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<p><em>Björn Hagström took the pulse of several cities at the Smart City Expo in Barcelona, such as Kyiv, which offers an app that provides notifications of air raid alarms, can show available parking spaces, and even allows you to buy tickets for local public transport. In this blog post, he also writes about which players were represented and who should have been there.</em></p>
<p>The Nordic/Baltic pavilion was at least 50 percent larger, and the same can be said for the expo as a whole. This year, Stockholm had partnered with Oslo and Helsinki. Copenhagen was unfortunately missing in action, but Local Government Denmark (KL) (Denmark’s equivalent of the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SKR)) was present. There were 140 Swedes in the delegation plus a number who travelled down on their own or in collaboration with others.</p>
<p>Considering the large number of Swedes, it was very surprising that SKR was not in attendance. SKR has digitalisation as one of its three focus areas going forward, so I really hope they will take part in the future. Smart cities should be a main focus for them.</p>
<h2>Schools and health and social care were absent</h2>
<p>Worth noting at this year’s Smart City Expo was that education and health and social care, which are major areas of activity for cities, were largely absent among the exhibitors. Even though they have their own expos, they should have also been represented here to a greater extent.</p>
<p>China had one of the largest stands at the expo, but it was largely empty of both visitors and exhibitors/representatives. This resulted in some strange vibes around the whole exhibit stand.</p>
<figure id="attachment_20547" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-20547" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-20547 size-large" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Kina-1024x281.png" alt="Smart City Kina" width="640" height="176" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Kina-1024x281.png 1024w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Kina-300x82.png 300w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Kina-768x211.png 768w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Kina-1536x422.png 1536w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Kina-2048x563.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-20547" class="wp-caption-text">China had one of the largest stands at the expo.</figcaption></figure>
<h2>Asking questions to the cities</h2>
<p>Once again this year, I tried to talk to as many cities as possible and ask them some questions. It was more challenging this year, as the number had grown from 22 to 45 cities. The questions I asked were basically the same as last year:</p>
<ul>
<li>What are your most successful IoT or smart city solutions?</li>
<li>What impacts have you achieved?</li>
<li>Have you measured the impacts and do you have measurement figures?</li>
<li>What are your biggest challenges in the next 1–2 years?</li>
</ul>
<h2>Systematic impact capture is missing (but not in Stockholm)</h2>
<p>Last year there was a clear trend – almost everyone was working with testing and PoCs, and had no idea about the impacts. The exceptions were Stockholm and Helsingborg. There is a slightly different story this year. There were more cities working on defining their goals and needs and measuring the impacts they achieve. Stockholm and Helsingborg were still shining stars in the smart city sky, but they were no longer alone.</p>
<p>In terms of barriers, almost all cities highlighted funding. The exception was Riyadh, which for some reason did not see any difficulties in finding money. Almost all of them lack a systematic way to capture the impacts of new solutions so they can reinvest in more change projects. Stockholm is a good exception, and more cities should start this process in order to achieve long-term sustainable digitalisation.</p>
<figure id="attachment_14721" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14721" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14721" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/björnhagström_9881-fotograf-Fredrik-Bronner-CC-BY-small-300x200.jpg" alt="Björn Hagström" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/björnhagström_9881-fotograf-Fredrik-Bronner-CC-BY-small-300x200.jpg 300w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/björnhagström_9881-fotograf-Fredrik-Bronner-CC-BY-small-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/björnhagström_9881-fotograf-Fredrik-Bronner-CC-BY-small-768x511.jpg 768w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/björnhagström_9881-fotograf-Fredrik-Bronner-CC-BY-small-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/björnhagström_9881-fotograf-Fredrik-Bronner-CC-BY-small.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14721" class="wp-caption-text">Björn Hagström.</figcaption></figure>
<h2>How the cities responded</h2>
<h3>Stockholm</h3>
<p>This year, Stockholm highlights the work done by Skolfastigheter i Stockholm AB (SISAB) on energy efficiency in school buildings. There are a lot of figures on energy efficiency here. Note that they have not only measured the impact achieved, but also “captured” the money and can invest it where it is needed. Very well done!</p>
<p>Stockholm also sees great potential in a new sewerage maintenance project that moves from physical visits to cameras or microphones to identify problems.</p>
