Fireball, key message

1. @ Mechelen May 22, 2012
” Future Internet Research and Experimentation By Adopting Living Labs
– towards Smart Cities ”.
Smart Cities as
Innovation Ecosystems
for Future Internet Research
– Empowered by Smart Citizens!
User-driven Open Innovation Ecosystems go really local … across borders,
Mechelen 2012-05-22
Michael Nilsson, CDT
Project Coordinator of CA
FIREBALL
20100930 www.fireball4smartcities.eu

2. Mission.
FIREBALL brings together
different players to exploit
the linkage between Smart
Cities, Living Labs and
Future Internet for
Connected Smart Cities
Innovation.
20100930 www.fireball4smartcities.eu

3. In a nut shell
“ The overall objective of the
FIREBALL project is to coordinate
and align methodologies and
approaches in the domains of Future
Internet research and
experimentation testbeds and user
driven open innovation towards
successful innovation in “smart city”
environments. “

4. Key FIREBALL messages & results (I)
By 2050 more than 70% of the global
population will live in cities…
SMART people creates SMART Cities!
20100930 www.fireball4smartcities.eu

5. Key FIREBALL messages
& results (II)
” Making a smart city needs three components:
1) Cities / communities,
2) Living labs,
3) web platforms, applications / future Internet technologies. ”
The role of each component is different:
- Cities set challenges (competitiveness, inclusion, sustainability) and form
communities addressing them;
- Living labs and open innovation ecosystems work as generators of
solutions. It is a fundamental trend of smart cities that solutions have to be
defined and implemented with the involvement of citizens, consumers and
users;
- Smart environments and Internet technologies work as facilitators of
communication, networking, information processing and real-time
response.
20100930 www.fireball4smartcities.eu

6. Overview of key activities (I)
- Smart City vision, landscape
- Cases of “Smarter Cities” (video clips opening speech)
- Smart City “innovation ecosystems”
- Smart Cities roadmap and action plans, a Cook Book
- Community building , creation of a Connected Smart
Cities network
- www.fireball4smartcities.eu & web 2.0 tools
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7. Overview of key activities (II)
from research to innovation
+ Medium to long term research on the
FP7
Future Internet
technological risk
FIRE Large scale experimentation/
collaboration
FI PPP Short to medium term system level research
combining application pull and technology push FIRE Projects Call 2 – Call 7
Coordination and Support Actions NoE: EINS
CIP Accelerating take-up of technologies which come FIREBALL
PARADISO 2
out of the labs and are mature for innovation
- MyFire FIRE STATION
FIREworks
PARADISO
- time to market + Building the Experimental Facility and stimulating its use
17 projects, 50 M€ - Call 5
14 projects, 40 M€ - Call 2
4 projects, 20 M€ - Call 7
Experimedia Openlab Confine
5
BonFIRE enlarged Smart Santander
CREW enlarged
TEFIS OFELIA
BonFIRE CREW
ONELAB2 PII PII
WISEBED VITAL++
Users Users
Experimentally-driven Research
CONECT EULER Validation SCAMPI CONVERGENC
E
LAWA SPITFIRE HOBNET NOVI
Research Experimentation
N4C SMART-NET
OPNEX ECODE
Requirements Nanodatacenters SELF-NET
PERIMETER RESUMENET
20100930 www.fireball4smartcities.eu Facility Projects IPs Call 5
Facility projects IPs & STREPs Call 2
Focused project Call 5 STREPs
Facility projects Call 2 STREPs
Coordination & support actions Call 5
Coordination & support actions Call 2
9
Facility Projects IPs&NoE Call 7 Information on Call 7 is tentative – contracts are under negotiation, tentative start in January 2012

8. Key FIREBALL main conclusions &
lesson learned (II)
- Smart city is an urban strategy and will appear through strategic planning,
infrastructure development, and bottom-up initiatives.
- City hall is sometimes dominant, citizen engagement increasing => Top-
down planning and bottom-up initiatives should complement each other.
- Use of pilots in preparing cities for initiative, experiment and learning.
Districts, neighborhoods, and clusters are fundamental elements of smart city
strategy, (the city is a system of systems, and cities co-exist within cities).
- A smart city strategy involves all actors, organizations, communities, R&D,
NGOs, clusters, and authorities and should achieve a common vision, flagship
projects, collaboration and synergy.
- Challenges for successful smart city strategies deal with skills, creativities,
user-driven innovation, entrepreneurship, VC funding, and management of
intra-government rivalries.
- Lack of evidence on impact and effectiveness of smart city strategies.
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9. Next steps, challenges &
opportunities...(I)
- Towards Smarter Cities => White
paper on Smart Cities as Innovation
Ecosystems
- Horizon 2020 => DG ConNECT, Unit
H5 Smart Cities & Sustainability!!
- Eurocities Knowledge and society
Forum (KSF), working group Smart
Cities continues.
- Enlarged interest within FIRE, now
too focused on beyond future and
”Tera bytes”, what about here and
now in real cities?
- Engage the smaller cities in the
network!
20100930 www.fireball4smartcities.eu

10. FIREBALL next steps, challenges,
opportunities…(II)
- Horizon 2020 Networks of Future Internet testbed facilities and living
labs within and across smart cities and regions may become the
backbone of European innovation ecologies and value networks
- Evolving of, capabilities and resources, including experiment facilities ,
user oriented methodologies, service offerings and collaboration models
enabling access and use of facilities and services
- Stimulate the potential for business creation and entrepreneurship in
Smart Cities environments to experiment technologies and applications
- Open innovation and citizen empowerment requires finding new
balances between top-down steering and bottom-up initiative
- What does it mean, being a “smart city”, in terms of value created for
citizens - impact matters, how would we achieve and measure the
impact and value added of smart city initiatives?
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11. 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
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12. Thanks!
We meet at:
www.fireball4smartcities.eu
Michael.Nilsson@cdt.ltu.se
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13. Expected results from Smart City networking
• A European-wide community of Future Internet Innovation
constiuencies (FIRE, Living Labs and Smart Cities)
• A common vision and shared agenda by these constituencies
• Showcases to represent innovative uses and future needs of Future
Internet in Smart Cities
• Identifying common concepts, methodologies, tools and processes
enabling collaborative working for Future Internet Innovation
• A sustainable Connected European Smart Cities Network
• A roadmap and action plan for enabling Future Internet open
innovation for Smart Cities
20100930 www.fireball4smartcities.eu

14. Key FIREBALL main conclusions &
lesson learned (I)
“Making a smart city needs three components:
1) Cities / communities,
2) Living labs,
3) web platforms, applications / future Internet technologies”.
The role of each component is different:
- Cities set challenges (competitiveness, inclusion, sustainability) and form
communities addressing them;
- Living labs and open innovation ecosystems work as generators of solutions.
It is a fundamental trend of smart cities that solutions have to be defined
and implemented with the involvement of citizens, consumers and users;
- Smart environments and Internet technologies work as facilitators of
communication, networking, information processing and real-time
response.
More detailed conclusions from:
-The smart cities landscape
-The case studies
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-The common assets www.fireball4smartcities.eu

15. A definition of Smart City
“We believe a city to be smart when
investments in human and social
capital and traditional (transport) and
modern (ICT) communications
infrastructure fuel sustainable
economic growth and a high quality
of life, with a wise management of
natural resources, through
participatory governance”
A. Caragliu, C. del Bo, P. Nijkamp
(2009)