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Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES i
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How is this Guide Organized? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Urbanization: The Opportunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
What is a Smart City? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Export Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Access to Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Trade Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Industry Sectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Internet of Things (IoT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Upcoming Smart Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
APPENDIX
A. U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau Smart City Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
1) Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
2) U.S. Census Bureau (CENSUS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
3) Economic Development Administration (EDA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
4) International Trade Administration (ITA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
5) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
6) National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NTIA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
7) U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
B. U.S. Company Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
C. U.S. Department of Commerce Points of Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
D. Additional Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
E. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Volume I, Summer 2016

Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES INTRODUCTION 1
INTRODUCTION
“From the beginning of time, cities have been question, or the various entities involved in the
centers of commerce, formed along the roads IoT ecosystem.”2
and routes of trade. In this way, economies have
This is what’s come to be known as smart cities
risen, innovation has flourished, wealth has grown
– cities aiming to become more energy efficient,
and cultures have evolved.”1 Cities have always
clean and green, while addressing Citizen
been economic growth drivers for their countries.
engagement, governance and critical needs in
55% of the world live in urban areas producing
education and healthcare.
greater than 70% of global GDP, and this is only
set to increase. After the transformations enabled by electricity
and modern transportation, this new era of
Cities, as magnets of opportunity, continue to draw
leveraging information is the next big historical
people from rural areas. The forces of urbanization
change for cities.
are disrupting traditional cities and placing new
demands on municipal governments. Local Cities will typically need help at the national
leaders are striving to provide secure, efficient level as many of the larger smart infrastructure
and effective basic services (water, energy and projects are cross-sectoral and require significant
transportation, and connectivity). In doing so, financing, a key challenge in this smart city-smart
they hope to spur economic growth and provide infrastructure space.
opportunities for citizens to prosper.
This guide will showcase U.S. Government
During our first two years as Obama Administration initiatives, specifically within the U.S. Department
officials in the International Trade Administration of Commerce to inform and assist U.S. companies
of the U.S. Department of Commerce, we’ve to play a greater collaborative role in helping
seen these challenges in cities of all sizes, from global cities address their urbanization challenges.
Rome to Riyadh, Nairobi to New York, Jakarta to
Johannesburg, Lagos to Los Angeles. Each city is Recently, the White House announced an
tackling urban challenges with unique solutions in investment of over $160 million in federal research
order to spur economic growth for the benefit of its to leverage more than 25 new technology
citizenry and the success of the city. collaborations to help local communities tackle key
challenges such as reducing traffic congestion,
One key thread driving these cities forward has fighting crime, fostering economic growth,
been the increased use of technology, specifically, managing the effects of a changing climate, and
unlocking, analyzing and using data gathered improving the delivery of city services. This new
through the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT). initiative is part of the Obama Administration’s
“IoT is based on the fact that everything will be overall commitment to target federal resources
connected to each other, i.e. multiple objects and to meet local needs and support community-led
devices working in tandem to seamlessly deliver solutions. Further details can be found in the
solutions and services. To see this vision become Technology and Future of Cities report.3
a reality would require every single IoT device and
object, be it a phone or a traffic light, to be synced
to each other, regardless of the manufacturer in
2
http://www.forbesmiddleeast.com/en/news/read/2016/iot-is-
catching-up-steadily-as-gcc/articleid/10446
1 3
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2011/10/20-global- https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/
cities-katz PCAST/pcast_cities_report___final_3_2016.pdf

2 INTRODUCTION Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES
At the Commerce Department, we have numerous • International Trade Administration (ITA):

initiatives across our bureaus, to aid U.S. At ITA we help U.S. industry engage in
companies and U.S. cities; details are provided opportunities and navigate challenges within
in Appendix A. the smart city/smart infrastructure space
globally with trade strategy, promotion
• Census Bureau: The Census Bureau has services and market intelligence. Additionally,
developed an open data software development
we are engaged with the U.S. Government
kit (SDK) to enable a community, public, or
inter-agency to coordinate on policy and
private sector individuals and organizations
programs. We work with multilateral banks and
to more easily extract value from Census data
partners, such as Bloomberg Philanthropies,
through user-friendly Application Program
Brookings Metro, Global Futures Group,
Interfaces (APIs). Through the SDK we are
Rockefeller’s 100 Resilient cities and
aiming to provide a user friendly “Toolbox” for
Smart Cities Council.
civic hackers to connect local and national
public data in order to facilitate innovative We plan to incorporate the USG interagency
solutions for our communities. smart city initiatives and showcase additional
U.S. company products and services, in addition
• Economic Development Administration
to highlighting U.S. company and U.S. city best
(EDA): EDA promotes the development of
practices in future versions of this guide. We look
Comprehensive Economic Development
forward to your comments and questions; please
Strategies (CEDS) that help cities identify
email the team at smartcities@trade.gov.
their core economic drivers and build regional
cluster strategies.
• National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST): NIST runs the Global
Arun M. Kumar
Cities Teams Challenge that brings together
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets
global city leaders, industry, technologists and & Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service
academia to solve specific problems.
• Other Commerce bureaus that are engaged

with industry and the USG inter-agency
to lead in this space include the U.S.
Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), the
National Telecommunications & Information
Vinay Vijay Singh
Administration (NTIA) and the Bureau of Senior Advisor, Global Markets,
Industrial Security (BIS); their activities are Urbanization & Infrastructure
listed in Appendix A.

4 INTRODUCTION Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES
As the commercial arm of the U.S. government, company export opportunities and American job
the Department of Commerce works to support creation by providing insights into new global
the American business community by opening opportunities and challenges through a deeper
and navigating new and existing markets. understanding of Commerce’s current initiatives.
From collecting weather data, to coordinating
This guide focuses on the global export
commercial activities globally to administering the
opportunities and challenges for U.S. companies,
National Census every 10 years, the Commerce
large and small, and is a first step towards
Department ’s bureaus has equities across the
increased coordination and communication across
commercial sphere. To assist U.S. companies in
the U.S. Government in this space. By learning
competing for and winning business opportunities
about Commerce’s initiatives, U.S. companies
in the emerging Smart Cities space, the U.S.
are provided with a platform to engage with
Department of Commerce has synthesized
our teams and expand or enter into the myriad
the smart city activities of our bureaus into an
of opportunities in the smart city and smart
Export Opportunities resource guide. Building on
infrastructure space.
Secretary Pritzker’s Open for Business Agenda,
this guide is designed to further boost U.S.
HOW DOES THE GUIDE BENEFIT MY COMPANY?
Ability to review specific opportunities, initiatives & challenges highlighted across the
globe noted within the Trade Promotion and Upcoming Smart Events sections.
Increased awareness of financing options for U.S. companies to leverage in their pursuit of
global smart cities and smart infrastructure projects in the Access to Capital section.
Deeper understanding of the various smart city industry sectors.
Engagement platform for U.S. companies through insight into the U.S. Department of
Commerce bureau initiatives.

Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES HOW IS THIS GUIDE ORGANIZED? 5
HOW IS THIS GUIDE ORGANIZED?
To help maximize the value of this Export Organization Capabilities is included to provide
Opportunities guide, we’ve organized the Smart greater context of the interest and initiatives in this
Cities and urbanization activities and resources space. This guide is iterative, and we welcome
Commerce has to offer into four key categories, your feedback. Please email smartcities@trade.gov
defined below: (1) Access to Capital, (2) Trade with your comments and questions. Also, feel
Promotion, (3) Industry Sectors, and (4) Internet free to download the latest version of the guide
of Things. Supplemental information such at http://www.export.gov/smartcities.
as Upcoming Events and U.S. Company and
ACCESS TO CAPITAL
The critical challenge for U.S. companies in winning projects in the smart city/smart
infrastructure space is discussed in this section. ITA’s work with the inter-agency is
highlighted along with detailed descriptions of multi-lateral bank initiatives to support
U.S. industry.
TRADE PROMOTION
ITA’s Global Markets (GM) team highlights 40+ countries in this section, including key smart
city country initiatives, featured cities and a calendar of events. U.S. industry can connect
with Global Markets U.S. field offices in their area to learn more and consider our Gold Key
services to meet with local partners and government officials.
INDUSTRY SECTORS
ITA’s Industry & Analysis (I&A) team provides sector intelligence in certain smart city focus
areas such as energy, transportation, information and communication technology and
standards. The team also provides key challenges and their definition of smart cities.
INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)

IoT is the foundation for Smart Cities, which use digital technology to improve government
services. This section provides a brief description of Bureau activities.

Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES URBANIZATION: THE OPPORTUNITY 7
URBANIZATION: THE OPPORTUNITY
“Cities around the globe, whether rich or poor, are efficient and green; more convenient, accessible,
in the midst of a technology experiment. Urban and conducive to mobility; and more connected
planners are pulling data from inexpensive sensors and inclusive. These goals are interconnected, and
mounted on traffic lights and park benches, and pursuing them jointly through integrated solutions
from mobile apps on citizens’ smartphones, to can produce much more livable cities. For example,
analyze how their cities really operate. They the use of connected and autonomous vehicles
hope the data will reveal how to run their cities would greatly reduce the need for parking spaces
better and improve urban life. City leaders and and space dedicated to roads. Freed-up space
technology experts say that managing the growing could enable pedestrian paths, bike lanes, urban
challenges of cities well and affordably will be farming, and clean urban manufacturing; or it could
close to impossible without smart technology. facilitate change in the density of buildings, which
Fifty-four % of humanity lives in urban centers, might, in turn, facilitate the deployment of more-
and almost all of the world’s projected population efficient energy and water systems, which could
growth over the next three decades will take place lower the cost of housing and help entice people
in cities, including many very poor cities. Because back to the city.
of their density and often-strained infrastructure,
“In recognition of the above, the White House
cities have an outsize impact on the environment,
recently highlighted the need for greater U.S.
consuming two-thirds of the globe’s energy and
government involvement with the development
contributing a large share of its greenhouse-
of Smart Cities. They cited the aforementioned
gas emissions. Urban water systems are leaky.
challenges and opportunities for U.S. city residents
Pollution levels are often extreme. But cities
and business and also touched upon the fact
also contribute most of the world’s economic
that the rest of the world is not standing still.
production. Thirty % of the world’s economy and
National governments in the UK, Germany, China,
most of its innovation are concentrated in just
India, Brazil, and Singapore have stepped up
100 cities. Can technology help manage rapid
with considerable organization and resources to
population expansion while also nurturing cities’
become leaders in urban innovation, positioning
all-important role as an economic driver?”4
their countries and companies for what is now
“In the new era for cities, discrete and distinct recognized as a multi-trillion-dollar worldwide
districts and sub-centers are supplementing historic opportunity. The rewards, they argue, will be
downtown centers- multiple areas within a city that largely economic- new products, new companies,
provide either similar of complementary social and and new skilled jobs, which, along with improved
economic functions. Understanding and adjusting urban quality of life, create a virtuous circle that
tradeoffs between physical and socioeconomic attracts talented new residents and additional
transformations in cities requires well-planned, businesses from around the world.
integrated experimentation and implementation.
“The final recommendation is that the federal
That is difficult to do city-wide, but districts create
government role is appropriate to ensure timely
the perfect living laboratory. Today, technological
progress in a complicated arena rife with public
implementations provide another path to impact,
goods. The role more specifically involves the
transforming city districts to become more energy-
integration of many technologies, classes of
stakeholders, and agency missions; facilitation
of demonstration projects of a variety of kinds at
4
https://www.technologyreview.com/business-report/cities- district scale; coordination of interagency and
get-smarter/ public-private R&D investment; facilitation of new

8 URBANIZATION: THE OPPORTUNITY Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES
standards; workforce development; cooperation Common urban challenges include congestion,

with state and local governments; and more.”5 lack of funds to provide basic services, a shortage
of adequate housing and declining infrastructure.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) of the
U.S. Department of Commerce has resources to “The challenges cities face can be overcome in
assist U.S. companies as they evaluate global smart ways that allow them to continue to thrive and
city/smart infrastructure opportunities. From our grow, while improving resource use and reducing
100+ U.S. Commercial Service offices across the pollution and poverty. The future we want includes
country which provide trade counseling and our 70+ cities of opportunities for all, with access to basic
U.S. Commercial Service offices who provide Gold services, energy, housing, transportation and
Key services (vetted matchmaking with industry and more. Goal 11 of the UN Sustainable Development
government) to our valuable Top Markets reports Goals is to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and
providing market intelligence, our teams are ready sustainable.”6
to assist you with export opportunities.
Challenges remain for U.S. exporters in this
“Cities are hubs for ideas, commerce, culture, space, including just defining the phrase smart
science, productivity, social development and city. However, urbanization is happening. Cities
much more. At their best, cities have enabled compete for citizens and strive to deepen
people to advance socially and economically. their economic viability. In this context, the
However, many challenges exist to maintaining opportunities are abundant, and the International
cities in a way that continues to create jobs and Trade Administration is here to help you navigate
prosperity while not straining land and resources. the terrain.
GLOBAL FOOTPRINT – THE 30 MOST POPULATED URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS (AS OF 2014)
Source: Data from United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs, Population Division. “World Urbanization Prospecs, the 2014 Revision”, Highlights, 2014
“More than 60% of cities

that will exist in 2050 have yet to be built.”
http://www.100resilientcities.org/blog/entry/six-big-reasons-we-focus-on-cities#/-_/
5
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/
PCAST/pcast_cities_report___final_3_2016.pdf 6
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/cities/

Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES URBANIZATION: THE OPPORTUNITY 9
TOP 10 TECHNOLOGIES
DRIVING TRANSFORMATION
Source: World Economic Forum, Shaping the Future of Urban Development

& Services Initiative, Global Survey on Urban Services (Oct.-Dec. 2015)

“Cities have become hubs for knowledge-
sharing and creativity. More and more people
are moving to cities, producing amazing
innovations that allow cities to maintain their
essential functions despite this constantly
increasing population pressure.”
http://www.100resilientcities.org/blog/entry/six-big-reasons-we-focus-on-cities#/-_/
“Shifting demographics are causing major

rebalancing of the engines of global
consumption…In the face of this ferment
of change, companies need to arm themselves
with deep knowledge about the geography
of consumers as well as the structural drivers
of their spending…”
http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/urbanization/urban-world-the-global-consumers-to-watch
Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES WHAT IS A SMART CITY? 11
WHAT IS A SMART CITY?
The phrase “smart city” was coined in the early resources to redevelop their existing communities,
1990s to illustrate how urban development was (‘brownfield’ sites), to connect to other cities
turning towards technology, innovation, and (regional development), and to develop new urban
globalization. Cities around the world dedicate sites (‘greenfield’ sites or planned smart cities).
FOCUS >>> U.S. BUSINESS COMMUNITY

At the Department of Commerce, we look to assist U.S. industry as it seeks to build smart cities. It
is an opportunity for our teams to especially focus on small and medium sized companies as they
navigate global smart city and smart infrastructure opportunities.
From technology and data providers, to infrastructure and architecture service companies, to project
planning firms, smart urban planning is a key strength of the U.S. industry.
Implementing smart urbanization is a critical strategy both in developed and less developed nations.
The strategy applies equally to retrofitting existing neighborhoods, cities, and regions as well as
a strategy for new growth. In either case, governments will desire to provide efficient, data driven
services to their growing populations.
Simply put, smart cities are defined by its citizens. safety and security with sustainability will enable
Whether you call cities, sustainable, shareable, their communities to maintain connectivity within
net carbon or democratic, Local and State their regions and ultimately thrive.
governments will be responsive to their constituent
Another approach in defining smart cities is
needs and will prioritize and define their own
through the lens of city infrastructure technologies
elements of smartness. Improving the quality of
as outlined in the recent, Technology and the
life for citizens, is essential to remain competitive
Future of Cities report.7
in this globally challenging climate. Ensuring that
cities have core economic drivers and can balance
7
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/02/23/pcast-releases-
technology-and-future-cities-report-president

12 WHAT IS A SMART CITY? Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES
URBAN SECTOR TECHNOLOGIES / CONCEPTS OBJECTIVES
Transportation Multi-modal integration via ICT Save time

applications and models Comfort or productivity
On-demand digitally enabled Low-cost mobility and universal access
transportation Reduced operating expenses to
Design for biking and walking transportation providers
Zero emissions, collisions, fatalities
Electrification of motorized
Noise reduction
transportation
Lifestyles
Autonomous vehicles Tailored solutions for the underserved,
disabled, and elderly
Energy Distributed renewables Energy efficiency
Co-generation Zero air pollution
District heating and cooling Low noise
Synergistic resource management with
Low-cost energy storage
water and transportation
Smart-grids, micro-grids Increased resilience against climate
Energy-efficient lighting change and natural disasters
Advanced HVAC systems
Building and Housing New construction technologies Affordable housing
and designs Healthy living and working
Life-course design and optimization environments
Sensing and actuation for real-time Inexpensive innovation and
space management entrepreneurial space
Thermal comfort
Adaptive space design
Increased resilience
Financing, codes, and standards
conducive to innovation
Water Integrated water systems design Active ecosystem integration
and management Smart integration of water, sanitation,
Local recycling flood control, agriculture, and the
Water efficiency via smart metering environment as a system
Increased resilience
Re-use in buildings and districts
Urban Manufacturing High-tech, on-demand New job creation
3D printing Training and education
Small batch manufacturing Urban space conversion and re-use
Close integration of living and work
High-value added activities
requiring human capital
and design
Innovation parks
Urban Farming Urban agriculture and Lower water use
vertical farming Cleaner delivery
Fresher produce

16 ACCESS TO CAPITAL Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES
ACCESS TO CAPITAL
The private sector will have to drive the financing

A critical piece of Smart City, Region or
of smart infrastructure and smart city projects,
Community development relies on project
though local, state and federal governments will
funding and finance. U.S. companies promoting
continue to play a key role. For smart cities, there
goods or services can turn to Public Private
are new and old mechanisms being deployed,
Partnerships, to more traditional financing
from crowdfunding community projects, smart
measures (private capital), the Export-Import
incubators and a revitalization of special purpose
Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank), the
vehicles, municipal bonds, social impact bonds
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
and public-private partnerships.
(OPIC), the United States Trade and
Development Agency (USTDA), or many of the In addition to helping foreign governments build
multilateral development banks. We chose to capacity and implement appropriate regulatory
address ‘Access to Capital’ first as this topic frameworks, for smart infrastructure, where there
tends to be at the forefront for U.S. companies can be overlap with larger smart city projects,
and foreign governments. the Center for Strategic & International Studies
(CSIS) recently recommended that “The traditional
multilateral development banks (MDBs) should
OVERVIEW refocus their infrastructure strategies, with an
emphasis on effective private-sector engagement
ITA does not have direct capability to provide and speed without cutting corners.”8
financing assistance for Smart City and
urbanization activities; however, ITA is able to “In the view of a recent New Cities Foundation
leverage its many relationships in the federal trade report, the most critical infrastructure financing
and finance community to provide information, challenges facing cities today are those assets
guidance, and introductions to assist U.S. in the public domain (e.g. public transit, roads,
companies on the path to acquiring financing. water/wastewater treatment) where the public
sector is responsible for owning and operating
Recently, the U.S. Trade and Development the assets and where financing largely relies on
Administration (USTDA) awarded a grant to a grants, subsidies, taxes and other sources that are
three-company U.S. consortium comprised of unsuitable in the long run.
AECOM, KPMG and IBM. This grant provides funds
for the consortium to provide master planning “Public sector financing is almost always 100 %
services to Vishakhapatnam, one of the U.S.- debt financing. (i.e. fully leveraged with no equity
industry-led Smart Cities identified by the Indian capital at risk). The cost of this debt financing is
government. This approach of seeding master significantly lower relative to the private sector
planning of cities is one financing approach for due largely to taxes and other public assets that
funding Smart City projects. effectively serve as collateral on the debt.
ITA also hosts roundtables on an ad hoc basis with “Private sector financing becomes attractive
the private sector and federal partners to discuss when the public sector is fiscally constrained
Smart Cities and smart infrastructure funding. ITA and facing serious debt capacity issues. Private
has also collaborated with a major university to sector financing is generally perceived to be more
rethink global infrastructure financing, that report expensive because it almost always involves at
is expected later this year.
8
https://www.csis.org/analysis/barriers-bankable-infrastructure

Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES ACCESS TO CAPITAL 17
risk equity capital. Public-Private partnerships are not considered creditworthy. That drives up
(P3) is a primary infrastructure delivery approach capital costs, if they can get financing at all. Of the
under private sector financing. P3 has been 500 largest cities in developing countries, about
evolving continuously since the 1990’s. The key 4 % are deemed creditworthy by international
consideration is whether the private sector takes financial markets, and only 20 % in local ones.”10
on the brunt of the overall financial risks (revenue-
“Other issues raised by various authors include:
risk model) or the public sector has the ultimate
In cities that lack proper revenue management or
financial liability in the long run (availability
expenditure planning, the path to creditworthiness
payment model). P3 is generally preferred for
is steep. Some cities, for example, have mandated
largescale, capital intensive projects that have
more spending than they collect in revenue. In one
long-term strategic importance. Often, private
east African capital, fewer than 2 % of properties
sector financing and delivery can be mired in
are registered for tax purposes; it is little surprise,
political controversy. There is sufficient evidence
then, that the municipal authorities do not have
to prove, however, that wider public acceptance is
resources and expertise to plan and manage
possible if there is a clear mandate on the use of
spending.”11 “Cities in developed countries also
the proceeds to reinvest in infrastructure, credible
face fiscal challenges; a number of American
institutions such as public pensions are involved
municipalities face ballooning pension obligations
on the buyer side, and a clear regulatory regime is
and are seeing their credit ratings decline.”12
established to protect social objectives.
“Figuring out how to finance sustainable
In addition to public and private sector financing,
infrastructure in cities is vitally important. They
International Financing Institutions (IFIs)
will continue to be a hub for infrastructure
provide critical financial support in the global
development and carbon emissions, and are often
infrastructure financing space. IFIs are public
willing and able to take more aggressive action on
sector development and development finance
climate change than national governments.”13
institutions that are owned by one or more national
governments. Operating at international, regional, “Encouraging enough private-sector investment
and national levels, IFIs provide a critical nexus in sustainable infrastructure at reasonable cost
between the public policy goals of governments will require overcoming or removing five major
and the international capital markets that allocate barriers:
financial resources on a global scale.
• Lack of transparent and “bankable” pipelines:
“For cities that must take on the brunt of Even in the G-20, only half the countries
infrastructure provision responsibilities in the face publish infrastructure pipelines.
of rapid urbanization, innovative ideas in urban
infrastructure financing could provide a welcome • High development and transaction costs:
relief. Several innovative urban financing models Thirty % of investments in new clean-energy
and best practices are presented in the recent capacity go to small-scale projects such as
Handbook on Urban Infrastructure Finance, which rooftop solar; such projects do not naturally
include CEPAC Bonds, Crowdfunding for Small generate the economies of scale that can keep
Projects and P3 Capital; Local Government Funding costs down.
Agencies (LGFA); Green Bonds, Carbon Tax, and
a Cap-and-Trade for Sustainability; and Social
Impact Bonds.”9 10
“Planning and Financing Low-Carbon, Livable Cities,” World Bank,
September 26, 2013, worldbank.org
“According to a World Bank report, with fewer 11
“Financing sustainable cities: How we’re helping African cities raise
options to draw from, cities struggle to overcome their credit ratings,” World Bank, October 24, 2013, worldbank.org
barriers related to project economics, and many 12
Hal Dardick, “Chicago credit rating takes major hit,” Chicago
Tribune, March 5, 2014, chicagotribune.com
13
9
Kim, Julie, New Cities Foundation (2016), Handbook on Urban “The State of City Climate Finance: 2015” The Cities Climate Finance
Infrastructure Finance [online: http://bit.ly/NCFUrbanFinance] Leadership Alliance, December 2015, sustainabledevelopment.un.org

• Lack of viable funding models: Up to 70 % of quantity and quality of their financing—the private
water provided by utilities in sub-Saharan sector most of all. Right now, private investment
Africa is leaked, unmetered, or stolen; accounts for up to half of total infrastructure
therefore not enough revenue is generated to spending—$1 trillion to $1.5 trillion a year; 65 % to
maintain or expand the system. 75 % of that comes from corporate actors, and the
rest from institutional investors, such as private
• Inadequate risk-adjusted returns: Investors
equity (PE) and pension funds. Private institutional
may be willing to take on sustainable
investors could fill up to half the financing gap—
infrastructure but want higher returns to
provided that they can identify projects that
compensate them for the perceived risks.
are bankable and sustainable (Exhibit 1 on next
Infrastructure projects are also notoriously
page).”14 Exhibit 15 from the same McKinsey report
prone to corruption, creating significant
highlights the six actions that have great potential
additional risks.
to close the private sector financing gap for
• Unfavorable and uncertain regulations and sustainable infrastructure.
policies: Basel III and Solvency II regulations
Undoubtedly, we will evolve our thinking in this
could have the effect of reducing investment
space as we continue to dialogue with the private
in infrastructure at the global level; uncertain
and public sector. The following pages contain
tax policies can do the same at the national
smart city/smart infrastructure offerings and
level. The fact that sustainable-infrastructure
initiatives from several multilateral banks and
projects typically have higher up-front capital
the U.S. Trade and Development Administration
costs makes them even more sensitive to the
(USTDA).
cost and availability of capital.
To build sustainable infrastructure on the scale
needed, all kinds of investors have to increase the
14
http://2015.newclimateeconomy.report/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/
Financing_change_How_to_mobilize_private-sector_financing_for_
sustainable-_infrastructure.pdf

PRIVATE INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS COULD FILL UP TO HALF THE FINANCING GAP
Potential incremental annual spending from private institutional investors,

$ trillion
Annual
investment
gap
~$3 trillion
0.20
0.30
0.12
0.55
1–1.50
Natural growth Current investors Current investors New investors Private-sector

in assets under 3
meeting target meeting “reach” entering market incremental
management allocations 1 allocation 2 investment
1 Weighted average target allocation = 5.96% across investor groups.

2 “Reach” allocation defined as 8% weighted average across investor groups.
3 Assumes 60% of non-infrastructure investors begin investing at level comparable to peer current allocations.
Source: Preqin Infrastructure Online, Funds and Limited Partnership Investors, June 2015
SIX ACTIONS HAVE GREAT POTENTIAL TO CLOSE THE PRIVATE-SECTOR FINANCING GAP
FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
Incremental Private
Financing for sustainable
Barrier Recommended Action Actor Infrastructure, 2015-301
Lack of transparent and 1. Scale up investment in sustainable Governments and $150 billion–$450 billion
“bankable” pipelines project preparation and pipeline development banks
development
Lack of viable 2. Use development capital to finance Development banks $1.7 trillion–$2.6 trillion
funding models sustainability premiums
Inadequate risk- 3. Improve the capital markets for Development banks $166 billion–$260 billion
adjustment return sustainable infrastructure by
encouraging the use of guarantees
Unfavorable regulatory 4. Encourage the use of sustainability Governments $120 billion–$195 billion
and tax policy criteria in procurement
High development and 5. Increase syndication of loans that Development banks $35 billion–$75 billion
transaction costs finance sustainable infrastructure
projects
6. Adapt financial instruments to Private sector and $300 billion–$500 billion

channel investment to sustainable international community
infrastructure and increase liquidity
1
Figures are not directly additive, given that implementing all recommendations could have overlapping impact.
Source: McKinsey analysis

Asian Development Bank
SMART CITY OVERVIEW 3. Equity – to identify key social issues and

prioritize investments accordingly
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) supports
smart cities through several regional initiatives
and individual projects across Asia and the
Pacific. Since the late 1960s, ADB has funded KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR)
and implemented some 200 urban projects, Urban Development: ADB supports the
amounting to more than $20 billion in loans, transformation of developing cities into safe,
including urban water supply, sanitation, and sustainable urban centers, across the energy,
wastewater management. In 2012, ADB launched transport, information & communication
an overarching Urban Operational Plan (UOP) for technology (ICT), water supply and sanitation
2012-2020 which includes projects in clean water, sectors.
sustainable transport, energy, solid
waste management, urban planning and Clean Energy: ADB supports regional efficiency
financing sectors. in energy, transport and urban development
sectors through the adoption of renewable energy
Implementation of the UOP is divided into sources; improving energy access for poor and
three phases: remote regions (avoiding traditional biomass),
• Phase 1, 2013–2014 - defined concepts and meeting energy security needs, facilitating
activities of the UOP initiatives. transition to a low-carbon economy, and achieving
universal access to energy. ADB’s 2016 -2018
• Phase 2, 2015–2017 - will (i) evaluate pilot project pipeline for the energy sector is $13 billion.
projects; (ii) prepare project development and
implementation manuals for urban initiatives; Transportation and Information & Communications
and (iii) develop partnerships for UOP support Technology (ICT): ADB supports low-carbon and
and implementation and integrate knowledge climate resilient transport, road safety, and cross-
generated into peer review processes. border transport and logistics. For the period 2016-
2018, ADB has allocated $16 billion for ICT and
• Phase 3, 2017–2020 – produce knowledge transport sectors.
products and outreach materials to plan and
develop green, competitive, and inclusive Ongoing activities are in the following areas:
cities; and to upscale investments. • Telecommunication and ICT infrastructure
The UOP integrates urban planning through a (e.g. mobile and wireless network, broadband
‘GrEEEn Cities Operational Framework’,15 which is cable networks, data centers, last-mile
based on the following “3E” initiatives: Internet connectivity)in the Pacific Islands;
1. Economy – to bolster the efficiency and • Innovative e-government solutions in Central

competitiveness of Asian cities. Asia and South Asia;
2. Environment - to identify key environmental • Smart power grids in East and Southeast Asia;
issues and prioritize infrastructure investments • ICT industries (e.g. ICT centers of excellence,
to develop green cities. research/computer laboratories; ICT-
enabled industries such as business process
15
outsourcing, knowledge process outsourcing,
http://www.adb.org/publications/enabling-greeen-cities-
operational-framework-integrated-urban-development-southeast-asia
software parks, ICT incubators);

• ICT-enabled services (e.g. ICT applications for South Asia/ India: ADB’s largest assistance in
governance, education, health, finance); and smart cities is in India, totaling more than
$2 billion for both national and state levels.
• ICT policy, strategy, and capacity
ADB’s niche areas for its Smart City program
development (e.g. ICT policy and strategy,
in India are water, waste water, solid waste,
telecommunications policy reform, universal
drainage, smart water technologies and innovative
access and service, ICT road maps [national
management approaches.
and local], ICT regulations and laws, ICT skills
training and capacity building). • $700 million multi-tranche financing facility
(MFF) loan to the National Finance Institute
Water: ADB’s Water Operational Plan16 2011–2020
(IIFCL/State Bank of India) under the
targets annual investments of $2-$2.5 billion or
Accelerating Infrastructure Investment
$20-$25 billion by 2020. The plan will improve the
Facility in India21, which will provide funding
effectiveness and enhance quality outcomes of
to financial intermediaries for on-lending on
water operations.
commercial terms to special purpose vehicles
(SPVs). This project was approved in 2013.
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS: • $500 million MFF loan for the states of Gujarat,
Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal
In 2015, under Phase 2 of UOP, ADB approved under the State-Level Support for National
$1.5 million17 in regional technical assistance to Flagship Urban Programs. ADB is working
‘Establish the Future Cities Program.’ This project with the Department of Economic Affairs and
will prepare integrated urban assessments, Department of Finance. This will support
engage cities in understanding, identifying, and flagship national urban programs in Gujarat,
sharing best practice pathways towards future Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal
livable cities. with high demand for urban services, high
Southeast Asia: ADB assisted the Indonesia- urban poverty ratios. The proposed project
Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT), could be used as a model for the entire country
a sub-regional economic cooperation program, for innovative and efficient infrastructure
to prepare an ‘Implementation Blueprint, 2012- services delivery in India. Subprojects will be
2016’.18 This Blueprint identified 11 projects, developed under the program to improve urban
amounting to $5.2 billion, including an Intercity infrastructure and to introduce good practices
Motorway Project19 in Thailand worth $300 million. in infrastructure design, procurement, and
In Myanmar, ADB provided a $116.8 million loan construction. Examples include waste-
and technical assistance for the Mandalay to-energy and reduce-reuse-recycle (3R)
Urban Services Improvement Project 20,which practices for solid and liquid waste (biogas,
will improve urban environment and public industrial reuse), remote technology for
health in Mandalay City. The Mandalay Regional real-time monitoring of water leakage and
Government is the executing agency. water quality (multi-parameter sensors),
performance-based turnkey contracts, and
trenchless technology for linear pipe laying
works, where suitable. ADB Board approval is
scheduled for 2017.
16
http://www.adb.org/documents/water-operational-plan-2011-2020 The following projects in India are in the pipeline
17
http://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/project- and currently in development. Details have not
document/178245/49053-001-tar.pdf been finalized.
18
http://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/page/34235/imt-gt-
implementation-blueprint-2012-2016-july-2012.pdf
19
http://www.adb.org/projects/45297-002/main 21
http://www.adb.org/projects/documents/accelerating-
20
http://www.adb.org/projects/47127-001/main infrastructure-investment-facility-india-rrp

• $1.12 million project preparatory technical know ADB’s and borrowing countries’ procurement
assistance for the State-Level Support for laws and regulations.
National Flagship Urban Programs.22
Generally, ADB recruits consultants for contracts
$7 million technical assistance for funded by Technical Assistance; whereas, the
Strengthening Climate Change Resilience in DMC’s Executing Agencies (Government) are the
Urban23 to improve the institutional capacities decision makers for procurement and recruits
of the Government of India, and to identify, consultants for contracts funded by loans.
plan, invest in, and respond to climate change
U.S. firms cannot borrow directly from ADB for
and disaster-related risks in vulnerable cities
their business operations; however, private sector-
and towns across India.
led projects on infrastructure and capital market/
• Further, ADB allocates $505 million loan finance sectors may seek financial assistance
and grant financing with a $215 million through ADB’s private sector financing.
counterpart from the Government of India
for the Visakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial
Corridor Development Program24 that will IMPORTANT TRADE SHOWS/EVENTS/LINKS:
support policy reforms and institutional
development in the state’s industrial sector ADB Transport Forum 2016
and priority infrastructure investments in the September 12-16, 2016, ADB Headquarters,
Visakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial Corridor. Manila, Philippines
The Department of Industries and Government Website: http://www.adb.org/news/events/
of Andhra Pradesh are the executing agencies. adb-transport-forum-2016
(Event occurs once every 2 years)
Contact: Nana Soetantri, Transport Specialist
CHALLENGES (INCLUDING LOCAL AND Sector Advisory Service Division,
NATIONAL MARKET ACCESS BARRIERS Sustainable Development and
FOR SMART CITY GOODS AND SERVICES Climate Change Department
COMING FROM THE U.S) Asian Development Bank
E-mail: nsoetantri@adb.org;
In 2015, ADB approved more than $27 billion Tel.: +632 632 4444 ext. 6625
in loans, guarantees, equity, grants, technical
assistance, and co-financing to its developing ADB’s Private Sector Financing:
member countries (DMCs). This translates http://www.adb.org/site/private-sector-financing/
to business opportunities for contractors, ADB’s Clean Energy:
subcontractors, and consultants. To win these http://www.adb.org/sectors/energy/programs-
opportunities, U.S. firms will have to compete with funds-initiatives
other firms from 66 other ADB member countries,
or may subcontract or partner with these firms. ADB’s Sustainable Transport for All:
Some firms in DMCs have competitive advantages http://www.adb.org/sectors/transport/main
due to their proximity, lower cost of production,
GrEEEn Solutions for Livable Cities:
and longstanding local supplier relationships.
http://www.adb.org/publications/greeen-solutions-
Thus, U.S. firms must be equipped with marketing
livable-cities
strategies appropriate to the ADB market, and
22
www.adb.org/printpdf/projects/49107-003/main
23
http://www.adb.org/projects/49106-001/main
24
http://www.adb.org/projects/48434-002/main

Overseas Private Investment Corporation
ABOUT OPIC DEBT FINANCING

OPIC is the U.S. Government’s development OPIC financing provides medium- to long-
finance institution. It mobilizes private capital to term funding through direct loans and loan
help address critical development challenges guaranties to eligible investment projects in
and in doing so, advances U.S. foreign policy developing countries and emerging markets.
and national security priorities. Because OPIC By complementing the private sector, OPIC can
works with the U.S. private sector, it helps U.S. provide financing in countries where conventional
businesses gain footholds in emerging markets, financial institutions often are reluctant or unable
catalyzing revenues, jobs and growth opportunities to lend. OPIC can meet the long-term capital
both at home and abroad. OPIC achieves its investment financing needs of any size business in
mission by providing investors with financing, a wide variety of industries.
political risk insurance, and support for private
OPIC’s minimum loan/guaranty size is $350,000
equity investment funds, when commercial funding
and the maximum is $250 million. If a project
cannot be obtained elsewhere. Established as
requires more than OPIC’s maximum per-project
an agency of the U.S. Government in 1971, OPIC
lending capacity, OPIC is experienced in working
operates on a self-sustaining basis at no net cost
with co-lenders to bring sufficient resources to
to American taxpayers.
a project. The majority of OPIC’s financing is
All OPIC projects adhere to high environmental used to cover the capital costs (such as design/
and social standards and respect human rights, engineering services, facility construction or
including worker’s rights. By mandating high leasehold improvements, equipment) associated
standards, OPIC aims to raise the industry and with the establishment or expansion of a project in
regional standards in countries where it funds a non-financial industry or to fund the expansion
projects. OPIC services are available for new of lending capacity (such as microfinance, SME
and expanding business enterprises in more than lending or mortgage lending) by a financial
160 countries worldwide.25 services provider.
OPIC does not consider financing requests that are
solely for working capital needs or for the purpose
WHAT OPIC OFFERS of making an acquisition, though limited working
OPIC provides financial products, such as loans capital or acquisition costs may be financeable if
and guaranties; political risk insurance; and they are a portion of overall project costs. OPIC
support for investment funds, all of which help does not finance export sales that are unrelated to
American businesses expand into emerging long-term investments in overseas projects.27
markets. By mobilizing private capital to help solve
critical development challenges, OPIC advances
U.S. foreign policy, and catalyzes revenues, jobs POLITICAL RISK INSURANCE
and growth opportunities both at home
Investing in emerging markets can be
and abroad.26
unpredictable, even for the most sophisticated
investors. While developing markets can offer
25
https://www.opic.gov/who-we-are/overview
26
https://www.opic.gov/what-we-offer/overview 27
https://www.opic.gov/what-we-offer/financial-products

great opportunity, they can also present a variety SUPPORT FOR PRIVATE EQUITY FUNDS
of political risks beyond an investor’s control.
Among them: In response to the shortfall of private equity capital
in developing countries, OPIC provides support
• War, civil strife, coups and other acts of for the creation of privately-owned and managed
politically-motivated violence including investment funds. OPIC is one of the largest private
terrorism equity fund sponsors in developing nations and the
agency is typically one of the first fund sponsors
• Expropriation, including abrogation,
to enter an unproven market. These funds make
repudiation and/or impairment of contract and
direct equity and equity-related investments in
other improper host government interference
new, expanding or privatizing emerging market
• Restrictions on the conversion and transfer of companies. OPIC-supported funds help emerging
local-currency earnings economies access long-term growth capital,
management skills, and financial expertise, all
OPIC’s insurance - combined with our financing
of which are key factors in expanding economic
options - allows U.S. businesses to take advantage
development and creating new opportunities for
of commercially attractive opportunities in
people in low-income and developing nations.
emerging markets, mitigating risk and helping them
compete in a global marketplace. OPIC insurance OPIC has committed $4.1 billion to 62 private equity
provides innovative, comprehensive, and cost- funds in emerging markets since 1987. These funds
effective risk-mitigation products to cover losses in turn have invested $5.6 billion in more than
to tangible assets, investment value, and earnings 570 privately-owned and managed companies
that result from political perils. across 65 countries. Through our commitments,
we catalyze U.S. foreign direct investment and
Political risk insurance is available to U.S.
accelerate the economic and social development
investors, lenders, contractors, exporters,
within these markets.29
and NGOs for investments in 150 developing
countries, including high-risk countries such
as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq,
Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Coverage is offered for
small and large investments that provide positive
developmental benefits.28
28 29
https://www.opic.gov/what-we-offer/political-risk-insurance https://www.opic.gov/what-we-offer/investment-fund

Export-Import Bank
EXIM and Smart Cities: Supporting U.S. Exports capitalization of interest during construction and
financing for local cost up to 30 % of the U.S.
The Export-Import Bank of the United States
contract price for U.S. goods and services that
(EXIM) is the official export credit agency of
measurably reduce the consumption, production
the United States. EXIM is an independent,
and utilization of energy while maintaining the
self-sustaining Executive Branch agency with a
same benefits or level of energy service to end
mission of supporting American jobs by facilitating
users. These include:
the export of U.S. goods and services.
When private sector lenders are unable or
unwilling to provide financing, EXIM fills in the BUILDINGS
gap for American businesses by equipping them
with the financing tools necessary to compete for Design, engineering or architectural services for
global sales. In doing so, EXIM levels the playing new and existing buildings (retrofit), energy audits,
field for U.S. goods and services going up against energy-efficient insulation, building envelopes,
foreign competition in overseas markets, so that solar-radiant barriers, advanced windows, energy-
American companies can create more good- efficient lighting, water heating (including solar
paying American jobs. water heaters), refrigeration technologies and
smart meters.
Because it is backed by the full faith and credit
of the United States, EXIM assumes credit and
country risks that the private sector is unable or INDUSTRIES
unwilling to accept. The Bank’s charter requires
that all transactions it authorizes demonstrate a Improvements in industrial design or process to
reasonable assurance of repayment; the Bank reduce energy utilization, including combined
consistently maintains a low default rate, and heating, cooling, and power (CHP); waste-heat
closely monitors credit and other risks in its recovery; preheating and efficient drives (motor,
portfolio.30 pump, compressors); and other technologies
designed to reduce energy intensity.
SMART CITIES
POWER-GENERATION FACILITIES
EXIM’s programs aimed at renewable energy
and energy efficiency can be used to promote Refurbishment and repowering (including
development of smart cities and greater hydropower), improved operation and maintenance
opportunities for U.S. exporters. practices, and better resource utilization (higher
plant load factors and availability).
EXIM has placed an enhanced focus on providing
export finance for energy-efficiency and
renewable projects in markets where commercial
REDUCED TRANSMISSION AND
lenders are hesitant to assume the risk.
DISTRIBUTION LOSSES
EXIM’s Environmental Exports Program offers
High-voltage power lines, better insulated
enhancements such as greater risk protection,
conductors, capacitors, efficient and low-loss
30
http://www.exim.gov/about

transformers, and improved metering systems and Traditionally, project financing has not been
instrumentation. available for small transactions due to the high
levels of due diligence and advisory fees incurred
in a typical project financing. By comparison, with
SMART-GRID TECHNOLOGIES Renewable Express, EXIM will use a streamlined
procedure to more quickly and efficiently evaluate
Smart meters, remote sensors, energy- and underwrite the borrower’s credit. If all of the
management systems and energy-storage devices. requirements of the program are fully met, EXIM
can process a Renewable Express application in
as little as 60 days.
TRANSPORTATION
Hybrid and electric vehicles; high miles-per-gallon
(MPG) vehicles; compressed natural-gas (CNG) KEY QUALIFICATIONS
vehicles; and public-transportation projects, • Both direct loans and guarantees are
including urban mass-transport systems, modal available. For expedited treatment, the EXIM
shifts to city and intercity rail and water transport, tranche will be the only debt financing.
and improved fleet usage.31
• Local cost financing of up to 30 % of the net
U.S. export contract is available.
RENEWABLE EXPRESS • Single take-out disbursement after completion
EXIM’s “Renewable Express” is designed to of the project. Could consider pre-completion
provide streamlined post-completion project funding for widely used technologies with an
financing to small renewable-power producers experienced operator.
that meet EXIM’s credit standards. This initiative • Financing of up to 18 years is available,
meets the increased demand for financing of small depending upon the project’s economics.
renewable-power transactions.
• The transaction must comply with EXIM
Under Renewable Express, EXIM will be able to policies and procedures as required.32
consider project financing for small renewable-
**For more information about these and other EXIM programs
power producers seeking loans of $3 million visit www.exim.gov
to $10 million. Renewable Express is available
for both corporate balance sheet and limited-
recourse transactions that fit within the program’s
parameters and where the repayment is generated
from the project’s cash flows.
31 32
http://www.exim.gov/policies/ex-im-bank-and-the-environment/ http://www.exim.gov/what-we-do/loan-guarantee/renewable-
energy-efficiency-and-end-use-energy-efficiency-exports express

World Bank
FINANCING INSTRUMENTS is focused on the long-term (5 to 10 year horizon)

and supports a wide range of activities including
• Investment Project Financing provides IBRD capital-intensive investments, agricultural
loans, IDA credits/grants and guarantees development, service delivery, credit and grant
financing to governments for activities that delivery [including micro-credit], community-based
create the physical/social infrastructure development, and institution building.
necessary to reduce poverty and create
sustainable development. Unlike commercial lending, Bank IPF not only
supplies borrowing countries with needed
• Development Policy Financing provides financing but also serves as a vehicle for
IBRD loans, IDA credits/grants and guarantees sustained, global knowledge transfer and technical
budget support to governments or a assistance. This includes support to analytical and
political subdivision for a program of design work in the conceptual stages of project
policy and institutional actions to help preparation, technical support and expertise
achieve sustainable, shared growth and (including in the areas of project management
poverty reduction. and fiduciary and safeguards activities) during
• Program-for-Results links disbursement of implementation, and institution building throughout
funds directly to the delivery of defined the project.
results, helping countries improve the
design and implementation of their own
development programs and achieve lasting DEVELOPMENT POLICY FINANCING (DPF)
results by strengthening institutions and
DPF provides rapidly-disbursing financing to
building capacity.
help a borrower address actual or anticipated
• Trust funds and grants allow scaling up of development financing requirements. DPF aims
activities, notably in fragile and crisis-affected to support the borrower in achieving sustainable
situations; enable the Bank Group to provide development through a program of policy and
support when our ability to lend is limited; institutional actions, for example, strengthening
provide immediate assistance in response to public financial management, improving the
natural disasters and other emergencies; and investment climate, addressing bottlenecks to
pilot innovations that are later mainstreamed improve service delivery, and diversifying the
into our operations. economy. DPF supports such reforms through
non-earmarked general budget financing that is
• Private sector options for financing, direct
subject to the borrower’s own implementation
investment and guarantees are provided by
processes and systems. The Bank’s use of DPF in a
MIGA and IFC.
country is determined in the context of the Country
• Customized options and risk management Partnership Framework (CPF).
The DPF policy emphasizes country ownership
and alignment, stakeholder consultation,
INVESTMENT PROJECT FINANCING (IPF) donor coordination, and results, and requires
IPF is used in all sectors, with a concentration a systematic treatment of fiduciary risks and of
in the infrastructure, human development, the potential environmental and distributional
agriculture, and public administration sectors. IPF consequences of supported policies. DPF can be

extended as loans, credits, or grants. Funds are demands, but that the Bank cannot fund in full
made available to the client based on: within the existing budget envelope. RAS programs
have been used in more than 40 countries since
• maintenance of an adequate macroeconomic
the 1970s. World Bank member countries of all
policy framework, as determined by the Bank
income levels can access RAS. Clients can be
with inputs from IMF assessments
countries and government entities, but also states
• satisfactory implementation of the overall and municipalities, state-owned enterprises, civil
reform program society organizations, and multilateral agencies.
• completion of a set of critical policy and Economic and Sector Work
institutional actions agreed between the Bank
In collaboration with country clients and
and the client.33
development partners, Bank country staff gather
and evaluate information (data, policies and
statistics) about the existing economy, government
SERVICES institutions or social services systems. This data
Technical Assistance provides a starting point for policy and strategic
discussions with borrowers and helps enhance
The World Bank Group can provide professional a country’s capacity and knowledge. Studies and
technical advice that supports legal, policy, analytical reports help us support clients to plan
management, governance and other reforms and implement effective development programs
needed for a country’s development goals. Our and projects.
wide-ranging knowledge and skills are used
to help countries build accountable, efficient Donor Aid Coordination
public sector institutions to sustain development The World Bank Group acts on occasion as a
in ways that will benefit their citizens over the coordinator for organized regular interaction
long term. Bank staff offer advice and support among donors (governments, aid agencies,
governments in the preparation of documents, humanitarian groups, foundations, development
such as draft legislation, institutional development banks). Activities range from simple information
plans, country-level strategies, and implementation sharing and brainstorming, to co-financing a
action plans. We can also assist governments to particular project, to joint strategic programming in
shape or put new policies and programs in place. a country or region. It also includes the preparation
Reimbursable Advisory Services (RAS) of donor coordination events such as consultative
group meetings (joint meetings of partners)
Through RAS, the Bank can provide clients focused on a particular issue or country.34
access to customized technical assistance on
**For more information about these and other
a reimbursable basis, either as a stand-alone or World Bank Urban Development programs, visit
to complement an existing program. This allows http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/urbandevelopment
us to provide advisory services that the client
33 34
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African Development Bank
FINANCING THE STRATEGY—MOBILIZING The objective of the AFP is to bring together

AND LEVERAGING NEW SOURCES OF DFI partners with a similar mission so that
DEVELOPMENT FINANCE further results could be delivered through
combined efforts.
The Bank’s financial resources will always be a
small fraction of Africa’s requirements. Current The AFP is based on the partnership strategy set
fiscal constraints in donor countries suggest that out in the Strategy Update for the Bank’s Private
official development assistance could well be Sector Operations, approved by the AfDB Board
largely stagnant in the coming years. of Directors in January 2008. There is evident
need for partnerships, including with external
The Bank will therefore seek new and creative development finance institutions, to enhance the
ways of mobilizing resources to support Africa’s effectiveness and efficiency of financing in Africa.
transformation, especially by leveraging its own
resources. An AFP MOU is being signed between the core
group of eight DFIs called the AFP Promoting
The Group will of course continue to build on Partners. The MOU endorses improvement
and expand the size and the practical operations in efficiency across multilateral and bilateral
of both the African Development Bank and the financing institutions, achieving best practices,
Africa Development Fund. But with the changing reducing cost and “doing more with less.” The
global economic landscape, it will explore options partners include:
for attracting additional investment from emerging
economies and from new funders and donors, • AfDB
including sovereign wealth and pension funds. • Deutsche Investitions UND
It will use its existing instruments better, while Entwicklungsgesellschaft MBH (DEG)
developing new ways of ensuring that a dollar
invested by the Bank unlocks significantly more • Development Bank of Southern Africa Ltd.
from other investors. Wider use of public-private (DBSA)
partnerships, co-financing arrangements and risk- • European Investment Bank (EIB)
mitigation instruments will draw in new investors.35
• Industrial Development Corporation of South
Africa Ltd. (IDC)
AFRICAN FINANCING PARTNERSHIP • International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Background and Objectives • Nederlandse Financierings Maatschappij Voor
The African Financing Partnership (AFP) is a Ontwikkelingslanden N.V. (FMO)
collaborative, co-financing platform amongst • Société de Promotion et de Participation pour
Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) active la Coopération Economique S. A. (PROPARCO)
in private sector project financing in Africa. The
AFP is a component of the AfDB’s mission to help Following the signing of the MOU, the AFP would
reduce poverty in Africa by mobilizing resources expand to include other DFIs and commercial
for private sector development on the continent. financial institutions partners as AFP Participating
Partners. The AFP legal models would range
from pure cofinancing structures, through the
35
http://www.afdb.org/en/about-us/mission-strategy/financing-the- quasi syndication phase of involving smaller DFIs
strategy/ and commercial partners along with syndication

under a Bloan approach and to the potential Target Beneficiaries

establishment of AFP as a special purpose vehicle.
The AFP aims at the efficient mobilization of
Areas of Focus / Sub-Sectors resources for investment in project financing
in Africa. The beneficiaries would include
The two main areas of focus are:
infrastructure and industrial related projects with
• Harmonization: creating common best large funding requirements. This would lead to the
practices and collaboration between DFIs creation of jobs and socio-economic development
operating in Africa; on the continent.
• Additionality: using DFI capital to leverage Administration and Governance Structure
private capital for catalyzing greater
The AFP Secretariat is established at AfDB, in the
investments in development in Africa.
Private Sector Department (OPSM). The AFP has
The three main sectors of operations under the a steering committee composed of the heads of
AFP are: strategic business or private sector departments
for Africa at the respective AFP Promoting
• Infrastructure – Power, Transport, ICT and Partners. This AFP Committee meets at least twice
Water/Sanitation; a year, including at the Annual Meetings of the
• Industries – Extractive Industries, Agribusiness AfDB. AFP focal points at each DFI will participate
and Healthcare; and in monthly conference calls on the AFP projects
pipeline and other coordination matters.36
• Financial Institutions – African DFIs, Banks,
Microfinance, Guarantees
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african-financing-partnership/

Inter-American Development Bank
“Smart Cities” is about using Information and training of public officials. To meet this level
Communication Technology (ICT) (sensors, of investment, cities can appeal to the
geographical information systems, computerized traditional urban infrastructure financing
management systems, communication interfaces, toolkit, which includes public funding and
etc.) to address urban issues, such as mobility, private-sector financing.
waste disposal, citizen security and citizen
participation. The benefits of using ICT to help Public Funding
cities advance towards urban sustainability Municipal governments have access to a wide
have been well-documented. And results overall range of public funding sources to support smart
indicate that smart, innovative and technology- city projects, including central government
based solutions are cost-effective in the provision grants and own-source revenue (i.e. local taxes,
of urban services. However, migrating from user tariffs, etc.). The latter is in some respect
traditional to smart city management requires analogous to business operations – the city
building institutional capacity at the municipal provides services to residents and in exchange
level, plus robust city planning and additional urban dwellers pay for the services they receive.
investments. How can cities in Latin America and Conversely, grants – which represent nearly two-
the Caribbean (LAC) finance smart city programs? thirds of local government revenue in LAC – are
centrally transferred funds which aim to help local
governments fulfill their mandates.
A TOOLKIT FOR FINANCING SMART CITIES IN
Albeit the largest metropolitan areas, most cities
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
in LAC today can only support smart city projects
Estimates by the Emerging and Sustainable Cities through public funding, either through revenue
Program at the Inter-American Development from general taxes (i.e. property taxes) or by
Bank37 suggest that a smart city project can cost allocating centrally transferred funds. This is
anything between US$20 million to US$30 million typically the case in cities where low municipal
for intermediate cities.38 This includes 600 km creditworthiness negatively affects opportunities
of fiber optics to connect public buildings and for public-private partnerships (PPPs) and
infrastructure, 400 video surveillance cameras, municipal debt issuance. Interestingly enough,
70 sensors, computer hardware, the development cities can use smart city applications to improve
of customized city applications, as well as an their creditworthiness in the medium-term by
integrated operation and control center and modernizing public financial management and
cadaster systems that can enhance revenue
collection; demonstrating better performance
37
The Emerging and Sustainable Cities Program (ESC) is the IDB’s in municipal governments’ balance sheets and
non-reimbursable technical assistance program providing direct income statements is a strategic step in
support to national and subnational governments in the development
and execution of city Action Plans. ESCI employs an integrated
this direction.
and interdisciplinary approach to identify, organize and prioritize
urban interventions to tackle the main roadblocks that prevent Private Sector Financing
the sustainable growth of emerging cities in LAC. This transversal
approach is based on three pillars: (i) environmental and climate Municipalities with better credit standings are
change sustainability, (ii) urban sustainability, and (iii) fiscal able to engage with the private sector to invest
sustainability and governance. Since its launch in 2011, the ESCI has
been working with 71 cities across the LAC region. in smart city projects through different models,
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http://www.iadb.org/en/topics/emerging-and-sustainable-cities/
including PPPs. The city of Medellin in Colombia,
smart-city-management,20282.html for example, created a smart urban mobility system

(SIMM) to monitor real-time traffic information, Blended Finance

allowing local authorities to improve mobility in
Furthermore, the IDB Group also offers structured
the city.
Blended Finance Solutions to support smart city
Through the PPP agreement, private-sector projects. The IDB Group can mobilize national
firms were required to design and manage a grant funding or other external resources along
smart mobility control center which included with its own capital to foster smart cities across
80 electronic traffic detection cameras, the region.
120 interconnected traffic lights with vehicle
Partial Credit Guarantees
detection sensors, closed-circuit television,
variable messaging panels, and a user information Other financial instruments also include Partial
system39. In return, firms partially collected Credit Guarantees (PCGs)40, which constitute
revenue from traffic violation tickets the overall valuable financial instruments as they can be
system detected. Anecdotally, evidence suggests structured in such a way that they to contribute
that the project reduced transport-related accident to closing the gap in local-currency financing for
rates, pollution and fuel consumption. Furthermore, urban infrastructure projects. The use of PCGs
it increased municipal revenue: traffic tickets- allows for risk disaggregation and allocation
related income rose from $9.3 million in 2011 to rather than just acting as a risk mitigant; thus
US$14.19 million in 2014. supporting more efficient financing structures.
Moreover, PCGs are quite flexible and can have
multiple purposes including the issuance of debt
THE INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK through domestic financial intermediaries in local
(IDB) GROUP AND SMART CITIES currencies or risk sharing facilities with financial
intermediaries. The IDB Group offers Sovereign
The IDB Group client base includes central Counter-Guaranteed (SCG) Guarantees and Non-
governments, sub-national governments, private Sovereign Guaranteed (NSG) PCGs. In this way,
firms, and NGOs. Besides the traditional loans for the Bank can intervene along the cycle of
investment projects or the policy based loans, the investment in smart cities and overall urban
IDB Group offers several financial products to infrastructure needs.
support smart city initiatives, including technical
cooperation’s, fee for service, credit guarantees, Partial Credit Guarantees - Sovereign Guaranteed
syndicated loans and equity or quasi-equity. Partial Credit Guarantees with Sovereign
These instruments can be further categorized into Guarantees (SG), on one hand, are available for
sovereign guaranteed, non-sovereign guaranteed (i) all borrowing country members; (ii) have to be
or both. consistent with the respective Country Strategy
SOVEREIGN AND NON-SOVEREIGN and all cross-sector policies applicable to SG
GUARANTEED INSTRUMENTS loans are applicable to SCG guarantees; (iii) have
private sector financiers as beneficiaries; (iv)
Grants and Fee for Service can be issued to support sub-nationals or local
The IDB offers technical assistance for cities government projects as long as the sovereign
exploring ways to implement smart city projects (i.e., federal or central government) agrees to
through grants and fee-based services through its reimburse the Bank (through a counter-guarantee
recently created Housing and Urban Development
Division. Both instruments can be delivered
with and without sovereign and non-sovereign 40
Credit guarantees are designed to credit-enhance all or a portion of
guarantees. the funding provided by private financiers, such as the repayment of
loans, bonds or other debt financing instruments (scheduled or bullet),
and can be used to cover any category of risk, including financing
risk, construction risk, operation risk, fuel supply risk, hydrologic risk
39
Inter-American Development Bank (2016). Smart Cities Guide. and other project risks, which could ultimately trigger a debt payment
Washington, DC. default to creditors.

agreement or any other similar instrument) for any OTHER NON-SOVEREIGN GUARANTEED
disbursement made under the guarantee; (v) can FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
be approved, denominated disbursed and repaid
Syndicated Loans
in US$, in all major currencies or in local currency
(from borrowing member countries), subject to the Another particularly important non-sovereign
Bank’s ability to adequately source and/or hedge product regarding private entities’ participation,
itself against currency exposures, and operational including PPPs or concessions, is the A/B Loan
and risk management considerations; and (vi) can program. In this type of syndicated loan, the IDB
cover up to 100% of project costs if merited by attracts banks and other institutional investors,
their developmental impact. mobilizing resources to the region. The A-Loan
constitutes the IDB Tranche while the B-Loan
Partial Credit Guarantees – Non-Sovereign
is participated out to the investors. The IDB is
Guaranteed
the Lender of Record for the A/B Loan. Such
Partial Credit Guarantees without Sovereign structure offers benefits for both the borrowers
Guarantees (NSG), on the other hand, are and the financial institutions partnering with the
flexible instruments that can be used as a proxy Bank because participants benefit from IDB’s
to source local currency (Local Currency Loan relationship with host country governments (“halo
Guarantee); to credit enhance corporate bond effect”).
issuances (Corporate Bond PCG); to support
Equity or Quasi-Equity
asset securitizations (Securitization PCG); to
support risk-sharing facilities with other financial Furthermore, IDB’s Investment Corporation
intermediaries (Risk Sharing Facility PCG). (IIC) also has a moderate capacity to invest
directly in companies and through private equity
funds, offering different equity and quasi-equity
instruments to meet specific business and project
needs in the form of common shares, preferred
shares, warrants, etc.
More details on how the IDB supports smart cities
are available at http://www.iadb.org.

