SMART CITIES
Presentation
Chrysses Nicolaides
Director, CNE Business Development Ltd
Founder, Smart Cities Mediterranean Cluster
Introduction
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The Smart Cities Mediterranean Cluster
The Partnership is formed between multidisciplinary organizations; research centers,
industry, innovative SME’s, civil society actors and other stakeholders.
The scope of the Partnership is to identify, develop and deploy replicable, balanced and
integrated solutions in the energy, transport, and ICT, develop projects and participate in EU
funding.
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Structure of the Presentation
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Highlight the trend towards Smart Cities
the Smart City definition
the Drivers, Barriers and Benefits of Smart Cities
the Smart Cities initiatives in Europe
Smart Solutions and Initiatives
European Smart Cities ranking
The trend towards Smart Cities
Major urbanisation requires new and innovative ways to manage the complexity of urban
living and new ways to target problems of overcrowding, energy consumption, resource
management and environmental protection.
The planet becomes more urban and cities need to become smarter.
Cities are becoming more and more of a focal point for EU economies and societies at
large, particularly because of the on-going urbanisation, and the trend towards
increasingly knowledge-intensive economies as well as their growing share of
resource consumption and emissions.
Under these circumstances, cities need to change and develop, but in times of tight
budgets this change needs to be achieved in a smart way:
EU cities need to become 'smart cities'.
4. The strain imposed by high density city populations
High density city populations increase strains on energy, transportation, water,
buildings and public spaces, so solutions need to be found which are ‘smart’, i.e. both
highly efficient and sustainable, as well as generating economic prosperity and social
wellbeing. This is best achieved by mobilising all of a city’s resources and coordinating
its actors using new technologies and forward looking joined-up policies.
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5. What is a Smart City?
There are many definitions of Smart Cities.
Some focus on ICT as a technology driver and enabler, while broader definitions include
socio-economic, governance and multi-stakeholder aspects such as the use of social
participation to enhance sustainability, quality of life and urban welfare.
‘a city may be called ‘Smart’ ‘when investments in human and social capital and traditional
and modern communication infrastructure fuel sustainable economic growth and a high
quality of life, with a wise management of natural resources, through participatory
governance’.
Schaffers et al (2011)
‘We take the particular perspective that cities are systems of systems,
and that there are emerging opportunities to introduce digital nervous systems, intelligent
responsiveness, and optimization at every level of system integration.’
MIT (2013)
6. A working definition of a Smart City used in the 2014 Mapping study
of the European Parliament of Smart Cities.
“A Smart City is a city seeking to address public issues via ICT-based solutions on the basis
of a multi-stakeholder, municipally based partnership”.
Ultimately smart city is “a city looking to solve public problems through technologies
developed and implemented on the basis of multi-stakeholder partnerships”.
Other definitions for cities - ‘Intelligent City’, ‘Knowledge City’ , ‘Sustainable City’
‘Talented City’, ‘Wired City’, ‘Digital City’ , ‘Eco-City’.
7. Smart City dimensions
A Smart City is more than a digital city, able to link physical capital with social capital, and
to develop better services and infrastructures, bringing together technology, information, and
political vision, into a coherent programme of urban and service improvements.
A long term smart city plan, must be in place to lead and guide the city to become "A Smart
City" by considering :
- Smart Governance
- Smart Economy
- Smart Mobility
- Smart Environment
- Smart Living
- Smart People
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8. The drivers of Smart Cities
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Growing population and urbanization
Growing stress on urban environment
Inadequate integrated infrastructures
The growing economic competition
The growing expectations
The growing environmental challenges
The rabidly improving technology capabilities
9. The barriers to Smart Cities
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Partial implementations (mainly due to)
Lack of financing
Lack if ICT know-how
Lack of integrated services
Lack of citizen engagement
Lack of smart city visionary
10. The benefits of Smart Cities
• Better life for citizens
• Better work conditions
• Better sustainability
• Economic progress
11. The European Commission initiative on Smart Cities and Communities
The European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP-SCC) was
launched in 2011 to bring together cities, industry and citizens, to improve urban life
through more sustainable integrated solutions.
The Partnership aims to overcome bottlenecks impeding the changeover to smart cities, to
co-fund demonstration projects and to help coordinate existing city initiatives and projects,
by pooling its resources together.
It ultimately looks to establish strategic partnerships between industry and European
cities to develop the urban systems and infrastructures of tomorrow.
