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Welcome to the SMART City E+ Tool

Each city is different. Each city must therefore meet specific essentials and challenges. These can be urban challenges, their infrastructure, the government services, mobility, prosperity, the growing population (or its ageing), the environment, good governance, etc. Each city therefore needs to identify, model and develop their own smart city concept. The SMART City E+ tool is a new breed of integrated modelling and architecture tool. It is offered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, and consists of 2 major application components:

  1. A SMART City Modelling Software component where the expert can create and work with many different types of modelling and architecture components; and
  2. A Knowledge Management system where the SMART City models, views and standards can be posted for anybody within and across the teams. You can also publish content and pages where citizens can comment on the program, project, initiative or concept. This provides a whole new SMART City development and continuous improvement possibility between the city and the citizens. Who feel they are part of developing and enhancing the SMART City concept, providing a whole new experience to modelling, publishing, referencing, commenting and continuous improvements in a collaborative and user-friendly environment.


The SMART City Modelling Software Component

To transform itself into a smart city, any city has to direct its objectives, program and projects along a SMART City direction, considering multiple dimensions:

  • SMART City Strategy: one of the most basic, but also relevant areas, is defining the directional components. Specifying the smart city vision, strategy and objectives. This also sets the basis for the SMART City initiatives and thereby the portfolio management.
  • Urban Planning: It can be labelled as the structural scaffolding of a smart city; its maintenance system as well as the adjusted blueprint concept of the city. A smart city is an urban development concept to incorporate multiple information and communication technology (ICT) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.
  • The SMART Economy: it is a city that wants to position itself as a capital of the new economy and innovation as well as a centre that draws people to it.
  • SMART Government: it is a city whose public services have entered the digital era with efficient online services, wifi and the use of digital data produced in the city.
  • The SMART Environment: it is a city which reconciles its roles as a living space, for mobility, an economic centre… while reducing its footprint on the planet (reduced consumption of energy and natural resources and reduced polluting emissions).
  • SMART Mobility: it is the city which organises itself to offer an alternative to car congestion and pollution by promoting the effectiveness of means of collective and sustainable travel.
  • The SMART Population: it is a city which fosters the development of its citizens by levelling out inequalities and encouraging them to acquire skills.
  • The SMART Living Environment: it is a city which pushes itself up to the highest level in terms of health and safety for example.
  • SMART Technology usage: Smart cities all share the characteristic of acting on their services and activities to make them more efficient. The ways they achieve this are very diverse, but they often have in common to use of digital technology resources (or ICTs, information and communication technologies). The degree of integration of ICTs in the urban functions is sometimes even considered as the criterion that marks out smart cities from other cities.

UPDATES & TUTORIALS

Here you can find a list of quick links that takes you directly to the tutorial page of each subject. Please find the list of tutorial subjects below:

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SMART cities, except for a few rare smart cities created from scratch, all have a past during which regulations or customs have gradually developed… sometimes obsolete, sometimes counterproductive and often out of phase with the simplicity of internet enabled concepts and services. Wherever you are at the moment, we know that It is extremely critical to develop the As Is and To Be state of various SMART City programs, projects and initiatives. The SMART City E+ tool has as the first tool incorporated standards from ISO, OMG, LEADing Practice and IEEE to support the following standards:

Modelling Standards needed with SMART City development:

