SMART Community Review (SCR) SMART Community Exchange 2018 Program | Page 15

Taking Innovation to the Streets SMART Living Labs (SLL) Program Citizens working together in SMART Living Labs can solve challenges and share solutions with communities where we live, play, and work around the world. The SMART Living Labs (SLL) program is designed unlock the potential of citizen-community-driven innovation to create real impact with a global network. Rapid Prototypes Because top-down approaches to complex community problems are proving ineffective as technology and knowledge become more democratized, communities can now more effectively co-develop innovative solutions to real problems from its own citizens. We now know how engaging citizens in interactive, co-creation, initiatives develops solutions, products and services cost effectively and rapidly. This proven Living Lab approach launches a new value chain that can impact the economy, the environment and improve people’s lives with solid results. SMART Cities in partnership with enterprises, organizations, and educational institutions, offer great testbeds for data-driven, practical solutions in our unique, open-innovation ecosystem. Each SMART city has usually hundreds of SMART city innovations that have grown from community- driven, bottom-up initiatives ready to distribute and scale beyond these SMART cities, and can now provide a very practical program to share good practices in close collaboration with other cities. We propose not only to exchange innovative solutions, but also experience, knowledge and resources in the form of executive roundtables, summits, workshops and test beds. With multiple, state of the art, M2M (LoRaWAN, beacon, sensor and G5 narrow band or NB-IoT) networks, we have already seen how effective open IoT infrastructure is at sparking innovations and gathering momentum. Testing Citizen Solutions in Living Labs In order to further scale citizen solutions, we collaborate with individuals and organizations to create an effective innovation exchange program between SLLs. Each SLL is a living laboratory with hands-on experience to test innovations in the fields of SMART infrastructure and transportation, SMART building & SMART home automation, SMART Grid Management and Energy, SMART Education, SMART Cyber, SMART Health and SMART Environmental monitoring, SMART Gaming, and more. In the planning phase SCE, is seeking like-minded SMART leaders to partner for shared success. This international initiative will create immediate, visible, and sustainable impact, and, through a series of quick wins, set an unprecedented example for mutually beneficial local, regional, and international collaboration. We can help you organize SMART Hackathons, Meetups, Challenges, or other special events, that can yield hundreds of proof-of-concepts (PoCs) and prototypes, demonstrating the value of this innovative bottom-up, SMART Living Lab approach. We can help you design SMART innovation program or build a SMART Living Lab in your community, and connect you to fast growing SMART global Living Lab network to help you scale citizen solutions. We invite you to join us to help us unlock the potential of citizen-community- driven innovation to create real impact with a global network. Contact: [email protected] Website: www.SMARTCommunityExchange.com