Intelligent Transport Solutions for Smart Cities and Regions : Lessons Learned
constraints , allow a like-for-like replacement of vendors to ensure services continuity .
In addition , the county authorities viewed oneM2M ’ s federation capabilities as an opportunity to choose whether they wanted to integrate with other oneM2M systems belonging to other cities and vendors . Alternatively , they could keep more control by managing their own instance of the standard directly , while not being isolated from others . Isolated solutions are the norm for current smart city deployments today . One of the main reasons for this is the need to pursue differentiation with the aim of becoming more attractive to investors . The problem with this approach is that it increases geographical and technical fragmentation which leads to higher start-up and operational costs because there are usually few opportunities to leverage economies of scale in a very closed and locked market .
Data privacy and security are important issues in the IoT and smart city sector . For the purposes of this trial , the security aspects of the implementation involved setting up multiple levels of registration and access control at a platform and dataset level . The approach taken to manage privacy was to aggregate data only after anonymization so personal identification is not possible at any level in the platform .
CONCLUSIONS
Advances in technology and innovation coupled with rising expectations for better and more responsive local authority services will alter the way that local authorities manage the services they deliver in cities and across regions . The smart city phenomenon does not apply solely to large and economically independent metropolitan areas . It is equally valid for small and medium-sized cities and , progressively , to their urban and sub-urban municipalities . In such locations , however , economic factors and access to ‘ smart ’ service-providers need to overcome lack-of-scale challenges .
The central issue for local authorities is to step beyond their core competencies to foster innovation in a range of services related to smart cities and regions . They should aim to : optimize investment ; capitalize on best of breed expertise ; and , lay the foundation for new ways of expanding the scope of services delivered to citizens and businesses that are the lifeblood of a local economy .
To embark on this journey , local authorities need to rethink conventional approaches to the smart city challenge . This means recognizing the limitations of investments in silo and single-technology solutions . Longterm success will result from putting in place the foundations of an operating environment to make best use of their connected assets and data streams and characterized by :
� An open-standards technology infrastructure that brings together data suppliers ( including city data from different internal departments , national data from regional transport and publicsafety authorities and , private sector data from citizens , infrastructure managers , etc .) and data consumers ( users of data such as application developers , ‘ smart ’ service providers , etc .)
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