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TRADE PROMOTION
HELPING U.S. COMPANIES EXPORT

The Trade Promotion section of this Guide
offers ITA’s Global Market teams’ perspective Leverage the knowledge and influence of the
of individual countries smart city activities. U.S. government and ITA’s vast global network
ITA provides resources to educate companies of international business experts, contacts and
about how to tailor their activities to specific partners. With offices in more than 100 U.S. cities
markets with respect to their product offerings, and 70+ countries across the globe, ITA offers
financing, marketing, assembly and logistics. U.S. companies exporting information, advice and
ITA also houses the US Commercial Service, the cost-effective end-to-end international business
arm of the U.S. government that promotes trade solutions. Visit our http://export.gov to find out
and U.S. business globally. The US Commercial more including locating a trade specialist near
Service is a direct advocate in countries all your city.
over the world for U.S. exporters interested in
opportunities in Smart Cities and with foreign
governments looking for U.S. companies to INFORMATION AND COUNSELING
partner with on Smart City projects. Additionally
in this section you will find Smart City regional Successful exporters know who they can trust
activities in which Commerce, and particularly to get the information and guidance they need
ITA, is engaged in throughout the world. to make sound business decisions. Depending
on whether you are considering exporting or
already exporting, the U.S. Commercial Service
Below is a brief overview of how ITA can help your provides U.S. companies with reliable information
U.S. company with international exports; individual and personalized counseling at every step of the
country initiatives related to smart cities follows. exporting process – from strategy and planning
The information listed in each country overview is to financing and logistics to market entry and
from the individual U.S. Commercial Service office. expansion and advocacy.
Selected city trend data, noted in captions, is
courtesy of the Brookings Metro project. General
data on population and GDP per capita is from THE GOLD KEY MATCHING SERVICE -
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the- INTERNATIONAL SALES/MARKETING
world-factbook/.
If you would like to reduce the time and money you
Should you have questions regarding individual invest in locating and screening prospective trade
country information, please email smartcities@ partners, consider letting the U.S. Commercial
trade.gov. Service arrange business meeting with pre-
screened contacts. Through a variety of services
Details of the export offerings below available at
offered, the Gold Key Service will enable you to
http://www.export.gov/salesandmarketing/
more efficiently manage your company.
index.asp.
STRATEGY AND PLANNING

An international business plan that includes a
strategy for entering or expanding into targeted
markets is critical to your success in the global

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marketplace. The U.S. Government provides U.S. leverage the credibility and influence of the
companies with cost-effective resources to help U.S. Government and our vast global network
you develop a new international business plan, of international business experts, contacts and
or improve your already existing international partners to increase your brand awareness and
business plan. market exposure in countries around the world.
MARKET RESEARCH AND INTELLIGENCE MARKET ENTRY AND EXPANSION

Accurate, up-to-date market intelligence is Leverage the expertise, resources and
essential for your company to target the best connections of the U.S. Government to find and
international market opportunities and make establish business relationships with potential
informed business decisions when evaluating agents, distributors or other strategic partners
potential overseas business partners. You can overseas. The U.S. government can help you
leverage the knowledge and resources of the U.S. learn about the methods, channels and other
government by tapping into ITA’s vast network of considerations of market entry and expansion. It
experts, contacts and partners in 70+ countries can find potential agents, distributors, or other
across the globe to get world-class market strategic partners overseas, and arrange for
intelligence. Most U.S. Commercial Service your company to have meetings with them. All of
services are free of charge to all U.S. businesses. this will help your company ensure a long-term,
However, certain products and services including sustained entry or expansion in your market.
customized market research and company
background reports do have a fee. Fee-based
services can be found on our user fee schedule. ADVOCACY
U.S. Government advocacy assistance can
help U.S. companies overcome trade barriers,
ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONAL EVENTS
bureaucratic problems and unfair trading
Once you’ve developed an international business practices; level the playing field to ensure that
plan and targeted the best international market your company has the best possible chance to
opportunities, the next step is to ensure that win foreign government contracts; and provide
potential customers and business partners information on the local legal system and
recognize the existence, availability and benefits resources in the event of a dispute.
of your company’s products/services. You can

SMART CITIES COUNTRY GUIDE
Table of Contents
Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 40 Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 The Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Serbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
European Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Slovakia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Argentina Smart Cities Guide

BASIC DATA ON THE ECONOMY
GDP per capita (PPP; 2015): $22,60041
Major urban areas: Buenos Aires – 15.18 million; Córdoba – 1.51 million; Rosario – 1.38 million
Population (July 2015): 43,431,886
Industries: textiles, food processing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, textiles, chemicals
SMART CITY OVERVIEW that helps reduce energy consumption.45 The

lights also have real-time monitors that improve
Argentina is the 3rd largest Spanish-speaking maintenance costs and efficiency.46 The monitors
country in the world and has strong international allow the city to respond to power outages, broken
business potential despite its rough economic lights, or vandalism in a fraction of the time before
past. Nearly 92% of its total population lives in an the installation.47
urban area; higher than Chile, Brazil, Colombia, and
Peru.42 It also ranks 23rd in the world and 5th in SMART DISASTER PREVENTION
the Western Hemisphere for Internet users, which
The city of Buenos Aires is situated near the coast
represent around 60% of its total population (2014
next to the mouth of the Río de la Plata, which
est.).43 Buenos Aires, the economic and political
makes it prone to flooding. After a 2013 flood that
capital of Argentina, is a strong example of smart
caused 50 casualties, the city digitized its drainage
city practices. In 2014, the IESE Business School
system and automated 1,500 km of its drainage
Cities in Motion Index ranked Buenos Aires as the
pipes. This system will prevent many of the back-
second best city in the Latin America region.44 The
ups and drainage issues that contributed to past
majority of Smart City initiatives have occurred in
flooding problems. The city plans to digitize other
its greater metropolitan area.
sectors such as security and transportation.48
SMART PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) The city of Buenos Aires averages about 30,000
SMART LIGHTING public complaints regarding public services
per month. In 2008, the Environment and Public
The city of Buenos Aires recently converted 91,000 Spaces Ministry for the city government
public street lights to modern LED technology began implementing technological solutions
41 45
All basic data is from the CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/ http://www.philips.com/a-w/about/news/archive/standard/news/
library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ar.html press/2013/20131016-Philips-renews-the-street-lighting-system-of-
42 Buenos-Aires-with-LED-technology.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/
46
ar.html https://blogs.saphana.com/2016/03/23/buenos-aires-digitizes-smart-
43 city-sap-hana/
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
47
rankorder/2153rank.html#ar http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2016/03/29/3-ways-buenos-aires-
44 is-leading-smart-city-technology/#7fe50b5e1a0e
This is according to several indicators including governance ,
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human capital, social cohesion, public sector management and http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2016/03/29/3-ways-buenos-aires-
others. See: http://www.iese.edu/research/pdfs/ST-0366-E.pdf is-leading-smart-city-technology/#7fe50b5e1a0e

to responding to these complaints, such as • The city features public Wi-Fi.53

connecting with residents on social media.
Córdoba:
Residents can now tweet or post a picture of any
problem with city infrastructure or safety. The city • Although much further behind Buenos Aires in
now promises a maximum response time of 72 to Smart City development, Córdoba initiated its
96 hours for any complaint.49 “Córdoba 10” plan to initiate social cohesion,
public spaces, and energy improvements.54
• “Córdoba LUZe” is a program that set goals for
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS
a 20% reduction across energy consumption,
Buenos Aires: emission output, and installation of renewable
energy resources.55
• Buenos Aires was a 2015 Smart City Expo
World Smart City Finalist.50
• In 2011, then Head of Government Mauricio UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
Macri created the Ministry of Modernization
• June 1-4, 2016: The 14th Congress of the
to improve the operation of Buenos Aires
International Association of Educating Cities
through technological improvements to public
will occur – Rosario
administration. This Ministry includes an
Undersecretary of Smart City who handles • June 28-29, 2016: Argentina will celebrate its
special social innovation projects.51 first event
• The city has also passed personal data • November 1-2, 2016: Argentina celebrates
protection and public information access the first Congreso de Ciudades Inteligentes,
laws to support a growing information- Innovadoras, y Humanas – Buenos Aires
based society.52
49
http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2016/03/29/3-ways-buenos-aires-is-
leading-smart-city-technology/#7fe50b5e1a0e 53
http://turismo.perfil.com/36323-smart-city-buenos-aires-entre-las-
50
http://www.smartcityexpo.com/awards-2015 ciudades-mas-inteligentes-del-mundo/
54
51
http://www.smartcbi.org/index.php/en/city-halls/64-america/639- https://www.esmartcity.es/articulos/cordoba-10-comunicacion-
argentina-smart-cities habitabilidad-y-eficiencia-energetica
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Austria Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW 200km to the 380kV and 550km to the 200kV lines.
Estimated cost: $7.7billion. Smart Meters: In
Austria boasts a highly developed economy and, 2012, Austrian passed legislation mandating that
with a wide range of smart city initiatives, is very 95% of all households and commercial electricity
much at the forefront of the smart city movement customers have a smart meter by 2019. The
in Europe. The need to accommodate increasing implementation phase is currently ramping up,
urbanization with 10% coverage expected by the end of 2015
VIENNA-BRATISLAVA, together with and 70% by the end of 2017. The 2012 legislation is
Austria the desire to in response to the EU Directive 2009/72/EC, which
pursue energy mandates the introduction of smart meters into
Population Growth, 2013-2014: conservation and
0.57% 80% of European households by 2020 where a
environmental positive cost-benefit analysis can be shown.
Total Employment, 2014 (Thousands): objectives are
1,975 People the main political Smart Grids: drivers are the need to integrate
drivers. Currently volatile decentralized power generation into
Real GDP Growth 2013-2014:
66% of the the electricity mix and the necessity to support
1.0% mandated smart metering functionalities. Austria
population lives
Employment Growth, 2010-2014: in cities or urban is part of the SHC Task 42 “Advanced Materials
1.1% Brookings Metro regions, 84% for Compact Thermal Energy Storage”. One
use the Internet strong research focus is system solutions for
frequently, 63% use smartphones on a regular sustainable energy supplies in urban areas. The
basis, and 81% of households have access to Austrian Institute of Technology, the Institute of
broadband. Energy at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, the
Umweltbundesamt and e7 Energie Markt Analyse
The Climate and Energy Fund and the Federal are working on a district heating/cooling roadmap
Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology for Austria. District heating and cooling systems
have been funding Austrian Smart City Projects are in place in many cities including Vienna.
since 2010. At present, activities in ten model
regions for e-mobility, 104 climate and energy SMART BUILDINGS
model regions, 29 smart cities, five smart urban
The “Haus der Zukunft” (house of the future)
regions and one smart grids model region are
initiative promotes the development of energy
being financed or co-financed. Austria is also an
conserving building designs and showcases
integral part of European initiatives in this field
technologies reducing the carbon footprint of
and is actively supporting the EU Strategy for
residential buildings. This successful initiative has
the Danube Region, contributing to international
grown to include a “City of Tomorrow” program
know-how transfer. Austrian cities are keen on
that expands those objectives into a city space.
developing new cooperation projects and partners.
Zero-energy or even positive energy houses are
the gold standard for smart buildings in Austria.
The MarxBox” is a mixed-use building in Vienna
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) that received the “Leadership in Energy and
SMART ENERGY Environmental Design” in gold from the U.S.
Green Building Council. In 2013, Austria’s “LISI
Electricity transmission: The country’s transmission house” won the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar
service, Austrian Power Grid AG, plans to add Decathlon. It is characterized by a synergy of

the modular timber construction and the use of SMART HEALTHCARE

renewable materials and energies. The Austrian
The most important development in the health IT
government provides limited funding for the
space is ELGA (electronic health record), which
installation of PV plants, especially in agricultural
began pilot operation in Vienna and Graz at the
and horticultural enterprises (available funding for
beginning of 2016. This first phase established
2016 € 8.5 million - approx. $ 9.4 million). In Vienna,
an information network between participating
the world’s first zero-energy hotel opened in 2009.
hospitals that allows them to exchange limited
patient information. Though there are concerns
about data privacy and security, ELGA aims to
SMART TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY
eventually provide doctors, pharmacists, hospitals
Transport accounted for 36.25% of Austria’s and care facilities nationwide with access to
greenhouse gas emission in 2012, according to important patient information, including laboratory
the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat. In results, medical history and current medication
order to achieve a 80% reduction by 2050, Austria regimes. ELGA includes an e-medicine function
is keen on reducing transport emissions. Current designed to reduce the prescription of conflicting
electric vehicle incentive programs are insufficient or overlapping medication.
to encourage significant increases in market
The Austrian e-card is a chip card currently used
share, and these vehicles remain a niche product.
as an electronic health insurance voucher. It is
However, the Smart Mobility initiative, promotes
also capable of supporting electronic signatures
public transport in order to free up public space
and could be used as a citizen card in the future.
utilized by private vehicles. Austrian Mobile Power
The “SeniorTab” program employs easy-to-use
is an alliance of European manufacturers and
tablet PC software, giving senior citizens access
stakeholders advancing electric mobility in Austria:
to the basic functions of a smart phone such as
www.austrian-mobile-power.at
telephone and email communications, Internet
Public transportation apps such as “AnachB” in access, and more. The program is currently in a
the Vienna region and “Scotty” for the federal pilot phase. More information is available at
railways provide multimodal transportation options, www.seniortab.at. Another example of health-IT is
including bus and tram arrival and departure times. the patient portal in the biggest hospital in Vienna,
The “Smart Urban Logistics” initiative deals with the Vienna General Hospital. Here patients can find
integrative intelligent transportation systems (ITS) their medication, appointments schedules, etc., in
in urban areas. At present there are calls out for one stop.
pilot projects for sustainable logistics concepts
and systems, as well as intelligent multimodal
combinations. As outlined in the EU White Paper CHALLENGES
2011 “Roadmap to a Single European Transport
Area “, the program is designed to reduce There are three main challenges to engage on
emission stemming from urban freight transport smart city programs in Austria.
by 60% until 2050. Vienna’s e-mobility on demand 1. The first and most prevalent is the worry about
project includes e-carsharing, e-carpooling, and data security/privacy. People are concerned
e-taxi services. Today, 80% of the planned charging that their data could be used against them –
stations are in use, and a substantial increase that employers could find out about employee
in the number of available vehicles is planned. health conditions, or that burglars could figure
Further initiatives include e-limousine services, out when people are not home. While this
e-car rentals and e-courier services. Additional attitude is an obstacle for smart city projects
project partners are welcome. in general, it should also be seen as a boon for
cybersecurity products and services.

2. Another challenge is the local advantage. Graz:

Since smart cities are by definition
So far, Graz has launched five smart city projects,
infrastructure projects, local players and
four of which were pilot projects. Previously, Graz
companies with a strong local presence
integrated 12 buildings into one multifunctional
have a clear advantage. This hurdle can be
building complex that boasts a zero energy
overcome by carefully choosing a local partner
balance. The “Cool City” project is currently in
who is plugged into the flow of information and
development, integrating new and old buildings
is familiar with procurement and
into a rejuvenated smart quarter. Find out more
project development.
online: www.smartcitygraz.at
3. Finally, there are the ubiquitous questions of
Salzburg:
interoperability – often local communications
protocols, radio frequencies, electrical • The Smart City Masterplan, focused on
standards, etc., are different from region to ambitious Energy and Climate targets, was
region. Only through ongoing communication approved by the municipal council in 2012.
within the smart cities community can mutually
recognized standards and protocols • With the pilot project “Stadtwerk Lehen” the
be developed. city of Salzburg realized an optimized energy
concept for an inner-urban area composed of
both new and old buildings.
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS • An increase in the use of district heating
and solar energy (by 35%) has significantly
Vienna:
reduced primary energy demand and CO2-
Smart City Objective: Vienna intends to reduce emissions (-80%).
CO2 per capita by 80% with an energy savings of
• The Salzburg metropolitan area is the Austrian
40%. After receiving the World Smart Cities Award
SmartGrids-Model Region, (SGMS). In
in 2010, Vienna is implementing seven Smart City
Köstendorf, a suburb of Salzburg, the project
projects. In addition, Vienna has developed a
encompasses 99 buildings with 43 PV plants,
comprehensive Smart Cities strategy.
36 registered electric vehicles and 5 PV
Public transit: The Viennese currently use public storage systems.
transit for 39% of their movements within the city,
• In order to secure and advance its progress
and over 680,000 have a year pass. This is one of
on the forefront of Austria’s Smart Cities
the highest rates in the EU.
movement, Salzburg developed a 2050
“Aspern—Vienna’s Urban Lakeside”, one of the Smart City agenda in which it subscribed
biggest greenfield urban development projects in to expanding its carbon neutral energy
Europe, is implementing a number of innovative consumption and production. Further, Salzburg
smart city elements. strives to develop a efficient, consumer
oriented smart public transportation system.
Energy: Vienna is pursuing a strategy to expand the
use of renewable energy. Currently district heating For further information please visit:
covers 40% of city households, and renewable https://www.stadt-salzburg.at/Internet/wirtschaft_
energy and waste heat each account for 11% of umwelt/stadtplanung/smart_city.htm
the total energy mix.
Find out more about Vienna’s project at
www.smartcity.wien.gv.at/site/en
Report: https://www.wien.gv.at/english/
urbandevelopment/energy-planning/

UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR LINKS

• July 21, 2016: Landinger Sommer—Smart Cities • Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and
Day 2016 – Hinterstoder: http://2015.landinger- Technology: www.bmvit.gv.at
sommer.at/smart-cities-2015.html
• Climate and Energy Fund: www.smartcities.at
• February 16-19, 2017: Bauen & Energie Wien
• Energy Innovation Austria:
And Aquatherm Vienna (combined) – Vienna:
www.energy-innovation-austria.at
www.bauen-energie.at/en/
• Austrian Mobile Power:
• March 1-3, 2017: World Sustainable Energy
www.austrian-mobile-power.at
Days 2017 – Wels: www.wsed.at
• Smart Grids Technology Platform:
• March 3-5, 2017: Expo Energy 2017 – Wels:
www.smartgrids.at
expoenergy.eu
• Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT):
• May 9-13, 2017: Smart Grids Week 2016 – Linz:
www.ait.ac.at
www.smartgridsweek.com
• Smart Health Care: www.elga.gv.at
• May 10-12, 2017: Smart Automation Austria –
Vienna: www.smart-automation.at/en/ • Smart Buildings: www.Ha$erZukunft.at
• Sustainable Business Development:
www.nachhaltigwirtschaften.at
RESOURCES
• European Strategy for Smart Cities
CS Contact Info: Marta Haustein:
Technologies: www.tp-smartcities.at
marta.haustein@trade.gov
• Energy management: www.e-connected.at
CITY FACTS AND CONTACTS:
• Energy system development:
• Vienna: Population: 1.753 million
www.energiesystemederzukunft.at
Project Manager Smart City Vienna
Contact: Ina Homeier; ina.homeier@wien.gv.at • Climate and Energy:
www.klimaundenergiemodellregionen.at
• Graz: Population: 282,473
Project Manager Smart City Graz
Contact: Kai-Uwe Hoffer;
stadtbaudirektion@stadt.graz.at
• Salzburg: Population: 148,400
Project Manager Energy City Salzburg
Contact: Kai-Uwe Hoffer;
stadtbaudirektion@stadt.graz.at

Brazil Smart Cities Guide

Major urban areas: Sao Paulo - 21.066 million; Rio de Janeiro - 12.902 million;
Belo Horizonte - 5.716 million
Industries: textiles, shoes, chemicals, cement, lumber, iron ore, tin, steel, aircraft,
motor vehicles and parts
SMART CITY OVERVIEW In 2011, Rio de Janeiro collaborated with IBM

for its smart city program. This resulted in the
Brazil has experienced a rapid growth in cities deployment of the company’s smart city technology
over the past 50 years and today, 85% of the including an expansive command control center.
population lives in urban areas. Brazil’s cities
have experienced countless difficulties due to
overpopulation, pollution, poverty and high crime
rates. The emergence of Brazil as part of the high-
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR)
growth BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries SMART CITIES
in the early 2000s, led to foreign investment as
well as a commitment by Brazil to improving Accenture and Cisco recently renewed their
infrastructure and adapting modern technologies partnership in Brazil, which will continue to serve
to cities. the communications sector in the country. Cisco
has been deploying its technology in Brazilian
In 2013, the cities, most recently releasing the latest in its Wi-Fi
SAO PAULO, Brazil Brazilian project in a number of subway stations in Rio de
Population Growth, 2013-2014: communications Janeiro.
0.6% ministry, MiniCom,
announced the list Águas de São Pedro is known as Brazil’s first
Total Employment, 2014 (Thousands): digital city, and with the backing of companies
of the 262 Brazilian
9,664 People Telefonica Vivo and Ericsson, it has been building
towns and cities
Real GDP Growth 2013-2014: selected for the out its smart infrastructure, such as connected
1.1% second phase street lights and parking services.
Employment Growth, 2010-2014: of the Cidades In 2014, the São Paulo state’s Public Security
1.1% Digitais (digital Department announced the launch of a system
Brookings Metro
cities) program. developed in partnership with Microsoft, named
The digital cities program aims to modernize Detecta. The project was inspired by a similar
municipal management through the integration of initiative that has been in operation in New
a telecommunications network in public buildings. York since 2012 and is comprised of a big data
The Government has also been issuing tenders solution, which integrates the police’s intelligence
to various companies to build out infrastructure headquarters with the thousands of phone calls
and services up and down the country. Brazil has received by their contact centers, video cameras
numerous initiatives underway to adapt smart spread across the city and the thousands of
technologies including international partnerships. policemen patrolling the streets.

The historic city of Olinda located in the state of SMART ENERGY

Recife, was selected in 2015 to be a part of the
Smart metering, focused on the electricity market
Open and Agile Smart Cities initiative, which will
is present in six Brazilian states, including São
enable the implementation of an open-source
Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Paraná and Amazonas,
standard known as FIWARE. This platform allows
involving local providers. The objectives of these
for the development of Smart City solutions based
pilot projects are to create smart grid systems to
on data integration and openly accessible APIs.
help reduce waste and control consumption.
SMART TRANSPORTATION One of the first improvements brought by the
system was the new billing method of time-
As a recent report highlights, in 2013 alone, Rio
differentiating usage.
de Janeiro and Sao Paulo lost $ 43 billion in
productivity because of congestion, the equivalent
of 2% of Brazil’s entire GDP. Belo Horizonte, Rio de
Janeiro and São Paulo have been recognized for UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
putting into practice innovative and sustainable Three Israeli companies won an international
transport projects in the past year. Belo competition to help create a pilot smart city
Horizonte implemented last year MOVE BRT, a in Brazil to house 20,000 residents of low
23-km Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, together socioeconomic status.
with pedestrian-only streets and a 27-km
cycling network. Brazil is also considering various plans to connect
the people of the rainforest, including pilots of
Internet balloons, through Google Loon.

Bulgaria Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW half a million to two million tons annually, while
also increasing quality without increasing any
Bulgaria, strategically located in Southeast additional resources.
Europe, has numerous ‘smart cities’ projects that
are beginning to gain popularity especially in Smart metering: EVN Bulgaria, (an electricity
Bulgaria’s larger cities of Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, company) will invest 34.8 million Euros over three
Burgas, and Russe. Known worldwide for its high- years to deploy 373,000 smart meters in its
speed broadband Internet, Bulgaria is also known service area.
to have the largest ICT sector in Southeast Europe
Additionally, ADD Bulgaria Ltd. will develop and
which generates about 10% of the country’s GDP.
implement smart metering systems for electricity,
Additionally, Bulgaria ranks first in Europe and water, gas and street lighting as part of the
ninth in the world for its prestigious ranking as Advanced Metering Infrastructure.
a highly desirable ‘outsourcing destination’.
Note: A recent report predicts that Bulgaria and
Outsourcing of IT and business practices have
other CEE Europe countries will collectively spend
grown by double digits over the past four years
$10.3 billion on smart meters over the next ten
and have generated Bulgarian export revenues of
years, as each takes its path toward meeting its
over 1 billion Euros per year.
EU mandates.
Given the country’s ICT focus, expertize and
SMART MOBILITY
connectivity, the City of Sofia municipality
developed an initiative to develop and provide, An ‘Intelligent Transport Systems Project’ and a
online to its citizens about 50 of the most commonly ‘Sustainable Urban Transport’ project are being
used services as Sofia makes a pledge to become developed in seven of Bulgaria’s major cities:
a ‘smart city’. Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas, Ruse, Varna, Pleven, and
Stara Zagora.
Bulgaria is one of six partner regions in the
‘SMART+’ project funded by the INTERREG IVC SMART ENERGY
and financed by the European Union’s Regional
Bulgaria is among the few European countries that
Development Fund designed to help Europeans
have announced achievement well in advance of
work together and share innovative economic,
the objectives of the “Europe 2020” strategy on
environmental and risk-prevention practices.
renewable energy. There are over 500 renewable
energy projects in operation in Bulgaria, however,
Bulgaria needs a long-term, sustainable strategy
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) model -- beyond 2020.
SMART TECHNOLOGY SMART GOVERNENCE
Priority development of high-speed broadband Bulgaria’s ‘E-government Strategy 2014-2020’
access to develop the infrastructure for aims to introduce effective business models in
broadband Internet in 29 municipalities and 24 establishing effective digital administrations,
small settlements with low levels of broadband and in establishing coordinated planning and
penetration: implementation of all e‐Governance development
In the town of Chelopech, a mining company initiatives.
implemented a network sensor technology
designed to increase its production of gold from

Bulgaria has a need to effectively coordinate information for passengers and will introduce
the policies of all municipalities’ administrative integrated ticketing and video surveillance on
services and the electronic services they want Burgas’s public transport system to reduce ticket
to provide, and e-Government issues between fraud.
the Ministry of Transport, IT and Communication
Burgas is the 45th signatory to the Green Digital
and the Ministry of the Interior in reference to the
Charter (GDC), a EUROCITIES-led initiative that
issuance of ‘electronic identity’ documents.
promotes the use of ICT solutions to reduce
SMART ENVIRONMENT cities’ emissions and encourage the greening of
municipal ICT equipment
There is an effective and successful ‘Green Public
Procurement’ project financed by the European Dobrich:
Commission and implemented by Bulgaria’s
The city is part of “PLEEC: Planning for Energy
National Association of Municipalities.
Efficient Cities.” This recently completed project
developed a general model for energy efficiency
and sustainable city planning. Being one of eight
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS European cities in the Imagine 2050 Roadmap
SOFIA: Project funded by the EU European Regional
Development Fund (ERDF) and the INTERREG
The city of Sofia is recognized as a leader of new IVC Program to include the implementation and
technologies in the fields of ICT, creative industries development of GIS for management and control
and tourism. Promoting an ‘Innovation Strategy of underground infrastructure. Dobrich has
for Smart Specialization of Sofia’ (ISSS) program implemented a GIS system of geodetic surveying,
which outlines the city’s economy in accordance digitizing and processing of data necessary for
with the development of scientific research the development of cadastral maps and records of
and innovations. The program is developed in underground pipelines. The city also plans to allow
conformity with the Europe 2020: A Strategy for electric car drivers to park free in special ‘blue’
Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth and the zones in a move to reduce traffic emissions and
National Development Plan – Bulgaria 2020. The’ encourage sustainable transport.
smart’ specialization’ has a positive impact on
sectors that are directly related to the quality of Plovdiv:
life in the city, such as the environment, In 2019 will be designated the European Capital of
transportation infrastructure, mobility, healthcare, Culture. The city offers:
and social services.
• Internet platform and interactive map on the
Bulgaria is planning to launch fifty administrative city’s infrastructure
e-services for citizens and enterprises. This
project is supported by the Operational Program • Live web cams throughout the city
Administrative Capacity and co-funded by the
• Internet-based public transportation maps
European Social Fund. The project “Sofia—Smart
and Innovative City”- aims to examine the specific • Online registration of local taxes
needs and problems of the city in the following
• E-platform for kindergarten applicants
aspects: Smart Economy, Smart Mobility and Smart
Environment. • Online registration of pets
Burgas: • Online system to monitor real time noise
The city is creating a 9.3m Euro intelligent • Smart phone based parking payment
transport system called “Integrated City Transport
of Burgas” to make public transport safe, efficient • Online investment portals
and convenient. The project will provide real-time • Portals for public consultation

• Online platforms for the local initiatives UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR

• An iUrban software that allows for the April 5-7, 2017: SEE Smart Cities Conference and
evaluation of energy consumption Exhibition at the International Expo Center – Sofia
www.viaexpo.com
• A “smart city” project to boost energy
efficiency and cut industrial waste in Trakia
Economic Zone (TEZ); This is being developed
with Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute and RESOURCES
China’s Huawei) Commercial Service: Peter Delin:
peter.delin@trade.gov

Canada Smart Cities Guide

2015 GDP per capita (PPP: 2015): $45,600
Population: 35,099,836 (July 2015 est.)
Industries: Transportation equipment, chemicals, processed and unprocessed minerals,
food products, wood and paper products, fish products, petroleum, and natural gas.
SMART CITY OVERVIEW KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR)

Canada is one of the most ‘wired’ countries in the The federal government has demonstrated
world with nearly 92.9 % of Canadian households public support for further deepening connectivity
connected to the Internet (in 2014) and 84 % of the and on April 8, 2016, the Minister of Innovation,
population, roughly 29.5 million people in 2014, with Science and Economic Development announced
access to a cell phone. an investment of $34.5 million to increase
Internet access for over 65,000 rural homes
Canada has been on the forefront of smart cities
across the country.
growth, with most of the initiatives coming from a
provincial level. Toronto hosted the 2015 Intelligent The City of Toronto has recently allied with
Community Forum, and is seen as one of the Chicago-based Internet of Things management
innovators in smart cities. firm Cityzenith in order to better manage the
mounds of raw data cities collect daily. The aim of
A recent study, the Smart Prosperity Goals56,
this budding alliance is to help major urban centers
highlights Canada’s vision for adopting smart
navigate their massive datasets in order to come
and clean technology. By the 2020s, Canada’s
up with data-driven solutions to make cities more
envisions that their cities and rural communities
responsive to the needs of citizens
will rank among the world’s most improved on
and businesses.
metrics of sustainability and livability and will
get there by using smart, compact urban design; In May 2015, the city of Montreal announced the
improved green services such as mass transit and Montreal Action Plan that includes 70 projects that
bike lanes; higher building efficiency standards; will turn Montreal into a “smart city.” The total
more green spaces; and incentives for rural land allocated budget of $23 million is broken down
stewardship. into six sections and is targeted for completion by
the end of 2017. Apart from ensuring a fast fiber
Canada is also looking towards sustainable
network, “unleashing municipal data,” and the
infrastructure, and the government has
rollout of “intelligent transport systems” that will
committed to a $60 billion investment in Canada’s
bring your real-time info on your subway/bus/car
infrastructure.
service, the city plans to deploy free Wi-Fi.
Toronto is one of the municipalities embracing the
idea of solving transportation issues by working
with startups. In early October 2015, the city held
TrafficJam, a hackathon that invited entrepreneurs
to come up with ideas for beating gridlock. The
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spexecsummary-final.pdf

idea was a decided shift away from previous • In the past, Canadian factories heavily relied
approaches. on coal for their power generation needs but
are now embracing advanced electric grid
SMART WATER
technologies. The province of Ontario has
Ontario is global R&D leader in water technologies. recently transitioned to a “coal free”
About 900 established and 300 early-stage water electric grid.
technology companies operate in the province,
SMART BUILDINGS
many doing business worldwide. UV disinfection
technology developed by Trojan Technologies (now Canada is leading the way in smart infrastructure
owned by Danaher) has been installed at 7,800 with an increased awareness across the country
municipal facilities in more than 80 countries. regarding the benefits of smarter electrical grid
systems, by bringing utility electricity delivery
SMART TRANSPORTATION
systems into the 21st century using computer-
Transport Canada has used two infrastructure- based remote control and automation.
related funds for spending on intelligent
The Telus Tower at 25 York St. in Toronto’s south
transportation projects. About $921,000 has
financial core has become the first north of the
been provided to the City of Surrey to install
U.S. border to employ a LEED Dynamic plaque. It
an intelligent transportation system and to the
will be installed by U.S. technology firm Honeywell
provincial government in Ontario to improve traffic
Building Solutions with the support of the United
flows along key highways and roadways and at
States Green Building Council and Canada
border crossings.
Green Building Council. This technology works
The Montreal Smart and Digital City Strategy 2014- to prominently displaying the building’s up-to-
2017 plans for a smart mobility program where the-minute performance across five categories
all transit data will be provided in real time for an – energy, water, waste, occupant transportation
intermodal and integrated transportation system. and human experience – the plaque will help
Telus Tower occupants and building managers
SMART ENERGY monitor things such as resource usage and carbon
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of the need for a smarter electrical grid system,
and both the public and private sectors are
contributing toward that goal. FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS
• In May, The Smart Grid conference was The Intelligent Communities Forum (ICF)
held by GE in Montreal to discuss global recognized three Canadian communities to be
innovations in smart grid technology. among the seven most intelligent communities
in the world: Winnipeg (MN), Toronto (ON), and
• In 2012, the Standards Council of Canada
Kingston (ON)–not because they have implemented
published “The Canadian Smart Grid
the most advanced technology, but because they
Standards Roadmap” a strategic planning
have adopted a culture of collaboration and co-
document designed to enable manufacturers,
operation in pursuit of prosperity and opportunity
municipalities, and other organizations to
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operate under a shared set of technical
standards. Developed by a committee of
more than 20 public and private sector
experts, the Council noted the nature of this
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Montreal: KEY ORGANIZATIONS

The Smart and Digital City Initiatives Surrey, British • Canada Green Building Council
Columbia. Canada’s third fastest growing city
welcomes 1,000 • ICLEI Canda
TORONTO, Canada new residents each • InnoCiteMtl

month and has
Population Growth, 2013-2014: adopted the Smart • Institute of Electrical Engineers
1.5% Surrey Strategy. • Municipal Information Systems Association of
Total Employment, 2014 (Thousands): Canada
Toronto:
3,137 People
The city won the • Smart City Alliance
2.6% 2014 Intelligent
Community of the
Employment Growth, 2010-2014: year by the ICF
1.9% Brookings Metro for extensive use
of the Internet of
Things for transportation, buildings, healthcare and
tourism. Toronto Strategic Initiatives 2013-2018
UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR

September 12-16: ro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place –
Vancouver, BC
November 14-18, 2016: 1st Canadian German
Conference on Smart Cities – Vancouver, BC
May 15-17 2017: Global Public Transportation
Summit – Montreal

Chile Smart Cities Guide

Major urban areas: Santiago - 6.507 million; Valparaiso - 907,000; Concepcion - 816,000
Industries: copper, lithium, other minerals, foodstuffs, fish processing, iron and steel
SMART CITY OVERVIEW Silver LEED, 47 Gold LEED and 3 Platinum LEED.
Chile ranks 18th, the best ranked emerging country,
Chile stands out as one of Latin America’s most according to Dow Jones Country Sustainability
stable economies, making it an attractive place to ranking. The public consciousness of sustainable
do business in the region. A hotspot for innovation practices and support for investments in green
and doing business, the Chilean capital of Santiago infrastructure, engineering and construction is
was named the #1 smart city in Latin America by high. In 2012, Chile signed the Inter-Ministerial
Boyd Cohen in 2013. Various government and Agreement for Sustainable Construction, to align
non-government agencies are working to promote several initiatives from the Ministries of Public
and support smart cities projects in Chile. These Works, Housing & Urbanism, Energy, and the
include non-profit foundation Pais Digital, Chilean Environment.
Economic Development Agency (Corfo), and the
Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications. SMART ENERGY
Currently, about 10% of Chile’s energy is generated
from non-conventional renewables such as wind,
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) solar, and small hydro. The government is working
SMART TECHNOLOGY toward a policy goal of 20% non-conventional
renewables by 2025. Solar parks are the most
The Government of Chile’s Digital Agenda 2020 plan sought after projects as Chile’s Atacama Desert
includes projects related to improving connectivity, has the most favorable irradiance conditions in the
providing online access to government services, world. Chile is also working to draft a new law to
growing Chile’s digital economy, and increasing promote the use of energy efficient technologies.
digital competency through education. The
government hopes to connect 90% of households SMART TRANSPORTATION
to fixed broadband, provide public Wi-Fi access in • Santiago’s extensive and efficient metro
90% of neighborhoods, and have Internet access in system has the highest per capita use in South
100% of public schools by 2020.59 America. The city also has a strong cycling
SMART INFRASTRUCTURE community, with some separated bike lanes.
Chile is ranked number ten in the world in LEED • Some communities have implemented
certification, with 318 registered projects, of which bike sharing programs, including a recent
111 have obtained LEED Certification, including 41 collaboration with B-Cycle (a U.S. Company)
and Banco Itau.
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• The largest energy company, Chilectra, is Fiber Optic Austral:

starting a pilot to support an EV car-sharing
Chile’s government will invest $100 million in a
program, which would be the first of its kind in
3,000 km submarine fiber optic cable connecting
Latin America.
the main cities in the south of Chile. Chile’s
• The Ministry of Transportation has been testing Telecommunications Subsecretariat expects to
several smart solutions including variable publish an open bidding notice for the project
automated toll pricing on the highways and concession by the end of 2016.
using sensors to track traffic congestion.

CHALLENGES
• September 7-9, 2016: Trade Winds Latin
The Government of Chile has drafted a new data America business forum – Santiago
privacy bill, which, if enacted, may have some
• October 19-22, 2016: Aquasur, a trade show
implications for cross-border data flows.
focused on aquiculture and the fishing industry
will take place – Puerto Montt
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS • November 9-11, 2016: IFT Energy, a trade
show focused on energy, including renewable
Start-Up Chile: energy and energy solutions for the mining
The Start-Up Chile program began in 2010 and sector will take place - Antofagasta
offered high potential global start-ups a $ $40,000 • November 16-18, 2016: COMAD 2016, a
equity-free investment. As a result, Santiago was Sustainable Wood Construction Technology
recently ranked amongst the top 20 cities for its trade show will be happening – Concepcion
entrepreneurial ecosystem.
• November 29 – December 2, 2016: Expo Naval,
Smart City Santiago: a Naval and Maritime trade show will take
Smart City Santiago is a business park and smart place – Vina del Mar
city prototype where several projects are tested. • May 15-19, 2017: Exponor, a mining industry
Projects include electric transport, consumption focused trade show will take place –
telemetry, domestic automation, photovoltaic Antofagasta
generation, electricity grid automation, intelligent
street lighting (LED), remote monitoring and free
Wi-Fi. The project is sponsored by Chile’s largest
energy company, Chilectra.

China Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW city technologies such as green buildings,

building energy retrofitting, building management
Over the past two decades, China’s urbanization systems, green data centers, energy efficiency
rate has increased dramatically, from 31% in 1995 technologies, clean air and clean water
to 55.6% in 2015. This trend it set to continue. technologies, waste treatment technologies,
According to the National New-type Urbanization and smart grid and green transportation systems
Plan (2014-2020), the country’s first official plan to help alleviate the challenges that mass
for urbanization, the number of permanent urban urbanization presents in China. In this respect,
residents will reach 60 % of the population by 2020. policy-makers are looking urgently for ways to
Given this population let cities continue to offer migrants a better life
BEIJING, China shift from rural to while at the same time, economic planners are
Population Growth, 2013-2014: urban, China aims to pushing hard to transform China from the world’s
0.23% speed up the process export factory to a self-sufficient modern service
of transforming its economy. As such, smart city technologies are
Total Employment, 2014 (Thousands): cities so that they
14,321 People an emerging collection of technologies cutting
can absorb the inflow across industries to address the problems and
Real GDP Growth 2013-2014: of people. development priorities of cities.
0.77% China’s 13th Five-Year
Employment Growth, 2010-2014: Plan (FYP) reveals
2.1% that the country KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR)
Brookings Metro
aims to optimize The 12th FYP, which guided broad economic
urban space through public transportation, high- policy through 2015, specifically targeted smart
capacity infrastructure, mixed-use development city technology as a sector to be strengthened.
and green city planning. This will spur smart cities Investment in Chinese smart cities is expected to
development with greater use of low-carbon exceed 1.6 trillion Yuan in the coming years.
technology and new energy systems.
Ministries such as the National Development
As part of this effort, the Chinese government has and Reform Commission (NDRC), the Ministry
proposed multiple “100 million people” projects, of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)
including: and the Ministry of Housing and Urban and Rural
1. Granting urban residency to around 100 million Development (MOHURD) are jostling to sponsor
people with rural household registration and programs and industry alliances. In 2012, the
other permanent urban residents Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)
organized the China Strategic Alliance of Smart
2. Encouraging around 100 million rural residents
City Industrial Technology Innovation. In 2013, the
to live in local towns and cities in the central
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
and western regions
(MIIT) sponsored another group, the China Smart
3. Creating businesses to provide new urban City Industry Alliance, and this year announced a
residents with more employment opportunities 50 billion Yuan ($8 billion) fund to invest in smart
4. Rebuilding both rundown areas and “villages” city research and projects. A third group, the
in cities, affecting roughly 100 million people. Smart City Development Alliance, was formed this
spring by the NDRC. Some companies are working
With the urbanization of an additional 300 million with only one of these new groups, and some are
residents, Chinese cities are focusing on smart involved with all three.

CHALLENGES FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS

For international companies, huge opportunities in In January 2013, the Ministry of Housing and
China are tempered by real challenges: Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) formally
announced the first list of national pilot Smart
GOVERNMENT PROTECTION:
Cities. By April 2015, there were over 285 pilot
The local government market is opaque, and Smart Cities in China, as well as 41 special pilot
smart city applications sometimes involve areas – projects. There are no laws and regulations
digital mapping, for example – that is considered directly governing Smart Cities in China. The
sensitive for non-Chinese firms. US firms in Chinese government has, however, introduced a
particular face increased scrutiny in the wake number of guidance notices:
of the Congressional investigation of Huawei,
• Notice to Speed up the Project Implementation
the revelations of global NSA surveillance from
of Smart Cities;
whistle-blower Edward Snowden, and the US
Justice Department’s move to name five members • National New Urbanization Plan (2014-2020);
of the Chinese military to its most-wanted list for and
cyber-attacks against US companies. This last
• Guidance on Promoting the Sustainable
move has provoked several countermeasures
Development of Smart Cities.
from China, including the banning of Microsoft’s
Windows 8 from government offices and the Below is a shortlist of some of the designated
reported phasing out of IBM servers from Chinese Smart Cities by MOHURD and MOST.
banks. The recent announcement from the State
Information Office that it would be testing the First Batch Second Batch Third Batch
security (as yet undefined) of foreign information
1. Beijing Urumqi Jiamusi
technology products and services, and barring
those that do not pass, only further underscores 2. HunNanXinQu Yinchuan Tonghua
the difficulties that international firms may face 3. Wuhai Lanzhou Tangshan
in China. 4. Dezhou Xianning Huhehaote
MATURING DOMESTIC COMPETITION: 5. Taizhou Guiyang Datong
• The most significant challenge may be China’s 6. Nanjing Germu
rapidly maturing domestic competition. China 7. Suzhou Zhangye
is no longer a developing-nation market in 8. Podongxinqu Zhongwei
which international companies compete
9. Zhenhai Jingzhou
only with one another. In typical fashion,
Chinese firms have been adept at mastering 10. Xianning Tianshui
technologies and shaking up markets, often by 11. Nanping Hanzhong
offering low prices. 12. Canshanqu Kaifeng
• China’s two electric grid companies, State 13. Pingxiang Xuzhou
Grid and Southern Grid, as well as all three 14. Wudangqu Haozhou
of China’s major telecoms, are actively
developing smart grid policies and products 15. Tongren
and sponsoring pilot projects. 16. Lecong
For more information on the City List and Program,

please refer to MOHURD’s announcement
in Chinese.
http://www.mohurd.gov.cn/zcfg/jsbwj_0/
jsbwjjskj/201504/t20150410_220653.html

OPPORTUNITIES SMART SYSTEMS:

Government policies and the recent • Smart Transport: real-time monitoring,
announcements from MOHURD indicate a growing transferring and analyzing, Internet of cars
market in China with significant opportunities for
• Smart Water: pollution treatment, water quality
exporters of “smart city” technology, products and
testing and monitoring, waste recycling
services. Such opportunities include:
• Smart Energy: meter and remote monitoring,
CONSTRUCTION:
energy saving, new energy transfer
• Architecture, design and city master planning;
• Smart Healthcare: operations and
• Engineering and efficiency consulting; management (e-records), wearable devices,
remote medical treatment, medicine
• Technology for more efficient and cost e-commerce platforms
effective building;
• Green building materials, systems
and equipment.

Colombia Smart Cities Guide

Major urban areas: Bogota - 9.765 million; Medellín - 3.911 million; Cali - 2.646 million
Industries: textiles, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear, beverages

Columbia can be seen as a leader and model for SMART ECONOMICS
smart cities in Latin America. With a large urban
The Medellinnovation District will transform
population and cities like Medellín and Bogotá
the northern part of Medellin into a hub for
labeled as world class smart cities, Colombia has
entrepreneurs and other institutions focused on
great potential to be a leader in the smart city
the knowledge economy. As part of this project,
projects. In 2015, 76.4% of Colombia’s population
the Great Pact for Innovation combines efforts
lived in urban centers, with a 1.66% annual urban
by universities, the government, and the private
growth rate. As of 2014, 52.4% of the population
sector to increase investments in innovation to
had Internet access.61
2% of the city’s GDP by 2018. The urban and
Medellín and Bogotá have been highlighted as economic transformation project hopes to make
two of the “smartest cities in Latin America” Medellin Latin America’s capital of innovation by
based on the 28 indicators of the Smart City the year 2021.64
Wheel.62 Medellín has taken large strides forward
SMART INFRASTRUCTURE
on the stage of global smart cities. The city has
been highlighted in the Spanish publication El Medellín Ciudad Inteligente (Smart City Medellín):
Confidencial and praised by Nobel Prize winning One of over 50 government sponsored city
economist Joseph Stiglitz for its social inclusion improvement programs, this project focuses on
and non-segregation based development model.63 citizen participation, open government, social
Bogotá boasts large scale improvements in innovation, and sustainability. The program
its sustainable transportation infrastructure, provides information and communication
exemplifying a world class bus system and technology infrastructure, and conducts courses
practicing car-free Sundays. on the subject, for some of Medellín’s lowest
income residents. This has helped the city become
a new hub for technology and innovation.65
60
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library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/co.html
61
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/
co.html
62
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3022533/the-8-smartest-cities-
in-latin-america?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_ 64
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medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcoexist%2Ffeed+%28Co. january-2015/ieee-smart-cities-initiative-affiliate-city-profile-medellin-
Exist%29 colombia.html
63 Project website: http://medellinnovation.org/
http://www.investincolombia.com.co/news/756-spain-newspaper-
el-confidencial-highlighted-medellin-as-colombia-s-smart-city.html 65
http://www.americasquarterly.org/content/medellin-smart-city

SMART HEALTHCARE • Since 1998, the city has been moving toward
a system of sustainable transit. The city
Buen Comienzo (Good Start): This project allows
has 300 km of bike lanes, in addition to the
low income mothers-to-be free access to the
TransMilenio buses, which run three times as
Internet, improving knowledge regarding health
fast as a typical New York City bus, have led to
issues and medical information, reducing the need
a 40% decrease in vehicular traffic within
for doctor’s appointments. The project provides
the city.70
free wi-fi and classes to expectant mothers who
once had to travel long distances to visit a doctor.66 • On car-free Sundays, 121 kilometers of streets
in the city center are transformed into space
SMART SUSTAINABILITY
for people to bicycle and spend leisure time.71
The Emerging Sustainable Cities Initiative
Medellín:
(ESCI): Inter-American Development Bank’s non-
reimbursable technical assistance program to • Medellín has experienced a huge
address key roadblocks preventing sustainable transformation from one of the drug capitals
development in urban areas across Latin of Latin America to one of the most forefront
America. The three pillars of the program are (i) smart cities in the region. Medellín is now
environmental and climate change sustainability, ranked the 7th Smartest City in Latin America.72
(ii) urban sustainability, and (iii) fiscal sustainability
• Medellín has invested extensively in a
and governance. The project begins by addressing
metro system that is large for a city of its
four Colombian cities: Barranquilla, Bucaramanga,
size. A system of gondolas connects hillside
Manizales, and Pereira, and eventually moves on
communities with the center of the city.
to eleven other Colombian cities.67
• Projects like the Medellín Ciudad Inteligente
and Mi Medellín and the creation of the
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS Medellinnovation District highlight some of
the reasons Medellín was ranked 2013
Bogotá: Innovative City of the Year by Citi and the
• In 2013, Bogotá was the first Latin American Wall Street Journal.
city to host the Smart City Expo, showcasing
the innovative nature of the city.68 The event
included an international congress to tackle
the development of smart cities globally and
the use of technology to sustainably improve
citizens’ livelihoods.69
70
66 http://www.dac.dk/en/dac-cities/sustainable-cities/all-cases/
http://www.americasquarterly.org/content/medellin-smart-city
transport/bogota-more-bikes-and-buses-fewer-cars/
67
http://www.iadb.org/en/topics/emerging-and-sustainable-cities/ 71
https://info.bbva.com/en/news/disciplines/technologies/innovation/
cities-using-a-sustainable-urban-development-approach,6693.html
smart-cities-latin-america-sustainability-progress-together/
68
http://en.investinbogota.org/bogota-first-venue-smart-city-expo- 72
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3022533/the-8-smartest-cities-
2013-latin-america
in-latin-america?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_
69
http://www.smartcityexpo.com/en/press/-/prensa/detalle/1521855/ medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcoexist%2Ffeed+%28Co.
samrt-city-bogota Exist%29

Croatia Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW SMART HEALTHCARE

Development of Smart City infrastructure in Croatia To date, about 2,400 primary healthcare teams in
is at the initial level, but is progressing fast. About all 20 counties in Croatia have been connected
50% of the Croatian cities have already started a into the network. The e-Health project includes
process of implementation of one or few smart e-booking, e-reporting, e-prescription and referrals
solution projects. Currently, the Association of to be sent directly to pharmacies and labs/
Cities is trying to raise the awareness of the Smart hospitals. Most of Clinical Centers and Hospitals
Cities concept and is seeking for the government have implemented individual Hospital Information
support to use dedicated EU funds for the project System with e-Health Records.
developments called Horizon 2020—Smart
SMART GOVERNANCE AND EDUCATION
Cities. Implementation of the LED street lighting
projects, focused on the reduction of electricity The Croatian government has established service
consumption in street lighting, has already centers for the e-Citizen, e-Health, e- Invoice,
commenced. Obstacles in the implementation e-Identity, e-Permit, e-File, but it still has no
of the processes are finances, as well as clear strategy for integration of central and local
understanding and accepting of the Smart Cities government institutions. The e-Education project
concept by the city authorities. is established and offered by the Ministry but still
many schools are not integrated in that offered
platform. Central data center for public data
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) integration is in the establishing phase.
SMART TECHNOLOGY
It is estimated that by 2020, 50% of the population CHALLENGES
will have ultrafast access to the Internet which will
The following items were categorized by the
be more than 100Mbps, while others will have an
Croatian public for further improvements in order
average speed of 30Mbps. Croatian Government
to make Smart City friendly environment in Croatia:
fully supports EU initiative Digital Single Market
and has established a Council for Digital Market • e-Commerce
Implementation. Government spending for the ICT
• Effective implementation of consumer
in the period 2015-2020 will focus on the following:
protection policies and e-Governance
e-Administration, e-Taxation, e-Health, e-Education
and development of the government’s platform. • Improvement of mail delivery system
SMART BUILDING • Abolition of geo-blocking
Energy renovation of public buildings within the • Local digital market reform
concept of “Smart Cities” is the framework by
the Croatian government for the Smart Building • Modernization of copyright
process implementation. There are several local • Cross-border broadcasting revision
projects being implemented and supported by
the local municipalities with the following smart • Taxation and VAT harmonization
building concepts: indoor climate, LED lighting • Telecom operators’ revision
ventilation, smart grid, smart meters, and energy
saving devices • Revision of audio visual services

• Improvement of Internet platforms Zadar:

• Revision of personal data protection law Project FIESTA is for energy efficiency in
households. It is a project for intelligent traffic
• Cybersecurity
systems—an integration of intermodal traffic and
• Freedom of EU data flows logistics with use of electrical bikes and scooters.
Šibenik:
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS Project Inavis—establishes a green center for

Adriatic region. UrbEco project— electrical public
Dubrovnik: transportation and investing in electricity charging
Dubrovnik is Smart City #1 in Croatia. It is the only stations through the city.
city with clear smart city strategy project. Project
called Dubrovnik 2020—Smart City was designed UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
by the local development agency DURA. The
project includes smart technologies concepts. The • November 2016 (day TBD): Smart Cities
scope of the project includes water and energy Conference: Implementation of smart city
savings processes using smart IoT solutions. This projects – Zagreb; http://lider.media
project should be completed in 2020.
• March 2017 (day TBD): Smart Government
Opatija: Conference: Disruptive Innovations through
Smart Solutions – Zagreb; http://lider.media
This is a small city with a few initiatives, but still
important. Project “Opatija optical ring” anticipates • April 2017 (day TBD): Smartcity StartUps
construction of 16 km of fiber optics network with Conference – Dubrovnik; http://cityos.io
19 Wi-Fi Hotspots and 14 webcams.
Zagreb: RESOURCES
ePayment for parking, transport tickets and various CS: Suzana Vezilic: suzana.vazilic@trade.gov
student services was implemented. Open data
portal project to consolidate local government
services with municipality and public services. KEY ORGANIZATIONS
ePolice implementation emerged from of eSecurity • Croatian Association of Cities –
project, anticipated establishment of an operation The Association of Cities of Croatia
communication center in every Croatian city. Every Website: http://www.udruga-gradova.hr/
policeman will have a camera on the uniform and
police cars will be equipped as offices. • Croatian Chamber of Commerce—
IT Association
Rijeka: Website: http://www.hgk.hr/category/sektor-
The iURBAN project will address increasing centar/sektor-industrija
market demands for cheaper and cleaner • HAMAG—BICRO – Croatian Agency for SMEs,
energy services. It is being designed with direct Innovations and Investments
involvement of end users - local residents, energy Website: http://www.investcroatia.hr/
companies and public administration. Rijeka
aspires to become the Croatian Center for • The Ruder Boškovic Institute – Croatian center
Competence for Smart Cities. i-Locate project the for advanced materials and nanotechnology,
“virtual hub” and the “toolkit” in the context of Website: http://www.irb.hr
public health, private and public services with the • E-Croatia – Central State Administrative Office
involvement of real users and stakeholders within Website: https://uprava.gov.hr/o-ministarstvu/
thirteen pilots’ sites in eight EU countries. ustrojstvo/uprava-za-e-hrvatsku/1080

Czech Republic Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW authorities. The program of Digital Education

counts with cheaper or free Internet for
Smart City is a relatively well-known term in the underprivileged starting in 2017.
Czech environment. Each major city and number
of municipalities in the country have already one SMART ENERGY
or more smart solutions and actively work on
The approved government strategy counts with
further projects in accordance with their budget
building new nuclear power plants combined
possibilities. Politicians on all levels declare
with renewable energy support. The intended
support to smart city initiatives but general
Smart Grids construction is essential for reliable
awareness is still not as high as in the Western
operation of the energy network. Grids in the
European countries or in the United States. The
future will also be used by consumers-producers,
network of Czech and Slovak cities CIVINET
partially contributing power with their home-
as a part of CIVITAS Forum is an active player in
made solar energy. Energy efficiency plans count
overcoming barriers between local and EU level
towards significant household consumption
and effectively helps to streamline the process of
reduction by 2020.
drawing funds allocated by the EU for smart city
development. These financial resources combined SMART LIVING
with smart city enthusiasm and projects of
In the Czech Republic, only 6% of houses have
particular cities create a tremendous opportunity
a smart installation compared to 40% in the
for interested companies for years to come.
western countries. Smart living belongs to the
most dynamically expanding branches promising
great opportunities as it gets more into public
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) awareness. 88% of families planning to build
SMART MOBILITY a house in the next 5 years consider smart
living technologies.
The government approved a massive
modernization of transportation systems. By 2020, SMART TRAMS
about $1 billion will be spent on smart systems in Prague introduced first smart trams that enhance
air, rail, ship and road transport. About one half of passenger safety by automatic braking in curves.
the resources will be invested in radars, cameras, The trams also display an electronic map including
automatic scales and advanced electronics for exact location of the vehicle with transfer options,
road transport. The purpose is to make traffic points of interests and street names. In winter
flow smoothly without accidents and to sanction months, passengers appreciate an automatic
undisciplined drivers quickly and effectively. temperature regulation. This smart system is
SMART GOVERNANCE supposed to be installed in all tram vehicles
by 2018.
Since 2012, basic public electronic registers
work reliably in the country. The registers
are cornerstones for further e-Government
CHALLENGES
innovations, as they speed up and simplify
everyday life of citizens and companies that See the European Union section.
also gained a thorough control over access to
their private information. Government initiatives
aim at deeper information sharing among public

FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR

Prague: • December 2016: Smart City Brno – Brno;
http://www.top-expo.cz/smart-city/
Prague is a pioneer among Central European
smart-city-2016
metropolises in supporting electro- mobility in
cooperation with energy suppliers in its territory • May-June 2017 : Smart City Symposium –
since 2011 and is the fourth best e-Government Prague; http://scsp2016.fd.cvut.cz
city after Seoul, Hong Kong and Madrid. The
• 2016 Conference Partners: EATIS, University of
SMART Prague 2014-2020 concept addresses
Maryland, University of California, University of
city’s weaknesses by strengthening research,
Santa Barbara, University of El Paso.
technological development and innovation,
promoting social inclusion and combating poverty, RESOURCES
sustainable mobility and energy savings and
education and learning. Commercial Service: Hana Obrusnikova:
hana.obrusnikova@trade.gov
Pilsen:
Smaller city with ambitious smart city plans.
• Free Wi-Fi in public spaces project launched,
covering so far two major city parks.
• First electric buses in operation.
Brno:
Sensors installed on parking places send
information on availability to central database
available online. At the same time, sensors
improve parking fee enforcement by the City
Police. The city launched a car-sharing project
Emuj.cz allowing people to enjoy advantages
of using a car without ownership concerns and
compulsory expenditures. The vehicles available
for sharing include the small and handy Peugeots
iOn electric. The decision to provide electric cars
instead of gasoline ones aim at improving air
quality in the city.

