Digital City Exchangeintegrating data | transforming services

Smart City Week 2012Yokohama

Professor David Gann CBE

With thanks to Irving Wladawsky-Berger, John Polak and colleagues at Imperial College

2050: 70% of world’s population in cities +2.5 billion more people

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Energy Services

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Creative Services

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Separate infrastructure but need for interconnected services

Internet-of-Things + Cloud Computing

Data from trillions of sensors

Physical and digital convergenceReal-time analytics

City Recycling

River QualityUrban Water Loss

Building C02

IBM: a ‘smarter’Peterborough, UK

The synthetic city modelling framework

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Digital City Exchange

RAWDATA

Transport Services

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Health Services

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Smart Cross Sector Services

DATA INTEGRATION 

New Services and Business ModelsRAWDATA

Digital City Exchange

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Transport Services

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Health Services

Creative Services

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DATA INTEGRATION 

New Services and Business ModelsJOBS

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Digital City Exchange

RAWDATA

Transport Services

Transport D

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Energy Services

Health Services

Creative Services

Energy Data >

Health Data >

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Smart Cross Sector Services

DATA INTEGRATION 

New Services and Business ModelsJOBS

GRO

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WTH

JOBS

RAWDATA

Digital City Exchange

Digital City Exchange – pilot platform

2. Link data and urban models1. Explore different cities

3. Create your social network 4. Build applications using the API

Imperial College Demonstrator

Changing industrial innovationcollaboration, eco-systems

New services innovation market-facing, people-centric, organizational systems

Services

Industry

Implications for Business

• Global market opportunity

• New innovation process

• Disruptive business models

• New ventures

• New talent: data sciences

Implications for Government

• Organisational structure: inter-departmental

• Governance

• Public-private investment models

• Security and privacy

• Failure modes and systemic risks

Digital City Exchangeintegrating data | transforming services

Smart City Week 2012Yokohama

Professor David Gann CBE

With thanks to Irving Wladawsky-Berger, John Polak and the team at Imperial College