Colette Maloney, EC DG CNECT Svetoslav Mihaylov, EC DG CNECT Andrew Collinge, GLA Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer Action Sub-Cluster on Urban Platform General Assembly 21 May 2015

Introduction Survey on urban platforms - results Industry MoU on urban platforms H2020-SCC Development of system standards for smart cities and communities solutions How does all this come together/next steps – Open discussion Conclusion Agenda

URBAN PLATFORM SURVEY ON URBAN PLATFORMS Market Insights Procurement Barriers MoU from Industry EIP General Assembly CITY NEEDSTECH PROVIDERS ACTIONPLAN Speed the development & adoption of a common open platform CHALLENGE TASK What is the roadmap that will pull demand side and supply side activities together to accelerate uptake ? MoU from Industry

Urban Platform Survey 30 Questions covering… Person/entity accountable Main supplier Services to be run Costs of management Principal Drivers Legal barriers on data Need for a Platform App Marketplace Certification scheme Storage Roadmap Data Collection Generic Enablers Platform Market SURVEY

Responses to date Cities WITH an UP Cities WITHOUT an UP 29 Cities 12 Countries Cities serving 28 million citizens Budapest Barcelona Valencia Bucharest Bari Edinburgh London Santander Ghent Tirana Castellón Tampere

Demand&supply sitting on the fence? – More than 2/3rds of cities have not as yet acted on an Urban Platform Why? – Cities strapped for cash – Poor knowledge of the landscape / lack of confidence in cities – Can’t get the silos to work together The technical platform agenda is mired with issues of integration with the legacy The strategic data agenda is open territory to innovate with few inhibitions Emerging Insights I As regards service areas / domains in focus, the real focus is ‘place’ related services

Emerging Insights II Driver is to manage data in an efficient and integrated way Wide diversity of services based on: data collection, analysis and processing Standardization bodies involvement is key Services are normally provided by 3 rd parties, sometimes in house Platform maintenance is provided by 3 rd entities, often the ones that built the platform External cloud storage has been selected as the most economic and scalable solution Certification is envisaged, but not currently in place Several app Market Place are foreseen Platforms are mainly city-funded, but sometimes central governments are involved Bigger cities without a platform have silo services, smaller ones do not

Industry Initiative facilitated by the European Commission Big, small and diverse industry organisations Workshop in Brussels on 27 April Fully committed to work openly with cities Ambitious goals: – By 2018, create a strong EU city market for Urban Platforms – By m residents of EU cities use Urban Platform Memorandum of Understanding

Develop a set of principles and a joint reference architecture framework Develop a joint data and service ontology Accelerate the adoption by standardisation bodies Standards/reference framework compliant Smart Cities commercial products and solutions Develop with cities tailored operational frameworks (both for installation and servicing phases) MoU - Goals

Interoperability Replicability Scalability Open common interface (APIs) and corresponding tools (SDK) Set of functional capabilities and corresponding technical modules based on city needs and use cases Multiple layers – e.g.,: Infrastructure, Data management, including semantics/ontology, Open interface layer, Analytics, Service creation and provisioning, Security and privacy, General management services, Testware MoU Joint reference architecture

MoU - Roadmap

Reason - avoid entry barriers and/or vendor lock-in The focus of this standardisation exercise is to identify, and in case of need develop, a subset of open standards that are considered to be essential for any City Platform, so that: – the vertical interoperability requirements towards (i) sectorial systems and (ii) city applications and services with the platform are well defined – the adaptation of city applications and services from city platform to city platform is minimised H2020-SCC

Principal Question: What will it take to help speed cities in deploying solutions that help digitize their services, and connect across them to extract the benefits of modern ICTs? Feedback on the Roadmap on the MoU: how could this sub cluster support the MoU? Urban Platforms Discussion

… Urban Platform Conclusions