Presentation to Smart Cities 2019 Conference, focusing on how smart city development models have changed over the past two decades, and what is needed to shift to a more positive story.

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What Kind
of Smart City Do
You Want to Build?
Dr. Sarah Barns
Director, Sitelines Media
@_sarahbarns

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Starting
journeys

3. We need to think about
building smart cities as
ultimately a process
or journey, rather than
a destination.

4. A Smart City is the:
Effective integration of physical,
digital and human systems in the
built environment to deliver a
sustainable, prosperous and
inclusive future for its citizens.
ISO PAS 180, 2014.

6. Smart city models
IoT Everywhere
IoT applications
Smart infrastructure
Data-driven
Telco + ICT
Platform Tech
‘The Uberisation of
everything’
Citizen/customer-focused
Applications oriented
Platform urbanism?
Designing platform
ecosystems:
users, citizens, providers
and government
Data governance
City OS
City as Operating System
IBM, .NET, Cisco

7. City OS
A new urban
architecture
built as an
operating
system”
‘Smart Cities 1.0’
c2008-2012

8. City OS
“We need… a city OS” – a single
platform managing power, water,
traffic, security and any other
urban system you can think of.
Living PlanIT –
Porto, Portugal,
Songo, South Korea
Microsoft .NET
Cisco
IBM

9. We shall solve the
City Problem by
eliminating the City”
Henry Ford
In order to solve the
problems of the world’s cities
“we must dematerialize the
city, translate it to code, make
perfect copies, and then scale
it to whatever size we need.”

10. Songdo International
Business Park
‘High-tech utopia’ of
Songdo in South Korea
Built from scratch and
designed around
technology
Struggled to bring in
big companies and
investors despite
hosting South Korea’s
tallest skyscraper.

11. Results?
Inability to scale
Costly experiments
Technology redundancy
Not ‘urban’ enough:
no fine grain
= Smart Cities
backlash!
“The vast majority of Smart
City initiatives to date are pilot
projects funded by research
and innovation grants. There
are very, very few sustainable,
repeatable solutions yet.”
Rick Robinson,
Arup, 2016

12. IoT
Everywhere
Connected
infrastructure
_Smart parking
_Smart lighting
_Smart bins
_Smart homes

13. IoT Everywhere
Over 20 billion IoT units by 2020
-Gartner
Responsive infrastructure is
creating new efficiencies in
urban management
Big data: data-lakes
and data-driven urban
planning

14. Local government adoption:
$50m Smart Cities and Suburbs
Connect the unconnected -­
break down silos across
culture, energy, environment,
health, social care, transport
and travel
Air quality monitoring
Urban heat monitoring
Waste monitoring
Activity monitoring

15. City Verve Manchester
IoT demonstrator
20+ organisations: Cisco,
BT, City of Manchester,
Manchester University, SMEs
Experienced limitations:
travel data easy, health
data difficult to access
Lack of commercial
scalable outcomes

16. Improved efficiencies
More responsive
infrastructure
Data everywhere
but wrapped up in
commercial business
models
Who benefits?
Results?

17. The problem of the smart city has been
that when you start with technology
without a strong idea of why you are
deploying the technology and for what
kind of needs, then you only end up
solving technology problems.
Francesca Bria,
City of Barcelona

18. Platform
Urbanism
City as
a Platform
_The ‘Uberisation of
everything’ / Share
economy
_Customer data
driving innovation &
on-demand services
_User-centred

19. Sidewalk Labs
‘Re-imagining cities from
the internet up’
Use data-smarts to accelerate
urban innovation around
major urban challenges
First test bed:
Toronto Quayside

20. Sidewalk Labs / Intersection

21. New Deal on City Data: Barcelona, Amesterdam
Data as public
infrastructure
- not only Google,
Uber, Amazon’s
data
Open data
City data published
anonymously for
others to use - eg not
only Vodaphone
Social good
outcomes:
smart cities as
inclusive cities
Local industries,
startups, cooperatives,
and the citizens
themselves create data-
driven added value,
applications
New rules
Technology companies required
by Barcelona to give back data
being generated within their
cities
Fair Bnb:
Company gives back a
proportion of revenue
to cities

22. Customer focused
innovations
Public backlash over
data governance
#blockSidewalk
Data rights moving
centre stage
Fast moving
innovation
Results?

23. Dr. Sarah Barns
Director, Sitelines Media
@_sarahbarns
What kind of
smart city will you
set out to create?