Barney smith bristol is open jan 17 presentation final

Smart Cities & Bristol Is Open Barney Smith, CEO, Bristol Is Open

Bristol Residents

• 180km due West of London

• 450,000 people; the 8th most populous city in England over 110km2

• Grown by nearly 11% in last 10 years

• The population of Bristol has become increasingly diverse and some local communities have changed significantly. There are now: • over 15% not born in UK

• at least 45 religions,

• at least 187 countries of birth represented and

• at least 91 main languages spoken by people living in Bristol.

• Expected to grow by a further 23% over next 25 years (above national forecast of 16%)

• A relatively young population

Wealth, Health & Wellbeing

• 9 year life expectancy difference for men between best and worst wards (7 for women) (ave = M 78.3 & W 83.0)

• More people commute to work by bike or foot than any other City in England and Wales

• Approx. 40% of the World’s wildlife film making has links to studios in Bristol

• 13% of businesses are in the creative sector

• Home to one of Europe’s largest Robotics laboratories

• 2nd highest rate of business start-ups per head of pop. for a core city

• Largest number of patents per head of any core city (double national ave.)

• Most productive tech industry in UK

• Digital GVA £1.8bn (with Bath)

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Engineers & Innovators

Other interesting facts

• In 2014 – was named the best city to live in the UK

• It has its own currency – the Bristol pound. The Mayor is partly paid in it

• Wallace and Gromit (Aardman Productions) was created there – statues are scattered around the city for a treasure hunt

• European Green Capital

• It has its own Energy Company – which champions social equality and local renewables

• Banksy is based in Bristol

Home to Banksy

Challenges

• Inequality

• Growing population in same physical land area

• Prosperity bringing increased demand for space and parking

• Existing traffic challenges in Bristol: the most congested city in UK (23km/h on main roads in peak hours)

• Municiple Austerity: (Rev & Capital)

• 2010 £550m (~€620m)

• 2016 £460m;

• 2020 ~£400m (~€450m)

• Demand for data services from growing industry

INTRODUCING BRISTOL IS OPEN

Bristol is Open is delivering programmable digital infrastructure, to facilitate R&D, innovation and experimentation at a city scale. A joint venture between the University of Bristol and Bristol City Council, BIO is a unique combination of advanced infrastructure and an experimentation platform. Collaborating with an ecosystem of academics, corporate partners, SMEs, and the citizens and communities of Bristol, BIO facilitates experimentation, exploring the development of software, applications and services. Together, we are creating a smart society for smart citizens – and a smart future.

A Joint Venture Company between the Council & the University

‘Why’ are we doing this? ‘How’ are we doing this?

BIO Board & Advisory Boards

Graeme Hobbs, Independent Chair

Nishan Canagarajah, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research

& Enterprise)

Neil Bradshaw, Director Enterprise

Alison Comley, Strategic Director, Neighbourhoods

Barra Mac Ruairi

Strategic Director, Place

Partnership Strategy Board

Dick Penny, Director, Watershed

Nick Sturge, Director, Engine Shed

Phil Winfield, Director, @ Bristol

Carolyn Hassan, Director, Knowle West Media Centre

Alex Minshull, Head of Innovation, BCC

Sophie Ross-Smith, Project Manager, UoB:BIO Engagement

Technology Strategy Board

Prof Dimitra Simeonidou, Chief Science Officer (UoB)

Prof Andy Nix (UoB)

Dr Gavin Beckett (BCC)

Prof Misha Dohler (Kings College London)

Simon Fletcher (CTO, Real Wireless)

Glenn Ricart (Founder & CTO, US Ignite)

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Prof Andy Nix (UoB)





Former Chair, Motorola Solutions

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Prof Andy Nix (UoB)





Professor, High Performance Networks

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Prof Andy Nix (UoB)





Dean of Engineering & Head of Communication

Systems & Networks

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Chief Digital Officer, Bristol City Council

Funding partners who are helping to make it happen

Watershed is a social enterprise and a registered charity, and the leading film culture and digital media centre in the South West

At-Bristol is a two-floor science centre filled with interactive exhibits, activities and live shows. Specialising in using the very latest multimedia techniques to inspire people of all ages.

An arts organisation and charity supporting individuals and communities to get the most out of digital technologies and the arts. In practice, this means providing exciting and relevant ways for people to get involved in community activism, education, employment, and local decision-making.

Stimulating long term economic growth. An exciting hub for activity where entrepreneurs, business leaders, academics, students and corporates can collaborate, inspire and be inspired, enable and be enabled.

The enterprise collaboration between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey. Supporting high tech start-up companies, providing student enterprise and enabling academics to maximise the impact of their research.

Who we are working with so far

Experimentation Partner



Software Defined Network Capability

BIO Management Team

Barney Smith, CEO

Joan A. Garcia Espin, Platform Delivery Director

Jessica Ellis, Customer Success Director

Kelston Shiner, Finance Director

Nina Taylor, Executive Assistant

BIO Management Team

Barney Smith, CEO





The Organising Guy

BIO Management Team

Barney Smith, CEO





‘The penny stretcher’

BIO Management Team

Barney Smith, CEO





Evangelism & Partnerships

BIO Management Team

Barney Smith, CEO




Nina Taylor, Executive Assistant The Technical

Brains of the outfit

BIO Management Team

Barney Smith, CEO





Our Engineering Team: IoT

Wireless Network

SDN &

Project Delivery

Laying cables in rivers, modifying lamp posts

The Data

Dome

The Data Dome

INITIATIVES IN BRISTOL WITH BRISTOL IS OPEN

An arts organisation and charity based in Bristol and have been supporting individuals and communities to get the most out of digital technologies and the arts since 1996. In practice, this means providing exciting and relevant ways for people to get involved in community activism, education, employment, and local decision-making. Their mission is to achieve social, environmental and economic regeneration by involving the community in media activity, education and action.

