{"id":733,"date":"2012-10-04T11:26:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T22:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=733"},"modified":"2012-10-06T11:32:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T22:32:54","slug":"sensing-city-cisco-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"Sensing City &#8211; Cisco London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In London I met with John Baekelmans, the CTO for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/web\/strategy\/smart_connected_communities.html\" target=\"_blank\">Smart Connected Communities <\/a>initiative and JP Vasseur (who is a Cisco Fellow).<\/p>\n<p>The conversation was primarily focussed on the potential of Christchurch to become a living lab, and how this might work in practice. Both John and JP were enthusiastic about the idea, but cautioned that in order for it to eventuate they&#8217;d need to see serious commitment both in governance and finances.<\/p>\n<p>We discussed a model for how the IT infrastructure might work, and the capability of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/web\/strategy\/energy\/field_area_network.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cisco Field Area Network Routers<\/a> (FAN). The company also has associated APIs that work with the FAN hardware.\u00a0 It was encouraging to hear them emphasise both the need for an ecosystem (as opposed to a one-vendor closed system) and the need for the data to be open.<\/p>\n<p>Without these two foundations there is little point in the Sensing City, as it would simply be a revenue generator for a commercial organisation, rather than a platform for innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In London I met with John Baekelmans, the CTO for the Smart Connected Communities initiative and JP Vasseur (who is a Cisco Fellow). The conversation was primarily focussed on the potential of Christchurch to become a living lab, and how this might work in practice. Both John and JP were enthusiastic about the idea, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sensing-city"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}