Smart Cities:

Network & Communications Perspective Dean Bubley, Disruptive Analysis

Hague Telecom, October 15th 2014

dean.bubley@disruptive-analysis.com @disruptivedean

A set of different perspectives on Smart Cities

Everything as a service? Or everything as a function?

Wireless network realities & considerations

Telecom operators: roles & innovation strategy

How voice & video fit in

Mobile data service models

Towards 5G

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Technology capabilities & limitations are critical

considerations – but there needs to be as much focus on

design, organisational dynamics and “Intent & Purpose”

Service

Product

Feature

Function

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The need for enablers & APIs

• Big data & analytics

• Sensors & displays

• Coordination & orchestration

City Level

• 3G, 4G, 5G, WiFi, White-Space etc. availability & robustness

• New wholesale & operational/business models

• Security & identity

Network Level

• Cloud & virtualised functions

• Embedded communications – voice, video, interaction

• Context & “purpose” awareness

Web/App Level

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Wireless networks are not a “solved” problem

Congestion

Indoor / black-spot coverage difficulties

Mobility & unpredictability

Power consumption

Security & privacy

Roaming (national & international)

Who owns & controls WiFi?

Who is the network operator for cellular? (MNC liberalisation)

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Why telcos are interested in Smart Cities

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Beyond Peak Telephony

Cities & Telcos: similarities & differences

Cities & Municipalities Telecom Operators

Complex legacy infrastructure Complex legacy infrastructure

Consumer & business “customers” Consumer & business “customers”

New risks: competition, security, environmt New risks: competition, security, environmt

Limited historic web & software skill Limited historic web & software skill

Large but uncoordinated data assets Large but uncoordinated data assets

Central control vs. ground-up disruption Central control vs. ground-up disruption

Incremental infrastructure upgrades “Generational” infrastructure upgrades

Core functions & services stable Core functions & services threatened

Changing population demographics Changing device/behaviour demographics

Technical stds for services fragmented Tech stds for services losing relevance

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Telcos’ innovation models need to evolve

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Telco / SP End-user Vendors &

standards

Services creation Services consumption

New stakeholders in services creation

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Telco / SP

End-user

Vendors &

standards

Services creation

Experiences

consumption

Experiences curator

Experiences designer

Experiences developer

Cloud

API

player IT vendor

Platform creation

Open-

source

In-house

develop-

ment

Element creation

The vision: voice & video comms everywhere

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WebRTC democratises voice & video

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Million WebRTC

devices, year-end

Source: Disruptive Analysis 2014 Edition WebRTC Report

Devices & IoT

WebRTC use-cases & platforms

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Enterprise

Telcos SPs

Cloud Platforms, APIs & SDKs

Tool & Enablers

Consumer Web/Apps

Smart City

opportunities for

communications

embedded

everywhere

Embedded comms: Smart City use-cases

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Purposeful comms

Contextual comms

Standalone comms

• Gamification of energy use monitoring

• Improved security eg 2-way video authentication

• Sentiment analysis

• Video telehealth

• Citizen portals with help & “data push” capability

• Interactive displays

• Workforce automation

• Videoconferencing to reduce travel

• Public emergency call buttons

• Worker collaboration tools

Accessibility & blind/visually impaired

€70k/guide-dog = a lot of robots, apps & access-aware computing & comms

1 billion people with some form of disability: change dependency to productivity

(With thanks to Chris Lewis @Chr1sLew1s )

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WebRTC-enabled “things” already here

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Internet vs. Not Internet? Neutrality questions…

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Internet

services

Non-Internet

services

New non-Internet M2M/IoT

Internet VoIP

Web streaming

Normal mobile apps

Public cloud

Internet M2M/IoT

Neutral/Best-efforts Managed/QoS-enabled

Smart City services?

IoT/Smart City = potential new mobile data oppo

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M2M/IoT priority data

Public safety priority roaming data

Public venue specialised data

$bn incremental mobile data

revenue, global

Source: 2014 Disruptive Analysis Non-Neutral Mobile Broadband report

Specifying 5G needs to be multi-stakeholder

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Mobile

operators NGMN

Network

vendors

3GPP

Standards

4G LTE

Specifying 5G needs to be multi-stakeholder

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5G

MNOs

Govt &

cities

Large Co’s

App Co’s

Users

Requirements

Telco Vendors

M2M & IoT

Acad- emia

Web Co’s

IT vendors

Innovations

5G must not just be another telco/vendor-defined technology. Other parties –

Cities, App/Internet players, Transport & other players need to be involved

Concluding thoughts & disruptions

End-goal of ambient & embedded “smartness”…

… but needs work on networks & enablers/APIs…

… & attention to design & organisational issues

Human-to-human comms evolving in parallel to M2M

Telcos have opportunities, but need to change culture

Regulators have much to think about

Final disruptive thought:

Will we see BYOSmartCity instead of planning?

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