Infrastructure and Security
Task T1 will extend the existing infrastructure to assure the integration of all sensors and use all possible spots for data gathering: mobile collectors such as drones will be used as enablers for the mobile data gathering, additional WiFi hotspots from private WiFi providers will be integrated, and legacy devices will be integrated in the existing sensing infrastructure. This task will also research a solution for securing the information and the network. The security approach will be tested in the lab prior to the real network.
Working Areas
Mobile Data Gathering
T2 aims to research a solution for data collection in a flexible opportunistic and delay tolerant approach, making use of network coding to optimize data delivery and reduce the amount of data replicas in the network, considering a vehicular multi-hop environment. The data gathering and network coding approaches will be tested in an emulator with real information of the hotspots infrastructure, vehicular network and sensing platform, and the best approaches will be tested in the real network.
Modelling Data Flows, Behavior and Prediction
With both T1 and T2 in place, we now have the data in the infrastructure, received in the required times, and Task T3 can be focused on handling and processing data from the city and, through data mining and simulation, identify relevant flow patterns (traffic, persons) and people demands on the city. T3 will also identify specific or unexpected events that may be of interest in the city broad management. This task will provide the mechanisms and algorithms for processing the data collected (in T2) by the infrastructure (T1), analysing it and delivering critical information to the application layer. The results of the algorithms processing will be available for the visualization and dashboards developed in T4.
Living City Information Plataform
Task T4 will provide a living city information platform that promotes city-wide information as a tool to support active interventions in the city either as private citizens, business / institutional partners and decision makers. It will take the patterns, flows, events identified in T3 to provide a living city information platform middleware for decision makers and to citizens as public technological open
interface, end-user interface sensible to city changes and provide customized information to support the decision and evaluation of city wide interventions/policies, mobile applications for the users and institutions. Decisions on the city planning will be taken and the impact will be analysed, through the information gathered from the infrastructure (T1 and T2) and processed (T3).
City Pilots
Task T5 will be responsible to integrate the work from T1 to T4 in the use cases that represent current city planning concrete challenges where the S2MovingCity. The pilots are: Effective mobility - monitor traffic densities / flows and collect environmental information to characterize the typical impact in the environment; City interventions in public spaces - assessing the status and evolution in new pedonal/public areas in terms of impact in person and traffic flows, commercial/institutional and city quality of life; Impact of big events in public spaces - provide option to cellular technologies as basic infrastructure to support major events. The pilots will use the infrastructure developed in the previous tasks T1 and T2, and will generate data to be processed and analysed by T3, visualized in T4, with decisions taken and their impact assessed also in T4.