2018 Smart City Snapshot

Today’s Presentation

• Background
• The structure of the snapshot
• Preliminary results
• Future work
• Questions

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Today’s Presenter

• Associate Professor Nick Falkner,

• Director, Australian Smart Cities Consortium
• School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide

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 Smart City Definitions

• Adopting ICT in order to enhance livability, workability and sustainability (Smart Cities
Council, 2013).

• A city where the conditions of all its critical infrastructures are monitored and integrated
(US Office of Scientific and Technical Information).

• An instrumented, interconnected and intelligent city (IBM, 2010).

• A city seeking to address public issues via ICT-based solutions on the basis of multi-
stakeholder and municipality-based partnership (European Parliament, 2014).

• A city that links physical capitals with social one in order to enhance the quality of
services (Corriea and Wunstel, 2011).

• Integrating the physical, IT, social and business infrastructures into a single framework so
as to leverage the collective intelligence of a city (Harrison et al., 2010).

• Automating routine functions as well as monitoring and planning the city to improve the
efficiency, equity and quality of life for its citizens (Batty et al., 2012).
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 Smart City Definitions

Improving the Using New

Quality of Life Technologies

A city that uses technologies to make life easier for its citizens

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 The Drivers of Smart Cities

Growing
Urbanisation

Greenhouse
Low Risk
Gas
Living
Emission

Smart City Drivers

Budget Citizens
Constraints Engagement

Growing
Growing
Economic
Expectations
Competition

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 Smart City Objectives

• Creating a sustainable and greener city

• Increasing efficiency of transportation system

• Increasing government-to-citizen and government-to-

government digital communications

• Promoting citizens health and safety

Providing the best quality of life for all citizens while

minimizing the consumption of energy and resources

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 Smart Mobility

Smart parking

Smart traffic light

Smart bike

Driverless buses/cars

Smart electric and hybrid cars

Smart active transport

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 Smart Urban Services

Smart waste

Smart lighting

Smart parks and gardens

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 Smart Government

Smart administration services

Smart payment

Smart parks and gardens

Smart business services

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 Smart Citizens

Access to community services

Tourism and major events

A civic app(social networks, NBN and public WIFI)

Digital hub

Smart library

Citizen involvement

Smart labs

Promotional marketing

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 Smart Buildings

Smart infrastructure

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 Smart Environment

Smart environmental monitoring

Electrical cars and charging stations

Renewable energy

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 Smart public health and safety

Incident management

Security services

Smart health and human services (aged car,

homeless reduction)

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 Smart City Development Planning

Smart growth and public realm

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 Smart City
Dimensions

Smart Public Smart City

Smart Urban Smart Smart
Smart Mobility Smart Citizens Smart Buidings Health and Developement
Services Government Environment
Safety Planning

Access to Smart Growth

Administrative Smart Environmental Incident
Smart Parking Smart Waste Services Community Monitoring
and Public
Infrastructure Management
Services Realm

Electric Car
Smart Traffic Smart Smart Tourism and Security
Charging
Light Lighting Payment Major Events Services
Stations
Smart Aged
Social Network Care
Smart Health
Smart Parks Smart Data Renewable
Smart Bike A Civic App & Human
and Gardens Sharing Energy
Services Smart
NBN& Public
Homeless
wifi and Internet
Reduction
Smart
Driverless
Business Digital Hub
Bus/Cars
Services

Smart Electric
& Hybrid Smart Library
Cars

Smart Active Citizen

Transport Involvement

Smart Labs

Promortional
Marketing

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The Snapshot

• Aim: to provide information about what stage councils are at with

regards to smart cities activities.
• Report objective: to provide a starting point for Local Councils to
develop strategies to improve and benefit from other smart city
projects.
• Method: Contact as many of the MLGG as possible to collect
information through surveys and interviews, collecting secondary
data through scanning council on-line materials, news resources, and
other websites.

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Status

• Response rate: 59%

• Still conducting some interviews due to Christmas closedowns.
• Preliminary results presented today
• Final report by 25 January

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Smart Cities Journey

• Between 4-61 projects across the councils who responded

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Smart Mobility

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Smart Urban Services

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Smart Government

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Smart Citizens

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Smart Building

• Fifty percent of the respondents reported having projects in the sub-

dimension of smart infrastructure (five projects).

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Smart Environments

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Smart City Development and planning

• Only two Local Councils reported working on Smart City

Development and planning.
• Three projects were identified in the dimension of smart growth and
public realm

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Smart Public Health and Safety

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Comparison with the Framework

• Local Councils have been working on the majority of the dimensions

assessed in the literature review
• No projects identified in three sub-dimensions: Smart Traffic Lights,
Tourism and Major Events, and Smart Labs

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 Smart City
Dimensions

Smart Public Smart City

Smart Urban Smart Smart
Smart Mobility Smart Citizens Smart Buidings Health and Developement
Services Government Environment
Safety Planning

Access to Smart Growth

Administrative Smart Environmental Incident
Smart Parking Smart Waste Services Community Monitoring
and Public
Infrastructure Management
Services Realm

Electric Car
Smart Traffic Smart Smart Tourism and Security
Charging
Light Lighting Payment Major Events Services
Stations
Smart Aged
Social Network Care
Smart Health
Smart Parks Smart Data Renewable
Smart Bike A Civic App & Human
and Gardens Sharing Energy
Services Smart
NBN& Public
Homeless
wifi and Internet
Reduction
Smart
Driverless
Other Business Digital Hub
Bus/Cars
Services

Smart Electric
& Hybrid Smart Library
Cars

Smart Active Citizen

Transport Involvement

Smart Labs

Promortional
Marketing

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Potential Collaboration projects

• There are a number of areas where collaboration between councils

could be fruitful.
• These will be detailed in the final report but include:
• Asset Management
• Smart Parking
• Smart Parks
• Growth Modelling

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Deeper Themes – the Interviews

• In terms of Smart Cities themselves, the two major themes

dominating this topic were:
• Awareness, Culture, and Attitude (including the need for education on these)
• Finding or having an appropriate Starting Place for developing as a Smart City
• With a third theme:
• The need for a common / agreed-upon Definition

• The starting place is essential but a positive culture was vital.

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Leadership

• Executive leadership and senior management are essential.

• Councils who have advanced in their journey speak of sponsorship,
support, or vision.
• The absence of this is seen as an impeding factor.

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What drives a Smart City initiative?

• Two most important:

• Wanting a broader understanding
• Saving money and resources
• Greatest impediments to achieving an initiative:
• Lacking agility and the ability to keep up with technology
• Insufficient human resources
• Budget constraints

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Collaboration is seen as essential

• That is:
• Between councils
• With the University
• With citizens

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Ways to make initiatives work better:

• Embed them in daily practice

• Use them to make better decisions, making them work for council
and citizen
• Improve operations as well as visible outcomes
• Enhance connectivity
• Think about the future
• Carry out benchmarking
• Look around for what is going on in the sector locally, internationally,
and in the standards.

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Policy Considerations

• Common grounds for data collection and measurement

(homogenisation of data). Sharing information – lessons
learn/dashboard
• Creation of working groups (industry, academia and government) to
facilitate smart city projects / Increase innovation process through
idea cross-fertilisation
• Identify South Australian strengths in order to become a leader in
smart city projects around the world. Creation of a South Australian
Smart City Strategy.
• Share resources to increase smart city project performance
(economies of scale and scope)

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