Smart Cities Dashboard in the City of Bellevue WA

Smart Cities Dashboard in the City of Bellevue WA
Smart City Bellevue
Team Organizations	Jacobs (formerly CH2M Hill) Microsoft Mtuity
Team Leaders	Ken Thompson
Participating Municipalities	Bellevue WA
Status	Implemented
Document	None

Description

Install a pilot GIS-based visual dashboard to provide improvements in the following sectors:

• Safety and security – provide greater coverage and more efficient deployment of emergency services
• Transportation – provide better street lighting and traffic control
• Operational efficiencies – improve efficiency of water distribution, energy efficiency in buildings, response times, and reduce costs
• Interactive citizen engagement – keeping residents and tourists better informed
• Improve communications and information sharing between departments

Challenges

• Selecting the elements to incorporate in the interactive citizen engagement system (customer portal)
• Merging the relevant data sources in City-wide Dashboard
• Identify the high level metrics for improving communications and operations across departments.
• Developing measure of success

Major Requirements

• Identify the pilot locations (existing and new) to incorporate into project
• Provide connectivity solution
• Develop visualization system, KPIs, and success metrics
• Develop interactive citizen engagement system (Customer portal)

Performance Targets

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)	Measurement Methods
Decreased time to retrieve data for operational/service/planning analytical needs Increased customer engagement	Survey of employees using the dashboard for operational/service/planning analytical Survey of citizens using the interactive citizen portal Department surveys to understand the effectiveness of cross sharing of information Activity over time on the Customer portal.

Standards, Replicability, Scalability, and Sustainability

• Use of open standards for data transfer, analytics software, and visualization tools
• Use of cellular standards for 3G and LTE and common wireless protocols
• The pilot can be readily expanded to the entire city
• The algorithms, visualization tools, KPIs, and Measurement methods developed could serve as a prototype for use in other cities

Impacts

• Cross-departmental awareness of operational information to improve services, planning, and response activities
• Improved customer awareness and engagement on operational information

Demonstration/Deployment

• Phase I Pilot/Demonstration:

Pilot area defined, connectivity established, and baseline developed for existing services. Conceptual design for visualization dashboard and interactive citizen engagement system developed.

• Phase II Deployment:

Visualization dashboard, KPIs, measurement systems, and interactive citizen engagement system in use for a minimum of 6 months