1. Synopsis .............................................................................................................................................2
2. Introduction........................................................................................................................................2
2.1 Smart Cities: sustainable engines for growth...........................................................................2
2.2 Digital cities: digital dreams?...................................................................................................4
3. Building smart cities to ease the stress ..............................................................................................4
3.1 A population of nine billion people .........................................................................................4
3.2 The role of smart cities.............................................................................................................4
3.3 We need to use people power...................................................................................................5
3.4 Education, information, empowerment....................................................................................5
3.5 Changes are starting to drive action .........................................................................................6
3.6 Intelligent/smart technologies and systems..............................................................................6
3.7 Smart city investment...............................................................................................................6
4. Key components of smart cities.........................................................................................................6
4.1 A smart city built on three pillars.............................................................................................6
4.2 Smart grids ...............................................................................................................................7
4.3 Next generation telecoms/National broadband networks.........................................................7
4.4 Smart government ....................................................................................................................8
4.5 Open networks .........................................................................................................................8
4.6 Smart buildings/homes.............................................................................................................8
4.6.1 Smart Home Cloud Services................................................................................................9
4.6.2 Home networks ....................................................................................................................9
4.7 Smart transport (separate report)............................................................................................10
5. Strategies for smart communities ....................................................................................................11
5.1 Smart cities require holistic approach ....................................................................................11
5.1.1 Tran-sector thinking...........................................................................................................12
5.2 Rebuilding communities ........................................................................................................12
5.3 Greenfield communities .........................................................................................................13
6. Selected examples of smart communities........................................................................................13
6.1 Asia ........................................................................................................................................14
6.1.1 South Korea .......................................................................................................................14
6.1.2 China..................................................................................................................................15
6.1.3 Japan ..................................................................................................................................17
6.1.4 Singapore ...........................................................................................................................18
6.1.5 India ...................................................................................................................................19
6.2 Europe ....................................................................................................................................19
6.3 Amsterdam .............................................................................................................................19
6.4 Portugal ..................................................................................................................................20
6.5 Stockholm ..............................................................................................................................20
7. Middle East ......................................................................................................................................21
7.1 Qatar .......................................................................................................................................21
8. Intelligent Communities Forum.......................................................................................................21
9. Related reports .................................................................................................................................22
Exhibit 1 – Smart City Operating System (OS).........................................................................................2
Exhibit 2 – Smart Homes...........................................................................................................................9
Exhibit 3 – Learning from e-cars.............................................................................................................11
Exhibit 4 – Example of trans-sector collaboration in a Smart City .........................................................12
Exhibit 5 – Smart energy project in Amsterdam 2011 ............................................................................20