WIEF-AFF
ROUNDTABLE 2015
Tokyo, Japan
26 May 2015

Amsterdam trends:
a city in motion
200 international developers
95% households
has internet connection

settled in 2012

1000/mhighly educated come…
fewer leave

50% growth
singles
between 20-40 yrs

16% is 65-plus
in 2040CO2-emmission rising
due to growth economy and residents

32 % cycle
for travel

Why did we do it?
Amsterdam Smart City believes in ahabitable city where it is pleasant tolive, work and play

Smart City is about thehappiness of your citizens“The concept of Smart Cities is like art:
the context is more important than the
Mister Amsterdam Smart City Ger Baronproduct”
currently Chief Technology Officer City of Amsterdam

How did we do it?

connectaccelerate

strengthenSmart Cities are all aboutcollaboration

Internetof Cities

www.cityprotocol.org
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Amsterdam conditions
for smart city development & areas to invest
Fastest consumer network in Europe

Amsterdam Open Data Program

Smart Grids

Start-up accelerators
Incubators

Knowledge institutions
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Open data needed
to develop apps

The city of Amsterdam won the Smart City award with
its open data programme. This open data programme
is built around the premise that the city shares its dataand businesses develop apps using it. Charging points
and public transport (trams and buses) – all freeavailable.

Mobility and the city••

Twice as many bikes as people
Amsterdam: most electric cars per inhabitant

Dynamic traffic control• Advanced system to manage and monitor traffic• Open Data driven• Smart parking
Joint ownership• Several initiatives. Sharing is the new owning

You are what you share!

Electric vehicles• There are over 1,500 public EV-charging points.
Infrastructure is key• Results in individuals and companies driving electricSmart Gridmagnet for innovation
Key components
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Continuous monitoring (1)Intelligent substation (2)Intelligent secondary
substation (3)Flexible bidirectionalgrid(4)Fiber optic telecom (5)Smart metering (6)Key benefits• More capacity• Increased flexibility• Increased reliability• Less outage• Facilitates distributed
generation
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Citizen / end-users
centralCitizen central• Crucial position• At the centre of all activities• Gaining knowledge about residents and users ofneighbourhoods• Multi stakeholder approach• Looking at different ways to enhance citizen
involvement• Accelerating citizen engagement• Accelerating bottum-up initiatives• What are their wishes and needs concerning asmart neighbourhood?

• Social innovation

Main criteria of failure
during execution

NOT:• Technical feasible• Financial feasible• Scalable• Improving the efficiency of city operations• Growing the local economy• Contribute to quality of life for its citizens
13Conclusions
The City is an Open Platform
Products and Services
are User Centric
The most liveable cities will
be cities with the best AppsParadigm shift: Ownership vs Availability

14Why did we do it?
Amsterdam Smart City believes in ahabitable city where it is pleasant tolive, work and play

Smart City is about thehappiness of your citizens“The concept of Smart Cities is like art:
the context is more important than the
Mister Amsterdam Smart City Ger Baronproduct”
currently Chief Technology Officer City of Amsterdam

JOIN THE CITY PROTOCOL CARAVAN

Visit: www.amsterdamsmartcity.com

Frans-Anton Vermast

vermast@amsterdamsmartcity.net
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