Denmark Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW planned to replace 8,000 streetlights over the next
10 to 15 years.
Denmark is one of the leading European nations
in working with Smart City initiatives. In particular SMART HEALTHCARE
the cities of Copenhagen and Aarhus are far along
in implementing these initiatives. In 2014, CEDI, Denmark is constructing sixteen new hospitals,
a consultancy firm advising public authorities, including eight new “super-hospitals”. Between
prepared the report: “Smart City in the Danish 20 and 25 % of the of the project’s $ 7 billion
Municipalities: Status and Initiatives” for the budget is expected to allocated to technology
Danish Ministry of Urban and Rural Affairs. The implementation. The new “super-hospitals” are
report was based titled as such as they will encompass state-of- the-
art health IT structure. These hospitals are built in
COPENHAGEN, Denmark on a survey directed
towards city collaboration with multiple stakeholders, including
Population Growth, 2013-2014: specialized international companies. The new
0.67% managers from the
98 municipalities hospitals are expected to be completed by 2020.
Total Employment, 2014 (Thousands): in Denmark. Out
SMART GOVERNMENT
1,515 People of 98 respondents,
Real GDP Growth 2013-2014: approximately 50 % The current E-Government strategy for 2011-2015
1.28% responded that they has enabled Denmark to take important steps in
work with Smart improving the digitalization of communication
Employment Growth, 2010-2014: between citizens and the public administration.
City activities, and
0.5% The main areas in this strategy include: 1) no more
Brookings Metro 80 % answered that
they would ramp up printed forms of letters, 2) digital welfare, and
these activities in the coming years. In addition, 3) digital solutions for closer collaboration. The
the international consulting firm Arup assessed new E-Government strategy 2016-2020 is in
in 2016 that Denmark has potential to become process. This strategy will leverage on the already
an international frontrunner within Smart City achieved results from the current E-Government
movement, if nation-wide collaboration strategy for 2011-2015. The themes in the new
is prioritized. digital strategy include 1) a productive and
efficient public sector, 2) public services must
create value for citizens and businesses, and
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) 3) public digitalization must support
business growth.
SMART ENERGY
Recently, a test facility, Danish Outdoor Lighting
Lab, has opened outside Copenhagen with the CHALLENGES
objectives of creating energy savings and more See the European Union section.
intelligent indoor and outdoor lighting. This test
facility is important as Danish municipalities face
a need to replace streetlights in the coming years.
For instance, Copenhagen is about to replace
20,000 streetlights with LED lighting as a mean
to meet the city’s goal to become carbon-neutral
by 2025. In addition, the city of Albertslund has

FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS between local authorities, private companies,

and research institutions. DOLL is Denmark’s
Copenhagen: new platform for developing future LED lighting.
The vision of Smart City Copenhagen is to become Living Lab, in the city of Albertslund, tests lighting,
a carbon neutral city by 2025 ”Copenhagen operating systems, and Smart City technologies in
Connecting” draws attention to the use of big a 1:1 scale.
data collected from cell phones, GPSs in busses
and sensors in garbage bins, and the sewage
system to meet the municipality’s objectives LINKS
of reducing traffic congestion, air pollution,
Aarhus University Smart Cities:
and carbon emissions. Smart City initiatives
http://smartcities.au.dk/ and au@au.dk
include transportation, cycling lanes, the harbor
bath, water management, and wind power in Local Government Denmark:
Middelgrunden. Copenhagen has entered into http://www.kl.dk/English and kl@kl.dk
partnerships with both Cisco and Hitachi, and
Copenhagen Solutions Lab: http://cphsolutionslab.
has won the World Smart Cities Award in 2014
dk and connect@cphsolutionslab.dk
in the Best Project category for its Copenhagen
Connecting project. State of Green: https://stateofgreen.com/en and
info@stateofgreen.com
Aarhus:
CLEAN: http://www.cleancluster.dk and
The city of Aarhus launched “Smart Aarhus” in
info@cleancluster.dk
2012. This is based on building partnerships to find
effective and sustainable solutions. The vision of Sustainia: http://www.sustainia.me and
Smart Aarhus is to be an internationally leading, sustainia@mm.dk
Scandinavian model for urban development based
on partnerships. The city of Aarhus has launched
various projects including Internet Week Denmark, RESOURCES
Open Data Aarhus, and Digital Neighborhood.
The core of the activities of Smart Aarhus lies the Commercial Service: Aleksander Moos –
inclusion of various stakeholders, such as citizens, aleksander.moos@trade.gov
to create the best public services.
Albertslund:
The city of Albertslund has dedicated the entire
industrial area “Hersted Industry Park” to Danish
Outdoor Lighting Lab (DOLL). DOLL is a partnership

European Union Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW Municipalities are looking to smart technologies

to increase the efficiency of the provision of
Nearly three quarters of the European Union’s these services thereby eliminating waste. The
503 million inhabitants live in urban areas. As a technologies municipal governments need
result, cities in the European Union (EU) face many extend from smart Outage Management Systems
environmental, societal and economic challenges (OMS) to Geographic Information Systems and
including congestion, pollution, increasing energy Mobile Workforce Management (MWFM). These
costs, and adapting community services to meet platforms allow municipalities to have real time
the needs of an ageing population. Throughout visibility on the location of service outages
the EU, many municipal governments and other and the location of their work force. This gives
stakeholders are seeking out new technologies managers increased efficiency when dispatching
to provide interconnected and environmentally and coordinating the movements of their teams to
sustainable products and services. For example, work sites thereby improving timeliness, worker
there is a particular interest in intelligent transport productivity while reducing resource consumption
systems, such as multimodal mobility programs (i.e. fuel) and waste. The Circular Economy
and the use of smart technology for parking proposal does not mandate that municipal
and traffic control. This trend presents many governments procure smart technologies for the
interesting opportunities for U.S. companies. provision of water and waste collection services.
The U.S. Commercial Service at the U.S. Mission However, it does raise awareness among local
to the EU works to help U.S. companies navigate officials about how technology can improve
the policy and regulatory framework in the EU the provision of these services in a cost
by providing market insights. We can help you to effective manner.
develop a sound EU export strategy in terms of SMART TECHNOLOGY
regulations and standards. If you have not done so
already, we encourage you to contact your local Digitization and the Digital Single Market:
U.S. Export Assistance Center (USEAC). They Digitization is at the heart of cities becoming
can connect you with our offices located in over more intelligent through management automation,
80 countries worldwide, including the EU office network connectivity, data analytics, cyber
located in Brussels, Belgium. A directory of the security and interoperability. A number of digital
domestic offices can be found here: regulatory initiatives deriving from the digital single
http://www.export.gov/usoffices/index.asp. market strategy and others will greatly influence
the development of Smart Cities and the way
U.S. business accesses this growing market. An
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) illustrative and non-exhaustive list of relevant
regulatory initiatives/legislations would include:
SMART ECONOMY
• Data-related policies: data protection
The Circular Economy: The purpose of the (General Data Protection Regulation), data
Circular Economy is to maximize the efficient security (Network and Information Security
use of resources and eliminate waste from all Directive), draft online content delivery
economic sectors. Waste collection and water directive, the upcoming Data Flows Initiative,
treatment is a basic service provided by municipal potential legislation of platforms and apps;
governments in the EU and around the world.

• Device/networks-related legislation: • Workforce Development: DG CONNECT and

broadband/5G, cloud computing, ONC have developed a tool to identify skills
interoperability and ICT standardization; needed for the workforces in Europe and the
US to be able to effectively use Health IT.
• Artificial intelligence, supercomputing.
Under the framework of the Transatlantic
For more information, visit:
Economic Council, CS-EU, DHHS/ONC and DG
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/.
CONNECT are working to update the Roadmap.
On April 14, 2016, the European Parliament The first Roadmap was originally published in 2013,
approved the General Data Protection Regulation the next update will be the third edition.
(GDPR) to create a more consistent data protection
For the current update, it was agreed to add a
regime across Europe. The GDPR will have a
third work-stream on innovation in the e-Health/
two year implementation phase and replaces
Health IT industry. It will include pilot projects
the current Data Protection Directive. Key points
to further spur deployment of E-Health/ Health
include new requirements for data processors,
IT technologies. These would foresee concrete
expansion of the geographic scope of EU data
initiatives directly handled by local authorities.
protection law, revision of the definition of
DHHS and DG CONNECT launched two
personal data, and implementing a much higher
consultations in late 2015, and CS-EU is engaged
standard for consent.
with DG CONNECT to ensure U.S. business
For more information on the GDPR, visit: interests are properly reflected in the final
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/reform/ text of the Roadmap. The information from the
index_en.htm consultations will inform the revised Roadmap,
which will likely not be ready for publication until
SMARTH HEALTHCARE sometime in summer 2016.
E-Health: E-Health will play an important role in the SMART ENERGY
Smart Cities initiative. The European Commission’s
Directorate General for Communications Networks, Energy and Smart Grids: Energy infrastructure
Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) and the is one of the most fundamental and strategic
United States Department of Health and Human components of any city. High-density city
Services (DHHS) have cooperated closely in this populations require smart energy solutions i.e.,
field in recent years. In 2010 the groups launched both highly efficient and sustainable systems
a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on this with economic and social benefits. Smart
topic under the auspices of the Transatlantic grids provide demand based electricity via
Economic Council. As part of the MOU, the two continuous monitoring of current and voltage to
sides agreed to work on an EU-US e-Health/Health individual and industrial consumers including
IT Roadmap (hereafter “Roadmap”) to strengthen water, transportation and public health
transatlantic cooperation in eHealth (European facilities. Relevant EU initiatives are as follows:
term) and Health Information Technologies (Health
• 2011/463 Communication on Smart Grids: from
IT, U.S. term for the same sector).
innovation to deployment
The Roadmap initially focused on two high
• 2012/148/EU: Commission Recommendation of
priority areas:
9 March 2012 on preparations for the roll-out of
• Standards Development: DG CONNECT and smart metering systems
DHHS – through the Office of the National
• Directive 2012/27/EU on energy efficiency
Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) – worked
to develop an action plan for deployment • Directive 2014/94/EU on the deployment of
of an International Patient Summary that alternative fuels infrastructure
uses internationally recognized standards to
support transnational interoperability;

• Commission Recommendation of 10 smart cities. For more information, you can visit:
October 2014 on the Data Protection Impact http://www.cencenelec.eu/standards/Sectors/
Assessment Template for Smart Grid and SmartLiving/smartcities/Pages/SSCC-CG.aspx
Smart Metering Systems
SMART INNOVATION
• Smart Grid Task Force: advises the European
Horizon 2020: Horizon 2020 is a research and
Commission on the development and
innovation fund launched by the European
deployment of smart grids
Commission. For the period of 2014 to 2020 it
SMART INNOVATION seeks to distribute close to €80 billion. Funding for
Horizon 2020 projects is provided through various
European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities
funding instruments, each specifying different
and Communities (EIP SCC): With the support
terms, conditions, funding rates, and requirements
of the European Commission (EC), the European
depending on the purpose and type of funding
Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and
granted.
Communities (EIP SCC) is an initiative designed
to bring together city leaders, industry, financial The U.S., as a non-EU country, is not automatically
institutions, researchers, and other relevant eligible for funding under the Horizon 2020 fund.
smart cities stakeholders. The initiative seeks As a principle, U.S. participants are expected
to accelerate the development and deployment to provide their own funding for projects;
of smart city solutions at the intersection of the the EU therefore encourages potential U.S.
energy, transport/mobility, and ICT sectors. The EC participants to contact research and innovation
officially launched the EIP SCC in a Communication funding organizations in the U.S. to support their
published on July 10, 2012 (COM(2012)4701) participation in Horizon 2020 projects.
which laid out the implementation phases and
Funding, however, may be awarded to U.S.
governance structure of the initiative.
researchers and other participants in certain
Within this framework, interested stakeholders cases where a project is open to worldwide
were to submit an application (also known as participation and funding, is deemed essential by
a Commitment) to join the EIP SCC supporting the European Commission, and/or when EU funding
its objectives. A Commitment is an intention to is provided due a reciprocal agreement between
provide a measurable and concrete engagement the U.S. and the EU which also provides European
in support of one or more focus areas, linking participants with the ability to receive funding in
energy, transport and ICT in the urban context. In the US.
all, 443 commitments were submitted by groups of
If a project is funded under Horizon 2020, a grant
stakeholders, public and private sectors, of which
agreement document, governing the basic terms
371 were selected as eligible. More information
and conditions for project financing, must be
about EIP SCC initiative and how to get involved
prepared and signed by the participants, the
can be found here: http://ec.europa.eu/eip/
European Commission, and the project coordinator.
smartcities.
It should be noted that participants from third
SMART SUSTAINABILITY
countries, including the U.S., which do not
European Standardization - Smart and receive funding, may still be subject to the grant
Sustainable Cities and Communities: Ongoing agreement as “beneficiaries not receiving EU
standardization efforts in the EU tackle the funding” and must nonetheless sign and adhere
different elements of Smart Cities (transport, to most, if not virtually all, of the conditions and
efficiency, etc.), and the CEN-CENELEC-ETSI obligations contained in the grant agreement.
Coordination Group ‘Smart and Sustainable Cities
and Communities’ (SSCC-CG) fulfills a coordination
role with planning and monitoring activities on Intelligent Transport Systems: The Intelligent
identifying overlaps and gaps of standards for Transport Systems (ITS) Directive (2010/40/EC),

adopted by the EU on July 7, 2010, establishes communication technologies to support

a framework for the coordinated deployment of interoperability of cooperative systems
interoperable ITS within the EU Member States for intelligent transport in the European
and across borders. Within this framework, the EC Community.
is required to first adopt specifications and request
A database of these standardization requests
the development of standards for the Priority
can be found here: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/
Areas included below to ensure the compatibility,
single-market/european-standards/requests/
interoperability and continuity in the deployment
index_en.htm.
of ITS in the EU. These specifications can
include functional, technical, organizational, and/ All of the standards adopted under the ITS
or service provisions. Subsequently, EU Member Directive can be searched here: http://www.cen.
States, in their efforts to deploy ITS applications eu/work/areas/transport/ITS/Pages/default.aspx.
and services, must ensure that the specifications
adopted by the EC are correctly applied. For general information about the ITS initiative,
visit: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/its/
Within this framework, the development of index_en.htm.
functional, technical, organizational, and/or
service specifications that ensure compatibility,
interoperability and continuity is ongoing. In early CHALLENGES
2014, the EC created a Connected Driving (or C-ITS)
platform to develop policy recommendations and There are several government-to-government and
a common vision of the interoperable deployment business-to-government dialogues between the
of automated and connected vehicle technology. United States and the European Union that can
The EC plans to develop a master plan on the provide a forum for companies to raise market
deployment of C-ITS in the second half of 2016. access concerns. Before providing context and
details about potential market access challenges
The EC launched a new high level group for in the European Union, we want to highlight at
the automotive sector known as ‘GEAR 2030’ in least two bilateral initiatives that could help make
January 2016. One of the group’s tasks will be a difference for U.S. firms.
to consider a roadmap for the deployment of
autonomous vehicles in the EU. The group consists The U.S.-EU SME Cooperation:
of 25 members including member state ministers Since 2012, Commerce has been a leader and
of economy, industry, and transport, EU umbrella an innovator in transatlantic SME cooperation
associations and federations from the automotive activities: working with our counterpart agency
industrial value chain (e.g. ACEA and CLEPA), within the European Commission, collaborating
ICT associations, network operators and digital to enhance support for SMEs by leveraging
services associations active in area of connected, existing resources, sharing best practices and
automated and/or autonomous vehicles, trade increasing opportunities for matchmaking and
unions, academia and civil society organizations. networking among B2B, B2G and G2G. This work
In the transport sector, the EC issues mandates to has been carried out under an SME cooperation
the European Standardization Organizations (ESOs) arrangement between the U.S. Department of
for standards to be developed and eventually Commerce and the EU’s DG GROW that has shifted
adopted under the relevant EC Directives: into new territory in 2016, with SME matchmaking
and best practice exchange programs at two major
• M/338 on Electronic Fee Collection in support trade shows – the Consumer Electronics Show and
of Interoperability of electronic road toll Hannover Messe. For more information, contact
systems in the Community Lori Cooper at lori.cooper@trade.gov.
• M/453 on Co-operative systems for Intelligent
Transport in the field of information and

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has heard from U.S. companies trying to export
In addition to the SME cooperation activities, in
innovative products into the EU, especially small
April 2015, Commerce advanced support for SMEs
and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that they
by signing a Clusters Cooperation Arrangement
often encounter these “invisible barriers”. By
with DG GROW, to facilitate matchmaking and
definition, goods and services related to Smart
collaboration between U.S. and European
Cities tend to be innovative. However, the EU’s
clusters and to exchange best practices on policy
regulatory and standards systems are not set
initiatives to support the development and growth
up to expedite market access for these types
of clusters. Deputy Secretary Andrews signed
of products; a more detailed explanation below
the MOU on behalf of the U.S. Department of
describes the interaction among those regulations
Commerce. Since then, a link appears on both
and standards. Even when there are EU policies
the U.S. Cluster Map and Registry Portal and the
and program support to expedite research to
European cluster map websites, which means that
market innovations, they are geared towards
European clusters can register and be featured
enabling European companies, not necessarily
on the U.S. map and vice-versa. This information
inclusive of U.S. companies.
makes it easier to search for potential partners
across the Atlantic. For more information, contact U.S. participation in projects funded by the
Tshanda Kalombo at tshanda.kalombo@trade.gov. European Commission: Funding at the EU-wide
level is done mainly through Horizon 2020, a
Following the success of the DOC-EEN
research and innovation program which provide
matchmaking pilot program at Hannover Messe
nearly €80 billion over 7 years (2014 to 2020.
(involving over 70 U.S. SMEs, Clusters and state
Horizon 2020 promises more breakthroughs,
EDOs) plans are underway for a similar scale
discoveries and world-firsts by taking great
DOC-EEN matchmaking program at Smart Cities
ideas from the lab to the market.74 The program’s
Barcelona in November 2016. Both the SME and
Pillar 2, Industrial Leadership, aims to finance
Clusters Cooperation Arrangements are featured
the path for industrial projects to move from the
prominently in the T-TIP SME Chapter as part of the
research phase to the demonstration phase.
U.S.-EU ongoing cooperation to increase trade and
Many Smart Cities projects in the EU, from pure
investment opportunities for SMEs. Other bilateral
research to pilot projects (including test beds
cooperation includes dialogues between the U.S.
for automated vehicles), are funded through
and the EU in the areas of Smart Cities, ICT, Health
Horizon 2020. The benefits of participating
IT/e-Health, smart grids, e-vehicles, etc.
in these projects can be both tangible and
MARKET ACCESS CHALLENGES IN THE EU intangible, such as providing participants with
data/testing results that will provide the basis
The market access challenges for U.S. exporters for new regulations and standards of the new
in the EU, especially for goods and services technology plus the opportunities to collaborate
related to Smart Cities, can roughly be placed into with local governments to identify and address
the categories of access to participation in pilot future procurement needs. In some Member
projects, regulations, and technical standards. States, the lack of local funding for Smart Cities
Within each category the challenges can also be projects means that local authorities only engage
further sorted according to the level of government in projects that receive Horizon 2020 funding.
where they occur: the EU-wide level, the Member
State level, and/or the local level. Not all such
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barriers are written into legislation but they exist The Office of European Union (OEU) is a part of the Global Market
Unit in the International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
and therefore are invisible until U.S. companies Commerce. OEU policy staff collaborate with colleagues in the
actually encounter problems when attempting to Commercial Service, both domestic and overseas, to help U.S. firms
export to the European Union. For more information about market
export into the EU, then the gaps and barriers in access issues and Smart Cities in the EU contact Ann Ngo ann.ngo@
the system become real. trade.gov
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Therefore, it is even more crucial for U.S. firms projects. Depending on the Member State, the
to participate in such pilot projects. However, terms and conditions for the participation of
there are some limitations and barriers to U.S. U.S. organizations may or may not be favorable.
participation in these projects. Ultimately, however, local authorities have an
important role to play in which Smart Cities project
In general, with some exceptions, U.S. participants
they wish to pursue. Therefore, U.S. companies
are expected to provide their own funding
would most likely need to team up with local
if they want to participate in Horizon 2020
European partners in order to participate in these
projects. First, the EU encourages potential U.S.
types of Smart Cities projects.
participants to contact research and innovation
funding organizations in the U.S. to support their Regulatory: Besides access to pilot/demonstration
participation in Horizon 2020 projects. Second, projects, another set of barriers facing U.S.
U.S. applicants must demonstrate that without exporters are European regulations. The three
their contribution the project would not succeed categories of European Union law that have
and that no European researcher is able to make binding force are regulations, directives, and
the same kind of contribution to the project. decisions. Regulations are EU-wide and are
Third, even when U.S. participants find a way to binding on Member States to apply and enforce.
justify their participation, some may still decline Directives indicate the required results to be
to proceed when they discover that the terms achieved but leave the implementation details
and conditions of Horizon 2020 are not favorable, to the individual Member States. Differences
reasonable, or somehow incompatible with their in national interpretation can lead to uneven
organizational mandates. The EU’s statistics show implementation of Directives. Decisions may be
a noticeable decline in U.S. participation between applicable to a Member State, an organization,
the Framework Program 7 (FP 7) during 2007-2013 or an individual within the European Union and
-- the predecessor program to Horizon 2020 -- and are only binding upon the individual or institution
the first two years of Horizon 2020. For example, to which they are directed. The linkage between
in the health sector, where conditions are more regulations and standards that affect market
open for U.S. participation, 182 U.S. organizations access for U.S. products is discussed more fully in
participated in 139 projects funded by €52.6 million the section below on technical standards.
under FP7. Under Horizon 2020 as of publication,
The EU’s Digital Single Market strategy is one
two years into the six-year program, there have
example of EU-wide policies that would have
been 31 U.S. organizations participated in 28
widespread impact on Smart Cities products and
projects funded by €9.2 million.75
services. For example, the European Commission’s
The Department of State is presently negotiating a Digital Single Market strategy includes a formal
memorandum of understanding with the European commitment to help EU member countries develop
Commission that will provide additional flexibility cross-border eHealth services by the end of 2017.
for independently-funded U.S. organizations that The Digital Single Market strategy will impact the
seek to cooperate with European institutions “digitization” of industry, ICT standards and related
receiving Horizon 2020 funds. This effort could issues such as geo-blocking (the restriction of
possibly reach a positive conclusion in the form of access to services, preferential prices, product
an agreement by the end of 2016. However, until offerings, etc., based on geographic location), the
that time, this particular barrier remains. role of Internet platforms, and copyright-related
proposals addressing cross-border access to
In addition to EU-wide funding with Horizon 2020,
digital content.
each Member State also has its ownnational-level
funding program for research and infrastructure Technical Standards: Another set of potential
market access barriers facing U.S. exporters
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“Transatlantic S&T Cooperation in Health: Current, Emerging, and of Smart Cities goods and services lie in the
Potential for Cooperation” DG Research and Innovation, European domain of technical standards. The key to
Commission, 2016

understanding how the EU regulatory system stage, but only to the members of the European
operates is the concept of essential health and Standards Organization (ESO), which usually are
safety requirements. Essential requirements are only representatives of European companies.
identified in the EU New Approach Directives in
There are many cases where the introduction of
order to ensure that the risk of accident is limited.
an EN standard has eliminated market access for
It is important to note that all manufacturers,
U.S. companies that were previously able to work
domestic or foreign, must demonstrate that they
with Member State national standards bodies to
meet all the essential requirements pertaining
assure their product meets the necessary health
to their product. However, products meeting
and safety standards. Many market access cases
European standards, called European Norms
involving EU standards hinge on gaps in the system
(EN), have a far less burdensome path to market.
that keep the U.S. producers from being able to
For innovative products, there often may be no
prove that their products meet the health and
applicable existing EN standards. Therefore, the
safety requirements of an EU Directive. To prove
burden of proof to demonstrate compliance with
they meet EN standards would require additional
essential requirements can be overwhelmingly
testing in each Member State, which would cost
onerous and time-consuming, assuming the
time and money – an obstacle not easily overcome
company can find certified labs to test its products.
by SMEs.
EU Directives/Regulations identify the form of
It is difficult even for a large multinational to
conformity assessment procedures that must be
correctly identify which EU directives/regulations
followed in order for a product to be placed on
and EN harmonized standards are applicable to
the market. If an EN standard (i.e., a European
its product. This process is further complicated
standard) is used and the level of risk from the
when a very sophisticated product is covered by
product is low, then typically the producer may
several different EU laws. Again, it is up to each
use a self-declaration of conformity – this is true
individual company to identify which EU legislation
regardless of the nationality of the producer in
is applicable to its product. There is no official EU
question -- as long as an EN standard is used. If a
sponsored service to assist companies as they
product presents a higher level of risk, such as a
work through this very complicated process. This
medical device, then it must be certified by a
process is even more daunting for SMEs that lack
third party.
the resources and time to commit to this process.
When European industry decides it needs a new Furthermore, manufacturers that produce products
standard, it will work on a text, and may even that are not covered by a New Approach Directive
adopt a standard that will be revised to fit the may face resistance from customers in the EU, as
Commission’s mandate once it is available. The the customers will often request a CE Mark even
draft standards begun under the EN process are when there is no applicable directive, because it is
not typically available to the public at large at this perceived by the market as a requirement.

Finland Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW projects should fall thematically under smart

and clean solutions and geographically in the
Finland has a strong position in smart governance Greater Helsinki Region. Categories include: Built
– project planning, execution and management. environment, energy efficiency, energy systems,
The country boasts a number of successful material efficiency, sustainable consumers, traffic
smart living related projects. Finland’s smart and transportation, waste and recycling.
cities approach is human-oriented, open, and
involves the development of both smart cities and SMART BUILDING
smart services. Competitive advantages include
The Smart Kalasatama initiative develops
extensive cooperation between the public and
Helsinki’s Kalasatama area into a world-class
private sectors, and a well-functioning innovation
model district of smart urban development,
system. The environment invites experimentation
http://en.uuttahelsinkia.fi/kalasatama . Smart
in urban inventions and retrofitting operations
Kalasatama does not rely on a single technology or
in old neighborhoods, as well as new smart city
scheme, such as a smart power grid or renewable
development projects. There is a healthy balance
energy. Instead, the area will be developed via
between big and small players in the development
a holistic approach to Smart Cities. In addition
of Finnish smart cities.
to intelligent infrastructure, other essential
ingredients of smart urban development are
viewed to include agile service development,
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) open inclusion of various stakeholders, as well as
SMART TECHNOLOGY innovative utilization of open data.
The Helsinki Region Infoshare (HRI) http://www. SMART INFRASTRUCTURE

hri.fi/en/ service aims to make regional information The Six City Strategy – open and smart services
quickly and easily accessible to all. Essentially, is a strategy for sustainable urban development
HRI is a web service with more than 1,000 datasets carried out by the six largest cities in Finland:
for fast and easy access to open data sources Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Tampere, Turku and
between the cities of Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa Oulu. The primary objective is to strengthen
and Kauniainen. The data published is mainly Finland’s competitiveness by using the country’s
statistical, giving a comprehensive and diverse six largest cities as innovation development and
outlook on different urban phenomena, such as experimentation platforms. The strategy has three
living conditions, economics and well-being, focus areas: Open innovation platforms, open data
employment and transport. A good proportion of and interfaces, and open participation.
the data material offered by the service is
GIS based. SMART TECHNOLOGY
Helsinki is a hotspot for integrating smart One key goal of Helsinki’s Smart City activities
and clean solutions into the city structure is to harness the innovative capabilities of the
and the everyday lives of people living in the entire urban community by promoting cooperation
city. Smart’n’Clean http://www.smartncleanfi/ between application developers, and the rest of
showcases development projects that make the city’s ICT ecosystem. To achieve this goal,
sustainability a reality. The content is collected Forum Virium Helsinki is actively supporting the
by Helsinki Business Hub. The criteria are that City of Helsinki with initiatives such as Open

Ahjo, Helsinki Loves Developers, Apps4Finland, Jyväskylä in an area dominated by a defunct paper
CitySDK, and Code Fellows http://forumvirium.fi/en/ mill. http://www3.jkl.fi/blogit/kangasjyvaskyla/
smartcityinnovationunit
Oulu:
The City of Oulu is a forerunner Smart City.
CHALLENGES Smart Oulu includes a 3D Internet, 5G network
development, smart housing, health intelligence,
One challenge and opportunity in Finland’s Smart printed electronics, environmental technology
Cities environment is the high level of development and creative applications of wireless technology.
and competence among domestic (Finnish and Hiukkavaara Arctic Smart City is an example
European) players. At the same time, there is of Integrative Urban Development Concept –
ample room for cutting edge technologies and INURDECO – and an important part of Oulu’s effort
solutions from the U.S. that can offer unique to attract new business investments. The area
advantages or complement home grown solutions. will set an international example for northern city
Finland is an open and competitive environment planning and construction and will be a technology
for business. showcase for private and public operators.
Helsinki:
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS Energy Efficient Premises: No other office
Tampere: building in Finland requires as little energy as
Viikki Environment House in Helsinki, which
Finland’s largest inland city, offers a prime example was completed in September 2011 and used by
of urban development. Vuores, its new district, will Helsinki’s Environment Center and its University.
be close to nature yet technically and ecologically Total energy consumption is only half the amount
advanced. Vuores, to be built by 2020, is one of the set in the national construction code. The building
most exciting new urban development projects in is also highly cost efficient; net- zero energy
Finland. The streets and parks of Tampere’s new building related extra construction cost was only
green district will have LED lighting, its buildings 3-4%. The public works department of the City of
will have high-speed data network, Helsinki managed design and construction.
and a pneumatic system will handle its waste. http://www.hel.fi/www/ymk/en/centre/
http://www.tampere.fi/english/vuores.html environment-house/
Jyväkylä:
Jyväskylä’s main development project combines UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
ambitious zoning, intelligent urban planning
and new municipal engineering. The district of October 17-19, 2016: International Mindtrek
Kangas will be a pioneer in resource efficient Conference/Smart City Event – Tampere;
infrastructure. It will be built into a cyber http://www.mindtrek.org/2016/smartcity/
secure area and its ICT infrastructure is based
on future projections. The area is partly energy
self-sufficient, the fiber networks are reliably LINKS
maintained and the sensor data is stored safely.
Helsinki Forum Virium: http://forumvirium.fi/en/
Kangas is going to be the most cyber secure area
member-and-network-services/upcoming-events
of the most stable country in the world. Kangas
is will have homes for some 3,000 people and Tekes Witty City Program: http://www.tekes.fi/en/
workplaces for 2,000 by 2025. The district is programmes-and-services/tekes-programmes/
located less than a kilometer from the center of witty-city/

Sitra, The Finnish Innovation Fund:

http://www.sitra.fi/en
Ministry of Transport and Communications:
http://www.lvm.fi/en/home
VTT Technical Research Center of Finland
http://www.vttresearch.com/
RESOURCES
Commercial Service: Mia Maki –
mia.maki@trade.gov

France Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW 2016, ERDF (The

French electricity PARIS, France
The concept of “Smart Cities” is gradually distribution Population Growth, 2013-2014:
becoming considered as an integral part of company) plans 0.5%
national environmental politics. Over fifty cities in to install 3 million
France have implemented varying degrees of smart Total Employment, 2014 Thousands):
smart meters
city initiatives. These initiatives are extremely 6,408 People
across the country,
numerous but remain very much regional, as most with a total of 35 Real GDP Growth 2013-2014:
projects are drafted and implemented at the local million running by 0.8%
level. Cooperation at a national level remains 2020. The European Employment Growth, 2010-2014:
limited and should be better organized to regroup Commission
and trigger various initiatives countrywide. As
0.2% Brookings Metro
requires 80% of
Mayor of Paris, Ms. Anne Hidalgo states “Urban meters to be “smart” by 2020, to allow users to
growth and climate change experienced across control their consumption. ERDF implemented the
the world results in considerable issues regarding “Linky” project, to improve the functioning of the
energy management, waste management, mobility electricity market help control energy demand and
and logistics”. This proves that French politicians reduce CO2 emissions.
are aware of the importance of the emergence
of smart cities, and understand the political SMART TECHNOLOGY
significance of supporting their development. Devices equipped with “near field communication”
technology (NFC, CCP in French) are becoming
more and more common in France and worldwide.
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) This enables the communication between
SMART GOVERNANCE electronic devises. Present and anticipated
applications include contactless transactions, data
Lack of transparency, unclear and unequal access exchange and simplified set
to information has pushed France to the forefront up of more complex communications such as
of smart governance innovation. Examples of goals Wi-Fi. Internet penetration is 99.3% of the country’s
set by the government to remedy these problems territory but is only 35.5% penetration rate for
include new information systems like new high-speed Internet (superior to 512 kilobits
communication tools between municipal services per second).
and the citizen (such as a hotline). Smartphone
applications also enable direct access to SMART MOBILITY
information delivered by the municipality as France has concentrated on smart mobility through
well as access basic services. technologies such as common tickets for all
means of transportation. There also has been a
SMART ENERGY
diversification of means of transportation in French
Smart energy is often the most important cities with the development of personal public
aspect in the field of smart cities in the minds transport (PTT), such as bicycle or car sharing
of local decision makers. Since 2013, France systems. Autonomous vehicles are also being
has concentrated on the development of smart- tested, such as driverless public buses in the city
grids. A smart grid includes smart meters, smart of La Rochelle. Carpooling is spreading in France
appliances, renewable energy resources, and with 30% of drivers utilizing carpools (most often
energy efficiency resources. Between 2015 and utilizing Blablacar, a ride sharing service). The

development of a multimodal information system cooling freshness in the river Saône.

will also eventually enable the optimization of
Issy-les-Moulineaux:
transport choice.
Issy’s main project is IssyGrid through which
electricity consumption can be controlled. Issy will
CHALLENGES also soon experiment with new ways to facilitate
parking and all kinds of travel. The Zenbus
See European Union section. application - which allows seeing in real time on
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS your Smartphone the movements of the TUVIM
(local buses) - is the first step and the reflection
Lyon: continues with all the stakeholders. Applications
Lyon’s first focus as a smart city is developing to find an on-street parking space with Parkeon
smart mobility. Optimod’Lyon, an integrated or to share private parking spaces with Be Park
platform for innovation on urban mobility and are being implemented. Open data is also shared
for public-private cooperation on urban ITS, is a through the platform issy.com.
good example of a successful project. It includes Paris:
tools such as an urban freight navigator, a data
collection system for delivery and parking areas, • The city of Paris focuses on smart governance
and a traffic prediction tool. Other transport through the implementation of an e-petition
initiatives include Citylog and Geovelo. The system and a website for Parisians dedicated
district La Confluence is one of the biggest to sharing ideas about the city’s projects
urban redevelopment projects in Europe. It was (idee.paris). Local officials also focus on
designed to be environmentally efficient and transparency and publish the city’s service
friendly; smart and sustainable. It houses various providers’ data. The city’s budgetary and social
environmental initiatives like highly efficient data is also available on the Internet. Firms
buildings (HQE), the creation of an urban heating involved in the development of smart urban
network, the use of biomass and solar energy, construction such as JC Decaux also work for
the anticipation and sharing of produced energy. the opening of data in order to organize new
Lyon is also implementing various smart energy transportation services for Parisians (i.e. new
projects and the Urban Community of Lyon is applications for smartphones).
considered by many to be at the forefront of smart • The Internet of Things participates is the
grid experimentation in Europe. Lyon Confluence foundation for this technological development
also focuses on the expansion of Lyon’s transport with the current installation of 100 bus shelters
network with the construction of a tramway. equipped with interactive screen offering
Inaugurated in September 2015, Hikari is a set proximity services.
of positive energy buildings in the heart of Lyon. • A new way of parking was tried out in the
It is the first district in France to produce more autumn of 2015, in partnership with the Ile
energy than it consumes. The project combines de France Region, with the implementation
offices and housing in three buildings to optimize of about 50 Intelligent Presence Sensors on
energy consumption. With photovoltaic panels on delivery, taxi and disabled parking spaces in
the front and on the roofs and its cogeneration the Bercy district.
rapeseed oil, the area consumes less than half the
current average. The cooling requirements are • The city of Paris also wants to install Wi-Fi
covered by a machine producing ice water from throughout Parisian public spaces within the
the heat of the CHP and the cold of the water table. next few months.
A geothermal system is also involved in drawing • Paris has been an important actor in smart
mobility projects with the development of Velib

and Autolib, two successful bicycle and car- d’Azur Metropolitan Area and the City of Nice
hire programs. Ile de France is also equipped have joined forces with technology leader
with several waste-to-energy plants. 50% of Cisco to launch the first ‘virtual city hall cabin’.
Paris, including the Louvre museum, is heated
France is undergoing a start-up renaissance
by three waste-to- energy plants in St Ouen,
driven by a new generation of entrepreneurs. It
Issy-les Moulineaux and
is home to vibrant tech hubs and a hotbed of
Ivry sur Seine.
talent, infused with a strong entrepreneurial
Nice: culture. Programs such as “La French Tech,” a
slogan shared by French startups and the French
• Nice’s “Autobleue” program was the first
government, support this trend. In addition, the
large- scale 100% electric car sharing service
recently inaugurated City of Connected Objects in
to be launched in France (2011).
Angers has for a purpose to make France a world
• Two smart grid projects are currently in leader in the field and will contribute to smart
development in Nice: the REFLEXE (Réponse city development. Other initiatives include the
de Flexibilité Electrique - Electrical Flexibility Investment for the Future program and the EcoCité
Response) pioneering project and Nice Grid. program, which promote a holistic approach to
the smart and sustainable city through intelligent
• Nice also created two eco-districts: Saint- urban planning.
Martin- du-Var (with a particular focus on
energy and carbon saving) and the Cap Azur
eco-district (with an emphasis on renewable
energies and the limitation of energy needs in
buildings). November 8-9, 2016: Intelligent Buildings Systems
and Smart Grid-Smart City– Paris Porte de
• Nice is also a leader in the field of smart
Versailles; ”http://www.smartgrid-smartcity.com/
government with the installation of two virtual
city halls installed in the heart of Nice at the
Etoile shopping mall in 2013 and at the Leclerc
Saint-Isidore mall in 2015. RESOURCES
• Committed to a process of improving public Commercial Service: Rose-Marie Faria:

services for local residents, the Nice Côte rose-marie.faria@trade.gov

Germany Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW energy strategy through 2050. It intends to make

Germany one of the most energy-efficient and
Germany provides global smart-technology green economies in the world. Germany is at the
solutions. In March 2012, the German government forefront in international smart grid development
adopted the CO2-neutral, energy efficient and (E-Energy) which allows fluctuating renewable
livable city of the future as the central theme of its energy power generation and consumption to be
High-Tech Strategy 2020. Europe’s largest applied optimally managed. Germany decided to achieve
research organization, the Fraunhofer-Institute, 25% electricity production from combined heat
has been put in charge of leading the Morgenstadt and power (CHP) sources by 2020. The German
(“City of the Future”) project, which aims to shape gas industry has already made a commitment
the complex future of sustainable cities. The CO2- to replace 10% of commercial gas volume with
neutral, energy efficient and climate-adapted city renewable gas (hydrogen, methane rom wind
(“future city”) is the central focus of Germany’s electrolysis) by 2030. Energy storage technology
action plan. Fraunhofer-Institute is establishing a developments are actively supported by initiatives
network of global cities in order to establish global and partnerships.
best practices while solidifying links between
industry, cities, and applied science. SMART TECHNOLOGY: Germany has the largest
ICT industry in Europe and the fourth largest
globally. The country’s ICT sector plays a
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) significant role in new technological developments
- more than 80% of innovations in key industry
SMART MOBILITY sectors rely on smart technologies. The “Digital
Germany’s automotive industry focuses on drive Germany 2015” ICT strategy, developed by the
train electrification (hybrid, battery and fuel cell Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy,
vehicles) to reduce emissions, the dependence forms the framework for the country’s ICT policy.
on oil, and to allow the vehicles of tomorrow to be One of the ICT industries’ key strategic objectives
fully integrated into a multimodal traffic system. is the development of intelligent networks
Germany wants to become the lead market and in the energy, traffic, health, education and
provider of electric mobility by 2020 as part of its administration sectors based on a well- developed
long-term, zero emission mobility vision. One of broadband infrastructure.
its goals is one million electric vehicles on the SMART HEALTH
road by 2020 – a bold aim of Germany’s “National
Electro Mobility Development Plan.” The German The percentage of the population in the ages over
federal government has invested 1.5 billion EUR in 65 will increase in the decades ahead. Thus, as
electric mobility development. Seventeen electric part of the Health Research Framework Program of
vehicle models launched by German automotive the federal government, Germany is supporting the
manufacturers were available by 2014. development of diagnostic and therapeutic agents
in the form of direct funding at different stages
SMART ENERGY in the innovation process (from fundamental life
The German federal government’s “Energy science R&D to pre-clinical and clinical patient-
Concept for an Environmentally Sound, Reliable based research and commercialization).
and Affordable Energy Supply” is a long-term

CHALLENGES all areas of urban sustainability and is consistently

bringing relevant processes into the economic,
See European Union section. ecological and social activity of a smart city –
and at a fast pace.
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS Frankfurt:
Berlin: Frankfurt is the financial and transportation center

of Germany, and the largest financial center in
In April 2015, the Berlin Senate decided on the continental Europe. In several sectors, the city
Smart City Berlin Strategy. The objectives include of Frankfurt is making a long-lasting commitment
expanding the international competitiveness of to sustainable technological innovation, and a
the Berlin- Brandenburg metropolitan region, reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. The House
increasing the resource efficiency and climate of Logistics is currently conducting research on
neutrality of Berlin by 2050, and creating a pilot traffic around the larger Frankfurt airport area,
market for innovative applications. focused on heavy-load transportation vehicles.
Cologne: The city’s modern traffic control center was
put into operation in 2011, and now effectively
Cologne has recently implemented a smart traffic monitors the flow of traffic in Frankfurt.
pilot with the help of IBM. Intelligent traffic
management based on precise forecasting
techniques, with remarkable accuracy, are sure UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
to optimize traffic flow and expand the city’s
transportation network capacities. • November 7-8, 2016: VDE-Kongress 2016
– Mannheim; www.conference.vde.com/
Hamburg: vdekongress/Seiten/default.aspx
Hamburg, the first true “Seatropolis”, is quickly • April 24 - 28, 2017: Hannover Messe 2017 –
emerging as one of the world’s largest smart Hannover; www.hannovermesse.de/en
city showcases. It already has a number of pilot
projects on the table. Among them: a virtual
citizen services solution, where city administrative
LINKS
services are provided through a high-definition,
remote video kiosk. Cisco, a Council Global Partner, • Bundesverband Smart City e.V. (Federal
just signed an agreement to help move Hamburg Associationa Smart City)
further down this path. What may set Hamburg www.bundesverband-smart-city.de
apart, however, is its commitment to include its
• Germany Trade & Invest
port– the city’s economic backbone—in the
www.gtai.de/GTAI/Navigation/EN/Invest/
smart equation.
Industries/smarter-business.html
Mannheim:
• German Partnership for Sustainable Mobility
As a successful smart city, this German city is www.german-sustainable-mobility.de
currently making a new mark and sharpening
its profile, such as through the project “Model
City of Mannheim.” It is not by chance that this RESOURCES
multicultural and innovative city in southern
Germany received a New Economy Smart City Commercial Service: Bettina Capurro –
Award in 2014 and was featured in the magazine’s Bettina.Capurro@trade.gov
list of the 20 top smart cites. Mannheim is active in

Greece Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW years, the Greek government plans to stimulate

digital infrastructure development, bringing high
Greece remains far behind the EU average with no speed Internet to 200,000 new households. This
direct alignment between its smart city initiatives aim is to deploy the fast- and super-fast broadband
and Europe2020. Greece faces a key challenge technologies in the country, supported by EU
in online public services, placing it among the funds. The first phase started in 2014 with the
last in the EU, which indicates that the level of rural broadband project, which is already in the
sophistication of its services needs to improve implementation phase. In the next two years, the
significantly. Many “Smart” city initiatives government will dedicate a budget of up to
have been taken independently by a handful €425 million to the extension of rural broadband
of cities and municipalities without centralized and the introduction of Superfast Broadband in
infrastructure support. With only few exceptions, urban areas.
these initiatives are limited to fragmented
“smart city” projects, lacking an overall smart SMART HEALTH CARE
city concept.
Provision of health services to elderly, disabled
Although broadband connectivity has improved and chronically ill citizens based on the broadband
compared to 2015, Greece still ranks 26th among network and portable devices, via which these
EU countries. Despite the fact that 99% of Greek citizens are steadily monitored, and by which
households have access to fixed broadband, 34% they are offered health care services whenever
of them do not yet subscribe. Moreover, Next necessary.
Generation Access capable of providing high-
SMART CITIZENS’ SERVICE SYSTEM
speed Internet (at least 30 Mbps download) is
available to only 36% of homes, far below the EU Create platforms whereby citizens can place
average of 71%. In order to fully develop its digital complaints about various aspects of everyday
economy and society, Greece needs to expand life (e.g. litter collection, pavement problems,
Internet usage. Greece has one of the lowest parking spaces), which are properly addressed to
levels of regular Internet users in the EU (63%), municipal services for further handling.
and 30% of the Greek population has never used
SMART PARK SYSTEM
the Internet (the EU average is 16.4%). This means
that about one-third of the population cannot Citizens can, by SMS, pay for municipality parking
take advantage of Internet offerings, nor can they places, extend the duration of parking, and pre-
engage in a wide range of on-line activities. reserve a parking place in the city.
SMART TRANSPORT
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) The country plans development of a system that
aims to offer reliable and effective public transport
SMART TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE
services in the city. By which, the municipality can
Greece has a high %age of users that have access monitor and manage the municipality fleet, monitor
to 10 Mbps connectivity and a good %age of users the public transport fleet, and monitor congestion
that have access to 24 Mbps connectivity, so the in the city. It also offers e-ticketing services and
target for 100% coverage of more than 30 Mbps location-based information on bus transportation.
until 2020 seams feasible. Within the next two

GIS – LOCATION-BASED INFORMATION among citizens, businesses and the local

TO CITIZENS government (G2C, G2B and B2C interactions),
serving sustainable urban development objectives.
The country plans to increase use of IoT for
Towards this end, efforts have been concentrated
providing information on a range of the city’s
on the following ‘smart’ dimensions:
services, such as medical services,
entertainment, etc. a) smart living, aimed at improving the quality of
life in the city;
TOURIST PORTAL
b) smart economy, in support of business
Provide tourist information on the region’s assets,
interaction and development;
and the downloading of this information by PDAs,
connected to free municipal Wi-Fi. c) safety of citizens, aimed at the protection of
disabled citizens;
E-PARTICIPATION AND E-DEMOCRACY
d) social care, aimed at the provision of e-Health
The highest priority issue is public participation
services to the local population (in-house and
in the decision-making process. The municipality
mobile services);
has strongly promoted e-interaction with citizens
and local businesses, who can not only help e) e-Participation and e-Democracy, encouraging
set the agenda of the municipal council (local the active participation of citizens in the
priorities), but also express their opinions on the community’s decision-making processes.
issues discussed by the council, then e-vote and
Furthermore, the city of Trikala was the site of the
finally e-interact with the city council to affect the
third large-scale demonstration for the CityMobil2
final outcome. In such a context, e-Democracy
project. The CityMobil2 project involves several
and e-Participation are enhanced, as is the
cities, which have investigated where and how
effectiveness of the various policies, as they relate
automated road transport systems (ARTS) could
to a well-informed and strongly-engaged public.
most effectively be implemented. Between
September 2015 and January 2016, a fleet of six
Robosoft vehicles drove along a 2.5 km stretch
CHALLENGES integrated in the main city road network, including
See European Union section. different traffic modes. Because of this initiative,
Greece was the first EU country to apply an early
stage National Law for automated transportation.
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS http://trikalacity.gr/
Two Greek cities set the technological example in Heraklion:

local government. Trikala (e-trikala.gr) initially, and Heraklion was the only European city included in
Heraklion (heraklion.gr) have gained recognition ICF’s top smart city rankings in 2013. Six priority
for their efforts: projects are being implemented focusing on:
Trikala: a) energy and environment, including smart
Trikala is the first ‘smart’ city in Greece, awarded buildings, smart resources management and
by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) for three viable urban planning;
consecutive years (2009, 2010 and 2011) for being b) mobility, including efficient transportation,
among the top 21 ‘smart’ cities of the world. multimodal access and technological
The main objective of the projects being infrastructure;
implemented is to establish effective interactions

c) e-governance, including online services, smart UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR

infrastructure, open and smart e-governance;
No upcoming events.
d) economy, including entrepreneurship and
innovation, productivity and local and global
connection; RESOURCES
e) citizens, including digital social inclusion and Commercial Service: Bryan Larson:
participation, education and creativity; and bryan.larson@trade.gov
f) living , including culture, safety and health.
www.heraklion.gr/en

Guatemala Smart Cities Guide

Major urban areas: Guatemala City - 2.918 million
Industries: sugar, textiles and clothing, furniture, chemicals
SMART CITY OVERVIEW SMART TRANSPORTATION

As the one of the most populous and densely Bus Rapid Transit (BRT): In 2012, Guatemala City
inhabited country in Central America, and home created and implemented a more secure bus
to the largest urban area in the region, Guatemala system, in which bus drivers do not directly handle
plays a key role in the development of smart cash. This project aimed to cut down on extortion
cities in the region. Investment on smart city attempts targeting Guatemala City’s bus drivers.
infrastructure primarily focuses on three cities: Prior to this implementation, organized crime
Guatemala City, Resume, and Villa Nueva. In 2015, groups had collected $1.5 million in extortion fees
51.6% of the country’s population lived in an urban from Guatemalan bus companies. With the new
setting, with a 3.4% annual rate of change. In 2014, Bus Rapid Transit system, passengers either insert
only 17.1% of the population had access to a coin into a fare machine or pay for the bus with
the Internet. a prepaid card.
SMART HEALTHCARE
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) Mobile System for Monitoring Acute Malnutrition
in the Community: Collaboration between the
SMART ENERGY Ministry of Health of Guatemala, the United
Proyecto Eficiencia Energética Municipal Nations Development Program, the TIGO
Guatemala: In 2012, Guatemala City won the Foundation, and the United Nations Fund for
innovative initiative award during the World Children, text messages are used to monitor
Smart Cities Awards for a public-private financed the nutritional status of Children. The program
project using solar panels to provide lighting to operates in 22 departments within Guatemala.
low income communities. The program will provide
low-cost clean energy in the form 1,400 solar
panels distributed to 400 families and 1,000 street FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS
lamps throughout Guatemala City. In 2013, Spanish
Guatemala City:
investors contributed 20 million Euros to the
creation of what would become the largest solar • As the largest urban center in Central America,
farm in Latin America, generating 50 megawatts Guatemala City can be seen as a leader in
of electricity. smart city infrastructure and innovation within
the region.

• The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system is

expected to expand, providing greater access
to sustainable transportation for low income
communities and cutting down on the profits of
organized crime groups.
• Guatemala City’s award winning solar
infrastructure project aims to reduce the cost
of electricity by 20% and establish the largest
solar farm in Latin America.
• The business incubator Campus Tec seeks to
take advantage of Guatemala’s entrepreneurial
and innovative potential to establish a global
hub of technological innovation within
Guatemala.

