Dave Carters' slides on Smart Citie and the Manchester story. As heard on Gent M 19, may 22, 2012. Ghent

1. Smart Citizens in Smart Cities:
Open Innovation, Living Labs & Future Internet
Manchester and the Connected Smart Cities Network
Dave Carter, Head, Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)
City of Manchester (UK)
Chair, European Connected Smart Cities Portfolio Network
Future Internet Research and Experimentation
By Adopting Living Labs
20100930 www.fireball4smartcities.eu

2. Smart City Agendas
• Smart, inclusive & sustainable growth
• Green & Digital
• Transformational services
• Open innovation, open data, open networks
Future Internet enabled services in Smart Cities
• Internet of Things + Cloud + Open Data + 3D printing + nano...
• mapping current experience & knowledge
• identifying challenges and opportunities
• creating open networks for Smart City collaboration
20100930 www.fireball4smartcities.eu

4. What can Smart Cities be about?
• Usage of digital spaces and technologies, e.g.
sensors & networks, to enhance the city and city life
• Digital dimensions of cities – digital ’master-
planning’ + digital design guides
• Future Internet as medium & catalyst for organizing
collective intelligence of cities
• Local Digital Agendas to promote future city
innovation strategies
• Smart people and smart technologies: making cities
become smarter together
• Smart citizens in smart cities – urban OPEN systems
20100930 www.fireball4smartcities.eu

5. Urban Open Systems
• Smart Cities:
– Smart: innovation, invention & entrepreneurship
– Inclusive: multiple deprivation & scale of social exclusion in
urban areas
– Sustainable: cities generate 75%+ of emissions = problem &
solution
• Cities as engines of regional growth =
Smart Regions
– Manchester City Region – MCR = 5% of national economy, 40%
of regional economy
– City Region = larger economic unit than Wales, Northern
Ireland or North East of England
• Urban Open Systems = People + Open Data +
Co-production
– “From Human Factors to Human Actors”
Bannon, J Liam. 1991. “The Role of Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction Studies in System Design”.

6. Global connectivity
• UK less than 1% (not
actually ‘on the map’)
• Domestic broadband
is cheap, widely
accessible but slow
(20 Mbps down, 2
Mbps up)
• High speed
connectivity (100
Mbps+) is very
expensive, often
more than €500 per
month
• Difficult for new
businesses to enter
the market

7. Report: Will Video Kill the Cloud Star?
http://www.diffractionanalysis.com/
• new ideas needed
• Future Internet means
future thinking
• new test-beds
• new demonstration sites
• fully IP media
environments
• unlimited content
distribution networks

8. Critical Infrastructures
• Green, Mobile & Digital
• Digital as the new real estate of the 21st century
• UK as world leader in creativity and content –
way behind in connectivity
• MCR is 2nd largest digital & creative sector in UK
• Only globally connected Internet Exchange
outside of London
• Digital Hub Network: connecting key sites via the
Metrolink tram network
• Creating transformational digital infrastructure
• open access networks – fibre + wireless
• digital hubs – where networks interconnect
• backbone networks – build your own networks
• Infinite Bandwidth, Zero Latency (IBZL)

9. Fibre to the People – key attributes
• Fully point-to-point
• Fully open to the passive layer
• Fully open co-location
• Direct connection to carrier neutral Internet Exchange
• A ‘Free Trade Fibre’ Enterprise Network to encourage investment:
– open innovation ‘Living Lab’ test-bed for new applications
– maximum technical flexibility for property owners and developers to build
their own networks and connect
– trialling new business models including shared passive infrastructure and
local patchwork
– Potential to scale up re-using public assets, especially the roll-out of the
tram network and other transport corridors

10. Infrastructure for Mobility

11. Manchester Living Lab & SMARTiP project
• Test-bed smart environments network along Corridor
• Affordable and accessible sensors including DIY (Arduinos)
• Potential for wearables (clothes, bikes etc.) and micro-production
• Links to Corridor fibre and wireless networks
• Future links to transport network and GM wide deployment

12. CITY OF THINGS
Partnership of SMEs and universities
TSB IoT Covergence Competition
Preparatory study of IoT potential for users and suppliers
Input into the TSB’s development of a ‘Convergence
Demonstrator’
Business opportunities
Public sector service providers
Data ‘intermediaries’
Sensor production and deployment
Data hosting and management
Enabling data creation and use at citizen/user level C2C
Partners involved:
Swirrl IT Ltd (lead) * Littlestar * Manchester Digital Lab – MadLab * The Customer's Voice *
Manchester Business School (University of Manchester) * University of Aberdeen *
MDDA (unfunded partner)

13. ‘Geek’ Power! Entrepreneurs + Innovators
Manchester Digital Lab + Omniversity
MadLab
• Creativity
• Innovation
• Diversity
Stimulating:
• new ideas
• new business
• new skills
• new jobs

14. Smart City development - future vision:
• Using Future Internet to transform the way we live and work
• more flexible ways and locations of working: smart mobility,
smart environments, smart learning
• Co-designing and co-producing services for ourselves and others
• new services being designed and delivered by users, e.g. e-health
and telecare services
• Enabling our environments to be greener, cleaner and healthier
• smart buildings, smart energy, low-carbon neighbourhoods
• Making smart cities more democratic, resilient and attractive
• social networking to promote civic engagement
• Generating and celebrating creativity, innovation and diversity
• arts and culture linked to technology supporting jobs and skills

15. Future Internet Research
& Experimentation By
Adopting Living Labs
Thank You!
d.carter@manchesterdda.com