Helsinki Open Smart City IoT Lab Cities and companies shaping the IoT sphere together Hanna Niemi-Hugaerts

Director, IoT

@CitySDK_Hanna

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Let's make Helsinki the

most functional Smart

City in the World

Forum Virium aims to build Helsinki into the most functional

smart city in the world in collaboration with companies, the

scientific community and residents.

What is Forum Virium

Helsinki?

• An innovation unit established in 2005, which develops

urban solutions of the future

• These encompass smart mobility, robotics, artificial

intelligence, data and the Internet of Things

• A non-profit limited liability company fully owned by the

City of Helsinki

• Employs 35 top experts

• The unit operations are funded by the City of Helsinki

and different EU projects with about EUR 5 million a year

• Smart city projects in Finland and EU countries

• Collaboration with companies, the scientific community

and residents

• Digitalization of the City of Helsinki

• Our achievements:

▪ We made Helsinki data open to the public

▪ We turned Kalasatama into a smart city district

▪ Next we will bring robot buses onto the city’s streets

What does Forum Virium

Helsinki do?

Open Smart City IoT program

IoT can help us solve many challenges in Smart Cities

We could choose routes based on their

air quality?

People with baby pram could discover vacant pram spots in trams?

We could be aware of the state of our

environment in real-time?

Spaces would adapt heating and AC

according to their usage?

What if

Improving wellbeing of the elderly with smart lighting Bright ageing

APP API for data API for sensor Connectivity Layer

Security&Privacy Crowdsourcing/My Data Harmonization

Sensor/IoT Layer

Dev&Biz

https://forumvirium.fi/en/bright-ageing-smart-lighting-improve-wellbeing-elderly/

Integrating parking and smart lighting in Helsinki LumiPark

APP API for data API for sensor Connectivity Layer

Security&Privacy Crowdsourcing/My Data Harmonization

Sensor/IoT Layer

Dev&Biz

https://forumvirium.fi/en/lumipark-integrates-parking-and-smart-lighting-in-helsinki/

What is Helsinki Open Smart City IoT Lab made of?

Building blocks

•Data and technologies as enablers

•Competence building to ensure skills for utilization

•Support for piloting, validating and scaling

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Building blocks

•Data and technologies as enablers

•Competence building to ensure skills for utilization

•Support for piloting, validating and scaling

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Role of data is changing

Public resource stuck in silos

Open data for transparency and efficiency

Enabling third party service development

API-first with city services

Cities “Making our open data your business”

Get started with open data

Take part in our events and

trainings

Let our community

manager help you

Share your success stories and learn from

the ones of others

Be inspired by the visions of

our guest bloggers

Whether an entrepreneur or planning to become one:

Take part in our call for open

data experiments

One city is not a market

CitySDK 2012-2014

3 APIs

Six city strategy 2014-2017 4 APIs

Synchronicity

2017-2019 Northbound and Southbound APIs

MySmartLife 2017-2022 SensorThings API

Consent management

Helsinki data harmonization timeline

CitySDK 2012-2014

3 APIs

Six city strategy 2014-2017 4 APIs

Synchronicity

2017-2019 Northbound and Southbound APIs

MySmartLife 2017-2022 SensorThings API

Consent management

Helsinki data harmonization timeline

Open And Agile Smart

Cities (OASC) 2015->

What’s next?

Data-fueled services and systems create demand for

Real-time data, personal data

New ways of data collection through IoT, Smart City

Connectivity

Consent management (GDPR, mydata models)

How to put this valuable personal data to work?

The core idea is that individuals should be

in control of their own data.

The MyData approach aims at

strengthening digital human rights while

opening new opportunities for businesses

to develop innovative personal data based

services built on mutual trust.

MyData Vision

Source: MyData Alliance Interoperability Model https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1j3aX8AQGdVtigF1WZouL8WccmYQzZQQje3wuaC2Zb1I/edit#slide=id.g1f749bffa4_2_80

Weak Data Protection

Lot’s of data usage

Less usage of personal data

MyData

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´just´ complying with the regulation

GDPR

Strong Data Protection

People decide on how their data is used

Organisations decide how the data is used

Old paper times

Source: MyData Alliance Interoperability Model https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1j3aX8AQGdVtigF1WZouL8WccmYQzZQQje3wuaC2Zb1I/edit#slide=id.g1f749bffa4_2_80

Building blocks

•Data and technologies as enablers

•Competence building to ensure skills for utilization

•Support for piloting, validating and scaling

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Vekotinverstas:

is a low threshold environment for IoT experimentation.

