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ISDC 2013 – ing. Giacomo Fioroni, Municipality of Trento

Ing. Giacomo Fioroni

IT Project Manager Information Systems - Comune di [email protected]

Intelligent Services for Digital Cities 2013 - Trento's perspective about "Smart City" - ing. Giacomo Fioroni 2

Let me briefly introduce myself

» I am a computer engineer

» I works for more than 10 years as IT Project Manager for Comune di Trento, following major innovation projects of the administration

» Consultant and trainer for Consorzio dei Comuni Trentini and various local Public Administrations on:

» "privacy and information security"

» "e-learning"

» "e-government and digital administration"

» “smart cities”

» "document workflow and conservation documentary".

Tip: If you need to ask a few questions I would ask you to wait until the end of the presentation, when there will be a specific time for questions and answers


Something about “City of Trento”

» Role: Capital of Trentino

» People residing: 116.000 (2012)

» Area: 16.000 hectares (of which 78.3% agroforestry and more than half woods)

» Quality of life: Very high

As Smart City:

» 3rd of all in Italiy (ForumPA 2012)

» 1st in Italy e 45th in Europe among the medium-sized cities (University of Vienna 2007)


What does “smart/digital city” mean?


Trying to define “Smart city”


Smart City is A developed urban area that creates sustainable economic development

and high quality of life by excelling in multiple key areas


Smart City is... (2)

Excelling in these key areas can be done

so through strong

human capital - social capital - ICT infrastructure


About “ICT infrastracture”: 3 layers » The technologies transform cities in a living organism

made up of several layers connected among them.

Layer of processing and storage

Layer in contact with territory and citizens

Layer to communicate


About ICT infrastracture – 3 layers(1)

» The first layer is in contact with territory and its

citizens

» It's made up of frameworks that receive and send data:

» sensors, » cameras, » smartphones and mobile devices.

» Represents a new and revolutionary condition that, for the first time in mankind history, enables high levels of:

» participation » (and, at the same time, of) control of activities


About ICT infrastracture – 3 layers(2)

» The second layer is to communicate

» It's a network made up of

» cables » (and) waves

that allows data circulation.

» Unfortunately Italy has a large delay. (We need to apply all the actions that the Digital Agenda foresees – but this is a politics argument...)

» Otherwise Trentino (our territory) is a very good laboratory with the presence of an excellent network, (both wired and wireless)


About “ICT infrastracture”: 3 layers(3)

» The third is the layer of processing and storage

» This layer enables a real time government condition, thanks also to the extraordinary resources that are available today in cloud computing.

» About this level it’s necessary to specify:

» the vertical applications, useful for particular services:» Tele-surveillance » Traffic» Environmental monitoring etc....

» the necessary platforms of integration and control that allow to manage the whole system


Trying to define “Digital City”


Digital City consists in ...

» smart people

connected through

» smart services enabled by

» smart technology


Talking about “Smart people” » Smart People refer to:

» the concepts of:» Ownership and changing of lifestyles

» and to the involvement of » Citizens in the management of the city.

» Things and activities

» that were previously made by the public administration» are now being taken over by citizens

» who are activated by the network for the public good.


Talking about “Smart Technology”

are part of

the necessary technological landscape

which enable local communities

to achieve

a better quality of life

Open data Open city services

Intelligent infrastructures

Accessible communication and computation resources


Talking about “Smart Services”

» Smart services are services that enhance the quality of life of the citizens in the key areas:


Talking about “Smart Services” (2)

Smart Services must ensure the city to excel in the 6 key areas, providing good peformance in :

» Competitiveness

» Social & Human Capital

» Partecipation

» Transport and ICT

» Natural resources

» Quality of life


Talking about “Smart Services” (3)

With the aim to know the most common smart

services developed, it's possible to use a specific

and interesting measure index based on more than

100 indicators.

It occurs precisely the presence in the city of:

» “smart” services” (on web and tablets/smartphones):

» from infomobility to eHealth, » from digital school to eGovernment» from on-line university to digital justice

» enabling “infrastructural” conditions » fixed & mobile broadband and ultrabroadband

network,» electronic payments, » digital identity, » open data, etc.

