Graham Bennett

Launch of INCA’s

Ultra-Connected Smart CitiesSpecial Interest Group

Derby is not 1 of 10: ‘super-connected cities’

Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Manchester, or Newcastle.

Derby is not 1 of 8: ‘Core cities’

Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, or Sheffield.

Derby is 1 of 27: Aberdeen, Brighton & Hove, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Coventry, Derby, Dundee, Exeter, Gloucester, Hull, Leicester, Londonderry, Newport, Norwich, Oxford, Perth, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Preston, Salford, Southampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland, Swansea, Wolverhampton, York.

Still missing from 10 & 27: Liverpool, Nottingham, and Sheffield.

Why Derby should be an Ultra-Connected Smart City

1.Global competitiveness, to rebalance the national economy for growth

UK’s No.1 high-tech city. . .

Why Derby should be an Ultra-Connected Smart City

2. Effective resource management:• Energy• Transport• Security• Health & Social care• Smart Citizens

Why Derby should be an Ultra-Connected Smart City

3. Local employment:• 1,000 more jobs every year . . .

• Boost start-up rate• 21st Century skills

What Derby is doing to become an Ultra-Connected Smart City

1. Core NetworkConnecting:•Public sector agencies•Major businesses/business parks•Major new developments

2. The Osmaston vision

What Derby is doing . . . . .

At Osmaston . . . There will be:

•330 new homes•Significant enterprise units•A new GP surgery•A new school•Refurbishment of up to 2,500 homes•Genuine resident engagementPlus:

•Neighbourhood wide superfast broadband•Sensors and actuators in all homes

The Osmaston approach• Sensors will provide vital evidence

for city-wide refurbishment programmes

• Sensors & actuators will support local effective management of energy

• New GP surgery will enable development and delivery of telecare and telehealth

• Training facility for GPs in use of data/technology

3. Smart Derby City

• Osmaston trail-blazer will support city-wide roll outs

• Will link into smart transport management• Data generated could allow development

of “app’s” to support the citizen

All part of developing Derby as a smart city

What Derby is doing . . . . .

Conclusions: (1)

Our shared context:

•The future is unpredictable•Greater interconnectedness than before•Scale & speed of change is increasing

•‘Impacts’ are quicker & greater•Quality, current information is essential•Data infrastructure can help cope . . . ?

Conclusions: (2)We need to:

•Think comprehensively - ‘whole system’•Address fragmented market – not ignore!•Business model, inc stimulating demand

•Confront threat of ‘spoiling tactics’•Recognise no single “killer App’”

and most of all, accept that . . . . .

Partnership Matters!