Data-Driven Innovation in Smart Cities

Prof Dr Pieter Ballon Director Living Labs, iMinds & Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

DATA & SMART CITIES

Data & the Smart City

• Monitoring => Control => Optimisation => Autonomy

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Current opportunities

Maas.fi

Real-time data

opentransport

Real-time data

newsmonkey

Real-time data

newsmonkey

Real-time data

newsmonkey

Solving the Market Failure• Marketplaces underdeveloped right now• For a healthy marketplace to exist, market failure should be

solved• Market failure: e.g. in presence of public goods (like public data)• “Data is the Fuel for the Smart City”

– e.g. London, Helsinki, Ghent

From Open Data to Open Real-time Data From Datasets to API’s From Availability to Usage

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Maturity Levels

Real-time cities progress heat map (source: Frost & Sullivan, 2015)

ANTWERP

LEUVEN

GHENT

The Need to Connect

BRUSSELS

DATA-DRIVEN INNOVATION IN CITIES

RDI-role for the city• Reinvent organisation & services• Solve maturity issues• Raise knowledge• Get feedback & buy-in from citizens• Organise & prepare market• Activate quadruple helix

Network layerDeploying a city-wide network

connecting multiple wireless technologies

Data layerProviding an open data platform with a

real-time view on the city

User & Business layerLiving lab approach to allow users and

business to interact with new technologies

Hardware layerInnovating wearable and sensor technologies

City Lab with Four layers

Data-driven Approach: architecture

Data-driven Approach: business innovation

iMinds Living Lab Assumption Board (Rits, Schuurman & Ballon, 2015)

Data-driven Approach: user behaviour

A*Sign

Innovating parking sign systems

CITY PROJECT

PERIODOctober 2015 to December 2015

PROJECTReal world user tests with the winner of Apps for Antwerp who developed hard- and software for a new parking sign system.

CITY OF THINGS offers:Businessmodel support, FIWARE integration, real-life Living Lab testing.

City government system for digital traffic signsDigital traffic signsFull planning & control systemCitizen service platformNew revenue opportunities

A*SIGNAPPCITY

WORKER

PLATFORM

WEB

CITIZEN REQUEST

PLATFORMSIGFOXGPS

NFC/QR

E-INK

BATTERY

ALARM

WEBCITY

CONTROL

NGSI

Real-time data

CITY OF THINGS

Thanks!

Pieter.Ballon@iminds.be

www.facebook.com/iminds

EMAIL:

@iminds

Living Labs & Data-Driven Innovation

Permanent Living Lab

Local Ecosystem

Open Data

Open Enablers

Living Labs & Data-Driven Innovation

Permanent Living Lab

Local Ecosystem

Open Data

Open Enablers

• Real-Life experiments• Real-time Logging• Large-scale Panel

• Public• Private• Real-Time• iMinds Tech• Partner Tech• FIWARE

• SME community• SME Acceleration• Digital Transformation