Projects
Survey of initiatives and projects related to the Urban Computing field.
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City Ware (Saltlux/Kono)
- Summary:
The goal of City Wareis to develop theory, principles, tools and techniques for the design, implementation and evaluation of city-scale pervasive systems as integral facets of the urban landscape. The Cityware project integrates the disciplines of Architecture, Human-Computer Interaction and Distributed Systems, building on our previous work to develop principles, tools and techniques for designing, implementing and evaluating city-scale pervasive systems as integral facets of urban design. Cityware addresses the challenges of scaling up the design and implementation of pervasive systems to long-term, city-scale systems and evaluating these systems and their relationships with urban space and society through both targeted and longitudinal studies. Outcome includes the followings:
- * Making space - This project explores the relationship between the spaces created by urban architecture and the interaction spaces created by artefacts such as digital devices.
- Radio city - The aim of this project is to survey the "mobile computing landscape", by which it mean (1) the disposition of wireless communications signals in the city, and (2) the human behaviours associated with the presence of those radio signals.
- Movement Flow in Bath City Centre - This project has carried out spatial analyses and observation studies of the city of Bath using Space Syntax methods
- Digital Footprints - It seeks to investigate how tourists and visitors use the spaces created by urban architecture. Urban spaces are frequently populated by tourists with a very different agenda to those that live there.
- Multimedia blogging - This project focuses on how the internet is used in our private lives, in the form of sharing photographs across the internet.
- Project Details:
- Cityware is a multidisciplinary research project, integrating the disciplines of architecture and urban design, human-computer interaction and distributed systems. Cityware is funded through the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s WINES programme, with support from the Cityware industrial partners. Cityware began in October 2005 and runs until March 2009.
ICING - Intelligent Cities of the Next Generation (highly related) (Siemens/Yi)
- Abstract:
ICiNG researches a multi-modal, multi-access concept of e-Government. The model - thin-skinned City - is sensitive to both the citizen and the environment through the use of mobile devices, universal access gateways, social software and environmental sensors. Intelligent infrastructure enables a Public Administration Services layer and a Communities layer.
ICING researches into e-Community and Usability and also into two-way interaction with the physical environment. The research focuses on the areas of embedded intelligence, tighter integration of operator platforms and city infrastructure to enable novel services, empowerment of citizens to evolve systems of interaction with the city via social software, input from citizens and sensors for management systems and decision modeling, and a combination of city systems and multi-modal, multi-device communications to provide enhanced services. The technology platform gathers indicators from the City, processes the information, proposes actions to be taken with human intervention and supervision and connects the City with its constituency. Services and information are delivered on a range of commodity devices, providing greater reach and accessibility to local government and communities.
Solutions are tested in - City Laboratories - in strategic city regeneration districts, 22@ in Barcelona, Grangegorman in Dublin and Arabianranta in Helsinki, where users will trial and evaluate technologies and services. Outcomes include the following:- Vision Model of a more sensitive, accessible city;
- Technology Models and Open Source Tools for multi-modal access;
- Communications Gateways and Location Based Services that interact with the citizen and the environment;
- Urban Mediator system for citizen-led services;
- Research roadmap for the future.
- Project details:
Project Reference: 026665 |
Contract Type: Specific Targeted Research Project |
Start Date: 2006-01-01 |
End Date: 2008-06-30 |
Duration: 30 months |
Project Status: Completed |
Project Cost: 4.65 million euro |
Project Funding: 2.9 million euro |
Urban Information Systems in MIT (highly related) (Siemens/Yi)
Urban Information Systems is a cross-cutting group in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Research focuses on the use of information technologies to understand the relationships underlying urban spatial structure and on the use of technology to facilitate broader and deeper participation in the planning of urban futures. The participates are interested in applying computing technology or techniques in order to understand the ripple effects of computing, communications, and digital spatial information on urban and regional planning processes and on the methods for shaping and nurturing metropolitan areas.
One of the current research interests is SENSEable City Lab - studying and anticipating the real-time city. A recent project is Real Time Rome
The project Real Time Rome, contribution to the 2006 Venice Biennale, aggregated data from cell phones (obtained using Telecom Italia's innovative Lochness platform), buses and taxis in Rome to better understand urban dynamics in real time. By revealing the pulse of the city, the project aims to show how technology can help individuals make more informed decisions about their environment. Some important issues are as following:- aggregate records collected from communication networks
- the visualizations of Real Time Rome
- neighborhoods used in the course of a day, distribution of buses and taxis correlated with densities of people, goods and services
- individual privacy
GeoPKDD - Geographic Privacy-aware Knowledge Discovery and Delivery (related) (Siemens/Yi)
- Abstract:
A flood of data about moving objects is becoming available, due to the automated collection of telecom data from mobile phones and other location-aware devices, from sensor networks, from ubiquitous computing. The goal of the GeoPKDD project is to develop theory, techniques and systems for geographic knowledge discovery, based on new privacy-preserving methods for extracting knowledge from large amounts of raw data referenced in space and time.
The project aims at devising data warehousing and data mining methods for trajectories of moving objects; such methods will be designed to preserve the privacy of the source sensitive data.
Obtaining the potential benefits by means of a trustable technology, designed to protect individual privacy, is a highly challenging goal; if fulfilled, it would enable a wider social acceptance of many new services of public utility that find in geographic knowledge a key driver – e.g., in sustainable mobility, urban planning, environmental monitoring, and risk management.
- Project details:
Project Reference: 014915 |
Contract Type: Specific Targeted Research Project |
Start Date: 2005-12-01 |
End Date: 2008-11-30 |
Duration: 36 months |
Project Status: Execution |
Project Cost: 3.45 million euro |
Project Funding: 2.2 million euro |
Hermes
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- Abstract:
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate Hermes, a robust framework capable of aiding a spatio-temporal database developer in modeling, constructing and querying a database with dynamic objects that change location, shape and size, either discretely or continuously in time. Hermes provides spatio-temporal functionality to state-of-the-art Object-Relational DBMS (ORDBMS). The prototype has been designed as an extension of STAU [6], which provides data management infrastructure for historical moving objects, so as to additionally support the demands of real time dynamic applications (e.g. Location-Based Services - LBS). The produced type system is packaged and provided as a data cartridge using the extensibility interface of Oracle10g. The offspring of the above framework extends PL/SQL with spatio-temporal semantics. The serviceableness of the resulting query language is demonstrated by realizing queries that have been proposed in [9] as a benchmarking framework for the evaluation of LBS.
Daedalus
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- Abstract
We propose a research foundation for progressively mining and querying both movement data and patterns. Our proposal is based on an algebraic framework, referred to as 2W Model, that defines the knowledge discovery process as a progressive combination of mining and querying operators. The 2W Model framework provides the underlying procedural semantics for a language called MO-DMQL, that allows to progressively refine mining objectives. MO-DMQL extends conventional SQL in two respects, namely a pattern definition mechanism and the capability to uniformly manipulate both raw data and unveiled patterns. Also, an innovative computational engine, DAEDALUS, is introduced for processing MO-DMQL statements. The expressiveness and usefulness of the MO-DMQL language as well as the computational capabilities of DAEDALUS are qualitatively evaluated by means of a case study.
GIS
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- Open source GIS:
- Fotorad GIS
- CommonGIS:
- The GIS used by GeoPKDD group to develop some of their applications