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City of Things

April 2017

Dirk Hamelinck

imec

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Antwerp

without

traffic

police?

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Tomorrowland @ Boom , Flanders

Scalable communication for 80 000 braceletsContinuous stream of data, latency optimized

WiFi broadband hotspot of 100+ access pointsAdaptive protocols that cope with the interference

massiveinterference

80 000s m a r t p h o n e s

1000wireless routers

80 000festival bracelets

?

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City of Antwerp

? test lab for imec ?

SMART CITIES & IMEC

How can a research organisation best contribute to make our cities smarter ?

by using the right combination of knowledge and technology

by addressing challenges (economical, societal, governmental)

starting from the quadruple helix

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City of Things

• IoT reference living lab and

technology lab in Europe

• for international and local stakeholders

• to create, test and validate IoT services,

applications and technologies

• in a large scale, real life and real time

smart city environment

Companies

Research

Public sector

Citizens

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SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES & SYSTEMS

CORE CMOS

SENSOR TECHNOLOGY

FLEXIBLE TECHNOLOGY

NETWORKING

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS

SMART HEALTH

SMART MOBILITY SMART CITIES SMART INDUSTRIES SMART ENERGY

DIGITAL PRIVACY & SECURITY

DATA SCIENCEAI

SMART CITIES

SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES & SYSTEMS

CORE CMOS

SENSOR TECHNOLOGY

FLEXIBLE TECHNOLOGY

NETWORKING

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS

DIGITAL PRIVACY & SECURITY

DATA SCIENCEAI

PASSERBYSCANNERS

BEHAVIOUR CHANGE

AIR AND WATER

QUALITY

DIGITAL SIGNAGE

PRIVACY IMPACT

ASSESSMENTOPEN DATA …imec smart city enablers

imec smart city enablers

SMART CITIES

SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES & SYSTEMS

CORE CMOS

SENSOR TECHNOLOGY

FLEXIBLE TECHNOLOGY

NETWORKING

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS

DIGITAL PRIVACY & SECURITY

DATA SCIENCEAI

PASSERBYSCANNERS

BEHAVIOUR CHANGE

AIR AND WATER

QUALITY

DIGITAL SIGNAGE

PRIVACY OPEN DATA …

imec smart city enablers

• Reusable assets

• Best in class

• Combination of assets of imec and industry

• Linking challenges with technology and knowledge

• Technology agnostic

WHAT YOU CAN DO IN CITY OF THINGS?

Co-create new IoT products and services with users & stakeholders

Quickly deploy & test IoT technologies & applications

Leverage imec’s expertise and digital innovation & research eco-system

Gateway to EU market to test & optimize user adoption, business potential & technology interoperability

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IMPROVE DIGITAL INNOVATIONS BY ACTIVELY INVOLVING USERS &

STAKEHOLDERSTHROUGH CO-CREATION & REAL-LIFE INTERVENTION

ITERATIONS OF

DESIGN CYCLES

OUTSIDE OF

CONTROLLED

LAB

MULTI-

STAKEHOLDER

EMPOWERING

USERS TO IMPACT

THE INNOVATION

PROCESS

CITY OF THINGS IS A LIVING LAB… BUT WHAT IS A LIVING LAB?

IDEA CONCEPT PoC PROTOTYPE PRODUCTTRENDS &

TECHNOLOGYBUSINESS

EXPLORATIONEXPLORING OPPORTUNITIES

EXPERIMENTATIONTESTING SCENARIOS

LIVING LAB SERVICE OFFERING

CUSTOMER

INSIGHT &

COCREATED

CONCEPT

VALIDATED

GO2M &

ROADMAP

GROWTHPRODUCT REDESIGNNEW BUSINESS

PROTOTYPES

LAYERS

🎚 Hardware

📡Network

📊Data processing and analytics

👥 Users, applications & business

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Smart Flanders

PUBLIC SECTORRESEARCH AND INNOVATION

BASISPRINCIPES SMART FLANDERS

• 13 Vlaamse centrumsteden + Brussel

• Vuurtorenmodel voor kleinere steden

• Ondersteuningsprogramma, communicatiekanaal, kennis- en interactieplatform

• Implementatie-gedreven

• Internationaal genetwerkt

• Focus op real-time open data en gedeelde referentiemodellen

• Samenwerking tussen steden en actoren uit de quadruple helix

2. SMART FLANDERS DATA PILOTS: REALITY CHECK

Implementatiegedreven aanpak houdt in dat:

- elke stad per jaar minstens 1 real-time dataset opent

- per jaar 1 à 2 gezamenlijke data-pilots opgezet worden onder de vorm van use cases

en samen met partners uit de quadruple helix

Starten vanuit thema’s en uitdagingen die leven in de deelnemende steden

Identificatie, roadmapping en matchmaking met ondersteuning van Smart Flanders

CITY OF THINGS

USE CASES

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Proactive Flooding

Detection

• Together with Antwerp Fire department

• More frequent flash floods because of

climated change

Challenges:

• 24/7 detection

• Learning patterns: prediction

• Combining sensor data with cloud data

as e.g. detailed weather reports

• Reports to professionals but also to

impacted house owners

• Suggesting appropriate measure to

house owners and emergency response

teams

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Mobility (as a service)

• Data collection

• Multimodal

• Cross governance

• Data analytics

• Heterogeneous sources

• Behaviour change

• Personalised info

• Incentives

• Initial focus

• Flow tracking

• Pedestrians, cyclists, cars,

public transport

• Smart crossroads

• Traffic lights

• Other digital signage

• Detailed tracking/monitoring

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Smart Highway

• Need for (complex) testbeds for

connected and autonomous driving

• Telco and automotive industry

together

• Integrated in European network of

similar testbeds

• European funding (CEF) requested

• Infrastructure in vehicles, in the roads,

roadside networks, legal aspects, user

research...

