Nokia joins the UK's pioneering programmable city initiative in Bristol
October 10 2016 - 9:04AM
Nokia has joined the Bristol Is Open initiative, becoming the
first major telecoms vendor to participate in Bristol's unique
living laboratory and underlining its commitment to smart city
solutions, an increasingly important part our connected world.
Bristol Is Open (BIO) encompasses the entire city, effectively
transforming it into a dynamic test bed to explore how integrated
technology solutions can benefit citizens - from helping solve
problems such as traffic congestion, air pollution and assisted
living for the elderly to trials of self-driving cars. BIO is a
joint venture between the University of Bristol and Bristol City
Council and it is funded by local and national government and the
European Union, along with academic research funding and financial
backing from the private sector.
Nokia was invited to join the project because of its track
record in developing solutions for smart, sustainable cities, and
its long history of collaborative research, including the
Nokia-founded IoT Community for cross-industries collaboration.
Experts from across the company - including Nokia Bell Labs, who
already have a strong relationship with Bristol University,
particularly in the area of photonics - will provide consulting
services to Bristol Is Open, while Nokia's IP networking division
will provide network and infrastructure support. In addition,
Nokia's application ecosystem program ngConnect will bring an
extensive range of additional applications, ideas and companies
into the BIO development program.
Small sensors, including the smartphones and, in the future, GPS
devices of willing citizens, will supply information about many
aspects of city life, including energy, air quality and traffic
flows to the three new fast networks in the centre of the city. The
high-powered operating system developed by Bristol University will
dynamically host this machine-to-machine communication, allowing
the development of a wide range of applications that are linked to
the various sensors and actuators deployed across the city.
The BIO initiative was spurred by the continual need for
sustainable growth, taking into account an increased awareness of
pollution and the City Council's desire to offer an improved range
of services to its citizens. The initiative promotes smart city
growth within the UK and across Europe as governments seek to meet
environmental targets.
Using agile infrastructure, through which it is possible to test
applications and demonstrate their sustainability, Nokia plans to
use this exciting opportunity to test a whole range of applications
from Nokia Bell Labs' innovations in video to environmental impact
studies, healthcare and public safety. The first Nokia project
in BIO will focus on video analytics on the city-wide CCTV system
of over 1,700 cameras.
Barry French, Nokia's chief marketing officer, said
"There is a great deal of talk around smart cities, but there are
not many places where talk has led to action. This innovative
program will show what can be achieved by bringing together experts
from various technology areas to deliver integrated solutions that
actually improve people's lives, a fundamental principle driving
our everyday work."
Barney Smith, CEO of BIO, said "We are delighted that
Nokia has accepted our invitation to join Bristol Is Open. Building
on the excellent relationship we already have with Nokia Bell Labs,
the skills and experience that Nokia has will enable us to take BIO
to the next stage of its development: solving real world problems
for citizens and creating opportunity for all. Nokia brings a
unique set of capabilities for smart city solutions that, through
our open programmable city, are replicable and applicable in other
cities."
Cormac Whelan, head of UK and Ireland at Nokia, said
"This demonstrates the applicability of Nokia's technology to the
emerging smart cities market, which is part of the continuing focus
of our dedicated teams in Government, Enterprise and Public
Sector."
About Bristol Is Open
How cities work is changing. Bristol Is Open is a research
infrastructure to explore developments in software, hardware and
telecom networks that enable more interaction between people and
places and more machine-to-machine communication. The project
uses a high performance software defined network as the city
operating system, then Internet of things platforms and big data
analytics feed an emerging number of smart city applications. This
is giving people more ability to interact, work and play with the
city that they live in, and will help cities address some of the
biggest challenges of modern urban life.
http://www.bristolisopen.com/
About Nokia
Nokia is a global leader in the technologies that connect people
and things. Powered by the innovation of Nokia Bell Labs and Nokia
Technologies, the company is at the forefront of creating and
licensing the technologies that are increasingly at the heart of
our connected lives.
With state-of-the-art software, hardware and services for any
type of network, Nokia is uniquely positioned to help communication
service providers, governments, and large enterprises deliver on
the promise of 5G, the Cloud and the Internet of
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