1. City of Albuquerque Smart City Initiatives
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Peter Ambs
Chief Information Officer

2. Guiding principles
Agreement between City leadership and citizens that the world has changed and local government needs to move to the digital world
Modernize and stabilize the infrastructure
Promote and leverage the use of shared systems (ERP)
Upgrade the line of business applications and provide integration where appropriate
Build online services to match the built environment
Promote mobile apps
Provide for mobile workforce enablement
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3. Innovate
Two speed IT requires a new digital architecture running along side conventional, legacy systems
Transformational, through an investment portfolio of non-linear applications
Funding and projects come from the business units
Strategic applications owned by the business units
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4. Digital Leadership
Innovate while optimizing, sustain operational excellence while innovating with a plan
Compete in sprints while delivering long-term value
Transient opportunities arise quickly
Integrate external partners into sourcing portfolio (while acting as a single entity)
Every job is software enabled
Everything is digitized and information based
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5. Citizen Engagement
Deliver citizen-centric services and apps with a people-first approach. Citizens prefer to engage with “one” city, not a series of disconnected depts. and processes
Licensing and permitting
Construction barricading
Business registration
Alarm permits
Parking citations
Adopting a pet
Applying for a job
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6. Civic Tech, Open Data
Opening up public data—making it accessible to the people
Increases transparency
Creates opportunities for the development of new services
Publishing ‘open data’ spawned ‘civic tech’
We moved data traditionally stored behind city firewalls and made it available publicly.
Citizens and civic tech developers can transform this data into meaningful information to help create a smarter and more livable city.
Spur civic app development and economic growth
Data.cabq.gov
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7. Open Data Value Proposition
Citizens who are connected, talented and passionate about solving problems
Government delivering services and information when and where requested
Innovation
Improved governance

8. City of Albuquerque Smart City Program
Connections between people, data, companies, sensors, systems, and local government are the core elements of a Smart City.
The ability to create intelligence from infrastructure and deployed systems.
The case of IoT is about connecting sensors to a data network, routing the data to a central repository, and then processing the data. Ideally, the interconnection of IoT devices and systems would be its own separate network that is solely for IoT sensor data.
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9. Government as a Platform
Cities must be viewed as platforms
Citizens are encouraged to use technology and creatively disrupt and redefine core functionalities.
Every service and item (IoT) in a city is potentially a hub of real-time data. When analyzed in isolation, there’s no intelligence, but when co-related with other data produced on a macro scale, the possibilities for disruptive innovation are endless.
Gamification, playing ‘budget what-if’, empower citizens to use public funds as they see fit (based on allocated budget). Participatory democracy in action!
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10. Smart City technologies
Cloud (who does it best)
Mobile
ABQ311
ABQRide, Text to Ride (reduced 311 calls by 550k/annual)
ABQ BioPark app, and many more…
Big Data
IoT, sensor based networks
Intelligent traffic systems, parking
Environmental health, air particulates, pollen
311 data, snapshot of what is happening in our City
Social Media
Preferred method of constituent communications
Broadband
Central Ave, US-Ignite
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11. Smart City targets Energy/Transportation Public Safety
Smart Street LED light project
Smart Parking project
ART/mobile pay
Utility Automated Meter Reading (AMR)
NMGCO, in place
Water Authority, in place
PNM (2/16) filed PRC request for smart meter implementation
Public Safety
PulsePoint, CPR/AED smartphone app
Police Data Initiative
RealTime Crime Center (RTCC)
Mobile, online reports APD-Mobile
NextDoor.com
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12. Digital Inclusion Central Avenue Broadband
Expand digital inclusion with access and skills training
TechHire, build IT skills with enhanced education outcomes
Public/private partnerships to help ensure all citizens have basic technology access and literacy
Working with Microsoft and their Microsoft Digital Literacy curriculum to offer Digital Literacy classes
Epicenter Digikids
Innovate ABQ partnership
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13. Sharing Economy Apps Something interesting is happening.
Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles.
Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content.
Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory.
Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate, $10B valuation.
These companies have thin layers that sit on top of vast supply systems (where the costs are) and interface with a huge number of people (where the money is). There is no better business to be in.
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