Towards smart cities

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• Towards smart cities
• Dr. Serge DRUAIS

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Agenda

• You have said smart Cities?
• Moving to a new architecture
• Thales activities in the field
• MAESTRO Extended Supervision
• The vision we pursue is a city where citizens
  feel comfortable living their life, moving,
  communicating, making use of services from
  everywhere (home, travelling, mobile,) and
  contributing themselves to the city welfare.

Dongtan, China
Smart City
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Smart city 2020
Our cities are fast transforming into artificial
ecosystems of interconnected, interdependent
intelligent digital organisms

• Emerging technologies (ICT) are poised to
  reshape our urban environmentsWilliam J.
  Mitchell (MIT, smart city Lab)
• Our cities are fast transforming into
  artificial ecosystems of interconnected,
  interdependent intelligent digital organisms.
  This is the fundamentally new technological
  condition confronting architects and product
  designers in the twenty-first century.

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Helsinki Smart City City 2.0

• We are going to need new ways to address and to
  solve global problems, but our connectivity will
  bring us tools unimaginable even just a few years
  ago.
• Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge,
  is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in
  an extraordinarily crowded world.

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Shanghai Hongqiao Transportation Hub

• Future biggest multi modal transportation Hub of
  China (and Asia)

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Smart city Main functional Architecture
The smart city is the Information communication
Infrastructure

• e-Tourism web 2.0 approach
• User Generated Contents
• Context Awareness Info Push
• Energy Management

• E-learning
• Knowledge Management
• Role gaming

E-learning
Tourism Ambient Energy
Homeland Security

• Video surveillance
• Sensor networks integration
• Video semantic capabilities

Smart City

• Traffic information
• Fleet management
• Access Control
• Road Charging
• Emergency Call
• Mobile Payments
• Parking Management
• Pay As You Drive
• City Logistics
• Vehicle Tracking
• Work Force Managem.

• Electronic Patient Record
• Therapy management
• Biomedical parameters monitoring
• Second Opinion Management
• Pharmaceutical risk mgmt

IntelligentTransportationSystems
e-Health
WSN Management platform

• ICT platform for Wireless Sensor Networks
  management and control

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Smart City Main challenges

• Smart cities
• Extended communication (Home, travels, WIFI,
  G3.) for users and city operators
• Mobility (Public Transport and virtual
  collaboration)
• Transportation
• Intelligence Transportation systems
• Inter modality new added value services for
  users (attractively)
• Environment
• Energy saving C02 reduction
• Impact on systems (Physical and IT)
• Exchange of data
• Open Architecture (platform)
• Interoperability
• Extended supervision capabilities
• Complexity management

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Some basic definitions

• Interoperability
• Functional ability of two or more systems to
  interact or to be used easily or automatically in
  combination with each other
• A needed quality in the ICT-embedded industries
• Provides connectivity between hardware or
  software and between entities (government/business
  /citizens)
• Increases flexibility and agility, reduces costs
  and implementation time
• Open Standard
• Specifications describing program or device
  characteristics, available to the technical
  community and vetted through open process like
  W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), OASIS
  (Organization for the Advancement of Structured
  Information Standards) WS-I (Web
  Services-Interoperability Organization), OMG

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Today Business goals through ICT

• Increasing collaboration within and among
  enterprises and governmental bodies during their
  entire product and service provision life cycle
  is a global trend.
• Most of these organizations are transforming
  themselves into "networked organizations".
• These new collaboration concepts are especially
  relevant for SMEs.
• Related IT systems and applications need to be
  interoperable in order to achieve seamless
  interaction across organizational boundaries and
  thus realize networked organizations.

