1. Towards smart cities… Dr. Serge DRUAIS

2. Smart City Agenda You have said smart Cities?
Moving to a new architecture
Thales activities in the field
MAESTRO: Extended Supervision
The vision we pursue is a city where citizens feel comfortable living their life, moving, communicating, making use of services from everywhere (home, travelling, mobile,…) and contributing themselves to the city welfare.
Dongtan, China
Smart City

3. Smart city 2020…
Our cities are fast transforming into artificial ecosystems
of interconnected, interdependent intelligent digital “organisms”
Emerging technologies (ICT) are poised to reshape our urban environments William J. Mitchell (MIT, smart city Lab)
“Our cities are fast transforming into artificial ecosystems of interconnected, interdependent intelligent digital organisms. This is the fundamentally new technological condition confronting architects and product designers in the twenty-first century.”

4. Helsinki: Smart City & City 2.0
We are going to need new ways to address and to solve global problems, but our connectivity will bring us tools unimaginable even just a few years ago.
Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world.

5. Shanghai Hongqiao Transportation Hub
Future biggest multi modal transportation Hub of China (and Asia)

6. Smart city: Main functional Architecture
The smart city is the Information & communication Infrastructure
e-Tourism web 2.0 approach
User Generated Contents
Context Awareness Info Push
Energy Management
E-learning
Knowledge Management
Role gaming
E-learning
Tourism
Ambient
Energy
Homeland
Security
Smart
City
Video surveillance
Sensor networks integration
Video semantic capabilities
Traffic information
Fleet management
Access Control
Road Charging
Emergency Call
Mobile Payments
Parking Management
Pay As You Drive
City Logistics
Vehicle Tracking
Work Force Managem.
Electronic Patient Record
Therapy management
Biomedical parameters monitoring
Second Opinion Management
Pharmaceutical risk mgmt
Intelligent Transportation Systems
e-Health
WSN
Management
platform
ICT platform for Wireless Sensor Networks management and control

7. Smart City: Main challenges
Smart cities
Extended communication (Home, travels, WIFI, G3….) for users and city operators
Mobility (Public Transport and virtual collaboration)
Transportation
Intelligence Transportation systems
Inter modality – new added value services for users (attractively)
Environment
Energy saving – C02 reduction
Impact on systems (Physical and IT)
Exchange of data
Open Architecture (platform)
Interoperability
Extended supervision capabilities
Complexity management

8. Some basic definitions
Interoperability
Functional ability of two or more systems to interact or to be used easily or automatically in combination with each other
A needed quality in the ICT-embedded industries
Provides connectivity between hardware or software and between entities (government/business/citizens)
Increases flexibility and agility, reduces costs and implementation time
Open Standard
Specifications describing program or device characteristics, available to the technical community and vetted through open process like : W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) WS-I (Web Services-Interoperability Organization), OMG…

9. Today Business goals through ICT
Increasing collaboration within and among enterprises and governmental bodies during their entire product and service provision life cycle is a global trend.
Most of these organizations are transforming themselves into "networked organizations".
These new collaboration concepts are especially relevant for SMEs.
Related IT systems and applications need to be interoperable in order to achieve seamless interaction across organizational boundaries and thus realize networked organizations.

10. Your ICT systems cartography
The challenge...
IT Realities
As they say, the devil is in the details. Today, businesses have ever increasing complexity in their business model, business processes and the systems upon which those processes run. They also have a substantial investment in that infrastructure that most can ill afford to simply toss out. The IBM strategy not only recognizes that reality, but is optimize in ways that allows business to make that evolution to on demand incrementally, while leveraging past investments in corporate IT assets and skills. This is a real architecture diagram from a real IBM client. It demonstrates the complexity of the problem facing many companies today. The scary thing is that this was chart 1 of 4.

11. THALES ICT policy : Towards Open System
Open Systems
Ensure flexibility & Interoperability
Avoid vendor lock-in / Drive cost effectiveness
Ensure future access to information
Maximize freedom of action
Open standards
Promoting interoperability by using open published specifications for API's, protocols and data and file formats
Open architecture
Building loosely coupled, flexible reconfigurable solutions
Open Source Software
Promotes standards
Leverages community development and collaborative innovation
OPEN SYSTEMS
10 Open Computing: Staying…..Open for Business
Open standards, open architectures and open source software can all move a company’s systems to greater degrees of flexibility, resilience maximizing freedom of action. Adopting open technologies is not the only way to address business needs, and in some limited cases, may not always be the most expedient. However, there is little doubt that software technology will continue to move from closed, proprietary base infrastructure to open, standardized platforms, allowing software innovation to take place higher up the software stack.

