Smart City Playbook

Environment & Agriculture

Usecases

Sustainable Living Dashboard “Rasheed”

Rasheed is a sustainable living dashboard that means “rational”, “wise” and “economical” in Arabic, referring to the households’ rationalization and monitoring of resources such as water and electricity. The initiative aims at monitoring produced waste and air quality. By understanding consumption patterns, residents can proactively manage their usage of resources and be rewarded based on improvements made through gamification and comparison with peers. This is crucially significant with the rapid population growth and the rising demand, requiring Al Madinah to manage urbanization efficiently, ensure sustainable development, preserve scarce natural resources and raise awareness among its residents. At the city level, the macro-analysis of households’ data using “Rasheed” sustainable living dashboard can be key to help manage different zones and plan for interventions and campaigns. The dashboard will rely on IoT-generated data that would be complemented with resources and tools available to residents to better manage their consumption.

KEY

CHALLENGES

Sector stakeholders are unaware of sustainability commitments and environmental responsibility principles

KEY EXPECTED BENEFITS

Nationwide Sustainable Consumption

Officials will be empowered to take effective decisions that reduce commercial and residential consumption based on insightful information on energy and water usage across the country

Sustainable Planning

Officials will benefit from a real-time view of natural resource and reserve levels, enabling them to ensure accurate planning and adapting relevant policies

Limited Environmental Degradation

Correlations on environmental impact will be generated using big data analytics across a variety of data sources to eventually find potential solutions

ALIGNMENT TO SMART CITY OBJECTIVES

Sustainable

Efficient

TARGET USERS

Resident

Researcher

Tourist

National Environmental Centers

Campaigner

USE CASE

JOURNEY

Abdullah, a university student majoring in Environmental Health, is willing his household’s consumption of resources such as water and electricity, quantity of waste produced, and the quality of air around. His professor advises him to start using “Rasheed”, the sustainable living dashboard.

By understanding his consumption patterns, Abdullah starts to proactively manage the use of these resources and gets advice through the dashboard on additional sustainable activities and behaviors that can be adopted.

As a recognition of Abdallah’s changing behaviors towards a more sustainable city, he gets rewarded through the dashboard application with discounted local products.

Through the platform, government officials are also able to monitor in real-time key performance indicators of the citizens’ habits and behaviors towards the environment and pull reports to further understand the city’s needs and capacity to sustain further development plans.

POTENTIAL SERVICE FEATURES

Consumption dashboard showing trends

Recommendation engine for best practices

Marketplace for rationalizing smart devices

Gamification and competition with other users

Tips based on best practices

KEY TOUCH POINTS

Website

Application

Podcast & Videos

Social Media

Games

Competitions

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