Colette Maloney, EC DG CNECTSvetoslav Mihaylov , EC DG CNECT

Andrew Collinge, GLAIna Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer

Action Sub-Cluster on Urban PlatformGeneral Assembly

21 May 2015

• Introduction • Survey on urban platforms - results • Industry MoU on urban platforms• H2020-SCC-03-2015 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 NEEDS

TECH PROVIDERS

ACTION

PLAN

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 Survey30 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

RoadmapData Collection

Generic Enablers

Platform Market

SURVEY

Responses to date

Cities WITH an UP

Cities WITHOUT an UP

29

Cities

12

Countries

Cities serving 28million

citizens

Budapest

Barcelona Valencia

Bucharest

BariEdinburgh London

Santander

GhentTiranaCastellón

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 3rd parties, sometimes in

house• Platform maintenance is provided by 3rd 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 2025 300m 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

MoUJoint reference architecture

MoU - Roadmap

Key date Action Who

21 May 2015 Announce MoU at Berlin EIP

tbd Develop reference architecture MoU partners

tbd Set up CSrg - Consumer Stakeholder reference group (cities, research, utilities)

MoU partners

tbd Audit early movers Platforms and Standards MoU partners

tbd Set up ISrg - Industry Stakeholders reference group (infra-structure, service providers)

MoU partners

tbd Test and publish reference architecture MoU partners

tbd Provide open interfaces, formats and ontology MoU partners

tbd Publish map of standards MoU partners or ISrg

tbd Identify Demonstrator Urban Platforms EIP

tbd Create 4-5 showcases of existing assets EIP

tbd Pilots EIP

tbd Templates ISrg

tbd Provide testware to assure conformance, interoperability and security of urban platforms

Tbd

2018 Market success/evaluation EIP?

Exploitation and new case studies from cities ISrg

2025 300m residents of EU cities use Urban Platform(s)

• 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-03-2015

H2020-SCC-03-2015

• 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

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Urban PlatformConclusions