The Connected Megacity Mobile World Congress 2013
The Connected Megacity
Mobile World Congress 2013
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› Urbanization trends
– In the year of 2050 it is estimated that 70 percent
of the world’s population will live in cities
– The highest growth will be noticed in Asia and Africa
– A high birthrate combined with an increasing migration from the rural areas lead to the very dynamic growth process
› Socioeconomic drivers
– Push factors include unemployment, poor housing and infrastructure, lack of educational facilities, etc.
– Pull factors include economical opportunities, attractive jobs, better education, modern lifestyle, etc.
– Cities are engines of economic productivity and creativity as they bring tools and people together
THE MEGA-URBANIZATION
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TOKYO39 MILLIONSTOKYO39 MILLIONS
DELHI33 MILLIONSDELHI33 MILLIONS
MEXICO CITY26 MILLIONSMEXICO CITY26 MILLIONS
SHANGHAI28 MILLIONSSHANGHAI28 MILLIONS
MUMBAI27 MILLIONSMUMBAI27 MILLIONS
MEGACITIES (and almost megacities) 2025
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DIVERSITY OF CHALLENGES
ENERGY WASTE
EDUCATION PUBLIC SAFETY POLLUTION HEALTH
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
URBAN DIVIDESGREEN ASPECTS
WATER
URBAN PLANNING JOBS TRANSPORTATION
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
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Finding a balanced
view on city growthAwareness, understanding,
and collaboration
IDEAS FOR IMPROVED GOVERNANCE
COMPETITIVENESS ENVIRONMENT
QUALITY OF LIFE
BEHAVIORAL CHANGE ICT OPPORTUNITIES
SUSTAINABILITY CITIZEN DIALOGUE
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› The governance perspective
– Managing infrastructure and resources efficiently
– Real-time monitoring and analytics tools for dynamic short-term action as well as holistic long-term planning
– Improved public administration with increased transparency and efficiency through
› The citizen perspective
– Awareness of decisions and what type of behavior that the city and the citizens benefits from
– Personal and contextual incentives for sustainable behavioral change
– Driving collaboration and the ability to affect the city
surroundings through collective action
COMMON ICT THEMES
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COMMON ICT THEMES
› The technology perspective
– Bridging components supporting the understanding of processes in other sectors to reach synergy effects
– Services having the support from the knowledge and
reasoning of an intelligent system
– Importance of data visualizations that help create awareness about, for example, sustainability issues
› The business perspective
– Augmenting traditional products with ICT features and
services that differentiate and enhance their usage
– Enabling radically new solutions to city challenges by building on the creativity of people and businesses
– Understanding how shifts from physical goods to the service sector can amplify the environmental benefits of e-services
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Sustainable city modelsLong-term vision alignment, evaluations,
proactive measures, transformations, collaboration, regulations Dynamic city operations centers
Optimization, resource management,
infrastructure, public services, objects, sensors, actuators
Community and business
participationCitizen contributions, incentives and
rewards, responsibility, good practices, services, business innovation
Knowledge and
reasoning layer
Knowledge and
reasoning layer
Crowdsourcing and service data
Contextual and personal info
UpdatereasoningalgorithmsEvent
information
Shared data
Updatepreferences Status
information
Respond to events
Public safety Education
Food
Health Jobs
Energy Water
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Three use cases
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Gather data from devices & systems
• Traffic characteristics
• Mobile networks• Base stations
• Cell phones
• Logs• Transformation
Learning
• Machine Learning• Data Mining
• Structure Learning
• Parameter Learning• Case based learning
Knowledge representation
• Learned knowledge
• Expert knowledge• Logic and probabilistic knowledge
• Semantic models
Reasoning
• Logic reasoning• Probabilistic reasoning
• Hybrid reasoning
• Markov logic• MEBN
• Complex event processing
• Verification• Simulation
Decide & Act
• Find best action sequence
• Decision support
• Rule generation and suggestions
• Explanation of decisions• Monitoring of results to improve future decisions
reasonlearning knowledgedata
Reinforcement
decision
›It shows how the city can respond to an unexpected event in a resilient way. It also suggests how a sophisticated reasoning
around the characteristics of the event can provide knowledge to the city services about the best way of responding to it.
And how available resources (public services, people, sensors, devices, etc.) can be used in an effective way to understand
and mitigate the situation; something that require interoperability and cross-domain communication.
Resilient CityFrom Data via learning to decision
UI, API & SDK
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› It is easy to imagine how sensors feed data into a city operations center, and how that data is analyzed and used to optimize different public services.
› However, another interesting question is how all the gathered city data can be used by the inhabitants, and how the data can be presented in different contexts to create awareness and understanding.
› Something that possibly triggers a more sustainable behavior.
› This is of course done through a combination of technical enablers, to name a few:– Understanding data
– Decision Support
– Human Mobility Analytics
– Mode of Transport
– Context-aware ITS
– Ericsson Apps
Proactive City
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› Cellular communications are only one part of the puzzle and the smart grid communication architecture will be made of up many technologies
› There is no silver bullet, no one technology
› Cellular and in particular LTE is ideally placed for last-mile connectivity in the field area network
› Experience from our Utility customers shows that the key use-cases are
– advanced metering
– grid monitoring and control
– field workforce
– distributed energy and - with a longer lead time - electric vehicles.
› It is equally important to understand network optimization for these particular applications and this is where the features of LTE play an important role, namely
– low latency
– QoS
– high throughput
Greener City
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