The Future for Smart Cities
Making Smart Cities Smart Requries More Than Technology
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Smart City
A smart city is commonly defined as an urban development that integrates information and communication technology (ICT) and Internet of things (IoT) technology to manage a city's assets.
Smart Platform
The smart environment is the condition achieved through a smart platform where efficient and enabling government and city services are economic drivers, enable autonomy for citizens and businesses, and generate a sustainable and resilient city.
Smart Environment
A smart platform is created by the range of smart city initiatives, processes, sensors, and technologies designed with the deliberate purpose to facilitate digital, physical, social, and consumer connections for government, citizens, and businesses to thrive.
Smart Platform Connects Across the City
REGULATORY
CULTURAL
BEHAVIORAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
TECHNOLOGY
FINANCIAL
ENVIRONMENT
Regulatroy
- Fleet Usage - Advertising - Aesthetics - Land Use (Proactive, Responsible) - Artificial Demand Levers - Air Space - Privacy Incentivisation - Deregulation
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- Public Revenue & Tax Congestion Charges - Traffic Neutrality Fees - Bad Behavior Revenue Registration Fees - Fleet Revenue - Innovative Models
- Gig Economy On-Demand - Regional v. Hyper Local - Existing Industry - At-Risk Business - Union Impacts Entrepreneurship Barriers to Entry Attractiveness
INDUSTRY
- Small Business Incubation - Gentrification Workforce Impacts Housing Costs - Sentiment Analysis - Urban Farming - Digital Segregation - Security
- Required Supporting Elements Data Analysis - Performance Limitations Data Capture - MSDS and Weather Planning / Testing - Anti-Tampering and Safety - Modeling & Simulation - Optimization
- Domestic Migration Acceptance Rate - Miles Traveled Daily - Shift to / from City - Machine Trust Balancing Old/New
- Technology Impact on Environment Environment Impact on Technology - Light and Noise Pollution - Solar Energy Demand - Energy Balancing; Sufficiency - Hydrogen Demands - Grid Support - Focus on Meteorology - Impact on Flora and Fauna
- Airspace Impacts Critical Nodes - Parking (v. Drop-offs) - Environmental Impacts Servicing Bandwidth & Spectrums - Protection / Security & Resiliency - Public Transit
Barriers to Overcome
Research and studies show cities are unprepared and poorly equipped to understand and proactively prepare for the emerging smart environment. There is typically a high degree of uncertainty in this environment due to: - Lack of understanding of what a Smart City is - Deep level of subject matter expertise is required - An overwhelming amount of pressure and change is coming from industry - There is constant change in the variables involved
What is stopping us?
Financial resources limitations
Smart City is the job of a CTO
Misperceptions: Smart City = High Tech
We’ve always done it this way
Efforts will not generate returns or fast enough
Short Term focus is the norm
Sources
1. Guerra, Erik. “Planning for Cars that Drive Themselves: Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Regional Transportation Plans, and Autonomous Vehicles.” Journal of Planning Education and Research. 2016 2. Toffler Associates’ subject matter interviews and research
Uncertainty of the future
Communities not actively engaged in planning
Clear ROI
Seizing Opportunities Beyond Technology
The Environment is complex. Communicating the city’s vision with goals and measures enables others to help move forward, allowing the city to shepherd and guide implementation. City Planners today are struggling to understand the environment. They need to leverage key stakeholders to define the future and identify the opportunities to develop a FutureProof® plan for their city.
We believe the Smart Platform is an opportunity to move to a Smart Environment
It starts by asking the question:
What should my city be doing today to capitalize on the Smart Environment?
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Determine the Opportunity
Determine Opportunities and Set Goals
– Identify and convene key stakeholders – Setting a Long Term Vision (include views of the citizens) – Identify and prioritize opportunities – Set goals for prioritized opportunities – Develop targets for Future City – Develop recommended initiatives for implementation
Communicate the Goals
Communicate Goals and Implement
– Identify champion and lead for Future City initiative – Review initiatives and initiatives with stakeholders – Solicit partners for initiatives – Communicate Future City initiatives and targets publicly – Determine preparations required for initiatives – Execute preparations
Collaborate on Solutions
Guide Collaboration Along Targets
– Assess new initiatives against targets – Collaborate to bring diverse groups together on specific initiatives – Prioritize programs, partnerships, and resources that deliver impact and quick wins
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Each city is different. Stakeholder views are different.
Understanding how the Smart Environment will impact an individual city and its citizens and entities is critical
What should a city be doing today to capitalize on the Smart Environment?
What will the future bring? How does this impact my city?
What are the City’s goals and how does the culture impact decisions?
What are the future key performance metrics, and what actions should the city take today?
Identify the stakeholders that are enduring to the city and the disruptors that can contribute to the future growth
Set the Long Term vision and those impacts against the city’s goals and preferences to yield opportunities and challenges
Taking action within authority shapes the environment; communicating goals brings partners in to assist and drive forward
Be aware and appreciate that every entity and individual of a platform is a sensor that will have an impact to the success of the Smart Environment.
Select a Smart Environment champion that can lead a comprehensive effort from technology to platform to environment Establish base lexicon that allows leaders to engage the varying interests across the platform Connect the desired long-term impacts to near term key performance metrics that will address government, business, and citizen needs in a Smart Environment Identify areas of desynchronization (e.g. technology, policy, citizen needs) and potential risk Begin transformation to the Smart Environment with a Smart Platform prototype Communicate value, efficiencies, and connections that are enabled through the Smart Platform
Solution Development
Deep Data and Analytics
Private Industry Partners
City Departments
Other City / Federal Partners
Local Businesses and Citizens
Targets
New Tech
University Partners
New Issue
Questions to consider
On a scale of 1-10, how would you and your citizens rate: – The connectedness with government, business, and citizens? – The city’s transportation infrastructure? – The city’s environmental resilience (or policy conscientiousness)? – The ability to address security concerns – The industry and commercial attractiveness? – The prospect of growth?
Contact Us to Explore the Future of Smart Cities: Dave Baber - dbaber@tofflerassociates.com Maria Bothwell - mbothwell@tofflerassociates.com
