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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