Towards smart cities…
Dr. Serge DRUAIS
ARTIC Asia Research Technology Innovation Coordination
Agenda
You have said smart Cities?
Moving to a new architecture
Thales activities in the field
MAESTRO: Extended Supervision
Dongtan, China
The vision we pursue is a city where citizens feel
comfortable living their life, moving, communicating,
making use of services from everywhere (home, travelling,
mobile,…) and contributing themselves to the city welfare.
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Smart city 2020…
Our cities are fast transforming into artificial ecosystems
of interconnected, interdependent intelligent digital “organisms”
Emerging technologies (ICT)
are poised to reshape
our urban environments
William J. Mitchell (MIT, smart city Lab)
“Our cities are fast transforming into artificial ecosystems of
interconnected, interdependent intelligent digital organisms.
This is the fundamentally new technological condition
confronting architects and product designers
in the twenty-first century.”
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Helsinki: Smart City & City 2.0
We are going to need new ways to address and to solve
global problems, but our connectivity will bring us tools
unimaginable even just a few years ago.
Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning
to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily
crowded world.
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Shanghai Hongqiao Transportation Hub
Future biggest multi modal
transportation Hub of China
(and Asia)
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Smart city: Main functional Architecture
The smart city is the Information & communication Infrastructure
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e-Tourism web 2.0 approach
User Generated Contents
Context Awareness Info Push
Energy Management
E-learning
Tourism
Ambient
Energy
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Smart
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•E-learning
•Knowledge Management
•Role gaming
Homeland
Security
•Video surveillance
•Sensor networks integration
•Video semantic capabilities
Traffic information
Fleet management
•Electronic Patient Record
Access Control
•Therapy management
Intelligent
Road Charging
Transportation
e-Health •Biomedical parameters
Emergency Call
Systems
monitoring
Mobile Payments
•Second Opinion
WSN
Parking Management
Management
Management
Pay As You Drive
platform
•Pharmaceutical risk mgmt
City Logistics
Vehicle Tracking
•ICT platform for Wireless Sensor
Work Force Managem.
Networks management and control
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Smart City: Main challenges
Smart cities
Extended communication (Home, travels, WIFI, G3….) for users
and city operators
Mobility (Public Transport and virtual collaboration)
Transportation
Intelligence Transportation systems
Inter modality – new added value services for users (attractively)
Environment
Energy saving – C02 reduction
Impact on systems (Physical and IT)
Exchange of data
Open Architecture (platform)
Interoperability
Extended supervision capabilities
Complexity management
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Some basic definitions
Interoperability
Functional ability of two or more systems to
interact or to be used easily or automatically in combination with
each other
A needed quality in the ICT-embedded industries
Provides connectivity
between hardware or software and
between entities (government/business/citizens)
Increases flexibility and agility, reduces costs and
implementation time
Open Standard
Specifications describing program or device characteristics,
available to the technical community and vetted through open
process like : W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), OASIS
(Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)
WS-I (Web Services-Interoperability Organization), OMG…
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Today Business goals through ICT
Increasing collaboration within and among
enterprises and governmental bodies during their entire
product and service provision life cycle is a global
trend.
Most of these organizations are transforming
themselves into "networked organizations".
These new collaboration concepts are especially
relevant for SMEs.
Related IT systems and applications need to be
interoperable in order to achieve seamless
interaction across organizational boundaries
and thus realize networked organizations.
