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New Pathways to Business Intelligence:

Urban IoT for Smart Cities

George PercivallOGC Chief Engineer

20 May 2014

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Smart Cities are rich in “where” information

• As of 2008:– More than half of the world lives in cities– Mobile access to the Internet exceeded fixed – Devices connected to Internet exceeds people

Townsend, Smart Cities, 2013

• “The need is urgent for an integrated, quantitative, predictive, science-based understanding of the dynamics, growth and organization of cities.”

Bettencourt and West, Nature, p912, v467, 2010

• See also: “The new Science of Cities,” M. Batty

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Location Services for Smart Cities

• Citizen Services – Location-aware municipal services

using open data and standards • Energy and Utilities management

– Smart Energy– Smart Water Management

• Disaster and Emergency Response– Common Operational Picture

• Urban Maps – 3D City Models – Indoor Venue Maps – Interoperability with BIM

• Sensor Webs – Situational awareness from

fusion of sensor observations

Source; Thomas Kolbe, Berlin TU

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OGC IndoorGML

Integrated Outdoor / Indoor Information

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Emergence of IoT

• IoT is the long-prophesied phenomenon of everyday devices talking to one another — and us — online

– “Internet of things to give $10-15 trillion boost to global economy” - General Electric

– Increasingly inexpensive sensors and open source hardware, add intelligence to ordinary objects. – IoT reached “Apple II stage”

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Intelligence from location based sensors

Embedding sensors everywhere– Application of Sensor Web Enablement to IoT

Analytics of Big Data– Analytic exploitation of the space-time features will usher in

advances in high-quality prediction systems. – Space time features: the highest order bits - Jonas, Tucker

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52North SenseBoxTwine http://www.aircasting.org/AirCasting Air Monitor

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Balance of Issues

"On the one hand, concerned citizens and privacy advocates recognize the immense potential for government malfeasance and corporate abuse of this technology…

....On the other hand, many scientists, corporations, and individual consumers see immense social and monetary value in this technology.

- “Is human mobility tracking a good idea?”, Daniel Soper, Communications of the ACM, V.55 Issue 4, April 2012

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1st Open, Multi-Vendor Augmented Reality Interoperability Demonstration

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>50 Millionusers+ + =

AR content encoded in OGC ARML 2.0 draft standard

Organized by AR Standards CommunityDemonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2014

http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/1967http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2014/02/augmented-reality-interoperability-demo/

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OGC Urban IoT Testbed Concept

• “Spatial Intelligence Architecture for Smart Cities” : a vendor- neutral best practice for any city

• Seamless integration of – GIS, Imaging, Augmented Reality,

3D modeling, sensor networks, GPS, IoT, and location services

• Interoperability testing of multiple implementations using an open framework

• Market opportunities through innovations in open standards

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CityGML graphic source; Thomas Kolbe, Berlin TU

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Contact: George Percivall (gpercivall@opengeospatial.org)