Session: Smart Cities
From Idea to Smart City
Piet Demeester
From Idea to Smart city
start
• Idea (start with an interdisciplinary team and get end user involved)
• Concept
paper
• Algorithm
• Architecture
experiment
• Prototype implementation
• Prototype testing on experimental facility
PoC
• Make “friendly user” proof of concept
• Proof of concept in real environment
Living Lab
• Provide stable version and support
• Test in living lab
Smart City
• Commercial implementation
• Professional roll-out
bring allthe stakeholders
together in the the different phases
IBBT: FromIdea to Living Lab
Concept idea
• demand driven & multidisciplinary research (technological, user, social, economical, legal…)
Lab PoC
• iLab.o user research
• iLab.u user centered design
• mock-ups
• proxy technology assessment
Lab PoC
• iLab.t @ IBBT
• technical design
• demonstration of technical feasibility
Internal field test
• iLab.t infrastructure
• Internal testers (related to project partners)
External field test
• iLab.t infrastructure
• iLab.o / u : user research
• External testers
• real end users
• limited number (5-15)
Living lab
• iLab.o
• Prototype HW & SW
• Large number of end users
Stakeholders
• Interdisciplinary researchers (technology, sociology, law, economics, …)
• Companies (manufacturers, service providers, …)
• Municipalities and governments
• End-users and their environment (family, care-takers, …)
A specific case: TV Kiosk
Case: Home for the Elderly “De Vijvers”
Important:
• Social Inclusion (other residents, family, friends)• get information (photo’s, latest
news, …)
• play together (very simple games)
• Personal Safety (is there somebody to help me ?)
Concept idea
•demand driven & multidisciplinary research (technological, user, social, economical, legal…)
Lab PoC
•iLab.o user research
•User-centered design
•mock-ups
•proxy technology assessment
Lab PoC
•iLab.t @ IBBT
•technical design
•demonstration of technical feasibility
Internal field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•Internal testers (related to project partners)
External field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•iLab.o user research
•External testers
•real end users
•limited number (5-15)
Living lab
•iLab.o
•Prototype HW & SW
•Large number of end users
Concept: TV Kiosk
Concept idea
•demand driven & multidisciplinary research (technological, user, social, economical, legal…)
Lab PoC
•iLab.o user research
•User-centered design
•mock-ups
•proxy technology assessment
Lab PoC
•iLab.t @ IBBT
•technical design
•demonstration of technical feasibility
Internal field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•Internal testers (related to project partners)
External field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•iLab.o user research
•External testers
•real end users
•limited number (5-15)
Living lab
•iLab.o
•Prototype HW & SW
•Large number of end users
Proof of Concept: Paper
Concept idea
•demand driven & multidisciplinary research (technological, user, social, economical, legal…)
Lab PoC
•iLab.o user research
•User-centered design
•mock-ups
•proxy technology assessment
Lab PoC
•iLab.t @ IBBT
•technical design
•demonstration of technical feasibility
Internal field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•Internal testers (related to project partners)
External field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•iLab.o user research
•External testers
•real end users
•limited number (5-15)
Living lab
•iLab.o
•Prototype HW & SW
•Large number of end users
User-centered design – Mock-ups
Proof of Concept: Design
Concept idea
•demand driven & multidisciplinary research (technological, user, social, economical, legal…)
Lab PoC
•iLab.o user research
•User-centered design
•mock-ups
•proxy technology assessment
Lab PoC
•iLab.t @ IBBT
•technical design
•demonstration of technical feasibility
Internal field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•Internal testers (related to project partners)
External field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•iLab.o user research
•External testers
•real end users
•limited number (5-15)
Living lab
•iLab.o
•Prototype HW & SW
•Large number of end users
INTERNET
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Logical links (tunnels)
Resources
Applications
Technical design – The VPAN concept
Virtual Private Ad-Hoc Network = A secure and self-
organizing virtual overlay network of distributed groups
of nodes
Proof of Concept: Lab
Concept idea
•demand driven & multidisciplinary research (technological, user, social, economical, legal…)
Lab PoC
•iLab.o user research
•User-centered design
•mock-ups
•proxy technology assessment
Lab PoC
•iLab.t @ IBBT
•technical design
•demonstration of technical feasibility
Internal field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•Internal testers (related to project partners)
External field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•iLab.o user research
•External testers
•real end users
•limited number (5-15)
Living lab
•iLab.o
•Prototype HW & SW
•Large number of end users
Technical design – application development
Proof of Concept: Lab
Concept idea
•demand driven & multidisciplinary research (technological, user, social, economical, legal…)
Lab PoC
•iLab.o user research
•User-centered design
•mock-ups
•proxy technology assessment
Lab PoC
•iLab.t @ IBBT
•technical design
•demonstration of technical feasibility
Internal field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•Internal testers (related to project partners)
External field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•iLab.o user research
•External testers
•real end users
•limited number (5-15)
Living lab
•iLab.o
•Prototype HW & SW
•Large number of end users
Technical design – scalability testing
iLab.t Virtual Wall
Proof of Concept: Lab
Concept idea
•demand driven & multidisciplinary research (technological, user, social, economical, legal…)
Lab PoC
•iLab.o user research
•User-centered design
•mock-ups
•proxy technology assessment
Lab PoC
•iLab.t @ IBBT
•technical design
•demonstration of technical feasibility
Internal field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•Internal testers (related to project partners)
External field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•iLab.o user research
•External testers
•real end users
•limited number (5-15)
Living lab
•iLab.o
•Prototype HW & SW
•Large number of end users
Functionality test
iLab.t generic portable platform
Limited Field Trial
Concept idea
•demand driven & multidisciplinary research (technological, user, social, economical, legal…)
Lab PoC
•iLab.o user research
•User-centered design
•mock-ups
•proxy technology assessment
Lab PoC
•iLab.t @ IBBT
•technical design
•demonstration of technical feasibility
Internal field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•Internal testers (related to project partners)
External field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•iLab.o user research
•External testers
•real end users
•limited number (5-15)
Living lab
•iLab.o
•Prototype HW & SW
•Large number of end users
Limited Field Trial
Concept idea
•demand driven & multidisciplinary research (technological, user, social, economical, legal…)
Lab PoC
•iLab.o user research
•User-centered design
•mock-ups
•proxy technology assessment
Lab PoC
•iLab.t @ IBBT
•technical design
•demonstration of technical feasibility
Internal field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•Internal testers (related to project partners)
External field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•iLab.o user research
•External testers
•real end users
•limited number (5-15)
Living lab
•iLab.o
•Prototype HW & SW
•Large number of end users
Living Lab
Concept idea
•demand driven & multidisciplinary research (technological, user, social, economical, legal…)
Lab PoC
•iLab.o user research
•User-centered design
•mock-ups
•proxy technology assessment
Lab PoC
•iLab.t @ IBBT
•technical design
•demonstration of technical feasibility
Internal field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•Internal testers (related to project partners)
External field test
•iLab.t infrastructure
•iLab.o user research
•External testers
•real end users
•limited number (5-15)
Living lab
•iLab.o
•Prototype HW & SW
•Large number of end users
Next steps
Turn iLab.thardware/software into fully-
fledged prototype (typ. by industry)
Large scale trials in real living environment
‘Experience’ research
Refine solution
More advanced user research
Improved technical design
…
Initiate product into the market
…
Only when mature product, move to Smart
City applications (full industrial deployment)
In the Press: 10 December 2010