Honduras Smart Cities Guide

Major urban areas (2015): Tegucigalpa – 1.123 million, San Pedro Sula - 852,000
Industries: sugar, coffee, woven and knit apparel, wood products, cigars
SMART CITY OVERVIEW the elaboration of an Urban Development Master

Plan. The $ 3.6 million project and sustainable
While Honduras is a developing country, the planning tool is aimed at transforming SPS
country has begun to experience the impact of into a “Smart City,” targeting modernization,
Smart Cities. Developments like the Altia Smart development and growth in areas such as
City showcase the country’s potential for growth transportation, social housing, and commercial
in the field of Smart City development. Events in construction. Through this government tender, the
San Pedro Sula like the Smart Cities Hackathon city of San Pedro Sula is seeking U.S. and other
and Startup Weekend Mega bring regional international consulting companies with ample
entrepreneurs together to tackle the country’s experience in the development of City Master
pressing issues. Plans. Additional information on this international
public bid process is available through the
following email: mailto: licitaciones.msps@
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) sanpedrosula.hn
SMART INVESTMENT
Altia Smart City: The Altia Smart City seeks to FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS
create a business friendly environment, attracting
investment to the region by providing first class San Pedro Sula:
infrastructure. The project sits at a strategic • In February 2015, the Smart Cities Hackathon
location, in close proximity to downtown San was hosted as part of the Global Urban Data
Pedro Sula and only 20 miles from the nearest Fest in San Pedro Sula. The event was aimed
major port. As a designated Free Zone facility, the at using technology based solutions to create
project offers tax and customs benefits. Altia Smart intelligent cities.
City consists of several primary components. The
project includes a business park, a recreational • The UR Bus project uses a GPS to track public
center, a medical center, and a campus of UNITEC, transit networks in the city and the Social Keys
Honduras’s most prestigious university. project allows passengers to use a mobile
phone to pay for bus fares.
• In August of 2015, San Pedro Sula hosted
Master Plan of Urban Development for the next Startup Weekend Mega, bringing in over
25 years for the City of San Pedro Sula: The 300 entrepreneurs from across Central
Municipality of San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ America and Mexico.
commercial center and industrial capital, recently
launched an international public bid process for

Hungary Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW • Test pilot of 20 new electric buses to be used

in Budapest
Hungary has seen quite a handful of Smart City
initiatives and test projects over the past years, SMART GOVERNANCE
both on a municipal and national level. However
National Info-communication Strategy 2014-2020:
the country has yet to embark on a large scale
Special focus on digital Infrastructure –
and centralized smart cities undertaking as seen
i.e., Internet access to mobile broadband
in many other Western European countries. Until
coverage, digital competences by reducing digital
now, many smart city initiatives were incentivized
illiteracy, increased Internet usage and utilization
by collaborations of municipal and business
of the digital economy with the development of
players in this sector, often focusing on specific
electronic (commercial, bank, etc.) services and
technical advancement. In order to enforce a
R&D and innovation activities.
more centralized management in this area, the
government assigned the Lecher Center in 2015 New Hungarian ID card: a one-stop biometric
to coordinate and support upcoming smart city card combines personal identification, social
initiatives and to link public and private players. security and tax identification information, with an
This has ignited a movement for more smart cities electronic signature.
projects in Hungary.
Government Window/Client Gate: 240 service
points and 613 partial or full services are online,
for example, tax declaration, admin of personal
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) documents, simplified notification of employment,
SMART MOBILITY application to higher education, certificate of
criminal record check and judiciary e-portal , VAT
• Budapest’s first public Smart Service Point & customs declaration, company registration (via
(SSP) is an electric car charger, which also an attorney-at-law), and e-Procurement.
offers free WI-FI, modern LED illumination
and incorporates security cameras and an SMART HEALTHCARE
emergency button for an intelligent, and E-Health - test pilot launching this year including
energy-efficient urban life. remote health services and uploading of patient
• BuBi – bicycle sharing network in Budapest data which then allows for e-consultations, the
consisting of 98 docking stations and issuance of e-prescriptions, and the storage and
1,150 bicycles processing of health data.
• Rigo – the new electronic ticketing for the

public transportation system creates a modern
CHALLENGES
paperless payment infrastructure and features
daily fare capping and the calculation of the Due to the decentralized nature of previous smart
cheapest possible tariff city initiatives, most opportunities were restricted
to players who were already actively pursuing
• BKK Futar – mobile app helps navigate
business in this field and have managed to capture
Budapest’s public transportation system in
a deal with a local municipality. Other initiatives
absolute real time, displaying stations and
were simply grass-root projects kindled by a
preferred lines, routes and schedule.
certain public domain. The lack of a centralized

structure, transparency and support hinders • ICT: Pilot on smart service points, data
market access and participation in new projects. managements & intelligent adaptive control;
With the new elected Lechner Center as the pilot & widespread smart metering solutions
official smart city coordinator it is hoped that it in buildings to be monitored in an integrated
will improve access to future projects even for manner; development of e-fleet management
companies from the U.S. Otherwise there are no tools and smart-grid systems; and APP! for
specific trade barriers known to date that would be narrow gauge railway real-time schedules.
contrary to the laws set by the EU.
Szolnok:
• CityGuard includes services such as the safe
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS clubbing initiative, street surveillance and the
“Where is my car?” fleet tracking;
Gyo’’r:
• CityPass card: community pass for use of
• Installation of 150 smart street lights and public transportation and parking, student
related smart network management in addition ID, electronic signature and supports e-gov
to new electric car charging stations; activties, social benefits, loyalty rewards etc.;
• Installation of solar panels on public buildings • Smart metering of homes together with a
such as a primary school, a healthcare payment system;
institution and a cultural center and extending
the use of alternate energy resources such as • Sustainability through public lighting
biomass, wind and geothermal energy; optimization and optimal energy management.
• Development of an energy management
system at the Aqua Sport Center for significant
energy savings during operation of the facility;
November 9th-10th, 2016: Urbania21 – Budapest;
• City Service App: citizens can submit service
http://www.urbania21.hu/
requests or address issues in the city all with
the assistance of GPS coordinates.
Miskolc: LINKS
• Adherent of the REgeneration MOdel for • Lechner Központ. Link:
accelerating smart URBAN transformation; http://lechnerkozpont.hu/cikk/okos-
• Energy: Intelligent street lightning in selected szabalyozasok-okos-varosok
districts, solar roof/cadaster, energy yards for • Design Terminal. Link:
supplying trams, interventions on residential http://smartcitylab.designterminal.hu/
buildings (EE+RES), increased energy &
efficiency in public buildings, smarter tram http://citylab.designterminal.hu/
stops;
• Smart City Budapest Initiative –
• Mobility: including vehicles such as municipal Mindspace Nonprofit Ltd. Link:
e-fleet, pedelec-fleet, e-bus for tourists, CNG http://smartcitybudapest.eu/hu
fueled taxis & charging points and smart
bike storage, while incorporating intelligent • T-City Szolnok – T-Systems Hungary Ltd.
traffic lights and smart speed limiter systems, Link: https://www.t-systems.hu/smartcity/
dynamic route planner and parking place
allocation & management;

• IBM – MTA: Smart Cities study / solutions.

Link: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/hu/
hu/smarter_cities/overview/
• Sagemcom Magyarorszag Kft.
Link: http://www.sagem.hu/hu/
rendszerintegracio/okos-varos-smart-city
RESOURCES
Commercial Service: Bianka Wallner:
bianka.wallner@trade.gov

India Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW and projects in various sectors. This year, the
committee came out with recommendation
The Government of India (GoI) has prioritized proposing design changes to contractual
infrastructure development as a key policy goal arrangements under the PPP framework in line
due to its potential to boost economic growth and with international best practices and measures to
expand the provision of essential public services. improve capacity-building within the government
According to Government of India, the country will for implementation of PPP projects.
need to invest between $1.2 and $2 trillion dollars
on infrastructure development over the next
several decades. A large portion of this investment
will be required to accommodate India’s growing
KEY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA INITIATIVES
urban population, which is estimated to reach 590 The projects envisioned under the governments’
million by 2030.76 Expanding and improving the infrastructure initiatives and the Smart City
supply of basic services such as power, water, Challenge provide opportunities in a wide range
and sewerage will be a major focus of upcoming of sectors including water and power supply,
project opportunities. sanitation, public transport, affordable housing, IT
connectivity, e-governance, safety and security,
In June 2015, Prime Minister Modi announced
health, education, and the environment.
the launch of the Smart Cities Challenge, an
initiative that encourages Indian cities to SMART ENERGY
compete for central government funds for smart
city development. In addition to supporting the With over 300 million people still lacking access to
provision of core infrastructure and services, the power in India, the GoI is eager to expand power
Smart Cities Challenge promotes projects that generation capacity and connectivity to ensure
foster sustainable and inclusive development, a 24/7 electricity access. In 2015, the GoI announced
clean environment, and the application of “Smart” the goal of deploying 175 GW of renewable energy
solutions. In January 2016, The Ministry of Urban by 2022 in order to expand electricity access while
Development selected the first 20 cities that will also increasing the mix of clean energy in the
each receive $75 million over a period of five years grid. The government plans to meet 100 GW of this
to implement smart city development plans.77 target through solar energy.
The GoI has been exploring ways to expand SMART WATER AND SANITATION
private sector involvement in infrastructure Through the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation
projects. Recently, the GoI constituted a panel to and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), the GoI is
review India’s Private Public Partnership policy focused on improving India’s urban sewerage and
and implement a better risk-sharing mechanism water infrastructure. The main goal of AMRUT
between private developers and the government is to achieve universal access to tap water and
after analyzing the existing PPP framework sewerage facilities, promote the use of public
transport, and develop green urban spaces.
AMRUT is administered by the Ministry of Urban
76
India’s Urban Awakening: Building Inclusive Cities, Sustaining Development and covers 500 Indian cities, some
Economic Growth. McKinsey Global Institute. April 2010. http://www. of which are also competing in the government’s
mckinsey.com/global-themes/urbanization/urban-awakening-in-india
77
Smart Cities Challenge.
Smart Cities Mission Statement & Guidelines. Ministry of Urban
Development. June 2015. http://smartcities.gov.in/writereaddata/
SmartCityGuidelines.pdf

SMART HOUSING these cities for the second round of India’s Smart
City Challenge.
In 2015, the GoI launched the Housing for All
by 2022 initiative. Through this program, the COMMERCE-LED SMART CITIES
Government of India plans to invest $30 billion INFRASTRUCTURE TRADE MISSION:
within 300 cities and towns over the next 6
One of the deliverables from President Obama’s
years. Projects will focus on slum rehabilitation,
Republic Day visit in January 2015 and the 2015
increasing access to affordable housing through
U.S.-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue
credit-linked subsidies, and fostering house
(S&CD) was a Smart Cities Infrastructure
construction and enhancement.
Trade Mission to India, led by the U.S. Deputy
SMART ITC Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews. The
mission took place from February 8-12, 2016 and
The Indian government launched the Digital India
included 40 executives from 18 U.S. companies.
initiative in July 2015 with the aim of improving
The trade mission visited the cities of New
Internet connectivity and e-governance. The
Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Vishakhapatnam
major components of the Digital India initiative
(Vizag). Represented industry sectors included
include enhancing digital infrastructure by
water/wastewater, ICT, smart grids, and project
connecting Indian villages to broadband and high
management/construction.
speed Internet, establishing digital identities, and
ensuring the safety and security of cyberspace. SMART CITY MASTER PLANNING AND
SECTOR-SPECIFIC SMART CITY PROJECT
SMART WASTE MANAGEMENT
PLANS FOR VISAKHAPATNAM:
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission,
USTDA signed a master planning grant agreement
is managed by the Ministry of Urban Development
with the Municipal Administration and Urban
and provides funds to improve municipal solid
Development Department, State Government of
waste management.
Andhra Pradesh, to provide smart city master
planning services for Visakhapatnam (Vizag). In
response to the Government of India’s interest in
KEY U.S. GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES enhancing public service delivery and promoting
U.S. Government engagement on smart cities economic development, the Technical Assistance
in India is led by the Department of Commerce will provide a planning framework, development
and includes multi-agency efforts across various strategy and a set of high-priority investment
sectors. Major initiatives include: projects for smarter urban development. AECOM
Technical Services, Inc. (AECOM) will conduct
SMART CITIES INTEGRATED PLANNING the Technical Assistance, with the support of two
TECHNICAL ADVISORY SERVICES: U.S. subcontractors, KPMG LLP and International
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
has contracted with a technical advisory team U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL
to support integrated smart cities planning and DEVELOPMENT (USAID) PARTNERSHIPS
infrastructure development in India. The technical FOR SMART CITIES:
advisory team is assessing existing smart city
planning strategies and modernization plans and USAID has partnered with the Government of
will recommend technical projects and provide India to promote disaster preparedness, response,
expert counsel to USTDA’s potential partners and resilience at the municipal and city level.
in India and the United States on smart cities They are working to develop Hazard Risk and
development. USTDA recently concluded hosting Vulnerability Assessments, train municipal
two workshops in Ajmer and Allahabad focused on administrators in disaster management, and
capacity building and is now working to prepare strengthen early warning systems to enhance
disaster preparedness. USAID is also working

under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) US AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

with the Ministry of Urban Development to support
• Ongoing engagements in Vizag for Water,
the Swachh Bharat Mission.
Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects and
ANDHRA PRADESH SMART SOLUTIONS FOR Disaster Planning.
SMART CITIES REVERSE TRADE MISSION (RTM):
• Planned launch of a Maternal and Child
From February 22-26, 2016, USTDA and the Health Innovation Challenge which will award
Commercial Service-India hosted and co-led a approximately US$500,000 in total to support
Reverse Trade Mission (RTM) for officials from stage 1 innovations in each of the three cities.
the State Government of Andhra Pradesh and the
• Planning a Smart Grid event in Ajmer this
major port city of Vishakhapatnam (Vizag) to visit
summer with the USAID Mission Director.
the United States. The purpose of the RTM was to
showcase U.S. best practices and technologies US TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY:
that enable cities to be integrated, efficient
and safe. The visit included meetings with U.S. • Planned workshops in May in Delhi and
federal, state, and city organizations that have Mumbai which will explore ways to leverage
adopted and deployed smart city best practices. the Government of India’s AMRUT program.
A total of fourteen delegates from Vizag, Andhra • Reverse Trade Mission for Ajmer and
Pradesh, and the Ministry of Urban Development Allahabad (combined delegation) co-led by
participated in the RTM. USTDA and the Foreign Commercial Service
The following U.S. Government programs are will potentially take place in the late summer.
also planned:
EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES AND SMART CITIES CHALLENGES
OUTREACH THROUGH THE INSTITUTE OF
SUSTAINABLE CITIES (ISC): The major challenge facing company participation
in Indian smart city projects is a lack of large-
• ISC will be sending two Energy Conservation scale infrastructure financing. For instance,
experts and two Transportation/Urban municipal bonds are generally not an option
Planning experts to Ajmer, Allahabad, and for raising project financing due to the limited
Vizag to assist in smart city project planning. capacity of Indian cities to issue bonds and the
• The North India Office of the U.S. Embassy lack of a strong municipal bond market in India.
will continue to follow up with local officials India also faces challenges in attracting private
and educational institutions to discover financing through Public-Private Partnerships
opportunities for the Mission and report on the due to poorly structured concession agreements,
progress of the Smart Cities program. low bureaucratic capacity to implement complex
infrastructure projects, and a weak legal and
ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS: UTTAR PRADESH regulatory framework. The private sector
FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT: investment has virtually ground to a halt. The cost
• The Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) plans to of capital is high, and public sector banks are
discuss flood risk management with officials reluctant to extend credit because they have too
in Allahabad. They will be sending out a team many bad loans.
of water management engineers to scope the In addition, U.S. face strong competition from
water works of Allahabad and build capacity other countries that are able to offer more
by providing expertise relating specifically to attractive financing terms for smart city projects.
Allahabad’s current water systems. For example, Japan is able to secure large-scale
infrastructure projects by offering below-market
interest rates. This has generated considerable

positive press for high-profile projects such as the Jaipur, Rajasthan:

high-speed rail between Delhi and Mumbai.
Projects include retrofitting 600 acres within the
walled city and improving solid waste management
and mobility through ICT-based solutions.
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS78 Sustainable civic infrastructure is also ranked
Bhubaneswar, Odisha: high on priority project list which will include
wastewater recycling and rainwater harvesting for
Bhubaneswar topped the list of the 20 smart public buildings. Jaipur Nagar Nigam will consider
cities selected under the Smart Cities Challenge issuing pooled municipal finance bonds and will
in February 2016. Projects include retrofitting transfer part of the amount raised to the Special
and redeveloping 985 acres around the main Purpose Vehicle (SPV) in charge of implementing
railway station and creating an Intelligent City these smart city projects.
Operations and Management Center (ICOMC)
to integrate urban services. The ICOMC project Surat, Gujarat:
will be implemented on a ‘Managed Service Projects include retrofitting 2,167 acres of the
Contract’ model to integrate various urban- textile market area and improving transport
management systems. The ICOMC will include connectivity. The city plans to develop a Smart
traffic management, video surveillance, electronic City center as the administrative control center
parking, citywide automatic vehicle locater (AVL), for delivery of all civic services. The Smart City
bus fare card system, para-transit and Emergency Center will help all departments of the city in
response services. Most of the projects are maintaining civic service delivery standards on
proposed as Public-Private Partnership projects. a daily basis. The majority of the projects will be
The city also proposed to develop the Asian financed through the GoI’s Smart City Mission and
Development Innovative Municipal Financing Public Private Partnerships. The Municipality is
Facility, City Level Infrastructure Development also considering issuing municipal bonds through
Fund and the Smart National Common Mobility improving its credit rating.
Card project.
Kochi, Kerala:
Pune, Maharashtra:
Projects include retrofitting the urban area around
Projects include retrofitting 900 acres, establishing Fort Kochi-Matancherry and Central Kochi,
an innovation center, providing sanitation, and establishing high-speed water connectivity and an
facilitating ICT-based solutions for improving intelligent water management solution to provide
mobility which also includes intelligent traffic 24x7 water supply, and providing integrated
signaling. The city also plans to overhaul its delivery of Government-to-Citizen services through
water supply system with new connections smart card and mobile platforms. Kochi plans to
and pipelines, as well as implement smart bulk raise approximately US$ 37 million through debt to
metering at eight water-treatment plants. The meet funding requirements.
majority of these projects will be financed with
public funding through the GoI’s Smart City Mission Ahmedabad, Gujarat:
and other central government programs, as well
Projects include retrofitting and redeveloping
as through a land monetization scheme, improved
590 acres and creating an integrated transit
tax collection, and corporate social responsibility
management platform with a common card
funding. The U.S. Department of Treasury plans
payment system. The city also plans to have a
to provide assistance to the Pune municipality for
command control center to integrate the city’s
developing and implementing a municipal bond
various services. Also, water accounting at
financing project.
community level will be integrated with the
78
Information on upcoming projects in the 20 selected Smart City command control center. The majority of project
Challenge cities obtained from Live Mint, http://www.livemint.com/
Politics/eER1ilL9HJY6QF5k2skS3J/Smart-cities-the-first-20.html

financing will be provided through the GoI’s Smart for water retention and rainwater harvesting.
City Mission. Guwahati also plans to develop a new hydrological
information system to generate real-time data on
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh:
flood forecasts. All the projects will be financed
Vishakhapatnam (Vizag) is one of the three smart through the GoI’s Smart City Mission.
cities in which the U.S. government has been
Chennai, Tamil Nadu:
invited to work with the municipal and state
authorities to design a smart city development Projects include retrofitting 1,717 acres, adopting
plan and build capacity in project implementation. ICT-based solutions to improve public transport,
Projects include retrofitting 1,650 acres of and improving disaster management systems.
beachfront area and creating an ICT-based The city aims to give all households smart bi-
disaster management system. The city plans to directional electrical net-meters, which will also
include components like GIS, asset management, be useful for conversion to rooftop solar systems
property tax system and communication gateways. in future. Chennai also plans to implement storm
The smart city Special Purpose Vehicle will be a water management systems, intelligent traffic
shell company consisting of 10 sub-components. management and integrated public transport. The
Each sub-component city is considering financing smart city projects
MUMBAI, India will be responsible through the GoI’s Smart City Mission and PPPs.
for a cluster of
Population Growth, 2013-2014: projects. SPVs
1.2% are inclusive of 89 UPCOMING EVENTS
Total Employment, 2014 (Thousands): % shareholding
8,535 People by private sector • Efficient Buildings Summit 2016
partners. Jul 22 2016 to Aug 11 2016 — Mumbai
6.3% New Delhi: Efficient Buildings Summit 2016 is a definitive
Employment Growth, 2010-2014: platform for you to connect with the who’s who
Projects include of the industry and plant the brand in the minds
1.9% retrofitting 550 acres
Brookings Metro of key decision makers from both public &
within the New private sector converged under one roof.
Delhi City Center comprising Connaught Place
and surrounding areas. The plans include using • 11th Construction World Architect &
e-governance platform for citizen engagement, for Builder Awards 2016
delivering municipal services, smart detection for Aug 11 2016 — Mumbai
water leakages, smart metering and billing. The The Construction World Architect and Builder
city has also prosed air quality monitoring project Awards were instituted by ASAPP Info Global
as a priority. These projects will be funded using Group in 2006. They are India’s most coveted
municipal funds and central government funding awards for the architecture and building
through the GoI’s Smart City Mission. industry.
Guwahati, Assam: • Oct 19-21 Intersolar India 2016
Projects include retrofitting 696 acres, improving Aug 19 2016 to Aug 21 2016 — Mumbai, India
storm water drainage, traffic management, and Intersolar India - India’s largest exhibition and
advanced flood warning, and providing CCTV conference for the solar industry.
surveillance in public areas. In terms of improving
storm water drainage, the city plans to repair its • Sep 7-9 Renewable Energy India Expo 2016
network of storm water channels and integrate Sep 7 2016 — Greater Noida, India
abutting open spaces with channels to allow The show aims to upscale and mainstream
the applications of renewable energy
resources, showcase innovations, and

enrich deliberations by providing the industry

with an international exhibition
and conference platform
• Sep 28-30, IFAT India 2016
Sep 28 2016 to Sep 30 2016 — Mumbai, India
The 4th Edition of IFAT India scheduled from
September 28 – 30, 2016 at Hall 5, Bombay
Exhibition Centre (BEC), Mumbai, India.
he show will provide opportunities to the
attendees to display their products and
technologies in front of potential customers
and to meet with key decision makers
and partners.

Indonesia Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW five years. Bandung is planning to introduce a

smart card, which will allow users to ride public
Bandung is the capital of West Java province, transport, pay for gas and complete transactions in
and is the third largest city in Indonesia. Bandung a push to become a cashless society.82
has grown rapidly over the past decades and
is expected to continue to grow. Its number of
inhabitants is expected to nearly double from
2.4 million now to 4 million in 2030. The standard
of living, the availability of sufficient working SMART PUBLIC SAFETY
and public space, the assurance of clean and
sustainable air, access to water and energy, Launched in 2015, the Bandung Command Center
the management of waste and the availability monitors and manages city operations. The
of transportation will all become increasingly Command Center provides visibility on various
important. Citizens will also expect better services aspects of the city, collecting and analyzing data
from Bandung city in terms of health, education, from CCTV networks installed across the streets
and financial stability through job opportunities.79 of Bandung.
Thriving population growth in Bandung is Through video analytics, security personnel

concurrently creating urban challenges in the form are automatically notified if irregular activities
of increased pollution, traffic congestion, waste are captured on the city’s CCTV systems. A
management issues, and public housing shortages. GPS tracking system is used to assist municipal
The Mayor of Bandung, Ridwan Kamil, is an active agencies to monitor traffic, or track assets such
supporter of Smart City solutions to address the as public buses, ambulances or fire trucks.83
challenges Bandung is facing. In 2015, the City To improve public safety, a security app known
of Bandung installed approximately 5,000 free as Panic Button has been launched and made
Wi-Fi hotspots across the city, and plan to install available to citizens, developed by local tech
up to 40,000 hotspots to provide more citizens startup X-igent. In the event of an emergency,
with access to free connectivity.80 The Bandung users can tap on the panic button and receive
government announced at the end of 2015 that it immediate assistance from the Bandung Command
will quadruple the budget for its 2016 Smart City Centre. The app will also be able to contact a
program, from IDR25 billion (US$1.8 million) to IDR whitelist of emergency contacts created by
100billion (US$7.3 million), which will be used to the user.84
build up the city’s digital infrastructure.81
SMART E-GOVERNMENT
Bandung is the first city to have a Smart City
Council, consisting of 30 experts tasked with To deliver public services more efficiently,
making a blueprint for Bandung over the next the Bandung government is developing 1000
government-focused applications, set to launch in
2017. Bandung currently offers an online reporting
79
Lidia Mayangsari and Takeshi Arai, “How Bandung Smart City
Policy Influences Its Citizen’s Quality of Life: I. Model Development”,
2010-2014, 07 June 2016, <http://www.systemdynamics.org/
82
conferences/2015/papers/P1209.pdf> Oxford Business Group, “Ridwan Kamil, Mayor of Bandung:
80 Interview”, 07 June 2016, < http://www.oxfordbusinessgroup.com/
Ibid.
interview/obg-talks-ridwan-kamil-mayor-bandung>
81
Tan Wee Kang, “Bandung’s Smart City Initiatives,” 15 December 83
Ibid.
2015, 07 June 2016 <http://www.enterpriseinnovation.net/article/
84
bandungs-smart-city-initiatives-246675038> Ibid.

system for citizens to report municipal issues, CHALLENGES

the system also allows the municipal issue to be
tracked to completion. Other programs include Challenges in moving forward with ‘smart’
Bandung’s online procurement system to help solutions in Bandung include: (1) waste disposal
mitigate corruption, and a project management issues and related high pollution levels; (2) the
application to monitor and track the progress of propensity of the City to flooding; (3) a complex
civic projects.85 traffic system; (4) a lack of road infrastructure; and
(5) continued political momentum following Mayor
SMART TECHNOLOGY Kamil’s term.
The Technopolis is a satellite city that will serve
as Bandung’s urban technology center. To attract
foreign investment, the Technopolis will be UPCOMING EVENTS
designated as a special economic zone in which • November 1-3, 2016: Smart Cities Indonesia
all permits will be handled independently within Expo 2016 – Serpong & Tangerang, Banten,
the complex, removing the need for companies Indonesia (near Jarkarta)
to request a permit from the city proper. The
Technopolis has thus far received interest from the • July 16-24, 2017: Smart City Summit Indonesia:
United States, the United Arab Emirates, Hosted by Global Smart City & Community
and Japan.86 Coalition – Jakarta, Bandung, and Surabaya,
Indonesia
85
Ibid.
86
Oxford Business Group, “Ridwan Kamil, Mayor of Bandung:
Interview”, 07 June 2016, < http://www.oxfordbusinessgroup.com/
interview/obg-talks-ridwan-kamil-mayor-bandung>

Ireland Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW technological solutions for sustainability), National

Sustainable Building Energy Testbed and the
Ireland boasts a highly developed economy where Water Systems and Service Innovation Centre.
smart city initiatives and deployments are growing
nationwide. The Irish Government has stated its The strong $500 billion U.S-Ireland commercial
ambition for Ireland to become a digital economy relationship has ensured U.S. firms such as Intel,
‘hot-spot’ in Europe by 2025 through leading in IBM and Cisco have been actively involved in Irish
the adoption and application of advanced ICT Smart City initiatives from an early stage. There
across the enterprise economy and the public is a strong openness to further collaboration
sector. Ireland has a population density of about with emerging U.S. innovators of smart city
67 persons per square km. Around 62% of the technologies, solutions and services. This may be
4.6 million population live in cities or urban regions. amplified by the strong Sister City relationships
between the United States and Ireland.
The four main cities – Dublin, Cork, Galway
and Limerick – have each deployed smart city
technologies with Dublin and Cork the most
advanced in terms of rollout and strategic vision.
To date, all smart city initiatives have been built SMART TECHNOLOGY
on top of legacy infrastructure and many decades
of social and economic programs, rather than The Irish are very tech-savvy and love their
creating new smart city districts. At the same gadgets. Mobile penetration rate is 126% and
time, green-field initiatives are emerging in Dublin about 70% of the population uses a smartphone
and Cork with both cities creating strong vision- device. Social media usage is very high among
oriented smart city strategies: Smart Dublin (www. younger age groups. About 85% of households
smartdublin.ie) and Cork Smart Gateway (www. have Internet access with the majority having
corksmartgateway.ie). In both cases, the vision broadband subscriptions. There is growing
is a mix of data-driven, networked infrastructure, use of digital technologies among older
fostering economic growth and entrepreneurship, generations, with 45% of those over the age of
and citizen-centric initiatives. There is particular 50 going online every day.
focus on creating more efficient city services, A €2.5 billion commercial investment in the roll-out
improved transportation flows, tackling flooding, of enhanced telecommunications services across
attracting inward investment and encouraging Ireland has resulted in high-speed broadband
indigenous start-ups and SMEs together with open services now available to around 1.2 million
data and civic engagement. premises. By the end of 2016, 70% of premises
Ireland has a growing ecosystem of ‘university- (1.6 million properties) will have access to quality
industry-local government’ smart city research high-speed broadband. The Irish government has
centers and collaborations. These include ‘The a €275 million National Broadband Plan that will
Programmable City’ (implications of creating rollout similar services to the remaining 30% of
smart cities), ‘Innovation Value Institute’ (business the country - areas where there is no certainty of
models for smart city technologies), ‘Insight’ (data commercial investment, but where families and
analytics for smart cities), ‘CONNECT’ (networking businesses are equally entitled to high quality
and communications for smart cities), ‘Future broadband access.
Cities’ (sensor, communication and analytical

SMART ENERGY CHALLENGES

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland No specific challenges or market access barriers
(SEAI–www.seai.ie) is the Irish government’s lead have been identified.
agency on the initiation and promotion of smart
energy/grid projects. The Commission for Energy FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS
Regulation (www.cer.ie) is leading preparations Dublin:
for the rollout of smart metering in Irish
households by 2019. Ireland’s energy utility ESB Ireland’s capital city has developed a series of
(www.esb.ie) and transmission system operator smart city initiatives over the past five years.
EirGrid (www.eirgrid.com) are at the forefront There are a wide range of smart city-type apps
on smart grid initiatives nationally. There are available, some provided/commissioned by local
around 420,000 public streetlights operated by government authorities (e.g., Art Trax, Heritage
local government authorities who outsource Walks, Mindmindr), others developed by citizens
maintenance through competitive tendering in line and commercial enterprises (e.g., Hit the Road,
with EU public procurement rules. Parkya, Walk Dublin10). Locally, there are
research centers such as ‘Dublin Energy Lab’
SMART BUILDINGS (smart grids and meters) and some industry
The energy efficiency (EE) of buildings is a centers (IBM’s smart city global research team)
priority of the Irish Government with the SEAI and test-beds (especially relating to the Internet
(www.seai.ie) the lead agency. Buildings of Things). Smart Dublin (www.smartdublin.ie)
accounted for 35% of total final energy is an initiative of the four Dublin local authorities
consumption and about 59% of electricity to engage with smart technology providers,
consumption in 2014. Ireland has a relatively researchers and citizens to solve city challenges
unsophisticated commercial buildings stock and improve city life. It aims to position Dublin as
(109,000 units) and a high incidence of buildings a world leader in the development of new urban
in which relatively basic upgrades could lead solutions, using open data, and with the city region
to significant energy savings. SEAI is currently as a test bed.
undertaking detailed research on the commercial Cork:
sector building stock as limited data exists
regarding energy consumption. Publication of this In Ireland’s second city, a ‘smart agenda’
new data by 2017 will highlight the future market is being developed that builds on the
opportunity for Smart Building technologies. existing assets, attributes and experiences in
the region through the Cork Smart Gateway
SMART/ALTERNATIVE MOBILITY (www.corksmartgateway.ie) initiative, which is a
Ireland is investing in this area, with many projects collaboration between the two (city and county)
for electronic ticketing and parking, bus lanes, local authorities, the Nimbus Research Centre
public transport apps, bike sharing and new bike (Internet of Things, networks) and the Tyndall
lanes. The market for hybrid and electric vehicles National Institute (ICT, microelectronic circuits,
is growing very slowly with only 562 new electric nanotechnology, energy, photonics). This strategy
vehicles registered in 2015. ESB’s eCars project aims to have government, industry, academia and
has rolled out 1,200 public charge points across civil participants work together to co-create and
the island of Ireland. drive structural change utilizing ICT solutions.
Cork is a ‘follower’ City in an EU Smart Cities
and Communities Horizon 2020 project called
GrowSmarter. A €25million initiative (lead cities:
Stockholm, Cologne, and Barcelona), GrowSmarter
establishes three ‘lighthouses’ for smart cities

which demonstrate to other cities how they can

be prepared in an intelligent way for the energy
challenges of the future. As part of this project,
Cork will roll out initiatives in transport, energy,
and information and communications technology.
Irish, European and U.S. firms are also driving
Internet of Things development in the region, for
example, EMC and Vodafone have jointly invested
€2million in a new INFINITE IoT industrial platform
that will traverse Cork.

• November 15-17: Smart Cities World
Expo 2016 – Barcelona, Spain;
http://www.smartcityexpo.com
LINKS
• Intelligent Transport Systems Ireland –
http://www.itsireland.ie/
• Future Cities Research Centre –
https://www.tcd.ie/futurecities/
• Insight Centre for Data Analytics –
https://www.insight-centre.org/
• Nimbus Centre –
http://nimbus.cit.ie/
• Programmable City –
http://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/progcity/
• Tyndall National Institute –
https://www.tyndall.ie/
RESOURCES
Commercial Service: Padraig O’Connor –
padraig.o’connor@trade.gov

Italy Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW 8 billion $ in the next five years towards building
ultra-high-speed broadband fiber optic NGA
Italy has over 1,300 significant Smart City initiatives (Next Generation Access) networks that will have
impacting over 15 million citizens with investments a strategic and driving effect for the national
exceeding $5 billion. This puts it amongst the top economy. Investments of 2.6 billion $ are also
EU countries for Smart City projects. $110 million expected from the private sector. ENEL - Italy’s
has recently been made available by the Italian largest power company and the second largest
government to small Italian cities to develop “Smart Technology” utility in Europe - is discussing
infrastructure projects, including energy with telecom operators and government agencies
efficiency applications in public buildings and the possibility of using its pipe infrastructure over
new plants producing renewable energy. In the next four years to conveniently bring fiber optic
addition, $385 million in loans will soon become telecom cables to 34 million households when
available at a subsidized rate for energy efficiency ENEL replaces its energy smart meters.
projects in public schools.
SMART ENERGY
Italy wants to be a leader in Smart City technology,
and through ENEA (the Italian National Agency Outdoor Smart Lighting is one of the most
for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable commonly deployed applications in Italy, with
Economic Development) has cooperated with close to 500,000 street lights connected. The
the US. Department of Commerce’s National upcoming installation by ENEL of 34 million new
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) smart meters with real-time access to energy
to launch an international technical working consumption data and statistics will allow smart
group to develop a white paper defining common energy management in 90% of Italian households.
architectural principles and a vocabulary for Smart
SMART BUILDINGS
City technologies. Other international partners
supporting the initiative are: ANSI, the American The energy efficiency (EE) of buildings is a priority
National Standards Institute; ETSI, the European of the Italian Government. At least 4.5 million
Telecommunications Standards Institute; MSIP, the buildings in Italy are in need of EE renovation.
Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Demand is constantly increasing for automation
Future Planning; USGBC, the U.S. Green Building technologies that contribute to the energy
Council; and FIWARE, an open cloud-based efficiency of homes and large buildings including
platform for cost-effective creation and delivery of integrated climate and lighting management.
innovative applications and services.
SMART/ALTERNATIVE MOBILITY
Italian cities are increasingly investing in this area,
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) with many projects for car sharing, carpooling,
electronic ticketing and parking, public transport
SMART TECHNOLOGY apps, congestion-charge zones, scooter sharing,
Italy’s Smart City applications have highlighted bike sharing and new bike lanes. There are 500,000
the need for enhanced broadband and ultra- car sharing users in 12 Italian cities. The market
broadband availability. Interoperability, for hybrid and electric vehicles is constantly
standardization, replicability and regulatory growing, especially for car sharing and taxi fleets.
frameworks are major issues to be faced. The ENEL is planning to install up to 15,000 charging
Italian government has approved a plan to allocate units throughout the country in the next two years.

CHALLENGES together with Spain’s San Sebastian and Britain’s

Bristol. The project will develop integrated
No specific challenges or market access barriers solutions for sustainable mobility, energy saving
have been identified. and smart facilities, e.g. video-surveillance
systems, public LED illumination and Wi-Fi
connections. The project will involve 30 Italian
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS public and private partners.
Milan:
Milan is recognized as the #1 Smart City in Italy, UPCOMING CALENDAR EVENTS
with 350,000 car sharing, 40,000 bike sharing and
36,000 scooter sharing users. The city also has • October 19-21, 2016: Smart City
400+ free Wi-Fi hotspots and 700 access points. Exhibition 2016 – Bologna;
The city is pursuing many additional smart city http://www.smartcityexhibition.it/?lang=en
initiatives, including an integrated project to • March 8 - 11, 2017: MADE Expo – Milan;
monitor and control water, waste and energy http://www.madeexpo.it/en/made-
consumption. expo-2017.php
Turin:
Turin has implemented over 60 smart city projects,
LINKS
including its 5T technological system - a highly
evolved system for traffic light control and for • ANCI/Forum PA—Smart City Working Group:
public transport routes using geolocation. The www.italiansmartcity.it
transformation process is now expanding
• Telematics Association for Transport
throughout the Turin metro area, with the objective
and Safety: www.ttsitalia.it/?lang_pref=en
to develop 100 new smart city projects.
Bologna:
Bologna is particularly known for its smart city RESOURCES
services related to governance, education, culture Commercial Service: Robert Peaslee –
and sustainable mobility. Its new, user-centered robert.peaslee@trade.gov
“Iperbole Civic Network” (http://www.comune.
bologna.it/english) offers integrated access
to all public services and to innovative smart
collaboration and participation platforms.
Florence:
Florence has developed a highly regarded open
data platform with more than 500 datasets for ICT-
enabled citizen participation. Florence will also
participate in the REPLICATE EU funded project,

Japan Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW For the direct promotion of smart cities, from 2011to
2014, the Prime Minister’s Office introduced national
Prior to Japan’s natural and nuclear disasters policies such as the new economic strategy or big-
of March 2011, Japanese policymakers viewed boned policy, which led to mushrooming “smart”
smart grid technologies as potential export projects with subsidies from numerous Ministries,
opportunities, and focused on their development including the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and
from that perspective. Following the March 2011 Industry (METI), Ministry of Internal Affairs and
disasters and the shutdown of Japan’s nuclear Communications (MIC), Ministry of Environment
fleet, policymakers needed to find a new approach (MOE). These GOJ agencies rushed to promote
to ensure efficient power generation, distribution, Ministry-mandated
and use, noting the need to improve energy focused programs TOKYO, Japan
conservation and energy resilience. As part of a as the Ministry
solution, Japan introduced several policies and set Population Growth, 2013-2014:
of Finance easily
up numerous projects to support the development 0.3%
provided funding
of smart cities. for them, though Total Employment, 2014 (Thousands):
One need was to improve Japan’s system of each one of these 19,348 People
energy distribution. Electricity market reform was subsidies was Real GDP Growth 2013-2014:
approved in April 2013 with the goal of creating relatively small. 1.1%
a stable and inexpensive electricity supply by Some of the Employment Growth, 2010-2014:
introducing greater flexibility and openness. The highest profile 1.9%
Japanese Diet passed legislation mandating pilot projects
Brookings Metro
nationwide electricity transmission coordination, were METI’s flagship “next-generation energy
full competition among retail electricity providers and social systems test-bed” smart-city approach
and the legal unbundling of HYPERLINK in the four centers of Yokohama, Toyota City,
“javascript:void(0)”Japan’s ten general electric Keihanna (in Kyoto Prefecture) and Kitakyushu in
utilities. Policymakers expect the reforms to give 2010. The scope of the projects included elements
Japanese consumers more competitive and lower for energy-efficient business and industry, energy-
prices for electricity. Smart cities will benefit from efficient homes, support for green consumer
this new flexibility in the transmission and selling behavior, and a low-carbon transportation system.
of energy in the electricity market. The projects concluded in March 2015.
Japan introduced a Feed-in Tariff (FIT) system Based on research by Nikkei BP Cleantech
in July 2012 in an effort to promote the use of Institute, Japanese experts believe the smart-
renewable energy. Since 2012, the most generous city market will reach at least a cumulative 5000
FIT has been offered to providers of solar energy, trillion YEN ($45 trillion) in value between 2011 and
leading to a strong response by the private sector 2030. As of 2015, there were over 200 smart city
to develop this sector. The FIT for all sources of projects in Japan. Japan’s national government
renewable energy is revised annually in response agencies alone are promoting over 160 projects.
to changing market conditions. The development These 160 projects do not include those being
of renewable energy sources provides additional led by the prefectural as well as the smaller local
energy resources that can be harnessed for government level as well as private-sector-led
smart cities. initiatives. A January 2014 survey by the Kanto-
area METI (the regional bureau) determined that

among the roughly 500 local governments in the continues to be a strong desire in most projects to
entire region about 10% (44) were undertaking use Japanese goods and services, which has not
smart community initiatives. helped international companies.
In addition to subnational-government-led projects, Any company interested in exporting to Japan
Japan features a significant number of private- should review the advice and guidance in the
sector-led smart cities, towns, and communities. Department of Commerce’s Japan Country
These include “smart towns” under development Commercial Guide, which can be found at the
by Sekisui House and initiatives by Panasonic, link below.
Hitachi, Toshiba, and Mitsui Fudosan. These
Demographic changes of population reduction and
projects are funded by the larger companies on
aging have led to two decades of stagnant growth.
their own budgets, whereas there are also smaller
As a result, Japan now confronts the challenge
companies operating with extensive financing from
of rapid decoupling of growth and consumption.
METI. Japanese smart city projects seem to be
The development of smart cities, with a need to
more focused on energy than projects elsewhere,
have a close interaction between the needs of
most likely due to Japan’s desire for energy
community, government, and industry may be one
diversification but have adapted to changing
next-generation energy solution for the new socio-
government priorities as the policies aimed at
economic arrangements. Any company interested
“Overcoming Population Decline” and “Vitalizing
in succeeding in Japan should be conscious of the
Local Economy” are hot now, so MIC is developing
strong role communities play in the development of
a smart project in that area. The above diversity
smart cities and the need to find its role therein.
of projects shows the myriad of opportunities
available in the market.
OPPORTUNITIES
POTENTIAL FOR US COMPANIES Including the opportunities resulting from
Electricity Market Reform and the introduction
The smart city market in Japan seems to be a
of the FIT, the following component elements are
promising place for investment and cooperation
essential in order to complete the Smart Grid in
by U.S. companies for several reasons. Efforts
Japan:
by smaller companies have the best potential for
success because larger companies are less willing 1. Monitoring and Controlling System
to work internationally. Unfortunately, working with for Transmission Network and
Japanese companies on these initiatives seems Distribution Network
to be difficult for smaller companies that do not
have operations already in Japan. Much of the 2. Management of Distributed Power Sources
data pertaining to the cities is poorly accessible a. (Photovoltaic Solar and Wind
to those without significant understanding of Power Generation)
Japanese. Many Japanese companies working on 3. Smart Meter
the projects have little experience working with
companies from overseas, as such difficulties 4. Smart Storage
can come up when cooperation is attempted. In a. (Storage Batteries, Thermal Storage
addition, it is necessary to develop local contacts Equipment, Electric Vehicles, Air
in order to become familiar with local participants Compression Storage Facilities,
in projects and to begin to develop the long-term Heat Pumps)
relationships that are necessary for success 5. Demand Response
in Japan. Furthermore, Japanese companies
are highly competitive in this space and there 6. Smart Asset Management

ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES the only event in Japan where U.S. firms

could meet all Japanese electric power
• The Tokyo Olympics 2020 will bring in a lot companies. The 30th NOA Conference was
of consumer spending that could help offset held successfully on May 19, 2016. For the
some of the building costs, and some of the date of the 2017 event, contact Takahiko Suzuki
publicity associated with the Olympics could at takahiko.suzuki@trade.gov
be used to shed light on some projects.
• Japanese companies are already working
on some projects within the United States, UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
including projects in Maui, Albuquerque, and
• September 7-9, 2016: World Smart
Los Alamos being planned by METI. These
Energy Week – Osaka
will provide an opportunity for U.S. companies
to build relationships with their Japanese • March 1-3, 2017: World Smart Energy Week –
counterparts as well as study Japanese Tokyo
methods. Investment in these projects is
upwards of 5 billion yen, and the Maui project
is already operating in some capacity. WEB RESOURCES
• U.S. companies seem to be taking advantage • Agency for Natural Resources and Energy
of opportunities opened up by smart initiatives (ANRE), Ministry of Economy, Trade and
more so than other countries. Several Industry (METI), Government of Japan (GOJ);
companies are already involved with smart http://www.enecho.meti.go.jp/en/
city projects in Japan, most notably HP Japan
in the Toyota Low Carbon Society. Texas • METI’s initiative for smart communities;
Instruments, IBM Japan, and numerous others http://www.meti.go.jp/english/policy/
are also involved. energy_environment/smart_community/
pdf/201402smartcomunity.zip
• Software components of cities, specifically
cloud based programs, seem to be less • Smart City portal; http://www.meti.go.jp/
developed in Japan compared to elsewhere, english/policy/energy_environment/smart_
which could be an opportunity for American community/index.html#press
companies. • Private consortium on Smart City; http://www.
• Commercial Service Japan annually holds smartcity-planning.co.jp/en/index.html
a one-on-one business matchmaking event • Department of Commerce Japan Country
between U.S. firms and Japan’s electric Commercial Guide;
power companies. The event is called New http://www.export.gov/ccg/japan090820.asp
Orleans Association (NOA) Conference, which
is held in May. At the Conference, CS Japan
provides an opportunity for representatives of
U.S. suppliers of non-fuel materials (and their
RESOURCES
Japanese agents) to sit down in individual • http://apjjf.org/2014/11/24/Andrew-DeWit/4131/
meetings with procurement managers from article.html
Japan’s twelve Japanese electric power
companies (10 major utilities and • http://www.triplepundit.com/2015/10/japan-
2 wholesalers), all in one place. This is smart-cities-project-wraps-impressive-results

Kenya Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW recommendations from the roundtable require

further debate while some are already at the
With increased urbanization and increasing implementation phase.
economic opportunities, the need to transform
Nairobi into a smart city is urgent. The city’s
infrastructure and systems are already struggling
to support its existing inhabitants, even before the
population swells to over 5 million by 2020. This SMART ENERGY
rapid growth sets challenges in key areas such as
transportation, utilities, safety and urban planning. Despite East Africa being relatively rich in natural
Kenya’s population in 2011 was at 40.5 million, resources and alternative energy sources, Kenya’s
and is expected to sky rocket to 63 million by the systems for the production and distribution of
year 2030. The rate of migration to urban cities energy require significant transportation and
is on the increase and the city’s capacity will be investment. This is most apparent in urban areas
overstretched in the next few years. where mass consumption of energy places
tremendous strain on ageing infrastructure and
Kenya remains at the forefront on Information where the economic impact of energy unreliability
communications technology (ICT) and is one of is felt the greatest.
the fastest growing business sectors with highest
Internet access rates in the Sub Saharan region. According to the Kenya Electricity Generating
While Kenya’s physical infrastructure is also Company (KENGEN), Nairobi suffers from 11,000
superior in many cases to that of its neighbors, high voltage fluctuations and power outages every
it remains undeveloped and a key obstacle to month. Kenya’s Energy Regulatory Commission
economic development. Developing a 24- hour (ERC) estimated they would be able to generate
economy in the city center would be good for about 27% of the country’s electrical power from
efficiency and attractive for investors. geothermal sources by 2013. Ultimately, energy is
a key threat to Nairobi’s future. As the roundtable
A key area that Kenya is leading the way is highlighted, nearby all smarter city initiatives
mobile technologies. Kenya has become a depend on a reliable, cost-effective supply
pioneer in mobile payment and money transfer of energy.
systems creating some of the world’s most
innovative technologies and services in the Some of the suggested ideas for Nairobi’s energy
field. The potential for mobile technologies is system are:
limitless when it comes to creation of better • Seek alternative energy supply sources
functioning infrastructure and also presents such as solar and wind power generation in
great opportunities for getting people connected order to meet the growing demand for power
and contributing to the city’s development. It is and minimize over reliance on hydroelectric
therefore important for Nairobi to leverage on power sources.
existing technologies and systems in order to
transform itself into a smarter city. • Introduce Smart meters and other
technologies that can be used to help
In 2011, IBM sponsored the Nairobi Smarter Cities energy users better understand their own
roundtable which resulted in ideas and strategies consumption patterns and create efficiencies.
from both private and public sector, to create long
term solutions to imminent problems. Some of the

• Public private partnerships between • Mobile phone signal density could be a way
government and companies to cooperate to of pinpointing and predicting traffic problems.
solve Nairobi’s energy challenges. Over 70% of Kenyans have mobile phones.
SMART TRANSPORTATION Other key sectors that are under consideration
are security and emergency services as well and
Driving in Nairobi during peak periods is very
digitization of public records. Alongside state run
hectic and painful. Every morning about 1.5 million
emergency services, many of the city’s residents
people pack thousands of cars and mini-bus taxis
have come to rely on private security companies
(Matatus), and battle their way into the Central
which provide rapid response services for fire,
Business District. Inefficiency is exacerbated by
medical and security emergencies. It is reported
the fact that over 75% of the city’s drivers are alone
that nine out of ten calls to state emergency
in their cars- a figure among the highest in the
response units go unanswered which translates to
world. The car- pool system has also not gained
increased loss of life and property.
popularity in Kenya, and often a household will
use multiple cars to go on more or less the same Coordination, integration, and communication
route. It takes an average of 31.7 minutes to find a are the most common problems when it comes
parking spot, against a global average of to public service delivery in these areas. The
19.8 minutes. use of data analytics to more effectively make
intelligent decisions based on high quality and
Beyond economic costs, traffic creates a lot of
real – time information is critical for public
stress and frustration. The 2011 IBM Commuter
information systems.
Pain study estimates Nairobi has the world’s fourth
most painful commute. Infrastructure is gradually
improving but perhaps not fast enough. An efficient
cost effective public mass transit system would CHALLENGES
probably do the most alleviates traffic congestion Some of the challenges currently facing supply of
in Nairobi, but it needs to be the right system. smart goods and services include:
Some of the suggested ideas for Nairobi’s MARITIME AND INLAND
transport system WATERWAYS TRANSPORT:
• Enforcement of strict traffic laws and • This is the key linkage for the EAC to the rest of
automation of penalties for traffic violators, the world.
which is often the main cause of congestion
• There is ineffective utilization of inland
• Investment in a large-scale public transport waterways, a setback to closing the logistics
system has the greatest potential to address infrastructure.
NAIROBI’S traffic and transportation issues.
• The cost of container transport within the EAC
• Nairobi’s road developers should consider is very high, thus remains a challenge
collaborating with the energy sector to tap
into new techniques that use roads to help • Stiff demurrage penalties lead to high costs of
generate energy. doing business across the region
• Pricing road usage appropriately might help RAILWAY TRANSPORT:

reduce traffic. Privately managed toll roads • Key to efficient and effective movement of raw
and city zones could be developed-revenue materials, and refined goods and services.
raised could be reinvested into the city’s road
and transportation system. • Key regional corridors are performing poorly
and if not revamped are a liability to the
region’s growth prospects.

AIR TRANSPORT: by 2030. As part of this vision, Konza will be a

sustainable, world-class technology hub and
• The main airport hubs are Jomo Kenyatta
major economic driver for Kenya. Konza was
International Airport, Dar es Salaam, Entebbe,
initially conceived to capture the growing global
Kigali, and Lokichoggio Airports.
Business Processing Outsourcing and Information
• Safety of the airspace and high costs of cargo Technology Enabled Services (BPO/ITES) sectors
remain a challenge in Kenya.
ROAD TRANSPORT: The GoK hired the International Finance
Corporation, a member of the World Bank, to
• Currently the main mode of transport for goods advise on the development and implementation of
across the region. a world-class technology city, which would grow
• On its own, it renders costs of freight the BPO/ITES and other technology industries
and speed of movement unfavorable to in Kenya. The GoK also commissioned feasibility
competitiveness of the region. studies that demonstrated the viability of
Konza, the focus on BPO/ITES, and its potential
• Poor road network often results in delays in contributions to local economic development.
the movement of goods and services
In 2014, GOK through the Konza Technology City
• Overloading of freight vehicles often Development Authority (KOTDA) signed a 5-year
leads to breakdowns further resulting in Master Delivery Partner 2 (MDP2) Agreement
loss of revenue with a consortium led by major international civil
engineering firm Tetra Tech (Denver, USA) to
develop the 400-acre Phase 1 of Konza
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS Technology City.
Konza City and Tatu City are new, small-scale In a demonstration of expanding technology to
smart cities close to Nairobi. Konza city is a bridge infrastructure operations and improve
governmental led technology city targeting service delivery to citizens, the Techno City has
businesses and commercial developments, embarked on development of Phase 1 to world-
while Tatu City is a private sector-led mixed-use class smart city building standards using smart
environment that will be home to an estimate of technology solutions.
62,000 residents and 23,000 daily visitors.
Smart concepts will be designed into the City
These cities are the newest and smartest cities using state-of-the-art Internet and
in Africa built with understanding of better urban telecommunications networks to enhance the
planning, management, better living, better city’s efficiency and integrate infrastructure and
infrastructure, better roads and better transport services. Konza City will use a single converged
incorporating the latest technologies. It is hoped Internet Protocol (IP) network as the platform to
that these will provide lessons and case studies plan, build, and manage day-to-day city operations.
that will inform Nairobi’s future development. The Konza IP network will allow for significant new
Additionally, their close proximity to the main city efficiencies in every aspect of life within Konza,
means they may serve as satellite cities, relieving enhancing productivity, improving availability of,
pressure on Nairobi’s Central Business District. and access to public services.
Konza City Technopolis: Smart technology in Konza City will be integrated
in Transportation Operations, Sanitary Collection,
In 2008, the Government of Kenya (GOK)
Treatment & Re-use Operations, Storm Drainage
approved the creation of Konza Technology City
Operations, Water System Operations, Electrical
as a flagship Kenya Vision 2030 project. Vision
System, E-Governance Data Centers, Security
2030 aims to create a globally competitive and
Parking, and Informational Signage Landscaping.
prosperous nation with a high quality of life

The Techno City will harbor the Konza Campus, lines, the first being a 400kV line running
a shared ICT platform for education systems for 40 kilometers west of Konza and a 132 kV line
both local and international universities. Excellent running adjacent to Konza. On-site solar power
ICT infrastructure poised to make Konza City generation is also under consideration.
an e-government commerce giant targeted at
• Communications - Konza’ s strategic location
government agencies and the private sector would
will allow the city to be directly connected
vastly improve efficiency and citizen services
to all four underwater fiber optic cables
through cloud-based IT infrastructure.
in Kenya. These high capacity lines will
Upon completion of Phase 1, Konza City is ensure high connection speeds, allowing
expected to create over 20,000 direct and indirect companies and residents to enjoy video, data,
jobs. The Technopolis is expected to host various and voice Internet capabilities. The city’s
amenities including ICT research centers, a privileged location also ensures access to any
university complex, offices, residential houses, and further improvements in Kenya’s fiber optic
parks. The city will be implemented as a public- infrastructure.
private partnership, in which the Government
• Real Estate Development - KoTDA will
will take a minimal role, developing the public
lease plots to private real estate developers
infrastructure and regulatory guidelines.
that meet design guidelines and provide a
Some of the salient features that will be offered by sustainable economic model.
Konza Technology City include:
• Operations and Services - KoTDA will provide
• Roads - Two roadways will provide access to the majority of city services, but may contract
Konza Technology City. with service providers on an as needed basis.
All services provided will operate at world-
• Water and Wastewater - Konza Technology
class standards and employ cutting edge
City is committed to sustainable water use.
green technology.
Konza will lay out a water reuse system, which
will include a tertiary treatment plant where
treated water will be used for irrigation and
cooling. All buildings in Konza will be required UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
to incorporate the latest water management • October 2016: Smart Cities Africa –
systems in their designs. Johannesburg, South Africa
• On-site Transit - Konza will be a walkable, • November 15-17, 2016: AfriCom 2016 –
bikeable, and transit-friendly city. A bus Cape Town, South Africa
transit network will provide service along the
main east-west axis in Phase 1, and will be
extended in future phases. A transit hub next RESOURCES
to the A109 interchange will be the primary
station for Konza. • Kenya Country Commercial Guide 2015
• Power - Residents and businesses located • IBM Report – Nairobi Smarter Cities
at Konza will enjoy a steady and reliable Roundtable, 2011
electrical supply to be provided by three
• www.konza.go.ke
independent power sources. The City will be
connected to two independent distribution

Malaysia Smart Cities Guide

Malaysia, a middle-income country, has SMART ENERGY
transformed itself since the 1970s from a producer
Electricity transmission:
of raw materials into an emerging multi-sector
economy. Malaysia is currently attempting to Malaysia plans to provide 7,626 MW of new energy
achieve high-income status by 2020 and to move generation capacity in Peninsular Malaysia, along
further up the value-added production chain by with 300,000 bpd refining capacity at Pengerang
attracting investments. The Eleventh Malaysia Integrated Petroleum Complex (PIPC) in Johor,
Plan (11MP), 2016-2020, is the last leg of the providing security to Malaysia’s energy needs. In
nation’s development strategy for achieving its addition to implementing smart grid technologies,
goal of becoming a high-income nation. The the government will also pursue and promote
11MP focuses heavily on sustainable and smart co-generation technologies for combined heat
growth, including through upgrades in its energy, and power.
water, waste, transportation, information and
communications technology (ICT), and building Smart Grid:
infrastructure. Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB), Malaysia’s national
Malaysia’s sustained growth has enabled electricity utility company, has been pursuing
significant investment in public infrastructure. the use of smart grid technology in order to
The Malaysian Government also encourages reduce energy consumption. Currently, the
private sector participation and investment in project is in its pilot phase, but TNB hopes to
the development of smart cities infrastructure. install the smart meters in each of the 8.5 million
Funding via Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) household customers within 10 years. There are
or Privately Funded Initiatives (PFI) is commonly opportunities for U.S. companies operating in the
used as an alternative procurement method for the smart grid sector. Subsectors of interest include
public sector in the development and maintenance Transmission & Distribution (T&D) equipment
of infrastructure. The Public Private Partnership and Smart Grid ICT. In ITA’s 2016 Smart Grid
Unit under the Prime Minister’s Department Top Markets Report, Malaysia ranked 6th as a
oversees PPP and PFI programs. destination for T&D equipment and 21st for
ICT products.
Currently, three out of four people live in cities
or urban regions, and urban populations are SMART WASTE AND WATER MANAGEMENT
estimated to grow by 2.6% per year. The Water:
population has extremely high rates of mobile
cellular penetration, with nearly 150 mobile Malaysia aims to provide 99% of the population
subscriptions per 100 people. Of these mobile with clean and treated water by 2020. As of 2015,
subscribers, 53% use smartphones. While approximately 95% of the population have access
67.5% of the population uses the Internet and to clean and treated water. The Government
an estimated 60% have access to broadband, remains committed to expanding coverage and
only 10% of households have fixed broadband improving the quality of the water services
subscriptions. industry nationwide.

Sewerage: SMART BUILDINGS

Malaysia’s wastewater and sewage treatment Malaysia is committed to expanding and upgrading
segment lags behind its drinking water counterpart broadband infrastructure through deploying
in terms of development. Currently, only 56% of the broadband as an essential service, improving
population is served by a wastewater treatment connectivity from international to last-mile
plant, with the remainder relying on septic tanks connections, and integrating digital infrastructure
and pour flush systems. The Government of planning.
Malaysia aims to provide 80% of the population
An amendment in 2011 to the 1984 Uniform Building
with connected sewerage services by 2020. The
By-Laws (UBBL) stipulates that communication
National Water Services Commission (SPAN) will
installations is one of the essential services similar
develop the National Sewerage Master Plan to
to water and electricity under the certification
provide integrated and holistic long-term policy
for completion and compliance of buildings.
directions and strategic shifts for the sewerage
According to the Government of Malaysia, eight
services industry. Alternative financing methods
states -- Johor, Kelantan, Melaka, Pahang, Perak,
based on privatization concepts will be further
Perlis, Selangor, and Terengganu -- have tabled the
promoted as a new source of capital.
new UBBL requirements and will be fiber-ready by
SMART MOBILITY 2018. The remaining five states will be encouraged
to comply with the UBBL requirements.
Transportation emissions account for 27% of
Malaysia’s greenhouse gas burden. In 2014, The government has committed to ensuring the
public transportation accounted for 17% of total efficient use of energy in buildings, industries and
transportation in the Greater Kuala Lumpur / Klang households.
Valley area. Malaysia aims to increase public
transit’s share of all trips to 40% in Kuala Lumpur
and other major urban areas, and 20% in FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS
smaller cities.
Cyberjaya:
Malaysia is committed to improving transportation
networks in order to enhance connectivity and Population: 86,000
mobility. This includes the construction and City Resources: Cyberview Sdn Bhd:
upgrading of roads and highways such as the Pan http://cyberview.com.my/
Borneo Highway. Further, under the National Land (ccm@cyberview.com.my)
Public Transport Master Plan 2012-2030, Malaysia Cyberjaya was launched in 1997 as a fully
aims to expand its public railway systems, integrated city, and Malaysia’s pioneer tech hub.
including the expansion of Light Rail Transit (LRT) Cyberjaya is planned as a smart city for the ICT
Lines and the development of a Kuala Lumpur- and multimedia industry, with planned projects to
Singapore High-Speed Rail. Efforts are also cover areas such as infrastructure, environment,
underway to enhance and streamline integration and economy. Cyberjaya is the nucleus of the
of land public transport services within Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC), a special
Greater Kuala Lumpur. economic zone dedicated to attracting high-
Malaysia is also working to introduce an integrated technology companies and grooming the local
smart ticketing system for public transport. The ICT industry. Fully supported by the Malaysian
smart ticketing system would aim to reduce costs Government, Cyberjaya aims to be known as
and simplify travel for intermodal transit users. the Silicon Valley of Malaysia. As a result of
the expansion of the city and availability of
employment opportunities, the city is set to see the
population grow to 210,000 by 2020.