12. Smart Solutions areas
In order to focus energy and gain momentum, the EIP Strategic Plan concentrates on
the following areas:
Sustainable Urban Mobility – Alternative energies, public transport, efficient logistics,
planning;
Sustainable Districts and Built Environment –improving the energy efficiency of
buildings and districts, increasing the share of renewable energy sources used and the
livability of our communities;
Integrated Infrastructures and processes across Energy, ICT and Transport –
connecting infrastructure assets to improve the efficiency and sustainability of cities
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Information and communications technology (ICT) is a key enabler for cities to
address these challenges in a ‘smart’ manner.
13. Smart Projects and Initiatives
Smart Cities comprise a portfolio of initiatives, with different and often overlapping focal
areas, modalities, participants and constituencies.
For many initiatives still in the design or early implementation phase, their ultimate
outcomes and impacts cannot be accurately or definitively assessed.
14. Deployment of Smart Solutions
The EIP Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) puts forward eight key horizontal enablers on
the themes of Decisions, Insight, and Financing.
To successfully implement this SIP, and the Operational Plan for implementing smart
solutions, eight key horizontal enablers have been identified to be considered across the
three vertical priority areas.
15. Commitments
The method proposed by EIP to make cities smarter is
- to integrates the ICT, energy and transport sectors,
- apply innovative solutions to tackle issues such as congestion,
air pollution and high energy costs,
to achieve better mobility, cleaner urban environment and energy efficiency.
16. Commitments
With the guidelines of the Strategic Implementation Plan the EIP invited commitments
(projects) to be submitted.
The Invitation for Commitments closed on 15 June 2014 and 370 eligible commitments were
submitted by over 3000 partners.
17. Commitments
All commitments are published on the online marketplace working towards establishing
strategic partnerships between industry and European cities to develop the urban systems
and infrastructures of tomorrow. (http://eu-smartcities.eu/ )
18. Smart Industry Solutions
Research organizations, industry and innovative SMEs are focusing on the development of
smart solutions and they see a Market Opportunity in Smart Cities worth many billions.
19. Other Smart City Initiatives
European Commission organizes many site initiatives and campaigns to provide opportunity
for cities, communities and their citizens to demonstrate the importance of smart and
sustainable solutions.
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20. Green Capital award
Copenhagen, the 2014 European Green Capital recognises the impact that well-planned
sustainable transport can have on the overall environment of a city and has listed local
transport as one of the 12 indicators for the award.
Copenhagen is also pioneering in terms of its transport policy, aiming to become the world’s
most practicable city for cyclists.
21. European Smart Cities ranking
In January 2014, a report was commissioned by the European Parliament’s Industry
Research and Energy Committee to provide background information and advice on Smart
Cities in the European Union (EU) and to explain how existing mechanisms perform.
Initially, the study considered 468 cities in the EU-28 with 100,000+ residents.
22. European Smart Cities ranking – Copenhagen
The City of Copenhagen has set an ambitious target to become carbon neutral by 2025, with
an integrated value chain that links sustainability with the quality of life in the city and
economic growth.
To achieve these ambitious goals, emphasis is on using data analytics to reduce energy
consumption and make efficiency improvements to buildings.
23. European Smart Cities ranking – Barcelona
With the aim of becoming a world reference for Smart Cities, Barcelona is working to merge
urban planning, ecology, and information technology to ensure the benefits of technology
reach every neighbourhood and improve the lives of citizens. Barcelona’s transformational
approach follows a long-term vision based on building productive, human-scale
neighbourhoods within a hyper-connected, high-speed and zero-emission metropolis.
24. European Smart Cities ranking – Amsterdam
Amsterdam aims to become one of the world’s most sustainable cities by 2040. Helping the
city to reach this goal is a unique partnership between businesses, authorities, research
institutions and the people of Amsterdam called Amsterdam Smart City (ASC).
Since its inception in 2009 ASC has grown into a broad platform, with more than 70 partners
that are involved in a variety of projects focussing on energy transition and open
connectivity. This bottom-up approach to sustainability encourages active involvement of
citizens to test-drive new technologies.
Amsterdam’s ultimate goal is that these smart, sustainable projects reduce carbon dioxide
emissions in line with the targets set at European, national and city levels.
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25. Key messages
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Cities and Communities should engage in the ‘smart’ process
Consider the drivers of smart cities, remove the barriers and look for the benefits
Have a ‘smart ‘ Urban plan in place
Look for integrated solutions
Create public private partnerships
Involve the citizens
European Commission provides extensive funding and support
Follow the ‘Lighthouse’ cities
Chrysses Nicolaides
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