<p>One fun project is the use of drones to combat Canada geese, which are an invasive species. These are now being identified by drones that also use warning sounds to repel them in the water and away from beaches and people. The test was so successful that when SVT (the Swedish Television), came to do a report, there were no birds around to demonstrate the solution.</p>
<p>The challenges ahead, apart from funding, are that the city is restrictive with cloud services.</p>
<h3>Helsingfors</h3>
<p>Helsingfors has seen good impacts for businesses related to mobility with traffic flows and safety. A new area is urban air mobility, as drones are becoming increasingly greater and more important elements in the urban environment. The city is monitoring businesses that build services on their data, and the best and most successful ones are growing and thriving.</p>
<h3>Helsingborg</h3>
<p>In Helsingborg, smart lighting continues to be the major focus and will be for a number of years. The new lighting also creates a mesh network for IoT with different technologies depending on needs. Flexible luminaires with two connections for accessories create great opportunities for the future. The goal was to save 60–70 percent in energy, and the result so far is 86 percent.</p>
<h3>Tampere</h3>
<p>Tampere has exciting work underway involving measuring and predicting movement patterns. This is used, for example, to make it easier for restaurants to staff correctly and mobility solutions to be in the right place at large events with lots of people. They are in an early launch phase now. One challenge is to get everyone to realise the benefits and value of working with IoT.</p>
<h3>Budapest</h3>
<p>Budapest is looking for solutions with ROI within a year, as funding is a major challenge. Smart parking is a priority area where they are trying to discourage long-term parking and encourage more transport via carpools and similar solutions. There is a lot of work on inclusion, such as participatory budgeting.</p>
<h3>Tokyo</h3>
<p>Tokyo has made a long-term effort to reduce water leakage in the water system from 30 to 3 percent. However, this is pretty much traditional “dumb city” work, replacing lead water pipes and manually listening to the pipes.</p>
<h3>Tsukuba</h3>
<p>Tsukuba offers the possibility of teleworking through physical robots. People with disabilities can work in a café, for example. The project is in the start-up phase.</p>
<h3>Dallas</h3>
<p>Dallas has multi-sensors that both read number plates and create a public Wi-Fi network. They are also using vehicles to inventory assets, such as the quality of roads and other neighbouring infrastructure. This takes place too infrequently, and solutions are being sought to speed up collection.</p>
<p>In addition to funding, legal barriers are a challenge.</p>
<h3>Jersey</h3>
<p>Jersey is another city that has no trouble with funding. They have sold an IoT company to Velos for GBP 400 million and received GBP 20 million to reinvest in digitalisation and innovation with a focus on mobility. They are basically venture capitalists here.</p>
<h3>Fort Worth</h3>
<p>Fort Worth is a port and transport hub. They intend to digitalise the port with a digital twin and increase the throughput of goods by 50 percent when moving goods from boat to vehicle. The digital twin will ensure that there is a driver in the right place at the right time to receive a load. No unnecessary queues and always a vehicle in place when needed. The project will be completed within 18–24 months.</p>
<p>The city is also the fastest-growing in the USA, and has growing pains with a housing shortage and traffic problems. They see digitalisation as part of the solution.</p>
<h3>Kyiv</h3>
<p>Kyiv highlights its app, which has been downloaded by 2.6 million people – practically all of the adult residents. It provides notifications of air raid alarms and other things that are unfortunately part of everyday life for the citizens there. The app is the gateway to the city for finding parking and buying public transport tickets, and additional services are being added all the time. Digital ticket sales have not only made it easier for customers, but have also increased revenue by 20 percent by reducing corruption. Previously, tickets were sold physically by people at the stations. EID is built into the solution.</p>
<h3>Sunderland</h3>
<p>Sunderland is investing in self-driving vehicles that run on certain routes, such as between the city centre, the university and the hospital. They also provide free Wi-Fi, which has been very important for vulnerable groups in society. An evaluation and figures are available on their website.</p>
<h3>Singapore</h3>
<p>Singapore had a large exhibit stand and presented interesting solutions. However, their societal model often makes it challenging to scale their thinking to others. In response to a direct question, they say they have to work with the consent of citizens to collect and process personal data.</p>
<p>One solution they presented was a personal safety alarm for the elderly. It was currently a button on the wall, but in the next phase they are investigating wearables. The exciting aspect of the solution was that in the first stage the alarm is sent to a screen out in the corridor, where neighbours and acquaintances can see it and act as local support. It is then escalated in different steps to a central alarm centre that takes action. The alarm provides information about the person&#8217;s health status and the ability to talk to the sick person via microphone. The solution is currently installed in 10,000 households.</p>