» innovation wihin sustainable development » from energy consumption to the intelligent use of

natural resources


Smart/Digital city needs Smart Services


How to develop smart services? Our strategy is: Making team


Speaking about “Smart Services” (4)


Some of our examples: COsmOs

To receive useful information via SMS about:

» Public transport,

» Public services,

» Public health (pharmacies, doctors and pediatricians)

» Events

» …


Some of our examples: OpenPA

Open website for P.A.


Some of our examples: SensoRcivico

Social partecipation for citizen sensing

reports and complaints of citizens about outages or malfunctions and suggestions


Some of our examples: Town in your pocket» App mobile

» Tourist Information

This application is designed specifically for tourists.It provides information on

➢ information on the area ➢ historical information, ➢ Interesting paths➢ points of interest➢ local events


Some of our examples: Living Trento

» App mobile » Informations to

move around & discover Trento!

The app will help you to plan your trips in Trento and always keep up to date about the events around you.

You will be able to:● consult local bus and train timetables, ● send and receive notices about delays and traffic jams, ● save and monitor your recurrent journeys, ● look for current and future events ● and get information about how to get there and more.


Some of our examples: In Smart Mobilty & Smart Environment

Sustainable mobilityEnergy efficiencyRenewable energyNatural resources


Some of our examples: in Smart Government

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More and more Smart: Our Directionin the comfortable Top–Down Approach

» More online service

» P.A. more digital

» Integration among all the services already delivered


More and more Smart: Looking for a new and innovative Approach

Smart City is not only technology!

» Is also:» Relationships» Participation » Collaboration » Sharing


More and more Smart: The new “Collaboration & Sharing” Approach

These elements can bring to innovative and stimulating

approaches.


“Collaboration & Sharing” Approach

» Crowdsourcing: a revolution for public notices that enable unknown populations to participate actively to decisions;

» Citizen sensing: a process that transforms citizens in sensors for sensible cities;

» Co-design methods: that allow citizens to take part to the planning of urban spaces and services;

» Gamification: a process that allows to use the videogames methods to reproduce and simulate the functions of cities and support decisional processes;

» Co-working: a process that is nearer to workers needs.


“Collaboration & Sharing” Approach

These new forms of collaboration and sharing – of risks, resources and financings – let emerge an important factor:

» the third sector (citizens, universities, all of you, etc...) becomes an important player for Smart City process.

In order to improve governance and cities performances, Mayors and local authorities:

» have to change their approach

» (and) have to work following the networks logics with a support from technologies.

Even in this case, thanks to the use of modern technology and the possibilities offered by networks, citizens can do better than local administrations if they are missing.

In South America, for example, volunteers paint cycle lanes and crosswalks that urban planners have forgot.


Finally... Some ideas & tips for you


Finally: Some ideas for your servicesYou can use resoruces as local Open Data using:

» Our local (provincial) Opendata website:» http://dati.trentino.it/

» The web site of Trento (specifically for geographic data as house numbers, streets )

» http://www.comune.trento.it/Comune/Organizzazione-comunale/Amministrazione-trasparente/Altri-contenuti/Open-data/Tutti-gli-open-data

» A new service (Opendata from the website) in rest format (experimental):

» http://trento.opencontent.it/api/opendata/v1/content/class/CLASSNAME

» Where for CLASSNAME you can use:» event; ristorante (restaurant); sala_pubblica (public hall);

servizio_sul_territorio (P.O.I.); farmacia (pharmacy); cimitero (cemetery); associazione (association)

http://dati.trentino.it/

http://www.comune.trento.it/Comune/Organizzazione-comunale/Amministrazione-trasparente/Altri-contenuti/Open-data/Tutti-gli-open-data

http://www.comune.trento.it/Comune/Organizzazione-comunale/Amministrazione-trasparente/Altri-contenuti/Open-data/Tutti-gli-open-data

http://trento.opencontent.it/api/opendata/v1/content/class/CLASSNAME


Ather suggestions and tips: Try to....

Use and Integrate what is already ready(do not reinvent the wheel)

Ask for if you can't find (maybe already exist)

Collaborate with the others (this helps so much)

Share what you develop(this will exponentially grow your result)


Ing. Giacomo Fioroni

IT Project Manager Information Systems - Comune di [email protected]