The S2MovingCity will make use of a unique vehicular and sensing infrastructure to focus on providing the city of Porto with a more “effective” solution to support planning and city-wide management to improve the city comfort on city dwellers (transportation, persons, and institutions).
The S2MovingCity project proposes to deliver new knowledge and a proof of concept for massive urban sensing of people, vehicles, and environment, supporting data-driven city planning and decision making. S2MovingCity will focus on city-wide flows (persons and vehicles), will try to
understand them and correlate with environment information from sensors in order to improve effective mobility and its impact on city comfort and environment.
Our approach will use and extend the current infrastructure to obtain information about the vehicles, people and the environment, such as:
- Location and mobility patterns of vehicles and people (in the streets, in the buses and in events), including accounting people and vehicles through video cameras and connection to hotspots in the street and in vehicles;
- City weather with high granularity, noise, environment and pollution levels.
This heterogeneous information from heterogeneous sources is gathered directly through:
1) fixed stations in the city, such as WiFi hotspots and vehicular road side units when the cameras, sensors or people are near these stations;
2) the vehicular network when: a) buses and municipality vehicles get into range of sensors or people; b) sensors are installed in the buses; c) people are bus passengers;
3) mobile collectors such as drones, in the case of events on wide parks.