Birgit de Boissezon, Head of Unit, European Commission, DG Research & Innovation
Societal Challenges: A Systemic View on Sustainable Smart Cities
The EU R&I policy is oriented to promote the development and the markets for nature-based solutions to societal challenges. Nature-based solutions are solutions inspired or supported by nature that simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits and help building resilience. They are also solutions that bring more nature and natural features and processes into cities, landscapes and seascapes, through locally adapted, resource-efficient and systemic interventions. Finally, they are cost-effective response to today's major societal challenges, including climate change. This presentation will discuss how nature based solutions can be combined with Smart City solutions in a systemic view on Sustainable Smart Cities.
Rick Merritt, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, EETimes
Networking Smart Cities: A Guide to the New Digital Urban Warfare
I will review the pros and cons of a handful of emerging competitors in the area of low-power, wide-area networks for the Internet of Things. I will also review IoT plans of cellular and Wi-Fi proponents that are their chief competitors. Finally I will outline the challenges and opportunities such alternatives present for smart cities.
Session 1: Technology Components for IoT Networks
Enrico Scarrone, Vice Chair SC oneM2M, ETSI
Standards enabling the IoT service layer: ETSI and oneM2M standards for the IoT services layer
In September 2012 ETSI M2M entered into the oneM2M Partnership Project with other standardisation bodies: Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB), Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC) of Japan, Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) of the USA, China Communications Standards Association (CCSA), and Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) of Korea. The oneM2M initiative thus provides the foundation for Smart City applications developers with a worldwide internet based application development platform. This presentation deals with ETSI and oneM2M standards for the IoT services layer dealing with aspects of Data storage, Data sharing, Access rights, Subscription and notification as well as Discovery Device management.
Roberto Gavazzi, Program Manager, Telecom Italia
ALMANAC Capillary Network Gateway Technologies
The presentation will include a definition of capillary networks and why they are a needed Enabler for the Smart City. Then the capillary network architecture description will be provided highlighting especially external interfaces and how the capillary network can be integrated into traditional Telco networks and into cloud platforms like the Almanac Smart City Platform. Finally, a description of real deployments issues to be faced is provided. The issues and the solutions are taken from the ALMANAC experience and from real commercial experiences of Telecom Italia.
Peter Rosengren, CEO, CNet Svenska AB
Federated and Scalable Data Management in the ALMANAC Clouds
It is foreseen that sensors and devices will generate a massive amount of data in smart city applications. For this data to be useful it needs to be integrated and used in already existing information systems in the city. Almanac brings together a set of distributed, heterogenous networks and information systems from different actors in a smart city and provides a federated overlay allowing close cooperation and data exchange in a trusted environment. The collected data from sensors and devices is mapped to the existing business systems and data models and can be shared among the members of the federation. A high level cloud-based API exposes Smart City objects to service and app developers allowing them to focus on their application’s task and not where data is stored and how to access it.
Joachim Schonowski, Senior Project Manager T-Labs, Deutsche Telecom AG
reTHINK: A new Communication Infrastructure Supporting Smart Cities
The ongoing Internet (r)evolution has changed traditional business and forces it to reinvent itself. Traditional operator-enabled communication services are losing on their importance due to a variety of new communication services, like chat and social networks.
Technical progress has minimized the need for access-controlled communication services and is moving instead to context based communication, which is presumably available at only marginal or no additional cost.
The main goal of the reTHINK project is to design and prototype a new, non telecom centric, but Web-centric P2P Service Architecture enabling dynamic trusted relationships among distributed applications called Hyperlinked Entities (“Hyperties”) that support use-cases beyond commoditized telephony such as contextual and social communications, M2M/IoT and content oriented services. This project will enable any type of service delivery through specialized end-to-end network quality commitments, powered by specialized P2P and/or Cloud services (delivered as SaaS, PaaS or IaaS).
In addition to the underlying concept, the presentation will provide some insights on the current work in terms of technology, user scenario and a link to the ALMANAC project especially with respect to IoT developments, services and business models.
Session 2: Network Topologies and Management Plane Requirements for Smart City Infrastructures
Lars Dittmann, Professor PhD, DTU
The network behind the Internet-of-Things
Transforming the current internet into the Internet of things is not only a matter of introducing autonomous units with a different traffic profile. The internet will need a transformation from being an entertainment platform into an important (maybe the most important) society infrastructure on which a large number of critical application will depend, being in healthcare, climate control, environmental security etc. The internet of thing is from an ICT perspective not only about new access technologies that are more energy efficient, secure and reliable. The Internet will have to change from a communication infrastructure with services attached to an infrastructure with integrated services. This will be needed to support low latency in data availability and local processing. The storage and processing power of network elements will become an integrated part of the service provisioning.
Christian Kloch, Technology Manager, TDC
Mobile access architecture at TDC A/S
TDC has one of the best mobile networks in the world providing a solid platform for new services based on a mobile platform including realisation of Internet of Things.
