#Internet of Things

All over Europe cities are transforming to a smart city, but how can we collaborate between cities and the EU to make interoperable smart cities? Cities where our technical sovereignty is warranted and where we have control on technique and our data.

We go on an Online Mission to Brussels (Belgium) on Thursday 30 April at 3PM (CET). Join us for a talk with guest speakers Eddy Hartog, Head of Unit Smart Mobility and Living at European Commission.

Participation is free, all you need to do is bring your own drink and snack and you will be good to go. Sign up here.

Eddy Hartog, Head of Unit Smart Mobility and Living at European Commission and runs the team behind the Declaration of Porto, on joining forces to boost sustainable digital transformation in cities and communities in the EU. Also known as the Living-in.eu movement. The city of Amersfoort was among the first municipalities to sign the Declaration, and councillor Mrs Koser Kaya will open the online get-together explaining why she believes in working together on smart cities in European context.

The talk will be followed by a Q&A session where it will be possible to ask Mr Hartog and Mrs Koser Kaya your questions.

We look forward to an interactive online event, after which we will raise our glasses together!

How Do You Participate?
Registration is free and simple: Click here to register for the event. You will then receive an email with the link to take part at 3 PM (CET) on Thursday (30 April). Participation is free of charge and the online event will be in English.

Door corona-volg-apps, social distancing-apps en surveillance drones laait de discussie op over privacy en het borgen van andere publieke waarden. Wie heeft het eigenaarschap over data, wat vinden we acceptabel en onder welke omstandigheden? Kortom hoe ben je slim én borg je tegelijk ook de publieke belangen? In het webinar ‘Belangen borgen in de digitaliserende gemeente’ onderzoeken we de ethische kant van smart city, en legt Anita Nijboer (partner bij Kennedy Van der Laan) uit hoe we de democratische waarden in de smart city kunnen borgen.

Datum: woensdag 22 april
Tijd: 15.00 – 16.00 uur
Uitgevoerd: via Webex, aanmelden via https://future-city.nl/webinar-22-april/

Hoe kunt u deelnemen?
Deelnemen is gratis en eenvoudig: klik hier om u te registreren voor het webinar: https://future-city.nl/webinar-22-april/ U krijgt woensdagochtend een link om deel te nemen aan het webinar. Voor het webinar maken we gebruik van Webex. Als u zich registreert dan ontvangt u ook een uitnodiging voor de komende webinars.

In South Korea the smart city is already becoming reality. With the first project in Songdo and a new governmental project in Busan: an unique platform-based smart city. What can we learn from South Korea’s smart city approach and how can their demand create a new market for businesses worldwide. Join us Thursday 23 April for the 6th Online Get-Together. A special morning edition at 9 AM (CET) with special guest Jong-Sung Hwang, Master Planner of the Smart City of Busan in South Korea.

Participation is free, all you need to do is bring your own drink and snack and you will be good to go. Signup here: https://future-city.nl/online-get-together-23-april/

Busan Eco Delta Smart City

Busan Eco Delta City aims to become an international hub and a waterfront ecological city where the history, nature, and people coexist in harmony and joy. The city has 4 major objectives:

1 – Smart Life for Future – Spatial planning to enable smart living Smart streets connecting the nature, people and technology
2 – Smart Link for Sharing – Environmental benefits of the city shared by everyone 5-minute access to water and green from anywhere in the city
3 – Smart Place for Everyone – Inclusive city for diversity for QOL Cultural Front (culture + waterfront)
4 – Urban Planning for Smart City – Five-innovations cluster to create decent jobs Operational base for the city as a platform View below a short impression of the Busan Eco Delta Smart City.
Jong-Sung Hwang, Master Planner of the Smart City of Busan will illustrate how these key ideas are realized and which challenges they face in the process of designing. In addition we will look at the experiences South Korea has had with COVID-19 and previously with the epidemics MERS and SARS, and how this has led to more digitalisation of the cities.

His talk will be followed by a Q&A session where it will be possible to ask your questions. We look forward to an interactive online event, after which we will raise our glasses together!

How Do You Participate?
Registration is free and simple: Click here to register for the event. You will then receive an email with the link to take part at 9 AM (CET) on Thursday 23 April. Participation is free of charge and the online event will be in English.

