Smart City Playbook

Environment & Agriculture

Usecases

Eco Digital Wallet

The Eco Digital Wallet turns recycling and sustainable activities into a digital currency to promote environmental-friendly practices and instill values of stewardship among city residents and visitors. Fostering environmental stewardship and sustainable practices have become more crucial as the consumption and spending of people is on the rise, necessitating the need to create impact on the urban environment. To encourage that, the Eco Digital Wallet can be installed on a smartphone and linked via NFC or barcode to the recycling kiosks. Cameras can also be used to log and track certain sustainable practices. The Eco Wallet is then topped up with tokens and digital currency in reward for those activities, which can be then used for rewards, services, and eventually hold real monetary value.

KEY

CHALLENGES

Sector stakeholders are unaware of sustainability commitments and environmental responsibility principles

KEY EXPECTED BENEFITS

Environmental Awareness

City residents will be more environmentally friendly and aware of stewardship

Increased Recycling

More materials will be recycled across the city

Sustainable Consumption

Unnecessary consumption will be reduced to maintain and protect natural resources

ALIGNMENT TO SMART CITY OBJECTIVES

Sustainable

TARGET USERS

Resident

Tourist

Business Owner

USE CASE

JOURNEY

Fatima lives in Al Madinah city and is conscious about the need to protect the environment and reduce carbon footprint.. Her colleague advises her to use the Eco Digital Wallet.

She downloads the Eco Digital Wallet application on her smartphone and uses the phone camera to log-in and create an account. Through the app, she logs in all sustainable practices she does in the city which are tracked and saved in the app. She gets tokens in return, rewards, and services that may even hold monetary value based on her activities.

After her grocery order, Fatima receives a notification from the Eco Digital Wallet recommending her to recycle the plastic grocery shopping bags, showing the nearest plastic recycling bins.

After recycling the plastic bags, she receives another notification on her eco wallet notifying that she collected additional green points. The app later shares with her an invitation to a district clean-up program that she can participate in along with other residents of the city.

POTENTIAL SERVICE FEATURES

Kiosks for recycling

NFC integration with the Eco Digital Wallet

Gamification of recycling habits

Loyalty program for recycling

Navigation and guidance to recycling points of interest

KEY TOUCH POINTS

Website

Mobile App

Digital Wallet

Implementation
Timeline

Within 6 months

12 – 18 months

Over 24 months

Technology Commercial Viability

Currently commercialized

1 – 3 years to commercialize

5+ years to
commercialize

Regulatory Conduciveness

No New Policies and
Standards

Some Policies &
Standards to be
Introduced

Complex Policies to be
Introduced

Investment Requirement

Low

Medium

High

Use Case Ownership

Government Driven

Piloted by Gov. & Transitioned to Private Sector

Private Sector

Startups & Entrepreneurs

IMPLEMENTATION CONSIDERATIONS

Policies for water usage in private properties

Integration with smart home management systems

Regulations for seed imports

POTENTIAL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

IN THE MARKET

Environment & Agriculture

Use Cases

Smart Farming Solutions

Eco Digital Wallet

“Farm-to-Table” 
Transformation Toolkit

Sustainable Living Dashboard “Rasheed”

Zero Food Waste Platform “Ne3mah”

Smart Waste
Management

Central Farmers Community & Marketplace

Vertical & Community Agriculture

Smart Green Buildings

Interactive Connected Street