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We are alive Oregon’s largest source of local news and advertising To subscribe or advertise in any of our newspapers please call 503-684-0360. 536644.011516 BT Tuesday, February 7, 2017 BUSINESS TRIBUNE 3 SMARTER THAN THE AVERAGE BURG Francisco). tion systems, public safety and inno- Ruthbea Clarke, research director, ON THE COVER AND THIS In that spirit, Portland hosted a vations in mobility and social busi- Smart Cities at Boston-area IDC Re- PAGE: Workers in Chicago Smart Cities gather summit at the Oregon Convention ness in local government. However, search, said public-private partner- install smart sensors on a Center on Feb. 1 and 2 focusing on there are so many variables — differ- ships are common, but they have to stop light pole. The Array the city’s strongest suit: Transporta- ent sensors and software packages, be simple. For example, she said, of Things boxes can see, in Portland to get tion. competing municipalities, siloed bu- Phillips rents lights from municipali- hear, smell and feel The Global reaus, plus the great unknown of the ties and installs their LED bulbs that street activity, harvesting their transit on City Teams future — that the people with a vested cities could not afford, while Ericsson real time data, which is Challenge BY JOSEPH interest in smart cities are still trying uses the same infrastructure to pro- then made available to private companies to (GCTC) Super GALLIVAN to figure out best practices now and vide Wi-Fi Internet access. build apps around. ot off the stinging defeat in Action Cluster ease the progress towards a more effi- Money in ads Portland just hosted a the Smart Cities Challenge Summit was cient and comfortable future. conference on Smarter (Columbus, Ohio won) Port- designed to bring local authorities, Yes, someone used an image from “But you need to engage the com- Cities and transportation, Hland is keen to keep up the tech vendors and consultants togeth- Wall-E in their presentation. But the munity effectively” she stressed, say- and may follow suit. momentum of the “gang of seven” fi- er to figure out a blueprint making future will not be chubby tourists on ing you can’t just layer new technolo- COURTESEY: UNIVERSITY OF nalists (the others are Austin, Den- cities smarter — sooner. hover-loungers being served drinks gy without explaining it. In one place CHICAGO URBAN CENTER FOR ver, Kansas City, Pittsburgh and San The goal is intelligent transporta- by robots. CONTINUED / Page 4 COMPUTATION AND DATA 4 BUSINESS TRIBUNE Tuesday, February 7, 2017 ■ From page 3 Revenue Sharing Models ARRAY OF THINGS Portland has placed large white they held a Sundance-type film beacons on its light poles before. festival and garnered a lot of local City Post in Kansas City Remember WiMAX? Could it be support. “They got the funding about to happen again? because they were innovative.” Christine Kendrick of City of Revenue sharing — chiefly ad Portland Bureau of Planning and revenue sharing — is another Sustainability introduced Rajesh model that works. She pointed to Sankaran, Assistant Computer New York City’s LinkNYC. They Scientist of the Argonne National Laboratory. He is the co-creator of provide skinny kiosks on the the Waggle Platform and Chief street offering free Wi-Fi access, Platform Engineer for the Array of free Vonage phone calls, charging Things Platform. ports and a large screen for ads. He talked about Chicago’s The city hopes they will replace efforts to place Array of Things the 7,500 payphones New York beacons on light poles to provide once had. continuous data on a wide variety Other cities should follow suit. of everything from sounds (gun- “There are already loads of ads on shots) to air pollution to pedestri- an backups. trains and buses, we just need to You can log on to Plenar.io and establish the contracts that share select an area of Chicago and it the revenues.” will show graphs of everything that is being measured, whether from Wanted: leadership a beacon or just logged by a city She also mentioned Kansas of ce. For example, vacant and City’s Smart City corridor along abandoned building reports, COURTESY: RUTHBEA CLARKE, IDC RESEARCH asbestos and demolition notices, the route of its free streetcar. It’s Kansas City and New York City are way ahead of Portland in providing kiosks that offer free wifi, VOIP calls, device a $15 million public-private part- and environmental complaints as recharging and ads. Cities receive a cut of ad revenue, as they do from bus shelters and transit vehicles. well as the usual weather data. nership providing interactive ki- The idea was to show how to osks, free public Wi-Fi, smart but cities can’t do it without bit cold for joyriding.) However, set up use cases for sensor data, streetlights and sensors. strong leadership.” Arcimoto has pivoted and now which package to use and deal “What makes it real is when a She also cautioned city manag- sees itself as selling a rideshare with “privacy and community Chief Innovation Officer — Bob ers against people selling technol- vehicle. “People can own one and engagement processes, installa- Bennett of Kansas City — calls ogy. They will often come in, say rent it out using the app when tion plans, data communication you and says ‘We just got our first they get your mission, and then they’re not using it. Or they can and data management.” check for $138,000 from revenue down the line the tech over- own two or three and generate in- Sankaran showed photos of the sharing.” whelms the city staff who have to come,” says Fittipaldi. For exam- inside of the beehive-type bea- cons. The weatherproof boxes sit Clarke praised Transport for implement it. They should focus ple, they get paid more for renting on stop light poles because they London for casting itself as a plat- on results — not promises. them out to curious test drivers, have a more consistent source of form for innovation, opening up Clarke quizzes her taxi and ride which is a good way of getting power than street lights. Their sen- its data to private companies to share drivers and has found none your customers to do your mar- sors include an 8 megapixel cam- provide ads.