How can we
use technology to improve the day to day
life of residents
in the five boroughs of South West London?
It's seeing how small things
can make big changes.
With a combined population of 1.2 million
servicing around 60,000 businesses,
South London Partnership are ambitious,
in our future and the opportunities
we can develop and offer.
IoT helps to enable our physical world
connecting to a digital world.
So it's about collecting new forms of data
that can bring new insights
into how our environment can be better
improved.
Microsoft worked with us
to develop a World First IoT programme.
One of the key factors
about the Microsoft
Azure platform is its security standards.
We can set up per block,
which offices only see their residents. By
being able to see all this information
together in one place,
you can get a definitive answer
in order to be able to help people quickly
and effectively.
As part of the Innovate programme,
we were able to save four lives.
The sensor was able to alert us
to the change in the pattern of residents’
behavior.
We were able to get services in
as quickly as possible
to ensure that they were okay.
Fly tipping
is another really interesting one.
We are now down 80% of our fly tipping.
If you can encourage people
to do the recycling in the right way, it's
far cheaper.
Gullies and culverts are the drains
you see at the sides of roads
we put in monitoring sensors where we had
most frequent issues with flooding.
If we believe strongly
there is a high probability of flooding,
we can go out there
and take a couple of actions
to stop people putting their lives
and their property at risk.
The data platform that we are building with
Microsoft is enabling us to pull data
in from all of the orgs
across the South London Partnership.
The future plan is to see if we can move
that information into the Health
Information Exchange
and share that information with Health.
We've now got just over 440
air quality sensors.
We can now see how many people are walking
on the footpath, what vehicles are going
past,
what the corresponding air quality is.
Data, in a way, drives our knowledge,
and by having that knowledge
we can take away the fear
and actually combat things.
With Microsoft,
they've been absolutely fantastic.
They have genuinely got
what we're trying to achieve.
And so it's just magic.