Making Kansas City a Digital LeaderDigital Inclusion • Technology Innovation • Smart City Leadership

http://kcdigitaldrive.org • @kcdigitaldrive

Mission: To make Kansas City a Digital Leader

• Closing the Digital Divide • Driving Digital Innovation • Building Kansas City’s Reputation

We have gigabit-speed technology in place. Now it’s time to secure our economy’s future and improve the quality of life for all Kansas Citians by...

What We Do: Community-Driven Innovation• Smart Cities• Digital Inclusion• Healthcare Innovation• Government/Civic Tech• Education• National Partnerships

2016

May 16-18

White House Smart Cities Initiatives (2015)• $160 million in federal research funds and 25 partnerships• KCDD has led the metro’s participation in 3 of those• Present for launch, been working for 3 years leading up to these grants

– US Ignite– Smart Gigabit Cities– Mozilla Gigabit Fund– Global Team Challenge– MetroLab Network

IEEE Core Smart City (2015)• Kansas City, MO selected as Core Smart City by IEEE• Help to set strategic conversation and create white papers, instructional material, and conferences in KC

IEEE Smart Cities Initiative2016-2018 StrategyGilles Betis, Initiative Chair

Additional “Soft” Infrastructure*Critical test bed element*• Multiple municipal governments embrace network experimentation• Think Big’s Living Lab for smart city technology testing and commercialization• Collaborative capacity: 2 states, 119 municipalities• Commitment to open data• Commitment to citizen engagement

Existing ICT Infrastructure• Lots of fiber, variety of models

– Google has laid over 8,000 miles in the metro– AT&T Gigapower, liNKCity, Consolidated Communications– Municipally owned fiber and conduit, connected traffic signals, etc– carrier hotel, Cisco project, street lights, smart meter/grid….. “many test beds”, Sporting Park, – Sprint

• Cisco/Sprint and telco industry partners providing IoT testbed network (16 sq mi of WiFi)• Carrier hotel (1102 Grand), Sporting Park, and other

KCMO’s Cisco/Sprint project• $15.3M project along streetcar line from River Market to Union Station• Cisco: Sensors, kiosks, networking devices, smart city expertise• Sprint: Free public wifi backbone• City of KCMO: Data governance, aggregation• Think Big Partners: Living Lab

KCMO’s Cisco/Sprint project• Interactive kiosks• Smart parking and traffic signals• Sensor- and video-equipped streetlights by Sensity for parking, snowfall, infrared, watching you, etc.• Opt-in data collection from visitor smartphones• Open data APIs and SDKs

Additional Assets• High-density engineering (Black & Veatch, Burns McDonnell, HNTB)• Health IT (Cerner), Center for Health Insights (UMKC)• UMKC Law School – Entrepreneurship and Policy• Kauffman FoundationInfrastructure as platform for innovation

Black & Veatch: Chula Vista• Project manager for 530+ acre Bayfront redevelopment (convention center, resort/hotel, and condominium/residential properties etc) –innovation district to showcase advanced energy, communications, and smart infrastructure solutions.• Includes business case-based assessment of how wireline and wireless complement one another

– M2M plans from traditional providers– IoT bundles (e.g. Verizon)– LPWAN solutions (public or private)– Muni WiFi

Emerging opportunities• Expansion of Cisco/Sprint “smart corridor”• Mesh digital divide projects (Connecting for Good, Center City)• Connectivity to Housing Authority• Sprint EZFi, mobile hot spot connectivity• Google has hinted at gigabit wireless• Smart Healthy Campus project (Global Cities Teams Challenge)• US Ignite/Digital Town Square• LoRa / LoRaWAN / SymphonyLink

The wireless future—outcomes first• Growing recognition in the non-technical community that fiber assets create platform for unified approach to connectivity

Key Kansas City Challenges (regardless of tech)• Tech policy and regulatory framework• Digital divide and equitable access to new infrastructure• Crime/public safety• Health• Education• Regional governance/state line/economic incentives

Global challenges• Governance, liability, and responsibility for the network• Blurring of private vs public, liberty/autonomy vs efficiency

– Sensors and connectivity turn people into “infrastructure” just as they make buildings, cars, roads, etc “intelligent”• Property lines between software and device—people, corporate, government (not to mention the data!)• “Quality of life” is not interpreted homogenously• Lighting, metering, environmental monitoring, vehicle control—do people really care?

Aaron Deacon913-475-9885adeacon@kcdigitaldrive.orgwww.kcdigitaldrive.org@kcdigitaldrive@aarondeacon