birmingham's smart city vision

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Birminghams

Smart CityVisionEstablishing BirminghamsRoadmap to a Future City


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Backgrund and Cntxt 6

Th Challngs r Biringha 8

Th Sart City Cissin 12

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I am pleased to bring to you this Visionstatement, the rst report o BirminghamsSmart City Commission.

Technological change, and the massiveopportunities it brings, only increases in paceas time goes by.

Inormation and CommunicationTechnology (ICT) provides the opportunity tomake our city smarter and provide people withthe tools to maximise their potential. Assistedliving technologies such as temperature andmovement sensors are giving people thechoice to stay in their homes longer; smartbuildings can automatically adjust to the

changing dynamics o people, weather, airquality and heat; and parking apps can guideyou to the best available parking slot to tacklecongestion in towns.

Lets be rank. Change will come whateverBirmingham does. The world will not standstill. We can neither prevent nor controlchange. What we can do, however, is position

ourselves to maximise the opportunitiesit brings.Our opportunity is to construct a coherent

and viable uture or our City, out o themany materials technological change willthrow at us. We must integrate, collaborate,pool resources, share inormation, and worktogether with the widest range o partners, tomake the most o our opportunities. Here, we

set out the Vision o how to do this.

Our Smart City programmes successwill be achieved only with the help o thepeople that live, study and work here ouruniversities, schools, communities, thirdsector partners and businesses. They bringthe innovation, creativity, ideas and ingenuitythat will enable us to share a better, moresustainable uture.

The Smart City Commission will beworking closely with the Green Commissionand the Youth Unemployment Commissionto look at the linkages to achieving a Smarttransormative approach across these andother city initiatives.

I would like to express my thanks to theSmart City Commission members who haveworked closely with us to help dene ourvision and priorities. I would welcome yourview on this Vision Statement to help shapeBirminghams Smart City uture. I you haveany comments, I would be keen to hearrom you. Please email me at:

[email protected]

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Cuncillr Jas mcKay

Cabint mbr, Grn, Sa and Sart City

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connectivity

generationinfrastructure

smart

skills

data

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smart

intelligent

working

economic

livingopen

agile

growth

health

transport

world classinvestment

convergence

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Birmingham, like many post-industrial cities,aces signicant challenges. We need to

move to a low carbon economy, be able toplan ahead and adapt to climate change. Asmore and more people live in cities, we mustget better at managing our resources such asenergy and housing, and in times o severenancial constraints take a more joined upapproach to how we deliver services such ashealthcare, transport and education so that wecan achieve economic growth, well-being and

happiness in a sustainable way.

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background

and context


birmingham has alreadystarted its journey tobecoming a

smartcity.

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Rapid advances in technology have thepotential to oer exciting solutions or

new services provision and to create anenvironment that is more innovative and moreecient. An increasingly digitally connectedworld creates the platorm to collect, analyseand use data in new ways that supportsbetter integration by service providers,stimulates innovation by SMEs and respondsto and inorms changes in consumer choice

and behaviour all leading to a better qualityo lie and more jobs.

Birmingham has already started its journeyto becoming a Smart City through a variety

o projects, inrastructure developments,partnerships and collaborations. It is theyoungest, most ethnically diverse city in theUK; its innovators in public sector, privatesector and social enterprise have alreadycreated a unique public-private partnership tooperate Birminghams highway inrastructure;a Smart-phone based local currency; a local

energy trading company and a Big SocietyAward-winning programme o communityinnovation through social media. Its breadtho economic capability across technology,manuacturing, creative media and healthcare,and cultural diversity contribute to the nationaland international export potential o serviceand product innovations rom the city.

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Birmingham is experiencing unprecedentedchange to the economic well-being o itscitizens. The national and internationalnancial situation has compounded manyo the inequalities in the city. Nationalgovernments austerity programmes

signicantly eect the ability and reedom olocal areas to impact on anything outside ocore services.

As with most cities, Birmingham has areaswith diering levels o afuence. Some areaso the city are extremely deprived; wages arelower, more people are unemployed, and thehealth outcomes o residents are poorer in

these places with a lie expectancy gap o over10 years between the worst and best wards.

By 2035, Birminghams population is expectedto be younger, with above national average

growth in the number o people rom all agegroups below 65. It is also a city that is gettingmore diverse. This population growth hassignicant implications on many policy areas.For example, the basic housing requirementor 20112031 is approximately 80,000 extradwellings.

