i-SCOPEinteroperable Smart City services through an Open

Platform for urban Ecosystems

Dr. Eng. Raffaele De Amicis Managing Director @ Fondazione Graphitech

i-SCOPE Project Coordinator

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

is supported by the

 CIP / ICT PSP

Objective identifier 5.1: Open Innovation for Internet-enabled services in 'smart' cities’

Duration: 36 months

budget: 4.040.000,00 €

The consortium

Relevance of the Project objectives

• The latest generation of 3D Urban Information Models (UIM), created from accurate urban-scale geospatial information, can be used to create smart web services based on geometric, semantic, morphological and structural information at urban scale level.

• Based on interoperable 3D UIMs, i-SCOPE delivers an open platform on top of which it develops, within different domains, various ‘smart city’ services. These will be piloted and validated, within a number of EU cities involved in i-SCOPE

Description of the issue and proposed service/solution.

• i-SCOPE aim to deliver an open source toolkit for 3D smart city services based on 3D Urban Information Models (UIM), created from accurate urban-scale geospatial information. The smart services proposed address the following three scenarios: – 1) Improved inclusion and personal mobility of aging people and diversely

able citizens; – 2) Energy dispersion & solar energy potential assessment;– 3) Noise mapping & simulation.

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Smart services scenarios@i-SCOPE:1/3

• Improved inclusion and personal mobility of aging people and diversely able citizens. i- SCOPE will deliver a set of smart services providing:– automatically, starting from UIMs and

GIS data, pre-formatted text describing a given area (to help user localising themselves) or route (in case of guidance), suitable for portable screenreaders and Braille screens.

– routing service that accounts for detailed urban layout, features and barriers, accessible from the web and from 3D mobile clients;

– providing easy-to-read and easy to listen to guiding instructions

Smart services scenarios@i-SCOPE 2/3

• Energy dispersion and solar energy potential assessment. i-SCOPE will deliver services for city administrations, professionals and citizens, designed to:– Calculate solar energy potential at

very high precision based on accurate 3D models of urban landscape;

– Assess energy efficiency at urban scale through automatic generation of energy dispersion maps based on airborne survey campaigns;

– Management of citizen-generated data on building energy dispersion

Smart services scenarios@i-SCOPE 3/3

• Noise mapping and simulation. To do so i-SCOPE delivers smart services that:– Calculate, in an interoperable

manner, noise levels both through simulation and through mapping based on accurate UIMs.

– Create real-time and accumulated noise maps through data collected by citizens, who are involved as prosumers (producers and consumers) of environmental data, through the use of their mobile phones as “noise” sensors, measuring city-wide noise levels

Target users and their needs

Participatory and Urban Sensing

The Opportunity:Participatory Sensing & Sustainability

Cultural shift (Web 2.0):User-generated content,

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Platform:Ever more popular,

cheaper “smart phones”

Concerns:Growing interest for

environmental/sustainability issues

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• Significant computational power• Semi-permanent Internet access

WiFi, GPRS/EGDE, 3G• Integrated sensors

Camera’s, GPS, motion, touch, ...

The (mobile) Web continues to change how we create, share and consume information...

Climate change (Inconvenient truth, IPCC), desertification,

global migration, urbanisation, mobility, energy efficiency, air pollution (e.g. fine particles), ...

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Involvement of city administrations

• The geographical distribution of partners is such that each city administration can closely cooperate with a technical partner at all stages of the project, creating an experimentation environment where users and producers co-create innovations within a Public-Private-People Partnerships (PPPP) for user-driven open innovation typical of Living Labs

TechnologyTo implement processing services using related standards

• i-SCOPE integrates a number existing technologies as federation of interoperable web-services which will ensure interoperability through support of OGC standards. The project is based on use of CityGML as Urban Information Model on top of which 3D smart city services are created. Smart services will be accessible via a web-based 3D client as well as through mobile applications that is used to crowdsource environmental (noise) data from the citizens.

