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Smart Cities – a Belgian perspective Dirk Van Merode, AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Hi there!
• Dirk Van Merode
• International Project Coordinator – IT
• AP University of Applies Sciences and Arts
• ACTEA: www.actea.net
• Spacecom: http://spacecom.uz
• KA107: Tel Aviv (IL) & Zaporizhia (UA)
• Ekisande Belgium vzw: www.ekisande.com
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Hi there!
• Digital Fundamentals
• FPGA Programming
• Arduino Programming
• Software Defined Radio
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Faculty Science and Technology
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Faculty Science and Technology
• Level 5 education • Level 6 education
Bachelor degree (180 ECTS)
Short cycle technical degree (120 ECTS)
• Applied Computer Science
• Computer programming
• Biomedical Laboratory Technology
• Construction Site Organisation
• Chemistry
• Electromechanical Systems
• Electronics-ICT
• Internet Of Things
• Electromechanics
• Network Administration • Energy Management
• Graphic and Digital media
• Integrated Safety
• Nutrition and Dietetics
• Real Estate
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IT department
• International team @ IT
Yves MASSET Kelly CASAL MOSTEIRO Karolien VAN RIEL Tom PEETERS Dirk VAN MERODE
Head of Department EA-ICT Head of Department ACS International Coordinator International Coordinator International Coordinator
Students Staff Projects
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https://masdarcity.ae
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t890IaXDiU
http://diamniadiolakecity.africa/
https://robbreport.com/travel/destinations/akon-smart-city-
senegal-1234586880/https://www.urban-hub.com/cities/smart-city-3-0-ask-barcelona-about-the-next-generation-of-smart-cities/
Common grounds/definitions
• What is a smart city? A smart city uses IoT sensors and technology to connect components
across a city to derive data and improve the lives of citizens and visitors.
• What does a smart city do? Oftentimes, a mobile app is provided to give immediate access
to data, communication channels, and more so that people can do everything from avoiding
traffic jams, to finding a parking spot, and reporting a pothole or an overflowing dumpster.
• Why do smart cities matter? The world is becoming more urbanized, and by 2050, more than
60% of the world's population is expected to live in cities. Making these cities better places to
live is essential to quality of life by making them more sustainable and efficient with
streamlined services.
• Who do smart cities affect? It affects everyone on the planet.
• When are smart cities happening? This is happening now.
• Where are smart cities happening? Early adopters of smart city technology were European
cities (Barcelona, Amsterdam), but other mega cities (San Francisco, New York, Singapore
have quickly picked up steam and are incorporating technology into municipal infrastructure.
• Who is making smart cities happen? Public and private companies, as well as federal, state,
and city governments, are getting involved to make it easier for municipalities to adopt new
technology. Private and public partnerships are becoming a smart way for cities to add
technology.
www.techrepublic.com/article/smart-cities-the-smart-persons-guide 14Common grounds/definitions
• What is a smart city? A smart city uses IoT sensors and technology to connect components
across a city to derive data and improve the lives of citizens and visitors.
www.techrepublic.com/article/smart-cities-the-smart-persons-guide 15Common grounds/definitions
6 key words to understand the smart city
• Collaborate: open environment, data exchange to make services more
efficient and more effective, focused on the users
• Save: energy, water, raw materials, food and financial resources
• Innovate: new ways of organization, sharing, communicating, producing… to
develop urban dynamism through innovative services.
• Integrate: enrich each person’s quality of life, by reducing the social divisions
of education, gender, health, safety, etc.
• Participate: associate its citizens, its businesses … with its projects.
• Simplify: regulations or customs have gradually developed… sometimes
obsolete, sometimes counterproductive and often out of phase
https://smartcity.brussels/the-project 16Why live in a (smart) city
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/why-cities-are-better-than-rural-america 17Why live in a (smart) city
• Public transportation
• Services: sewage, postal services, electricity…
• Safety: police – fire department – hospitals
• You can get almost anything delivered whenever
• Jobs & careers
• Accommodation
• Personal development opportunities
• Delis!
• You don't need a car
• You can bike everywhere
• You only need to mingle with people you like
• Cities have access to all the foods
• No roving packs of wild dogs
• Living in the green… makes the green less green (because you live there)
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/why-cities-are-better-than-rural-america
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https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/city-life-vs-country-life-an-unbiased-analysis/Why not to live in a (smart) city
• Expensive
• Anonymity
• Crime
• Cost of accommodation
• Pollution
• Traffic
• Noise
• Lack of nature
• Cost of accommodation
• Where are the stars?
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/why-cities-are-better-than-rural-america
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https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/city-life-vs-country-life-an-unbiased-analysis/Cities and cities
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-most-livable-cities-2019-trnd/index.html
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https://www.independent.co.ug/dealing-with-the-slum-question-in-kampala6 dimensions of a Smart City
http://www.cognitiv.co.uk/news/all/83/1/ 216 dimensions of a Smart City
• Smart Economy
• Startup Ecosystem
• Use of data
• Customer behavior
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_ecosystem 226 dimensions of a Smart City
• Smart People
• 21st century skills
• Inclusive
https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/equality-inclusion-and-diversity/how-to-build-inclusive-practices-in-education/ 23https://www.tomorrowtodayglobal.com/2016/04/25/16-skills-21st-century-education/
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https://www.grensregio.eu/projecten/skills-navigator6 dimensions of a Smart City
• Smart Mobility
• Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
• Smart traffic lights
• Salary cars?