Greater Kuala Lumpur (GKL)/Klang Valley (KV): UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR

Population: 6.8 million July 13, 2016: World Smart City Forum – Singapore;
City Resources: InvestKL: http://www.investkl.gov.my/ http://www.worldsmartcity.org/
The Greater Kuala Lumpur (GKL) / Klang Valley October 18-19, 2016: Smart Cities Asia 2016 – Kuala
(KV) region includes the capital city of Kuala Kumpur; http://www.smartcitiesasia.com/
Lumpur and nine other municipalities. It is the
fastest growing region in Malaysia and the March 2017: Internet of Things Asia – Singapore;
commercial heart of the country. The GKL/KV area http://www.Internetofthingsasia.com/
has been identified as a National Key Economic
Area (NKEA). NKEA is defined as an important
driver of economic activities that push Malaysia KEY ORGANIZATIONS
towards its Vision 2020 goals and economic Economic Planning Unit (EPU),
growth, as measured by increasing Gross National Prime Minister’s Department
Income (GNI). As a part of the NKEA program, the www.epu.gov.my
Malaysian Government aims to create 300,000 new
jobs in the GKL/KV area through implementation of Ministry of Energy, Green Technology, and Water
nine “Entry Point Projects” (EPPs), which include (KeTTHA)
projects such as attracting multinational firms, www.kettha.gov.my
attracting human capital, and pursuing smart
Ministry of Communications and Multimedia
city development.
(KKMM)
Iskandar Malaysia: http://www.kkmm.gov.my/
Population: 1.6 million (est.) Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD)

City Resources: Iskandar Regional Development http://www.spad.gov.my/
Authority: http://www.irda.com.my/
National Water Services Commission (SPAN)
Iskandar Malaysia is a development corridor in the http://www.span.gov.my/index.php/en/
southern state of Johor. In an effort to anticipate
Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High
and plan for future growth, the Government of
Technology (MiGHT)
Malaysia identified the region of Iskandar as a
www.might.org.my
key development area. In 2014, the Malaysian
Government launched the Iskandar Malaysia Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)
development program as a pilot for Smart City www.mdec.my
projects in Malaysia.
Public Private Partnership Unit (UKAS), Prime
The Government of Malaysia committed $22.5 Minister’s Department
billion for development of the economic corridor, http://www.ukas.gov.my/web/guest/home
and has invested only $11.7 billion of the total
committed sum. The Government has built 1,500
units of affordable homes and has established a
local bus program, with 34 buses serving 17 routes.

WEB RESOURCES RESOURCES

11th Malaysia Plan: CS Contact in Malaysia:
http://rmk11.epu.gov.my/index.php/en/
Catherine Spillman
National Land Public Transport Master Plan: U.S. Embassy Malaysia
http://www.spad.gov.my/sites/default/files/ 376 Jalan Tun Razak
national-land-public-transport-master-plan-final- 50400 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
draft.pdf
Tel: +60-3-2168-5000
Malaysian Investment Development Authority Fax: +60-3-2142-1866
(MIDA): http://www.mida.gov.my/home/ Email: office.kualalumpur@trade.gov
InvestKL: http://www.investkl.gov.my/
Iskandar Malaysia: http://www.iskandarmalaysia.
com.my/SCIM/index.html
Iskandar Regional Development Authority:
http://www.irda.com.my/
Cyberjaya: http://www.cyberjayamalaysia.com.my/

Mexico Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERIVEW Actions (NAMA) study and is meant to raise donor
funding for upscaling Mexican efforts in energy
Between Mexico City, Guadalajara and Puebla, efficient housing by showing energy efficient
Mexico is coming around to the importance of building concepts that are cost effective, proven
integrating smart technologies into their major to successfully
cities and with the liberalization of the energy reduce CO2 MEXICO CITY, Mexico
sector, Mexico is adopting various new smart emissions and,
initiatives into their energy markets. Population Growth, 2013-2014:
at the same time,
1.3%
In Mexico, the Green Plan has been developed are adapted to the
where the local government wants to invest 1 particular Mexican Total Employment, 2014 (Thousands):
billion dollars in 26 strategies and 113 specific climate and 9,053 People
actions over the next 15 years to improve the conditions. Real GDP Growth 2013-2014:
sustainability of Mexico. Some measures include As part of the High 2.8%
restoring soil conservation, improving public Level Economic Employment Growth, 2010-2014:
spaces and controlling atmospheric pollutants. Up Dialogue, U.S. 1.9% Brookings Metro
to 21 departments or secretariats, including that of and Mexican
Tourism, Health and Finance, have been involved in business leaders began to explore how a Smart
this program. Cities Framework might be applied to transform
Mexico City’s investments in conservation the operation of the U.S.-Mexico border and
initiatives including smart building construction improve economic and social conditions for nearby
and design, digitization of government services, communities. A Transformation Working Group,
and air quality improvement have earned it a chaired by Cisco and supported by Deloitte as an
reputation as a smart and sustainable city. advisor, developed the Cross Border Connected
Cities (CBCC) Concept, articulating a broader
vision for border operations within an urban
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) planning and Smart City context.
SMART ENERGY SMART TECHNOLOGY
In a market that is valued at more than US$10 Ciudad Creativa Digital Project (CCD) seeks to
billion, Mexico is the second largest consumer integrate Guadalajara’s urban environment with
of smart grid technology behind Brazil in Latin innovators interested in working in a wide variety
America. Mexico’s US$10.9 billion smart grid of digital media industries.
infrastructure investment will see significant The Mexico DF open data portal offers more
deployments across a number of market segments than 1,000 datasets in several subjects, including
including smart metering, distribution automation, public transport, shopping, education, culture,
battery storage, home energy management, health, civil protection, environmental issues
information technology and wide area and public services. Open data have enabled
measurement. citizens to develop applications for administrative
There have recently been more than two million processing, such as paying their property taxes
smart meters installed in the country. on property on flats, houses or offices); paying for
traffic tickets (fines); sending requests for road
Mexico was the first country worldwide to construction and landscaping, reports on water
implement a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation

leakages, monitoring traffic congestion and finding project aims to interconnect a 400-hectares of
alternative routes, and checking city’s air quality. residential and commercial areas, technology
companies, schools, malls, hotels, a hospital, parks
The city of Puebla has managed to monetize waste
and the Diocese of Querétaro with an ecological
thanks to the ‘Eco wallet’. This program consists
infrastructure and sustainable energy sources.
of depositing waste in a collection center, where it
is weighed and a proportional sum of eco-money SMART TRANSPORTATION
is paid to the depositor. This eco money, called
Mexico City has adopted various smart mobility
“pecos”, is redeemable at numerous affiliated
initiatives including the introduction of a free
establishments. This project has saved 12,500
program Velo “Ecobici”, a bicycle sharing
trees, 7,500 barrels of oil and 60,000 cubic meters
program, a sustainable city bus network and
of water and has avoided 14,600 tons of CO2
shared electric cars.
being emitted.
A little over a year ago, the government and some
private institutions in Querétaro, started the IQ UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
Smart City project in Ciudad Maderas, El Marqués
municipality, (10 minutes away from Mexico City). November 15-17 2016: Smart City Expo Puebla
Using Internet and cell phone technology, the

The Netherlands Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW currently running in different regions and cities.

Solutions are aimed at improving both urban and
The Netherlands is making progress in interurban mobility and cross-border mobility.
implementing smart cities. Research by the The Netherlands has a strong industrial base
European Parliament places the country in its throughout the value chain of smart mobility,
second tier of European countries that have with key players like TomTom, Here, NXP, TASS
successfully implemented smart cities, meaning International, CGI, Siemens, Imtech and Vialis,
51-75 % of its cities with a population over 100,000 as well as many SMEs. In addition, knowledge
have at least one smart city initiative. institutes like TNO and several universities have
A catalyst for smart cities is the Dutch advanced research programs on smart mobility.
government’s Clean & Efficient Program, which The Amsterdam and Eindhoven regions are
lays out the national climate policy framework. frontrunners in
Under this program, the government has the deployment of
established four primary targets:
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands
smart
Population Growth, 2013-2014:
• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% mobility solutions.
0.42%
from the 1990 level by 2020 SMART Total Employment, 2014 (Thousands):
• Increase the share of renewables in the INFRASTRUCTURE 3,740 People
energy mix by 20% by 2020 A Dutch project to Real GDP Growth 2013-2014:
• Achieve annual energy efficiency turn the nation’s 0.02%
improvements of 2% by 2020 bike paths into
Employment Growth, 2010-2014:
energy-generating
• Make a big step in the transition towards -0.4%
solar roadways Brookings Metro
a more sustainable energy system by 2020. has cleared its
first major test with flying colors. SolaRoad’s
70-meter test track near the town of Krommenie
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) outside Amsterdam has generated over
3,000 kilowatt-hours over its first six months
SMART MOBILITY
of operation, or “enough to provide a single-
There is a large installed base of ITS applications person household with electricity for a year.”
for roads, railways and waterways in the That translates to 70 kwh per square meter of
Netherlands. Government, industry and research solar road per year, which the designers predicted
institutions are making major investments in as an “upper limit” during the planning process.
various systems and services to improve existing
The project called Glowing Lines, absorbs energy
networks and support smart mobility. In the past,
during the day, and glows in the dark. It is a safe
the focus was on developing tools. Now, the focus
and suitable alternative to conventional lighting
is on deployment and the removal of barriers,
for dark roads.
with the aim to improve the efficiency of transport
systems and matching user demands. SMART CITIZEN
Various programs and projects on travel The Smart Citizen Kit was devised out of growing
information, cooperative and automated concerns of citizens about the quality of their
mobility and dynamic traffic management are air. This Kit requires the involvement of ‘ordinary

people’ in the measuring process. In this project, smarter living environments on a global scale.
Waag Society and ASC installed a network of http://www.amsterdamarena.nl/innovation-
sensors throughout Amsterdam. The Kit can center-2.htm
measure humidity, noise pollution, temperature,
Amsterdamse Zoncoalitie is a coalition initiative
CO, NO2, and light intensity. The Kit takes
between solar (panel) suppliers, energy
measurements and conveys the results though
companies, network owner Alliander, Amsterdam
the Internet connection of the participant.
Smart City and the municipality of Amsterdam. The
SMART ENERGY city has about 800 hectares of roof space that can
accommodate solar panels.
The implementation of smart energy grids in the
Dutch consumer market is worth between $1.07 http://amsterdamsmartcity.com/projects/detail/
billion and $3.75 billion, according to a study id/145/label/amsterdamse-zoncoalitie
carried out as part of a smart grid pilot project in
The Edge building in Amsterdam is one of
the Netherlands.
the world’s most sustainable and ‘smartest’
buildings, able to constantly monitor its energy
consumption and adapt through new technologies
CHALLENGES and innovation. OVG Real State worked in close
There are no challenges or market access barriers partnership with the building’s principal occupier,
for Smart City goods and services coming from the leading global professional service firm Deloitte
U.S., which are unique to the Netherlands. and AKD, a notary and legal firm. The Edge was the
first building using the Philips’ Ethernet-powered
LED connected lighting, which enables employees
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS to use a smartphone app to regulate the climate
and light in their individual workspaces.
Amsterdam: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/
videos/2015-09-23/see-the-world-s-greenest-
Amsterdam is the 5th smartest city in the world,
office-building-the-edge
and second most tech-intelligent, according to the
Cities in Motion Index, a ranking of the smartest Eindhoven:
cities based on factors like urban planning,
technology, the economy, and the environment. Eindhoven is the center of the “Brainport Region”,
and is one of the three top economic engines of
Amsterdam Smart City (ASC) is a unique the Netherlands, delivering about 14 % of
partnership between companies, governments, national GDP.
knowledge institutions and the people of
Amsterdam. It is a frontrunner in the development The former Philips industrial complex will become
of Amsterdam as a Smart City. In six years ASC a creative smart district. An innovative concept to
has grown into a platform with over 100 partners, clean up contaminated land will double as a means
which are involved in more than 90 innovative of producing energy. A district- wide ICT solution
projects. See: http://amsterdamsmartcity.com/ will allow residents to access different kinds of
infrastructure, such as booking electric vehicles
With its ambition to be the world’s leading nucleus from a district car sharing scheme or using smart
for innovative smart city and smart stadium parking concepts.
solutions, the Amsterdam ArenA Innovation Center
(AAIC) offers effective resources for research, SmartLighting/SmartGrid Tender. The city has
development and education. The Innovation Center taken a lead in Europe with a tender aimed at
supports global leading players in creating their procuring a LED public lighting solution for the next
newest innovations for smart experience and decade. A competitive dialogue process has been
started up, out of which best value procurement
will be created. Five cities have partnered up:

Eindhoven, Stavanger, Bassano del Grappa, Espoo water levels in a smart way. In addition, these
and Malmö. The purpose of the exercise is to measures contribute to the greening of outdoor
enable continuous and ongoing open innovation, spaces, and make the city more attractive for
ensuring that whatever market party is selected its residents.
they use a Living Lab approach and collaborate
with other businesses, knowledge institutions,
government and residents. Dialogue is currently UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
being conducted with 4 potential suppliers.
• December 8, 2016: Intelligent Sensor
Rotterdam: Networks Conference – Eindhoven
Rotterdam was awarded Smart City status in 2014 www.isnconference.com
by the magazine The New Economy. The city won The Intelligent Sensor Networks Conference
the award based on its efforts to protect itself will focus on three key themes: smart
against climate change and bolster its image as infrastructure, smart industry and smart
the most sustainable port city in the world. Its logistics. Presentations will cover a range of
construction of ‘water plazas’ and green roofs, as topics including big data from little sensors,
well as the city’s transport network, were cited as machine learning, crowd sensing and
the most notable examples. Rotterdam’s approach uncovering insights.
to water has made it the most prominent and
innovative water-knowledge city in the world, as
well as an inspiring example to other delta cities.” RESOURCES
Collaborating with prominent partners, Rotterdam Alan Ras, Head of Commercial Service
has developed a Climate Change Adaptation U.S. Commercial Service
Strategy which has generated innovative Lange Voorhout 102
approaches that are now being emulated across 2514 EJ The Hague, the Netherlands
the world. Additional water storage in new Tel: +31 70-310-2418
construction, specially designed water plazas, Email: alan.ras@trade.gov
many square of green roofing and a knowledge www.export.gov/netherlands
center for floating construction demonstrate
how a densely populated urban environment like
Rotterdam can respond to heavy rainfall and rising

Panama Smart Cities Guide

GDP per capita (PPP; 2015): $ 21,800
Major urban areas: Panama City - 1.673 million
Industries: construction, brewing, cement and other construction materials, sugar milling
SMART CITY OVERVIEW FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS

Panama City is the largest city in Panama, There are no current projects aimed specifically
comprising about half of the country´s population. at Smart City implementation.
Panama has no strategy or plans for smart city
implementation. The United Kingdom, Spain, and
Germany have offered some assistance for smart UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
city developments but nothing has materialized
yet. The Panama City Mayor is interested in smart There are no specific shows/events addressing
cities technologies. Smart City.

There have been a number of isolated initiatives
such as:
• LEED programs for buildings
• Incentives for energy efficiency
• Smart grid initiatives,
• Electronic surveillance in certain areas of
Panama City
• Implementation of a Geographical Information
System
• Metro construction
These initiatives are not part of a comprehensive
program. The World Bank has offered consulting
services on smart cities implementation.

Peru Smart Cities Guide

BASIC DATA ON THE ECONOMY87
Major urban areas (2015): Lima – 9.897 million; Arequipa – 850,000; Trujillo – 798,000
Population: 30,444,999 (July 2015)
Industries: mining and refining of minerals, steel, gas and petroleum extraction and refining,
fishing, agriculture

Peru’s national economy is dominated by its SMART TECHNOLOGY
mining operations with almost 60% of its total
ICT: In 2011, the Peruvian government announced
exports being metals and minerals.88 Peru has
its Agenda Digital Peruana 2.0, an effort to
continued to support free trade policies to facilitate
enhance ICT technology and transform Peru
their exports and was a signatory to the Trans-
into an information-based society. Some of its
Pacific Partnership. Peru unfortunately lacks
more specific objectives include promoting
many of the smart city development indicators.
scientific research, increasing productivity and
Its urban population is 78.6%, which is lower
competiveness using ICT, and allowing citizens
than most regional neighbors like Chile, Brazil, or
more access to social services and participation in
Argentina.89 It also has substantially fewer Internet
the information society. The Ministry of Transport
users with only 40.9% of the population having
and Communications (MTC) has the primary
access in 2014.90 The Institute of Higher Business
responsibility of implementing these goals.93
Studies (IESE) ranked Peru 103rd in the world for
smartest cities.91 Rising crime rates and increased SMART DISASTER RESPONSE
traffic represent a few barriers to smart city
development.92 Despite these negative indicators, Due its mountainous terrain and high amounts of
Peru has taken some steps toward innovating seismic activity, Peru is prone to natural disasters
its cities. such as earthquakes and landslides. The National
Emergency Operations Center (COEN) collects
disaster information from other organizations
to determine disaster levels and promulgate
information to the public electronically.94
SMART CONSTRUCTION
87
All basic data is from the CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/
library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/pe.html In 2015, the Peruvian government approved the
88
Id. Technical Code for Sustainable Construction as
89
Id. part of the commitments made by Peru during
90
Id.
91 93
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-lima-ranks-103-in-world-list- Id.
of-smart-cities-106925 94
https://www.mtc.gob.pe/comunicaciones/regulacion_internacional/
92
https://www.mtc.gob.pe/comunicaciones/regulacion_internacional/ info_nacional_internacional/documentos/Consultation%20on%20
info_nacional_internacional/documentos/Consultation%20on%20 Developing%20ICT%20Infrastructure%20for%20Smart%20Cities%20
Developing%20ICT%20Infrastructure%20for%20Smart%20Cities%20 in%20Peru_2....pdf. See also: http://www.indeci.gob.pe/contenido.
in%20Peru_2....pdf php?item=MTYz

the COP20 held in Lima in 2014. This code was Trujillo:

designed between various public and private
• The city of Trujillo hopes to implement a
entities that are part of the Permanent Committee
unified emergency management center with a
on Sustainable Construction formed by the
universal telephone number, and to integrate
Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation
data collection to improve crime prevention.98
(Chair), the Ministry of Environment (Technical
Secretariat) and twelve (12) specialized entities on Cuzco:
design, construction and real estate sector. Code
implementation will be gradual over time and plans • Cuzco officials met with government
to start in the main cities of Peru this year. This representatives of Singapore to discuss
norm aims to improve the technical criteria Cuzco’s smart city capability in October 2015.99
for the design and construction of public and
private edifications in order to be classified
as sustainable. UPCOMING EVENTS
• July 7-9, 2016: Tecnoagro Peru will occur to
publicize business opportunities for applying
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS technological solutions to the agricultural
Lima: sector – Lima
• Due to rising traffic levels, the city of Lima • August 13, 2016: The Renewable Energy
established a traffic control center (GTU-MML) Congress for Mining will be meeting to discuss
in 2011 to collect real-time data and manage how remote technology and renewable energy
traffic congestion. The organization manages can help lower costs for mining operations.
over 320 major intersections and collects data • August 25-28, 2016: Expo Energy Efficiency will
every 15 minutes.95 be held. This fourth edition of the show aims to
• The National University of Engineering be a meeting place for companies linked to the
recently hosted the event “Startup Weekend renewable energy sector – Lima;
Smart Cities Lima” in April of 2016.The event www.lesexpoperu.com
attracted students and young entrepreneurs to
work on projects and share ideas concerning
sustainable cities.96
• Ametic, an association of Spanish tech firms,
held a November 2015 showcase in Lima for
public officials to discuss the Spanish model
for making cities smart.97
95
info_nacional_internacional/documentos/Consultation%20on%20 98
Developing%20ICT%20Infrastructure%20for%20Smart%20Cities%20
info_nacional_internacional/documentos/Consultation%20on%20
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http://www.up.co/communities/peru/startup-weekend/8592 in%20Peru_2....pdf
99
97
http://www.efe.com/efe/english/technology/spanish-firms- http://diariocorreo.pe/ciudad/cusco-chinchero-se-prepara-para-
showcase-smart-cities-innovations-in-peru/50000267-2772470 ser-la-primera-smart-city-del-peru-623943/

Poland Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW Wroclaw. It is estimated that implementation plans

should appear in 10–15% of city municipalities by
Smart City projects in Poland are at the much 2020. According to ITS Polska, the value of
lower level than those in Western European related investments from 2014–2020 could reach
countries and in the United States. US. Barriers are PLN 10 billion.
mainly financial, but also a lack of understanding
of the concept of “smart city”. Only 14% of Polish SMART GOVERNANCE
towns declare implementation of smart solutions,
The government assumes that 64% of citizens and
and just 36% of city representatives declared that
95% of entrepreneurs will use the Internet as the
they are familiar with the “smart city” idea. As the
basic tool for reaching out to public authorities
professor of the Warsaw School of Economy and
in 2020; today, it is 32% and 90%, respectively. A
the editor of the site www.InteligentneMiasta.pl,
central data repository and single point-of-contact
Mr. Andrzej Sobczak says “much depends on the
platform to enable access to all eServices will
city authorities. Not all city mayors understand the
make it easier to reach out to authorities.
concept of smart city and what are the benefits
from the implementation of this concept. Important SMART ENERGY
obstacles in the implementation of these concepts
The most promising area from an ICT perspective
are also finances. The budgets of cities largely
is smart city LED lighting. Initiatives are limited in
absorb fixed costs related to the implementation of
scope and are mostly related to the management
statutory obligations.”
of energy consumption in urban areas.

CHALLENGES
SMART TECHNOLOGY
No specific challenges or market access barriers
By 2020 all citizens will have access to high-speed have been identified.
broadband of at least 30 Mbps with half of them
having broadband access at a speed of at least
100 Mbps. The government intends to support the FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS
construction of municipal broadband networks to
make the investments more attractive for network Gdansk:
operators. The Ministry will support the “Intelligent • Open Data Policy: sharing with the citizens
Development Program” and the “Digital Poland data collected by the city and the use of
Program” which are consistent with the Smart new technologies to promote transparent
City initiative and will provide individual citizens governance.
and companies with the most modern IT services.
Every third local government is interested in smart • EUREKA/IBM Intelligent Operations Center: air
metering: 37% in remote reading of water meters quality management system and noise levels.
and 32% in city monitoring. • Co-organizer Business Intelligence Hackhaton
SMART MOBILITY Api (BIHAPI) dedicated to popularization of
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Intelligent transport systems (ITS) are being provided by telecom operator and smart city
installed in several Polish cities including services based on Open Data Policy.
Bydgoszcz, Gliwice, Krakow, Szczecin, and

• Awards: ABSL, ASPIRE, European Outsourcing information for public transportation

Association, Best City of the Year, 2013; 6 Baltic passengers
Sea Wonders Award, 2012
• In 2014 the city was listed by the Vienna
Rybnik: University of Technology as one of the top 100
smartest middle size cities in Europe
• GIS based city management system,
E-Administration Szczecin:
• Municipal broadband network covering • Pilot Advanced Metering Infrastructure
133 public institutions in the city, Intelligent
• Fibreoptic network of length exceeding 100km
transportation management system
including 167 e-information boards on public • 413 municipal hotspots available in more than
transportation stops, information about 150 locations
available parking places
• Wi-Fi zones located in all public schools and
• Electronic city card which operates the school-educational centers
following services: public transportation ticket,
entrance tickets to city sport facilities, e-purse, • Wi-Fi zones available in selected community
city parking, e-signature, Mobile Passenger councils, sport areas and cultural institutions
Information System showing the real position • Wi-Fi zones available in public forests from
of a bus April to October: program called “Active and
• Smart metering system in public buildings, Interactive in public forest”
monitoring system for water and wastewater • E-Government: program “The spatial data
piping system in the city system of the city of Szczecin” enables
International awards received: development of public services performed with
the use of electronic means
• European Public Sector Award
EPSA 2013 Best Practice for e-ticket • Intelligent transportation system since 2012
implementation. • Central public communication management
• European Public Sector Award system based on the San Francisco model;
EPSA 2009 Best Practice for GIS (all public transportation means are to be
implementation. equipped with GPS transmitter).
• EuroCresst Award 2009 for the city • The traffic management System implemented
web site. in Szczecin by was awarded the prize for the
best implementation of a traffic management
Rzeszow: system in Poland by the participants to the ITS
Congress 2013
• VoIP platform for metropolitan wireless
broadband network ResMAN; 132 public Warsaw:
buildings, schools and commercial centers
within the network, 130 Internet hotspots for • Warsaw eCard Project – eCard for City
citizens, 20 thousand households with free services f.e. transportation ticket, entrance to
Internet access museums, cinemas, libraries, gyms
• Over 100 schools with free Internet access and • ePayments for traffic tickets, taxes, and
computerized management system, parking fines
• ITS including public transportation

management system, E-ticket, E-info

• Virtual Warsaw Project – beacons usage to

facilitate mobility for the visually impaired
– The 2014 Mayors Challenge Winner
(Bloomberg Philanthropies)
• GIS maps system with many public services
f.e.: Warsaw today, historical maps, ownership,
real estates, graveyards with detailed plans,
cycle paths etc. with WMS and WFS

• February 2017: 5th SMART CITY FORUM –
Warsaw; http://en.smartcityforum.pl/
Contact: Ms. Beata Bak – b.bak@mmcpolska.pl
• Polish Regional Congress SMART CITY
Principles and Perspectives 2017 –
http://successpoint.pl/smart-2017-warszawa
nMarch 2017 – Warsaw; April 2017 –
Gdansk;
nJune 2017 – Wroclaw; October 2017 –
Krakow
Contact: Ms. Klaudia Moskala –
klaudia.moskala@successpoint.pl
• March 2017: Smart Metropolia Congress –
Gdansk; http://www.smartmetropolia.pl/
Contact: Mr. Krzysztof Smiech –
Krzysztof.smiech@mtgsa.com.pl
RESOURCES
Commercial Service: Anna Janczewska:
anna.janczewska@trade.gov

Portugal Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW customers with an annual consumption of

approximately 273GWh. Around 35,000 smart
Portugal is well positioned in respect to Smart meters and 340 distribution transformer controller
Cities. Portuguese cities currently face various (DTC’s) were recently installed.
challenges related with overpopulation.
Universities, companies and other groups are SMART SERVICES
working closely with municipalities to find scalable
• Implementation of video surveillance in public
solutions for different fields such as energy,
spaces
mobility, environment, health governance and
quality of life. This means the public and private • Fire prevention sensors and control systems
sectors are now sharing information in order to
• Flood control predictive systems and sensors
jointly identify solutions to solve a wide range
of issues affecting the community. In 2009, a • Digital access to urban planning documents
network of Portuguese smart cities by the name
of Rener was launched. Today, it includes more • Wi-Fi hotspots in public places
than 43 municipalities from all over the country. • High-quality of the tourist destined gateways
The Portuguese Smart City Cluster is actively and apps
promoting Portugal as a place for the development
and production of technology solutions, products SMART GOVERNENCE
and value-added systems for smart cities at global • Online access to municipality’s expense
level, as well as promoting the competitiveness,
innovation capacity and internationalization of • Open Data policy and number of data
smart city companies. sets available
• Level of
integration LISBON, Portugal
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) of the Population Growth, 2013-2014:
SMART MOBILITY administrative 0.0%
process and Total Employment, 2014 (Thousands):
The MOBLE network has more than 1300 normal data sharing in
charging stations and 50 fast charging stations in 1,449 People
back-office
places of public access throughout Portugal. Real GDP Growth 2013-2014:
• Digital urban -1.2%
Portugal has a number of smart parking solutions planning
designed to provide better cities for living and Employment Growth, 2010-2014:
conveniently and efficiently manage parking • Existence -1.4% Brookings Metro
payments. of online
participatory budgeting
SMART ENERGY
• Availableness and quality of relating with
The Portuguese city of Évora, with a population of citizens gateways
55 thousand and are of 1.307 square kilometers,
was the first Iberian Smart City – Évora InovCity • Level of online contact with the municipal
– where an automated meter infrastructure was administration
deployed. There are around 32,000 electricity • Online certificate requests

CHALLENGES Porto:
In order to successfully enhance the adoption Population: 1.7 million;
of innovations and deploy smart city solutions in Contact: Mayor Rui Moreira
Portugal or elsewhere, market barriers such as
lack of integrated and coherent public policies, Board any bus in Portugal’s second-largest city,
poor urban planning and city management, and free Wi-Fi is available courtesy of a network
resistance to change and innovation, lack of of routers affixed to more than 600 municipal
demonstration smart city projects, standards and vehicles. It’s the biggest Wi-Fi-in-motion network
interoperability issues, and lack of funding sources in the world.
must be addressed.
Desafios Porto is a competition created by the City
of Porto in partnership with NOS, EDP, CEIIA and
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS EY, that aims to identify the biggest challenges
Évora: faced by the city of Porto and to find the tech
solutions that give the most innovative and
Population: 43.000; scalable answers. The Future Cities Project is an
Contact: Mayor Carlos Pinto de Sá FP7 funded project intended to expand the Center
Évora is one of the first Smart Cities with about of Competence for Future Cities of the University of
31,000 residential customers taking advantage of Porto (Future Cities UP).
billing system based on actual consumption (in Other
relation to overall consumers) and also enabling
consumer control via a computer of smartphone. FI-WARE accelerator is a project funded by the
European Commission aims to grow innovative
Lisbon: web-based solutions for smarter urban life of
Europe’s citizens.
Population: 2.8 million;
Contact: Mayor Fernando Medina
The integrated Lisbon transport system comprises UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
a large amount of transport combination tickets, • May 18-19, 2016: Zoom Smart Cities –
and several paying options, including web, http://www.zoomsmartcities.com/en/
applications, and ATM. The public transport system
has a series of modern public information systems • March, 2017: Green Business Week -
and Lisbon has one of the world’s strongest route http://greenbusinessweek.fil.pt
calculators, Transporlis to integrate all operators.
BIG Smart Cities by Vodafone Power Lab is co- KEY ORGANIZATIONS
organized with the City of Lisbon. A program
with an international competition to accelerate • Inteli - http://www.inteli.pt
startups where the startups get to pitch investors • InovCity - http://www.inovcity.com/en
and earn fantastic prizes to launch and scale their
• APDC – Portuguese Association for the
businesses. The city and its sponsor, Vodafone
Development of Communications;
look for technologies that use the Vodafone
http://www.apdc.pt
New Generation Networks to solve challenges
in 4 different categories: smart mobility, energy,
tourism, living.
RESOURCES
Commercial Service: Pedro Ferreira –
pedro.ferreira@trade.gov

Romania Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW January 2015 to expand coverage of the national

broadband infrastructure to disadvantaged areas.
“Smart City” is still a fairly new concept in At completion, the new network will reach nearly
Romania. Initiatives are primarily supported by 5000 km and over 99% coverage. Extensive 4G
private or international/EU funds or programs. networks cover most of Romania
The government has begun to support the
development of smart city infrastructures, SMART ENERGY
primarily through pilot projects; however, lack of
Romania adopted the EU target of smart meters
financing and a lack of understanding continue
installed for 80% of consumers, but has extended
to be barriers to development. Romania is still
the implementation date by a year to 2021 to allow
searching for the right solutions, both in terms of
for more time for a cost-benefit analysis. The
the legal framework and implementation. A 2014
government is currently in the second phase for
energy efficiency law places great importance
2016 pilot projects. Eighteen smart meter pilot
on involving local authorities, requiring them
projects will be implemented and assessed by
to identify relevant investment projects. Cities
Q1 2017. A National Investment Program in Smart
and towns with 20,000 or more inhabitants
Metering, based on these projects, is expected to
have specific obligations regarding energy
be approved by April 2017.
management.
The Romanian power grid is only 30% efficient and
equipped with outdated installations. Conditional
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) on EU funding and the State budget, certain public
universities may develop and operate “micro smart
SMART MOBILITY grids. A feasibility study for one such project,
Eight cities have developed sustainable urban supported with a USTDA grant, is underway at
mobility plans: Brasov, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Politecnica Bucharest University.
Constanta, Craiova, Iasi, Ploesti and Timisoara. SMART HEALTH
Elements of public transport management
systems, such as surveillance cameras, National Health Insurance ID cards with chips
e-ticketing, and SMS parking payments can became mandatory for all visits to doctors,
be found in a number of cities. The country hospitals and pharmacies in 2015 to reduce red
relies on an inter-ministerial committee, with tape and corruption in the medical sector. At the
representatives from the ministries of transport, end of 2015, the Ministry of Health implemented a
ICT, education, economy, finance and environment, rural telemedicine project in three counties, with
along with trade associations, to develop and plans to later deploy it nationally.
approve national projects.
SMART TECHNOLOGY
CHALLENGES
Romania, with peak speeds nearing 60 mbps,
While there are no market access barriers, there
has the fastest Internet in Europe and the 6th
is still a lack of public financing for smart city
fastest in the world. However, its fixed broadband
projects and a lack of coordinated efforts to
penetration is still the lowest in the EU. Romania
access EU Funds.
launched the Ro-Net broadband project in

FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR

Bucharest: • September 29-30, 2016: Smart Cities of
Romania – Oltenia edition, Craiova University,
City Hall is the largest user of the EmerGIS solution
Craiova
for the national 112 call center, which handles
over 1.4 million calls per month. Bucharest’s traffic • October 2016: Romanian Energy Efficiency
management system includes features such as Forum 2016 (TBC) – Bucharest; www.govnet.
CCTV and Urban Traffic Control, with 140 equipped ro/Romanian-Energy-Efficiency-Forum-2015
junctions monitored by a central command center.
• November 22-23, 2016: Smart Cities of Romania
Cluj-Napoca: 2016, University Politehnica Bucharest,
Bucharest; www.romaniasmartcities.ro/en
Cluj Innovation City is implementing its “Brained
City” project to integrate medical network,
e-business, e- government, and urban traffic
management solutions to develop smart buildings LINKS
and smart housing on a hosted cloud structure and • WEC Central & Eastern Europe Regional
achieve a harmonious urban ecosystem. Energy Forum, FOREN, 13th Edition - www.
Brasov: cnr-cme.ro
Brasov has an intelligent street lighting • Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Romania -
management system, allowing for reduced energy www.its-romania.ro
consumption and lower carbon dioxide emissions, • Ministry of Communications and for
and increased citizen safety including CCTV Information Society - www.mcsi.ro
and panic buttons. The Romanian Emergency
Rescue Service has a pilot project for Emergency • Ministry of Health - www.ms.ro
Vehicle Preemption in Targu Mures to allow • National Energy Regulatory Agency (ANRE) -
first responders to reach emergency scenes www.anre.ro
more quickly and safely with global positioning
technology and radio communications. • Romanian Association for Security Techniques
(ARTS) - www.arts.org.ro
Albaiulia:
• World Energy Council—Romanian National
Alba Iulia is the first city in Romania with a mid- Committee - www.cnr-cme.ro
and long-term development strategy drafted with
the World Bank. The city has been successful
at accessing EU funds and will develop the first
RESOURCES
“mobile-based e-democracy platform” in Eastern
Europe. The buildings, statues and schools will Commercial Service: Mihaela Dodoiu –
“talk” to the people and the residents of Alba mihaela.dodoiu@trade.gov
Iulia will be “heard in all aspects of the city
management process”. The city’s Smart Mobility
Plan is under development, expected to be
complete in July 2016.

Rwanda Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW 3. Skills Development: RDB is working to set-up

training and incentive systems to attract and
Kigali is trying to portray itself as Smart City Kigali. maintain civil service employees. This initiative
In support of this, several initiatives are underway, has grown to now also leverage training and
including: the Kigali Innovation City, 4G on public certification in key areas with the private
buses, a pilot program for a cashless bus fare sector as well.
system, identification of a possible site for the
Center for Data Sciences, and the hosting of the 4. Cybersecurity: RDB is now very focused
Smart Africa Secretariat. on security to protect key data and
systems. Given the high level of physical
security Rwanda holds in the region, RDB
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) is also looking to make Rwanda a hub for
cybersecurity as well, to encourage greater
The Government of Rwanda (GOR) has prioritized data hosting and investment as a hub for the
building infrastructure to transform Rwanda into a region.
service economy. The GOR through the Rwanda
Development Board (RBD) is focusing on how to 5. ICT SME Incubators: RDB is planning a
leverage the infrastructure they have built to drive technology park in partnership with Carnegie
the service industry. To this end, RBD is currently Mellon University, which will be the anchor
focusing on these five key pillars: tenant for the development. They have
earmarked land in a Special Economic Zone
1. eGovernment/ Command Centre: the Prime (SEZ), and they have secured funding from the
Minister and Presidential Offices created a Asian Development Bank (ADB) to finance the
central dashboard to track progress towards campus. The GOR has also committed funds to
the Vision 2020 goals, and they are now using develop the key infrastructure (utilities, access
this architecture to measure completion of roads, power) and is looking for additional
the targets. partners and investors.
2. Rwanda Online: RDB is focusing on promoting
PPPs to digitize 100 service delivery areas
using an integrated platform. The first nine
services areas will be implemented by
July 2016.

Serbia Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW solution that shows the exact location of the
desired bus in public traffic, and the time of
Serbia does not have an official Smart City policy. arrival of the next vehicle. Belgrade’s system
High financial costs and lack of knowledge can be the first step and Bus-Tracker can be
are the main problems for not cultivating and implemented when citizens get familiar with
implementing Smart City projects. Smart City is a the application. Belgrade and Novi Sad both
new concept, as well as how it can contribute to provide the option of paying parking services
their economic development. The only cities that via SMS.
have “Smart City” characteristics are Belgrade
and Novi Sad, but it is on an ad hoc basis and not SMART ENVIRONMENT
a formal Smart City strategy. There have been
The “Eco-Bus” service provides information about
several conferences on the topic of Smart Cities.
air quality, temperature or humidity in real time on
The most significant was the Fourth Summit of
an interactive map on mobile phones or websites.
Serbian Energy Managers—Sustainable Energy in
It is currently available only in Pancevo. However,
Local Communities, organized by Central European
only people who use the car parks under the
Forum Development, CEDEF. CS Belgrade is
control of Pancevo’s “Parking Service” can use
planning to organize Smart City Forum and help
this service.
decision makers to understand importance of
introducing Smart City technologies. Potential SMART ENERGY
partners supporting this initiative may include:
A group of students from the Faculty of Electrical
IDC, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, City of Belgrade and
Engineering in Belgrade developed the world’s
Serbian Ministry of Telecommunications and the
first public solar charger for mobile phones, which
U.S. Green Building Council.
won first place in the European Commission’s
“Sustainable Energy Week 2011” competition in
Brussels. Strawberry Tree is a solar and Wi-Fi
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) station which is permanently installed in public
SMART TECHNOLOGY places such as streets, parks and squares,
providing passersby with the opportunity to
• Wi-Fi was recently introduced in public charge their mobile devices for free when they
transportation systems in Belgrade. However, are outside. It can be found at several locations all
the connection is slow and not all vehicles around Belgrade, Vranje, Bor, Valjevo, Obrenovac,
are equipped with free wireless networks Kikinda and Novi Sad. Besides those Serbian
Belgrade plans to improve this by the end cities, City of Timisoara, Romania, and City of
of 2016. Bjeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, also have this
• Air Serbia, the national airline of Serbia has product.
rolled out wireless Internet access on its fleet. The Smart Metering & Energy Efficiency program
• Public transportation systems in Belgrade is locally developed by E-Smart Systems company.
are using systems that provide users with Their goal was to develop a complex, scalable and
information such as estimated arrival times reliable AMM system that would be offered to the
to bus stops using GPS systems installed on market after a few months of Program initialization,
each bus. This could be in demand throughout it started with the development of smaller and
Serbian public transportation. The City of simpler AMR system - MESMET One system.
Pancevo’s “Bus-Tracker” provides a superior

SMART SECURITY Belgrade communal service, Beokom, has

launched new application aimed to help citizens to
The majority of Serbian elementary and high
easily report every problem they notice in the city.
schools are fitted with cameras. Some police
Every call is registered and then it is up to Beokom
stations in Belgrade have control rooms where
to coordinate solving of each reported problem.
police officers are able to watch live streaming
from the schools located in their municipalities.
The Government plans to create control rooms for
each municipality in Belgrade. CHALLENGES
SMART GOVERNANCE No specific challenges or market access barriers

have been identified. Due to the lack of funding,
Some municipalities are offering the appointments most initiatives are carried out through Horizon
and document requests from government 2020 project.
institutions through an online portal. Indjija is
technologically the most advanced municipality
in Serbia. The Citizen Assistance Center is an UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
integrated part of Indjija’s municipal administration
designed to provide easy access to the most October 2016: Smart City Forum
important municipal services. It is the first of its
kind in Serbia. Authorities are publishing online
a lot of general information, thus making easy RESOURCES
access for people to find information they need.
Commercial Service: Zorica Mihajlovic –
Besides official web pages, many Government zorica.mihajlovic@trade.gov
institutions are using social media. They are
targeting younger population and informing them
on their work.

Slovakia Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW readings of water consumption in order to from

manual readings and water leaks.
The idea of Smart Cities in Slovakia has not yet
developed. There is currently just one private Finally, Smart Metering has been launched
initiative grouping open-minded private companies by Western-Slovakia Distribution Company
in Trencín. On the other hand there are some (Západoslovenská distribučná) in August of 2014.
possibilities to obtain support funds related to The company replaces analog electrometers with
smart solutions from state institutions. Smart Cities smart electrometers in order to collect, transfer
in Slovakia is not viewed in holistically, initiatives and process real consumption data. This is to
are not connected and are mostly fragmented. supply exact amount of electricity in peak times to
Funds are available at the state level, promoting keep absolutely constant voltage and frequency
ecological and sustainable solutions, but these are and eliminate loses caused by oversupplying
not part of wider programs for smart cities. energy to the grid network. Customers are
divided into four categories based on their annual
consumption of electricity. The whole system
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) should be fully implemented by the end of the
year 2020.
SMART TECHNOLOGY
SMART BUILDINGS
As stated above, Slovakia lacks on smart solutions.
Although in Slovakia, particularly in bigger cities The energy efficiency of buildings is one of the
like Bratislava free public Wi-Fi is available. main priorities for the Slovak Government. There
This could be the base for connecting smart are 1,8 million inhabited units in 880,000 apartment
technologies in the future. buildings in Slovakia. About one third of buildings,
which were built before the year 1992, had been
SMART ENERGY reconstructed and insulated by year 2012. About
The most commonly used Smart Energy solution 66% of Slovak population lives in old panel houses,
in the Slovak cities is LED technology installed on which were built during the communist era.
streets. The most innovative city related to LED Buildings consumes about 44% of Slovakia
technology is Senec, where the local municipality energy needs.
was addressed by private company ECO-LOGIC Regarding the energy intensity, Slovakia belongs
with the project of modernization of public lighting. to the most ineffective countries among the EU
Several smaller cities and villages also decided to member states with more than double consumption
follow the example of Senec. of energy in comparison to the EU average
The Western-Slovakia Energy Company consumption. The main aim of the government is
(Západoslovenská energetická spoločnost’) offers not only to promote to build new effective buildings
funds Live Energy (Živá energia) through Ekopolis due to energy certificate ratings, but also to
foundation with aim to increase the energy promote reconstruction of existing buildings. This
efficiency of buildings. is being done through State Housing Development
Fund (Štátny fond rozvoja bývania) which helps to
In terms of water energy, The Eastern-Slovakia finance reconstructions of apartment buildings,
Water Company (Východoslovenská vodárenská mostly panel houses in order to increase energy
spoločnost’) has launched so-called real time efficiency of existing old buildings.

SMART/ALTERNATIVE MOBILITY 1. Amenity planting (alongside roads)

Slovak cities did not develop any alternative 2. Designing and creating new parks
mobility related to car sharing, bike sharing or
3. Revitalization of existing greenery and water
cycling routes. On the other hand the Slovak
components
government financed construction several electric
charging stations in bigger cities that offer free 4. Realization of ecological roofs.
electricity for owners of electric cars.
Bratislava management offered to its inhabitants
Smart thinking is becoming popular also within the to participate and comment creation of the city
private sector. The most active company that rents budget in past. Former leftist Mayor also launched
electric vehicles and builds and operates charging mandatory public presentation of all development
stations for electric vehicles is privately owned projects. Bratislava still lacks on Smart
company GreenWay. The company has recorded Transportation solutions. The city had already
80% increase of customers annually. According to several attempts to launch bike sharing or car
the CEO of GreenWay, Mr. Rastislav Lauko, there is sharing, but this plans never left the negotiating
a huge potential for electric cars in Slovakia. There table. After several fails of local municipality, local
should be 50,000 electric car users in Slovakia activists called White Bikes created their own
according to his estimations by the end of system of bike sharing.
year 2025.
Trenčín:
The Slovak government also supports ecological
solutions in public transport thanks to EU funds It is the only city in the Slovakia that successfully
obtained through the Operational Transport implemented the real Smart City solutions and
Program (OPD – Operačný program doprava) and the only city that has created its own vision
state and municipal co-financing. This included the related to smart solutions. The city publically
purchase of new trams and trolleybuses in two of addressed general requirements and conditions
Slovakia’s biggest cities, Bratislava and Kosice. and the municipality of Trenčín chosen the
For example Bratislava bought 60 new trams in most suitable project at the end of the selection
total amount EUR 152,100,000 and 120 trolleybuses process. The smart city project for Trenčín that
in total amount over EUR 73 million. will be completely done by the end of June 2016
was prepared and implemented in cooperation
with four companies – Slovak Telekom, Cisco,
Kiwi Security and French company Cofely GDF
CHALLENGES
Suez. It is the pilot project in Slovakia which
No specific challenges or market access barriers corresponds with the real definition of Smart City.
have been identified. These four companies financed the whole activity
and the municipality offered its parcels free to
these companies. This investment consists of a
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS brand new Smart City Street in Trenčín, where
implemented technologies like Smart Lights
Bratislava: (LED lights), Smart parking, Smart Transport
The capital city of Slovakia is part of Smart Cities Management, Protection and Security are
thanks to its Smart Environment policy. The connected by Smart Wi-Fi.
municipality revealed its plans to propose and Prešov:
create new green places in the city with the aim
to fight against climate changes. This initiative is Although the city has not been viewed as Smart
known as Bratislava, zelenaj sa” (Bratislava Goes City by the EU standards, the municipality of
Green). The project itself consists of three pillars:

Prešov launched OpenData Catalogue, with the

aim to make public procurement more transparent.
This enables citizens and entrepreneurs to be well
informed about public projects.
SOURCES
Commercial Service: Marian Volent:
marian.volent@trade.gov

South Africa Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW The country of South Africa understands the

need for smart cities and the benefits of their
Smart cities are no longer a preference—they initiatives and looks to work toward countrywide
are quickly becoming a critical necessity in South improvements. Quality of life expectations and
Africa. This is due to the confluence of increasing implementation of best practices across different
urbanization, greater pressure being placed on the industries is a fervent goal that pushes for private
successful management of South African cities and public sector cooperation. Groups like the
due to a rising population, and climate change. South African Local Government Association
Each city needs to have the innovative capacity to (SALGA) promote innovation in local government.
manage a sudden natural crisis, such as flooding, SALGA encourages a mindset of innovation in
and be able to dispatch emergency and medical municipalities. This means innovating around
units without delay to save lives. The digitization of issues and problems that communities face and
IT is further forcing cities to adapt, and, like most thinking about local government in a different
businesses, have a digital strategy in place. way. SALGA’s role is to collect and disseminate
International Data Corporation (IDC) notes that knowledge on innovation, to encourage learning,
South Africa is the leader when it comes to smart and to facilitate the replication of successful
city technology in Africa. South African cities practices in different municipalities. Innovation
recognize that the benefits of smart cities are wide creates connections among communities,
ranging, affecting a broad spectrum of industries government, the private sector and civil society
and making life easier for residents in a multitude seeking innovative ways to meet social needs. The
of ways. South African cities: Johannesburg, Cape SALGA captures the essence of South Africa’s
Town and Durban are taking the lead with various countrywide effort.
smart city initiatives and have put into operation
some variants of smart city solutions.
For cities that implement the ‘smart’ part correctly
and are well managed, the benefits of living in SMART ENERGY
a smart city are plentiful. For governments it
South Africa is in the midst of an energy crisis
means that cities not only can be better monitored
that is resulting in rising energy prices, rolling
and looked after, but also be greatly improved.
blackouts (known as load shedding in South Africa)
Furthermore, through e-government initiatives, cities
and changing energy policies and incentives. As a
would be able to improve governmental processes
result, end users have begun exploring alternative
to its stakeholders, including businesses and
means to ensure their energy security, leading to
citizens. This includes many online services which
the rise of the energy services market. This market
could cut down on process cost and time. Locally,
comprises energy efficiency and embedded
service delivery stands to benefit significantly from
generation services. These two types of energy
having effective systems and processes in place.
services, efficiency and generation, share a similar
The implementation of the City of Johannesburg’s
market space, having been driven to grow by
“load-limiting” smart meter is one such instance,
similar circumstances and are affected by very
enabling the power utility to better monitor and
similar changes in policy and regulations.
manage electricity supply. During periods where the
electricity grid is under pressure, households will be Renewable energy (RE) has gained momentum,
alerted to turn off high-consumption appliances to with a significant rise in the uptake of various
avoid full power cuts. RE technologies such as: solar photovoltaics

(PV), wind energy, biogas and other biofuels, road and non-motorized transport systems
hydroelectricity, landfill gas, geothermal energy that provide commuters with efficient and
and concentrated solar power (CSP). Government economical public transport options.
policy support and procurement programs,
SMART INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
sustainability concerns, reducing RE technology
costs, increasing need for energy security and The Smart Cape Access Project (Smart Cape) is
increasing conventional electricity prices are an initiative of the City of Cape Town’s Directorate
key drivers of this shift, especially in the South of Information Technology to provide free
African context. computer access and Internet connectivity to
the citizens of Cape Town. The pilot program
SMART WATER AND SANITATION
provides access points located in six city libraries
Water demand is increasing at a higher rate and uses open source software and the city’s
than population growth, as income levels of existing infrastructure and resources to minimize
towns rise and demands for food and services costs. Access is provided free of charge on a
increase. Water availability, on the other hand, time-limited basis to registered users, who must
is declining due to competing demands from be library members. Each access point has six
agriculture and industry, and from deteriorating Internet-enabled computers, five for public access
water quality and climate change. This rising and one for administration and library staff. The
demand and diminishing supply will require careful access points are regarded as an extension of the
management of the province’s water resources, libraries’ existing role as information providers.
and carefully placed investments.
The pilot project is an offshoot of the Smart City
The waste industry in South Africa currently Initiative, a technology integration and upgrade
consists mainly of collection and landfilling, with project that aims to:
a limited amount (10%) of recycling. Household
• Promote efficient e-government
waste is managed by municipalities (and/or their
service delivery;
service providers) and commercial and industrial
waste is typically managed by the private sector • Narrow the digital divide;
(in larger municipalities), although some waste
may still be disposed of at municipal landfills. • Empower citizens in the knowledge economy;
and
• Promote effective citizen involvement in
• The Cape Town Integrated Rapid Transit e-governance.
System introduced in 2011 for the launch
of MyCiTI services, which comply with Smart cities are being recognized by prominent
Euro 4 emissions standards. Smaller buses African leaders and they are calling on their
introduced in December 2012 comply with the countries public sector to take action. An example
even stricter Euro 5 emissions standards. is that of Trevor Manual (South African Minister
in the Presidency) who openly spoke out at South
• The City of Johannesburg has a similar system Africa’s GovTechnology Conference in November
called the REA VAYA which offers fast, safe 2013 stating that “… the (SA) constitution doesn’t
and affordable public transport on a network give us an option: it says we must improve the
of bus routes across Johannesburg. quality of life of each person and free the potential
of each person. It doesn’t say we can leave people
• Durban has initiated GO!Durban which is
behind. We recognize that IT, the great enabler,
eThekwini’s very own Integrated Rapid Public
can help us release the potential of each person.
Transport Network. This project will provide
We can push the boundaries of enablement
a sustainable, integrated transport system for
through IT.”
the people of Durban. GO!Durban’s objective
is to implement a world-class network of rail,

SMART BUILDING MATERIALS try and integrate this topic of energy efficiency
and renewable energy into the services that
The Green Building Council of SA overseas
they deliver. So from that perspective, they are
building materials (www.gbcsa) however there
putting in a lot of effort.”- SA National Energy
are no specific “smart city building materials
Development Institute (Sanedi) chief executive
initiatives.”
Kadri Nassiep
Johannesburg:
CHALLENGES There are five smart city projects at the moment:
A number of challenges still stand in the way of 1. The 1100 km fiber network and associated Wi-
smart cities becoming a reality in South Africa, Fi hotspots (408 of a planned 1000 are active)
including an underdeveloped infrastructure
and appropriate skills development. This is a 2. The digital ambassadors program and linked
particularly vexing hindrance to the advancement Maru a Jozi cloud based citizen engagement
of smart cities nationally, requiring well-trained, platform
tech-savvy individuals who understand and
3. The new e-health clinic system
can use IT systems when under pressure.
Unfortunately, this development of human capital 4. The integrated intelligent operations center
does not happen overnight. (currently integrating and analyzing city data
and other inputs to guide deployment - inspired
by both Rio and New York examples)
FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS 5. The Massive Open Online Varsity, or MOOV,
Durban: will provide the kind of learning gateway
that will roll out online university education
Durban has won the IBM Smarter City Challenge. in partnership with international institutions
This will have IBM experts working with the City’s through the city’s public libraries
leadership to develop a roadmap to a smart city
which is aligned to the economic development and
job creation plan for the City.
Cape Town:
• July 26-28, 2016: Green Building
Cape Town is one of the world’s leading “smart Convention 2016
cities”. “What the City of Cape Town has going
• October 2016: Smart Cities Africa –
for it is that it has a very committed energy and
Johannesburg
climate change team working hard… to try
and drive change, and they’re working with the • November 15-17, 2016: AfriCom 2016 –
Transport Department and other departments to Cape Town

Spain Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW most advanced in the world. It revolutionized how

people travel between smart cities in Spain, with
Spain has a national plan for intelligent cities, many new connections being planned. Intelligent
promoted by the Ministry of Industry, Energy traffic and public transportation systems are
and Tourism. The plan invests 153 million Euros rapidly becoming
in smart cities development, coordinates efforts the norm in Spain.
between cities, improves communication and BARCELONA, Spain
Many cities have
offers recommendations for short and long term smart traffic lights, Population Growth, 2013-2014:
development in all smart city sub-sectors. In Spain, bus tracking 0.0%
more than 80% of the population lives in urban apps, and bicycle Total Employment, 2014 (Thousands):
areas, and that number is only growing. Along with sharing programs. 1,980 People
the United Kingdom and Italy, Spain has the most Mallorca is
smart cities in the European Union. About 30% of Real GDP Growth 2013-2014:
installing electric
all smart city initiatives are focused on mobility, -0.004%
car charging
and 20% on sustainability, with 10% of smart cities stations to make Employment Growth, 2010-2014:
implementing multidimensional plans to address the whole island -2.1% Brookings Metro
all aspects of society and living. Smart cities accessible by
are also vital for tourism in Spain, and will play electric vehicles, which will also be available to
a huge part in the growth of the industry. Spain rent. Madrid has already implemented affordable
has many entities working both domestically and public electric bike and cars rental service
internationally to establish and improve intelligent available in most areas of Madrid capital city.
urban systems.
SMART GOVERNANCE
Spain has a one-stop website for all general
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) citizen services, including getting a visa,
SMART ENERGY vaccine appointments, and public employment
opportunities. The Center of Economics and
Spain encourages the use of alternative energy Finance Information makes budgets, pensions,
nationally and in smart cities. It was the first taxes and other government transfers accessible
country to get the plurality of its energy from wind to all citizens. The Commission for the Reform of
power and continues to invest in such technology. Public Administration and the central data entry
Cities like Valladolid are becoming testing grounds portal (FACe) facilitate public-private interaction
for building renovation and renewable energy and mandate digital invoicing.
systems in efforts to cut CO2 emissions by 80%.
Air quality is Spain has historically been subpar,
but recently cities like Madrid have introduced FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS
radical pollution reducing measures, including a
6% reduction in traffic by 2020. Santander:
SMART MOBILITY • Over 12,000 sensors have been installed
throughout the city, to measure and monitor
The national strategy of electric vehicle promotion everything including available parking spots,
focuses on developing the infrastructure, market soil dampness to prevent overuse of sprinklers
and industrialization of electric vehicles in Spain. the amount of trash in dumpsters. The system
The AVE high-speed rail system is one of the

also provides automated dimming of street • A renewal of the entire street lighting system
lamps on empty streets and during a full moon with LED, energy efficient lightbulbs, saving
and automatic ordering of new streetlight 44% of city energy consumption.
bulbs.
• Partnership with IBM for the Madrid
• The city has also created applications that iNTteligent platform, with data streaming in
allow citizens to report potholes and other from sensors, devices, cameras, inspectors
public nuisances. and other suppliers as well as data from
human resource management, job scheduling
• On several occasions, Santander has
and geographic information system.
collaborated with corporations including
Telefónica, IBM, NEC, Ericsson, and Alcatel-
Lucent.
Valencia:
Málaga:
In 2014, Valencia launched the Valencia Smart
• Since 2009, a 25% electricity consumption City Platform (VLCi Platform) which enables
decrease as part of an eco-city initiative the city to centralize information on the cloud
supported by Endesa. on municipal services, based on the European
Fi-Ware standard. The platform compiles key
• Testing grounds for new smart grid tech.
indicators of city management and urban services
• Ubiquitous electric vehicle charging stations based on 350 indicators that monitor and integrate
and cooperation with electric vehicle data on municipal services such as traffic; street
manufacturers. lighting, gardens, local police, levels of pollution,
waste collection and weather, with the objective
Barcelona: of facilitating resident’s access to information and
• Plans to roll-out Wi-Fi on all public buses and optimization of municipal services.
over 1,520 public hotspots, including parks and La Coruña:
schools.
• A new water management system will monitor
• Online open government initiative including municipal water use and quality of drinkable
a citizen participation service for discussing water, saving water and energy, while
ideas and problems, proposing solutions and ensuring quality.
voting on other citizen proposals.
• The Open Data Portal releases a wide variety
• 22@, the central business district, facilitates of local and regional datasets to the public.
the use of public spaces in the city of A variety of municipal apps, including guided
Barcelona to carry out tests and pilot tours and an all-in-one activities calendar.
programs on products and services with an
urban impact, essentially aims to use “city as These were made possible with collaboration
an urban laboratory”. between municipal administration and the Spanish
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. The
• Host of the world-renown Smart City Expo and program is 80% financed by the European Regional
Mobile World Congress. Development Fund (ERDF) through the Operative
Madrid: R+D+I Program.
• Madrid Smart Lab calls for innovative solutions

for actual city problems, to be submitted by
CHALLENGES
private firms and individuals, with the top
suggestions being implemented. No specific challenges or market access barriers
have been identified.

UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR • Association of Electronics, Information

and Communications Technologies,
• October 25-27, 2016: IoT Solutions World Telecommunications and Digital Content
Congress – Barcelona; Companies: http://ametic.es/en
http://www.iotsworldcongress.com/
• USCS Contacts in Spain:
• November 15-17, 2016: European Utility www.export.gov/Spain
Week – Barcelona;
http://www.european-utility-week.com/
• November 15-17, 2016: Smart Cities World Expo RESOURCES
– Barcelona; http://www.smartcityexpo.com/
• Carmen Adrada, International Senior Trade
Specialist, Energy & Environment
LINKS n Carmen.Adrada@trade.gov
• Santander: www.smartsantander.eu • Jesus Garcia, International Senior Trade
Specialist, IoT
• Málaga: www.malaga.es
n Jesus.Garcia@trade.gov
• Barcelona: http://smartcity.bcn.cat/en
• Carlos Perezminguez, International Senior
• Madrid: Trade Specialist, E-mobility
www.madrid.es/portal/site/munimadrid
n Carlos.Perezminguez@trade.gov
• Valencia: www.valencia.es
• SC: Angela Turrin
• A Coruña: www.smart.coruna.es
n angela.turrin@trade.gov
• Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and
Tourism: http://www.agendadigital.gob.es/
• Spanish Network of Smart Cities:
http://www.redciudadesinteligentes.es/
• National Federation of Electrical Installations
and Telecommunications: http://www.fenie.es/

Sweden Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW SMART MOBILITY

Sweden is one of the global leaders in several Sweden’s goal is to have a fossil neutral vehicle
areas of the smart city development. Multiple fleet by 2030, the number of electrical vehicles
national and municipal projects are in place across and charging stations is steadily growing. The
the country, and there are several government Government is investing $ 47 million on electric
funded R&D programs related to the different busses and vehicles in form of environmental
aspects of sustainable urban development. vehicle subsidies and large-scale pilots, one such
Stockholm’s Vision 2040 is a prime example example is the ElectriCity project in Gothenburg
of a long-term commitment to provide smart (www.goteborgelectricity.se) which is testing
socioeconomic urban solutions in Sweden. The electric road/wireless highway tracks, to enable
government has a clear strategy to be at the wider use of electric vehicles beyond urban
forefront of smart urban development and has charging points. Also in Gothenburg, Volvo will
implemented several projects in collaboration be launching the first ever large-scale pilot on
with the private sector and academia, to introduce autonomous vehicles called ‘Drive Me’ in 2017,
integrated environmental IoT solutions. Some with 100 Volvo XC90 models equipped with the
of the challenges with smart urban strategies IntelliSafe Autopilot.
include economic concerns, coordination between
SMART INDUSTRY
different stakeholders and cyber
security concerns. In 2016, the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise
and Innovation launched a strategy for New
Industrialization that is connected, more
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) automated and knowledge-intensive with four
focus areas:
SMART ENERGY
• Make Swedish companies the leaders of
Some 52% of the energy in Sweden comes from digital transformation;
renewable sources (Waste to Energy or WtE,
bioenergy and hydropower), which means that • Increase competitiveness and value of the
the country has already exceeded its 2020 EU sector by sustainable production;
goal. Furthermore, Sweden is aiming to be climate • Boost the industrial skills system and
neutral by 2050. Swedish utilities were among
the first in Europe to complete AMR installation • Make Sweden a testbed for industrial
and there are several smart grid and micro grid production R&D.
projects in place, demonstrating distributed
The government appointed advisory board will be
renewables and self-healing grids. The Swedish
monitoring the implementation of the strategy and
Smart Grid Forum, consisting of public and private
making recommendations in regards to laws and
sector actors and government agencies, has put
regulations, investments in business, education
together a National Smart Grid Action Plan for
and research, public procurement, testbeds and
2015-2030, that outlines the necessary political
open data.
framework, market conditions, societal aspects
and technology innovation for the country. SMART GOVERNANCE
According to the Swedish E-identification Board,
a majority of the 9 million inhabitants in Sweden

have an e-id, and over 1.1 billion transactions Smart, innovative bus stops, equipped with
were made in private and public e-services solar charge stations for both vehicles and
during 2015. Most of the Swedish municipalities mobile devices and touch screens for traffic
offer e-services and over 50% offer mobile apps, and general information are becoming more
ranging from public maintenance to parking common.
and school catering information. Over 70% of
• Sweden has 100% broadband and 4G
Swedish municipalities offer digital tools for citizen
penetration and is a popular location for data
involvement and dialogue either through specific
centers. Facebook is building their second
ICT solutions or social media.
data center in northern Sweden, and the first
eGovlab is the Swedish Center of Excellence climate-positive data center in the world is
for e-governance testbeds. It is managed currently under construction near Falun.
by the Stockholm University and the Swedish
Innovation Agency, Vinnova, and promotes
inclusive, transparent and efficient governance FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS
and management.
Gothenburg:
SMART HEALTHCARE
• Low speed electric vehicles combined
Swedish e-health strategy aims to ensure with specially designed trailers are used
efficient information supply in health and social to distribute goods and collect sorted
care, including national information structure waste fractions.
and interdisciplinary terminology. Over 90%
of the prescriptions issued in Sweden today • A joint goods transportation and delivery for
are electronic. The Swedish eHealth Agency the city shops.
is responsible for developing the integrating • Free Wi-Fi on public busses.
infrastructure between the different stakeholders
and personal health accounts for citizens • Pilot project city for autonomous driving with
http://www.ehalsomyndigheten.se. In late 2015, 100 cars in 2017.
the national Patient Summary 2.0 was launched Eskilstuna:
nationwide, providing an improved digital platform
for critical patient information. • Eight ABB quick charge stations for electrical
vehicles available in the city.
• The public sector plans to have 60% of their
• Congestion charges (taxes) have been electricity from renewable sources, such as
introduced in several Swedish cities to PV and wind, by 2020.
improve the traffic flow. In Stockholm statistics
show reduced traffic by 20% through this • Microgeneration packages are available for
service that utilizes both e-services and mobile the clients of the local utility company for heat
apps. and electricity, mainly from solar and wind.
• There are several university projects analyzing • Infrastructure project ”Spaden” encourages
GIS and Big Data to study infrastructural citizen interaction in city planning, including
challenges and suggest improvements in innovative storm water solutions and
areas such as inefficiencies in logistics, utility greeneries.
services and transportation.
Stockholm:
• Stockholm is investing $ 640 million on
• Stockholm “Vision 2040“: a long-term plan to
48 modern C30 UTO subway trains. The trains
make the city socioeconomically, ecologically
will be delivered starting 2017 and expect
and democratically sustainable and safe for
to commence driverless operation in 2021.
everybody.

• Royal Seaport, with 12,000 homes and LINKS

35,000 workspaces, is a prime example of
modern urban development. This former Vinnova—Swedish Innovation Agency,
brownfield that will be complete and fossil http://www.vinnova.se
neutral by 2030, showcases the latest energy The Swedish Energy Agency,
and infrastructure technologies with smart http://www.energimyndigheten.se
grids, high performing buildings and resident
prosumers. http://djurgardsstaden.se/. Sweden Green Building Council,
http://www.sgbc.se
• Stockholm has a world-class IT infrastructure
and invests a great deal in digital services; “Smart Grid Gotland”,
Kista Science City, Europe’s leading ICT http://www.smartgridgotland.se
cluster, has made Stockholm an international Power Circle— Electric power business interest
center of wireless technology, broadband and organization, http://www.powercircle.org
mobile applications and services.
eGovlab, http://www.egovlab.eu
• Stockholm.se portal aims to provide an
increasing number of e-services to make the Royal Seaport Urban Development Project,
life easier for the citizens. http://www.stockholmroyalseaport.com
CHALLENGES RESOURCES
No specific challenges or market access barriers Commercial Service: Tuula Ahlstrom –
have been identified. tuula.ahlstrom@trade.gov

• October 18-19 2016: World Green Building
Congress – Stockholm;
http://buildingsustainability16.com/

Taiwan Smart City Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW Compared with other countries, Taiwan is at the

early stage of fintech development. The policies
Taiwan is well established in the international that FSC announced demonstrate that financial
community as being at the forefront of deploying institutions have a need for big data consolidation,
Smart technologies. In fact, five Taiwanese cloud technology, artificial intelligence, mobile
cities have managed to gain recognition from the bank, mobile payment/e-payment, block chain
Intelligent Community Forum in the last decade, technology, online lending, and crowdfunding
each being entered as one of the top 7 Intelligent companies in the market. With foreign banks
Community of the Year. Moreover, the cities of accounting for only 1.12% of bank deposits and
Taipei and Taichung have each been awarded the 3.11% of loans in Taiwan as of 2014, there is still a
Intelligent Community of the year in 2006 and 2013 relatively open-market to develop with products
respectively. Other cities recognized were: New and services from the United States.
Taipei City, Kaohsiung City, Taoyuan City, Taitung
County and Hsinchu County. These cities have SMART BUILDINGS
been recognized for implementing smart practices
Despite its efforts to develop renewable sources
in transportation, education, energy, government,
of energy, Taiwan remains a large end-user of
buildings, and smart citizens.
fossil fuels. In order to address this, Taiwan has
been actively promoting energy efficiency and
conservation initiatives to reduce petroleum
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) dependency and negative environmental impact.
FINTECH Taiwan’s Master plan on Energy Conservation
and GHGs Emission Reduction has set targets of
The financial technology (fintech) phenomenon energy efficiency of 33% and decreasing its energy
has swept through Asia and has reached Taiwan. intensity by 50% by 2025. A major component of its
The island’s key technological industries and energy efficiency initiatives entails expanding its
innovation focused economy has led to interest use of smart buildings technology.
in developing its fintech industry. Taiwan
authorities recognize the importance of fintech SMART TRANSPORTATION
and the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) Taiwan in many ways has been at the forefront
has stressed that fintech “should be our core of developing modern transportation systems.
competiveness” and sees fintech as the key to Taipei’s well-managed and integrated bus,
the development of Taiwan’s investment industry. subway, elevated rail lines, and Gondola lift
In 2015 was the first year that Taiwan loosened move efficiently and connect to the countrywide
fintech regulations to allow banks to invest in intercity rail networks. There is an Island-wide
financial technology companies. The goal is electronic toll system in place and electronic
to double coverage/usage of e-payment rates monitoring of parking spaces is the norm rather
(current rate is 25% -27%) and fundraising to than the exception. At the Taipei Main Station
establish an innovation fund to train and cultivate one can board the Taiwan High Speed Rail (HSR)
fintech start-up companies. On May 12 2016, and traverse the island from end to end in 96
Taiwan’s Cabinet green-lighted Apply Pay and minutes traveling at 186mph (300km/h). The city’s
other international mobile payment services’ metro card, the Easycard, is a convenient, cash-
operations. It also requested that the FSC continue reloadable contactless smartcard used to pay for
to loosen related laws. all transportation and is also accepted at hundreds

of convenience stores, libraries, supermarkets, the most important project in the next 40-50 years
and other locations. However, outside of Taipei, and an opportunity to ‘make or break Taiwan’ as
in cities such as Taichung, public transportation it attempts to redefine its position in Asia. The
is underdeveloped and fragmented. In Kaohsiung, project is nearly twelve square miles in size and
widely considered the southern capital of Taiwan, incorporates Smart Technologies throughout the
the city is developing its own transportation site. Since the project was initiated by the Ma
systems, largely independent of Taipei. administration, there is some concern that the
new Tsai Ying-wen administration, which came in
power in 2016 will redefine the project. However,
CHALLENGES common belief is that this project will proceed.
The most significant challenge that U.S. companies Taichung:

will find in Taiwan is local competition. The ICT Taichung, a modern industrial city in central
sector is well developed and there is a strong Taiwan, is set to build the Shui-Nan Smart City
desire from the government to spur domestic as a flagship project of its Industry 4.0 initiative.
innovation and development. That said, smart There is a planned innovation cluster for Taiwan’s
technology companies that offer unique solutions aerospace and smart manufacturing industries.
will find that Taiwan offers a friendly and motivated Located in the heart of Taichung, the proposed
government, transparent rule of law and an development area of 630 acres is part of the
exceptionally forward thinking populace interested original land area of Taichung Airport, and is
in Smart Technology development opportunities. recognized to be the last large land development
opportunity.

Taipei: RESOURCES
Taipei’s Smart City Project Management Office – U.S. Commercial Service Taiwan:
formed in March 2016 is the first city-level program Mei Mei Wang
in Taiwan dedicated to Smart City activities. It is Title: Senior Commercial Specialist
responsible for managing their “Airbox” program Email: Meimei.Wang@trade.gov
(community PM 2.5 air quality monitoring) as Phone: +886 2 2720 1550
well as a broad-based smart city program that
will include the building 6 Smart Public Housing Jim Curtis
projects that include designated plans for Title: Commercial Officer
e-healthcare, e-transportation and IoT-based Email: Jim.Curtis@trade.gov
civic engagement. Phone: +886 2 2720 15
Taoyuan:
In 2014, the Taiwan government announced the
Taoyuan Aerotropolis, a massive $ $20 billion
project to expand and redevelop the Taoyuan
International Airport area. It is viewed by many as

Thailand Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW n

Smart City: Energy Efficiency
Management System
The Thai government’s focus on smart city projects
aligns closely with its national policy of building a n
Smart System: Demand Side and
digital economy and a digital society. The national Response Management, Energy Efficiency
policy is ambitious; not only does it address and Automatic Metering Infrastructure
digital infrastructure and a digital economy, but n
Smart Learning: Smart capacity
also it covers a variety of services, e-commerce,
building programs
e-education, e-industry and e-government. Under
the Smart Grid Policy, Plans and Roadmap, part • Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA): Under
of the Ministry of Energy’s twenty-year National the same national plan, PEA is to undertake
Power Development Plan (2015 - 2036), the Thai a pilot smart city project in Pattaya City,
Government aims to: Chonburi Province, with plans to install 120,000
automatic meter readers and the deployment
• enhance power generation capacity, reliability
of energy efficiency and automatic metering
and quality of the power supply
infrastructure throughout the city. This is a
• engage in energy sustainability and efficiency three year project (2016 - 2019) with a total
investment of Bhat 1,069 million ($ 29 million).
• strengthen utility operation and services
• There are also rumors of a smart city plan for
• leverage on the national economic and the city of Phuket in southern Thailand. As
industrial competitiveness reported in the Bangkok Post in March 2016,
the government will earmark 430 million Bhat
($ 12.4 million) from the 2016 fiscal budget to
KEY INITIATIVES FEAT (BY SECTOR) pursue its plan to develop Phuket as a smart
• Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand city. The fund will be used to finance several
(EGAT): Under Thailand’s Smart Grid Policy, projects such as the building of an innovation
Plans and Roadmap, EGAT will develop a smart park to facilitate start-up entrepreneurs as
grid system that will support the modernization well as training courses as part of a digital
of power generation in Thailand that will entrepreneurship program.
increase energy efficiency and reduce global n
According to Thailand’s Information and
warming. Communication Technology Minister
n
EGAT will take the lead on a pilot project to the smart city project has moved a
develop a smart grid system at Mae Hong step forward after Thailand’s Prince of
Sorn Province. This is a three year project Songkhla University and Busan University
with an estimated investment of Thai Bhat (South Korea) entered a partnership to
780 million ($ 22.6 million). The system will exchange researchers to support start-
focus on: up projects. The letter of intent for the
cooperation, covering knowledge and
n
Smart Energy: Renewable Energy technology sharing, was signed in Busan
Development, Energy Storage and in March 2016 by the mayor of Busan
Charging System and Phuket’s governor. Phuket is now
working on its innovation park, located
at the Prince of Songkhla University, in

collaboration with CAT Telecom – the delay progress towards realizing the country’s
state-owned company that runs Thailand’s Power Development Plan including smart grid/
international telecommunications smart city projects.
infrastructure – which will provide the
Lack of cooperation between regulatory
Internet infrastructure.
authorities is also presents challenges. The fact
that EGAT – the sole public producer of power –
falls under the Ministry of Energy, while the PEA
CHALLENGES and Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) – the
Political stability is always a concern in Thailand. only two distribution and utility providers – fall
Change of governments and cabinet members under the Ministry of Interior creates additional
cause inconsistency in policy implementation. challenges for planning and implementation of
The lack of consistent political support could critical power policies.

Turkey Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW Action Plan 2013-2023, all cities will implement
smart traffic light systems according to the traffic
Smart City projects in Turkey are fewer in number density. Green wave systems, where cars after
than those in European countries and in the encountering
US. This is both an opportunity and a challenge. one red light will
The Ministry of Development with the help of all ISTANBUL, Turkey
pass through
the other relevant ministries, has prepared the Population Growth, 2013-2014:
green lights if they
Information Society Strategy and Action Plan for maintain a specific
1.3%
2015-2018. According to this study, many cities speed. Also to be Total Employment, 2014 (Thousands):
have already introduced smart applications, included are digital 4,961 People
particularly in transport and urban services. traffic signs and
Accessing services through electronic channels Real GDP Growth 2013-2014:
solar powered bus 5.6%
and e-government is the most popular application stops with digital
within municipalities. However smart applications Employment Growth, 2010-2014:
arrival time boards.
in the fields of energy and water management are Currently, all smart 5.9% Brookings Metro
on their way with SCADA and GIS applications transportation
in particular by electric utilities and water and projects are planned and realized by local
sewage administrations in major cities. Smart municipalities, some using their own resources,
metering is yet in very early stages. whereas some use other local or foreign funding
resources. Since there’s no central ITS institution,
it is not possible to get a total amount spent or
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) planned to be spent for all the projects in Turkey.
SMART ENERGY SMART INFRASTRUCTURE
Turkey will spend over $5 billion over the next 5 Preventing water losses is a main priority for
years for the implementation of smart grids, smart the Turkish government. The water authorities
metering and intelligent street lighting. Out of 21 of some large and industrialized cities in Turkey
electric distribution utilities in Turkey, 13 are in the have implemented supervisory Control and Data
various stages of implementing smart grid systems Acquisition (SCADA) systems to identify water
while others are studying different technologies. losses and network failures. However, there is
Turkish Government is enforcing usage of LED a need to expand this system to less developed
street lighting which will be implemented during regions of Turkey as well. In some major cities
the next 5 years. Limited number of utilities are waste to energy systems are being implemented.
using smart meters, which is expected to boom in However, projects on collection and separation
a couple of years’ time. of waste through smart systems in various cities
SMART MOBILITY are required. These projects will probably be
implemented through BOT method. Overall,
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are implementation of smart city projects in the
being installed in many cities of Turkey. However environment sector is not as widespread as others
except the major cities, such as Istanbul, Izmir, like transportation. Some pilot cities have been
and Ankara, the majority are only in initial phases. chosen such as Karaman to initiate smart waste
The Ministry of Transportation has stated in their collection.

FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS EU project performed by the Turkish private

companies Koc Sistem and Otokar, the system
Istanbul: is able to send particular warnings 400 meters
Istanbul is part of the Smart City Service beforehand to the vehicle that approaches
Development Kit (CitySDK) and its application a crossroad.
pilot project, which is funded by the European Belbim, the Istanbul Municipality Informatics
Union’s ICT Policy Support Program as part of company integrated NFC technology with the
the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Istanbul Card. Belbim’s parking automation system
Program (CIP) and led by Forum Virium Helsinki. and unmanned payment kiosk for ISPARK, Istanbul
CitySDK is a pan-European project that will Municipality’s parking management company, is in
create a service development kit enabling the the test phase. ISPARK utilizes the Istanbul Card in
creation of applications across partner cities marinas for the boat parking fee collection.
in the domains of smart mobility, smart tourism The company is also realizing a smart bicycle
and smart participation. renting system.
The U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA) IETT, Istanbul Municipality’s bus and tram
has awarded a grant to the Istanbul Metropolitan company, realized smart bus/tram stops in 750
Municipality (IMM), the administrative body different points accompanied with the MobIETT
responsible for the general management of application which enables passengers to access
Istanbul. The grant provides technical assistance the information of the smart stops. A special card
to improve city operations, enhance crisis and is developed for the visually impaired citizens. If
disaster management, and provide efficient and they swipe their cards at the smarts stops, they
reliable public services for the citizens of Istanbul. can get information vocally.
The project will focus on big data on procuring
advanced IT solutions and developing a cloud- Izmir:
based environment capable of aggregating data
• Izmir has a SCADA system to centrally manage
from existing municipal databases.
the water distribution system.
IBM and Vodafone cooperated with IMM
• With WizmirNET project, İzmir Municipality
Transportation Corp to make a smart transportation
provides Internet in the open areas.
project. IBM utilized its data processing and
analysis solutions, Vodafone used its mobile • İzmir Municipality has activated the Trunked
communication technologies and Transportation Radio System, which even works in the times
Corp utilized its analytical and transportation of disaster and emergency.
knowledge. Additionally IBM launched Turkish
• Izmir has a very advanced transportation
Smart Cities Technology Center, which provides
system which is mentioned in the smart
technological solutions to the problems
mobility section and the city has plans to do
generated by urban life.
more investments in this sector.
Smart Mobility applications are very widely used
in Istanbul. Pedestrian Electronic Detection
System project by Isbak, Istanbul Municipality’s CHALLENGES
transportation telecommunication and security
technology company, aims to prevent the delay Barriers are mainly lack of funding and qualified
rates at the crossroads and abolish the emission human resources. The lack of GIS infrastructure is
of harmful gases. It is a smart signalization and another challenge; only 3% of municipalities have
electronic supervision system. In the `Talking completed their GIS investments or implemented
Roads & Talking Vehicles` project, which is an GIS systems.

UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR KEY ORGANIZATIONS:

• Smart City Institute -
http://www.akillisehirenstitusu.com/ &
• October 2016: WICS – World Intelligent Cities
http://www.novusens.com/
Summit & Exhibition – Ankara;
http://www.wicsummit.com/ • Turkish Green Building Institute -
http://www.cedbik.org/default_eng.asp
• October 2016: SBE16 – The sustainable Built
Environment Conference – Istanbul; • Turkish Informatics Foundation -
http://www.sbeistanbul.com/ http://www.tbv.org.tr/en/
• March 2017: Antalya City Expo – Antalya; • Public Technology Platform -
http://www.anfascityexpo.com/ http://www.kamuteknolojiplatformu.org/
• April 2017: The 4th International Istanbul Smart
Grid and Cities Congress – Istanbul;
http://www.icsgistanbul.com/en/ RESOURCES:
• May 2017: International Smart City • Commercial Service: Yaprak Cakilcioglu –

Congress – Ankara: yaprak.cakicioglu@trade.gov
http://www.akillisehirlerkonferansi.com/
• October, 2017: Kent Expo Urbanism and City
Demands Fair – Izmir;
http://kentexpo.izfas.com.tr/en/anasayfa/

Uganda Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW ICT

USAID and other organizations have recognized • The National Information Technology
the opportunities for smart city solutions in Authority-Uganda is implementing the National
Ugandan cities such as Kampala. For example, The Data Transmission Backbone Infrastructure
World Bank chose Kampala to host the upcoming and e-Government infrastructure project.
East and Central Africa Cities Development Forum. Some phases of the project have been
However, it is unclear if the Government of Uganda implemented.
drives the interest of smart solutions.
• Some towns (e.g. Kampala, Jinja, and Entebbe)
and Government ministries are connected to a
functional network fiber cable.
• A few online services are functional including
SMART TRANSPORTATION electronic payment of taxes, registration of
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has tax identification number for tax purposes,
identified, in its strategic plan, key components business name reservation and land title
of an integrated transport network including verification.
developing multimodal transportation. Public
buses were recently introduced although the initial
project has since been delayed. The passenger UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
train service has also recently been introduced.
• October 2-11, 2016: International Trade Fair
SMART ELECTRICITY
Prepaid meters are in place for electricity. Not
all Kampala city dwellers use prepaid electricity
meters but UMEME is rolling out to the other parts
(and countrywide).

Ukraine Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW to improve the efficiency of the work of the

police, to reduce response time, to create
Ukraine is the largest country in Europe by area municipal police units to ensure additional
and the sixth largest by population, making it the safety in the city.
world’s 32nd most populous country. In terms of
human resources, Ukraine is among the world’s INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
top ten most intellectually developed nations. It
• Single public transport e-ticket
ranks fourth place in the world by the number of
people with higher education. Smart City is a new • Transport dispatch control for managing the
trend in Ukraine initially targeting Kyiv and Lviv. In movement of public transport in Kyiv and
October 2015, Kyiv Investment Agency, presented optimizing fuel consumption
Kyiv Smart City Concept. Kyiv Investment Agency
• Smart transport management system – to
is an organization that would coordinate smart
improve the efficiency of the city’s transport
city projects on behalf of Kyiv City Administration.
system and to significantly optimize traffic
In April 2016, Kyiv Smart City Expert Council
within the city.
was formed. The main task of the Council is to
evaluate the initiatives and to enable public control
over smart city projects selection, decision-
making and implementation of Kyiv Smart City CHALLENGES
Concept. However, lack of financing and expertise No specific challenges have been identified at
will continue to stall the smart city initiatives this time.
implementation. Kyiv is still trying to find the best
legal framework for private –public partnership to
be offered to companies willing to participate in
Kyiv smart city development.
Kyiv:
Kyiv is one of the largest and most promising
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) cities in Central and Eastern Europe – a capital
SMART E-GOVERNANCE city with developed infrastructure, significant
resources, great human and knowledge potential
• Property management system - a complex and gradually growing innovative sector, primarily
system for managing communal properties of in the segment of information and communication
the Kyiv City Administration technologies. As of today, Kyiv has implemented:
• Electronic services – transparent public Kyiv Citizen Card – Multifunctional electronic ID
services for residents of Kyiv. card which is a carrier of the cardholder’s personal
• Electronic passport office - to create registry data. The card supports various applications
of Kyiv’s residents and property owners. relating to the provision of social welfare benefits,
city service and many other functional options.
SMART SAFETY
Online Participatory Budget – public access to
• Police surveillance system and operational information concerning the planning and execution
control. The aim is to introduce video of Kyiv city budget.
surveillance intelligent tools and analytics

Electronic Procurement – a system to ensure Wi-Fi in Subway – passengers can use free
transparent and effective public spending and to Internet on most central stations.
prevent corruption through public scrutiny and
expanded range of suppliers.
E-services – around twenty online services have UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
been launched. • Kyiv Smart City Forum -TBD
1551 Service – in addition to existing Kyiv 1551 hot • Lviv Smart City Day – TBD
line, the same service has been launched on a
website of Kyiv City Administration. Citizens can
also now download the 1551 application for iOS LINKS
and Android to get updates and report on issues in
the city. Kyiv Smart City
http://www.kyivsmartcity.com/?lang=en
Health Portal - every citizen of Kiev can quickly
and easily find out if needed medication is in stock
in the capital’s hospitals.
RESOURCES:
Easy Access to Subway – in 2015, Kiev became
SC: Iulia Myronenko: iulia.myronenko@trade.gov
the fourth city in the world, where a new fare
technology in the City Metro was implemented.

United Arab Emirates Smart Cities Guide

GDP – Per Capita: $43,089
Major Urban Areas: Dubai: 2.46 million; Abu Dhabi : 2.65 million
UAE Population: 9.46 million
Industries: Petroleum, Construction, Aerospace, Tourism
SMART CITY OVERVIEW The United Arab Emirates have long been
regarded as leaders in science and technology
The United Arab Emirates is a rapidly emerging in the Middle East, and is constructing spaces to
economy and is at the forefront of technological accommodate all kinds of global innovators, from
innovation in the Middle East. Increasing social tech industry giants and engineering firms, to
consciousness of energy usage and government startups and universities, thanks to the UAE’s
desires to diversify the economy by drawing 2021 Smart Strategy.
technological innovation to the Gulf are primary
drivers behind Dubai and and Abu Dhabi’s smart
city campaigns.
84% of the UAE’s population currently lives
SMART ENERGY
in urban environments, 96% use the Internet
frequently, 77% use • Shams Dubai: All homes to be fitted with solar
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates smartphones on a panels by 2018.
Population Growth, 2013-2014: daily
basis, and 85% of • Masdar City: Two desalination plants in
1.7% operation, several solar facilities, and the Al
households have
Total Employment, 2014 (Thousands): access to broadband Reyadah carbon capture & recycling plant.
2,080 People Internet. • Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park:
Real GDP Growth 2013-2014: Will provide 1,000 MW of solar energy (7% of
The Government
0.77% of Dubai, the Dubai total energy) by 2020; 35% of total by 2030.
Employment Growth, 2010-2014: Smart City Office, the • $ $7 billion allocated to smart grid renovations
2.6% Brookings Metro Government of Abu by Dubai Utilities District, including water
Dhabi, the Masdar reservoirs & clean coal.
Institute of Science & Technology, and Abu Dhabi
Technological Development Committee have • Waste Elimination: Loss in power transmission
been collaborating on various innovative, smart 3.25% (6-7% in EU), water loss is 8.2% (15%
tech projects since 2011. At present, the UAE is in North America), with $2 billion invested in
employing over 100 strategies in six focus areas reduction plans.
to transform over 1,000 government agencies and • Integrated energy strategy to employ nine new
functions to elevate Dubai and Abu Dhabi’s Smart clean energy strategies by 2025.
City Index rating.

SMART MOBILITY which can self-calculate personnel, energy, &

supplies needed for scheduled events.
• Dubai Metro to construct 421 km of new metro
lines, including 150 new stations. • Dubai has the 9th largest square footage of
smart building space in the world.
• Dubai plans to increase public transportation’s
share of total mobility by 20% by 2020. SMART HEALTHCARE
• Abu Dhabi Traffic Management: AD to • Dubai plans to implement an Electronic
implement new computerized traffic Medical Records and Hospital Information
control system (‘Scoot’ system) to manage System by 2017. The system will create a
traffic flows. centralized patient record system for all
healthcare facilities in Dubai.
• Dubai to construct 900 km of bicycle and
pedestrian pathways by 2021. • Dubai Healthcare Authority is currently
investigating Telemedicine options, and may
• The number of vehicles in Dubai nearly
create an online symptom checking platform
doubled from 740,000 in 2006 to 1.4 million in
for patients to remotely access healthcare.
2014. This average annual increase of 8.2% is
one of the highest in the world. Multiple back- • Abu Dhabi plans to implement tablet check-in
end data monitoring & management systems platforms in all healthcare facilities to help
will manage traffic flows and eliminate eliminate wait times for patients, including
congestion, similar to Abu Dhabi. symptom self-reporting at check-in.
• Wireless sensors monitoring parking • New data analysis systems will compile
availability, traffic, auto incidents, road usage, healthcare analytics reports for each facility &
etc. will communicate information to multinational trends to identify major public health
modal data synthesis centers in Dubai, which risks.
will then communicate updates to drivers via a
• UAE currently lacks regulated method of
mobile app.
compiling national healthcare data; centralized
• Dubai & Abu Dhabi currently conducted large- health system will allow for creation of data-
scale studies on driverless cars for usage at driven health policies.
World Expo 2020.
SMART BUILDING
• Estidama: Abu Dhabi now rates new buildings
via a “pearl system” measuring building Masdar City:
sustainability. The first building measuring 5 Emirate: Abu Dhabi
pearls on the Estidama system was built in Population: 40,000 (anticipated)
Masdar City in 2015. Web: www.masdar.ae
• Dubai plans to implement Building Established in 2008 under Sheikh Mohammed bin
Management Systems in all new and Zayed Al Nahyan’s subsidiary company Mubadala,
government buildings. Systems will synthesize Masdar City is a “greenprint” for rapidly
data collected from wireless sensors to urbanizing, self-sustaining cities of the future.
decrease energy and water wastage. The site contains the largest installation of solar
• Dubai plans to reduce water & energy usage panels in the Middle East, and generated over
by 30% by 2030. 2,960,000 Mwh of wind, solar, and hydropower in
2015, far more than the 46,513 Mwh of energy the
• Abu Dhabi plans to implement facility site expended that same year. Every building in the
management systems in hospitality buildings, site is LEEDS or Estidama certified, and Masdar is

home to the Masdar Institute and the International commuters to easily reach their destinations
Renewable Energy Agency’s headquarters. In 2012, without using cars.
the city won the Best Environmentally Sustainable
Build Award in the International Awards for
Livable Communities. UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
Tecom Park: • GITEX
Emirate: Dubai October 16-20 2016
Population: 18,000 commuters World Trade Center Dubai, UAE
Web: www.tecomgroup.ae www.gitex.com
TECOM Investment Park established a • SMART DATA SUMMIT

Sustainability Department in 2006, and has rapidly May 23-24, 2016
improved sustainability policies over the last Sofitel The Palm Dubai, UAE
decade. 81% of buildings are LEED-certified, and www.bigdata-me.com
small solar panel plants exist on several buildings. • ARAB FUTURE CITIES SUMMIT
In accordance with TECOM sustainability November 8-9, 2016
principles, all lighting, plumbing, and HVAC fixtures Palazzo Versace Dubai, UAE
have been retrofitted to either more sustainable www.smartcitiesdubai.com
models or to include wireless sensors that monitor
energy usage & reduce energy waste. Nutrient & • GCC MUNICIPALITIES
water retention additives have been incorporated & SMART CITIES CONFERENCE
into garden soil, and existing plants were replaced September 27-29, 2016
with water-efficient native substitutes. All lighting Ritz Carlton Dubai, UAE
& water fixtures contain restricted outputs to www.datamixgroup.com
further reduce energy waste. • MIDDLE EAST SMART LIGHTING
Dubai South: & ENERGY SUMMIT
September 26-27, 2016
Emirate: Dubai Etihad Towers, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Population: 1,000,000 (anticipated) www.lightingsummit.com
Web: www.dubaisouth.ae
• SMART SKYSCRAPERS SUMMIT
As Dubai’s newest urban center and the future May 16-17, 2016
home of World Expo 2020, Dubai South is Sofitel The Palm Dubai, UAE
implementingnewest smart technologies, including www.smartskyscrapers.com
new systems of water management, cool-air
preservation, energy management, recycled
materials construction, and waste disposal. 30% RESOURCES
of the materials used to construct the World Expo
2020 site will be reused, and 50% will be recycled CS Info:
post-Expo. Dubai South will be the most energy-
Mr. Ashok Ghosh
efficient urban settlement ever constructed in UAE.
Commercial Specialist
Bike lanes and expanded public transportation
US Consulate Dubai
systems will reduce petroleum usage and car
Umm Hurair 1, Dubai, UAE
emissions, while allowing the 1 million expected
Email: Ashok.Ghosh@trade.gov
residents and 1 million expected non-resident

KEY ORGANIZATIONS • Dubai Plan 2021

Abu Dhabi: n
Mid-term strategies for achievement of
Dubai’s 2030 goals, including Smart City &
• Abengoa, www.abengoa.com sustainability initiatives.
• ADNOC, www.adnoc.ae n
www.dubaiplan2021.ae
• Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity, • Dubai Electricity & Water Authority
www.adwea.ae
n
Overview of city-wide water & energy
• Dong Energy, www.dongenergy.com reduction strategies, including building
• Sener, www.sener.es requirements.
Dubai: n
www.dewa.gov.ae/customer/
SMARTInitiatives.aspx
• Dubai Electric & Water Authority,
www.dewa.gov.ae • Masdar City
• The Executive Council, www.dubai.ae n

Research, Development, Investment, and
Living homepage for Masdar City.
• Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority, www.dsoa.ae
n
www.masdar.ae
• Smart Dubai Agency, www.smartdubai.ae
• Smart Dubai Plan
• Dubai Plan 2021, www.dubaiplan2021.ae
n
Full outlines of all 1,000 initiatives in six
focus areas over 26 government agencies
LINKS to achieve the Smart Dubai policy goals by
2030, including information on 11 private
• Smart Cities Trade News partner corporations.
n
Current information about upcoming trade n
www.smartdubai
events and forums concerning Dubai
Smart City initiatives.
n
www.smartcitiesdubai.com
• UAE Interact
n
Resource of compiled information about
federal policy and initiatives pertaining
to Smart City developments from multiple
UAE agencies. Search “Smart City”
for results.
n
www.uaeinteract.com

United Kingdom Smart Cities Guide
SMART CITY OVERVIEW congestion: traffic congestion expected to

cost the UK economy US$33 billion annually
Smart City projects are exceptionally well by 2030, a 63% increase on the cost in 2013. A
supported in the UK and the country is indeed wide range of intelligent transport systems has
home to a large number of smart cities. According been implemented to tackle this issue including
to a report by the European Parliament, the UK is congestion charging zones and Oyster cards. The
one of only three European countries that has more UK is also close to an electric car revolution which
than 31 cities with at least one smart initiative, the could see driverless vehicles charge up as they
others being Italy and France. The UK Government use a Scalextric-style road network across the
is pushing for rapid and sustainable partnerships country. The UK Ministry of Transport has said a
to realize their vision for future cities. There has new government strategy would be unveiled within
been immense growth in this initiative and the UK two years to give Britain a leading position in the
is taking advantage of electric car market in both usage and production.
LONDON, United Kingdom the technology sector Key to the sweeping reforms will be a systematic
to advance economic plan to install recharging points on roads across
Population Growth, 2013-2014: growth as well. The
1.1% the UK so cars do not run out of electricity as well
UK Government, as thousands in London and other towns
Total Employment, 2014 (Thousands): through Innovate UK,
and cities.
8,702 People has implemented a
Real GDP Growth 2013-2014: series of programs SMART ENERGY
3.0% that provide funding
The UK has quickly developed into one of the
directly to cities for
Employment Growth, 2010-2014: most attractive markets in the world for advanced
investment in smart
2.9% smart grid technology and applications. Thanks to
Brookings Metro initiatives. Innovate
a highly competitive electricity sector and recent
UK has also launched
efforts by the government and regulators, the U.K.
the ‘Future Cities Catapult’, funded with up to $75
market offers many opportunities for innovators in
million over five years. The Catapult will explore
the smart grid ICT segment. One of the UK flagship
ways that public services can be integrated in
projects is the mass roll-out of smart meters by
a smart way to boost the economy and benefit
2020: this involves 53 million gas and electricity
citizens and will also bring together planners
meters to be replaced at a cost of $18 billion.
and technology companies to assist the private
sector in understanding the specific solutions SMART WATER & WASTE INFRASTRUCTURE
cities require. Additionally in cooperation with the
As a result of rowing population, it is estimated
British Standards Institution, the UK Department of
that the UK demand for water will exceed supply
Business, Innovation and Skills has established a
by 10% by 2025. In addition, climate change poses
program to develop smart city standards.
a threat to the UK’s flood-prone areas. Smart
technology has not been used to its full potential to
address these challenges and therefore presents
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) opportunities for business, for example to provide
SMART MOBILITY & water utility companies with solutions in the areas
TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE of smart leakage detection, smart metering, data
analytics and smart flood risk management.
Intelligent transport systems are important
given the increasing economic impact of

With regard to waste digital technology can discussion, polls and surveys. SpaceHive, the
facilitate the transition from the linear model platform for crowd-funding civic projects, has
of making, using, and disposing of items to a so far raised $2.5 million for projects across 68
circular model of reusing and remanufacturing. cities, towns and villages since its inception in
Opportunities for smart technologies exist in the 2012. The London Datastore has over 850 datasets
areas of data analytics, resource management, covering themes from employment and skills
online sharing platforms, smart bins, and optimized to transparency and health services. Today the
refuse collection. Datastore receives over 30,000 visits a month. The
Leeds Data Mill opens data from public, private
SMART BUILDINGS
and third sector organizations, including utilities,
The UK planning system is going through a to reveal city conditions and opportunities. Leeds
renaissance in terms of applications for new also has a digital communication project to reduce
construction projects for example the volume of social isolation among the elderly. Open Data
projects that have received planning permission Bristol opens up access to Bristol’s data in order
to accommodate London’s growing population is to make it easier for citizens, researchers and
currently at 260,000 homes. The Old Oak and Park developers to access, analyze and
Royal Development Corporation (ODPC) is one of share information.
the largest regeneration projects in the UK, with
over 25,000 homes being built over 30 years. OPDC
have committed to developing a smart city strategy CHALLENGES
for the area, which will create opportunities for
trialing and implementing innovative solutions The UK is an open, transparent market with no
on a large scale. access barriers for U.S. suppliers which are
indeed very active in the UK smart cities space.
SMART HEALTHCARE
A lack of funding is the major obstacle to the
Budgetary constraints, demographic changes realization of smart cities with many local
and increased demand continue to place a government authorities that might want to invest
burden on an already strained health and social in the roll-out of smart city infrastructure facing
care system. The UK smart healthcare sector is financial difficulties. Another main challenge is
predicted to grow by an additional $1.4 billion by presented by social obstacles, including the lack
2018 as a result of the increased use of innovative of consumer demand and security and privacy
technology to provide cost-effective solutions and concerns. A further challenge for the UK in
more diverse models of care. Growth is expected creating smart cities is that many public services
in the wearables, health apps, analytics, telecare are privatized to a greater extent than in other
and telehealth segments as part of the push European countries and implementing smart
towards preventive care, independent living, and technology that is interoperable across the various
patient self-care and monitoring. private sector suppliers is extremely challenging.
SMART GOVERNANCE
Supporting citizen-led, bottom-up initiatives, FEATURED CITIES AND/OR PROJECTS
and engaging a broad spectrum of people is at
the heart of the UK smart governance strategy. London:
At a national level, the UK Government Digital London offers a fertile environment for businesses
Service, part of the Cabinet Office, work with the with smart city products and services, and offers
various national departments to help them to build a sizeable market to tap into. It is estimated
platforms, standards, and digital services. At city- that London’s smart city market could reach
level, Talk London, for example, was created by approximately $13.4 billion by 2020 across the
the Greater London Authority to enable Londoners following sectors: smart energy, smart transport,
to participate in policy making by joining online

smart healthcare (including assisted living), Glasgow:

smart infrastructure (combining waste and water
In 2013, Glasgow beat a host of other UK cities
sectors), smart governance, smart security, and
to win funding worth $35m to explore innovative
smart buildings.
ways to use technology and data to make life
The deployment of smart solutions has started to in the city safer, smarter and more sustainable.
address energy challenges in London (e.g. security Glasgow Operations Centre is a state-of-the-art
of supply, ageing infrastructure, fuel poverty), integrated traffic and public safety management
such as trialing smart grid solutions (UK Power system, created with the aid of the Innovate UK
Networks) and installing smart meters in homes. funding. The facility has the capability to provide a
coordinated, real-time, intelligence-led, response
Transport is one of London’s most advanced
to incidents large and small across the city.
sectors with regards to using data and technology
to improve decision-making and service delivery. The Future City Glasgow program is opening up
Transport for London, responsible for the city’s data about the city, looking at innovative ways to
public transport and road network, is heavily harness it, and make it discoverable for
reliant on data and smart technologies to optimize everyone’s use.
traffic flows and improve customer experience.
Sheffield:
Solutions which help TfL perform these tasks
better present market opportunities for new and • Sheffield Smart Lab seeks innovative solutions
existing businesses. to address two major challenges that Sheffield
faces: to energize the city center, and to
Birmingham:
support people to live independently
• Second largest city in the UK and the youngest
• More than 21,403 people work in the digital
city population in Europe
industry
• Birmingham Smart City Commission focuses
• Companies in the region boast one of the
on using digital technologies, data and
highest rates of turnover growth of any cluster
connectivity to support a more joined up
in the UK at 47%
approach to how services are co-produces
• Energy Efficiency: residents can now borrow
• TechBirmingham promotes the city’s
smart electric monitors from libraries for free
technology ecosystem by highlighting tech
and eliminate energy usage
companies in the region and attracting
technologists and entrepreneurs to the area
• Birmingham is one of the UK’s major digital UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
hubs, with over 6,000 tech firms employing
some 38,300 people. • January 23-24, 2017:
IoT Tech Expo Global – London;
Leeds: http://www.iottechexpo.com/category/london/
• 35% of the UK’s Internet traffic is hosted • February 1-2, 2017: Smart Cities UK – London;
in Leeds http://www.smartcityuk.com/programme/
• Over $150m investment in digital infrastructure • April 2017: Smart t Future Cities – London;
is expected from the public sector https://smarttofuture.com/
• Leeds has a strong digital technology sector,
specializing in data analytics and management
which underpins strengths across Health
analytics, FinTech and Data Sciences.

LINKS
• Smarter UK / Tech UK: smart infrastructure
initiative,
https://www.techuk.org/about/smarter-uk
• Future Cities Catapult: center for
excellence and innovation,
http://futurecities.catapult.org.uk/
• Innovate UK: innovation agency,
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/
innovate-uk
• TechCity UK: deliver programs to accelerate
the growth of digital businesses,
http://www.techcityuk.com/
• HyperCatCity: consortium driving interoperable
smart cities, http://www.hypercatcity.com
RESOURCES
SC: Claudia Colombo – claudia.colombo@trade.gov

Uruguay Smart Cities Guide

Major urban areas: Montevideo – 1.707 million101
Industries: food processing, electrical machinery, transportation equipment, petroleum products
SMART CITY OVERVIEW have broadband Internet access, 80% of Central

Administration procedures to be electronic,
Uruguay is known for being a more peaceful and and publicly available electronic reports from
stable country than some of its neighbors in the government offices.104 While some of these goals
South America region. It also has the highest %age are yet to be met, Uruguay currently has the
of people living in urban areas in the western highest ICT Development Index (IDI) level of any
hemisphere at 95.3% of its total population.102 Latin American country, and ranks 50th in the
Although only 59% of its total population uses the world.105
Internet, Uruguay exports more software than
any other Latin American country as of 2014.103
Montevideo, the economic and political capital,
SMART TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY
represents the country’s only large urban area and
features the vast majority of smart city initiatives. The Montevideo government plans to integrate
smart central management for intersections with
traffic lights that will include real-time information
KEY INITIATIVES (BY SECTOR) on traffic conditions. The government is still
collecting traffic data.106 A group called Gente en
ICT Bici are now pushing the Montevideo government
In 2007, the government created the Agency to develop infrastructure that is more bicycle
for the Development of Electronic Government friendly.107
Management and an Informed and Knowledgeable SMART CLEAN ENERGY
Society. This agency has received pubic funding
to encourage electronic and open government Renewable energy now accounts for almost 95%
through various digital initiatives. The National of the country’s electricity.108 The Intendencia de
Government also adopted Digital Agenda Uruguay.
The Agenda sets certain goals for electronic 104
http://uruguaydigital.gub.uy/wps/wcm/connect/urudigital/2da1c746-
development, including: 80% of households to 5424-48b6-8e3e-c3076ea285d8/ADU+III+2011-2015+English.
pdf?MOD=AJPERES
105
http://uruguaydigital.gub.uy/wps/wcm/connect/urudigital/205aaf68-
100
All basic data is from the CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/ ac22-4cec-ad15-95ca4a35a2c0/IDI.pdf?MOD=AJPERES
library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/uy.html 106
http://smartcitybusinessinstitute.com/index.php/en/city-halls/64-
101
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ america/207-smart-cities-uruguay
uy.html 107
http://www.fomin.org/en-us/Home/FOMINblog/Blogs/DetailsBlog/
102
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ ArtMID/13858/ArticleID/2943/Smart-mobility-Developing-solutions-for-
fields/2212.html#uy Latin-America%E2%80%99s-urban-infrastructure.aspx
103
http://smartcitybusinessinstitute.com/index.php/en/city-halls/64- 108
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/03/uruguay-
america/207-smart-cities-uruguay makes-dramatic-shift-to-nearly-95-clean-energy

Montevideo plans to introduce 50 electric cabs in

the city with a broader goal to replace fossil fuels
in all public transportation.109 Uruguay now plans to
reduce carbon emissions by 88% by 2017.110

Montevideo:
• Mercer ranked Montevideo as the city with the
best quality of life in Latin America in 2015.111
• Proyecto Montevideo 2030 is a project to
create a more integrated and open city. Some
of its plans include promoting active bicycle
transport and revitalizing public spaces in
the city.112
109
http://smartcitybusinessinstitute.com/index.php/en/city-halls/64-
america/207-smart-cities-uruguay
110
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/03/uruguay-
makes-dramatic-shift-to-nearly-95-clean-energy
111
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Population: 94 million (July 2015 est.)
GDP: $198.8 billion (nominal, 2015 est.); $550 billion (PPP, 2015 est.)
GDP growth: 6.7% (2015 est.)
SMART CITY OVERVIEW infrastructure

projects, more HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam
The smart city concept was introduced in funding will Population Growth, 2013-2014:
Vietnam in 2007 when the Ministry of Construction likely become 2.2%
conducted a study on urban infrastructure available for the
planning for the development of a smart city Total Employment, 2014 (Thousands):
development
in Vietnam. Vietnamese municipalities have 4,313 People
of smart cities
since paid increasing attention to planning and in major cities Real GDP Growth 2013-2014:
managing urban infrastructure as the population throughout 7.1%
rapidly urbanizes. From 2010 to 2015, urbanization Vietnam. Employment Growth, 2010-2014:
in Vietnam grew nearly 33 % per year. As of 2015,
one in three Vietnamese people lives in urban
3.9% Brookings Metro
areas. The United Nations projects that half of the KEY INITIATIVES
Vietnamese will live in cities by 2040.
(BY SECTOR)
Multinational companies, including well-known Vietnamese governments at both the central
U.S. information and communication technology and city levels have institutionalized their
(ICT) companies, have organized several smart strong support of smart city development in
city conferences in Vietnam. These companies are Vietnam. Below are some recent directives that
introducing smart city technologies and solutions demonstrate this commitment.
to Vietnamese authorities and municipalities
while at the same time educating them on the • Resolution #36-NQ/TW issued by the Vietnam
benefits of applying smart technology to planning Political Bureau in March 2014 provides
and managing urban infrastructure and providing direction on promoting ICT applications to
better public services to people and businesses. serve the purpose of sustainable economic
growth and international integration.
Growing Internet and mobile phone penetration
• Resolution #36a/NQ-CP issued by the Prime
is helping to drive smart city development and
Minister in October 2014, provides direction
e-government solutions. As of December 2015,
on developing e-government in Vietnam with
Vietnam has 49 million Internet users and 36 million
the objectives of enhancing the capacities
broadband Internet subscribers, with a penetration
of governmental agencies and better serving
rate of 52 % and 40 %, respectively. The country
residents and businesses.
has 136 million mobile phone subscribers and
20.7 million smart phone users, with a penetration • In April 2015, the Prime Minister issued
rate of 144 % and 22 %. Significant financing Resolution #26/NQ-CP, which specifies Ministry
support provided by international donors, such and local authority responsibilities in creating
as the World Bank, is behind this growth. As the action plans, implementing, monitoring, and
Vietnamese government continues to encourage evaluating ICT application and development
and facilitate public-private partnerships in urban processes.

