances.

The participants‟ clicking

behaviour revealed that, on

average, they check

into their portals every 2.3 days.

#04 Onze Energie

Onze Energie (Our Energy) is

an initiative to collectively

finance seven windmills.

Collective financing is intended

to break the barrier of high

investment costs for consumers

wishing to generate their own

energy.

It takes time to explain the need

for sustainable energy properly.

Windmills apparently have a

negative perception, people

think it is expensive and

unprofitable.



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#06 ITO Tower

Collecting, analyzing and

visualizing energy consumption

will help to make the modern

and prestigious ITO Tower to be

even more energy

efficient.

The precondition for the

successful implementation of an

energy management system is

an engaged and properly trained

facility manager. A bit surprising

was the fact that the building

manager was rather

reluctant to the initiatives at the

beginning

#07 Monumental Buildings

Supporting monumental

buildings in Amsterdam inthe

process of becoming more

sustainable makes it possible to

learn more and analyze the

opportunities of this large target

group in Amsterdam.

The meaning of sustainability on

monuments is interpreted

differently by

stakeholders.



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#08 Decentral Generation:

Fuel Cell Technology

Introducing a 21st century

technology in a 17th century

monumental building will

reduce CO2 emissions by

50%. Using this innovative

local energygeneration

technology will enable the

building to provide in its own

electricity.

It took more than six months to

set up a suitable consortium

consisting of different partners

with a shared interest that

transcended their individual

interests. It transpired however

that the six-month period was

needed for the group to be able

to concretize the idea, the

partnership, the role division, and

potential follow-up steps.

#12 Moet je Watt

The New Motion develops

electrical charging points for

home and office use: their

partnership with grid manager

Liander will make it easy to

charge electrical car batteries.

once you start connecting people

with the aim to connect devices,

you‟ll immediately start to see

how devices can be further

improved.



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#11 Ship to grid

One hundred and ninetyfive ship

to grid electricity points are

being installed in the Amsterdam

harbour. The ship to grid system

will reduce CO2 emissions,

noise pollution and air pollution.

In the ship to grid project there

where many stakeholders

involved form the municipality

but also from several service

providers. Cooperation between

these different parties is

essential. Unfortunately the level

of commitment from all these

organisations differs. Therefore

it is recommended to organize a

project like this in a top down

manner.

#13 Klimaatstraat

The Klimaatstraat (Climate

street) is a holistic concept for

shopping streets with a focus on

a number of different aspects:

public space,

logistics and entrepreneurial

spaces.

Face to face communication

with the entrepreneurs is

essential in all the projects in

which the user of the technology

has a major influence on the

energy saving potential.



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#14 Smart Schools Contest

Six primary schools in

Amsterdam joined a contest to

determine who can save the

biggest amount of energy. During

the contest they are provided

with a specially developed

teaching programme and an

online energy portal. At the same

time, the children also learn

about energy and energy saving

in a playful way.

To ensure that the teaching

programme associated with the

competition can be effectively

incorporated into the syllabus, it

is important for the participating

schools to be recruited in the

year prior to the school year in

which the competition will take

place and not in the course of

the current school year.

#16 Swimming Pools

By linking up swimming pools in

the region with sustainable

initiatives, those public spaces

learn how to use energy in a

smarter way.

After a few months of introducing

Heatsavr to different swimming

pools we can say that there is

many interest in Heatsavr.

However, almost no pool is

prepared to participate until the

system has been approved by

the controlling organisations.


Autotelic personality and ant colonies

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Autotelic is defined by one "having a purpose in and not apart from itself". It is a broad

term that can be applied to missionaries, scientists, and innumerable other vocations.

Autotelic is used to describe people who are internally driven, and as such may exhibit

a sense of purpose and curiosity. This determination is an exclusive difference from

being externally driven, where things such as comfort, money, power, or fame are the

motivating force.


So what makes a city smart?

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What makes a city Smart? A non vendor driven definition of a „Smart City‟

The closer a city behaves to the ethos of the Internet, the smarter it is

That means, the city is a platform – an enabler for the people ..

So, empowering people is at the centre of the perfect storm


[email protected]

@AjitJaokar

Many thanks!

Working with some of the leading organizations and governments

globally to understand disruption across the value chain seeing both

sides of the discussion and understanding what if scenarios

(gedankenexperiments)

Personal PhD research (UCL) on white space/privacy/healthcare apps

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