Bordeaux

SMART CITY STRATEGY

A comprehensive Smart City policy

Smart Cities are, of course, dependent on highly efficient infrastructures, be they for transportation purposes, energy and water management, or the deployment of vast smart grids of sensors capable of optimising the overall operation of an urban area.

From these essential foundations, a second stage is nowadays emerging. We are proud that Bordeaux is a frontrunner in this second stage of Smart City creation. We are convinced that the expansion of technological infrastructures alone won’t tackle contemporaneous issues. That’s why we promote a citizen-centric smart city that enhances innovation and participation, creates new modes of local governance and invests in human capital, education and culture.

A collaborative approach at the territorial level

Because digital technology is a powerful incentive for sharing and scaling up, Bordeaux metropolitan area is currently working with its 28 constituent municipalities to establish a new institutional framework and modes of public action that can be pooled in several sectors. This requires the development of a strategic agenda for prioritising, gradually introducing and measuring our key actions to develop a Digital and Open Metropolis.

Large-scale deployment test operations are being launched at this very moment by consortia of pioneering cities: Helsinki, Manchester, Eindhoven, Milan, Antwerp, Porto, Santander and Carouge as part of the Synchroncity project.

Faced with this demand, the multitude of solutions proposed by manufacturers and service providers, over very different functional perimeters, does not yet allow local authorities to confidently set out on the road to industrialized deployment.

Bordeaux, like many European cities, need guarantees and sustainability on investments that are proving to be heavy. We are expecting reliable benchmarks and indicators shared by our entire community, on our level of Smart City maturity, or on the road we still have to travel to become one.

Faced with these expectations, manufacturers and suppliers feel the same urgency to move beyond the demonstrator stage.

Interoperability is one of the keys to lowering costs, especially those related to the operation and scalability of solutions.

It is also on the business models and financing side that solutions must be sought for both the supplier and the community making the investment.

Finally, no innovative solution or service can be deployed on a large scale without the support and consent of users.

CITY CHALLENGES

 

CONTRIBUTIONS OF IOT SOLUTIONS TO SOLVE THE CITY CHALLENGES

 

RELEVANCE FOR THE CITIZENS

 

KEY ACTIVITIES

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Adrian Slatcher
City Representative: