This is a presentation file prepared for the Vespucci Summer Institute 2016 Week 2. It serves as the introductory material for discussions. It covers the introduction of the Internet of Things, smart cities, what do we mean by "smart" cities, and finally touched on the topic of startups for the IoT field.

1. Internet of Things and Smart Cities
prepared for Vespucci 2016 week 2
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Dr. Steve Liang, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Associate Professor, Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary
Founder and CEO, SensorUp Inc.
Vespucci 2016

2. I am from Alberta, Canada.

3. so what?

4. Think about some Thing

5. Your
Shirt

6. Your Drink

7. Your
Parking

8. Your
Baby

9. Your
Pacifier

10. Your Cat
Poop

11. Your Light Posts

12. Internet of Cows

13. Vision and Trend #1
Everything that can be connected to
the Internet will be connected.
It will be either done by you or done to
you.

14. 14
Dark Assets

15. making invisible visible….
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16. Vision and Trend #2
The IoT reveals actionable
insights.

17. Why Locations matter?

18. Location technology evolution
Region-Centric
Geospatial
Information
Feature-Centric
Geospatial
Information
Human-Centric
Geospatial
Information
Device-Centric
Geospatial
Information
1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
Alberta

19. sensorup.com@sensorup
number of
users
size of spaceUrban Planning/
Civil Engineering
Car Navigation/
Web Map
Pedestrian
Navigation
??
<1m

20. sensorup.com@sensorup
number of
users
size of spaceUrban Planning/
Civil Engineering
Car Navigation/
Web Map
Pedestrian
Navigation
??
<1m
Region-Centric
Geospatial
Information
Feature-Centric
Geospatial
Information
Human-Centric
Geospatial
Information
Device-Centric
Geospatial
Information

21. sensorup.com@sensorup
number of
users
size of spaceUrban Planning/
Civil Engineering
Car Navigation/
Web Map
Pedestrian
Navigation
??
<1m
Indoor
Space
Region-Centric
Geospatial
Information
Feature-Centric
Geospatial
Information
Human-Centric
Geospatial
Information
Device-Centric
Geospatial
Information

22. sensorup.com@sensorup
number of
users
size of spaceUrban Planning/
Civil Engineering
Car Navigation/
Web Map
Pedestrian
Navigation
??
<1m
Region-Centric
Geospatial
Information
Feature-Centric
Geospatial
Information
Human-Centric
Geospatial
Information
Device-Centric
Geospatial
Information
Indoor
Space
IoT
Space

23. Vision and Trend #3
Location is the first class
citizen for the IoT.

24. What can we learn from AOL?

25. Today’s IoT Silos
Network A
Application A
Thing A
Network B
Application B
Thing B
Network C
Application C
Thing C
Network D
Application D
Thing D

26. System of Systems
๏ The real potential of the Internet of Things
Network Effect:
The value of a network is
proportional to the square of the
number of users of the system
(n²).

27. Vision and Trend #4
The true value of IoT
depends on system of
systems.

30. Vision and Trend #5
The IoT transforms Business
Models.

33. MUST
READ

34. (Porter, 2014)

35. Vision and Trend #6
The IoT is changing the
nature of products
(things) and disrupting
value chains.

36. “77% of surveyed IoT experts
claimed that Interoperability is the
biggest challenge currently facing
the Internet of Things”
“

37. Which hardware will Google
choose to intentionally brick next?
“
“the guardian

38. What is IoT Interoperability?
๏ (IEEE) Interoperability is the ability of two or more (IoT)
systems or components to exchange information and
to use the information that has been exchanged.
๏ (Brodie, 1993) Two components X and Y can
interoperate (are interoperable) if X can send requests
R for services to Y, based on a mutual understanding
of R by X and Y, and if Y can similarly return mutually
understandable responses S to X.

39. Web Server Market Share

41. Vision and Trend #5
Open standards and open source
will play critical roles to build the
IoT and smart cities.

42. How Smart is Your City?
๏depends on how interconnected are your
systems
Friction Motion

43. Where are the frictions?
Sensor
and
Actuator
Smart
Things
Network
Operator
Device-
Cloud
API
Data and
Analytics
APP-
Cloud
API
System
Integrator/
Application
Provider
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
๏And the frictions to interconnect different
systems.

44. Vision and Trend #7
The smartest city in the world is the
city with least friction for innovation.

45. Case Study #1
• A pilot project funded by Department of Homeland Security and IJIS
Institute
• Problem:
• lacking a Common Operating Picture (COP) for various first responder
groups and disaster managers
• Solution:
• SensorUp platform allows various group to access heterogeneous
sensing systems
Case Study #1

46. OGC
®
46
wearable cam
heart beat,
breathing rate
location,
acceleration,
headings
equipment status

47. OGC Incident Management Information
Sharing Internet of Things (IoT) Pilot

48. Sensors come online

49. Smart Shirt and Wearable Cam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn7FTUs2qOE

50. Event Notifications

51. I was impressed with the ‘state of the
practical’ where these various industry
sensors can be integrated today using
open standards that remove the stovepipe
limitations of one-off technologies.
“
“Dr. Reginald Brothers
Under Secretary for Science and Technology

52. Case Study #2 - Smart Citizens for Smart Cities

53. We are working with some
progressive cities around the world
Nijmegen, Holland
(Smart Emission)
Singapore
(Smart Nation)
Taipei, Taiwan
(AirBox)

54. LASS in Taiwan, 1,000+ air quality
sensors by end of 2016

55. Navigate sensor data in space and time

56. Rockyview WellWatch
๏ More than 40
participants
๏ High quality data
since 2008
Little, K. E., M. Hayashi, and S. H. L. Liang (2015), "Community-based groundwater
monitoring network using a citizen-science approach", Groundwater

57. Calgary Flood 2013

58. Few thoughts about startups

59. What is a startup?
๏A startup is a company
working to solve a problem
where the solution is not
obvious and success is not
guaranteed.

60. Few thoughts about startups
๏Problem-Solution Fit
๏Product-Market Fit
๏Product-Founder Fit

61. Do things paying dividends

62. Business Model Canvas

63. Business Model Canvas