As a smart city, London has its own grand goal, which is to become the smartest city in the world in 2020. In order to achieve this goal, the mayor of London encouraged the public and private sectors to participate.
In order to meet the challenges and change the appearance of the city, London is launching more than 20 initiatives, such as the Connected London project, which will cover the whole city with 5G, and the smart city plan promoted by the mayor will provide free Wi-Fi in public places.
London has launched a series of projects called "Let's make London smarter together". These initiatives aim to make London "the smartest city in the world", focusing on user-centered design, data sharing, interconnection, digital leadership and skills, and collaboration between public services and the private sector.
The population of London is still in a period of rapid expansion, and it is expected to exceed100000 in 2030. Obviously, its traffic, energy, health and pollution management will face great pressure. In order to solve these problems, the mayor's office of London chose to turn to smart city solutions and jointly develop related projects with startups, scholars and citizens.
For example, the Smart London Committee, established on 20 13, has formulated policies to encourage innovative technological solutions to meet the challenges faced by cities. Take Intel as an example. They are contributing to your technical research through the Connected City Institute. The institute supports the research of user-centered technical solutions, such as London Life Lab. As part of the living laboratory project, scientists are conducting air, water and ecological tests in Hyde Park. In practice, the project uses wireless sensor networks.
Another initiative is the London Transport Platform, which can help residents plan their trips by using a variety of intelligent travel modes, and they can also easily pay the transportation expenses through this website. Of course, London has also prepared oyster cards that can be paid directly by credit cards, and customers can recharge them with debit cards or credit cards.
The "foundation" of the Smart London project is five key objectives:
User-centered design
London's service design includes providing various functions for people with hearing, vision and mobility difficulties, creating a good atmosphere for digital integration. They want all Londoners to enjoy public services. As for the new training plan, it focuses on teaching digital skills to the unemployed and people over 50. London has also launched platforms such as Citizen Innovation Challenge to encourage digital participation of citizens and communities.
Open and secure urban data
Through the London Data Analysis Office project, the capital of the British Empire should greatly improve the enjoyment of data and develop public data as much as possible. In solving public services and urban challenges (such as air pollution), we mainly rely on data collaboration projects between the public, academic and technical departments. For example, London is working with the Turing Institute in Allen to synchronize old and new data sources through machine learning to improve air pollution analysis.
With regard to digital security, the London Digital Security Center was launched, which is a joint initiative of the Mayor of London, the Metropolitan Police and the Metropolitan Police. In the future, the police will provide information security advice and protection for SMEs.
Interconnection and wisdom street
London plans to promote 5G networks throughout the city through the Connected London project. Obviously, all new projects must have complete optical fiber coverage and solve the problem of "blind spots" in areas with poor signal. In addition to the 5G network, another big voice of residents and tourists is public Wi-Fi. For this reason, the mayor launched an initiative to provide open Wi-Fi access in public buildings and streets.
With the help of smart city infrastructure, London will also use smart devices to upgrade landmark lampposts and equip them with air quality sensors, public Wi-Fi, cameras and charging piles for electric vehicles.
Improve the digital ability of residents
Smart city cooperation
The mayor will set up the London Office of Technology and Innovation (LOTI) to support cooperation and technology sharing among the offices. These offices will also work with the technical departments of the private sector to develop common standards for digital collaboration. Public service organizations will follow this standard when enjoying data and technology.
Other initiatives include promoting technological innovation in the field of health care, and the city is cooperating with the national medical service system to bring digital medical services to thousands of households.
5G wireless network
High-speed connection and the Internet of Things, including sensors, intelligent infrastructure and monitoring equipment, are the core of all smart cities. The Internet of Things needs 5G networks to operate effectively and support the application of big data.
To this end, London needs to build a 5G base station about every 200 meters, and the location suitable for installing 5G base stations is found by drones.
London should be the most walkable city.
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, wants to use cycling, walking or public transportation as the main way for people to commute. The pedestrian travel plan aims to let more people spread their legs by redesigning the streets. Specifically, London will increase more pedestrian and bicycle lanes, and at the same time make it easier for citizens to commute on foot through new traffic signal technology.
The greater London authorities are here.
The Greater London Authority will solve the problem of digital collaboration between the City Hall and the 33 boroughs of Greater London. London is now "fragmented", which makes it impossible to advance the plan of sharing data and solutions across public services. The office aims to minimize duplication of work through the practice of "building once and enjoying many times".
Smart London project
In order to turn London into the smartest city in the world, the local government has launched more than 20 projects. Some of the latest smart city solutions are as follows:
London data store
In order to facilitate access to city data, the mayor specially launched the London data storage project, which is a free and open data access portal. All citizens can access more than 700 urban information data sets. The data set is divided into eight categories: work, economy, transportation, environment, community safety, housing, community and health.
As part of the data storage project in London, urban data analysis should provide supporting data collaboration for the project "Make London smarter together". The central project management tool can provide managers with the required data on the screen and use data science to predict service demand.
Citizen innovation challenge
This is a good opportunity for start-ups who are good at solving the following problems:
Active travel, electric cars, low-rent housing, sports, loneliness and isolation, dementia services, financial benefits and digital skills. It is reported that the winners will receive a prize of 6.5438+0.5 million pounds to test their ideas.
Advanced transportation system
London is trying to solve the long-term traffic congestion problem in Greater London. The government will invest 4 billion pounds in transportation in the next decade.
Heathrow Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world, and traffic congestion has always been a big problem. The Pod Shuttle system of Heathrow Airport developed by Ultra global prt is a zero-emission rapid transportation system, which can connect Terminal 5 with commercial parking lots. This system consists of 265,438+0 shuttle buses with male pods, which does not need to use traditional buses, thus reducing emissions. The success of Heathrow pod shuttle has also prompted British car companies to invest in the development of self-driving cars.
Say no to pollution
As part of the "Connect London" project, London will monitor air quality by installing sensors on lampposts in the affected areas. Two Google Street View cars are responsible for recording the emissions of high pollution points.
London, a super green city.
Big companies like Tesco are also committed to taking green measures, such as:
By 2020, use 100% renewable energy on its equipment;
Replace zero-emission vehicles by 2025;
Reduce garbage by 50% by 2030.
London's long-term "iron fist policy" can be used for reference by other cities. They strive to promote all-round cooperation among all stakeholders and put interconnection and innovation in the first place. At the same time, citizens' innovation challenges and other initiatives have promoted economic growth and inclusiveness, while Lottie has opened the door for the development of science and technology.
At the same time, the London data storage project has improved transparency and made city data accessible to all residents. In addition, London's efforts to promote urban change through technology are indeed obvious to all, which makes it much more likely to finally realize a smart London.