  • Value Modelling Notations (VMN) – the ability to capture and documents the smart city value components such as citizen value proposition, services as well as also document and relate relevant programs that need to be considered.
  • Strategy Modelling Notations (StMN) Value Modelling Notations (VMN) – the ability to capture and documents the smart city vision, mission, strategy, objectives, and goals that need to be considered.
  • Planning Modelling Notations (PLMN) – it can capture urban planning, financial plans, detailed development plans and relate them all together (as needed)
  • Policy Modelling Notations (PoMN) – documents and relate relevant policies, guidelines, procedures and rules that need to be considered.
  • Reporting Modelling Notations (RPMN) – interlink performance measures, such as KPIs, PPIs, SPIs together and relate them to relevant reports.
  • Risk Modelling Notations (RiMN) – capture and document applicable risk factors and components
  • Rule Modelling Notations (RuMN) – document appropriate rules, that can relate to functions, processes, services, devices, infrastructure. Making this an advanced rule repository that can relate to all the other important subjects
  • Quality Modelling Notations (QMN) – documents and define your quality aspects and relate them to any applicable component.
  • Requirement Modelling Notations (ReMN) – you can document your requirements and sort them by groups of various stakeholders, from users, groups, executives or citizens.
  • Capability Modelling Notations (CMN) – the ability to document As Is capabilities, measure the maturity of the capability and define the needed To Be capabilities.
  • Blockchain Modelling Notations (BcMN) – Create your models and Blockchain concepts, allowing digital information to be distributed but not copied, blockchain technology created the backbone of a new type of SMART City interaction.
  • Service Modelling Notations (SMN) – defining and modelling the existing as well as the needed service model is one of the foundational components of developing a new smart city concept
  • Business Process Modelling Notations (BPMN) – document, capture and model your smart city flows and processes.
  • Robotic Automation Modelling Notations (RAMN) – the ability to define where and when Robotic Automation makes sense and adds value is bringing the smart city to a whole new level and advanced modelling and development
  • Application Modelling Notations (AMN) - Smart cities are all about automation and information sharing. The ways they achieve this are very diverse, but they often have in common to use of the ability to model where what needs to be automated and or integrated.
  • Data Modelling Notations (DMN) – Data integration and sharing is the backbone of any smart city, the ability to develop data sequence and date distribution models are very important. But also, the ability to relate these components to all of the above discussed aspects.
  • Platform Modelling Notations (PMN) - The degree of integration of the existing (As Is) platforms as well as the definition and development of new platform technology (To Be) needed is sometimes even considered as the criterion that marks out what your smart city will be able to do.
  • Infrastructure Modelling Notations (IMN) – Interaction of existing infrastructure (As Is) and the enhancement, or new development of the cities infrastructure are at the heart of any smart city development. All enabled by SMART City E+
  • Industry 4.0 Modelling Notations (I4MN) – how to make use of the industry 4.0 technology and internet of things in order to lift the cities technology capabilities, are foundational important components.

We listed some of the important and unique capabilities of the SMART City E+ tool, but in addition to the above mentioned modelling techniques, can it develop enterprise architecture views, among them:

  • Business Architecture Notations (BAN)
  • Information Architecture Notations (IAN)
  • Technology Architecture Notations (TAN)
  • Enterprise Architecture Notations (EAN)

The E+ software tools thereby uniquely satisfies the most common enterprise modelling and architecture needs that a SMART City would need. What males the tool unique is that these components are all integrated.


The Knowledge Management system

The combination of a Modelling Software and Knowledge Management system is what differentiates SMART City E+ tool, from any other modelling, engineering and architecture tool. It is the combination of where the smart city modeller, engineer and/or architect can share the views/models created with each other as well as with others who don’t need to have the software access i.e. citizens. This can include uploading training content, quality parameters, own developed standards as well as time aspects, measures, reports, policies, procedures etc to a specific function, process or service. Or even upload the specific smart city program, project or initiative, so that citizens can comment on them. Making it a continuous improvement cycle. The SMART City E+ knowledge management component thereby creates and addresses the real knowledge issues around a smart city. KM Users and citizens can comment, provide feedback/suggestions to the uploaded content/views. As the SMART City E+ KMS content related back to the smart city objects and view (models), can the content be continuously be improved. While traditional content management databases contain only text and documents which computers can neither understand nor evaluate, the SMART City E+ KMS adds semantic annotations that allow any content to function as a collaborative database that recognizes cross relations. Making sure that there is a semantic relationship between the relevant subjects. The reason the SMART City E+ citizen users are free, is that we believe that there is no, need for costly users, when all they need to do is to view, follow instructions, provide input, document changes and also offer feedback. Making the SMART City E+ tool an effective and cheap tool for collaborative SMART City development.


The E+ Demo Case

If you wish a SMART City E+ tool demo, please click on the button below and fill out your email address. We are happy to share with you the knowledge and insight we have around the development of a SMART City, and how to use a tool for this.