Smart Cities Portugal - Roadmap

1 Smart Cities Portugal Roadmap Introduction Smart Cities Portugal Collaborative Platform Mapping Companies and R&D Centres Facts and Figures Smart Solutions Introduction Nowadays Cities are facing several challenges One of the important actors in the Smart Cities alliance related to climate change, demography, are municipalities, which are being represented by the energy dependency, and social exclusion, RENER Living Lab Portuguese Smart Cities Network. which calls for new urban development It is composed by 25 Cities and acts as a place of paradigms. development and experimentation of innovative urban solutions in real life context. In this context, concrete Smart city projects are being This report is the result of an analysis of the implemented around the world, and it is expected an competencies and capabilities of national companies exponential growth in the Smart city market. According and R&D centres working in the Smart Cities market, to ABI Research (2011), the market for technologies under the framework of the Smart Cities Portugal that feed into and support Smart city programmes and platform.

2 Projects will grow on a global basis from $8 billion in 2010 to exceed $39 billion in 2016, accounting for $116. billion in cumulative spending during that period. Moreover, the implementation of Smart city projects is being privileged by European policies, namely within the programming period 2014-2020. The Smart Cities and Communities European Innovation Partnership . coordinates Smart city research and innovation projects, which can be funded under Horizon 2020 and other funding programmes. Creating and enlarging the Smart city market is one objective of the initiative through the implementation of lighthouse projects. Due to these needs and opportunities, INTELI. launched the Smart Cities Portugal platform, which intends to promote the cooperation between several players operating in the Smart Cities market, namely companies, clusters, municipalities, universities, R&D. centres and public agencies. Asserting Portugal as a place for the development and experimentation of technology solutions, products and value-added systems for Smart Cities at global level is the main ambition of the partnership.

3 It is a pioneer initiative in Europe due to the aggregation of multiple and heterogeneous entities with different interests but with a common objective: contribute to solving urban problems through knowledge and innovation. 3. Smart Cities Portugal Collaborative platform Smart Cities Portugal Collaborative platform Companies, clusters, universities, R&D It is an awareness, intelligence, advocacy and ac- centres, municipalities and other economic celeration platform, which will also tackle demand and social players acting in the Smart Cities side measures and contribute to eliminate market market joined forces to create the Smart barriers, in the areas of public procurement, stand- Cities Portugal collaborative platform. ardisation, business models, financing mechanisms, stakeholders' involvement, etc. Asserting Portugal as a place for the development and experimentation of technology solutions, In fact, citizen participation in urban transformation products and value-added systems for Smart Cities at processes is a critical success factor for the imple- global level is the main ambition of the initiative.

4 Mentation of Smart city strategies, in a perspective of co-creation and open innovation. Living lab Smart Cities Portugal , promoted by INTELI, intends to approaches are very useful to promote population in- create synergies among different players enhancing volvement in the generation of ideas for future Cities . the roll out of integrated and scalable creative solu- tions to solve urban problems. Smart city solutions tested in Portuguese Cities can be replicated in other urban spaces around the world, improving the internationalization potential of national companies and clusters. Objectives - Promote the development of Smart city pilot - Enhance the creation of new companies in the projects in cooperation among Cities , R&D centers Smart Cities market, supporting urban entrepre- and companies, with a view to improving citizens' neurship;. quality of life;. - Evaluate the impact of Smart city projects on wealth - Stimulate the scaling up of innovative urban solu- creation, jobs generation, environment quality and tions, replicating worldwide the Smart city projects citizens quality of life, through the use of specific tested in Portuguese Cities ; metrics and key performance indicators.

5 - Promote the participation of Portuguese players in - Contribute to increase the local content of foreign European lighthouse projects in the area of Smart direct investment projects linked to Smart growth;. Cities ;. - Increase the participation of Portuguese Cities and - Promote the internationalization of Portuguese companies in international territorial, knowledge companies working in the Smart Cities market; and commercial networks. 7. Intervention Fields Governance Environment E-government Water management Open data Waste management Citizen participation Urban green spaces Data visualisation and mapping Monitoring of environmental indicators Geographical Information Systems etc. etc. Buildings Mobility Green infrastructures management Intelligent transport systems Green buildings Alternative energy sources for mobility Smart spaces Intelligent parking solutions Advanced materials Location management etc. Car-sharing and bike-sharing services Traffic management Quality of Life etc.