<p>They are also looking at using radar to detect cases of abnormal state of health and death in order to send alerts.</p>
<p>Another solution they presented was a digital twin of public transport. This is particularly exciting for them, as anyone can then start driving a bus however they please without a special licence. This is a solution that feels very far removed from the bureaucracy here in Sweden. It is important to realise how different the conditions are in different parts of the world.</p>
<figure id="attachment_20558" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-20558" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-20558 size-large" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Singapore-1024x692.png" alt="Smart City Singapore" width="640" height="433" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Singapore-1024x692.png 1024w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Singapore-300x203.png 300w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Singapore-768x519.png 768w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Singapore.png 1534w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-20558" class="wp-caption-text">Singapore presented a personal safety alarm for the elderly.</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Riyadh</h3>
<p>Riyadh uses cameras to detect factors such as litter, graffiti and lack of road maintenance that require action using camera-based solutions. The solution is new, and they do not yet have figures on how effective it is. All data is collected nationally from all cities and regions at the discretion of the national authority, creating a high degree of interoperability since they control the data formats.</p>
<h3>Putrajaya</h3>
<p>Putrajaya is working with lighting, public signs, train system monitoring and water quality in lakes. 480 surveillance cameras are connected.</p>
<h3>Toulouse</h3>
<p>Toulouse is testing smart lighting for security and evacuation of a theatre. The monitoring of air quality at an innovation centre is another project.</p>
<h3>Seongnam</h3>
<p>Seongnam has a large number of old buildings with cracks that are monitored with sensors. If the cracks get bigger an alarm is triggered, enabling evacuation before a disaster occurs. This has been in place 1–2 years, but no alarm has been triggered so far.</p>
<p>The city also runs a drone service that can be used by restaurants and businesses. You can get delivery to the suburbs or to parks, but not in the city centre today. In the park, for example, you can order food for your picnic. There are 10–30 orders per day, depending on the weather. I asked about problems with noise, but they claimed it was not a problem since there is so much noise in the city anyway.</p>
<figure id="attachment_20552" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-20552" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-20552 size-large" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Seongnam-1024x657.png" alt="Smart City Seongnam" width="640" height="411" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Seongnam-1024x657.png 1024w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Seongnam-300x192.png 300w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Seongnam-768x493.png 768w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Seongnam-1536x986.png 1536w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-City-Seongnam.png 1585w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-20552" class="wp-caption-text">Seongnam at Smart City Expo.</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Curitiba</h3>
<p>Curitiba has converted an old landfill into a solar park that supplies 30 percent of the public buildings with electricity. They struggle to find solutions they can adapt to local conditions.</p>
<h3>Lisbon</h3>
<p>Lisbon has challenges with data quality to work with data-driven decision-making.</p>
<h3>Porto</h3>
<p>Porto showcased its platform for collecting and visualising data. Potholes are reported by phone and entered into the system, which provides a real-time picture of the situation. They have calculated and quantified the benefits generated. There are challenges in managing data and creating benefits and impacts from it.</p>
<h3>Wetzlar</h3>
<p>Wetzlar is focusing on democratic aspects with participation and inclusion. It wants to reach weak and silent groups, and create a culture of participation in the city.</p>
<p>There will be a lot of construction in the future, and they are looking for smart learning solutions.</p>
<h3>Karlsruhe</h3>
<p>Karlsruhe has pilots on measuring temperature and humidity in the zoo, where different zones have specific needs for animals and plants to thrive. They are using sensors from Treesense to measure health status and implement the right measures in time.</p>
<h3>Munich</h3>
<p>Munich is working on 3D visualisation of construction projects to get more and, above all, better feedback from citizens before the start of construction projects.</p>
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<p>Written by <em>Björn Hagström</em></p>
<p>Björn runs a network within the IoT Sweden project Smart City Lab and has experience from several projects within IoT. Björn also works a lot with information management in general with a focus on open and shared data. </p>