• Strong support of Flemish government

(innovation, mobility)

• Selected testbed in Flanders:

• E313, with connection to Antwerp

ringway

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“Citizens with Things”

• Open call inspired by Helsinki

• The Smart Kalasatama Programme

for Agile Piloting accelerates Smart

City innovation by procuring

prototypes to real city

environments to be co-created

with citizens.

• Between 2016–2017, Smart

Kalasatama is buying 15–20 small

pilots (1.000–8.000 euros) which

bring innovative services to the use

of citizens.

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City app

• Citizen engagement is crucial for smart

cities

• Mayor of Antwerp wants to demonstrate

interactivity with an app that has at least

feedback functionality

• Not necessarily IoT integration in

version 1

• His administration will handle the

incoming data

• Big data analysis by researchers

also possible

Creative industries

Food & Health

Energy + Industry 4.0

MOBILITY

of

GOODS

MOBILITY

of

PEOPLE

MOBILITY

of

RESOURCES

SMART REGIONS

H2020 ICT14b - iXplore project proposal – submission date April25th 2017

iXploreFederated Big-Data Experimenting Hub for the Northern sea region

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Living Lab

+ Incubation

services

VC

VC

investment support

Crowdfunding

platform

VC

industry

industryindustry

industryindustry

industrydata-sets

Cluster

organizations

Cluster

organizations

experiment

HUB-X

experiment

HUB-2

experiment

HUB-Y

experiment

HUB-1

H2020 ICT14b - iXplore project proposal – submission date April25th 2017

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Citizen Bike

• Large scale (1.000 sensors/bikes)

monitoring of different aspects of bike

use in the city

• Air quality (some bikes)

• Road quality (all bikes)

• Trajectory monitoring (all bikes)

• Citizen engagement with City of Things

• Crucial to get “co-ownership” of

Antwerp citizens

• Smart cities should not be just top

down, but also heavily bottom up

• Bootstrapping with 20 bikes

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AIR QUALITY MONITORING

Bpost scaling

• Existing CoT project with two bpost

vans to measure air quality

• Upgrading to 20 vans at low cost

• Mainly demonstrator purposes and air

quality sensor assessment en

benchmarking

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Remote energy

monitoring and balancing

• Real-time adaptation of peak residential

energy demand to available supply

• Using IoT smart plugs

• Test with houses in Antwerp

• Challenges:

• Network reliability and lifetime (in

cellars, metal rich environments

etc)

• Acceptable scenarios for demand

response on residential scale

• Reduction of costs for energy

supplier

• Guarantueed QoS for user

• Reduced pollution

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Last mile logistics

• Harbor Antwerp & roads afterwards

• Container and palet loading from harbor

onto individual trucks

• Challenges:

• Accuracy of location in harbor

• Heterogeneous networks

• Follow end-to-end

• Low cost & robust sensor

• Optimization of logistics

• JIT delivery

• Following health status of the

goods

• Detecting theft

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Health monitoring

• Longitudinal health monitoring of a large

cohort of ‘average’ citizens

• Personal data (from health wearables,

from personal health records) matching

with contextual/environmental data

• Extremely privacy sensitive data

• But highly relevant

• Research and development platform for

large scale (contextual) health

monitoring

• For public and private research

purposes

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Sportpaleis

• Multipurpose Arena in Antwerp

• concerts, sporting events,

festivals and fairs

• 23.000 person capacity

• Near Antwerp Ringway

• Near Metrostation

• Adjacent smaller venue of 8.000 persons

(”Lotto Arena”)

• Challenges:

• Mobility (cars, public transport)

• Spectator experience (sound level,

air quality, crowd density, catering

services,…)

• Security (in case of emergencies:

in-house and in the larger area)

• Door-to-door integrated user

experience and e-commerce

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Sportpaleis

• Full scale monitoring of events

• Typically from 5pm until 1am

• Mobility to/from the event site

• Monitoring walking, biking, driving,

and public transport

• People flows inside the two venues

• For commercial reasons and safety

reasons

• Sound levels and air quality

• Levels of stress (with selected users,

using wearables)

• User (quality of) experience

• Longitudinal measuring

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Digital Signage

• Touch screen citizen interaction in bus

shelters (actuators)

• Dissemination of CoT results

• Gamification

• Public messaging

• Visible smart city interface (beside the

’usual’ smartphone)

• Integration of different sensors (people

density, weather,…) in bus shelter

• Not limited to bus shelters

• Also including e-ink/touch solutions

• Platform for user interaction and

publication of different use cases

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