Smart Cities and Regions empowered by the Future Internet

Hans Schaffers Research director Centre of Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR) Aalto University School of Business

Social innovation challenges in regions, rural areas and cities Economic stagnation, ageing

population, urbanization, political uncertainties, divides

Socio-economic implications for rural and peripheral regions and cities

Sustainability of infrastructures under pressure (education, health, government services, physical infrastructures, knowledge resources)

European challenge: making rural areas and regions more vital, resilient, sustainable and attractive and engage citizens

UN World Urbanization Prospects Report 2014

% 65+

Bench-Learning Conference June 2014: Pioneering Innovation Regions – RIS3 Regional research and innovation strategies based on smart

specialisation (RIS3) contribute to regional recovery Collaboration and partnership across regions

Challenge for scaling up of best practices: enable regions to

make use of what’s already there and what works Sharing resources, facilities, practices and results; networking

RIS3: experimental entrepreneurial learning-by-doing attitude

requires new instruments and processes Innovation labs, public-private partnerships around spearheads,

collaborative networks, cross-regional cooperation - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - Can we achieve a stronger connection between RIS3 / ESIF

and H2020 research & innovation programmes?

Cities, regions, social environments as “living labs”

Social interactions Flow of ideas Diversity – exploration Cooperative behaviour Incentives in social

networks Digital engagement Interventions “Science of the city”

Alex Pentland (MIT), “Social Big Data” Picture source: The New Yorker

The Future Internet transforms economy but also social life and the innovation process

Productivity, innovation, value chain reconfigurations, new ways of working and innovating

Structural changes and shifts in the economy and social life

Social interactions, individual and collective behavior

Innovation in networks and social environments

Open and connected innovation ecosystems

Future Internet PPP Innovation- and market-

oriented partnership 2011 – 2016

Horizon 2020 - LEIT Research and innovation in networking technologies,

communication, media, Internet of Things, software (etc)

International linkages US (FIRE -GENI), Korea, Japan, BRIC (China, Brazil, …)

National Future Internet initiatives; eInfrastructures

NREN’s, GÉANT Dedicated national research

and innovation programs Smart Regions

H2020 - Societal Challenges Smart Cities and Regions, energy, transport, mobility, healthcare,

education, entrepreneurship

EUREKA CELTIC-Plus (telecom,

media, internet) ITEA (Software)

Future Internet Assembly/ NetFutures

Constituency building, future research trends,

community events

5G-PPP Research and

Innovation-oriented partnership, starting

2014

Research and Innovation Pilots - Market Policy

National

European

Global

FIRE Experimental facilities

Landscape of European initiatives for the Future Internet

Future Internet - connected clusters of innovation and development across Europe

E-Infrastructures - NRENs / Géant - Research and education

Future Internet Research and Innovation (FIRE) - Testbed facilities - RDI projects - SME services - IoT / Smart Cities

Future Internet PPP - Development Platform - Industry and SMEs - Accelerators and

Platform Ecosystems - Pilots to Market - Smart Cities

EIT ICT Labs - Industry - academia - Education - Business creation

Future Internet Research and Experimentation facility projects

Future Internet initiatives and smart cities Source: European Commission

Example: OrganiCity (FIRE) Holistic co-creative city making Citizen engagement Application scenarios, co-created Tools to enable citizen to

participate and develop own approaches and applications Data annotation and quality

control, crowd-sourced Opportunistic networking of IoT

and smartphones Data analysis and visualisation by

non-experts Trans-disciplinary tools and

platforms Urban interaction design

Future Internet PPP: Internet-enabled innovation

Fi-WARE; technology that application developers can use to build Future Internet applications.

FI-OPS: tools that FI-WARE instance providers can use to operate and run effectively their FI-WARE instances, e.g FI-LAB. Main target audience for FI-OPS are the platform providers.

FI-LAB is a FI-WARE instance deployed over a number of datacenter nodes distributed and federated across Europe. It is an example where FI-WARE and FI-OPS are put at work, allowing large scale apps and services testing/trialing.

FI-WARE Accelerator: a program that funds developers and entrepreneurs, and ignites roll-out of the ecosystem (80 mln, open calls)

Platform ecosystem to translate Future Internet opportunities into growth and jobs

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Entrepreneurs, Developers Develop once for a large market Easily meet potential customers Marketing, promotion Ability to test with real data and end

users Simple yet powerful APIs that

accelerate product development

App Sponsors and Data providers Connect to entrepreneurs Put their data at work Bring new innovative services to end

users Be more efficient Social Reputation

Technology Providers Ability to “coopete” Connect to entrepreneurs: jointly exploit

the opportunities

ecosystem open global

sustainable

• Italy: Trento, Torino, Veneto

• Spain: Valencia, Sevilla, Málaga, Santander, Logroño, Vigo, Lleida, Sabadell

• Finland: Helsinki, Espoo

• Netherlands: Amsterdam

• Portugal: Lisbon

Case example: target Smart City platform

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Smart city platform as a Data/Knowledge Hub Non-intrusive, open to third parties

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Big Data

Context Broker

Accounting &

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Billing

IDM

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Short-term historic

data

BigData Processing

Data Quering/Action, Publish/Subscr

Open Data publishing

Real-time processing

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OPERATIONAL DASHBOARD KPI GOVERNANCE OPEN DATA PORTAL

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Service orchestrator

Context Adapters

CEP

IoT Backend Device Management

measures / commands

IoT Broker & Config Management (from sensors to things)

IoT/Sensor Open Data actuators Media

streams

Real Time Media Stream

Processing

City Services

GIS

Inventory

Specific Enablers

Generic Enablers

Smart city platform as a Data/Knowledge Hub

Non-intrusive, open to third parties

From “stovepipe” programmes to layering enabling open innovation ecosystems

Network infrastructures

Experimental facilities

User applications

User environments

Business creation

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Research networks and experimental facilities

Experimental facilities, tools, instruments

Platforms and software components as “enablers”

Innovative solutions, open data, real-life experimenting

Start-ups, SME innovators, Education and training, Clusters

Concluding points Smart cities and regions narrative should address real

life challenges – practical issues - living labs - systemic policy instruments

Multi-disciplinary socio-technical approaches needed integrating technical and social approaches (example Social Big Data), SSH not as “add on” but integrated

Future Internet resources available for all: from vertical “stovepipes” to resources enabling “innovation-as-as service”

How could RIS3 and Future Internet programmes mutually benefit especially as regards the creation of innovation ecosystems and implementation of living labs