The Smart City Expo event in Barcelona was much larger than last year, and it feels like the offerings have evolved a lot.

How smart are cities in 2023? - IoT Sverige

How smart are cities in 2023?

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<h2>1. Industry 5.0 is here!</h2>
<p>The fourth industrial revolution was defined by the integration of intelligent digital technologies (such as AI, Big Data, IoT, robotics and automation) and industrial processes kind of technology first. However, the fifth industrial revolution complements it by specifically putting research and innovation at the center of the transition to a sustainable, human-centric and resilient industry.</p>
<p>This means, the Agenda 2030 and the financial goals will have to co-exist side by side. Companies have a responsibility but also face a threat to become abandoned by its customers if they do not contribute positively. This year we saw more companies openly communicate their business idea as sustainable. For example, Deloitte said “For a better planet” and AWS said “helping cities become sustainable”. In addition, at the opening speech of the Expo CEO Ugo Valenti explained that all material used in the fair are now renewables.</p>
<figure id="attachment_20484" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-20484" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-20484 size-large" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-stad-i-lego-1024x811.png" alt="Smart stad i lego" width="640" height="507" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-stad-i-lego-1024x811.png 1024w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-stad-i-lego-300x238.png 300w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-stad-i-lego-768x609.png 768w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-stad-i-lego-1536x1217.png 1536w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smart-stad-i-lego-2048x1623.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-20484" class="wp-caption-text">Smart city built in lego, at Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona.</figcaption></figure>
<h2>2. The twin transition drives IoT installations in the cities</h2>
<p>The megatrends “green” and “digital” transitions pushes each other. By adopting a twin transition approach, leaders can bring the digital and sustainability agendas together to future proof their organisations. The process of digitalisation and establishing IoT ecosystems has been slow in many countries, but with the city as a platform and clear goals of using it to solve its challenges, our society will become smarter. Smart cities are often described as connected cities, therefore twin transition will give the decision makers a clear “why” as how to use the digitalisation process as a tool for the green transition.</p>
<h2>3. A myriad of solutions</h2>
<p>The 2023 Expo is with its over 1,000 exhibitors and 25,000 visitors the biggest smart city expo ever. More companies understand the magnitude of this new market for future income. The amount of smart city solutions has exploded and almost created a Klondike-like situation where everyone it trying to dig gold. However, it is almost impossible for delegates from the cities to find and evaluate solutions that suits them. It is evident that we need aggregators and evaluators that help the cities navigate through the challenges and validate the solutions. These helping hands can be national support projects, consultants or companies and will be crucial in the transformation process. Since all cities are so different, we will see many kinds of smart cities. The solutions itself is not key but it’s all in how well they solve the problem for its inhabitants.</p>
<figure id="attachment_20466" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-20466" style="width: 282px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-20466" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Daniel-Dersen-Internetstiftelsen-282x300.png" alt="Daniel Dersen Internetstiftelsen" width="282" height="300" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Daniel-Dersen-Internetstiftelsen-282x300.png 282w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Daniel-Dersen-Internetstiftelsen-963x1024.png 963w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Daniel-Dersen-Internetstiftelsen-768x816.png 768w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Daniel-Dersen-Internetstiftelsen.png 986w" sizes="(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-20466" class="wp-caption-text">Daniel Dersen, Internetstiftelsen.</figcaption></figure>
<h2>4. The Swedish climate contracts becomes an EU standard</h2>
<p>In several presentation we heard about the 100+12 net zero cities in the EU and the climate contracts as a new tool for eco-governance. The climate contracts gives the cities a clear goal and direction in a mission-like manner. These missions run beyond elections and political processes and secure a long-term development of the city. I believe we should make use of the fact that Viable Cities first came up with the invention of this governance tool and that it is a Swedish invention. Sweden is ranked top in the world when it comes to sustainable development and innovation, and this is something we should be proud of and use actively to promote our companies and governance models.</p>
<h2>5. The year AI really exploded</h2>
<p>Even though AI have been around for many years, 2023 will be remembered as the year when AI had its breakthrough. It has been a year since Open AI launched Chat GPT and at this year’s expo you could see AI everywhere. Most companies mention AI technologies as part of their solutions. It is debated what impact AI will have on mankind, but one thing is sure and that is that AI will have a massive impact on all businesses and will be an extremely valuable tool in making cities climate neutral. In Sweden, the real estate company Örebrobostäder (ÖBO) have used a combination of IoT and AI solutions to decrease their energy costs with 50 % in 10 years. Someone said “AI will not take your job, but the person who uses AI better than you will”.</p>
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<p><em>Written by: Daniel Dersén</em></p>
<p><em><strong>Daniel Dersén</strong> is Business area Manager for socially beneficial and sustainable digitisation at the Swedish Internet Foundation. Among other things, Daniel has been an advisor to the government in data sharing and co-founded the National Data Workshop and Smart City Lab. He runs the Nordic working group for Web of things and Smart Cities under the W3C (a World Wide Web Consortium) and is a co-founder of the Urban Twin Transition Center (together with Gothenburg University and RISE).</em></p>
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In this blog post, Daniel Dersén shares his insights from a fair that has everything and more when it comes to smart city solutions.

