You are continually striving to deliver the best in class portfolio of services to your residents, workers, tourists and visitors who visit or travel through your city every day. You know that “Smart” technology will improve your city services.  You have heard about the Internet of Things (#IoT) and even tested various technologies that are now available.

There are many Smart City IoT Solutions in your city that need your attention today:

  • Utilities: Metering, Lighting, Waste, Energy
  • Building: Lighting, Climate
  • Transportation: Parking, Pollution, Fluidification
  • Governance: parking, taxes, administration
  • Healthcare Solutions

These technologies are new and outside your comfort zone.  So, which technologies to choose?  Which will demonstrate, not only immediate value, but which are also future ready and deliver a return on tax dollars for your citizens? It becomes a real headache and you are now at a full stop.

The need to act is undeniable – it is expected that 68% of the world population will live in urban areas by 2050.  1000s of small cities are going to grow, and grow quickly.

The residents of your city expect to see economic growth and improved quality of life.

Today’s smart city solutions are designed to encompass the growing importance of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the role they play in successful Smart City projects.  Smart City solutions need to be built on IoT/M2M technologies that are suited to your city environment and existing solutions, whilst remaining future ready for the coming growth.

Smart Utilities

Utilities and smart energy are often synonymous with smart metering.  But they also address electric vehicle charging and solar power generation, management and monitoring.  Many successful projects have trialed smart waste and tracking.  Smart street lighting has also been successful.

Smart Building

Improved efficiency and comfort are important benefits of the smart building.  Smart Lighting leads to reductions in energy consumption and CO2 emissions.  But Smart Buildings can also give valuable, and previously unavailable, feedback to building designers to help them understand what works and how to improve.  New services and enhanced existing services are delivered by Smart Buildings to their occupants, washrooms and meeting rooms are services after a certain amount of use.  HVAC systems can adapt to real usage.

Smart Transportation

A city way smart transportation system removes silos and brings together many aspects of the smart city, such as traffic flow, pollution, fares and fees.  It is important to be able to track public transport and manage the fleet, and the growing number of sharing and pooling transportation solutions.

Smart Governance

The removal of manual paper services from the routine administration for citizens is an important step in improving the service delivered.  Simplifying payment of subscriptions, parking, taxes etc are also key.  Integrating payment, for example energy, transport or parking into the smart city solution give an improved return on investment.

Smart Healthcare

Key to smart healthcare, is deploying solutions with the appropriate authorizations.  Once identified, solutions are focused around the monitoring of different vital signs of the patient, or loved one, and transmit all medical data, in real time if required, to the remote destination.  This may be a parent, carer, medical practitioner or monitoring service.

The system is built using three components:

  • The Monitoring Sensor – A connected watch, or larger touch-screen portable device that monitors the vital signs, motion and position.
  • Data Collation – Often a cloud-based application where the sensor data is collected and stored securely
  • Response Center – This maybe a simple email, text alert-based system for an individual, or a medical service delivering the requirement assistance.

Delivering a Successful Smart City

Traditionally Projects start with a Proof of Concept (PoC). Taking a subset of technologies and Vertically focused applications and verifying they are fit for purpose. The PoC ends with a validation that the chosen radio technology and the associated sensors work according to the spec.  This does not explain how ICT in the smart city brings value.  

To get past the PoC we must answer the question “given this technology works, what is the value of the services it can deliver, and how do we measure that?” Demonstrating value is challenging, in this new connected work, how do you measure faster, easier, simplified, automation?  This is where the Proof of Value (PoV) delivers. What is Proof of value? It is based on selecting services that need to be delivered in the city and working with technology suppliers to deliver a viable solution to deliver that service. Together your city, your partners and the supplier build a solution demonstrating, successfully, the value and feasibility of the solution in your specific environment. Under our guidance.  We will help you take the successful PoV through to production and rollout.

I deliver Smart City transformation project management, accompanying you through the initial phases, the selection, the prototyping, the RFP and contract award, the education and training of stakeholders, the delivery of the production systems and acceptance.

The first step would be :

Smart City Ideation

I will assist you through all steps of the project.  Understanding the requirement, the opportunity and constraints of the project will be identified during the “Smart City ideation” process where all parties will be able to expose their ideas.  We will drive the process to identify:

  • The challenges and their priority
  • The citizens view
  • Stakeholders and their roles
  • Potential solutions
  • Overall view including priorities, solutions and education and delivery

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