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The general situation of the economic and social development of the city

Bristol⁹⁷ is a city and unitary authority area in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009 and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007. It is England's sixth and the United Kingdom's eighth most populous city, one of the Core Cities Group and the most populous city in South West England. In more recent years the economy has depended on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries, the city centre docks have been regenerated as a centre of heritage and culture.

In 2004, Bristol's GDP was £9,439 billion, the combined GDP of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and North Somerset was £44,098 billion. The GDP per head was £23,962 (€35,124) making the city more affluent than the UK as a whole, at 40% above the national average and the third-highest per-capita GDP of any English city. In March 2007, Bristol's unemployment rate was 4.8%, compared with 4.0% for the south west and 5.5% for England

Bristol has a twinning agreement with Guangzhou since 2001.

Does the city have a strategy, plan or action for the Smart City development? If so, please provide a brief overview of document, such as the innovative concept, targets and main actions.

Smart City Bristol is a collaborative programme between the public sector, business and community. The aim is to use smart technologies to meet the city’s target to reduce CO2 emissions by 40% by 2020 from a 2005 baseline, as well as the city’s wider social and economic objectives. It was launched in 2011 and builds upon the Smart City Bristol Report commissioned by Bristol City Council and funded by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. The Bristol Smart City Programme currently focuses on Smart Energy (smart metering, smart grid, smart public buildings & smart energy master planning), Smart Transport (traffic control centre, electric vehicles, freight consolidation centre), Smart Data (city open data platform, innovation work with SMEs, communities, art projects etc.).

Please describe the policies, actions and outcomes/impact of the ICT infrastructure sharing, information sharing and service platform sharing across smart city projects from the Smart City.

Bristol City Council owns and manages a £9 million city fibre network (B-Net) and is one of the UK’s “Super Connected Cities”. The UK Government is investing £11m in Gigabit Bristol

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which will deliver a high spread broadband research network, citywide Wi-Fi and RF mesh network. The City Council also runs its own data centres, emergency control centre including CCTV and telecare, traffic control centre and has a GIS team.

In December 2013 Bristol received £4.8 million to help small and medium sized businesses upgrade to a high speed and high grade broadband connection. Connection Vouchers cover the upfront capital cost of broadband installation up to the value of £3,000. Bristol businesses are eligible to apply for the connection vouchers, providing they have less than 250 employees, a turnover of less than £40m and meet EU ‘de minimis’ criteria⁹⁸.

The typical smart city service or application of the city. Please describe the progress and the assessment of each service ( less than five services)

Service 1 Digital Environment Home Energy Management System (DEHEMS):

The project looked at how technology can improve domestic energy efficiency. The project partnership included a mix of European local authorities, private business and universities. The intention was to develop and test a home energy management system with the aim of improving the current monitoring approach to levels of energy being used by households in order to reduce CO2 emissions. In Bristol the smart metering technology was deployed in 50 social houses in Knowle West.

Service 2 3e-Houses: The project consists of integrating the most common ICTs into social housing in order to allow homes to save energy, shift their consumption from peak to off-peak hours and reduce CO2 emissions.

The project promotes energy saving by helping users to find out how and how much they consume by using the most common ICTs applied to energy consumption. It offered real time monitoring and management of the energy consumption, Integration of renewable energies, development of tools for designing and evaluating energy saving plans. 3e-Houses were deployed in social housing in Germany and Spain in 2010 and were replicated in Bristol in 2012. In Bristol 100 social houses participated in the project and partners worked with them in a collaborative approach building on the finding from DEHEMS.

Service 3 ICT services for Electric Vehicle Enhancing the User experience (ICT 4 EVEU): The project aims to deploy an innovative set of ICT services for electric vehicles in pilots across Europe. The scope of the ICT services is the integration of different Management Systems operating on the existing EV infrastructures in the cities where the pilots will be run, so that related services can be deployed and make use of these interconnected infrastructures (charging points, control centres and vehicles). The pilots will be based in a growing, geographically speaking, scope. The main services for the users will be the reservation of charging points in advance, creation of an interactive map or charging points for drivers, review of charging reports, SMS notifications and communication with energy suppliers among others. The services will be accessed through website or/and via smart-phones.

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Service 4 Urban Traffic Control Centre (UTCC): The Centre now uses more than 200 cameras to monitor vehicular movements throughout the city, linked to the remote communications and equipment room via the council's own fibre network (B-Net), the images are displayed for operators on a large rear-projection video wall. Information from sensors which monitor how many vehicles pass certain points is fed back into the system which can alter signals to allow traffic to flow more freely. Bristol is exploring how to open up the data collected so that communities and organisations can make use of it in creative ways including supporting sustainable transport initiatives.

Service 5 B-Open Data Store: The aim of this Open Data Portal is to promote transparency and increase public and neighbourhood engagement, making it easier to share information with citizens, encouraging them to work with information and data to create applications, websites, mobile products or installations. In 2010 the Bristol City Council, in partnership with the Watershed, supported a Media Sandbox Competition which centred on the creation of ideas that explore rich experiences augmented by open data or mobile, wireless and sensory technologies.

Please describe the measures on organization, policy, funding and business model of the Smart City development.

The Smart City Programme is led by the City Council. Currently within the City Council the work is led by Bristol Futures, which brings together the Council’s work on Environment, digital, economic and international work. There is a consortium of organisations (public, private and community sector) who work together on funding bids, projects etc. Recently some Smart City Business Development work has been commissioned to do an appraisal of different business models for commercialising smart city services. To identify the best business model for Bristol including how it can capitalise on the city’s existing smart city assets (e.g. digital infrastructure), skills and partnerships, identify financing mechanisms and develop a business plan. As part of this the City will look at the best governance structure to deliver the business model and identification of the role of the City Council and other partners would play within this.

Bristol has a strong public, private and people partnership approach to smart city work, with support from the city’s universities, businesses, public sector, community partners and citizens. There is a stakeholder group of more than 100 people who have been involved in Bristol’s smart city work; this includes representatives from Bristol City Council, University of Bristol, University of West of England, Toshiba, IBM, Arup, HP, Clean Energy Prospector, Open Knowledge Foundation, NHS, Technology Strategy Board, National Government (e.g.

UKTI), European Commission, Eurocities, other European/International Cities, citizens of Bristol etc.

The Smart City Programme is funded through sources such as City Council budget and funding from European Commission, UK Government, Technology Strategy Board, UK Research Councils and private company funding. There are around £5m for current/ recently completed smart city projects and £11m for digital infrastructure (Gigabit Bristol). The Future City Demonstrator received £3 million from the UK Technology Strategy Board in 2013 to create environmental and socially sustainable jobs and growth through data integration projects.

A metrics programme is under development to measure progress of the smart city programme as part of the Future City Demonstrator work. Some individual projects e.g. smart metering has their own metrics. There are also KPIs for the wider sustainability agenda for environment, energy, transport, quality of life etc.