Bas Boorsma explores what can we learn from the accelerated digital transition triggered by COVID-19.

The third online get-together by FCF is Thursday, 2 April at 3 PM (CET). This weeks guest speaker is Valerio Panzica La Manna of the R&D and innovation hub imec, on how real-time air quality monitoring leads to better decision making in a city. Join our weekly event and meet smart city enthusiasts from all over the world. Participation is free, all you need to do is bring your own drink and snack and you will be good to go.

Thursday 26 March, 3 PM (CET)

Following the success of the first Future City Foundation (a FIWARE iHub) online get-together with Wim Willems, Councilor of the City of Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, and more than 90 Smart City enthusiasts, this week’s online get-together on Thursday, 26 March at 3 PM (CET) goes international with the participation of the FIWARE Foundation.

Together with its members and partners, the Foundation as a global ecosystem is driving the definition and open source implementation of key open de-facto standards that enable the development of portable and interoperable Smart Solutions in a faster, easier and affordable way. It hereby avoids vendor lock-in scenarios whilst also nourishing a sustainable and innovation-driven business ecosystem.

Participation is free, all you need to do is bring your own drink and snack and you will be good to go.

REGISTER NOW: https://future-city.nl/join-the-online-get-together-with-future-city-fiware/

FIWARE Foundation CEO, Ulrich Ahle, will be joining the get-together to talk about FIWARE. The FIWARE Catalogue offers a curated framework of open source platform components that can be assembled together and with other third-party platform components to accelerate the development of Smart Solutions. It hereby enables a landscape of diverse but interoperable Smart City solutions. Ulrich Ahle will give a short talk on how FIWARE is changing cities worldwide and how municipalities and companies can apply FIWARE solutions. His talk will be followed by a Q&A session where it will be possible to ask Mr. Ahle questions.

We look forward to an interactive online event, after which we will raise our glasses together!

How Do You Participate?
Registration is free and simple: Register on the website for the event: https://future-city.nl/join-the-online-get-together-with-future-city-fiware/
You will then receive an email with the link to take part at 3 PM (CET) on Thursday (26 March). Participation is free of charge and the online event will be in English.

Who is Organizing The Event?
Together with its partners, the only FIWARE iHub in the Netherlands is hosting the online get-togethers.

REGISTER NOW: https://future-city.nl/join-the-online-get-together-with-future-city-fiware/

Omdat wij zelfquarantaine belangrijk vinden, maar borrels ook, organiseert Future City elke donderdagmiddag om 15 uur een online-borrel. De eerste is aanstaande donderdag 19 maart. Voor zolang het duurt (en laten we hopen dat dat niet lang is). Het concept is simpel: wij organiseren een online-lezing, u neemt uw eigen drankje en hapje mee.

Eerste spreker: wethouder Wim Willems
Donderdag 19 maart is de spreker van de eerste borrel Wim Willems, wethouder in Apeldoorn en voorzitter van de bestuurlijke G40 themagroep Smart Cities. Hij maakt sinds zijn aantreden in het voorjaar van 2018 van Apeldoorn een smart city en deelt die ervaring graag met ons. Tijdens de lezing is het mogelijk om vragen te stellen en die worden door wethouder Willems beantwoord. Het wordt dus een interactief-online-event. Na een half uur heffen we samen het glas.

Hoe doet u mee?
Aanmelden is gratis en simpel: Klik op deze link: https://kennislab.typeform.com/to/EpzrOe en u ontvangt op donderdagochtend een mailtje met de link hoe u om 15.00 uur kunt deelnemen.

Wie organiseren dit?
We organiseren deze online-borrels vanuit de Future City Foundation en nemen zo een aanloopje naar de City Deal ‘Een slimme stad, zo doe je dat’ die we opzetten op verzoek van het Ministerie van BZK en stedennetwerk G40. Wilt u meer weten over die City Deal? Klik dan hier: https://future-city.nl/citydeal/

Lidar is what robots use to read and navigate our built environment. Also known as point cloud or 3D scanning, Lidar becomes a wonderful 'black canvas' to paint a new portrait of our digital surroundings. We created a point cloud scan animation of the Marineterrein in the heart of Amsterdam that revealed the many data sets being collecting in our living lab. Like Bob Ross, we used the data and points to paint to a new landscape explaining our 21st century city.