6 Public security and emergency solutions Smart destinations Energy Tourism applications Distributed and renewable energies in Cities Culture information services Urban energy production and storage E-health Smart metering E-learning Smart grids etc. Efficient public lighting etc. Strategic Areas Internationalization: Creating favourable R&D and innovation: Stimulating the conditions to promote the internationalization development of integrated, innovative and of Portuguese companies operating in the Smart sustainable solutions for Smart Cities , using the Cities market. The cooperation between companies competencies of universities, R&D centres and oriented to the development of integrated solutions technology infrastructures. Providing information across energy, mobility, ICT, etc. enhances their and knowledge about Smart Cities to companies'. participation in global value chains. Intelligence employees and municipal staff is also important, in exercises helps the identification of business areas such as business models, financial mechanisms, opportunities and collaboration possibilities related partnerships, case studies, etc.

7 To Smart Cities projects. 8. Entrepreneurship: Promoting urban innovation projects, which could be supported by entrepreneurship, supporting the development of Horizon 2020, COSME, LIFE + and Cohesion funds. innovative ideas, applications and solutions oriented The cooperation between Cities and industry will be to answer to the challenges Cities are facing, in areas an added-value to apply for Smart Cities lighthouse like mobility, energy, governance, tourism, health, projects. etc. Launching start-ups in these areas enhances wealth growth and job creation, contributing Regulation: Participating in international forums simultaneously for solving urban problems. Open on Smart Cities standardisation and normalisation, data, apps contests and incubator spaces facilitate and contributing to the elimination of legislation entrepreneurship and creation of new businesses. barriers to the development and implementation of Smart Cities projects.

8 The provision of interoperable Funding: Creating favourable conditions systems is one of the most important issues in to facilitate access to funding by companies, this debate. ISO International Organisation for municipalities and R&D centres, namely within the Standardisation, CEN - European Committee for European programming period 2014-2020. The Standardisation, City Protocol Society, and specific Smart Cities and Communities European Innovation national organisms are already working in this field. Partnership is coordinating Smart Cities research and Funding ---- ---- ---- -- - -- Regulation -- ----- ---- -- ---- - Internationalization ------- R&D and innovation --- --- Governance ------ --- Mobility - Energy Environment Entrepreneurship Buildings Quality of Life 9. Partners Founding Partners INTELI Intelligence in Innovation Centre (Coordinator). INTELI is a think-and-do-tank that provides policy relevant knowledge to public authorities at national, regional and local level.

9 It aims to contribute to the promotion of innovative, sustainable and inclusive Cities and regions. INTELI's main areas of intervention are sustainable mobility, energy efficiency and renewable energy, governance, innovation, and urban development, under an integrated concept of Smart city'. It is the coordinator of the RENER Living Lab Portuguese Smart Cities Network. A Smart City Index was developed by the institution in order to monitor and evaluate the smartness level of municipalities. Competitiveness and Technology Pole for Energy Pole for Communication and Information EnergyIN Technologies - The aims to promote and leverage network The ENERGYIN is a private non-profit organization, strategies for the ICT sector. Enhancing collaboration founded by some of the largest Portuguese companies between companies and R&D centres is one objective of in the energy sector, created to cooperate with the the cluster in order to induce positive effects on national scientific and business communities in order to offering, supported by innovation and knowledge, boost the competitiveness of domestic industry, creating export capacity and added-value in domestic aiming to wealth creation, job generation and the products.

10 Internationalization of Portuguese companies. Sustainable Habitat Cluster Competitiveness and Technology Pole for Mobility The Sustainable Habitat Cluster is a network that brings The Competitiveness and Technology Pole for Mobility together companies, R&D centres, municipalities and Industries is a dynamic platform of science, innovation other agents in the habitat value-chain (construction, and entrepreneurial actors of intelligent mobility materials and other suppliers). With a clear focus on committed with the challenge of sharing value and innovation, the cluster has adopted sustainability as quality of life for citizens in Cities and other places. a dynamic factor for its strategic development and differentiation in the national and international markets. Subjects like efficient use of resources, green economy and Smart Cities are relevant for the cluster approach. 10. Strategic Partners RENER Living Lab Portuguese Smart Cities Centre of Competence for Future Cities of Network University of Porto The RENER Living Lab is a space for development, The Centre serves as an agile collaboration platform for a testing and experimentation of intelligent urban critical mass of scientists and engineers based at various solutions in a real world context, under the concepts schools of the University of Porto: Engineering, Sciences, of open innovation and co-creation.