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These present a series o broader challengesthat dene and shape the priorities orBirminghams Smart City roadmap:

Th cnic challng

We need to create the conditions oremployment growth to boost economic

recovery, nding new ways to leverage thecitys nancial strength and develop new waysto help business to fourish.

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the challenges

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Our ability to respond eectively to thesechallenges is hampered on a number o ronts:

Digital inclusin and skills

Around 18.5%1 o adults in Birminghamare still ofine and not beneting rom thesocial and economic opportunities thatthe internet can provide, such as access tojob opportunities or nancial savings romshopping online. We need to make digitalinclusion a priority and support our citizens

and communities to be digitally skilled sothat they can be part o our global digitaleconomy and ensure that our young peopleare equipped with the right skills or the jobso the uture, yet to be invented.

Jind-up apprach

Current city systems and processes are

generally reactive and or historic reasonsrooted in unctional service delivery silos

exacerbated by infexible legacy systemsand long term contracts; poor inormation

fows prevent a shared and connectedapproach across the many projects andmultiple organisations, which seek to workin partnership to deliver the city outcomes.Digital inrastructure also has to deal withhigher demands and technology quicklybecomes superseded. Changes to existinginrastructure and ICT systems are mademore dicult by the act that they have been

built to dierent, oten proprietary standards.Achieving interoperability (i.e. interworking)between dierent systems, the data theyprocess and the people and organisationsthey connect is thereore crucial to deliveringbetter services and achieving greatereciencies.

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Accss t dataMuch benet is expected to come rom

shared intelligence or better service deliveryand the creation o new services and businessmodels. Addressing how dierent publicand private entities collect, maintain and usedata is signicantly hampered by concernsover data security, privacy, contractual andcommercial issues.

Two additional Commissions have been

established to respond specically toenvironmental and socio-economic challenges the Green Commission and the YouthUnemployment Commission. In shapingour Smart City roadmap we need to ensurethat it is not isolated in dening its policyand strategy but ties in with other city wideinitiatives and responsibilities.

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In response to the challenges outlinedabove, the City Councils new administration,established the Smart City Commission2 inJuly 2012, chaired by Councillor James McKay,Cabinet Member or Green, Sae and Smart

City. Its purpose is to drive the long-termvision and strategic leadership that will lay theoundations or Birminghams uture.

It will channel the passion, spirit andingenuity that exists in Birmingham and shapethe technological solutions and partnershipsto deal with immediate and uture challenges.This Statement sets out the initial ndings o

the Commission and outlines the direction otravel or Birmingham as a Smart City.

The Commission, which is drawn romacademia, health, transport, education,

utilities and business including Birminghamstakeholders and national Smart City experts,has looked at Birminghams strengths andweaknesses and opportunities or change.Evidence rom recent Council reports suchas the Economy and Jobs Overview &Scrutiny Committee (Closing the Skills Gap)and the Social Inclusion Process (Giving Hope,Changing Lives Green Paper3) has been

reviewed.In addition, initial ocus group sessions,

with stakeholders rom the business and thirdsector, have helped to shape and inormdiscussions and we plan to develop a robuststakeholder programme to enable strongcitizen and business involvement.

As a result, the Commission has created

this document dening the priorities o whatwe need to do to prepare or the challenges

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o the uture. In a second step, these willbe ollowed by recommendations on how

we will do this. Once agreed, we will createa roadmap and dened actions and howthese link strategically to support the GreenCommission and the Youth UnemploymentCommission and our partners outcomes.

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a defnition or

a smart city4

Smart Cities use inormation and

communication technologies and

data to be more intelligent and

efcient in the use o resources,

resulting in cost and energy

savings, improved service delivery

and quality o lie and reducedenvironmental ootprint all

supporting innovation and the

low carbon economy.

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Our Smart City ambition or Birmingham ishuge and represents the single biggestperiod o change in the city since we grewto become the workshop o the world inthe nineteenth century.

our Sart City is abut nsuring

sustainabl cnic grwth and

prsprity

It presents a new rontier or innovationand enterprise where virtual and physicalcommunities will thrive on collaboration, besupported to create and experiment; delivernew services in better, exciting and previouslyunimaginable new ways.

Ultraast digital connectivity, cloud

technologies, mobile working will open upour workspace to the world and transormhow we do business and deliver servicesmaking us an attractive place to work andlocate; Smart City developments will createa range o new jobs and services and berecognised as a global test bed to trial newtechnologies and services.