• Traffic jams
• Green cars
https://www.mech.kuleuven.be/cib/vlits/fotos/mobility-as-a-service.jpeg/image_view_fullscreen
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https://www.digi.com/blog/post/smart-traffic-management-optimizing-spend6 dimensions of a Smart City
• Smart Living
• Covid anyone?
• Coronalert
• E-health
• Street Art
• Safety
• Predictive policing software
• Facial recognition technology
• Smart streetlights
• CCTV and traffic cameras
• Automated license plate readers
• Gunshot monitors
• Police body cameras Nanjing, China: Implemented large scale surveillance format
that links 1800 CCTVs to 195 police bureaus and 7,600 officers
https://webuildapps.com/blog/ehealth-wat-is-het-en-wat-kan-je-ermee
https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/sites/corona-app/nl/
266 dimensions of a Smart City
• Smart Government
• E-government
• E-counter
• Taxes
• Digital tax form, prefilled
• Number of users 2.000.000
• Investments
• Infrastructure
• Open data
http://www.cognitiv.co.uk/news/all/83/1/ 276 dimensions of a Smart City
• Smart Environment
• Supplier and user not predictable
• Net pollution
• Smart metering
• Smart control?
28Technology of a Smart City
https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/opinions/the-future-of-smart-city-technology
29Technology of a Smart City
• Devices collect data
• Pipe delivers the data over the
transportation infrastructure to the
cloud
• Cloud, where it is stored, classified and
cross-correlated and made available
for processing
• Applications for visualization to make
informed decisions.
https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/opinions/the-future-of-smart-city-technology
30Technology of a Smart City
• Critical technical components of the
smart city of the future :
• Artificial Intelligence
• Big Data
• Cloud (ABC)
• 5G as the transportation medium.
https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/opinions/the-future-of-smart-city-technology
31Benefits from a smart city
https://www.iot-now.com/2019/09/06/98516-exploring-benefits-building-smart-city-country-part-two/ 32Ethical checking process for
bias, liability and inequality
33Challenges of a smart city
http://maximumgovernance.com/perspectives/five-challenges-to-overcome-for-smart-cities-to-happen/ 346 dimensions of a Smart City
“Orwellian nightmare like Xinjiang”
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/smart-cities-privacy-risks
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/world/asia/china-surveillance-xinjiang.html
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/iot-data-safety-privacy-hackers/ 35
https://www.govtech.com/blogs/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity/smart-cities-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly.html6 dimensions of a Smart City
https://www.rambus.com/iot/smart-cities/ 36Overview of the top 10 SCs worldwide
https://smartcity.brussels/smartcities-en
https://www.smartcitygovt.com/ 37The Belgian perspective
383 people/km2
15 people/km2The Belgian perspective
• All over the world a lot of effort is put into research, funding and implementation
of Smart Cities. With good reason to do so, as research has shown that the
possible savings possible in healthcare, transportation and energy are
considerably high. At the same time, it helps to overcome the societal challenges
of modern-day society, such as climate change, poverty, health, growing
population, energy consumption.
• Unfortunately, to date, the development of smart cities in Belgium has been
moderate. Research by the European Parliament places Belgium in its second
tier of countries ranked by smart city initiatives. As the most densely populated
country in Europe, with more than 98% of its population living in cities and city
regions, it ought to rank higher.
• Belgium is divided into a lot of sub-governmental bodies, which makes decision-
making very complicated. Moreover, we do not have many bigger cities with a
population of over 100,000, so progress can only be made in regional consortia.
This is the main reason why it is taking a long time and why at this moment we
are still mostly stuck in show-case and demo-projects.
39The Belgian perspective
Result: no protection for
health workers
Minister for digitalization.
40Belgian initiatives
• SCI, Smart City Institute, HEC Liége ( guidesmartcity.be/ )
•Flemish regional agency: Smart Flanders (smart.flanders.be)
•Federal service for Digital Transformation ( dt.bosa.be/en)
•Walloon regional agency: Digital Wallonia ( www.digitalwallonia.be/en )
•Belgian smart cities: Antwerp / Brussels / Liège / Kortrijk / Gent / Mechelen
41SPMM Executed
Planned
References or footnotes can be given here 42The Belgian perspective
43The Belgian perspective
https://www.imeccityofthings.be/en/projecten/digital-twin 44The Belgian perspective
https://www.portofantwerp.com/en/news/meet-apica-our-digital-brain 45The Belgian perspective
https://www.portofantwerp.com/en/news/meet-apica-our-digital-brain 46Last week on the news
• Digital growth spurt due to Corona
• 10% extra streaming subscription
• 50% has streaming subscription
• 11% bought extra screen for distance work and education
• 25% indicate that the shift was difficult
• 10% low-income households have only 1 screen: insufficient
• Drones from fire department
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2021/04/17/digimeter/
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https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2021/04/20/er-is-brand-uitgebroken-in-het-klooster-bij-de-school-spes-nostr/Ing. Dirk Van Merode MSc.
International Coordinator Projects
+32 496 268 415
dirk.vanmerode@ap.be
www.ap.be
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