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Your ICT systems cartography
The challenge...
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THALES ICT policy Towards Open System

• Open Systems
• Ensure flexibility Interoperability
• Avoid vendor lock-in / Drive cost
  effectiveness
• Ensure future access to information
• Maximize freedom of action
• Open standards
• Promoting interoperability by using
  openpublished specifications for API's,
  protocols and data and file formats
• Open architecture
• Building loosely coupled, flexible
  reconfigurable solutions
• Open Source Software
• Promotes standards
• Leverages community development and collaborative
  innovation

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Implement open systems principles
Application SW
Tools
Workbench
Process
Application SW
Process
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Domain Middleware
Middleware
Platform
Platform
Platform
No Middleware No separation between Applicative
and technical software
Middleware Provide technical services to
enforce technical software reuse
Framework Tooled-Up Process Domain Middleware
enforcing Reusable Domain component
Domain Middleware
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TUP
Third Party components
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Domain Middleware
Open Middleware
Platform
Open Architecture Platform
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Thales Civil Supervision Activities
Integrated Communication and Supervision Systems
for Transport

• Urban transport (metro, trams, Automated People
  Movers)
• Main Line Rail
• Tunnels, Car parks

Critical Infrastructures Protection

• Buildings (Museums, airports, industrial plants,
  )
• Oil Gas plants
• City centres (urban safety)

Energy Transportation

• Oil Gas transportation
• Electricity transportation
• Water distribution

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Todays Architectures of Supervision Systems

• Highly modular ? Modifying any module does not
  impact the others

• No integrated MMI ? Human based global situation
  awareness
• Solution based on various protocols
• Many servers needed

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Todays Limitations of Supervision Systems
Complex lifecycle management of the system

• Silo architecture many different applications
  to maintain and many interfaces to manage
• Super-SCADA high risk of regression due to the
  complexity of the software.

Lack of decision support when alarms occur

• Manual actions required to follow paper
  procedures
• Risk of not following correctly the procedure,
  problems of coordination between operators,

Operators training not realistic enough

• The simulation does not enable to simulate
  complex incidents

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M.A.E.S.TR.O Main Objectives
Provide a system both modular and integrated

• Integrate any application (Thales, legacy or 3rd
  party applications) and control them by an
  integrated MMI
• Easily replace any application without impacting
  the others
• Modify interfaces between the applications
  without modifying the applications themselves
• Provide as much as possible automated system
  response in case of specific incidents

Provide Training Simulation Capabilities

• Take benefits of Thales expertise in Training
  Simulation for transport, energy, and military
  domains (3D synthetic environment, human
  behaviour modelling, operational supervisory
  training, exercise definition development,)

Modular Architecture for Energy Security and
TRansport Operators
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Innovative Modular Architecture
Integrated Web MMI
SCADA
ATS
Ticketing
Public Information
Access Control
Video Management
Voice Data
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Thales, legacy, 3rd party sub-systems integration

• MAESTRO architecture allows to integrate ANY 3rd
  party application, thanks to any API (Application
  Programming Interface) or interface description
  (any protocol)

MAESTRO SOA Framework
Existing SOA connector
SOA connector to be developed
Thales application
SOA connector to be developed
Specific protocol
API
3rd Party application
3rd Party application
3rd party applications SOA connectors can be
developed either by Thales or the application
supplier
Thales applications includeSOA connectors
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Services Orchestration
Integrated Web MMI
MAESTRO SOA Framework
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SCADA
ATS
Ticketing
Public Information
Access Control
Video Management
Voice Data
The Business Process is defined in the SOA
Framework and can evolve easily without
impacting any of the applications
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MAESTRO Integrated MMI
Ergonomics optimized following a dedicated study
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Training Simulation
Objectives

• Train efficiently the Supervision operators,
  especially to crisis situations
• Assess the procedures efficiency
• Support Customer in defining relevant means
  procedures (position of the CCTV, need of
  escalators, train timetables, etc.)
• through a very realistic synthetic environment

Equipment simulation (eg train mouvement)
Threat simulation (fire)
Technical Solution

• Equipment simulation models interacting with each
  other. Models can be controlled by an instructor
• 3D modelling of the infrastructure and CCTV
  modelling
• Human behaviour modelling based on Artificial
  Intelligence
• Advanced training functions
• Enhanced reality integrating real-time data in
  the synthetic world

Models interactions
Peoples model
3D model, as seen from a simulated CCTV
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• Merci Thanks ??Serge DRUAIS