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our Sart City is abut iprving livs

Technology will be seamlessly interwoveninto the abric o our city lie to provide betterinormation, more choice, more convenienceand less waste or our citizens, businesses,communities and public services. Imagine carparking and pavement sensors, intelligentstreetlamps, trac lights sequencing andsignage that will adjust accordingly to makethe city saer and an easier place to traveland connect; real time trac and pedestrianupdates to plan when and how we travel toavoid delays, save money as well as reducecongestion and accidents.

Our joined up approach and greaterintelligence across sectors such as health,social care, housing, waste and energy willprovide more personalised services, enable

more eciencies, identiy emerging problems

and enable more targeted interventions toimprove our liestyle and well-being. Webcam

consultations, online appointment bookings,telecare and telehealth is already changing theway healthcare is being delivered providingus with more choice, more convenience andmore independence.

Smart Meters and Smart Grids will providea better deal or consumers, help deliver alow carbon economy and secure our energysupplies in the uture.

Businesses, entrepreneurs and socialenterprises will capitalise on the growtho unleashed data sets producing newconsumer oerings that will impact positivelyon peoples lives.

Over the last ten years or so, many othe key oundations have been put in placethrough urban regeneration, investment

in world class digital inrastructure and

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by starting to complement our traditionalstrengths in manuacturing with new strengthsin knowledge-intensive growth sectors.

Building on these oundations, we nowaim to become one o the pre-eminentglobal cities o the 21st century: an agile city,that is able to work eectively in a resourceconstrained world with increasing populationand move towards a new role, which willuse our strengths in digital and socialcollaboration to drive our uture economy and

ensure sustainable growth, improved healthand well-being and prosperity. Our aim is toturn Birmingham rom a city which responds tochallenges to one which is systematically ableto anticipate and tackle challenges in an agile,low cost and sustainable way.

Our Smart City Commission has startedthat journey in providing the vision and

leadership that is dening the strategic

roadmap to look at how we invest in anduse digital technologies across our manycommunities and with our city partners; to ndnew ways to make best use o our resourcesand data that will deliver better servicesand way o lie, in an open, collaborativeand inclusive way. Our Smart City vision andmission is shown in Figure 1.

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succeed economically

stay safe in green, cleanneighbourhoods

be healthy

ourvision

our

mission

To create the sustainable environment that

will enable our businesses, communities

and citizens to learn, create and prosper in

an open and collaborative way, through the

provision of city governance, platforms, andspaces, which integrate and leverage

intelligence across our communities

Birmingham, the agile city where

enterprise and social collaboration thrivehelping its people live, learn and work

better by using leading technology

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The best place to start and grow a business

Well connected to opportunities, spaces, places

and markets

Open minded, collaborative and experimental

Joined up in our city thinking

An easy, friendly and attractive place to come

together

A pleasant, safe and fun city known for its great

natural environment

Better information, more choice, more

convenience, less waste

A great place to grow up and grow old

smart birmingham:what it looks like and how it eels

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The Smart City Commission seeks to embeda capability or smart and sustainable re-invention into the way the city is organisedand in the way new business is created by:

Making better use of the citys data toimprove service outcomes and improvecitizens lives.

Supporting new business models and

innovation by SMEs and entrepreneursthrough greater collaboration andcommercial engagement with public sector

service delivery.

Enabling a joined up approach acrosssectors such as transport, health andenergy to deliver better services and abetter experience or users. For instanceinvestments such as Birmingham EnergySavers and the Telecare programme,currently managed separately, are bothdealing with people in their homes.

Supporting and empowering our peoplewith the tools and incentives to manage and

improve their own environment.

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More effective use of resources across multipleagencies, minimising waste and increasingvalue adding activity; improving public sectorproductivity.

Provide more personalised and responsiveservices to meet increased citizen expectationsand 24/7 service provision.

Greater visibility that will enable early andtargeted intervention across a range of services,with less duplication and more focus oncontinuity of intervention.

Better predictive analysis and timely decisionmaking to improve service outcomes that willaddress quality of life for citizens.

Drive innovation and new value creation throughthe use of commercial and public data assets.

Stimulate market growth and enablement in theprovision of smart city services, technologiesand applications.

Commercial engagement with public sectorservice delivery driving new business modelsand services.

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Our Smart City Roadmap will deliver:

1. Leadership and ownership2. Exploiting technologies3. Service transormation4. Support mechanisms or innovation5. New inormation marketplaces6. Support to citizens and businesses to close

the digital divide

7. Proling and infuencing to attractinvestment as a recognised Smart City

1. Ladrship and wnrshipThe Smart City roadmap will be led romthe top, to drive the vision and strategy orBirminghams journey. At the same time ourcommunities, businesses and citizens needto have ownership o our Smart City agendato take advantage o its opportunities, helpshape and co-design new services anddynamically grow their very own Smart City.Our success o what we do, will be in therelevance and value it brings to those that live,work, learn and visit Birmingham.

