The Connected Megacity

The Connected Megacity

Mobile World Congress 2013

Mobile World Congress 2013 | © Ericsson AB 2013 | 2013-02-25 |

› 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


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


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


Three use cases


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


› 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


› 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

The Connected Megacity

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