Presentation of iCity Project at Sabadell Smart City Congress

iCity is a project of urban innovation

Marc Garriga - @mgarrigapSabadell Smart City CongressThursday, April 3rd 2014

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• Opening data?• Collaborating with 3rd parties in co-create

public services?• Developing a control layer to manage the

access to your internal systems?• Thinking how to harmonize the access of

your systems?• Squeezing your brain in order to have

more public services with less budget?

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Are you a city that is...

• is using open data in your products?• Creating products for several govs and

you want to simplify this development?• Is searching how expand your business

increasing the market of your products?• Thinking how to complement your

products with value added services?• Yearning to use a real Open Services

Platform, not using a promised platform.

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Are you a SME that is...

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Obviously iCity is your answer!

• is using open data in your products?• Creating products for several govs and

you want to simplify this development?• Is searching how expand your business

increasing the market of your products?• Thinking how to complement your

products with value added services?• Yearning to use a real Open Services

Platform, not using a promised platform.

• An European project• Goal:

To make easier the opening of City ICT infrastructures (information systems) and offer them to third parties to develop services of public interest.

• Main deliverables:A software platform that manages this accessAn engagement methodology to enrol developersA community formed by cities, infrastructures’ owners

and developers (SME).

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What is iCity?

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What is iCity?

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• Cities: that want go further in open data and want co-create services with third parties.

• Responsible of IT infrastructures: That are opening up processes and want to foster their use, but want to control this access.

• Developers (SME): That want to create new services and need the access to public IT infrastructures.

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What is the iCity target?

• An European project that it’s in production.• Synergies among several cities.• A secured way to open its IT infrastructures.• Separate internal systems and external

services that are using them.• Log.• Use statistics (not yet).• Data analytics (not yet).• Development portal (supports the

relationship between cities and developers).• Engagement methodology (and support on

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What iCity offer to Cities?

• More uses of his/her IT infrastructure.• The owner decide the rules.• Orchestration Total control over the

access to the infrastructure.

• Save the infrastructure’s operation against DoS attacks.

• Statistics of access (not yet).• Serialization of calls (not yet).• Cache (not yet).• API Translation (if needed).

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What iCity offer to infrastructures’ owners?

• Free technical support to help Cities, and Infrastructure responsible, open new infrastructures using iCity Platform.

• Free exploitation of the platform until the end of the project (June 2015) (This date is the end of the EC funding, it isn’t the end of the service).

• Capability to evolve the platform according to the cities needs.

• Sustainability once the project have finished.

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What can iCity provide now to new cities and

infrastructures’ owners?

• Access to read-only and read-and-write IT infras.• Currently, access to 14 IT infrastructures.• Common APIs in different cities, (currently SOS OGC

and Open311).• Automatic routing of the calls to the right city.• Developer portal:

• News.• Documentation (wiki) & Forum.• Statistics (not yet).• Communication channel with the cities.

• It’s a way to internationalize your products.

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What iCity offer to developers (SME)?

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What can iCity provide now to new developers (SME)

http://icity-devp.icityproject.com/

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What IT infras.

are currently open

by iCity?

  Barcelona Bologna Genoa London Private organizations

Lamia*

GenericSensor Data

SentiloBCN.

      Smart Citizen Platform.Abertis Smart Zone.

Transport and citizens’ mobility

  QueryHelloBus.QueryHelloBus4ivr.QueryResale.CISIUM Events.CISIUM Metropolitan Traffic.CISIUM Parking.

  Journey Planner.

  Public Transportation*

Environment

SentiloBCN.

  Weather Station.

Air Quality Sensor.

Smart Citizen Platform. 

Weather Conditions*

Citizens’ complaints and information systems

IRIS (Citizens’ Complaints System)

  Citizen’s Desk.

    Issue Reporting*

WiFi WiFi BCN*         HotSpot Places*

Tourism           Tourism Information*Live Streaming*

GIS           GISInformation System*

BCN: iCity sustainability confirmed

Mr. Josep Ramon FerrerDirector of Smart CityDeputy CIOBarcelona City Council

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AT LEAST UNTIL 2020!!

• Open Data is for data. • iCity is for data and for services.

• In many cases, Open Data is for static data.• iCity is (always) real time data.

• Open Data portals could have APIs. • iCity Platform must have APIs.

• Open Data portals offer free and unrestricted data.

• iCity Platform open information systems in a secured and controlled way.

• Open Data is a quite well known concept. • iCity is a kind of service of a new

concept.

iCity goes beyond Open Data

What cities are involved?

Do you want to be the next City/SME of

open/using IT Infrastructures?

Website

www.icityproject.eu

e-Mail

[email protected]

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How to start with iCity

Let’s do it together !