Five key takeaways from Smart City Expo in Barcelona 2023 - IoT Sverige

Five key takeaways from Smart City Expo in Barcelona 2023

<p>Over half of the world&#8217;s population lives in cities and urbanisation continues rapidly. The Smart City Business Forum in Barcelona brings together European and international stakeholders and decision-makers, both from the private and public sector, around climate-neutral and smart cities.</p>
<h2>Utilise rooftops and the space underground</h2>
<p>IoT Sweden arranged a workshop together with representatives of the Dutch company AeroVision. The workshop centred on how we can use the entire urban space from the rooftops to the underground in a smarter way. Two of IoT Sweden&#8217;s projects participated with examples of climate solutions in densely populated municipalities. Sophia Sundberg, CEO at Barkarby Science, talked about the IoTak (IoT Rooftop) project:</p>
<p>“We are developing a model where, with the help of IoT and AI, we can calculate the socio-economic benefits of installing green roofs in the municipality of Järfälla. Rooftops are an unused resource in the urban cities that can create value on many different levels”, she said.</p>
<figure id="attachment_20244" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-20244" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-20244 size-large" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/4a5c20ea-4dda-4b61-96cd-8846680c1049-1024x768.jpg" alt="Sophia Sundberg, CEO at Barkarby Science talks about smart rooftops." width="640" height="480" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/4a5c20ea-4dda-4b61-96cd-8846680c1049-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/4a5c20ea-4dda-4b61-96cd-8846680c1049-300x225.jpg 300w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/4a5c20ea-4dda-4b61-96cd-8846680c1049-768x576.jpg 768w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/4a5c20ea-4dda-4b61-96cd-8846680c1049-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/4a5c20ea-4dda-4b61-96cd-8846680c1049.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-20244" class="wp-caption-text">Sophia Sundberg, CEO at Barkarby Science talks about smart rooftops.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Lars-Olov Andersson, representing Stockholm Water and Waste, talked about the project Reduce Reuse Recycle. The goal is to create an easy-to-manage waste system for residents in Norra Djurgårdsstaden, which will ultimately contribute to reduced climate emissions and improved sorting rates. With the help of IoT solutions, the district&#8217;s garbage collection system is to be digitised and, in addition, nudging is also used as a method.</p>
<p>“We work with behavioural change where we try to nudge people so that they want to become better at sorting waste. Through IoT solutions, we can measure behavioural changes and the residents get feedback on their waste sorting, which they can follow through an app”, said Lars-Olov Andersson.</p>
<h2>Cities are both the problem and the solution</h2>
<p>Cities account for a large part of the earth&#8217;s climate impact, today there are 33 megacities with more than ten million inhabitants. Big cities create climate impact, but at the same time it is in big cities, where many people are, that it is possible to create innovative solutions for a sustainable future.</p>
<figure id="attachment_20279" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-20279" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-20279 size-large" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Workshop-bordssamtal-1024x607.png" alt="Workshop" width="640" height="379" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Workshop-bordssamtal-1024x607.png 1024w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Workshop-bordssamtal-300x178.png 300w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Workshop-bordssamtal-768x455.png 768w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Workshop-bordssamtal-1536x910.png 1536w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Workshop-bordssamtal-2048x1213.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-20279" class="wp-caption-text">Workshopdiscussions.</figcaption></figure>
<h2>The LIVE project in Amersfoort</h2>
<p>AeroVision is a company in the Netherlands that supports organisations in the procurement of geodata and georelated software. Leon Hendriks, at AeroVision talked about the project LIVE in the municipality of Amersfoort. The project collects different types of geodata from the municipality which are then visualised in a 3D environment, a digital twin. In the digital twin, it is possible to simulate different scenarios for how to design public environments.</p>
<p>“There is a large amount of interest when it comes to the design of green areas in a city. But not every initiative can be realised, the surface is simply limited. It is also necessary to consider what the green areas are to be used for and by whom. Our 3D environment can facilitate the planning and design phase”, says Leon Hendriks.</p>
<figure id="attachment_20355" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-20355" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-20355 size-medium" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Leon-Hendriks-1-300x267.png" alt="Leon Hendriks, AeroVision and LIVE." width="300" height="267" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Leon-Hendriks-1-300x267.png 300w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Leon-Hendriks-1-1024x911.png 1024w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Leon-Hendriks-1-768x683.png 768w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Leon-Hendriks-1.png 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-20355" class="wp-caption-text">Leon Hendriks, AeroVision and LIVE.</figcaption></figure>
<p>The workshop brought together participants from mainly the Netherlands and the Nordic countries. Robert Lann at the Swedish tech company Sensative talked about the importance of working horizontally and stressed, among other things, how important it is to build modern system architecture based on international standards.</p>
<figure id="attachment_20268" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-20268" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-20268" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_7907-300x225.jpg" alt="Smart City Business Forum in Barcelona." width="300" height="225" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_7907-300x225.jpg 300w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_7907-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_7907-768x576.jpg 768w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_7907-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_7907-2048x1536.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-20268" class="wp-caption-text">Smart City Business Forum in Barcelona.</figcaption></figure>
<h2>The Earth Valley ecosystem</h2>
<p>Camiel Weijzen from the municipality of Amersfoort talked about the Earth Valley ecosystem. This is an initiative in the municipality of Amersfoort that brings together over 700 stakeholders around several core areas that affect smart cities.</p>
<p>Catrin Ditz from IoT Sweden and Tamme van der Wal moderated the workshop and together they stated that collaboration between the public sector, businesses and academia is required if we want to take real advantage of all technical solutions for the smart city. Or as one participant put it in a rhetorical question:</p>
<p>“Is it really ethically justifiable <em>not</em> to use existing new technological solutions to create a sustainable future?”</p>
<figure id="attachment_20349" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-20349" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-20349 size-large" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Catrin-and-Tamme-1-1024x836.png" alt="Catrin Ditz and Tamme van der Wal." width="640" height="523" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Catrin-and-Tamme-1-1024x836.png 1024w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Catrin-and-Tamme-1-300x245.png 300w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Catrin-and-Tamme-1-768x627.png 768w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Catrin-and-Tamme-1-1536x1254.png 1536w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Catrin-and-Tamme-1.png 1806w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-20349" class="wp-caption-text">Catrin Ditz and Tamme van der Wal.</figcaption></figure>
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IoT Sweden arranged a joint workshop together with the Dutch company AiroVision during the Smart City Business Forum in Barcelona.

