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• 50,600 residents in the Ashley, Easton and Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Partnership: Largest in Bristol
• Highest percentage of black or minority citizens: 44%
• Car Availability: 54%
• Flats: 51%

The Bristol demonstration within REPLICATE is informed by the Mayor’s Vision and supporting Council Corporate Plan which concentrates on three main areas (People, Place and Prosperity) underpinned by cross cutting themes of addressing inequalities, active citizens and an empowered city. REPLICATE touches upon all of these priorities but particularly the priorities of Addressing Inequalities, Active Citizens, Keep Bristol Moving, Global Green Capital, and Healthy and Caring Bristol.

Building Retrofitting

• One offer to participants agreed for smart homes and retrofit.
• Installed measures, pricing and the methodology has been agreed.
• 0% interest financing agreed for low income households.
• Engagement strategy agreed – Community Engagement Group contracted.

District Heating

• New energy centre enabled connecting to new (bio)gas CHP
• Some preliminary survey works have been completed
• Link to energy demand management system initially scoped

Smart Grid

• Report and modelling into city wide aggregation  related to business model has been done
• Analysis of existing data sets (informing design) is finalised
• Requirements for the system developed (particularly its relation to smart homes)
• Began establishing the high-level requirements for EV charge optimisation, overall system architecture options and operational parameters

Renewable Energies

• Target properties identified and potential community energy group delivery partner engaged
• Link to energy demand management system initially scoped
• Potential opportunity to include battery storage and municipal investment also

E-cars and E-bikes

• Trial deployment: Five e-bikes (Bristol Dementia Wellbeing Service) deployed
• Developing fuctionality of placing e-bikes onto Co-wheels’ online booking system
• Trial deployment: One EV car club car
• Other car club bay locations identified
• Working with University of West England and University of Bristol on the monitoring of cars and bikes

EV Minibus

• Exploration of demand for services in the project area has been done
• Community engagement: Esoterix & UWE are surveying jobseekers at local Job Centres to determine their transpor needs
• Identification of suppliers and costs for EV minibus
• Services due to go live by April 2018
• Draft business model has been developed and it is under discussion

Transport Infrastructure Adaptation

• Delivery partner agreed
• Quality assurances process complete for initial on-street charge point deployments
• EV car club bays, initial site selection and design
• First 3 pilot car club bays due for install by January 2018, upgrading existing car club bays with electric charge points
• Proposed locations are Counterslip, Brunswick Square, and Stuart Street

Journey Planner Development

• Initial algorithm has been developed to successfully calculate multi-modal journeys
• Commenced work on the YO!Bike API integration and related GIS work
• User testing is complete
• Enhanced journey planner waiting to go live

Parking App

• 2 prototype app versions developed
• 2 trails completed
• 2 papers published at leading conferences
• Several public presentations & talks to senior Toshiba stakeholders in Japan
• Ethics committee approval for a trial at UWE obtained

Sensors Deployed on Intelligent Public Lighting

• Ongoing consultation between KWMC and the University of Bristol around the integration on sensors on lampposts (Array of Things) and Citizen Sensing (CS)
• Research with Data Unity around open standards
• Bristol Approach to Citizen Sensing – ‘Damp Busters’ (the initial sensor trial) completed and partnerships sought and developed for the next stage
• Integration with Humble Lamppost initiative

Integration of Demostration IT Systems with ICT Smart City Platform Concept

• Architecture design produced
• Testing and proof of concept of FIWARE IoT platform
• Integration of BIO infrastructure with FIWARE platform
• Integrating FIWARE with software defined nerworking through OpenDayLight and application of provisioning and monitoring devices
• Integrating FIWARE with NetOS in progress with Zeetta Networks
• Development of services that improve municipal management for the Smart City Platform
• The structure is defined and services that currently are being deployed: Mobility Smart Platform and Citizen Participation Platform

Citizen Involvement and Engagement

• The Bristol Approach to Citizen Sensing published.
• Engagement plan agreed.
• Project stakeholder mapping and building stakeholder relationships.
• Supporting partners with engagement and recruitment, including developing plan with mobility partners for co-design of services and apps.
• Series of local events including two large dedicated community events.
• Bristol City Council commissioned Open Data Institute recommendations report.

Local Impact Research

• Process evaluation started; all partners and key stakeholders interviewed.
• Draft report on Citizen Sensing phase 1 complete.
• Drafted evaluation frameworks for interventions.
• Bristol City Council drafted pilot measurement strategy with partners.>/li>
• Planning data collection activities.