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"Glasgow has some quite extreme challenges - it has the lowest life expectancy of any city in the UK for instance - and the hope is that if we bring together energy, transport, public safety and health it will make it more efficient and a better place to live," said Scott Cain, the TSB's project leader for Future Cities.
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What exactly does this "smart city" entail?
It will use the money on projects to demonstrate how a city of the future might work.
They will include better services for Glaswegians, with real-time information about traffic and apps to check that buses and trains are on time.
The council will also create an app for reporting issues such as potholes and missing bin collections.
Other services promised by the council include linking up the CCTV cameras across the city with its traffic management unit in order to identify traffic incidents faster.
It will use analytical software and security cameras to help identify and prevent crime in the city and monitor energy levels to find new ways of providing gas and electricity to poorer areas where fuel poverty is a big issue.
With the possible exception of the energy monitoring, don't we already have much of this stuff already? Presumably a network, some expensive servers and visualisation software will link all these things together so the cooncil can track it all.
Oh, I almost forgot:
Data is seen as key to making cities smarter and a network of sensors aims to connect everything to the network and create new services for citizens.
Alongside the solutions being offered by technology firms are more community-developed apps that use the power of the crowd to, for instance, offer real-time maps of city traffic flow.
Can't wait to see the crowdsourced traffic flow maps! Presumably only drivers with smartphones switched on will be tracked?
Can't help feel that this is yet another case of technology being used to manage a lack of foresight in city planning. We have cities which are cluttered with too many vehicle movements. So, instead of tackling the cause we give people accurate information of how to avoid them.
Real time bus info in Edinburgh was completely useless over new year - and Edinburgh is expert at diversions and closing streets (!). Good luck Glasgow!
Sounds like it's being spent on farming out a load of contracts to companies to deliver a lot of technology that already exists and is well established (fillthathole type webservice, bustracker, smartphone apps, etc.) The corporate vultures will be circling the gravy trough.
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Damien Henderson (@DamienHenderson)
25/01/2013 14:03
I have read and re-read Glasgow City Council's "Future Cities" announcement (worth £24m) and still can't work out what on earth it means.
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And he's The Herald's Transport man!
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Stephen Rettie (@StephenRettie)
25/01/2013 14:30
@DamienHenderson Basically, it's bringing all the real-time data feeds together from First Bus, ScotRail, and Council e.g. RALF
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Right. So aggregating live feeds costs £24 million?
Not so much a gravy train as a lobster, caviar, champagne, massage, manicure/pedicure and escort of your choice for the evening sir/madam, pullman luxury chartered service.
Hmm since Network Rail released data feeds to public , we've seen some interesting apps appearing, most likeable is Tom Cairns' http://www.realtimetrains.com which lets you really track your train journey to every timing point.
TfL offer bus feeds, tube feed, and BCH feeds and have been rewarded by wide range of apps developed for free.
Of course SPT has already had 2 attempts at real time bus info at bus stops - currently displays covered by steel plates in bus shelters. Will it be third time lucky?
I'm sure all the cash will be accounted for and nothing like this:
will happen.
And in today's Herald we find:
so nothing to worry about there.
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