The urban dilemma: Cities – the problem and the solution - IoT Sverige

The urban dilemma: Cities – the problem and the solution

<p>The Norrland IT metropolis Sundsvall was in its very best spirits. And we from IoT Sweden and Business Sweden were keen for a hunt! Would we be able to find exciting and ambitious IoT companies with export and international cooperation on the agenda in Sundsvall and the surrounding area? In short, the answer was Yes.</p>
<h2>Optimism for the future in classic industrial communities</h2>
<p>Sundsvall is part of the optimism for the future that now characterises several classic industrial communities, at the mouth of a river, along the Norrland coast. The pessimism that prevailed fifty years ago has disappeared. Back then, the death of mills and downsizing/closures were commonplace. To remedy this, the Swedish state used its increasingly bloated authorities and agencies as a labour market policy tool.</p>
<p>In the 1970s, thirty-seven government authorities and agencies moved out of Stockholm, with Sundsvall becoming the home of a number of these. Now Norrland, which is a somewhat sweeping description of an area that encompasses the majority of the Swedish landmass (not to mention that Sundsvall is located in the centre of Sweden), is the place where the eco-labelled solutions of the future find their workshop. Electrification, batteries, green steel, hydrogen, space, new climate-smart biomaterials and, incidentally, critical minerals.</p>
<h2>Transition to web-based apps and services</h2>
<p>Over time, more and more people realised that these relocated authorities and agencies offered more than just jobs. The National Government Employee Pensions Board (SPV), the Swedish Companies Registration Office, and the Swedish Board of Student Finance (CSN) – all located in Sundsvall – became major customers for IT products and services. Their purchases were moved from Esselte and Posten to completely different players. This provided a base for fostering successful IT companies from the region when the authorities and agencies switched from dusty archives to data storage, web-based services and apps. The work of the IT cluster and innovation hub Bron Innovation, our host for the day, is centred around this idea, and the companies we met may even have been a result of this forward-thinking pioneering work.</p>
<h2>Exciting IoT companies ready for the world</h2>
<p>First up was <a href="https://www.starbit.se/se/">Starbit</a>, with its highly interesting sensor and solution for reporting snow conditions and facilitating resource-efficient snow management. Then we met <a href="https://www.portalplus.se/">Portalplus</a>, with its Cloudplanning and Fleet360 solutions for logistics planning and fleet management. And, finally, <a href="https://masarinconsulting.se/">Masarin</a>, with its <a href="https://www.diwise.se/">IoT platform Diwise</a>, developed in Sundsvall for the city&#8217;s residents and leadership, but now ready for the world.</p>
<p>We would like to thank Jennie Roos of Bron Innovation for a fantastic day, and we are keeping our fingers crossed for Norrland to bring home IoT gold at this year’s Smart City World Expo in Barcelona.</p>
<p><em>Written by: Magnus Fransson, Director of Internationalisation at IoT Sweden</em></p>
<figure id="attachment_15433" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15433" style="width: 258px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-15433" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Magnus-Fransson-webb-258x300.jpg" alt="Magnus Fransson" width="258" height="300" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Magnus-Fransson-webb-258x300.jpg 258w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Magnus-Fransson-webb.jpg 402w" sizes="(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15433" class="wp-caption-text">Magnus Fransson</figcaption></figure>
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IoT Sweden and Business Sweden’s joint road trip this time takes us to Sundsvall. Read this blogpost written by Magnus Fransson.

Blogpost: Future-oriented IT metropolis sets its sights on the world - IoT Sverige

Blogpost: Future-oriented IT metropolis sets its sights on the world

<p>Smart City Expo World Congress is the world’s biggest event for cities and urban innovation. Every year, leaders gather from innovative companies, governments and organisations to drive cities towards a better future.</p>
<h2>Booth in the Nordic/Baltic Pavilion</h2>
<p>IoT Sweden has secured a large booth in the Nordic/Baltic Pavilion, where, in collaboration with our partner Business Sweden and our projects, we aim to showcase what we can achieve. Team IoT Sweden is participating with the following objectives:</p>
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<li>Exchange of knowledge, networking, research and development collaboration.</li>
<li>Promoting Swedish exports of IoT-based solutions and encouraging international companies to establish investments in Sweden.</li>
</ul>
<p>The IoT Sweden delegation includes representatives from both the public sector and the business community. The congress will take place from 7 to 9 November.</p>
<h2>Smart City Business Forum – 6 November</h2>
<p>On Monday, 6 November, a pre-event called the Smart City Business Forum will be held, serving as a platform for networking, matchmaking, workshops, and panel discussions. Team IoT Sweden will participate and host its own one-hour session during the Business Forum.</p>
<p>Team IoT Sweden is looking forward to meet you at the Smart City Expo World Congress.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-19184" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Logo_SCEWC_visual-300x233.png" alt="Smart City Expo Barcelona logotyp" width="355" height="276" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Logo_SCEWC_visual-300x233.png 300w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Logo_SCEWC_visual-768x597.png 768w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Logo_SCEWC_visual.png 988w" sizes="(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px" /></p>


IoT Sweden is participating with a delegation at the annual Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, from November 7th to 9th.

Team IoT Sweden at Smart City Expo in Barcelona - IoT Sverige

Team IoT Sweden at Smart City Expo in Barcelona

<p>The online threats in terms of cyberattacks has increased dramatically recently. It takes a lot to stay up-to-date as well as to understand and be able to handle new security requirements when it comes to the development of IoT (Internet of Things). That is why IoT Sweden, together with Smarter Electronic Systems and the Swedish Electronics Industry Association, has produced a handbook for cybersecure IoT products.</p>
<h2>See to the entire life cycle of IoT products</h2>
<p>The handbook has been produced mainly for electronics and software developers, product owners and customers. The goal is to create an understanding of all the requirements and security that exist when it comes to the entire life cycle of IoT products.</p>
<p>Smarter Electronic Systems is responsible for the management and publication of the handbook, you can download the handbook for free on their website.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.smartareelektroniksystem.se/handbok-nu-pa-engelska/">Read more and download the handbook</a></p>


Handbok om framtagning av cybersäkra IoT-produkter

We are happy to announce the English translation of the ”Handbook for the Development of Cybersecure IoT Products”.