Check out how we created this animation here: http://tapp.nl/point-cloud-scan-animation

I'll be giving alking about the point cloud animation and process at the upcoming Sensemakers AMS talk “DigitalTwins - cities, neighborhoods and infra” 19 February 2020. Signup here: http://meetu.ps/e/Hwyjq/8dXgR/a

Las Vegas was hit by a cyber attack on 7 January which followed an earlier attack in New Orleans, with the city declaring a state of emergency on 13 December. The threat of cyber attacks is growing as cities digitalise their services and use datasets to provide more efficient delivery to citizens.

How might we automate access to a public digital ecosystem for citizens and machines in order to grow a conscious city? How might we incentivize all citizens and companies to interact with the public digital ecosystem of the city in order to improve livability, democratic representation and societal engagement?

Read our ecosystem document

Join our online ecosystem platform

As a decade of change has come to an end, what will the 2020s bring for cities?

Much of our work with city leaders and governments starts from an immediate pressing need–a housing crisis or a rise in knife crime–but so often moves onto preparing for the future trends that will change all of our lives, and cities as we know them.

We are living in an age where the very idea of what it means to be a city is being redefined. Cities are evolving from mere forms of government—powered by breakthroughs in IoT, AI, and cloud platforms—to become the bridge between citizens, businesses, academia and the government itself.
Join us in Amsterdam for a transformative event that dives into what it means to be a smart city. Experience firsthand how cities are leveraging IoT technology platforms to drive unprecedented increases in efficiency, safety, livability, and overall quality of life. Network directly with the companies discussing their experiences on stage and see how you can partner together to transform cities and collective experiences.
We will address how cities are undergoing a massive digital transformation driven by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0). From tackling tough challenges like climate change and aging populations to designing and implementing custom IoT solutions – the lessons shared around architecting on the intelligent edge will change how you approach cities forever.
Underneath the social responsibility we have to shape the future of the world around us, this IoT in Action event will strive to answer the fundamental question of how you can implement technology in a scalable, manageable, sustainable, inclusive, and secure way. Take the first step toward enabling smart cities by registering today.

This evening we will have three practical perspectives & applications of "digital twins":
- Tanguy Coenen from Imec will share their insights and best practises within the Digital Twin City of Antwerpen
- Marcel Gerrits & Paul Kootwijk on practical applications of IoT and AI to help ProRail manage themaintenance, safety & security of the railwail infrastructure
- Tom van Arman from CITYXL & TAPP on the digital twin of the Marineterrein

On https://lucht.smartgraph.bi we visualise the measurements of air quality in 4 cities (others can be added) on our independent data platform, Smart Graph. The graphs on Apeldoorn and Dordrecht are real time.
We have screen shots on the situation on new year eve for the Fine dust (pm2,5 and pm10) and noise (decibel) , nice to see the peak and the huge differences. Apeldoorn can be seen on the LinkedIn page of Quant-Base.

This year, the Future City Foundation and 26 public and private partners are investigating how we should design the smart city. The network assumes that urban design and the products that result from it are radically changing. Just like it happened with other industries. They want to understand how it happens, what are the opportunities and what are the risks. They present the results of the research in the book: “A smart city, this is how you do it – Connected, flexible and meaningful: make the real future city”. The book is available in Dutch and a summary in English.

The original version of the book is in Dutch (212 pages) with theory about digitalization and technologization in vision and plans, 27 tutorials including the Model Bylaw Smart City Applications in the Public Space and 15 examples of smart city applications in the Netherlands. Download the Dutch version on https://future-city.nl/smartstedenbouw/

The English version (52 pages) focuses on the design principles for smart urban design:
>> We want a sustainable and democratic city;
>> In it we design everything as a democratic smart network;
>> We design flexibility;
>> We design meaningfully.
These are explained in detail. In addition, the Model Bylaw Smart City Applications in the Public Space is included in the book.

You can download the book for free on: https://future-city.nl/smarturbanplanning/

For more background information about the book, please see https://future-city.nl/smarturbanplanning/ And feel free to contact us if you like to know more about it and the follow-up projects.

Hoewel autonoom vervoer steeds dichterbij komt, rijden er nog geen zelfrijdende auto’s door onze straten. Hoe kan dat? Sprekers belichten de uitdagingen in het realiseren van autonoom vervoer vanuit verschillende invalshoeken.

