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Smart City Foundations

The importance of the transport layer for Smart Cities and IoT

Introduction – Adam Davis

• Owner & Director of TPL Connect

• Owner, Managing Director of edgeDC

• Consultant in Wired and Wireless Infrastructure projects

• Housekeeping– I am not the technical guru (we have staff that are)

– I say “Umm” a lot

– I may swear

– If my voice gets to monotone, feel free to snore

Relevant Projects

• Sunshine Coast Smart City Principles

• SunCentral Smart City Gigabit Free Public WiFi

• Sunshine Coast Council Smart City Fibre Network

• edgeDC Data Centre D&C

• Telstra BigAir Project, Fibre and Wireless

• Townsville Council Smart City Data Centre Cost modelling

Enough Already

• Lets get the Elephant in the room out of the way

• The word Smart has to be the most overused (and soon to be most despised word in technology today)

• Todays presentation is no different I am sorry! You can boo now.

• But why is this relevant?

Smart City: So were we dumb before?

• The push toward smart cities and digitalstrategies is (should be) for onepurpose:

– To use data to enable smarterdecisions and enhance the lives ofthe people in the region

• Currently overlooked and we see tomany hidden agendas withmanufacturers and consultants (ofcourse not this one!)

• The ability to innovate by using thisinformation is transforming business,government and communities

THE WORLDS POPULATION IS SET TO INCREASE

BY 33% BEFORE 2050

70% OF THOSE PEOPLE LIVING IN URBAN

ENVIRONMENTS

Hype vs Reality

Why Smart and why now?

• Why are we doing this?

• What are the benefits?

• What are the long term affects?

• Who will suffer?

• Who will benefit?Prediction by Bosch Global

The Human factor

• The human interaction with technology is the most important consideration

• How we do we connect, and what is the user experience?

• What do we expect from a Smart technology?

What is “Smart”

• The world has over 500 cities with 1M + People

• China alone will have 221 cities with 1M+ by 2025

– So the ability to make informed decisions around:

– Infrastructure

– Transport

– Logistics

– Buildings– And much more…

https://youtu.be/gXuPXqNdCLw

What do all Smart Technologies need?

• Connectivity

Source: http://adtellintegration.com/smart-cities-infrastructure/

The Architecture

• A foundation Layer Approach

The Growth of Wireless

• The growth and importance of Wireless is massive

Source: Embedded Computing Design http://www.embedded-computing.com/embedded-

computing-design/the-fast-growing-m2m-market-presents-a-series-of-wireless-design-

challenges#

Wireless Technology Trends

• New Wireless technologies emerging

– IEEE P802.11ac

• Becoming prevalent

– Ingenu RPMA

– nWave

– SigFox

– Weightless SIG

– EnOcean

– Wireless HART,

– DASH7

– MyriaNed

– 6LoWPAN

– ZigBi Bluetooth

Wireless in the Real World

• IoT and Mobile are driving wireless connectivity

• The network is becoming a Distributed topology

• Even though many are low data rate, they are low latency dependant as well

Wiring Wireless

• 802.11ac 5GHz transmit freq is becoming the standard

– User speeds up to 1.3Gb/s

– Min Cat 6A Required

– Min 10Gb/s capable balanced twisted pair cable

– PoE + requirements

Smart Poles

• Smart Poles are in fast take up

• Can house:

– Smart Lights

– CCTV

– IoT Gateway

– Sensors

– WiFi

– PA

– etc

Integration and Convergence

• So many devices

• Differing protocols and modalities

• Differing transmission types

• Differing communications types

Source:https://www.slideshare.net/PujanMotiwala/cisco-smart-city

The Edge

• Sensors and Actuators

• Smart Devices

• Cars

• People

• Ubiquitous connectivity

Latency @ the Edge

• This one word is the key driver for edge compute

• Currently, the majority of Internet of Things devices rely on cellular networks.

• The vast amount of data on these networks slows the rate at which it is processed.

• The Data Centre market will change

• Micro DC’s will finally become a thing

• Distributed compute

• Cloud at the edge

What Role does Data play?

• To garner the correct data is one problem The ability to usefully translate this data is another

• Ownership of data

• Access to the data

• Speed at which the data can be sourced, analysed and used

• Gartner predict 25.1 Billion Live IoT Endpoints in the next few years

The issues

• Funding, or lack there of

• C Level buy in, justifying the spend for the saving

• Prioritising

• This is where the foundation layer and Data Centres come in

• Implementation and Execution

• Ownership: IT vs OT

Optimising

• Changing Environment

• Changing Architecture

• Large Scale device growth

IT IoT

User Human Machine

Architecture Static Architecture Dynamic

Flexibility Fairly Flexible Mostly Static

Understanding Ability to scale well understood We are still learning

Ownership Total Unknown and point of contention

Security High Unknown and point of contention

R E V I E W L E A R N

O P T I M I Z E

EaaS - Everything as a Service

Yep couldn't resist.

• Everything is moving to as an aaS model

• Transport, metering, infrastructure

• The major user advantage is “evergreen solutions”

• The major vendor advantage is an ongoing revenue stream and clients that are closely aligned

• Creates better solutions through user input

The Criteria

• Have a policy for the plan

• Smart City Principles

• Don’t do technology forTechnology sake!

• Use technologies thatwill impact the keyregional drivers

What does the future Hold

• Behaviour analytics

• Smart Infrastructure

• Energy management transformation

• Smart homes etc, however

Summary

• Shields predicts that the sensor market will be over $5T over the next 5 years

• The need for more connectivity and edge compute has only just begun

• The need for more and more foundation layer infrastructure will continue

Thank you - Questions

• Email: adam.davis@tplconnect.com.au

• Ph: 0424 366 898