Handbook for Cybersecure IoT Products – now in English - IoT Sverige

Handbook for Cybersecure IoT Products – now in English

<h3>IoT Sweden would like to extend a warm welcome to you as the new programme manager.</h3>
<p>“Thank you. It is very exciting and gratifying to be here.”</p>
<h3>You worked most recently at the joint authority Storsthlm, where you served as process manager and digital strategist. Could you tell us more about your background?</h3>
<p>“I have spent my entire professional life working at the crossroads between humans and technology, and for the last ten years with digitalisation in the public sector (mostly municipalities). My latest role as process manager is quite similar to the role of collaboration manager – to create interactions and benefits across systems, organisations and areas of expertise.”</p>
<h3>What are you looking forward to in your new role as programme manager at IoT Sweden?</h3>
<p>“A lot of things! Working closely with technology and being involved in driving the benefits of technology in welfare deliveries. It is particularly interesting to step into a programme that has been running for a long time and through which a lot has already happened. My focus in the final phase of the programme will be on lessons learned from the work completed. How do we apply all the lessons learned during the programme period?”</p>
<h3>What previous experience do you think will be of benefit to you?</h3>
<p>“I think my experience in the local government sector in general is particularly relevant. I have a good understanding of how municipalities work individually and, more so, together. That is both the challenge and the opportunity with this development. We need to get more done together, scale up good things, and foster the flow of knowledge across organisational boundaries. While it certainly is not easy, there is also enormous potential.”</p>
<h3>What is required for municipalities and regions to be able to keep up with the rapid digital transformation currently taking place in society?</h3>
<p>“Leadership. To really get the benefits we need from technological development for the public sector’s welfare deliveries, it takes more than municipalities and regions just keeping up. Municipalities and regions need to lead their development. That is why leadership is so important.”</p>
<h3>How can IoT Sweden contribute to this?</h3>
<p>“If IoT Sweden can (continue to) be a catalyst, a knowledge conveyor, an inspirational platform and a helper in this development, it would be fantastic.”</p>
<h3>What is next in the pipeline?</h3>
<p>“We have an ongoing call for proposals in which implementation projects will be selected for the final phases. It will be very interesting to see the outcome of that call and which projects are ultimately granted funding.”</p>
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IoT Sweden would like to extend a warm welcome to Catrin Ditz as the new programme manager. Meet her in this article.

Hello there Catrin Ditz! - IoT Sverige

Hello there Catrin Ditz!

<p>During the pandemic, it became clear how important it is to monitor material supply in the healthcare sector. Questions about stock balances, material flows and logistics were high on the agenda. The implementation project <em>Vägledning av IoT för framtidens materialförsörjning inom offentlig sektor</em> [IoT guidance for future material supply in the public sector] began in 2021.</p>
<p>“Naturally, the project was affected by the pandemic. We had planned to conduct testing in an actual healthcare environment, which unfortunately was not possible. At the same time, the pandemic helped draw attention to the importance of material supply,” says Mikael Öberg, Supply Chain Manager of Region Östergötland.</p>
<figure id="attachment_18902" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18902" style="width: 225px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-18902" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Mikael-Oberg-225x300.jpg" alt="Mikael Öberg" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Mikael-Oberg-225x300.jpg 225w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Mikael-Oberg.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18902" class="wp-caption-text">Mikael Öberg, Supply Chain Manager of Region Östergötland.</figcaption></figure>
<p>The project centres around the healthcare sector’s need for various types of material supply. The material needs of healthcare involve large material flows and complex logistical flows. During the pandemic, the system was put to the test when organisations in regions and municipalities found it difficult to predict the volumes of protective products that would be used.</p>
<h2>Not possible to track materials used</h2>
<p>Mikael Öberg says that there is often information about what has been ordered, but not what has been used.</p>
<p>“Material management on healthcare wards is largely manual today, and existing IT support is not fully suitable. The need to better ensure access and follow the actual consumption at the end of the chain, close to the users, is an important prerequisite for providing good and safe care,” he says.</p>
<figure id="attachment_18911" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18911" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-18911 size-large" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Materialforsorjning-1024x581.jpg" alt="Materialförsörjning, förrådshållning i vården" width="640" height="363" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Materialforsorjning-1024x581.jpg 1024w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Materialforsorjning-300x170.jpg 300w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Materialforsorjning-768x436.jpg 768w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Materialforsorjning.jpg 1494w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18911" class="wp-caption-text">When it comes to material supply in healthcare, there is information about what has been ordered, but not what has been used.</figcaption></figure>
<h2>The goal of finding seamless IoT solutions</h2>
<p>Since the project could not test the solutions in an actual healthcare environment, a test environment was built in the form of a storeroom for healthcare materials. A basic hypothesis and goal for the project was for the technology used to be as “hidden” from the user as possible. In other words, healthcare staff should be able to use it without hardly thinking about it.</p>
<p>“Healthcare is strained today, so it is also important for technology to become an enabler and not be perceived as an obstacle,” says Mikael Öberg.</p>
<p>In addition to Region Östergötland (project coordinator), the project also included Linköping Municipality, Kinda Municipality, Linköping Science Park and RISE.</p>
<h2>Successful collaboration with students</h2>
<p>Together, the parties worked with different methods to determine which IoT solutions they wanted to test in the constructed storeroom. One success factor was having students at Linköping University participate and come up with different possible designs for a system for real-time inventory and automated withdrawal registration. The students were asked to brainstorm to solve the problem based on the assignment: “Develop a concept that allows hospitals to register items stored in local storerooms in real time. It should be a robust process and not cause irritation.”, and “It should be easy to do things correctly when withdrawing materials.”</p>
<h2>Dynamic scale – rated best</h2>
<p>In addition to the collaboration with the students, testing and collaboration with healthcare professionals – those who will ultimately use the technology – were crucial factors for evaluating the project. Of all the tests, a solution with scales integrated into the supply shelf turned out to be the one that the healthcare professionals themselves liked best.</p>
<figure id="attachment_18917" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18917" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-18917 size-large" src="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Materialforsorjning-i-varden-1024x546.jpg" alt="Materialförsörjning i vården" width="640" height="341" srcset="https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Materialforsorjning-i-varden-1024x546.jpg 1024w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Materialforsorjning-i-varden-300x160.jpg 300w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Materialforsorjning-i-varden-768x409.jpg 768w, https://api.iotsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Materialforsorjning-i-varden.jpg 1490w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18917" class="wp-caption-text">Having a functioning system for material consumption should be as obvious for healthcare as it is for a grocery store, according to Mikael Öberg.</figcaption></figure>
<p>The project <em>Vägledning av IoT för framtidens materialförsörjning inom offentlig sektor</em> began in 2021. The next step is to define how to take the lessons learned from the project further.</p>
<p>“We are facing a major anchoring process to take this further. It is a matter of looking at the big picture and the benefits of integrating as many organisations as possible. We have created a good picture and a framework of requirements to be able to scale this up further,” says Mikael Öberg.</p>


