HotCity Creating the best place to work, live, learn and play through an Urban Services Platform Paul Helminger Mayor of the City of Luxembourg

What is HotCity? A huge unified WiFi hotspot in the city of Luxembourg and in its partner cities A city owned wireless meshed outdoor network overlaid on the city fiber network location feature handover feature CISCO technology covers today about 70% and in % of the city area

What is HotCity? A central service platform open for all service providers public free and commercial services multiple SSID management content management and content rendering (2011) location based portal future proofed

What is HotCity? A private public partnership with the HotCity society between City of Luxembourg and EPT marketing and promotion Internet access and commercial services private partnership management A “test bed” for research projects in collaboration with SNT (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust), University of Luxembourg first planned research projects planned in the domain of green IT and mobility

HotCity applications Web based proximity services (only on the WiFi network) Internal city services (only on the WiFi network) Embedded mobile applications with geo-localization (on WiFi and 3G network)

HotCity applications For everybody citizens tourists workers roamers businessmen and everywhere extreme local (institutions, neighbourhood, …) local (cities) national (country) regional (Greater Region)

Application domains Information and Infotainment –(News, agenda, traffic, games …) Search engine –(Find in the City: location based search for POI) Tourism –(Vis-iT) Neighbourhood –(nAutre ville: virtual white board and letter box)

Application domains Mobility –(Walker: cycle, bus, train, taxi, airplane, traffic and parking, Cross Border Personal Travel Assistant: planned ) Commercial –(customer loyalty platform with online shop: planned 2010) Culture –(Culture Guide GR: planned 2010)

Application domains Health –(planned 2010 / 2011) Public service –(city service portal: planned 2010, mobile city agent: planned 2011) Control and surveillance –(video surveillance, street lighting control, air pollution capture)

Service objectives Useful With added value User participation enabled User experience adapted Connecting people Delivering public value

HotCity story milestones : first public statement “Luxembourg goes wireless” : principal decision to go : first deployment 60 APs and Internet access : fist mobile applications : HotCity white paper : call for new applications (15 proposals)

HotCity story milestones : first partner city connected : application roadmap fixed (2009 – 2012) : HotCity SA : new portal, CMS, platform virtualized : “Luxembourg goes smart” ……..

Smart City context User driven open innovation system Cross border network Innovative Web based mobile proximity services For smart economy smart people smart governance smart mobility smart environments smart living

HotCity Come to Luxembourg, – you can see it, – you can taste it, – you can touch it.