Businesses can either introduce their tech to others or try out things themselves

Vekotinverstas:

Brings together people who are interested in IoT, hacking and new ways of collecting data.

Vekotinverstas:

Utilizes cheap microcontrollers and easy to use sensors for:

- Air quality

- Noise

- Visitor counting

- Beach water temperature

- And more..

https://github.com/VekotinVerstas

Chatting flower pot What could it enable?

What could this info be used for?

How to motivate people to water plants?

Moist

Dry Value ”0.8”

Value ”3 000”

Vekotinverstas.fi

Engaging citizens:

Vekotinverstas ideation sessions

Building blocks

•Data and technologies as enablers

•Competence building to ensure skills for utilization

•Support for piloting, validating and scaling

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Open Call for Companies

ENVIRONMENT & WELLBEING

• Climate change mitigation • Reducing air and noise pollution

SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY

• Enabling and improving MaaS • Encouraging more non-motorised transport

CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT

• Increasing citizen engagement in decision making • Increasing a greater level of diversity in political engagement

OPEN THEME-DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION

• Open challenge

Themes & Challenges

Up to 100.000 €* if an SME applies alone

Up to 200.000 € for consortia of 2 organisations

Up to 300.000 € for consortia of 3 organisations or more

*)Total buget of the project 125.000€

Funding

Antwerp

Carouge

Eindhoven

Helsinki

Manchester

Milano

Porto

Santander

Open Call Pilot Cities

It may include also new cities that

you introduce in your consortium.

Precommercial procurement as a tool for shaping the landscape together

SELECT for Cities competition aims to harness data in a city-wide platform for Smart City innovation

Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) Enables Competitive Research and Development of the Innovation Platform

Market Consultation

Request for Tenders

Phase 1: Feasibility

Phase 2: Prototyping

Phase 3: Testing

Number of suppliers reduces with each phase

Funding per supplier increases with each phase

RESULT: Innovative Platform ready for

commercial-isation

Platform R&D generated through Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP)

Launched call for tenders

28 entries received

10 consortia chosen to enter Phase 1 and refine their platform concept

6 of the 10 asked to submit a proposal to enter Phase 2.

Results to date…

5 consortia building a prototype platform (with 5 iterations of testing)

Semantic Computing

Snap4 City Team

Florence University

Microservices

Crypto-currency

Advanced

Analytics

Data Predictio

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IoE Platform Team Indra

API Market

Orchestra Cities

Team Martel

Personalised

Infographics

Automatic Open Data Population

Knowage Suite City

Enabler Team

Engineering

Real Time

Decisions

FIWOO Team Bosonit

5 Prototypes

= Solutions enabled by

FIWARE Components

• Diverse approaches • Varied architectures • Different innovations

To deliver… • Data-driven decisions • Citizen-centric services • Open innovation

Also lighter means

• Workshops

• Hackathons

• Fast trials <10000 euros

Building blocks

•Data and technologies as enablers

•Competence building to ensure skills for utilization

•Support for piloting, validating and scaling

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Our IoT-program projects tackling

these issues

Vekotinverstas Welcoming environment for all to get started with IoT experimentions and workshops.

Select for Cities Open & GDPR ready Smart City IoT R&D through PCP with Antwerp & Copenhagen.

Budget: 1,843,201 € Duration: till 09/2019

Synchronicity DSM for urban IoT services through harmonization and open calls for scaling.

Budget: 631 250 € Duration: till 12/2019

MySMARTLife Levereging IoT & enabling data driven business on advancing with / monitoring of climate positive actions.

Budget: 1 035 738 € Duration: 11/2021

BIoTope Easily create new IoT systems and rapidly harness available information using advanced Systems-of-Systems (SoS) capabilities for Connected Smart Objects.

Budget: 360 000€ Duration: 05/2019

UrbanSense brings ease to discovery and supports

utilization of 5G testbeds

Mapping existing and upcoming 5G testbeds with all key players

Facilitating discovery of possibilities through workshops

and trainings

Extending 5G testbeds from environmental monitoring to

mobility, AR/VR, health

Defining ToU, SLA, permits

From idea to action from workshops to pilots

through funding

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Let's make Helsinki the

most functional Smart

City in the World

together through open

IoT ecosysten

Forum Virium aims to build Helsinki into the most functional

smart city in the world in collaboration with companies, the

scientific community and residents.