Logistics Viewpoints

In this episode, Larry O'Brien and Eddie Fidler interview MySidewalk CEO Stephen Hardy.  We talk about the business value of smart city platforms and what kind of results can happen when you can aggregate data sources from different silos of functionality in a city or municipality to improve performance, safety, and the quality of life for citizens.  

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ARC transportation analyst Eddie Fidler discusses the evolution of efficient wireless EV charging and its potential impacts on the space with Alex Gruzen, CEO of WiTricity.

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There’s a significant amount of ambiguity in specifying a Smart City project today. This lack of clarity costs time, dollars and often can lead you far astray from your smart city vision. Since the smart city effort is truly in its early adopter phase, it’s also not surprising that this ambiguity is also dramatically promoted by the marketing hyperbole of many vendors in the domain.  This scenario is increasingly being defined as Smart City 1.0 

Smart City 2.0 describes a reality where the governmental agency takes the lead in pioneering solutions. This too, as can easily be imagined, can quickly lead to large negative unintended consequences,

With these assumptions in mind, this white paper will attempt to define a sustainable, repeatable, scalable and economically sensible path forward for cities and projects of all sizes.

So what’s Smart City 3.0?

The Smart City 3.0 is a Smart City initiative is driven by public expectations – or more clinically “user needs”. While Smart City 1.0 and 2.0 are driven by technology and government decisions respectively, Smart City 3.0 is neither driven by the dazzling technologies nor the government alone.

In Smart City 3.0, the public should be able to express their views with the government acting as a facilitator and as a definer of agency-specific user needs.

This stakeholder-based model drives social change, helps to eliminate objections, minimizes design errors, and ensuring technology is properly applied in the development of city. A well applied Smart City 3.0 effort satisfies the three pillars of sustainability as well protecting the natural environment, enhancing human quality of life while maintaining fiscal prudence.

A Comprehensive Planning, Deployment, Operations and Maintenance Smart City 3.0 Framework

In order to structure, formalize and document a Smart City 3.0 project conception, delivery and commissioning, the Systems Engineering Process is used.

The Smart City 3.0 philosophy includes the following steps:

1. Define Stakeholder Communities
2. Query a multitude of stakeholders in each community for specific user needs
3. Qualify these collected user needs into groups that are supported by a consensus of respondents
4. Quantify these consensus-based user needs into measurable functional requirements.
5. Assemble requirements, and underlying user needs into a project specification
6. Create a test plan to ensure all consensus-based needs are met, and that no extraneous requirements have been introduced
7. Consider user needs over the entire project lifecycle, from project conception to project retirement and disposal
8. Maintain compliance with the three pillars of Sustainability,
   1. protecting the natural environment, and
   2. enhancing human quality of life while
   3. maintaining fiscal prudence

Following the guidance stated above results in faster project completion, lower overall costs and much greater user satisfaction. Those attributes are only some of the very strong reasons to adopt an SEP-based Smart City 3.0 approach.

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This podcast communicates and demystifies the Top 12 Reasons to use the Systems Engineering Process for Your Smart City Project.

In order to accomplish the goal listed above, we’ll examine the systems engineering process, including:

1. Discussing the value of technical standards to the process
2. Describing challenges to the process and how to overcome them
3. Reviewing the top 12 dramatic benefits realized through use of SEP for Your Smart City Project.

What is the Systems Engineering Process?

The Systems Engineering Process (SEP) is an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems. It focuses on first defining customer user needs and subsequently the required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements, and then proceeding with design synthesis and system validation.

There are multiple ways to represent the systems engineering process. One way, the Systems Engineering "V" Diagram (seen above), represents the typical life cycle of any system or project. Whether the system being deployed consists of a basic computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system for a transit agency, or a more complex interface between a traffic management center and a public safety agency, all systems will follow some variation of this life cycle.

User Needs are generated through a robust examination of needs from all stakeholder communities that have an interest in the envisioned project. In the next step, each of these needs are used as a foundation in order to develop  measurable unambiguous Functional Requirements. Each need must have a functional requirement and each requirement must have an underlying foundational user need. The last step in this process is to create a test plan that confirms the traceability of needs to and from  their dependent requirements.

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In this episode Jim Frazer discusses The Nine Critical Applications of a Smart City and the seven foundational technologies used to achieve dramatic improvements in features, efficiency and cost effectiveness in each of those domains.

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Jim Frazer sits down with Benson Hougland from Opto 22 at the 2020 ARC Forum in Orlando. They discuss MQTT and Desalination Systems application, as well as their participation at the 2020 ARC Orlando Forum.

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Jim Frazer sits down with Arlan Nipper of Cirrus Link Solutions at the 2020 ARC Forum in Orlando. They discuss MQTT and Service Oriented architecture, as well as their participation at the 2020 ARC Orlando Forum. 

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Jim Frazer sits down with Allen Ray at the 2020 ARC Forum in Orlando. They discuss Inductive Automation's technology "Ignition" & The Ignition Cross Industry Collective. As well as their participation with the ARC Forum and the value of attending. 

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Angela Hultberg, Head of sustainable mobility at Ingka Group (aka Ikea), joins transport analyst Eddie Fidler to talk about the company’s efforts in clean transportation.

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