Empowering Smart Citizens to Sense
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This document discusses empowering citizens to participate in sensing activities to help create smarter cities. It outlines how citizens can help gather data using their smartphones' sensors to monitor things like traffic, noise, and environmental conditions. This participatory approach called "crowdsourcing" or "crowdsensing" can help reduce the cost of data acquisition and harness people's creativity. The document also discusses challenges around data ownership and integrating information from various sources to create useful insights and applications for citizens, businesses and governments.
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Empowering Smart Citizens to Sense
- 1. EMPOWERING SMART CITIZENS TO SENSE Dr. Mazlan Abbas CEO - REDtone IOT Sdn Bhd Email: [email protected] ASEAN IoT Innovation Forum Hotel Istana, KL, August 25 2015
- 2. PRESENTATION CONTENTS • Introduction - Internet of Things and its Business Opportunities • The Challenges • Making Sense of Data • Participatory Approach - Empowering Citizens to Sense • Summary
- 3. MOVING FROM M2M TO IOT THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE
- 4. CHANGE IN BUSINESS MODEL
- 6. 10/90 RULE The Last 100 meter connectivity The “last 100 meters” represent > 90% potential number of connections Today, the devices used in the “last 100 meters” are typically not connected. The wide-area network is to a larger extent connected e.g. through smartphones, home routers (e.g. ADSL routers) and GSM / 3G / 4G Routers. Still DisconnectedConnected World
- 7. SELECTING THE IOT BUSINESS WHY SMART CITY?
- 9. Smart City Approach Too much focus on the role of large technology companies and governments as the catalysts of technology-enabled progress.
- 10. DO NOT ignore the most important dimension of cities i.e. the people who live, work and create within them.
- 11. As citizens turn smart so will the cities they inhibit. Traffic Volume Maps 76% want sensors in streets, pavements and public areas to report how crowded a street, shopping mall or park is. THE RISE OF SMART CITIZENS
- 12. Building Trust Citizens encounter good customer service across government channels
- 13. SMART CITIZEN TOOLS Open source and open data Make visible the invisible Sensing the city Provide tools for the citizens to interpret and change the workings of the city Technology may help mitigate the “black hole” problem. EMPOWER THE CITIZENS TO SENSE
- 14. BUILDING 3 TYPES OF CITIES 1. ROI-driven – the aim of rolling out smart city technologies is to generate income which pays for its deployment and more. There are many cities in the western hemisphere which fall into this category, such as Los Angeles, London. 2. Carbon-driven – The aim here is to reduce the carbon footprint and ideally become carbon neutral long-term. These are mainly cities in Middle and Northern Europe, such as Luxembourg, Helsinki, etc. 3. Vanity-driven – Finally, “vanity” driven cities are mainly driven by events where the entire world is watching and they want to be perceived as “modern”
- 15. TO OVERCOME 3 KEY CHALLENGES Only by addressing all three can organizations turn raw data into information and actionable insights. Integrating data from multiple sources Automating the collection of data Analyzing data to effectively identify actionable insights
- 16. MAKING SENSE OF DATA … BUT WHAT CITY DATA? THE GOLD RUSH
- 17. Wisdom Knowledge Information Data More Important Less Important Evaluated understanding Appreciation of Answers to questions. Symbols Understanding Answers to questions WHO WHY HOW WHAT WHERE WHEN VALUE IS CREATED BY MAKING SENSE OF DATA VALUE PYRAMID
- 18. Wisdom Knowledge Information Data More Important Less Important N/A Empty (0), Full (1) Understanding EXAMPLE - SMART PARKING Who park at this lot? What kind of vehicle? Where is the empty parking lot? When is the peak period? How to implement a tiered charging? How to find “overstayed” vehicles? Why this parking area is not fully occupied? Who Benefits? - Citizens / Parking Operators / City Council / Shops
- 19. Home Health Transport OfficeWaste WHAT-IF – WE CAN DO DATA BLENDING Creating New Compound Applications
- 20. All personal items, such as mobile phones, wrist watches, spectacles, laptops, soft drinks, food items and household items, such as televisions, cameras, microwaves, washing machines, etc Private business organization has the right to take the decision whether to publish the sensors attached to those items to the cloud or not. Public infrastructure such as bridges, roads, parks, etc. All the sensors deployed by the government will be published in the cloud depending on government policies. Business entities who deploy and manage sensors by themselves by keeping ownership. They earn by publishing the sensors and sensor data they own through sensor publishers. Personal and Households Commercial Sensor Data Providers Organizations PublicPrivate [Source: “Sensing as a Service Model for Smart Cities Supported by Internet of Things”, Charith Perera et. al., Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technology, 2014] CHALLENGES – DATA OWNERSHIP
- 21. HOW-TO PROVIDE A SMART CITY SOLUTIONS? HOW-TO
- 22. Smart City App #1 SMART CITY SERVICE PROVIDER Device Provider Network Provider Platform Provider Application Provider Customer Network Platform Smart City App #3 Smart City App #2
- 23. IOT ENCOURAGE INNOVATION EVERYONE CAN BE IN THE GAME
- 24. “Makers, startups and crowdsourcing efforts result in high numbers of low-revenue niche IoT applications.”