• Decision No.1819/QD-TTg provides specific infrastructure management; and (5) completion of

guidelines for applying ICT, specifically for infrastructure sub-projects initiated under the Da
e-government services and transportation Nang Priority Infrastructure Investment Project.
management. The World Bank will provide most of the funds
– about $270 million – with the central and state
• Ho Chi Minh City Party’s Committee issued
governments providing the rest.
Decree 08 in January 2015, which provides
direction on promoting ICT applications to Ho Chi Minh City:
the management of a few priority sectors
In 2015, Ho Chi Minh City (population 7.3 million),
including: healthcare, transportation,
the economic heart and largest city in Vietnam,
environmental monitoring and cybersecurity.
began implementing a “Green Transport
Development Project” with a focus on city-wide
infrastructure and service delivery. The project will
CHALLENGES
finance the development of a 23-kilometer-long bus
Vietnam’s high level of foreign debt may impede rapid transit system using green technology which
the development of smart cities in the future. will be capable of transporting 28,300 passengers
According to the Ministry of Finance, Vietnam’s a day. The World Bank committed $124 million
foreign debt reached $82 billion in 2015, accounting to this project which is scheduled to conclude
for about 41.5 % of Vietnam’s GDP. The Vietnamese by 2020. Additionally, in 2015, Ho Chi Minh City
government wants to keep foreign debt below 50 % approved a private investment of $450 million for
of the country’s GDP. Consequently, municipalities an urban flood control project involving smart
are struggling to justify smart city expenditures out communications solutions.
of their own budgets. Lack of personnel who have
Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi (population 7.1 million),
the requisite skills and experience to plan and
is promoting more environmentally sustainable
manage urban infrastructure and build and operate
transport modes and urban development plans
e-government service systems is another hurdle to
through its Urban Transport Development Project.
further developing smart cities in Vietnam.
This project includes plans to lower Hanoi’s
transport-related greenhouse gas emissions
through the introduction of enhanced road and
bus infrastructure.
Da Nang:
In addition, municipalities of several other cities
Da Nang (population 950,000), is Vietnam’s fourth have expressed interest in developing smart cities
largest city but the first to implement a smart city in the future, including: Thai Nguyen, Hai Phong,
project in Vietnam. From 2008 to 2013, Da Nang Quang Ninh, Nha Trang, Binh Duong, Da Lat, Can
deployed smart city infrastructure, including a Tho, and An Giang.
metropolitan area network designed to help local
government departments work more efficiently,
city-wide Wi-Fi access, an e-government service RESOURCES
platform and a data center. The World Bank funded
SC Vietnam:
$27 million of the $30 million total project value.
Triet Huynh
Today, Da Nang is implementing a $358 million
Position: Commercial Specialist, HCMC, Vietnam
“Sustainable City Development Project (SCDP)”
Email: Triet.Huynh@trade.gov
which began in 2013 and is scheduled to conclude
Phone: 848-3520-4658
in 2019. The SCDP has five parts: (1) improvement
of drainage and wastewater systems; (2) bus Nhung Nguyen
rapid transit development; (3) improvement of Position: Commercial Assistant, Hanoi, Vietnam
urban strategic roads; (4) technical assistance Email: Nhung.Nguyen@trade.gov
and capacity building for city authorities on urban Phone: 844-3850-5064

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INDUSTRY SECTORS
connected physical objects embedded with

ITA: Industry and Analysis Business Unit electronics, sensors, software, and connectivity
ITA’s Industry & Analysis’ (I&A) staff of industry, that allows the collection and exchange of data.
trade and economic analysts devise and Like in IoT, the role of ICT in a smart city context is
implement international trade, investment, and to enable the “smart” aspects of the broader city
export promotion strategies that strengthen infrastructure.
the global competitiveness of U.S. industries. The development of smart city technology is
These initiatives unlock export and investment often driven by the convergence of broadband
opportunities for U.S. businesses by combining deployment, low-cost connected sensors, and
in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis emerging machine intelligence to analyze and
with ITA’s industry relationships. interpret the collected data closer to the consumer.
I&A does this by representing the interests of The growth of smart cities provides business
U.S. industry in trade negotiations, advocating opportunities for ICT companies focused on
on behalf of industry with foreign governments, aspects of sensing, communicating, and analyzing
publishing research on global opportunities for information. U.S. exporters capable of partnering
U.S. industry, and executing export promotion with companies in smart city application
programs. Our efforts ensure that foreign sectors – such as energy, water management,
markets are open for U.S. industry, and help transportation, and building products – will be best
guide U.S. businesses toward the best export positioned to compete for business in foreign cities
markets for their products and services. and communities.
Industry & Analysis also seeks opportunities to
enter into strategic public private partnerships
with companies and non-profit associations ICT HARDWARE -
to achieve mutual export and competitiveness SUB-SECTOR OPPORTUNITIES
objectives.
SENSORS
The following offices in I&A cover sectors
Many smart city use cases will be dependent
included in many smart city applications, such
on the deployment of sensors to continuously
as information and communications technology
monitor the city’s overall status and the status of
(ICT), energy and water, building infrastructure,
particular assets such as buildings, lighting and
and transportation.
traffic control infrastructure, water and sewerage
systems, and vehicles. These devices will make up
many of the “things” as IoT deployment worldwide
OFFICE OF HEALTH AND increases by billions of sensors in the next few
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES years. Since these sensors may be left in the field
The Role of Information and Communications for years, smart city planners will generally look to
Technology (ICT) and Health IT in Smart Cities purchase low-cost yet reliable, long-lasting, and
low-power sensors. Suppliers that can meet those
OVERVIEW criteria will find business success abroad.
In many respects, smart city technology is really
just an Internet of Things (IoT) deployment at scale.
The IoT describes interconnected and Internet-

178 INDUSTRY SECTORS Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES
COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK EQUIPMENT stakeholders in many countries in order to slow

down the rapidly increasing level of healthcare
As smart city technology is deployed and cities
expenditure needed to treat chronic diseases
gather more data from sensors and other inputs,
and health conditions, and the ability to provide
cities will need to install additional communication
more frequent, targeted and appropriate care
capacity accordingly. This creates opportunities
to patients both inside and outside healthcare
for a wide range of ICT companies that can
institutions. Some of the possible health-related
offer Internet and cellular connectivity options.
applications that would benefit from the increased
Initially, many cities will need to deploy or expand
interconnectivity offered by Smart Cities projects
broadband Internet capability to collect and
include electronic health records; use of electronic
process the incoming data. As cities create their
health cards where patient health information
smart city programs, they often also create public
can be stored; and remote monitoring of patients
Wi-Fi networks by adding Wi-Fi hotspots to other
from home or in other non-health institutions,
infrastructure. Even with an increase in Internet
where the monitoring products can continuously
bandwidth, cities will also have to rely on cellular
record a patient’s vital signs and notify healthcare
connectivity for some smart city use cases. This
professionals if an intervention is needed.
will be especially relevant in communities with
poor wired Internet infrastructure or in sparsely OHIT POINTS OF CONTACT
populated regions. Companies that deploy
Kyle Johnson (ICT Equipment)
alternative communications networks, such as
Kyle.Johnson@trade.gov
low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs), will
also find good business opportunities in many Matthew Hein (Health IT)
foreign smart city projects. Matthew.Hein@trade.gov
COMPUTING
While many smart city applications will rely OFFICE OF DIGITAL SERVICES
on cloud computing to analyze the collected AND INDUSTRIES
data, there may be smart city opportunities for
manufacturers of edge computing equipment, SMART CITY TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT
including low-power, low-cost single board and AND TRADE
embedded systems. An edge-computing model Over half of the world’s population already lives in
pushes computing applications, data, and services cities, and by 2050, it is expected that 66% of the
away from centralized nodes to the edges of a world’s population will live in urban areas. 113 High
network, enabling the “smart” capabilities of smart urban density generates the need for improved
city infrastructure. Instead of relying on cloud service delivery, cost reduction, and environmental
computing to compile and analyze data from a sustainability while improving the quality of life.
fleet of sensors, edge computing could make each The potential of a lucrative market stimulated the
distinct thing in the system “smart” in itself. Smart development of smart city technologies suited to
sensors would be able to collect information and urban environments, including intelligent transport
act on that information in real time. In areas with systems, integrated travel ticketing, smart energy
poor Internet or cellular connectivity, this may be grids, smart meters, sensor networks, and an
an attractive technology. array of smartphone apps and sharing economy
HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (HEALTH IT) platforms. According to IHS, the number of smart
cities worldwide will quadruple from 2013 to 2025,
One of the possible uses for ICT infrastructure proliferating as local governments work with
being built to connect cities and regions under the private sector to cope with a multitude of
the Smart Cities umbrella is to deliver improved
healthcare for the citizens in the city/region.
This is currently being looked at very closely by 113
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs 2014 < http://esa.
un.org/unpd/wup/Publications/Files/WUP2014-Highlights.pdf>

challenges confronting urban centers.114 There are amongst nation states on approaches to privacy
expected to be at least 88 smart cities all over the and data protection in terms of obtaining consent,
world by 2025, up from 21 in 2013.115 This presents notification of data breaches, and governance of
an enormous opportunity for U.S. companies to cross-border data flows.
provide the technology, innovation, and capital to
INITIATIVES FOR: EU-U.S. PRIVACY SHIELD
help guide the global transition to Smart Cities.
A 2014 study conducted by the Bureau of Economic
Nearly all smart city technologies are data driven
Analysis (BEA) on international services trade data
and thus generate large quantities of data which
showed that digitally-deliverable services traded
value is derived from. Data that is collected
between the United States and Europe totaled
about cities and their citizen’s gives insight into
$262.7 billion in 2011.116 It is clear that cross-border
utilization, consumption, and behavior patterns that
data flows (across various industry sectors,
in turn produce greater transparency, productivity,
including smart city technologies) are highly
and accountability. However, generating large
significant to the U.S. - EU trade relationship;
amounts of data, much of it in real-time and
however, regulatory and legislative approaches to
at a highly granular scale, raises a number of
privacy and personal data protection vary.
concerns relating to the protection of data in the
manner that its collected, processed, shared, and While the United States and the European
stored across multiple platforms both domestic Union share the goal of enhancing privacy
and foreign. Accordingly, the challenges to the protection for their citizens, the United States
digital ecosystem raise a number of concerns takes a different approach to privacy from that
including privacy laws and cross-border transfer taken by the European Union. The United States
restrictions, data localization, and cybersecurity. uses a sectoral approach that relies on a mix of
legislation, regulation, and self-regulation. Given
CHALLENGES
those differences and to provide organizations
Smart city technologies support digital data flows in the United States with a reliable mechanism
by automation that facilitates communication with for personal data transfers to the United States
control servers and consumers. As smart city from the European Union while ensuring that
technologies become more widespread, the data EU data subjects continue to benefit from
generated triggers data capture, transmission, effective safeguards and protection as required
processing, storing, sharing, and automated by European legislation with respect to the
decisions. This raises concerns relating to data processing of their personal data when they
protection especially since smart city technologies have been transferred to non-EU countries, the
collect personally identifiable information (PII) and Department of Commerce and the European
household level data about consumers including Commission agreed to the Privacy Shield
utilization, consumption habits, movements, Framework in February 2016.
and behaviors. From this perspective, the key
Once in place, organizations based in the United
challenges surrounding the protection of personal
States will be able to self-certify to this new
data when collected, the extent to which control is
Framework and, based on their enforceable
exercised upon processing of such data, as well as
commitments under the Framework, receive
protection from unauthorized access, encourages
personal data from Europe in compliance with
business practices that are acceptable with
EU data protection laws. This new framework
regards to accessing and disclosing personal and
will underpin over $260 billion in digital services
sensitive information on data subjects. Moreover,
trade across the Atlantic annually and will provide
while there is common ground on the importance
certainty that will help grow the digital economy
of privacy protection, there are differences
by ensuring that thousands of European and
114
IHS https://technology.ihs.com/507030/ 116
Economic and Statistics Administration. <http://www.esa.doc.gov/
115
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American businesses and millions of individuals effectively create data localization requirements.
can continue to access services online. The idea that forcing personal data to be stored
in country so that it is not subject to foreign
INITIATIVES FOR: APEC CBPRS
surveillance is flawed, as information security and
While the combined Europe, Middle East and jurisdiction are not strictly a function of where data
Africa region represented the largest number of is physically stored or processed.
smart cities in 2013, Asia-Pacific is expected to
The European Centre for International Political
take over the lead in 2025.117 In all, Asia-Pacific
Economy (ECIPE) released a paper in July 2014
is expected to account for 32 smart cities in nine
that evaluated the potential costs for countries
years’ time, Europe is expected to have 31, and the
that have recently proposed or enacted data
Americas are expected to have 25.118
localization restrictions. The report found that
To help support this growth in smart cities in Asia, these requirements could lead to significant GDP
the United States is promoting the expansion of losses for Brazil (-0.2%), China (-1.1%), the EU
the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) (-0.4%), India (-0.1%), Indonesia (-0.5%), Korea
Cross Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) system, which (-0.4%) and Vietnam (-1.7%). These losses could
facilitates trade and strengthens consumer privacy significantly affect post-crisis economic recovery
protections and trust across the Asia Pacific and undo the productivity increases from entering
region by minimizing unnecessary barriers to the into major trade agreements.
cross-border flow of information due to differing
CYBERSECURITY
levels of privacy protection regulations within
the participating APEC Economies, including Increasing ICT complexity, hyper-connectivity,
restrictions on cross border data transfers. The namely through ‘Internet of Things’ environments,
CBPR system was developed in APEC over a as well as the generation of significant amounts of
seven-year period; and in the 2011 Honolulu data, will also mean increasing vulnerability, both
Declaration, APEC Leaders committed to the to malicious attacks and unintentional incidents.119
CBPR System’s implementation. The United States,
In order to guarantee service continuity and
Mexico, Japan and Canada are currently members
security, the ICT systems that oversee and control
of the CBPR system, with Canada’s participation
a ‘smart city’ need to be designed, from inception,
confirmed most recently (April 1, 2015). As the
with cyber security, reliability and data privacy
system continues to grow, it will reduce the
in mind. “The right cyber security strategies
administrative burden on companies that serve
can mean the difference between success and
multiple APEC Economies.
failure. The increasing urban deployment of public
DATA LOCALIZATION wireless networks, for instance, calls for robust
security strategies to protect the Internet of Things
Under the guise of meeting online security and
connected through the city network. Information
privacy objectives, many governments have begun
management and protection systems and
to require mandatory storage of data on servers
backup and recovery systems for mission-critical
physically located inside that country, through data
administration data should protect citizens’ privacy
localization requirements. Some countries’ data
and identities across domains, including local tax,
protection and security laws create such extensive
healthcare, education and utilities.”120
barriers to cross-border data flows that they
119
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/transformational-smart-
cities-cyber-security-and-resilience
120
117 https://eu-smartcities.eu/sites/all/files/blog/files/
https:///technology.ihs.com/507030
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RELEVANT WEB TIPS Other goals for smart cities are for more integrated
efficiency and viability over the long term of
Department of Commerce Office of
their transportation infrastructure. This will
Digital Services & Industries
bring possible lower economic costs which are
http://www.trade.gov/td/services/odsi/index.html
one of many benefits cities stand to gain when
Department of Commerce- EU- U.S. Privacy Shield implementing a smart transportation management
https://www.commerce.gov/privacyshield system. “Proactive planning, improved traffic
forecasting and management, greater system-
Cross Border Privacy Rules System wide visibility, as well as optimized use of
http://www.cbprs.org/ existing transportation infrastructure can lead to
NIST Cybersecurity Framework dramatically improved situational awareness and
http://www.nist.gov/cyberframework/ decision-making for cities.”122 (IBM. 2014. “Building
a smarter transportation management network”).
Department of Commerce- Economic Where smart transportation is utilized, citizens will
and Statistics Administration benefit from lower congestion, increased safety,
http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/ reduced emissions, which will only begin to show
digitaleconomyandtrade2014-1-27final.pdf the real possibilities of a smart city.
On the U.S. policy side, the move to support and
OFFICE OF TRANSPORTATION build smart cities has been one of the Obama
administration’s strategic objectives for innovation,
AND MACHINERY
as indicated elsewhere in this document.
SMART CITY DEFINITION
DATA AND CONNECTIVITY
“A city can be defined as “smart” when
Sharing data via connectivity and intelligence is
investments in human and social capital and
one of the major near-term ways road vehicles
traditional transport and modern communication
can be incorporated into the smart cities rubric.
infrastructure fuel sustainable economic
As stated by the Smart Cities Council, a for-profit
development and a high quality of life, with a
association for the advancement of the smart
wise management of natural resources, through
city business sector, “A smart city gathers data
participatory action and engagement.”121 Smart
from smart devices and sensors embedded in
cities are cities in which information and
its roadways, power grids, buildings and other
communication technology (ICT) provide insight
assets…And smart transportation uses the
and control over the various systems to improve
power of computers to optimize travel throughout
the quality of life of its residents.
the city.”123
SMART TRANSPORTATION OVERVIEW
The data collected in smart cities will allow for
By 2050, it is estimated that over 9 billion people better monitoring of resources and optimizing
will inhabit the globe and 7 billion of them will resources already available. Between vehicle-
being living in cities. This has the potential to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure,
to create even more pressure on existing smart city technology will improve the driver
transportation urban infrastructure both here experience through features including: traffic
and abroad, whether it is roads, ports or airstrips. light control/messaging, parking management,
Intelligent transportation systems offer way traffic monitoring, providing the fastest routes,
to better incorporate road vehicles into cities self-driving cars, automatic braking, and lane
and address challenges that affect global
transportation infrastructure.
122
IBM. 2014. “Building a smarter transportation management
network”. http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/
ssialias?htmlfid=LBW03019USEN&appname=skmwww
121
https://ideas.repec.org/p/vua/wpaper/2009-48.html 123
https://smartcitiescouncil.com

change assistance. Typically, the applications of So where are international market opportunities
connected vehicle systems fall into three broad for American SMEs in the smart transportation
categories: safety-oriented, convenience-oriented, technologies sector? Many of the opportunities
or commercial-oriented. Connected vehicles will are long-term rather than near-term as localities
be able to talk to each other with devices that seek to make their transportation infrastructure
constantly share important safety and mobility more efficient. Any place that is growing and
information with each other. becoming more population-dense, such as New
Delhi, Istanbul, Singapore, London and Sao Paulo,
IHS Automotive forecasts that there will be 152
is looking to attain “smart city” credentials.
million actively connected cars on global transport
American SMEs can provide the solutions to these
networks by 2020.124 Connected vehicles have the
cities’ needs by improving operating systems
potential to transform the way cities think about
through expertise in operation and information
safety, mobility, traffic flow management and
& communication technology, particularly within
environmental concerns. The development of a
intelligent transportation systems.
next generation transportation platform where
forecasting and connectivity is the end goal, will DOC/ITA’s ongoing foreign government trade
ultimately make highly smart driving a reality. policy involves discussions regarding the public
procurement process in global smart city markets.
The Department of Transportation’s Connected
This will enable American SMEs to have equal
Vehicle Program is looking to harmonize standards
footing on international tenders. Most foreign
for interoperability within the United States to
government transportation departments/ministries
establish technical benchmarks. This may be
are open to working with foreign suppliers with
a global model for the implementation of smart
technical expertise, and American SMEs in smart
transportation technologies. By harmonizing
transportation will continue to be competitive. It is
standards, international markets will be able to
important that companies are informed of the RFP/
realize lower life-cycle costs for the acquisition
global tender opportunities that exist, whether it is
and maintenance of intelligent transportation
from the DOC/ITA or industry associations such as
systems.
the Intelligent Transportation Systems of America
OPPORTUNITIES or the American Public Transit Association.
Estimates for the smart cities market vary widely, ITA/I&A will continue to foster relationships
depending partially on which technologies and with industry associations within the smart
sectors are included under the smart city umbrella: transportation sector, as well as attend shows &
conferences that have a smart city/transportation
• ABI Research estimates that smart cities focus. ITA will also continue to collaborate across
technology is an $8.1 billion market today and agencies/offices, such as the Federal Transit
will reach $39.5 billion within five years. Administration, the Intelligent Transportation
• Pike research forecasts that investment in Systems Joint Program Office, and NIST to work
smart technology infrastructure will total $108 together to determine best practices on research
billion during the decade from 2010 to 2020. & development, market intelligence and market
entry strategies globally.
• The Smart 202 report claims that related
technologies and industries will grow four-fold ITA/I&A will also add expertise to developing
to become a $2.1 trillion market by 2020. policies regarding this emerging sector as it
relates to vehicles. Related, ITA/I&A will monitor
However, no matter the estimate used, substantial international policies to ensure harmonized
growth is expected. standards and regulations as it relates to emerging
technologies in the automotive sector.
124
Dorsey, Jim. 2013. “Big Data in the Connected Car.” http://press.
ihs.com/press-release/country-industry-forecasting/big-data-drivers-
seat-connected-car-technoogical-advance

CHALLENGES OTM SMART TRANSPORTATION

POINT OF CONTACT
Within the smart transportation sector, there are
many challenges that are on the horizon when Jeffrey Williams, 202-482-0670,
it comes to the success of implementing these Jeffrey.williams@trade.gov
technologies here and abroad. These barriers
include:
• Interoperability of Things - How do we make OFFICE OF ENERGY AND
different systems talk to each other? ENVIRONMENTAL INDUSTRIES
• Privacy & Security - How do we address DEFINITION

concerns over personal data privacy and With respect to energy and environmental
security as intelligent transportation systems technologies, the deployment of goods and
become more prevalent? services that support a so-called “smart city” vary
• Cost Effectiveness - How do we bring down dramatically from country to country. Developing
the cost of smart infrastructure? and emerging economies that lack access to
basic infrastructure – electricity, sanitation, and
• Dependability - How vulnerable are these clean drinking water are seemingly putting the
new platforms? cart before the horse with their “smart city”
With such a new and emerging industry, time initiatives, but as they address these needs, they
will tell how these challenges will be resolved, are aiming in the long term for a fully modernized
but it is imperative that American SMEs realize infrastructure with easier monitoring and control.
what is in front of them as they venture abroad. On the other hand, high- income economies are
It is important that the DOC/ITA understand these at a more advanced level focusing on integrated
barriers as the industry matures. resource management and data collection utilizing
information communication technologies (ICT)
SMART CITY EVENTS to improve resource efficiency. It is important
to recognize that market opportunities exist
• Smart Cities Week
throughout smart cities development; however,
September 27-29, 2016 / Washington, DC
some exporters are better suited for
• Discover Global Markets: Building Smart Cities certain stages.
November 1-3, 2016, Chicago, IL
The specifics of these efforts also vary greatly, as
• Consumer Electronics Show global cities face a variety of challenges across
January 5-8, 2017, Las Vegas, NV a diversity of sectors. For example, coastal cities
may have a keen interest to monitor sea level rises
• 23rd World Congress on Intelligent
and facilitate efficient, connected, and rapid alert
Transportation Systems
systems for emergency management systems.
October 10-14, 2016 / Melbourne, Australia
Urban planners may also be focusing on the
• 25th International Technical Conference on the resilience of electricity and water supply during
Enhanced Safety of Vehicles natural disasters. Cities with high crime rates may
June 5-8, 2017 / Detroit, Michigan be focused on leveraging ICT technologies to
improve response rates and reduce crime related
• 24th World Congress on Intelligent risks. Cities with high deployment of distributed
Transportation Systems energy resources (smaller power sources such as
October 29 – November 2, 2017 / rooftop solar that can be aggregated to provide
Montreal, Canada power necessary to meet regular demand) may
be focused on installing smart metering systems

and advanced analytical capabilities to improve Modernization includes the build-out and upgrade
renewable energy resource integration to the grid. of transmission and distribution (T&D) networks
that extend electricity services to new populations
Some experts have described the smart industries and improve the grid’s efficiency in delivering
discussion as a series of interrelated sector those services. In many markets, modernization
descriptions that describe the increasing number goes beyond these initial T&D investments
of connected devices: the number of connected to include a range of digital technologies
devices rises the time until the market/industry and platforms, including the deployment and
is mature. integration of Internet Protocol (IP) based
Internet-of-Things
Smart Cities
Number of
Connected
Devices
Smart Grid
Smart Water Management
Time to Maturity of Market
GLOBAL MARKET OPPORTUNITIES – BY SECTOR communications, infrastructure ICT systems

to better manage increasingly-complex utility
Smart Grid (POC: Vickie Gunderson)
networks and data, and online applications and
Smart grid is a foundational component of the consumer services that enable energy efficiency
development of increasing “smartness” of global programs at the “user-end” of the grid. Global
cities, and informing integrated resource planning spending on grid modernization and smart grid
at the local level. U.S. suppliers of smart grid technologies has emerged as a major growth
technologies will find global opportunities in both segment in the infrastructure sector and is
Greenfield and brownfield city efforts. expected to continue to grow. Various energy
market research groups have pegged market
The smart grid is a modernized electricity values to range from $15 to $500 billion annually,
transmission and distribution network that includes depending on specific technologies that are
two-way communication systems and enables the incorporated into the calculation. Regardless of
integration of technologies that will further improve the absolute estimated market size, the sector has
grid efficiency, reliability and security. Depending been on a strong growth trajectory over the last
on the market, a wide range of equipment and decade and will continue to grow.
technology will be required to modernize the grid.

According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, For emerging economies in Southeast Asia,
worldwide annual smart grid spending grew by India, Africa and South America, the focus is on
12 % in 2015, reflecting a five-year CAGR just reducing theft and T&D losses while building new
under 13 %.125 Other energy market research infrastructure to meet increasing demand, and
groups, including GTM Research,126 Navigant127 bringing electricity to the 1.2 billion people –
and Transparent Market Research,128 predict that 17 % of the global population – who currently
annual spending on smart grid sub-sectors will lack access.130
grow anywhere from 5-18 % annually over the next
Europe, North America, East Asia, Australia and
decade. Predictions vary dramatically across sub-
New Zealand have increased focus on deploying
categories, but spending in all areas is expected
advanced metering infrastructure and big data
to increase in both established and emerging
analytics to better leverage the capabilities
markets.
resulting from cloud computing advancements.
The ITA assesses that the current market for all Utilities in these countries are looking to improve
U.S. smart grid exports – including T&D equipment, systems management as revenues continue to
smart grid ICT goods and services, and energy decrease. According to Bloomberg New Energy
storage technologies – is valued at $30 billion Finance, many European utilities have lost
annually. These exports leverage U.S. investments over 50 % of their market value since 2010 from
to upgrade the domestic electric grid and deployment of distributed energy resources and
capitalize on the growing global market. other efficiency gains that led to load loss.
The United States is amid an active, robust and RELATED EVENTS:
innovative electricity modernization effort and the
• Power-GEN Asia; Seoul, Korea,
global market is also actively engaged. In 2013,
September 20-22, 2016
China surpassed the United States, becoming the
world’s largest market for smart grid spending.129 • European Utility Week; Barcelona, Spain ,
Drivers for the deployment and development November 15-17, 2016
of grid modernization equipment, technology,
and services vary by region and sub-sector. A • DistribuTECH, San Diego, California,
consistent theme across the world, however, is January 31-February 2, 2017
that utilities are concerned with revenue losses Smart Water (POC: Maureen Hinman)
resulting from reduced loads driven by efficiency,
increased distributed energy, and/or theft. Global Smart water speaks to the deployment of ICT
investment decisions are now focused on how technologies to manage the efficient treatment,
to do more with less. This includes looking for distribution, storage, use, reuse, and billing of
ways to increase supply and demand side energy water and wastewater resources on the macro
management efficiencies. (public treatment and distribution network), meso
(industrial and building level networks), and micro
(household) scale within a network.
125
Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Q1 2016 Energy Smart Smart water technologies are utilized widely
Technologies Market Outlook, 25 February 2016
in the United States and other OECD nations to
126
GTM Research, “Global Smart Grid Technologies and Growth
Markets”, 25 July 2013. Available at http://greentechmedia.com/
address water scarcity, maintenance challenges
research/report/global-smart-grid-technologies-and-growth- associated with aging infrastructure, growing
markets-2013-2020 regulatory burdens, and rising production costs.
127
Navigant, Smart Grid Technologies Report, http://www. The “smart water network” technology suite is
navigantresearch.com/research/smart-grid-technologies
categorized in several layers:
128
Transparent Market Research, “Smart Grid Market – Global
Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2013-
2019,” November 2015
129
Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Q1 2016 Energy Smart
130
Technologies Market Outlook, 25 February 2016 International Energy Agency (IEA), World Energy Outlook, 2015.

• The first layer is the sensing and control The collection and communication and data
instruments that automate physical operations management and display layers are known
and measure distribution and treatment in industry as a Supervisory Control and Data
parameters. Acquisition or SCADA systems (see Figure
2), which serve as the electronic logic and
• This is followed by the collection and
human interface components to manufacturing,
communication layer which includes
environmental management, energy production,
technologies for storage and transmission
and heating and cooling equipment.
of data.
• The third layer us for the data management
and display which aggregates and interfaces
data for a human operator.
• Finally, the data fusion and analysis layer
provides an interface for data analytics
and modeling that enables real-time
network management (see Figure 1 for
specific examples).131
EXAMPLES OF SMART WATER TECHNOLOGIES BY LAYER

Sensing Collection and Data Management Data Fusion
and Control Communication and Display and Analysis
• Automated pumps, • Remote Terminal • Supervisory control • Online water

valves, chemical Units and Data Acquisition quality monitoring
addition equipment System (SCADA) software
• Fixed cable
Computer • Automated
• Automated meters network
• Human Machine network monitoring
• Leak detection • Radio/ cellular software
Interface
equipment network
• GIS System • Automatic pressure
• Programmable • Wi-Fi optimization
Logic Controllers software
(PLCs)
• Hydraulic modeling
• Programmable software
Automation
Controllers (PACs) • Pumping and
energy optimization
• Switches and software
actuators
• Billing and
payments software
131
Cahn, Amir. An Overview of Smart Water Networks. AWWA
Journal, July 2014.

SCADA SYSTEMS
Since smart water technology overlaps with States market accounting for nearly a fourth of the
traditional water-specific technology, such world market at US $3.7 billion.132 Similarly, global
as pumps and valves, as well as non-water analytical services in the environmental space are
specific technology, such as Programmable estimated to be worth US $7.0 billion in 2014 with
Logic Controllers (PLCs), quantifying market size the United States market accounting for US $1.9
and scope of opportunity is not straightforward. billion. The most recent regional data available for
However, the global environmental market for global regional markets is from 2012 and highlights
environmental instruments and information the United States, Western Europe, and Asia as the
systems, which represents a portion of the smart largest consumers of instruments and information
environmental technology market, was estimated systems (see Figure 3.)
to be worth US $12.2 billion in 2014 with the United
132
Environmental Business International 2016.

GLOBAL MARKET ESTIMATES FOR SMART ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS SEGMENTS:

(1) INSTRUMENTS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS (2) ANALYTICAL SERVICES, US $BILLIONS.
W Latin Aus/ E
USA Europe Japan Asia Am Canada NZ Europe MidEast Africa Total $ Total %
Instruments
&
Information
Systems 3.4 2.4 0.9 2.3 0.7 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.5 0.1 11.0 1.1%
Analytical
Services 1.9 1.8 0.4 1.1 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.1 6.7 0.7%
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a building’s design, construction, and operation to
• Singapore International Water Week,
maximize efficiencies, occupant comfort and other
Singapore, July 10 – 14, 2016
functional priorities. The building is a system of
• WETEX, Dubai, UAE, April 21-23, 2016 systems that communicate both within the building
and externally to optimize performance. Smart
• WEFTEC, New Orleans, LA, building creates immediate opportunity for design
September 26 – 28, 2016 services and information and communication
• AWWA ACE, Chicago, IL, June 19 -22, 2016 technologies. It also creates demand for high-
quality building products with inherent efficiency
and interoperable functionality compatible with
OFFICE OF MATERIALS INDUSTRIES smart building design.
BUILDING PRODUCTS SECTOR IN SMART CITIES STREET LIGHTING AND SMART CITIES
Overview Certain building product subsectors also often are

highlighted as essential to smart city performance.
Smart Cities typically rely on information and One such example is smart LED street and
communication technologies (ICT) to maximize infrastructure lighting. Smart exterior lighting
city asset performance while optimizing services is lauded globally for its contributions to energy
available to citizens. Elements considered to be efficiency, reduced maintenance requirements,
the asset base of a smart city typically include enhanced public safety, and overall usability of the
public works infrastructure, transportation built environment.
infrastructure, energy and water infrastructure,
healthcare infrastructure, smart buildings, and a OTHER RESOURCES
variety of government service systems. • 2016 Top Markets Building Products and
U.S. exporters of building materials and building Sustainable Construction report133
products will find greatest opportunity in product n
Indicates “smart cities” as a trend in
areas offering high efficiency and interoperable sustainable construction that may create
functionality with smart building design and select opportunities for U.S. exporters of building
smart city elements such as infrastructure lighting. products that are energy efficient and
INTELLIGENT OR “SMART” BUILDINGS interoperable with relevant intelligent
building systems
Smart buildings are recognized key elements
of smart cities. A smart building is generally 133
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n
In each of the report’s 10 Case Study
markets, there is an indication whether
the respective government and private
sector actors have embraced smart city
development as a policy or commercial
goal, and how this manifests in the market
OMI POINT OF CONTACT
Joanne Littlefair,
Joanne.Littlefair@trade.gov,
Tel: (202)482-4855
THE ROLE OF STANDARDS IN SMART CITIES

A range of standards is needed to help the smart
city meet its potential and enable the many
products and systems involved to be interoperable.
Work on these standards is ongoing in a number
of standards development organizations and it
is important for U.S. stakeholders to be engaged
since those who are at the table as the standards
are written gain a competitive advantage. A
good point of entry is the Network on Smart
and Sustainable Cities hosted by the American
National Standards Institute. The network is a
forum for information sharing on standardization
developments for smart and sustainable cities in
the U.S. and abroad. Go to www.ansi.org/cities for
more information.

Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT) 191
INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)
the development of “smart cities” and “smart

The Department of Commerce is engaged
communities” is becoming a major focus around
in multiple initiatives that support the
the globe. Because many of today’s smart city/
development of Smart Cities and help position
community development efforts are isolated and
U.S. businesses as leaders in the global
customized projects, NIST launched the Global
marketplace. We are working in concert with
City Teams Challenge (GCTC) to encourage
industry and other stakeholders to develop an
collaboration and the development of standards.
environment that fosters innovation.
The Global City Teams Challenge’s long-term
goal is “to establish and demonstrate replicable,
INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) scalable, and sustainable models for incubation
IoT is the foundation for Smart Cities, which and deployment of interoperable, standard-based
use digital technology to improve government IoT solutions and demonstrate their measurable
services. As part of the Commerce Department’s benefits in Smart Communities/Cities.”This
Digital Economy Agenda, Commerce’s National program will help communities benefit from the
Telecommunications & Information Administration experience of others to improve efficiency and
(NTIA) sought input through a Request for lower costs.
Comment from all interested stakeholders -
including private industry, researchers, academia,
and civil society—on the potential benefits and SPECTRUM
challenges related to the Internet of Things (IoT) City officials are increasingly leveraging advanced
and what role, if any, the U.S. Government should digital technology to optimize and manage
play in this area. The Department intends to public assets, such as transportation systems,
issue a ‘‘green paper’’ that identifies key issues power plants, water supply networks, waste
impacting deployment of these technologies, management, and law enforcement. For example,
highlights potential benefits and challenges, and wireless sensors can now be deployed to collect
identifies possible roles for the federal government and transmit information from almost any object –
in fostering the advancement of IoT technologies such as smart trash containers that send out
in partnership with the private sector. alerts so that waste collectors know which ones
The National Institute of Standards and Technology need to be emptied. But the proliferation of sensors
(NIST) is collaborating with US Ignite on a Global and wireless devices also threatens to burden
City Teams Challenge (GCTC) to bring together existing wireless resources, requiring innovative
communities and innovators that will join forces spectrum use. Spectrum sharing technologies are
on a range of issues from disaster response to therefore likely to play an increasingly important
energy management and improvements in mass role in the success of connected infrastructure
transit. Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber- and Smart Cities.
Physical Systems (CPS) involve connecting smart NTIA–which has responsibility for ensuring that
devices and systems—in diverse sectors such America’s domestic and international spectrum
as transportation, energy, manufacturing, and needs are met – is working with stakeholders
healthcare—in fundamentally new ways. These on novel ways to maximize spectrum resources
technologies will enable cities and communities to meet the increased demand. For example,
to improve services, promote economic growth, NTIA’s Institute for Telecommunication Sciences
and enhance the quality of life. With 54 percent (ITS), located in Boulder, Colorado, is conducting
of the world’s population now living in cities,

192 INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT) Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES
research, including propagation modeling and turn, that will help to prioritize investments and
spectrum monitoring, that is integral to the maximize the impact of each dollar spent on
science behind using spectrum more efficiently cybersecurity. By providing a common language
and increasing shared access to this limited to address cybersecurity risk management, it is
resource. NTIA also is working with the Federal especially helpful in communicating inside and
Communications Commission to soon launch outside the organization. That includes improving
a Model City initiative to facilitate testing and communications, awareness, and understanding
evaluation of advanced, dynamic spectrum sharing between and among IT, planning, and operating
technologies and solutions in challenging urban units, as well as senior executives of organizations.
environments. Stakeholder collaboration and Organizations also can readily use the Framework
engagement will be an important element in the to communicate current or desired cybersecurity
success of this program. posture between a buyer or supplier.
CYBERSECURITY PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

Digital infrastructure projects can translate into Forward-looking cities around the globe
big reductions in energy used, greenhouse gases are increasingly entering into public-private
emitted, and natural resources consumed. To partnerships as a way to finance infrastructure
run smoothly, connected communities need to projects and outfit cities with smart technology.
rely on seamless operations – yet competing Private sector companies provide a range of
architectures, standards and platforms can lead to services, from technical assistance and capacity
a fragmented landscape. Governments will need building to logistical planning and information and
to work with stakeholders to develop industry- communication technology (ICT) services. NTIA
driven solutions, such as the National Institute of has released several publications that cover
Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity topics such as forming productive public-private
Framework. partnerships and planning an effective community
broadband roadmap. Upcoming toolkits will further
NIST’s voluntary risk-based framework
explore the formation of broadband partnerships
was developed through an international
and address how to implement infrastructure
partnership of small and large organizations,
projects and sustain broadband networks.
including owners and operators of critical
infrastructure. The Cybersecurity Framework
provides voluntary guidance, based on existing
standards, guidelines, and practices, for critical INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT
infrastructure organizations to better manage NTIA is the Executive Branch agency responsible
and reduce cybersecurity risk. In addition to for developing international information and
helping organizations manage and reduce risks, communications technology policy. In that
it was designed to foster risk and cybersecurity capacity, NTIA monitors and engages with
management communications amongst both foreign jurisdictions, standards organizations,
internal and external organizational stakeholders. and intergovernmental bodies as part of the
The Framework will help an organization to U.S. government’s ongoing effort to encourage
better understand, manage, and reduce its innovation and growth of the digital economy.
cybersecurity risks. It will assist in determining These efforts include the development of
which activities are most important to assure standards, specifications, and best practices for
critical operations and service delivery. In Smart Cities.

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UPCOMING SMART EVENTS
Date Location Event Other/Comments
July 1, 2016 Jaipur, India Smart Cities Smart Cities Council India along with
Workshop, Jaipur Government of Rajasthan is hosting
(with Govt of Smart Cities Workshop – a workshop on
Rajasthan) 2016 Revenue Generation and Procurement
to catalyze revenue generation and
procurement process for the smart
cities for Government of Rajasthan and
further accelerating the livability,
workability and sustainability of
the cities.
July 5-6, 2016 Seattle, WA, USA Unlikely Allies Inside this laboratory, we will explore
2016 – Future of local and global solutions and exchange
Cities Festival & best practices from 80+ cities to inspire
City Solutions Lab new collaborative initiatives that ar
globally applicable. 400+ global and
local thought leaders, change-makers,
inspired citizens and their unlikely allies,
policy makers, innovators, technology
visionaries, artists, activists, hackers
and designers will be there.
July 6-8, 2016 Copenhagen, Denmark Global Smart City Greater Copenhagen Smart Solutions
Conference offers a firsthand experience and
understanding of Living Labs as
a method to create smarter and
more liveable cites as well as an
understanding of how the digital
infrastructure creates great potential for
a variety of smart solutions connecting
people to the city.
July 7-9, 2016 Lina, Peru Tecnoagro Peru Purpose is to publicize business
opportunities for applying technological
solutions to the agricultural sector.
July 13, 2016 Singapore, Malaysia World Smart The World Smart City Forum (#World
City Forum SmartCity2016) will explore how
interconnection can be accomplished.
It will point to tools which are already
available to help cities reach their
objectives faster, more efficiently and
with better outcomes.

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July 14, 2016 Webinar Prioritizing Resiliency Take a deep dive into how to leverage
PEER®, Performance Excellence in
Electricity Renewal, to build a reliable
and resilient electricity delivery system
that protects critical infrastructure by
joining a webinar that will provide an
overview of how PEER® uses metrics
and standards to define elements of
energy resiliency.
July 21, 2016 Hinterstoder, Austria Landinger Sommer – With the Federal Ministry for transport,
Smart Cities 2016 innovation and technology as a partner,
together with experts from a wide range
of topics the “innovation engine city” for
a day of discussion in the Centre.
July 22, 2016 Mumbai, India Efficient Buildings Efficient Buildings Summit 2016 is a
Summit 2016 definitive platform for you to connect
with the who’s who of the industry and
plant the brand in the minds of key
decision makers from both public &
private sector converged under
one roof.
July 26-28, 2016 Johannesburg, Green Building The Green Building Convention has
South Africa Convention become the icon for green progress in
the South African property industry,
and an energetic platform for ideas,
collaboration, partnership and learning.
It’s where the principles and passions
of the green building community are
galvanized, and grow. The Green
Building Convention 2016 will unify
powerful voices by a shared purpose to
‘Build a Better World NOW’.
July 29-31, 2016 Beijing, China China Smarter Cities CSCE is designed to promote the
International Expo healthy development of smart cities
through innovation, involving nearly
300 exhibitors including smart cities,
communities and enterprises related at
home and abroad.
August 11, 2016 Mumbai, India 11th Construction The Construction World Architect
World Architect & and Builder Awards were instituted
Builder Awards 2016 by ASAPP Info Global Group in 2006.
They are India’s most coveted awards
for the architecture and building
industry.
August 13, 2016 Lima, Peru The Renewable Meeting to discuss how remote
Energy Congress technology and renewable energy can
for Mining help lower costs for mining operations.

August 15-17, 2017 San Diego, CA, USA Waste Conversion The Waste Conversion Technology
Technology Conference & Trade Show (WCTC)
Conference provides a forum for informing the public
and Trade Show and private sectors of the economic
and environmental significance
of converting waste materials to
alternative fuels such as biodiesel and
ethanol as well as renewable electric
energy.
August 21-26, 2016 Pacific Grove, CA, 2016 Summer Study on This ACEEE conference will feature
Energy Efficiency professionals from around the world
and Buildings gathering to discuss reducing energy
use in buildings and the climate impacts
associated with buildings.
August 25-28, 2016 Lima, Peru Expo Energy The show aims to be a meeting place
Efficiency for companies linked to the renewable
energy sector.
September 7-9, 2016 Santiago, Chile Trade Winds Hosted in Chile, Trade Winds will feature
Latin America a Latin America business forum,
consisting of regional and industry
specific conference sessions as well as
pre-arranged consultations with senior
U.S. diplomats representing commercial
markets from 22 Western Hemisphere
countries.
September 7-9, 2016 Osaka, Japan World Smart Comprehensive smart energy show,
Energy Week best platform to expand business, and
a conference let by industry
professionals.
September 7-9, 2016 Greater Noida, India Renewable Energy The show aims to upscale and
India Expo 2016 mainstream the applications of
renewable energy resources, showcase
innovations, and enrich deliberations
by providing the industry with an
international exhibition and conference
platform.
September 12-15, 2016 Denver, CO, USA Building Vibrancy – The summit will include plenaries,
From the mobile tours showcasing Denver’s
Neighborhood, Up emerging innovation, hands-on studio
sessions with leading experts,
our unique Urban Block Party and
collaborative networking experiences
to discover how cities worldwide
are leveraging the power of the
neighborhood- and district scale to build
the vibrant cities of tomorrow.

September 12-16, 2016 Vancouver, Canada Pro Walk Pro Our breakout sessions, panel
Bike Pro Place discussions, and poster sessions
address the latest trends, research, and
best practices. Plenary speakers bring
perspectives from other disciplines, and
other experiences to help improve and
expand our practice.
September 15-16, 2016 Miami, FL, USA LatAm Leaders With the theme of Building a New
Forum Road Map for Sustainable Growth,
will bring together an exclusive group of
leaders, executives and entrepreneurs,
from public and private sectors, to
discuss the new world Latin America
faces and how it can adopt a path
of innovation to remain competitive
and continue to define the path of
sustainable growth for the region.
Smart Cities Council Executive Director
Philip Bane will speak during a panel on
Continental Cities.
September 26-27, 2016 Abu Dhabi, UAE Middle East Smart The biggest lighting and energy
Lighting & Energy summit in the Middle East is back
Summit for its 5th year! Taking place on
26-27 September at Jumeirah at Etihad
Towers, Abu Dhabi, the summit provides
a forum for over 400 lighting consultants
and engineers from electric utilities,
municipalities, cooperatives, energy
service companies across the Middle
East to discuss the advancements in
lighting technology, lighting applications,
controls and benchmarks.
September 27-29, 2016 Washington, D.C., USA Smart Cities Smart Cities Week is a highly interactive
Week 2016 conference and expo that showcases
cutting-edge technologies, real-
world solutions and proven strategies
government leaders need to build more
livable, workable, sustainable cities.
September 27-29, 2016 Dubai, UAE GCC Municipalities The conference will cover areas like
& Smart Cities Modern Management and Leadership,
Conference IT and e-Government, Information and
Communication Technology, Digital
Archives, Customer Care Services,
Education and Knowledge Management,
Sports, Stock Market, Media and Public
Relations and many more.

September 27-30, 2016 Mumbai, India IFAT India 2016 The 4th Edition of IFAT India scheduled
from September 28 – 30, 2016 at Hall
5, Bombay Exhibition Centre (BEC),
Mumbai, India. The show will provide
opportunities to the attendees to display
their products and technologies in front
of potential customers and to meet with
key decision makers and partners.
September 29-30, 2016 Craiova, Romania Smart Cities The regional conference and exhibition
of Romania “SMART CITIES OF ROMANIA 2016 –
OLTENIA” will take place on September
29th & 30th, 2016 in Craiova.
October 2016 (TBD) Johannesburg, Smart Cities Africa Conference will consist of multiple
South Africa conference sessions, business meetings
& product/service showcases, and a
smart pitch day program.
October 2016 (TBD) Bucharest, Romania Romanian Energy The Romanian Energy Efficiency Forum
Efficiency Forum 2016 is a perfect networking platform
2016 (TBC) that will create new ventures and
investment opportunities in the area
of sustainable and energy efficient
program development in a crucial
moment for the implementation of
the 2012/27/EU Directive to Energy
Efficiency.
October 2016 (TBD) Belgrade, Serbia Smart City Forum Significant efficiency improvements
will happen when city systems
are both physically and virtually
connected. This is easier said than
done; most such systems have been
designed and installed by different
suppliers. The World Smart City Forum
(#WorldSmartCity2016) will explore how
interconnection can be accomplished.
It will point to tools which are already
available to help cities reach their
objectives faster, more efficiently and
with better outcomes.
October 2-11, 2016 Kampala, Uganda International Uganda International Trade Fair is an
Trade Fair event being held at the Lugogo
Exhibition Center in Kampala, Uganda.
This event showcases product from
Hand, Machine & Garden Tools,
Home Furnishings & Home Textiles,
Architecture & Designing, Real Estate
Agents, Household Services industries.

October 5-6, 2016 Ankara, Turkey WICS – World Annual World Intelligent Cities Summit
Intelligent Summit and Exhibition will once again gather
& Exhibition together city leaders, Government
officials, academics, urban service
providers and city development
experts to share experiences,
smart thinking and best practice
for implementing the smart cities of
tomorrow. WICS is an international
platform for the transfer of knowledge,
allowing leaders of municipalities
to learn from the pioneers of smart
city concepts and technologies. The
event is unparalleled in the region for
its peer-to-peer learning experience
and excellent networking opportunities,
aiding leaders and key stakeholders
of municipalities to develop a secure
and robust infrastructure that is fit for
purpose for all citizens and achieves a
more sustainable future.
October 6-7, 2016 Madrid, Spain International Open Participants in the International Open
Data Conference Data Conference will work together to
set patterns and establish global
open data collaboration policies that
allow for wider social and economic
development.
October 13-16, 2016 Istanbul, Turkey SBE16 – The This event aims to bring construction
Sustainable Built material producers, scientists,
Environment practitioners, architects, engineers,
Conference constructors, industry, governmental
and non-governmental institutions, civil
society, dealing with various aspects
of Sustainable, Green, Resilient and
SMART buildings, cities and Metropoles
to discuss, share and exchange ideas,
solutions, methods and techniques for a
better future.
October 16-20, 2016 Dubai, UAE GITEX As well as defining the latest trends,
presenting high caliber speakers and
showcasing product innovations from
across the world, this year, GITEX is
bringing together the most innovative,
exciting and ambitious tech startups
to showcase their world changing
ideas to an audience of hand-picked
international investors.

October 17-19, 2016 Tampere, Finland International The event is organized as a part of the
Mindtrek annual, international Mindtrek
Conference/ conference and will be continuing
Smart City Event the discussions that started in the
Smart City Seminar 2015 in Oulu.
The prior seminar in Oulu brought
together around 300 like-minded people
interested in smarter cities, and with
the addition of the 20th international
Mindtrek conference, also held in the
same venue this year, we are expecting
the total number of participants to climb
closer to 1000 people in three days.
October 18-19, 2016 Kuala Kumpur, Smart Cities Smart Cities Asia will be structured
Malaysia Asia 2016 around seven main themes:
• Smart Development: Building for a
Greater Generation
• Smart ICT: City Beyond Technology
• Smart Mobility: Moving Fast Forward
• Smart Citizens: Integrating the People
• Smart Energy: Transformation
Towards Efficient Energy
• Smart Water Management: Shaping
The Future of Water
• Smart Waste Management: Adopting
Sustainable Practices
October 18-19, 2016 Stockholm, Sweden World Green Building Sustainability SGBC16 with
Building Congress WorldGBC Congress Sweden brings
together everyone working with
sustainability in real estate,
architecture, construction and urban
planning. This year’s conference
addresses how the built environment
can actively contribute to sustainable
living and a more stable climate. You can
take advantage of the latest in green
certifications, indoors environment
and health, sustainable real estate
management and smart new technology
for environmental adaptation.

October 19-21, 2016 Bologna, Italy Smart City Smart City Exhibition, based on the
Exhibition 2016 extensive network FORUM PA
relational and experience in building
leading events of BOLOGNAFIERE,
Italian and European place where the
most advanced realities of urban life and
communications, proposing a model of
highly interactive involvement centered
not only on activities of awareness, but
on tight moments in order to influence
public opinion and strategic decisions at
local and Central.
October 19-21, 2016 Mumbai, India Intersolar India 2016 India’s largest exhibition and conference
for the solar industry
October 19-22, 2016 Puerto Montt, Chile Aquasur A trade show focused on agriculture
and the fishing industry.
October 20-21, 2016 Santa Clara, CA, 2016 IoT Tech Expo The Expo will bring together key
North America industries from across America
for two days of discussion on the
Internet of Things and related
technological advancements.
October 25-27, 2016 Barcelona, Spain IOT Solutions After its very first edition, the IOT
World Congress Solutions World Congress has already
established itself as the leading global
event focusing on industrial IOT. IOT
Solutions World Congress 2016 will be
the second edition of this global event
dedicated exclusively to joining IoT
providers with industry in order to help
the latter increase productivity via this
disruptive technology - See more at:
http://www.iotsworldcongress.com/
event/the-event/#sthash.2q1zgicD.dpuf
November 1-3, 2016 Chicago, Illinois Discover Global For details see back cover
Markets: Building
Smart Cities
November 2016 (TBD) Zagreb, Croatia Smart Cities The general aim of the Smart Cities
Conference: project is to create an innovation
Implementation of network between governments and
Smart City Project academic partners leading to
excellence in the domain of the
development and take-up of e-services,
setting a new baseline for e-service
delivery in the whole North Sea region.

November 1-2, 2016 Buenos Aires, Congreso de Argentina’s first annual celebration
Argentina Ciudades of the event.
Inteligents,
Innovadoras,
y Humanas
November 1-3, 2016 Serpong & Tangerand, Smart Cities This event is expected to bring together
Banten, Indonesia Indonesia Expo business players, government officials,
(near Jakarta) 2016 policy, decision makers, community
leaders, smart city planners and
developers, those all related
stakeholders will converge
November 7-8, 2016 Mannheim, Germany VDE-Kongress 2016 On the VDE Congress 2016 “Internet
of Things” are the two planes
“applications” and “technologies”
discussed in width and set in relation to
each other. This should be worked out
solutions, ideas and opportunities for
Germany.
November 8-9, 2016 Paris, France Intelligent Building SALON CITY AND TERRITORIES
Systems and Smart INTELLIGENT, SUSTAINABLE AND
Grid-Smart City CONNECTED
November 8-9, 2016 Dubai, UAE Arab Future The 3rd Annual Arab Future Cities
Cities Summit Summit 2016 will be held on 8th and
9th November at the iconic Palazzo
Versace, Dubai. Ranked as one of the
most innovative cities in the world
and set to become the ‘smartest’ city,
the Dubai Government has identified
six key components - transport,
communications, infrastructure,
electricity, economic services and urban
planning that are integral to smart city
development.
November 9-10, 2016 Budapest, Hungary Urbania21 The event will continue in the State, local
governments, science, the economy and
the civil sphere is based on the places
védnökeivel, professional partners,
URBANIA21 supporters along the main
developed témacsoportok in 2014.
November 9-11, 2016 Antofagasta, Chile IFT Energy A trade show focused on energy,
including renewable energy and energy
solutions for the mining sector.
November 14-18, 2016 Vancouver, Canada 1st Canadian From November 14-18, 2016, a German
German Conference business delegation will be visiting
on Smart Cities Vancouver in order to determine the
market potential for their proven
technologies for smart cities and
establish new business contacts.

November 15-17, 2016 Barcelona, Spain Smart Cities World Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC)
Expo 2016 is the international summit of discussion
about the link between urban reality
and technological revolution. Since its
first edition in 2011, it has succeeded
to become a referential global event to
support the development of our cities.
This professional, institutional and social
meeting point is a leading platform of
ideas, networking, experiences and
international business deals that
gathers together the highest level of
stakeholders, in the context of urban
development.
November 15-17, 2016 Barcelona, Spain European European Utility Week brings together
Utility Week 12.000 of Europe’s thought leaders
and visionaries behind the world’s
most successful utilities and solution
providers. This is a unique opportunity
to showcase your brand and services
as one of the leading companies in the
global smart energy market.
November 15-17, 2016 Cape Town, AfriCom 2016 AfriCom 2016 will be a week-long festival
South Africa of thought-provoking content, immersive
satellite events, fun new social
activities, and unique networking
experiences.
November 16-18, 2016 Concepcion, Chile COMAD 2016 A Sustainable Wood Construction
Technology trade show.
November 22-23, 2016 Bucharest, Romania Smart Cities of Smart City Forum is a response to
Romania 2016 the transformation, which takes place
on a global scale, relating to the
construction and operation of intelligent
cities. It affects multiple aspects of life,
ranging from transport, through ecology,
energy, construction and finally new
ways of communication with residents.
Challenges in those areas are manifold
and require a thorough and factual
analysis.
November 29 – Vina del Mar, Chile Expo Naval A Naval and Maritime trade show.
December 2, 2016

December 2016 (TBD) Brno, Czech Republic Smart City Brno Smart City Forum is a response to the
transformation, which takes place on a
global scale, relating to the construction
and operation of intelligent cities. It
affects multiple aspects of life, ranging
from transport, through ecology,
analysis.
December 4-6, 2016 Austin, TX, USA ACEEE Intelligent The conference will bring together
Efficiency thought leaders and innovators in
Conference energy efficiency and technology
to discuss evolving markets, work
on new policies and efficiency
program strategies and explore new
opportunities for energy savings.
December 8, 2016 Eindhoven, Intelligent Sensor Three main subjects: smart
The Netherlands Networks Conference infrastructure, smart industry and
smart logistics.
January 23-24, 2017 London, UK IOT Tech The Expo will bring together key
Expo Global industries from across America for
two days of discussion on the Internet
of Things and related technological
advancements.
February 2017 (TBD) Warsaw, Poland Smart City Forum Smart City Forum is a response to the
analysis.
February 1-2, 2016 London, UK Smart Cities UK Smart City Forum is a response to the
analysis.

February 16-19, 2017 Vienna, Austria Bauen & Energie The trade fair for building, renovation,
Wien and Aquatherm financing and energy savings boasts
Vienna (combined) a strong focus on environmental and
climate protection innovations. It is a
very popular annual gathering for trade
specialists and for consumers intending
to build new houses and extensions with
the best and very latest materials and
systems the industry can offer.
March 2017 (TBD) Singapore, Malaysia Internet of At the multi-track conference,
Things Asia delegates from all over the world
gained key insights from more than
100 international speakers who shared
real cases and challenges faced by
practitioners in the field. The sheer
breadth of speakers, topics and
nationalities at this year’s conference
represented a rich cross section of the
major activities going on in the world
of IoT.
March 2017 (TBD) Zagreb, Croatia Smart Government Smart Government is an administration
Conference: that applies the integrated information,
Disruptive communication and technology for
Innovations through operational planning, management
Smart Solutions and operations across multiple
domains, or a set of business processes
and basic IT skills that allow the flow
of information across government
agencies and programs to provide high
quality services to citizens in all areas of
activities of the Government. This should
create a modern government that would
openly embrace the new possibilities of
technology and civic engagement, and
to constantly adapt to influence for the
better the results.
March 2017 (TBD) Warsaw, Poland Polish Regional We are a team with rich experience in
Congress SMART the Organization of various business
CITY Principles and events. In this, we have both smaller
Perspectives 2017 training, but also conferences,
congresses and trade fairs.

March 2017 (TBD) Gdansk, Poland Smart Metropolia For us the first day of the 4th edition of
Congress the International Congress of SMART
METROPOLIS, which this year takes
place under the slogan “leisure
Metropolis”, reminiscent of one of the
key projects of the European Union –
Smart Cities and which is a response
to the need for a discussion about the
adaptation of modern cities to changing
living conditions.
March 2017 Lisboa, Portugal Green Business The Green Business Week is a booster
Week event of economic growth, skilled
and sustainable employment, science
and research, technology, innovation
and entrepreneurship, leveraged by
the growth in the world of the Green
Economy, which records values above
4% per year.
March 1-3, 2017 Wels, Austria Word Sustainable The World Sustainable Energy Days
Energy Days 2017 (WSED), one of Europe’s largest
annual conferences in this field,
offered a unique combination of
events on sustainable energy. The
2016 conference, which was held
from 24 - 26 February in Wels/Austria,
attracted around 700 participants from
57 countries.
March 1-3, 2016 Tokyo, Japan World Smart Comprehensive smart energy show,
Energy Week best platform to expand business,
and a conference let by industry
professionals.
March 3-5, 2017 Wels, Austria Expo Energy 2017 With about 400 exhibitors solely in the
trade fair sector CONSTRUCTION the
country’s largest construction trade fair
takes place again in 2017.
March 8-11, 2017 Milan, Italy MADE Expo The four highly representative and
integrated specialized exhibitions
that take place under the MADE
expo umbrella target specific visitor
categories and attract new potential
clients who are drawn to the enhanced
cross-industry experience.

March 23-26, 2017 Antalya, Turkey Antalya City Expo 6th Antalya City Planning and
Technologies Fair and Local
Governments Symposium was held
between the dates of 16-18 March
2017. Antalya City Expo was visited
by approximately 14.280 sector
professionals, including 1.500 visitors
consist of Mayors, Governors,
Presidents, Vice Presidents and
Department Heads of government
institutions, department heads
and directors of the purchasing
departments.
April 2017 (TBD) Dubrovnik, Croatia Smart City Start The CityOS event is designed to kickstart
Ups Conference your smart city in just a few weeks.
It combines a media campaign,
conference, workshops, and a 48-hour
hackathon, all focused on solving the
city’s specific problems. We bring
the most knowledgeable speakers,
instructors, and relevant technology.
By the end of the final event, the city
will already have its first functional
applications built by its very own.
April 2017 (TBD) Gdansk, Poland Polish Regional We are a team with rich experience
Congress SMART in the Organization of various business
CITY Principles and events. In his, we have both smaller
Perspectives 2017 training, but also conferences,
congresses and trade fairs.
Taking into account the needs of
potential clients, we offer takes into
account the diverse needs of sales
and marketing companies and public
institutions.
April 2017 (TBD) London, UK Smart Future Cities Smart Cities UK 2017 Conference,
Expo and Awards will lead the way on
addressing the best practice examples
on smart transformation from across
Cities within the United Kingdom whilst
disseminating guidance and information
transformation within waste, energy,
transport, security and other key smart
sectors.

April 5-7, 2017 Sofia, Bulgaria SEE Smart Cities International Expo Center
Conference and
Exhibition
April 19-21, 2017 Istanbul, Turkey International 4th meeting of Congress
Istanbul Smart Grid
and Cities Congress
April 24-28, 2017 Hannover, Germany Hannover From individual components to the
Messe 2017 complete intelligent factory, as well
as topical trends such as energy
efficiency, lightweight construction and
additive manufacturing – at HANNOVER
MESSE you’ll get a complete picture of
the industrial value-adding chain under
one roof - in Hannover and worldwide.
April 26-29, 2017 New York City, NY Smart Cities NYC ‘17 www.smartcitiesnyc.com
May – June 2017 (TBD) Prague, Czech Republic Smart City The Smart Cities Symposium Prague
Symposium 2016 aims on exchange of ideas
and best practices in the field of Smart
cities. It covers whole range of topics,
from the system point of view, through
data mining and data processing, smart
grids, up to multi-agent systems and
other soft computing approaches. The
objective of this conference is to define
the future applications for the field
of smart cities. The results should be
based on the theoretical backgrounds,
but aim on usage of best practices for
real world applications.
May 4-5, 2017 Ankara, Turkey International Smart Smart City Forum is a response to the
City Congress transformation, which takes place on a
analysis.