2. expliting tchnlgisWe will secure the development oa world-class, ultra ast digital connectivity, that willattract inward investment, create new jobsand drive innovation. A Smart DevelopmentBlueprint will guide new city investments andcity planning to build in the appropriate digital

and technological inrastructure, availableanytime, anywhere and help avoid proprietarysystems and supplier lock-in.

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3. Srvic transratinWe will develop a joined up, integrated andcitizen centric approach across city systems,and processes using and sharing real timedata and intelligence that will support betterdecision making and enable the delivery omore personalised and targeted servicesor citizens. Innovation orums, silo breakingand creative thinking teams, will providea means to unlock the benets or citizensand drive innovation across sectors and cityinvestments such as independent living to

identiy opportunities to accelerate outcomesand assess the impact o useul data andtechnology on the delivery o smarter services.

4. Supprting innvatinWe will put in place a range o mechanismsto stimulate and drive innovation across allo our communities and in doing so develop

unrivalled skills and expertise in enablingnew business models. That will supportour ambition to make Birmingham the best

place to do business. For instance by makinglarge scale data available, it will becomea new commodity that can be traded andthe provision o data across silos will enableaggregation o demand thus enabling newbusiness ideas. Concepts like micro-energytrading, car pooling, crowd-unding5 etc.all rely on non-traditional business models6

that need to be validated over time. Wewill address the current public procurementpractices that oten stife new ideas andpresent barriers or SMEs to engage with the

City Council and look at or instance outcomebased procurement to include criteria such aslowering the carbon ootprint or enablingpeople to live independently. Creating aninnovative development und addressed atentrepreneurs and business through a varietyo means in conjunction with new procurementapproaches will urther support innovation.

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5. Nw inratin arktplacsWe will put the citys data and the meansto exploit it in the hands o Birminghamscitizens, entrepreneurs, social enterprises,communities and businesses. This will includepublic open data rom the Council as wellas a drive to liberate open data across thecity. The Smart City roadmap will grow new,thriving and competitive marketplaces or newservices and applications based on city datathat will empower local people and businessesto co-create customer acing services and

applications, improve their own productivity aswell as grow new business.

6. Clsing th digital dividWe will work in partnership across the City tosupport, develop and implement a range oinitiatives that engage citizens and businessesin producing digital content, building capacity

and skills and increasing neighbourhoodconnectivity and e-participation. We will

work closely through the Social InclusionProcess and rontline services to look athow collectively we address aordableconnectivity. We will also work with the YouthUnemployment Commission to ensure youngpeople are equipped with the digital andcreativity skills needed or the jobs o theuture.

7. Prling and infuncingWe will establish a shared and openstakeholder engagement and communications

plan working with city partners (universities,third sector, public and private sector) tochampion and establish Birmingham as aleading Smart City in the areas o enterpriseand social collaboration that will see itrecognised as an attractive place to investand locate; connect and engage stakeholdersinternally and externally to ensure trust and

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The Dublinked initiative

is a city intelligence platorm, providing accessto the citys public sector data in areas such astrafc management, water usage, etc, enablingmultinationals and start-ups alike to developnew business streams, drive innovation andeconomic activity, devise solutions or commonproblems aecting city lie.Dublin City Cuncil

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Top 21 Intelligent Community Forum 2012(Exploiting Technology) is home to a growinginormation and communications technologycluster, piloting technologies ranging romcharging stations or electric vehiclesto fbre to the premise.

Amsmarterdam CityAmsterdam Smart City is a unique partnership

between businesses, authorities, researchinstitutions and the people o Amsterdam. Theyare developing the Amsterdam MetropolitanArea into a smart city with a ocus on thethemes o living, working, mobility, publicacilities and open data.

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This rst statement has set out the strategicvision and priorities or Birminghams SmartCity journey and this will be shared widelywith the citys stakeholders and networksor urther input. The next steps, ollowingon rom this, will be to develop a series orecommendations which will orm the basis oan action plan and roadmap.

The roadmap will be published in the summero 2013 and will include:

A timeline of activities

Strategic linkages to the GreenCommission and Youth UnemploymentCommission

A Stakeholder Engagement andCommunications Plan

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next steps

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We would welcome your views on this visionstatement, please contact Raj Mack:

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0121 303 8779eail

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