- 26. The city would pay for access to the light sensors in order to decide when to turn on and off the street lights Gathering temperature, light, pressure, humidity and pollution. COMMERCIAL IOT SENSOR PROVIDER A university may want access to the pollution information for research purposes for a limited period The weather department would want the temperature and pressure data The street town council center would want the temperature and humidity data for planning during rough weather
- 28. PARTICIPATORY SENSING – “RAPID DEPLOYMENT”
- 29. REDUCTION OF DATA ACQUISITION COST – “SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODEL”
- 31. COLLECT DATA PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE – “ASSIST SCIENTIFIC OR SURVEY ACTIVITIES”
- 32. CROWDSENSING GETTING INSIGHTS FROM EMPOWER THE CITIZENS TO SENSE
- 33. SMARTPHONE AS YOUR “SENSING ASSISTANT” Sensors: ① Camera – “Eyes” ② Audio – “Ears” ③ Accelerometer – “Speed” ④ GPS – “Location” ⑤ Gyroscope – “Movement” ⑥ Compass – “Direction” ⑦ Proximity – “Closeness” ⑧ Ambient light – “Eyes” ⑨ Others… Crowdsourcing Via Crowdsensing Context ① Spatial – Location / Speed Orientation ② Temporal – Time / Duration ③ Environmental – Temperature / Light / Noise Level ④ User Characterization – Activity (Mobility Pattern) / Social (Friends, Interactions)
- 34. MAKING CITIES BETTER USING CITIZENS Traffic NoiseEnvironment Network Coverage (WiFi/3G/4G)
- 35. LET ALL CITIZENS BE OUR “EYES”
- 36. Incident reporting facilities - citizens can report on issues concerning public infrastructure allowing collective collaboration to ensure an active response COLLECTIVE COLLABORATION WITH CITIZENS
- 37. MOBILE APPLICATION LIVABILITY LOCAL AREA SERVICES PUBLIC SAFETY NATURAL DISASTER Open Data Smartphone Users Social Media Users PORTAL CITISENSE.COM CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM DASHBOARD EMPOWERING SMART CITIZENS
- 39. WHICH CAME FIRST – THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG?
- 40. SMART CITIZENS AND SENSORS CONNECTING AND AGGREGATING
- 41. Smart City Environmental Monitoring Multiple Sensors Outdoor Parking Management Parking sensors Mobile Environmental Monitoring Sensors installed in public vehicles Traffic Intensity Monitoring Devices located at main entrance of city Guidance to free parking lots Panels located at intersections Smart Citizen Crowdsensing Parks and Gardens Irrigation Sensors in green zones • Temperature • CO • Noise • Car Presence • Ferromagnetic sensors • Temperature • CO • Noise • Car Presence • Measure main traffic parameters • Traffic volumes • Road occupancy • Vehicle speed • Queue Length • Taking information retrieved by the deployed parking sensors in order to guide drivers towards the available free parking lots • Moisture temperature • Humidity • Pluviometer (rain gauge) • Anemometer (wind-speed) • User generated feedback with smartphones that help to make cities better
- 43. Changes in the law do not adapt as quickly as technology changes behavior. Example - Many city managers now carry Smartphones — and some receive communications from citizens about potholes. They worry: The law says, once a pothole is reported, the city is responsible for any damage a car experiences — once it’s officially reported. In a web 2.0 world, what’s an “official” report — when does liability begin — once the city official receives a text? Once a formal notice is filed? Once it’s tweeted to the world? ONE THE MAIN CHALLENGES
- 44. ASK OURSELVES ARE WE READY?