The document discusses perspectives on smart cities from a network and communications standpoint. It covers various topics including wireless network challenges, the roles of telecom operators, how voice and video services fit into smart cities, and considerations around 5G networks. It emphasizes that both technology capabilities and organizational/design factors must be addressed for smart cities.

1. Smart Cities: Network & Communications Perspective Dean Bubley, Disruptive Analysis Hague Telecom, October 15th 2014 dean.bubley@disruptive-analysis.com @disruptivedean

2. 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”

3. Service
Product
Feature
Function
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4. 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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5. 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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6. Why telcos are interested in Smart Cities
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Beyond Peak Telephony

7. 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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8. Telcos’ innovation models need to evolve
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Telco / SP
End-user
Vendors & standards
Services creation
Services consumption

9. 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

10. The vision: voice & video comms everywhere
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11. WebRTC democratises voice & video
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Million WebRTC devices, year-end
Source: Disruptive Analysis 2014 Edition WebRTC Report

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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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15. WebRTC-enabled “things” already here
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16. 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?

17. 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

18. Specifying 5G needs to be multi-stakeholder
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Mobile operators
NGMN
Network vendors
3GPP
Standards
4G LTE

19. 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

20. 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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