Terwijl meerdere grote bedrijven er al geruime tijd op volle kracht aan werken, bijten ingenieurs, juristen, verkeerskundigen en ethici hun tanden erop stuk, en bereiden overheden en verzekeringsmaatschappijen zich voor op deze nieuwe technologie van autonoom vervoer. Blijkbaar is het zowel technologisch als maatschappelijk een flinke uitdaging om autonoom vervoer te realiseren.

Met onder meer:
Peter-Paul Verbeek, hoogleraar Filosofie van mens en techniek, Universiteit Twente

Jorrit Kuipers, ingenieur, RobotTUNER, CTO

Henk Nijmeijer, hoogleraar Mechanical Engineering, Dynamics and Control, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

Eric Tjong Tjin Tai, hoogleraar Privaatrecht, Universiteit Tilburg

🤔 Is data really the new oil? Do you need big data to tackle an urban challenge? Are you sure?
Cities increasingly realise that defining a data strategy is a journey full of pitfalls and challenges.

Amsterdam Smart City, Boston and Reykjavik would like to explore with you which decisions are needed for responsible use of data.

The possibilities of data and new technologies for urban challenges are endless. We use data to make cities safer, cleaner and, for example, more accessible. But what happens to all data that is collected? Who may collect them? Which dilemmas do we encounter when we collect (personal) data to improve the city? Which choices did people make and why? Which considerations play a role?

These questions are important for everyone; for governments, residents and companies. Amsterdam Smart City would like to explore with you which decisions are needed for responsible use of data.

In part 1 we discussed the opportunities of Tada: a manifesto for the responsible use of data and a 3D model for Amsterdam. In part 2 we discussed the role of bottom-up initiatives in measuring data. The third edition will be an international exchange!

Amsterdam, Reykjavik and Boston will share some of their most important projects currently going
on. They will share the data choices they came across and tell you which decisions they made.

Date: 2nd of December 2019
Location: Datalab, Weesperstraat 113, Amsterdam

Program:
15.45: Walk-in
16.00 – 16.05: Introduction by Leonie van den Beuken, program director Amsterdam Smart City
16.05 – 16.20: Smart City Hilversum platform by Atos + discussion
16.20 – 16.35: Questioning the ethics of technology implementations by Jaclyn Youngblood, Mayor’s Office, City of Boston + discussion
16.35 – 16.50: Bike data commons by Sander van der Waal, Waag + discussion
16.50 – 17.05: An integrated data warehouse and challenges/dilemmas by Óli Páll Geirsson, Chief Data Officer, City of Reykjavik + discussion
17.05 – 17.20: Plenary discussion and wrap-up
17.20 – 18.15: Drinks & laughter

Photo: Hans Kleijn

Dit jaar onderzoekt de Future City Foundation met 26 partners hoe we de smart city moeten ontwerpen. We denken dat de stedenbouw en de producten die daaruit voortkomen radicaal veranderen. Net zoals dat gebeurde met andere bedrijfstakken. We willen begrijpen hoe dat gebeurt, welke kansen dat oplevert en welke risico’s er aan kleven.

De resultaten van het project presenteren we in een boek – genaamd ‘Een slimme stad, zo doe je dat – Verbonden, flexibel en betekenisvol; maak de echte future city’. U kunt het boek (met ruim 200 pagina’s) aanvragen via het aanvraagformulier. Digitaal lezen is gratis, voor een gedrukte versie vragen we €29,-.

Bestel het boek via https://future-city.nl/bestel-het-boek-een-slimme-stad-zo-doe-je-dat/

How can individuals regain control of their personal data? And how can we align the digital world with public values that we foster in our society? This event showcases the valuable work that has been done by DECODE in both Amsterdam and Barcelona; and other initiatives that are fighting to reclaiming the digital space for public good, with a specific focus on Public Spaces. The speakers will share practical solutions for responsible data management, applications and lessons learned.

Speakers:

Evgeny Morozov (writer & publicist)
Marleen Stikker (founder & director Waag)
Francesca Bria (founder & director DECODE)
Nina Boelsums (Dyne & starter of referendum on privacy law NL)
Aik van Eemeren (CTO office Municipality Amsterdam)