In his presentation, Christian will present what TDC has achieved in the recent upgrade of RAN infrastructure, a RAN infrastructure that allows for both bandwidth limited service and data heavy services.
Steffen Ring, CEO, Ring Advocacy
M2M spectrum opportunities in the 700 MHz range. The ITU World Radio Conference 2015 sets the stage
M2M applications may in principle be deployed in many frequency bands. However the success of any market depending on the availability of radio frequency spectrum is hinging on the access to frequency bands that are accessible, technical feasible and as much as possible are worldwide harmonized or on the way hereto.
The ITU-R World Radio communications Conference 2015 (WRC15) is currently inviting the world’s 193 countries in the world’s three Regions to submit their response to new and changed usage to radio frequencies in accordance with the ITU-R Radio Regulations. This call is taking place every 4 years and this time the M2M is covered under the proposals of WRC15 agenda item 1.2 in the 700 MHz band.
This is extremely interesting for the M2M communications industry, as it will be part of the discussions inside the influential mobile industry where this band is also identified regionally for M2M and other sectoral applications. M2M stakeholders need to be there to push the views of the sector.
The mass market success of M2M depends of the overall implementation of low cost chip sets, which operates spectrally close to mass market applications, such as LTE700 mobile broad band systems world wide.
Session 3: Business Aspects of Smart City Infrastructures
Nils-Henrik Faber, Engagement Manager, Ericsson
Business opportunities in Network Technologies
The Digital Transformation is happening everywhere – changing century old industries and creating new opportunities. No vertical is left untouched. Currently most of the solutions being created are centred about the core business of the industry, energy providers distribute “smart” meters that measures just what is needed in their business and automotive solutions measure the position, mileage and little more. However in a world of Smart Cities there is a need to become intelligent about data. The movement of cars and trucks can help traffic congestion and city planning and real smart meters further add to the understanding of people migration within the city – if we can find ways to make sense out of the data.
So where are the opportunities for telecom operators? Naturally in improving network architecture to better support the multitude of sensors that will be deployed in roads, building, structures etc. And, as most operators already provide ICT services, with data infrastructure that enables the sharing of data between these sensors allowing new players access to create solutions that we have not thought about yet.
This seminar will touch upon some of the building blocks telecom operators can provide that can help lower the threshold for creating new services – and at the same time making money.
Adam Armer, Innovation Manager, Vodafone, UK
Building Digital Societies at Vodafone
The concept of a digital society centres on the interaction between governments, businesses and citizens via digital technologies, accompanied by social and economic benefits around efficiency and productivity gains, as well as the improved well-being and living standards of citizens. M2M solutions enable businesses to develop new services and revenue streams, operate more efficiently and increase customer satisfaction. M2M also helps you address increasingly stringent compliance and sustainability requirements.
Peter Lange, Executive IT Architect, IBM
From the Modern City to the Smarter City - from Optimization to Innovation and Transformation of Service Delivery
M2M technologies are quickly being adopted across domains like utility, traffic, waste management and healthcare. This enables an optimization of these individual domains. But the data gathered may represent a value for other domains which makes data exchanges and systems of systems the enabler of new innovative approaches for cities and their businesses to transform their service delivery.
In this presentation we will look at ways to increase the situational awareness by use of systems of systems that are available today. We will also look at how this situational awareness can be a first step to transforming the handling of e.g. extreme weather into a more holistic and intelligent approach.
Session 4: Massively Deployed Smart City Applications – Views from Users
Paul Wilson, Managing Director, Bristol Is Open
Building the World's First Open Programmable City
How cities work is changing. Developments in software, hardware and telecom networks are enabling more interaction between people and places and more machine-to-machine communication, creating an internet of things. Opening-up and making sense of this will give citizens more ability to interact, work and play with their city. Smart city technologies will be able to respond in real-time to everyday events including congestion, waste management, entertainment events, e-democracy, energy supply and more. Together we will create an open programmable city region.
Mia Nyegaard, Member of CPH Municipal Council
How smart is it to live in a Smart City? – Insightful Perspectives on Data Privacy
Mia’s vision for Copenhagen is an innovative city that offers plenty of experiences and pursues an agenda of growth. The city grows rapidly and Copenhagen has to embrace visionary urban development, sustainable social welfare and innovative green solutions in everything from urban life to buildings, urban spaces and traffic.
I trust that all people have good things to contribute. They must come into play. But at the same time we must create solutions that take proper care of those who really need help.
Consequently, we must put the people of Copenhagen free to create the life they want and make sure that Smart City solutions not only drive urban development, but that we, at all times, protect our citizens’ integrity and privacy. As a politician in Copenhagen, it is my responsibility to seek dialogue and define the overall framework of our shared city.
The ALMANAC project is co-funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 609081, objective ICT-2013.1.4 'A reliable, smart and secure Internet of Things for Smart Cities'. Duration: 1st September 2013 to 31st August 2016.
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