The Factory’s Sensor

and Innovation Space: Vision

“For people in South Bristol to have access to the opportunities new technologies provide to build inclusive and fairer communities”

To bridge the gap between those thriving and those struggling in the city by increasing opportunities for skills and employment in South Bristol by making accessible digital manufacturing facilities, smart citizen innovation and enterprise thinking, and creating cross city networks that support open, scaleable, inclusive civic participation.

• Building tools, skills and places with people, that support positive social change. We will provide skills training

and opportunities to experiment with ‘making and producing’ leading to enterprise and jobs. • Shaping the way we live in the future through experimentation and sharing ideas with people. We will provide

opportunities for a wide range of people to test out ideas, and technology in communities, public spaces and homes.

• Making visible the existing cultural wealth of communities. We will build on the manufacturing experience that

exists in South Bristol.

Innovation

Data Dome Content

Citizen Engaged Co-Design Academic Research

Collaborative Public and Private Sector Projects

Example - Citizen Sensing and REPLICATE

Towards Ultimate Convergence of All Networks TOUCAN aims to achieve ultimate network

convergence enabled by a radically new technology agnostic architecture targeting a wide range of

applications and end users. The architecture will facilitate optimal interconnection of any network

technology domains, networked devices and data sets with high exibility, resource and energy efficiency.

Bristol Is Open with support with the deployment of developed technologies.

REPLICATE The REPLICATE project (Renaissance in Places with Innovative Citizenship And Technology)

is a European research and development project that aims to deploy integrated

energy, mobility and ICT solutions in city districts.

Flourish Flourish is a Connected & Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) project which will support

the Bristol-City Region’s ambition to establish a worldwide reputation as a

center of excellence for CAV technologies.

5GXHaul Dynamically Reconfigurable Optical-Wireless Backhaul / Front haul with

Cognitive Control Plane for Small Cells and Cloud-RANs

5G-XHaul proposes a converged optical and wireless network solution able to flexibly connect Small Cells to the core

network.

BigClouT Big data meeting Cloud and IoT for

empowering the citizen clout in smart cities. The overall concept of the BigClouT project is to give an analytic mind to the

city by creating distributed intelligence that can be implanted in the whole city

network.

Mobility Management in Smart City Scenario In this project we aim to showcase the knowledge extraction and knowledge

dissemination process based on mobility and handover of information. The deployment

will work as a service which will provide interfaces to other services, like Content

Delivery Services, and work as part of chain of services.

Bristol Waste Innovation Pilot Waste is only service delivered to every

property in Bristol every week. Bristol Waste undertakes 20,000,000 collections per year

from 195,000 households, and spends approximately £45m annually to deliver all

services.

Traffic Mobility Pilot We aim to experiment with a potential enhancement to

the functionality of existing urban traffic control detection equipment. Currently inductive loop detectors only provide an indication of vehicle presence four times a second, however by

installing a simple interface board (being designed as part of this project) it is possible to obtain a full inductive loop pro le of the a vehicle as it passed over the loop. This could significantly increase

the information gained about the traffic fows in a city.

Federated Union of Telecommunications Research Facilities for an EU-Brazil Open Laboratory

The FUTEBOL project combines a federation of research infrastructures in Europe and Brazil. The

project aims to develop a supporting control framework, and conduct experimental based

research in order to advance the state of telecommunications through the investigation of

converged optical/wireless networks.

VENTURER will involve tests investigating legal and insurance issues, as well as public reaction to self-driving cars.

The technology needed for cars to drive themselves in simple scenarios is proven.

The barriers to adoption are how they respond to the real events that happen on

real roads, e.g. cyclists and pedestrians. Dense cities are the most challenging

scenarios.

5G & BIO

• UK Government describe 5G as a ‘network of networks’ combining fibre and Wireless. Delivering seamless ultra-broadband connectivity to emerging and critical applications: – Determined to be at the leading

edge of the 5G revolution

– Looking to focus support on 5G and integrated fibre trials

– Seeking representative ‘use cases’ to trial 5G technologies and services

• Bristol / BIO / University of Bristol uniquely positioned to be at forefront: – Dedicated fibre and wireless

R&D testbed across the city

– World Class academic research @ UoB

– An existing programme of government funded and EU research associated to 5G

– SDN is key to 5G service delivery

– Working with an ecosystem of corporates (including SMEs)

– Collaborating with other leading centres in UK and beyond

CHALLENGES

So why do this?

Delivery Challenges

Smart cities have passed the inflection point from visioning to implementation, but there are still three main challenges. 1. an identifiable client; 2. the smart policies needed to drive smart delivery; and 3. the vendor community needs to work more closely together to develop the market by agreeing a scalable, open, interoperable platform on which city solutions can work.

Societal Challenges

1. Institutional Distrust

2. (Dis)empowerment & (Dis)engagement

3. Being sold tech that sanitizes lives

4. Loss of serendipity & creativity

Pilots/technology looking for a problem!

One of two things:

Don’t run long enough to show demonstrable results that can turn into a business case, no clear KPI’s set out up front

Are repeated time and time again across Cities in the UK and globally

- How do we share our knowledge?

Final Question Think as a citizen, not a city, not a vendor not a smart city expert and thing

of an issue, challenge problem that you face in your daily lives in your homes or villages , towns or cities, that you think perhaps technology could

solve.

Please tweet it to us @bristolisopen #everyoneisacitizen

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