Lagerhållning av läkemedel och vårdmaterial

One of IoT Sweden’s projects examined and tested various IoT solutions to monitor the supply of materials in the public sector.

Material supply monitoring with IoT - IoT Sverige

Material supply monitoring with IoT

<p>It is in the cities where the majority of the world’s population live today, and where many societal challenges can be found. With advancements in AI, quantum computing, automation, and robotisation, IoT offers both possibilities and challenges for mankind.</p>
<p>Magnus Fransson, Director of Internationalisation at IoT Sweden, highlights the human advantages of IoT deployment in cities. To provide concrete insights, Robert Lann from Sensative, a Swedish tech company specialising in IoT, has been invited to join the discussion.</p>
<h2>Listen to the latest episode:</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://iotsweden.podbean.com/e/iot-from-a-human-view/">Podbean</a></li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/08UHKXdPi0HVfSPH2i8Vyv">Spotify</a></li>
<li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/iot-from-a-human-view/id1667876226?i=1000616117524">Apple Podcasts</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The editorial office is now taking summer leave, the next episode will be released in August.</p>
<h2>Read more</h2>
<p><a href="https://iotsverige.se/en/podcast">All episodes</a></p>


In this episode we focus on the human side of IoT. How can we as humans benefit from the IoT deployment and usage in our cities?

New Podcast Episode – the Human Side of IoT - IoT Sverige

New Podcast Episode – the Human Side of IoT

<p>Catrin Ditz currently works at Storsthlm as a Process Manager and digital strategist. In that assignment, she leads the cooperation between the 26 municipalities in the Stockholm County as well as stakeholders such as the County Administrative Board, Region Stockholm, The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR) and other government authorities.</p>
<p>Internet of Things Sweden is a Strategic Innovation Programme that supports and finances innovative IoT projects in the public sector across the country.</p>
<p>“It feels very nice to welcome Catrin Ditz as Programme Manager for IoT Sweden. Her broad network and knowledge of digitisation and collaboration will strengthen both our Programme Office and IoT Sweden&#8217;s work abroad, said Kristin Blom, acting Programme Manager at IoT Sweden.”</p>
<h2>Experience in the public sector</h2>
<p>Catrin Ditz has a Master&#8217;s degree in engineering from KTH with a specialisation in industrial economics. She has also worked as CIO at Uppsala municipality for four years.</p>
<p>“I have a good understanding of the public sector challenges and opportunities when it comes to digitisation. A lot is about collaboration and finding the right ways to let knowledge flow between different professional categories, areas of expertise and sectors, said Catrin Ditz.”</p>
<p>Catrin Ditz starts as Programme Manager at IoT Sweden 15 August. She will be employed at the Uppsala University Innovation Partnership Office (UU Samverkan), which hosts the Strategic Programme IoT Sweden.</p>
<p><em>IoT Sweden is financed by Vinnova, the Swedish Energy Agency and Formas.</em></p>
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IoT Sweden welcomes Catrin Ditz as new program manager. She has long experience of working with collaboration and digitization within public administration.

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