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i-SCOPE Content Required 3D models at urban scale as CityGML For those city administration not having already a CityGML model of the city this will be created through a dedicated set of web-services (integrated within the i-SCOPE toolkit), developed on top of technology by MOSS which uses standard GIS data such as LIDAR or floormaps to automatically create CityGML models of urban environments

Real-time noise measurements necessary for the project activities will be collected during a surveying campaign planned with the city administrations involved by using VUB noise mapping technology.

Airborne infrared imaging will be acquired by partner GEOF through a thermo camera to be fitted on one of their airplanes. To avoid any further cost rising from a specific survey campaign this will be identified at the beginning of the project.

Ownership

• The i-SCOPE toolkit will be open source, so will be the specifications created during the project, i.e. extension of current CityGML standard and creation of three Application Domain Extensions for the three project scenarios. The EEIG will be responsible for future development and maintenance of i-SCOPE toolkit.

Sustainability• The consortium plans to formalize

modalities and the conditions that will govern the commercial exploitation of the project results after the end of the project and the Community funding through European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) to be formally registered before the end of the project. The EEIG will ensure promotion of i- SCOPE, technological road mapping, development & maintenance of the i-SCOPE toolkit, consultancy, training

Thanks for your

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Contact details

Dr Raffaele De Amicis Fondazione Graphitech, Director Via della cascata,56/c 38050- Trento, Italy Office: +39 0461 283395 Fax: +39 0461 283398 Mobile ++39 331 610 45 69 http://www.graphitech.it/ Email: raffaele.de.amicis@graphitech.it skype: rda_gt

About the already existing and running service

• Location(s)– Real-time noise mapping: The noise mapping system is freely available from the web and used worldwide.

For an updated overview of wordwide use see: www.noisetube.net/cities.– BRISEIDE spatio-temporal processing services: services are being tested in several scenarios in the following

areas: Italian national territory, Thessaloniki (GR), Navarra Region (ES), Hvar Island (HR), Castelo do Bode (PT), Metropolitan Lisbon Area (PT), Liberec Region (CZ), Province of Trento (IT) .

• Number of users How many users does the service currently have?– Real-time noise mapping: Original tests were performed in Brussels (75,000+ measurements), in Paris

(35,000+ measurements), in Berlin (20,000+ measurements), in Florianópolis (BR) (15,000+ measurements). The noise mapping system is freely available (for an updated overview of wordwide use see: www.noisetube.net/cities).

– BRISEIDE spatio-temporal processing services: 30 experts across the aforementioned locations.• Ownership Who is the owner / provider / maintainer of the running service?

– Real-time noise mapping: BrusSense group at VUB is the owner, provide and maintainer of the service. BRISEIDE spatio-temporal processing services: currently being maintained by the

– BRISEIDE consortium. The service provider is partner REG. The toolkit is being released as open source.• Sustaining the service How is it currently sustained?

– Real-time noise mapping: resources provided by VUB. BRISEIDE spatio-temporal processing services: resources for further piloting, test and running of services provided by EC funding (till mid 2012).

The objectives of the proposed service/solution

• Develop an open toolkit based on 3D UIMs

according to the principles of SOA using open

standards (OGC). This includes services capable to

create CityGML models from data such as surface

models (e.g. LIDAR), terrain models and building

floor plans.

• Develop smart services to improve decision-

making in planning processes and policy design at

city- regions management levels, with regard to

issues related to energy efficiency and noise

levels, based on urban pattern and its

morphology.

• Develop smart services to promote inclusion and

mobility of differently-abled people and elderly

users through technology that help them

overcome barriers at city level and that support

them during their daily urban trips.

The objectives of the proposed service/solution

• Develop smart services that can involve citizens

at wider scale by collecting real-time location-

based information at urban scale.

• Test smart services within a variety of network

ecosystems ranging from city-wide sensor

networks (Velletri, Italy ), to large scale regional

optic fibre networks (in the case of Trento and

Lazio Region, Italy ), to mobile location based

services.

• Develop trustable, secure privacy schemes to

ensure the highest level of protection of users’

information. This is necessary since such a set

of real-time, location-based mobility services

poses significant security and privacy issues

(due to traceability of people’s location, actions,

travel plans etc).