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Your ICT systems cartography
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THALES ICT policy : Towards Open System
Open Systems
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Ensure flexibility & Interoperability
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Avoid vendor lock-in / Drive cost effectiveness
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Ensure future access to information
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Maximize freedom of action
OPEN SYSTEMS
Open standards
 Promoting interoperability by using open
published specifications for API's,
protocols and data and file formats
Open architecture
 Building loosely coupled, flexible reconfigurable solutions
Open Source Software
 Promotes standards
 Leverages community development and collaborative innovation
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Workbench
Application SW
Middleware
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Domain Middleware
Platform
Platform
TUP
Platform
Process
Application SW
Tools
No Middleware
Middleware
Framework
No separation between
Applicative and
technical software
Provide technical services
to enforce
technical software reuse
Tooled-Up Process & Domain
Middleware enforcing
Reusable Domain component
Domain Middleware
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Third Party
components
Open Middleware
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Domain Middleware
Platform
Open Architecture – Platform
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TUP
Process
Implement open systems principles
Thales Civil Supervision Activities
Integrated Communication and Supervision Systems for Transport
 Urban transport (metro, trams, Automated
People Movers)
 Main Line Rail
 Tunnels, Car parks
Critical Infrastructures Protection
 Buildings (Museums, airports, industrial
plants, …)
 Oil & Gas plants
 City centres (urban safety)
Energy Transportation
 Oil & Gas transportation
 Electricity transportation
 Water distribution
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Today’s Architectures of Supervision Systems
Silo approach: one application for each function
SCADA
ATS
Ticketing
Public
Information
Video
Management
Voice
& Data
Cons
Pros
 Highly modular
 Modifying any module
does not impact the others
Access
Control
 No integrated MMI
 Human based global situation
awareness
 Solution based on various protocols
 Many servers needed
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Today’s Limitations of Supervision Systems
Complex lifecycle management of the system
 Silo architecture : many different applications to
maintain and many interfaces to manage
 Super-SCADA : high risk of regression due to the
complexity of the software.
Lack of decision support when alarms occur
 Manual actions required to follow paper procedures
 Risk of not following correctly the procedure, problems
of coordination between operators, …
Operators training not realistic enough
 The simulation does not enable to simulate complex
incidents
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M.A.E.S.TR.O* Main Objectives
Provide a system both modular and integrated
 Integrate any application (Thales, legacy or 3rd party
applications) and control them by an integrated MMI
 Easily replace any application without impacting the others
 Modify interfaces between the applications without
modifying the applications themselves
 Provide as much as possible automated system response
in case of specific incidents
Provide Training & Simulation Capabilities
 Take benefits of Thales expertise in Training & Simulation
for transport, energy, and military domains (3D synthetic
environment, human behaviour modelling, operational &
supervisory training, exercise definition & development,…)
* Modular Architecture for Energy Security and TRansport Operators
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Innovative Modular Architecture
Integrated Web MMI
MAESTRO Service (SOA) Framework
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SCADA
ATS
Ticketing
Public
Information
Access
Control
Video
Voice
Management & Data
Training & simulation module
Human behaviour
Threats
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Training
Instructor
Role
Players
Thales, legacy, 3rd party sub-systems integration
 MAESTRO architecture allows to integrate ANY 3rd party
application, thanks to any API (Application Programming
Interface) or interface description (any protocol)
MAESTRO SOA Framework
Existing SOA connector
SOA connector to be developed
SOA connector to be developed
API
Specific protocol
Thales application
3rd Party application
Thales applications include
SOA connectors
3rd Party application
3rd party applications SOA connectors can be developed
either by Thales or the application supplier
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Services Orchestration
Integrated Web MMI
MAESTRO SOA Framework
4 : Set lifts at platform level
2 : Switch CCTV on monitor
1 : A train is entering
3: - Display message on PID
- Send audio message
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SOA connector
SCADA
ATS
Ticketing
Public
Information
Access
Control
Video
Voice
Management & Data
The Business Process is defined in the SOA Framework
and can evolve easily without impacting any of the
applications
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MAESTRO Integrated MMI
Ergonomics optimized following a dedicated study
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Training & Simulation
Objectives
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Train efficiently the Supervision operators, especially to crisis
situations
 Assess the procedures efficiency
 Support Customer in defining relevant means & procedures
(position of the CCTV, need of escalators, train timetables, etc.)
… through a very realistic synthetic environment
Equipment
simulation
(eg : train
mouvement)
Threat simulation (fire)
Technical Solution
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Equipment simulation models interacting with each other.
Models can be controlled by an instructor
3D modelling of the infrastructure and CCTV modelling
Human behaviour modelling based on Artificial Intelligence
Advanced training functions
Enhanced reality: integrating real-time data in the synthetic
world
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Models interactions
People’s model
3D model, as seen
from a simulated CCTV
Merci – Thanks – 谢谢
Serge DRUAIS
ARTIC Asia Research Technology Innovation Coordination