May 9-13, 2017 Linz, Austria Smart Grids SMART GRIDS WEEK | LINZ 2016 will
Week 2017 be organized in co-operation with the
Federal Ministry for Transport,
Innovation and Technology, the Austrian
Climate and Energy Fund and Linz AG.
From 9th to 13th May 2017 national and
international experts will come together
in order to share the latest insights, look
innovatively at the future and initiate
projects.
May 10-13, 2017 Vienna, Austria Smart Automation The SMART Automation Austria is
Austria technology trade fair and focuses
on factory and process automation.
The goods and services on show
include everything from components
to complete systems and integrated
automation solutions, and cover
an entire range of product areas in
industrial automation.
The SMART Automation Austria is the
commercial platform for the Austrian
automation industry and takes place on
an annual basis, alternating between
Vienna Linz. It attracts around 270
exhibitors from 14 countries; many
of whom are market leaders and
technological pioneers.
May 15-17, 2017 Montreal, Canada Global Public Public transport is rapidly changing.
Transportation In a world of increasing technologies,
Summit globalisation and new players entering
the sector, we cannot afford to stand on
the sidelines. We need to take an active
role and “Lead the TRANSITion”.
May 15-19, 2017 Antofagasta, Chile Exponor A mining industry focused trade show.
June 2017 (TBD) Wroclaw, Poland Polish Regional
Congress SMART
CITY Principles and
Perspectives 2017
July 16-24, 2017 Jakarta, Bandung, Smart City Hosted by Global Smart City &
and Summit Community Coalition.
Surabaya, Indonesia Indonesia

October 2017 (TBD) Krakow, Poland Polish Regional

Congress SMART
CITY Principles and
Perspectives 2017 ents
October 8-11, 2017 Izmir, Turkey Kent Expo Municipality Vehicles, Urban Furniture,
Urbanism and City Perk-Garden Equipments, Treatment
Demands Fair Equipment, Transport Systems, Sport
Facility Equipment and Hardware
Trade Fair

Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES APPENDICES 215
APPENDIX A
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU
SMART CITY ACTIVITIES
THE BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND to export is covered by BIS’s export control

regulations and if so, how to comply:
SECURITY’S SMART CITY ACTIVITIES
l
Order of Review Decision Tool -This
Export controls are federal regulations that restrict
tool helps exporters determine
the export of sensitive goods and technologies to
whether an item is captured by BIS’s
foreign nationals or foreign countries for national
export control regulations. https://
security, foreign policy and nonproliferation
www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/export-
reasons. A person or entity that exports items from
control-classification-interactive-tool
the United States, employs foreign nationals, or
collaborates on research and development with l
Specially Designed Decision Tool -
foreign nationals, may need to apply for an export This tool helps determine whether
license from the Bureau of Industry and Security an item is “specially designed” for
(BIS). BIS licenses and regulates exports of military use, a technical definition that
dual-use goods and technology, which have both is a factor in determining whether an
civilian and military applications, and some military item is covered by BIS’s export control
items; it also enforces export control laws regulations. https://www.bis.doc.gov/
and regulations. index.php/specially-designed-tool
When will an export require a license? Whether l
The Strategic Trade Authorization
a license is required depends on the destination/ (STA) Tool - Even if an export initially
country, type of item being exported, end use of the requires a license, there may be
item, and the parties involved in the transaction. a “license exception.” A license
High technology items or items destined for exception is an authorization that
sanctioned countries such as Cuba and Syria allows you to export or reexport, under
may require a license from BIS before they are stated conditions, items that would
exported. For example, items such as encryption otherwise require a license. One
software, night vision equipment, and technology license exception is License Exception
for unmanned aerial systems are all potentially Strategic Trade Authorization (STA).
covered under export control law. BIS can help STA allows exports to governments of
exporters determine whether a license is needed 36 U.S. allies without a license. This
through a number of tools and services. tool helps users determine if their item
is eligible for shipment under the terms
SMART CITY/INITIATIVES/ACTIVITIES/
of License Exception STA.
PROGRAMMING https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/
• Information and Communication Technologies statool
n
Decision Tree Tools – If you are an l
De minimis & Direct Product Rules
exporter, these tools can help you Tool - This tool can help users
determine whether an item you would like determine if their non-U.S.-made item
located outside the U.S. but made with

216 APPENDICES Smart Cities, Regions & Communities: EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES
U.S. components, is subject to BIS’s n

BIS Policy Guidance – BIS publishes
export control regulations. https:// information to provide additional guidance
www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/de- on certain export categories and
minimis-direct-product-rules- countries. This policy guidance includes
decision-tool subjects such as exports to Cuba and Iran,
“deemed” exports (transfers of technology
• Exporter Counseling Services –BIS offers
to foreign nationals in the United States
free consultations by phone or email with
and overseas), and particularly sensitive
export counselors.
U.S.-origin items such as encryption
l
(202) 482-4811 - Outreach and software. http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.
Educational Services Division (located php/policy-guidance
in Washington, DC)
• Training Seminars for Exporters: BIS conducts
l
(949) 660–0144 - Western Regional exporter training seminars throughout the
Office (located in Newport Beach, CA) United States to help exporters understand
U.S. export control laws, regulations, and
l
E-mail inquiries to the Export policies. Training sessions range from
Counseling Division of the Office of introductory level classes for those unfamiliar
Exporter Services at: with export controls to specialized seminars
ECDOEXS@bis.doc.gov on export compliance and specific export
n
The Consolidated Screening List categories. For more information, visit
(CSL) – This online search tool to can https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/
help determine if there are additional compliance-a-training/export-administration-
regulatory requirements to export to regulations-training.
your proposed end-users. The CSL is a
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
list of persons or businesses which the
United States Government maintains https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/compliance-a-
restrictions on certain exports, reexports, training/current-seminar-schedule
or transfers of items. If a search of the
• July 19-20, New Orleans, LA, Complying with
CSL finds the proposed end-user of
U.S. Export Controls
your export, you should contact BIS and
complete additional due diligence before • August 3-4, Los Angeles, CA, Complying with
proceeding. http://apps.export.gov/csl- U.S. Export Controls
search#/csl-search
• September 13-14, Silicon Valley, CA, Complying
n
The BIS Data Portal – A one-stop shop with U.S. Export Controls
of export control data and analysis,
• September 15, Silicon Valley, CA, Encryption
which may be useful for state and
Controls
local governments or business when
determining trade trends by industry or • September 21, Buffalo, NY, Essentials of U.S.
destinations, which may assist in resource Export Controls
allocation decisions. The portal features • September 22, Buffalo, NY, How to Develop an
statistical papers and datasets on exporter Export Management and Compliance Program
compliance, controlled trade with select
countries, Export Control Reform (ECR), BUREAU POINTS OF CONTACT
BIS licensing, and U.S. Defense Industrial
• Karen NiesVogel,
Base analysis.
Karen.NiesVogel@bis.doc.gov, 202-482-3811
http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/data
• Kevin Stroud,
Kelvin.Stroud@bis.doc.gov, 202-482-2087

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU • The Census Bureau was inspired by the

European initiative in creating the first CitySDK
SMART CITY ACTIVITIES
(software development kit) and some of the
The Census Bureau’s mission is to serve as the first Smart City uses cases. Based on that
leading source of quality data about the nation’s experience, the Census Bureau developed
people and economy. We honor privacy, protect the U.S. version of the CitySDK specifically
confidentiality, share our expertise globally, and targeted at cities and communities. Why?
conduct our work openly. We are guided on this Open Data needs “context” and cities are
mission by scientific objectivity, our strong and the focal point for public service providers
capable workforce, our devotion to research- from industry, academia, entrepreneurs, and
based innovation, and our abiding commitment to other local and federal agencies. The CitySDK
our customers. Our goal is to provide the best mix provides an open source engagement
of timeliness, relevancy, quality, and cost for the platform to leverage authoritative data
data we collect and the services we provide. sources from multiple federal, local, and
private sector sources.
SMART CITY INITIATIVES/ACTIVITIES/
PROGRAMMING • The Census Bureau supports all market
segments of Smart City initiatives because the
• The Census Bureau is the largest statistical ultimate target or beneficiaries are people.
agency in the federal government. We Land use planners rely upon the American
conduct the constitutionally mandated Community Survey data and that is just one
decennial census, the economic census, of several important data sets that can be
demographic surveys, the American accessed from the CitySDK.
Community Survey, Survey of Government
in cities and municipalities, and many other • The Census Bureau currently employs over
surveys. The Census Bureau publishes forty data dissemination specialists across the
the nation’s open data through a number of United States who assist communities through
channels to provide access to a wide audience the use of Census Bureau data. Our data
of citizens, cities, academia, industry, scientists participate in statistical standard
developers, and innovators. The Census bodies across the globe.
Bureau’s data, especially when combined with • Our data and the CitySDK has given birth to
other data sources, provide a unique insight important projects that are focused on cities
about cities and communities. We assist global and communities. One example of how data
statistical organizations in leveraging our are applied for social good can be found at
expertise and best practices. http://opportunity.census.gov.
• The Census Bureau promotes Smart City
CENSUS BUREAU POINT(S) OF CONTACT
initiatives through the timely insights about our
nation’s people, demography, and economy. • Jeff Meisel, Chief Marketing Officer
At the core of any Smart City initiative are U.S. Census Bureau
data. Whether the public service requirement jeffrey.meisel@census.gov
is about safety, energy, health, transportation,
the ultimate unit of measure are people. The
Census Bureau’s data is foundational to
assessing impact and value to individuals
who collectively are members of the
Smart City ecosystem.

CitySDK Architecture
JS Python R +
CitySDK via Commerce

merce Data Service cloud
Open Data
Census Geo- Shape 3rd party data

Survey coding Files (HUD, $A,
Data FEMA, etc)
• Ecosystem Approach—Open Data needs

“context” and cities are the focal point ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
for public service providers from industry,
academia, entrepreneurs, and other local and ADMINISTRATION (EDA)
federal agencies. The CitySDK provides an SMART CITY ACTIVITIES
open source engagement platform to leverage
authoritative data sources from multiple BUREAU DESCRIPTION – The Economic
federal, local, and private sector sources. Development Administration’s (EDA) mission is to
lead the federal economic development agenda
• Architecture—The CitySDK abstracts the by promoting innovation and competitiveness,
most common-use cases facing developers preparing American regions for growth and
when combining open data and geographic success in the worldwide economy. As the only
boundaries. The project goal is to “just handle federal government agency focused exclusively
it” for developers. During the beta release on economic development, the U.S. Department
in 2015 targeted at Javascript programmers, of Commerce’s Economic Development
user research showed a reduction in the on- Administration (EDA) plays a critical role in
boarding time (for JS developers) by > 3x (from fostering regional economic development efforts in
> 12 hours to < 4) when using Census data to communities across the nation. Through strategic
build an application. investments that foster job creation and attract
private investment, EDA supports development
in economically distressed areas of the United
States.
SMART CITY/INITIATIVES/ACTIVITIES/
PROGRAMMING
• EDA’s Office of Innovation and
Entrepreneurship (OIE) leads the Regional
Innovation Strategies (RIS) Program
competition to spur innovation capacity-
building activities in regions across the
nation. Through RIS, a total of $15 million in

Federal funding is available to create and trade laws and agreements. ITA works to improve
expand cluster-focused proof-of-concept and the global business environment and helps U.S.
commercialization programs and early-stage organizations compete at home and abroad
seed capital funds through the i6 Challenge through focused policies and programs of its three
and the Seed Fund Support (SFS) Grant departments, Enforcement & Compliance, Global
competition, respectively. Markets and Industry & Analysis.
• i6 Challenge: Launched in 2010 as part SMART CITY/INITIATIVES/
of the Startup America Initiative, the i6 ACTIVITIES/PROGRAMMING
Challenge is a national competition based
on the most impactful national models GLOBAL MARKETS (GM)
for startup creation, innovation, and • Cities, regions and communities around the
commercialization. world that plan to build ‘smart’ infrastructure
• Seed Fund Support Grants: These cluster provide a significant opportunity for Global
grants provide funding for technical Markets (GM) teams to amplify assistance
assistance to support feasibility, planning, for U.S. businesses seeking to leverage the
formation, or launch of cluster-based integrated and long-term project initiatives
seed capital funds that are offered to such infrastructure involves. The term
innovation-based, growth-oriented start- “smart city” was coined in the early 1990s
up companies in exchange for equity. to illustrate how new urban developments
increasingly incorporated technology,
• EDA’s Investing in Manufacturing Communities innovation, and globalization to meet the
Partnership (IMCP) program is an initiative demands of citizens and businesses, and to
designed to revolutionize the way federal become more efficient and cost effective.
agencies leverage economic development Cities around the world dedicated resources
funds. It encourages communities to develop reinventing neighborhoods to become
comprehensive economic development ‘smarter,’ and breaking ground on wholly new
strategies that will strengthen their urban development sites, planned as smart
competitive edge for attracting global cities. Core sectors in smart city development
manufacturer and supply chain investments. include: (1) Energy/Utilities, (2) Transport, (3)
IMCP coordinates federal aid to support Water and (4) Information and Communication
communities’ strong development plans and Technologies (ICT).
synchronizes grant programs across multiple
departments and agencies. • Recent years have witnessed a global surge in
the announcement of smart city initiatives by
BUREAU POINT(S) OF CONTACT a myriad of foreign governments. Since 2014,
GM teams have assisted U.S. companies with
• RIS: Craig Buerstatte – cbuerstatte@eda.gov
varied interests in these projects around
• IMCP: Julie Wenah – jwenah@eda.gov the world.
• In one notable case, in September 2014,
during a visit of Indian Prime Minister
INTERNATIONAL TRADE Narendra Modi to Washington, DC, President
ADMINISTRATION (ITA) Obama announced a coordinated effort by
SMART CITY ACTIVITIES U.S. businesses and the U.S. government to
assist in the development of three of India’s
The International Trade Administration (ITA) planned smart cities – Ajmer, Allahabad,
strengthens the competitiveness of U.S. industry, and Visakhapatnam (Vizag). The U.S. &
promotes trade and investment, and ensures fair Foreign Commercial Service (CS) New Delhi
trade through the rigorous enforcement of our spearheaded this work, bringing the U.S.

private sector together through multipliers, • I&A’s Top Markets Series is meant to help
including the U.S. – India Business Council exporters determine their next export market
and the American Chamber of Commerce in by comparing opportunities across borders.
New Delhi, along with U.S. Government inter- Each report ranks future export opportunities
agency partners, including USTDA, USAID, within a particular industry based on a sector-
the Department of State, and others. This specific methodology, some of which would
effort has helped lead to early success in be useful resources for U.S. exporters of
Vizag, where three U.S. companies (AECOM, Smart City technologies. The reports provide
IBM, and KPMG) have been awarded master a detailed assessment of the competitiveness
planning contracts. CS New Delhi continues landscape within a sector, as well as the
its work to support U.S. exporters pursuing opportunities and challenges facing U.S.
opportunities in these three cities, and others exporters in key markets. Each report is
across India. available for download.
• Other GM teams have also engaged key • I&A’s industry and trade policy experts have
stakeholders and U.S. Government partners in worked with others in ITA to develop various
support of U.S. business. CS Europe has been Smart City programs and events, such as
extremely active connecting U.S. companies recent trade missions to China and India,
with numerous government initiatives and has recruiting foreign cities to participate in a
created a best practice document – the CS collaborative smart city program led by NIST,
Europe Smart City Resource Guide – that was and advocating for international cooperation in
showcased at the Barcelona Smart City bilateral dialogues.
Expo 2015.
• I&A defines smart cities as urban centers
INDUSTRY & ANALYSIS in which information and communication
technology (ICT) provide insight and control
• I&A’s staff of industry, trade and economic over the various systems to improve the quality
analysts devise and implement international of life for residents.
trade, investment, and export promotion
strategies that strengthen the global • As a cross-cutting concept involving sectors
competitiveness of U.S. industries. These as diverse as information and communications
initiatives unlock export and investment technology (ICT), energy and water,
opportunities for U.S. businesses by combining transportation, and building infrastructure, to
in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis name a few examples, many offices in I&A are
with ITA’s industry relationships. working on efforts relevant to Smart Cities:
• I&A does this by representing the interests of • The Office of Health and Information
U.S. industry in trade negotiations, advocating Technology (OHIT) is dedicated to
on behalf of industry with foreign governments, strengthening the global competitiveness
publishing research on global opportunities for of the U.S. health and information
U.S. industry, and executing export promotion technology (IT) industries, by expanding
programs. Their efforts ensure that foreign their access to foreign markets and
markets are open for U.S. industry, and help increasing U.S. exports.
guide U.S. businesses toward the best export • OHIT monitors business and economic
markets for their products and services. trends in the ICT hardware common
Industry & Analysis also seeks opportunities in many Smart City projects, including
to enter into strategic public private sensors, communications and network
partnerships with companies and non-profit equipment, and computers. Our
associations to achieve mutual export and experts also cover health information
competitiveness objectives. technology, which is a growing sub-
sector of Smart Cities.

• The Office of Digital Services Industries • Smart water speaks to the deployment of
within I&A closely follows major ICT policy ICT technologies to manage the efficient
issues relevant to Smart Cities, including treatment, distribution, storage, use,
digital data flows through advancing the reuse, and billing of water and wastewater
development of the European Union – resources on the macro (public treatment
U.S. Privacy Shield initiative. This office and distribution network), meso (industrial
also engages on issues related to data and building level networks), and micro
localization and cybersecurity. (household) scale within a network.
• From a transportation standpoint, I&A’s • I&A’s Office of Materials Industries covers
Office of Transportation and Machinery U.S. exports focused on building materials
forecasts opportunities for U.S. companies and building products. Within these two
in long-term commercial endeavors to sectors, I&A looks at opportunities for
make their transportation infrastructure U.S. companies in intelligent or ‘smart’
more efficient. Intelligent transportation buildings and ‘smart’ street lighting in
systems (ITS) and improved data and cities.
connectivity within transportation systems
• The 2016 Top Markets Building Products
are two pathways for U.S. companies to
and Sustainable Construction report
become engaged in this space globally.
indicates “smart cities” are a trend in
• ITA/I&A will continue to foster sustainable construction that may create
relationships with industry opportunities for U.S. exporters of building
associations within the smart products that are energy efficient and
transportation sector, as well as interoperable with relevant intelligent
attend shows & conferences that have building systems.
a smart city/transportation focus.
UPCOMING EVENTS
• ITA will also continue to collaborate
across agencies/offices, such as the • Discover Global Markets: Building Smarter
Federal Transit Administration, the Cities will be held November 1-3, 2016,
Intelligent Transportation Systems in Chicago, IL
Joint Program Office, and NIST to This event will focus on the latest
work together to determine best innovations and commercialization trends
practices on research & development, in global smart cities and the Internet
market intelligence and market entry of Things (IoT), as well as purchasing
strategies globally. patterns and export strategies around
• I&A’s Office of Energy and Environmental the world. This program will highlight
Industries looks at global market investments in infrastructure needed
opportunities in the smart grid and smart to support smart city development, the
water sectors. growth of the IoT, technology-powered
sustainability, and cyber security. Featured
• U.S. suppliers of smart grid speakers will include international
technologies will find global business leaders, visiting U.S. commercial
opportunities in both Greenfield and diplomats from more than twenty
brownfield city efforts. countries, high-level government officials,
and seasoned exporters. ITA is drafting
• These exports leverage U.S.
a schedule request for the Secretary to
investments to upgrade the domestic
keynote the event.
electric grid and capitalize on the
growing global market.

• U.S. Commercial Service teams are leading NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS

or collaborating on over 100+ international
& TECHNOLOGY (NIST) SMART
events around the world over the next
12 months; details are listed in the CITY ACTIVITIES
Upcoming Smart Events section. BUREAU DESCRIPTION
• Smart Cities Week NIST’s mission is to promote U.S. innovation
September 27-29, 2016 / Washington, DC and industrial competitiveness by advancing
• Power-GEN Asia; Seoul, Korea, measurement science, standards, and technology
September 20-22, 2016 in ways that enhance economic security and
improve our quality of life.
• European Utility Week; Barcelona, Spain,
November 15-17, 2016 NIST SMART CITY PROGRAMS
• Discover Global Markets: Building Global City Teams Challenge – The Global City
Smart Cities, Teams Challenge (GCTC) encourages collaboration
November 1-3, 2016, Chicago, IL and the sharing of ideas and best practices by
bringing together two key groups—communities
• Consumer Electronics Show, with challenges and innovators with the
January 5-8, 2017, Las Vegas, NV technology to overcome them. The second round
• 23rd World Congress on Intelligent of GCTC was announced in September 2015 at
Transportation Systems, the White House Smart Cities Forum. The new
October 10-14, 2016 / Melbourne, Australia challenge will bring communities and innovators
together to encourage collaboration on a range
• 25th International Technical Conference on the of issues from disaster response to energy
Enhanced Safety of Vehicles, management to mass transit improvement. The
June 5-8, 2017 / Detroit, Michigan goal is to help communities and businesses
• 24th World Congress on Intelligent connect to improve resource management and
Transportation Systems, quality of life by using effective networking of
October 29 – November 2, 2017 / computer systems and physical devices, often
Montreal, Canada called the Internet of Things.
NIST’s partners in the Global City Teams Challenge
BUREAU POINT(S) OF CONTACT
include:
• Vinay Singh, Senior Advisor, Global Markets,
• Federal Partners - the National Science
Vinay.Singh@trade.gov, +1.202.281.7971
Foundation; the International Trade
• Kyle Johnson, International Trade Specialist, Administration; the U.S. Departments of
Kyle.Johnson@trade.gov, +1.202.482.3013 Transportation and State; General Services
Administration, Census, the National
• ITA Smart City team mailbox,
Telecommunications and Information
SmartCities@trade.gov
Administration, and the Networking and
Information Technology Research and
Development (NITRD) Program
• Private Sector – AT&T, GE, IBM and Intel
• Non-Profits – US Ignite, WeGO, FIWARE, the
Industrial Internet Consortium, MetroLab
Network, R20, USGBC, PTI, and ICMA

The current round of the Challenge extends • ENEA – The Italian National agency for
through June 2017 and includes more than new technologies, Energy and sustainable
120 cities and communities from across the US, economic development
Europe, Asia, and Africa working with more
• ETSI - The European Telecommunications
than 300 companies, universities, and non-profit
Standards Institute
organizations in over 100 project teams. These
teams are working on smart city solutions that • The FIWARE Foundation
are replicable and scalable across multiple cities
and infrastructures and that provide measurable • MSIP – The Ministry of Science, ICT, and
benefits to residents. Current GCTC projects are in Future Planning of the Republic of Korea
areas ranging from intelligent transportation and • USGBC – The US Green Building Council
smart grid to health care, community resilience,
citizen services, public safety, environmental Participation is free and open to all by
quality and more. The Challenge is open to visiting the web site at pages.nist.gov/
participation by all and companies and cities are smartcitiesarchitecture/.
welcome to join at any time by visiting the NIST SMART CITY SECTORS
GCTC web site at www.nist.gov/cps/sagc.cfm or
the web site of GCTC partner, US Ignite (www. NIST’s Global City Teams Challenge and IES-
us-ignite.org/globalcityteams/). More information City Framework programs encompass all smart
on the steps of joining the GCTC can be found city sectors including transportation, energy,
at https://www.us-ignite.org/globalcityteams/ manufacturing, environment, health, public safety,
participation-guide. community resilience, and more. Further, ongoing
NIST measurement science programs cover a
Internet of Things-Enabled Smart City wide range of technologies essential to smart
Framework – NIST and its partners have formed a cities, including networking and communications
new, international public working group to develop technologies, cloud computing, big data,
a consensus Internet of Things-Enabled Smart community resilience, cybersecurity, cyber-
City Framework (IES-City Framework, pronounced physical systems, privacy engineering, and
“Yes-City”) that will help future communities take smart grid.
advantage of networked “smart” technologies to
improve the lives of their residents. These smart CALENDAR OF EVENTS
technologies – sometimes referred to as the
• Global City Teams Challenge Fall Tech Jam,
Internet of Things – will provide the foundation
November 2016, Washington DC
for advanced infrastructures and enable progress
in fields from health care, emergency response • IES-City Smart City Framework workshop,
and traffic flow management to electric power November 2016, Washington DC
generation and delivery. The working group’s
goal is to analyze existing technology to discover BUREAU POINT(S) OF CONTACT
both the harmonizing architectural principles and • Director of Cyber Physical Systems and Smart
the vocabulary that will be necessary to create Grid Programs: Chris Greer (chris.greer@nist.
interoperable and replicable smart city solutions. gov)
The group will publish its findings as the IES-City
Framework document. • Global City Teams Challenge: Sokwoo Rhee
(sokwoo.rhee@nist.gov)
The IES-City Framework project comprises an
international technical working group, with • Internet of Things-Enabled Smart City
partners including: Framework (IES-City Framework): Martin Burns
(martin.burns@nist.gov).
• ANSI – The American National
Standards Institute • NIST Research Programs: Jason Boehm
(Jason.boehm@nist.gov)

NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS to help states collect broadband data for the

National Broadband Map and expand their
& INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
statewide broadband capacity. Virtually all
(NTIA) SMART CITY ACTIVITIES BTOP projects are now completed, and no
BUREAU DESCRIPTION more funding is available.
NTIA is the Executive Branch agency that is • BroadbandUSA. Armed with lessons learned
principally responsible for advising the President and best practices from these grant programs,
on telecommunications and information policy NTIA launched its BroadbandUSA program
issues. NTIA’s programs and policymaking in January 2015 to help communities expand
focus largely on expanding broadband Internet their broadband capacity, adoption, and use.
access and adoption in America, expanding the BroadbandUSA offers technical assistance,
use of spectrum by all users, and ensuring that guidance and resources to communities
the Internet remains an engine for continued across the country seeking to expand local
innovation and economic growth. broadband deployment and adoption. As
part of this effort, NTIA is convening a series
SMART CITY/INITIATIVES/ of regional workshop to bring together
ACTIVITIES/PROGRAMMING: local, state and federal officials, industry
representatives, and other stakeholders to
SECTOR: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION discuss the broadband challenges they face
TECHNOLOGIES (ICT). and explore possible solutions. To date, NTIA
• City officials are increasingly leveraging has held regional broadband workshops in
advanced digital technology to optimize and Minneapolis, Minnesota; Jackson, Mississippi;
manage public assets, such as transportation Portland, Maine; Sunnyvale, California;
systems, power plants, water supply networks, and Seattle, Washington and is planning to
waste management, and law enforcement. host additional workshops later this year.
Advanced digital technologies require robust BroadbandUSA’s technical assistance team
broadband connections – both wireline provides free hands-on, one-to-one support
and wireless – to deliver and interconnect to local government officials and other key
services, as well as store and analyze data. stakeholders on a range of broadband
NTIA works in concert with industry and projects nationwide.
other stakeholders to develop a legal and • Publications. NTIA has also released
policy environment that fosters broadband several publications that provide tips and
deployment and increased investment. In best practices to assist communities in
addition, a number of specific NTIA initiatives achieving their broadband goals. For example,
are contributing to the advancement of BroadbandUSA publications cover topics
Smart Cities. such as forming productive public-private
• Broadband Grant Programs. NTIA’s broadband partnerships, planning an effective community
grant programs played an important role in broadband roadmap, and documenting the
helping communities build next-generation various federal programs that fund broadband
infrastructure. For example, the Broadband projects. Upcoming toolkits will further explore
Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) the formation of broadband partnerships and
invested $4 billion in 230 projects across address how to implement infrastructure
the country that built critical broadband projects and sustain broadband networks.
network infrastructure, opened or upgraded • Broadband Opportunity Council. NTIA also
public computer centers, and established partners with other federal agencies to join
broadband adoption and digital inclusion efforts and combine resources. In March
programs. NTIA’s State Broadband Initiative 2015, President Obama created the Broadband
(SBI) program invested another $300 million

Opportunity Council, composed of 25 federal US Ignite where international teams work on

departments and agencies, to determine what collaborative deployments of Internet of Things
actions the federal government could take to technologies in a smart city environment. In
eliminate regulatory barriers to broadband November 2015, NTIA hosted a webinar to
deployment and to encourage investment provide a forum for NIST to educate NTIA’s
in broadband networks and services. The community stakeholders about the GCTC.
Departments of Commerce and Agriculture In March 2016, NTIA participated in NIST’s
co-chair the Council. In September 2015, GCTC Tech Jam workshop and disseminated
the White House released the Council’s information about BroadbandUSA. NTIA
report, which describes concrete steps also plans to invite NIST to participate in its
the member agencies will take to reduce BroadbandUSA regional workshops to inform
barriers and promote broadband investment attendees about the GCTC. NTIA and NIST
and adoption. Once implemented, these are exploring additional opportunities to
agency commitments will make a meaningful coordinate efforts related to smart cities.
difference to communities seeking to expand
• First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet).
and enhance their broadband capacity.
In 2012, Congress created FirstNet as an
• Community Connectivity Initiative. As one of independent authority within NTIA and
NTIA’s commitments outlined in the Council’s directed it to deploy a nationwide, fully
report, the Community Connectivity Initiative interoperable wireless broadband network
will support communities across the country for public safety. When complete, the
with tools to help accelerate local broadband network will offer advanced communications
planning and deployment efforts. NTIA, in capabilities and applications to first
close collaboration with its partners, will responders across the country, enabling them
create a comprehensive online assessment to communicate with one another seamlessly,
tool to help community leaders identify critical speeding response times and saving lives.
broadband needs and connect them with FirstNet is currently on track in meeting its
expertise and resources. The online tool network deployment milestones. Earlier this
will provide a framework of benchmarks and year, it issued a Request for Proposals to
indicators on access, adoption, policy, and select a partner to help it deploy the network
use for communities. NTIA is partnering with and it anticipates awarding a contract later
several communities and organizations to help this year.
develop the measurements for the tool and
make it useful for communities. NTIA has held
• Spectrum Sharing. In this era of spectrum
scarcity, NTIA, including its Institute for
several workshops and webinars to educate
Telecommunication Sciences, is working to
stakeholders on the framework and tools
increase opportunities for spectrum sharing.
(March 22, April 12, April 28, and May 5).
Collaboration with stakeholders is necessary
NTIA will also launch a nine-part series of
in order to develop novel ways to maximize
monthly webinars to engage stakeholders
spectrum resources so that cities can deploy
to inform the development of the community
advanced services and connected devices.
connectivity initiative beginning on July 14.
NTIA is partnering with the FCC on a Model
Additional webinars will be held on
City initiative to facilitate experimentation
August 11, September 8, October 13,
and demonstration of advanced spectrum
November 12, December 8, January 12, 2017,
sharing technologies in real world, urban
February 9, 2017, and March 9, 2017.
environments. The Model City program
• Global City Teams Challenge. Over the past promises to inform the development of
year, NTIA has been collaborating with NIST policies, underlying technologies, and system
on its Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) capabilities for advanced, dynamic spectrum
initiative - a partnership between NIST and sharing. NTIA and the FCC have received

input from stakeholders and a number of U.S. PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE
forward-looking cities have expressed
(USPTO): SMART CITY ACTIVITIES
interest in participation. NTIA and the FCC are
collaborating with stakeholders on next steps. BUREAU DESCRIPTION – USPTO:
• Internet of Things. As part of the Commerce Fostering innovation, competitiveness and
Department’s Digital Economy Agenda, economic growth, domestically and abroad by
NTIA has engaged with a wide range delivering high quality and timely examination
of stakeholders—including companies, of patent and trademark applications, guiding
researchers, academia, and civil society—on domestic and international intellectual property
the potential benefits and challenges related policy, and delivering intellectual property
to the Internet of Things (IoT) and what role, information and education worldwide, with a
if any, the U.S. Government should play in this highly-skilled, diverse workforce.
area. IoT is the foundation for Smart Cities,
which use digital technology to improve SMART CITY/INITIATIVES/
government services. The Department ACTIVITIES/PROGRAMMING
intends to issue a ‘‘green paper’’ that identifies • A smart city is commonly an urban
key issues impacting deployment of these development vision to integrate multiple
technologies, highlights potential benefits information and communication technology
and challenges, and identifies possible (ICT) solutions in a secure fashion to manage
roles for the federal government in fostering a city’s assets the city’s assets include, but not
the advancement of IoT technologies in limited to, (1) Energy/Utilities, (2) Transport,
partnership with the private sector. (3) Environmental Protection/Safety,
• International Engagement. NTIA monitors and (4) Information and Communication
engages with foreign jurisdictions, standards Technologies (ICT), (5) Governance.
organizations, and intergovernmental bodies Governance includes administration services
as part of the U.S. government’s ongoing for residents, services to increase resident
effort to encourage innovation and growth of participation in decision making, and services
the digital economy. These efforts include to improve the quality of life for residents and
development of standards, specifications, and critically, (6) innovation (based on USPTO
best practices for Smart Cities and the Internet data). All of the other assets leverage
of Things. innovation to continually improve the quality of
life of cities.
BUREAU POINT(S) OF CONTACT
• We also define “smart cities” as regions
• NTIA POCs: Glenn Reynolds and Linda Kinney. since we have Regional Offices in Dallas
Denver, Detroit and San Jose, CA. Their
SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS
mission is primarily focused on serving and
• To date, NTIA has held regional understanding through engagement this areas.
broadband workshops in Minneapolis,
• The goal of building a smart city is to improve
Minnesota; Jackson, Mississippi;
quality of life by using technology to improve
Portland, Maine; Sunnyvale, California;
the efficiency of services and meet residents’
and Seattle, Washington.
needs. Understanding and leveraging
technology can best be done through USPTO
data to meet the goal of creating smart cities.
• USPTO data provides early signs of meaningful
R&D and if analyzed could help identify
“smart city” technology/research activity (by

technical subject matter, geographic region, • Using analytics based on USPTO data
inventor and institution) - as well as help combined with other data sets (such as
spot gaps, trends, and progress of smart city economic data/indicators) allows trend line(s)
related technologies a key signal of where analysis to glean unique insights, and the
innovation is going. USPTO can deliver on visualization tools so
that better decisions are made on how to
• The USPTO will align our open data agency
strategically invest in particular smart city/
mission requirements, public needs and
IOT tools/technology that are most innovative.
preferences, and available resources to make
From this, key elements of “smart cities” will
it happen. To make this effort work the
have better data to generate cost savings,
USPTO will:
increase impact and enhance analytics allow
• improve the discoverability, usability, and for increased equity in the delivery of services.
accessibility of USPTO data as it relates to
• Open Data at the USPTO derives new and
smart cities
sustainable ways to make our data better and
• engage our customers to support provide a platform for to get data “faster and
development/usage of USPTO data and easier” with our Developer Hub.134 The Hub
innovation that leads to business growth provides open sourced, enhanced analytics
for cities and regions; and that could increase equity in the delivery of
services by visualizing USPTO data, and by
• partner with our smart cities as data combing this data with other data, such as
customers to improve the quality of our economic data, report data on filings rates,
data and to guide product development. inventorship, assignee, and location of filing to
• The USPTO is uniquely equipped to: inspiring new user stories focused on “smart
cities” solutions, and finally sharing in our
• establishing principles and strategic Community Café for the public to
frameworks to guide connected easily access.
device and Internet of Things (IoT)
implementation, • Researchers, inventors and startups can
quickly identify the inventive leaders in
• USPTO can play a convening role in their technologies and regions, especially
the identifying what IP challenges IoT in understanding all the various types of
companies, for example in information “smart cities” based on their inventiveness
and communication technologies and or innovation. This foundational information
the transportation space based on the can serve as a resource for research driving
relationships with this types of companies strategic business decisions both in the public
through our Regional Offices (Dallas and private sector.
Denver, Detroit and San Jose, CA) where
many key players in this space are located, • The USPTO open data initiative seeks to
improve the discoverability, accessibility, and
• serving as the coordinating entity for new usability of public patent and trademark data
technology and IoT deployments across all though application programming interfaces
City agencies, (APIs). APIs power a majority of mobile
• collaborating with academia and applications, many IT programs, and also
the private sector on innovative pilot create a market for the private sector to
projects, and partnering with municipal develop value-added data driven products and
governments and organizations around services as well that will be a cost effective
the world to share best practices and
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way to integrate into development and long funding and public policy efforts to improve
term curation of “smart cities.” the effectiveness of the commercialization
lifecycle of treatments and products.
• For example, the USPTO will be contributing
content from its sector experts in the Industry POLICY CONTACT / EXTERNAL
and Analysis business unit and ‘business ENGAGEMENT CONTACT:
intelligence’ from its open data and big data
USPTO POC’s are: Vikrum Aiyer, Chief of Staff,
programs to drive evidences based policy
and alternate Thomas A. Beach, Senior Advisor,
around technology and in support of the
for policy and strategy discussions and leading
VPOTUS Cancer Moonshot.
external engagement.
• Additional examples from the USPTO are
SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS:
Challenges and initiative involving; Census
data, FDA partnership, and would like to USPTO has Regional Offices in Dallas Denver,
harness new relationships with EDA’s Detroit and San Jose, CA that primarily focus on
Comprehensive Economic Development serving and understanding through engagement
Strategy program. these regions.
• The goal is to communicate more effectively CALENDAR OF EVENTS
with U.S. companies and communities about
the resources that are available to them from • Multiple public/private engagements in based
across the DOC enterprise. For the USPTO, near our Regional Office (tentatively fall of
the goal is to help U.S. companies understand 2016 and spring of 2017) based on themes such
the technology landscape to ensure economic as Mobility and Open Data.
competitiveness enable precise and impactful

APPENDIX B
U.S. COMPANY CAPABILITIES
U.S. companies are in demand for smart cities and

“…foreign leaders are asking for the help smart infrastructure development opportunities.
of American companies to fill their The U.S. Department of Commerce can help by
infrastructure needs. (1) increasing access these opportunities by
In fact, I have led trade missions to Africa, the opening markets globally and (2) strengthening
Middle East, and East Asia, bringing some of fair competition in international trade for U.S.
our nation’s leading infrastructure and energy firms and workers by addressing foreign unfair
companies to offer their assistance and help trade practices and enforcing international trade
these nations address their infrastructure agreements.
challenges. In this guide we have listed seven companies that
These foreign governments have come to have paid to help defray the costs of publishing this
recognize what we have long understood: document. Yet there are thousands more, small
that their economies not only need a sturdy and medium sized businesses that are increasingly
and robust infrastructure, but that American becoming part of the global supply chain in the
companies can be critical providers of smart city and smart infrastructure space.
expertise, the latest technologies, superior We look forward to expanding the number of U.S.
engineering, and the most creative solutions companies we showcase and share their best
to their problems.”135 practices in smart city and smart infrastructure
– U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker development around the world in future versions of
this guide.
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APPENDIX C
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
KEY POINTS OF CONTACT • For Global Markets U.S. offices find your local
office at: http://export.gov/usoffices/
GENERAL MAILBOX:
SmartCities@Trade.gov • For Global Markets Foreign offices, refer to
individual country pages in Trade Promotion
WEBSITE: section or find the office at:
http://www.export.gov/smartcities http://export.gov/worldwide_us/
• Specific Industry & Analysis representatives:
BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY (BIS)
• Kyle Johnson (ICT Equipment),
1. Karen NiesVogel Kyle.Johnson@trade.gov
Karen.NiesVogel@bis.doc.gov
+1.202/482.3811 • Matthew Hein (Health IT),
Matthew.Hein@trade.gov
2. Kevin Stroud
Kelvin.Stroud@bis.doc.gov • Jeffrey Williams, Smart Transportation,
+1.202/482.2087 Jeffrey.williams@trade.gov
+1.202/482.0670
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (CENSUS) • Maureen Hinman, Smart Water,

Maureen.Hinman@trade.gov
1. Jeff Meisel, Chief Marketing Officer
jeffrey.meisel@census.gov • Vickie Gunderson, Smart Grid,
Victoria.Gunderson@trade.gov
• Joanne Littlefair, OMI (Manufacturing),
U.S. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Joanne.Littlefair@trade.gov
ADMINISTRATION (EDA)
+1.202/482.4855
1. RIS: Craig Buerstatte, cbuerstatte@eda.gov
2. IMCP: Julie Wenah, jwenah@eda.gov
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND
TECHNOLOGY (NIST)
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
1. Director of Cyber Physical Systems and Smart
ADMINISTRATION (ITA)
Grid Programs: Chris Greer
Vinay Singh, Senior Advisor, Global Markets, (chris.greer@nist.gov)
Vinay.Singh@trade.gov
2. Global City Teams Challenge: Sokwoo Rhee
+1.202/281.7971
(sokwoo.rhee@nist.gov)
Kyle Johnson, International Trade Specialist,
Kyle.Johnson@trade.gov
+1.202/482.3013

3. Internet of Things-Enabled Smart City

Framework (IES-City Framework):
Martin Burns
(martin.burns@nist.gov).
4. NIST Research Programs: Jason Boehm
(Jason.boehm@nist.gov)
NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS &

INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION (NTIA)
1. Glenn Reynolds
GReynolds@ntia.doc.gov
2. Linda Kinney
LKinney@ntia.doc.gov
U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

(USPTO)
1. Vikrum Aiyer, Chief of Staff
vikrum.aiyer@USPTO.gov
2. Thomas A. Beach, Senior Advisor
Thomas.beach@uspto.gov

APPENDIX D
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
To advance U.S. company exports, ITA collaborates and leverages information with many
external organizations and advisory committees. The following pages highlight current groups
with whom we are working with on various smart city initiatives.
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100 RESILIENT CITIES 3. Access to tools, service providers, and

partners from the private, public, and non-
Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) profit sectors who can help cities develop and
is dedicated to helping cities around the world implement their resilience strategies. Current
become more resilient to the physical, social, and Partners include data analysis companies,
economic challenges that are a growing part of reinsurance companies, architects, energy
the 21st century. 100RC supports the adoption and experts, and more.
incorporation of a view of resilience that includes
not just the shocks – such as earthquakes, floods, 4. Inclusion in the 100RC Network, through which
disease outbreaks, etc. – but also the stresses CROs can share best practices, solve problems
that weaken the fabric of a city on a day to day or collectively, and learn from each other and
cyclical basis. from other resilience experts.
Examples of these stresses include high Through these offerings, 100RC aims to not only
unemployment; an overtaxed or inefficient public help individual cities become more resilient, but
transportation system; endemic violence; or to facilitate the creation of a global practice of
chronic food and water shortages. By addressing resilience building. 100RC began working with
both the shocks and the stresses, a city can better their first cohort of 32 cities in December 2013,
respond to adverse events and is more capable of and announced their second class of 34 cities in
delivering basic functions in both good times and December 2014. In May of 2016 100RC announced
bad, to all populations. their third and final cohort of cities, bringing the
total number of member cities to 100, a remarkable
Cities in the 100RC network are provided with milestone achieved in less than 3 years.
resources along four pathways:
100 Resilient Cities is financially supported by
1. Financial and logistical guidance for The Rockefeller Foundation and managed as a
establishing an innovative new position in city sponsored project by Rockefeller Philanthropy
government, a Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), Advisors (RPA), an independent 501(c)(3)
who will lead the city’s resilience efforts; nonprofit organization that provides governance
2. Support for a Chief Resilience Officer to and operational infrastructure to its sponsored
lead stakeholders in the development of a projects.
resilience-building strategy. This strategy,
developed over the course of six to nine Learn more at
months, will serve as the city’s roadmap to
resilience.
www.100resilientcities.org
420 Fifth Avenue, 19th Floor | New York, NY 10018

Approved by Committee: May 24, 2016
Department of Commerce’s
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Advisory (REEEAC)
SMART CITIES PRIORITY WORKSHEET

There is no standard definition of a “smart city.” Definitions and uses of this term vary dramatically
across the globe, which causes difficulty in developing programs and identifying opportunities for the
deployment of diverse technologies that underpin the development of a smart city. That said, there
are three undisputable qualities that contributes to making a city “smart”: efficient, people-centric,
and future-proof (resilient). The following series of questions is intended to guide decision makers
and businesses in understanding the drivers for smart city development and provide insight into the
technologies, sectors, and types of developments required to create a roadmap that is tailored to each
unique location.
SECTION 1: ASSESSING WHAT EXISTS
TRANSPORTATION
1. Is there a transportation strategy provided by the city?
Yes: Has it been implemented?
Yes: Does the plan provide for transportation means other than private vehicles (e.g. public
transit, freight mobility, walking, biking)?
Yes
No
No: What are the barriers? _____________________________________________________
No
ELECTRICITY
2. Are there any areas of the city without reliable electricity?
Yes: What is the approximate percentage?
a. 0%-25%
b. 26%-50%
c. 51% or above
No

3. Of those with reliable electricity access, how often are there outages?
a. Daily
b. Weekly
c. Monthly
d. Annually
4. What percentage of the critical infrastructure (e.g., hospitals and emergency health centers) have
back-up power generation?
a. 0%-25%
b. 26%-50%
c. 51%-75%
d. 76%-100%
5. What is (are) the main* source(s) of your electricity? Check all that apply. (*~20% or more)
a. Coal
b. Petroleum
c. Natural Gas
d. Nuclear
e. Hydroelectric (dam)
f. Renewables (specify) ___________________________________________________________
g. Other (specify) ________________________________________________________________
6. For the main* electricity sources, how much of the feedstock (coal, petroleum, natural gas, renewable
fuels) is imported from another country?
a. 0%-25%
b. 26%-50%
c. 51%-75%
d. 76%-100%
7. Approximately what percentage of the main* source(s) of your electricity are imported from another
country? Check all that apply. (*~20% or more)
a. 0%-25%
b. 26%-50%
c. 51%-75%
d. 76%-100%

8. Approximately what percentage of your electricity meters have two-way communication (so-called,
smart meters)?
a. 0%-25%
b. 26%-50%
c. 51%-75%
d. 76%-100%
9. What the non-technical losses for transmission and distribution?
a. 0%-25%
b. 26%-50%
c. 51% or more
10. Can a building owners are able to integrate distributed energy and microgrids?
Yes: What is the approximate percentage of owners who have?
a. 0%-25%
b. 26%-50%
c. 51% or above
No: Why not?
a. Utility regulatory policy
b. lack of financing
c. other
11. Do you have a smart streetlight program?
Yes
No
WATER
12. Are there areas of the city without running water?
Yes: What is the approximate percentage?
a. 0%-25%
b. 26%-50%
c. 51% or above
No

13. Of those with running water access, how often are services interrupted?
a. Daily
b. Weekly
c. Monthly
d. Annually
14. Does this running water meet international water quality standards (e.g., World Health Organization)?
Yes
No
15. What is (are) the main* source(s) of your water? Check all that apply. (*~20% or more)
a. Groundwater
b. River outside municipal boundary
c. River inside municipal boundary
d. Melted icepack from mountains
e. Lakes f. Desalination
f. Recycled rainwater
g. Recycled greywater
h. Other (specify) ________________________________________________________________
16. Approximately what percentage of the main* source(s) of your water are imported from another
country? Check all that apply. (*~20% or more)
a. 0%-25%
b. 26%-50%
c. 51%-75%
d. 76%-100%
17. In case of a drought, are there water reserves?
Yes: What type of reserves are these? Please specify. ___________________________________
No
18. Approximately what percentage of your water meters have two-way communication (so-called,
smart meters)?
a. 0%-25%
b. 26%-50%
c. 51%-75%
d. 76%-100%

19. What are your non-technical losses water losses?

a. 0%-25%
b. 26%-50%
c. 51% or more
AIR QUALITY
20. Does your air quality consistently** meet international standards for air quality (e.g., World Health
Organization)? (** is greater than 90% of the time)
Yes
No: Are there special considerations at different times of day?
Please specify. ______________________________________________________________
21. What air pollutants are of greatest concern?
a. SOx
b. NOx
c. PM 10
d. PM 2.5
e. Other (specify) ________________________________________________________________
WASTE
22. What do you do with your waste?
a. Renewable electricity resource
b. Recycle
c. Landfill
d. Dumping
e. Gasification
f. Incineration
g. Open field burning
h. Other

23. Do you process waste-water?

Yes: Approximately, what percentage to you process?
a. 0%-25%
b. 26%-50%
c. 51%-75%
d. 76%-100%
No
COMMUNICATIONS
24. What are the primary technology platform(s) used to deliver communications access to the majority of
your city (choose all that apply)?
a. Optical fiber
b. Wireless broadband (including 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, and Wi-Bro)
c. Satellite
d. Coaxial cable
e. Other (specify)_________________________________________________________________
25. What percentage of your city is covered by communications (whether wireless, wireline,
satellite, etc.)?
a. 0%-25%
b. 26%-50%
c. 51%-75%
d. 76%-100%
26. Of those with access to communications infrastructure, how often are there outages?
a. Daily
b. Weekly
c. Monthly
d. Annually
27. Regardless of technology platform, what percentage of your city’s population has access to
broadband connectivity (broadband defined as available speed of at least 25 Mbps)?
a. 0%-25%
b. 26%-50%
c. 51%-75%
d. 76%-100%

INDUSTRY/ECONOMIC
28. What is (are) the biggest industry (industries) that drive(s) the economy of your city?
Check all that apply.
a. Agriculture
b. Manufacturing
c. Tourism
d. Information and Technology (IT) & Telecommunications
e. Retail
f. Finance
g. Media & Entertainment
h. Government
i. Natural resource extraction (e.g. mining, oil, gas)
j. Education
k. Other (specify) ________________________________________________________________
29. Where does majority of your city’s food come from (choose all that apply)?
a. Overseas
b. Domestic
c. over 1,600 km (~1,000 mi) away
d. up to 1,600 km (~1,000 mi) away
e. up to 800 km (~ 500 mi) away
f. up to 400 km (~250 mi) away
g. up to 200 km (~125 mi) away
30. Do you have any e-citizen services (e.g., online customer interfaces for energy, water, waste pickup
and healthcare)?
Yes: What sectors are included in these services?
List all _____________________________________________________________________
No

STRATEGIC PLANNING
31. Is (are) there a long-term strategic vision(s) for your city for any of the discussed services/sectors
(e.g., transportation, electricity, water, and communications)?
Yes: What sectors are included?
List all _____________________________________________________________________
No
32. For those with strategic visions, is (are) there an implementation plan(s) and/or a road map(s)?
Yes: Is it publicly available?
Describe where available ______________________________________________________
No
33. For those with strategic visions an implementation plan(s) and/or a road map(s), who drafted
the documents?
Specify relevant ministry/organization contact _________________________________________
34. For those with strategic visions an implementation plan(s) and/or a road map(s), is there an
implementation budget?
Specify relevant ministry/organization and $USD value equivalent _________________________
35. Are you working with an international organization on a smart cities initiative?
Yes: Please specify. ______________________________________________________________
No
36. Do you have a smart cities definition?
Yes: Please specify. ______________________________________________________________
No

SECTION 2: IDENTIFYING THE ISSUES

What are your city’s top priorities for development and/or areas of concern, within the categories listed
below? Please check categories of concern and add comments, if any.
* Resilience in this context means the ability to recover from service interruptions and/or system failure.
TRANSPORTATION COMMENT(S)
__ Breadth of access ___________________________________________________________
__ Cost ___________________________________________________________
__ Mass transit ___________________________________________________________
__ Congestion ___________________________________________________________
__ Environmental impact ___________________________________________________________
__ Safety ___________________________________________________________
__ Resilience* ___________________________________________________________
__ Traffic control systems ___________________________________________________________
__ Autonomous vehicles ___________________________________________________________
__ Other ___________________________________________________________
ENERGY COMMENT(S)
__ Breadth of availability ___________________________________________________________
__ Consistency of supply ___________________________________________________________
__ Cost ___________________________________________________________
__ Environmental impact ___________________________________________________________
__ Resilience* ___________________________________________________________
__ Renewable Electricity ___________________________________________________________
__ Renewable Fuels ___________________________________________________________
__ Storage ___________________________________________________________
__ Smart Grid ___________________________________________________________
__ Other ___________________________________________________________

BUILDING & HOUSING COMMENT(S)

__ Supply ___________________________________________________________
__ Cost ___________________________________________________________
__ Structural & system integrity ___________________________________________________________
__ Transportation access ___________________________________________________________
__ Utility access ___________________________________________________________
__ Energy efficiency ___________________________________________________________
__ Environmental Impact ___________________________________________________________
__ Other ___________________________________________________________
WATER COMMENT(S)
__ Availability ___________________________________________________________
__ Cleanliness/ Quality ___________________________________________________________
__ Cost ___________________________________________________________
__ Efficiency ___________________________________________________________
__ System maintenance ___________________________________________________________
__ Metering ___________________________________________________________
__ Recycling ___________________________________________________________
__ Resilience* ___________________________________________________________
__ Integration of water,
sanitation & flood control ___________________________________________________________
__ Other ___________________________________________________________

WASTE COMMENT(S)
__ Disposal ___________________________________________________________
__ Cost ___________________________________________________________
__ Efficiency ___________________________________________________________
__ System maintenance ___________________________________________________________
__ Metering ___________________________________________________________
__ Recycling ___________________________________________________________
__ Resilience* ___________________________________________________________
__ Integration of water,
sanitation & flood control ___________________________________________________________
__ Other ___________________________________________________________
AIR QUALITY COMMENT(S)

__ Cleanliness/ Quality ___________________________________________________________
__ Pollutants of Concern ___________________________________________________________
__ Monitoring System(s ___________________________________________________________
__ Other ___________________________________________________________
URBAN MANUFACTURING COMMENT(S)

__ Facility availability ___________________________________________________________
__ Logistics ___________________________________________________________
__ Utility services ___________________________________________________________
__ Market access ___________________________________________________________
__ Labor force access ___________________________________________________________
__ Regulatory environment ___________________________________________________________
__ Worker housing ___________________________________________________________
__ Available technology ___________________________________________________________
__ Other ___________________________________________________________

URBAN FARMING COMMENT(S)

__ Land availability ___________________________________________________________
__ Vertical farming ___________________________________________________________
__ Hydroponics ___________________________________________________________
__ Water use ___________________________________________________________
__ Other ___________________________________________________________
SECURITY COMMENT(S)
__ Food/clothing/shelter ___________________________________________________________
__ Job Security ___________________________________________________________
__ Economic Security ___________________________________________________________
__ Street crime ___________________________________________________________
__ Water ___________________________________________________________
__ Energy ___________________________________________________________
__ Environmental (e.g. clean air) ___________________________________________________________
__ Terrorism ___________________________________________________________
__ Other ___________________________________________________________
ADDITIONAL CATEGORY(IES) COMMENT(S)

__ Other ___________________________________________________________
__ Other ___________________________________________________________
__ Other ___________________________________________________________

NAME OF U.S. COMPANY ABOUT THE SMART CITIES COUNCIL:

Smart Cities Council LLC
The Smart Cities Council is dedicated to improving
WEB SITE the livability, workability and sustainability of the
www.smartcitiescouncil.com world’s cities .The Council is a consortium of 60+
companies and 75+ expert advisors, including
CONTACT INFORMATION: two national laboratories and 11 universities from
Philip Bane, Managing Director seven countries. Together, the Council’s member
philip.bane@SmartCitiesCouncil.com companies employ well over 1,000,000 people in
202-650-0023 ext. 103 150+ countries. Over the past five years, they have
completed more than 10,000 smart city projects all
over the world.
Over 40,000 smart city practitioners have
downloaded the Council’s Smart Cities
Readiness Guide DESCRIPTION OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES:
Over 1000 delegates attended the Council’s Smart The Council publishes the sector’s largest
Cities Week which is now in its second year – newsletter and hosts the sector’s most popular
September 26-28 2016 in Washington, DC website which features the largest source of free
smart city tools, resources and case studies,
Over 600 smart city practitioners have attended including the Smart Cities Readiness Guide and
Readiness Workshops Smart Cities Financing Guide. The Council
Over 100 cities and utilities have received provides advisory services to cities, companies
Readiness Advisory Services and utilities about cities becoming more livable,
workable and sustainable.

APPENDIX E
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A project of this complexity could not have been successful without numerous collaborators, we’d like to
thank the following people and organizations for their inputs, feedback and tireless work and guidance:
RACHAEL CROFT, INTERNATIONAL TRADE SPECIALIST, GLOBAL MARKETS,

FOR HER COUNTLESS HOURS IN MAKING THIS PROJECT A SUCCESS
ALL OUR GLOBAL MARKET U.S. AND FOREIGN SERVICE TEAMS WHO’VE PROVIDED
VALUABLE INPUTS FOR THIS DOCUMENT AND FOR THEIR WORK IN THE FIELD
INDUSTRY & ANALYSIS SECTOR LEADS AND LEADERSHIP
OUR U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE COLLEAGUES FOR THEIR
PATIENCE AND SUPPORT DURING THIS PROJECT
THE SEVEN U.S. ORGANIZATIONS WHO PROVIDED PAID SHOWCASE PAGES WHICH
SUPPORTED THIS PUBLICATION: AECOM, AT&T, CITI, GLOBAL FUTURES GROUP,
INNOVARI, MICROSOFT AND 360 WATER
OUR ITA STRATEGIC PARTNERS: SMART CITIES COUNCIL AND GLOBAL FUTURES GROUP
BROOKINGS METRO FOR THEIR VALUABLE INPUTS ON URBANIZATION TRENDS
MCKINSEY FOR THEIR VAST KNOWLEDGE ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND URBANIZATION
NEW CITIES FOUNDATION FOR THEIR RECENT HANDBOOK ON URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE
U.S. TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP IN THE SMART CITY SPACE
OUR U.S. GOVERNMENT COLLEAGUES AT USAID AND U.S. TREASURY
THE MULTILATERAL BANKS (NOTE: MUCH OF THEIR ACCESS TO
CAPITAL SECTION CONTENT WAS FROM THEIR WEBSITES, OBTAINED DURING APRIL 2016)
AND A THANK YOU TO AMERICAN COMPANIES AND WORKERS EVERYWHERE

FOR YOUR INNOVATION, LEADERSHIP AND PASSION.
Arun M. Kumar Vinay Vijay Singh

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets Senior Advisor, Global Markets,
& Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service Urbanization & Infrastructure

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B. U.S. Company Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

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