Smart Cities

Schenectady, NY
Capital District Clean Communities
March 16, 2017
Smart City Report

Eric Shannon
City of Schenectady, NY
Innovation and Performance Specialist
eshannon@schenectadyny.gov
(518) 337-7238
 Organizational Structure
A city is a living, growing and continuously evolving system with many inter-related
and co-dependent parts all working together to achieve a common goal
Effectively utilize available resources to thrive in its environment
 Biological Transportation Systems
Analogous to the evolution of biological systems, our understanding of
transportation methods have evolved to deliver goods from one place to another
 City Transportation Systems
City assets utilize various forms of energy to transport goods, transport people,
move waste, conduct operations

Asset #63 Codes Vehicle

Asset #665 Street Sweeper

Asset #547 Streets Truck

Asset #306 Recycler

Gasoline, diesel, hydrogen,

natural gas, bio-fuels, electric
Asset # 525 Spreader/Plow
 System Efficiencies

Commercial Freight

March 1st Asset #306, District

4, 1.35 ton SSR, 50.4 mi

Mar. 14th Asset # 525

(Spreader/Plow), 104.9 mi
 Complexities of Big Data

~25

March 14th, 00:00 24:00,

combined 475 mi
 City Processes
Fuel Imports (MPG and TCPG)
Energy Consumption (All City
Buildings, WWTP, Vehicles) GHG
Emissions and meeting reduction
targets
Kiosk and Parking Meter Collections
Plowing Routes
Vehicle Data and Work Orders
Housing/ Property Sales
Lighting Usage and Analytical Tools
from Smart Lighting
Commercial Water and Sewer
Accounts
Waste/ Recycling (Commercial,
Residential, Street Sweeping)
Website Statistics (PDF Downloads,
Site Visits, Type of Device)
Number of Vacant Houses/
Properties
Code Compliance and Prosecutions
Public WiFi Usage
Citizen Complaints/ Concern
Tracking
City Revenues and Costs
City Employee Health Programs
Online City Applications
FOIL Requests
Foreclosures
ADA Compliance Percentage
GIS Coverage Percentage
Parks and Facilities Registrations
Crime Rates (DDACTS, STAR)
Traffic Accidents
 Data Patterns

40000

35000

30000 Meter Collection

Kiosk Collection
Total Meter
25000
Gas (U)* (g)
Gas (D)* (g)
Units?

20000
Total Gas U+D (g)
Street Sweeping (yds)
15000 Waste (t)
Paper Recycle (t)
10000 Average Temp (F)
Precipitation (inch)
Snowfall (inch)
5000

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Smart City Divisions
 Metered Parking
25000

20000

Meter Collection

15000

Kiosk Collection
UD $

10000

Total Meter
5000

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
 Metered Parking

What does our existing network look like?

What are the costs of upgrading current meters with kiosks?
What is the ROI can it be made up for through uniform parking costs?

Overall does it: Reduce Costs or Increase Revenues?

Provide a better service to our citizens?
 Electric Vehicle City

EV Destination District NYSERDA Grant Funding

Expand EV Deployment
Consumer Education and Outreach
2 Workshops Positive Feedback
 Smart Lighting Infrastructure
LED lighting w/ wireless mesh network, cameras, various sensors
Traffic management analytics, paving management, public WiFi, 3rd party apps
Public safety, gun shot detection, increased patrol time
 Smart Lighting Infrastructure
City of Schenectady 5100 total street lights (4600 National Grid)
With current deployments roughly 200 smart lights (cameras and basic analytics)
 Complete Streets Vision

Better utilize public

transit systems,
pedestrian traffic
corridors, etc

Much like the EV

Project, citizens need
to have infrastructure
in place to have as an
excepted method of
transportation
Smart City Concept

http://www.asakurarobinson.net/
Bringing Information Together

Intersection Design (Planning, Development,

Engineering, Streets, Police, Utilities, City Council)
Plowing (Streets, Police, Planning, Private Companies)
Using real data to make proactive changes
(Infrastructure, transportation, policy, etc.)
 The Evolving City

Using technology and data analytics to better understand the complexities of City
operations and replicating naturally occurring signal pathways (but with data
instead of molecules)
Eric Shannon
City of Schenectady, NY
Innovation and Performance Specialist
eshannon@schenectadyny.gov
(518) 337-7238