12. Implement open systems principles
Process
Application SW
Tools
Process
Application SW
Workbench C C C
TUP
Domain Middleware
Middleware
Platform
Platform
Platform
No Middleware
No separation between
Applicative and
technical software
Middleware
Provide technical services to enforce technical software reuse
Framework
Tooled-Up Process & Domain Middleware enforcing
Reusable Domain component
Domain Middleware
1997
Third Party
components C C C
TUP
2007
Domain Middleware
Open Middleware
Platform
Open Architecture – Platform

13. Thales Civil Supervision Activities
Integrated Communication and Supervision Systems for Transport
Urban transport (metro, trams, Automated People Movers)
Main Line Rail
Tunnels, Car parks
Critical Infrastructures Protection
Buildings (Museums, airports, industrial plants, …)
Oil & Gas plants
City centres (urban safety)
Energy Transportation
Oil & Gas transportation
Electricity transportation
Water distribution 13

14. Today’s Architectures of Supervision Systems
Silo approach: one application for each function
SCADA
ATS
Ticketing
Public Information
Access Control
Video
Management
Voice & Data
Pros
Cons
Highly modular  Modifying any module does not impact the others
No integrated MMI  Human based global situation awareness
Solution based on various protocols
Many servers needed 14

15. Today’s Limitations of Supervision Systems
Complex lifecycle management of the system
Silo architecture : many different applications to maintain and many interfaces to manage
Super-SCADA : high risk of regression due to the complexity of the software.
Lack of decision support when alarms occur
Manual actions required to follow paper procedures
Risk of not following correctly the procedure, problems of coordination between operators, …
Operators training not realistic enough
The simulation does not enable to simulate complex incidents 15

16. M.A.E.S.TR.O* Main Objectives
Provide a system both modular and integrated
Integrate any application (Thales, legacy or 3rd party applications) and control them by an integrated MMI
Easily replace any application without impacting the others
Modify interfaces between the applications without modifying the applications themselves
Provide as much as possible automated system response in case of specific incidents
Provide Training & Simulation Capabilities
Take benefits of Thales expertise in Training & Simulation for transport, energy, and military domains (3D synthetic environment, human behaviour modelling, operational & supervisory training, exercise definition & development,…)
* Modular Architecture for Energy Security and TRansport Operators 16

17. Innovative Modular Architecture
Integrated Web MMI
MAESTRO Service (SOA) Framework
SOA connector
SCADA
ATS
Ticketing
Public Information
Access Control
Video
Management
Voice & Data
Training & simulation module
Human behaviour
Threats
Role
Players
Training Instructor

18. Thales, legacy, 3rd party sub-systems integration
MAESTRO architecture allows to integrate ANY 3rd party application, thanks to any API (Application Programming Interface) or interface description (any protocol)
MAESTRO SOA Framework
Existing SOA connector
SOA connector to be developed
Thales application
SOA connector to be developed
API
Specific protocol
3rd Party application
3rd Party application
Thales applications include SOA connectors
3rd party applications SOA connectors can be developed either by Thales or the application supplier

19. Services Orchestration
Integrated Web MMI
MAESTRO SOA Framework
4 : Set lifts at platform level
2 : Switch CCTV on monitor
1 : A train is entering
3: - Display message on PID - Send audio message
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SCADA
ATS
Ticketing
Public Information
Access Control
Video
Management
Voice & Data
The Business Process is defined in the SOA Framework and can evolve easily without impacting any of the applications

20. MAESTRO Integrated MMI
Ergonomics optimized following a dedicated study

21. Training & Simulation Objectives Technical Solution
Train efficiently the Supervision operators, especially to crisis situations
Assess the procedures efficiency
Support Customer in defining relevant means & procedures (position of the CCTV, need of escalators, train timetables, etc.)
… through a very realistic synthetic environment
Equipment simulation
(eg : train mouvement)
Threat simulation (fire)
Technical Solution
Equipment simulation models interacting with each other. Models can be controlled by an instructor
3D modelling of the infrastructure and CCTV modelling
Human behaviour modelling based on Artificial Intelligence
Advanced training functions
Enhanced reality: integrating real-time data in the synthetic world
Models interactions
People’s model
3D model, as seen from a simulated CCTV 21

22. Merci – Thanks – 谢谢 Serge DRUAIS