The City Innovation Hub will provide a platform for industry leaders, SMEs, start-ups, researchers and other stakeholders to showcase a product, project or idea that has the potential of positively impacting the green and digital transitions of cities in Europe and worldwide.
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ADD-Task Next Generation Intelligence Reporting Platform The new advanced technologies aim to provide a flexible, extensible and sustainable solution to satisfy the emerging needs of the modern Smart City lifestyle that may range from everyday tasks such as finding a parking spot, to managing an emergency or a crisis. It is a fact that many sectors face the issue of interoperability between deployed systems. Examples involve governmental and industrial organisations where a legacy digital system cannot be upgraded to incorporate emerging requirements. As a result, new projects are continuously funded for the implementation or acquisition of new, more advanced, ICT systems to cover the new needs.
One of the main aspects of the Smart City daily life is the increase of the citizens security confidence. The creation of successful security applications of data sharing and citizen engagement through which residents can share their data for public benefit and the strengthening of the evidence-based policymaking is one of the Smart Cities priorities.
The Community Police / Neighbourhood Watch framework is one of the major innovations that have been adapted in Cyprus in order the enhance citizen cooperation with Low Enforcement Agencies (LEA).
More recently the Cyprus Police Community Police Department decide to use new technological solutions such as the ADDTask solution, in order to further support their daily operations.
ADDTask is an incident reporting and situational awareness tool used to provide collaborative real-time communication between agencies and members/citizens of the public.
ADDTask core provides:
● Real time incident reporting (data sharing) and event management with instant notification issuing of involved parties (GO users-public/citizens).
● Support event prioritization through a risk taxonomy
● Automated message generation and real-time progress tracking
● Dual communication with the transmission of text and multimedia messages
● Tactical level support through real time data correlation and full duplex communication
● Strategic level support through Business Intelligence analytics and data mining
● Data collection and targeted data delivery with transparency
● Aggregated data view in 3D GIS enabled environment (2D + Time) with the ability to interface with third-party systems.
● Annotation of POIs (Points of Interest) and ROIs (Regions of Interest).
● Real-time opinion sensing through social media crawling
ADDTask delivers state-of-the-art services through a variety of tools and technologies composed of a central management and data fusion engine responsible for the processing, correlation and maintenance of both addTASK produced and crowd sourced data. Mobile and web-based terminals are provided for timely data delivery. The role based end-to-end system provides:
● An intelligent web interface for use by the operator and commander,
● State-of-the-art services through a variety of tools and technologies composed of a central management and data fusion engine responsible for the processing, correlation and maintenance of both C3I2 produced and crowd sourced data,
● Dedicated mobile app allowing: (a) communication with other addTASK citizens-users in the field, (b) communication with the C&C centre and, (c) provision of user role specific functionalities.
Artificial Intelligence Against Air Pollution Breeze Technologies is a technology leader for air quality sensors, air quality data and air quality analytics software. The company leverages the internet of things and artificial intelligence to help cities and businesses create better clean air action plans and a more liveable environment. Breeze Technologies was founded in 2015 and has been recognised as one of the most promising European startups by the European Parliament and the European Commission. Breeze’s founder has been listed as Forbes 30 Under 30 and received numerous awards, including from the German Federal President.
New Ideas for Smart Cities in the European Union – when Research meets Practice Dr. Ana-Maria Iulia SANTA
The Bucharest University of Economic Studies,
Department of Economics and Economic Policies
Smart cities are the future concept of sustainable cities, given the circumstances of increasing urbanization in the European Union. Smart cities should be modern, citizen-friendly and in line with the new trends of improved life quality. It is not easy to transform cities in smart cities. Digitalization and the promotion of green economy are key instruments facilitating this transition process, using technology for the benefit of the consumer. Aspects of history of former communist cities are as well important, as they have influenced the development of these cities and the lives of people living in these cities. Communism transformed beautiful cities in grey cities. It was as well the case of Bucharest. Now it is our job to reinvent cities in order to design smart cities, contributing to the development of the cities of the future as we would like to have them. The needed approach is an interdisciplinary one, bringing science and practice together. In this context, academia can provide cooperation between research and business ideas. This is a goal of projects that I have been part of as a coordinator at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, at the Department of Economics and Economic Policies. Universities could be a place where ideas of research meet ideas of young entrepreneurs, promoting innovation with an impact in our society. Business incubators facilitate this kind of communication. A better collaboration between academia and business is needed and is ensured by building bridges between these two fields. This is what I am trying to provide in the research projects I participate in.
Keywords: smart cities, digitalization, green economy, innovation, research.
A community engagement platform for stronger digital democracies CitizenLab is a community engagement platform used by local governments & organizations to connect with residents, engage them in decision-making, and build trust through dialogue. The platform facilitates communication and co-creation between cities and their communities. Residents can post, discuss, and upvote their own ideas, or choose to vote, prioritize, and fund projects and programs that their city is considering. Over 300+ cities in 18+ countries use CitizenLab to engage, consult, and deliberate with their residents and collectively move towards decisions.
Empowering 🚴♀️ in fighting for their own safety through AI Cycling encompasses many societal benefits. It influences a community’s safety, economy, environment, equity and health. The number of cyclists on the roads is highly influenced by their perception of safety. To determine road safety, it is fundamental to have a common metric, so that risk factors can be determined and compared. Using Google Street View (GSV) imagery is a cost-effective approach to analyse urban environments. Due to the high number of images needed to extract accurate results, models to automatically detect objects and structures are used.
CycleAI aims to detect the areas of higher perceived risk for cycling worldwide. This project used object detection and image segmentation models to extract cyclists’ road risk factors from GSV images of Lisbon. This involved analysing a GSV dataset, before using two state-of-the-art tools, YOLOv5 and NVIDIA, to detect objects and segment images, respectively, and further analysing their results; determining the limitations of YOLOv5, NVIDIA and suggesting ways of making cyclists’ safety assessment more accurate.
Approximately, 4500 objects were identified, and 400 million pixels labelled on the 1000 images from the Perception Poll. Cars (84%), people (7%) and trucks (3%) were the most common objects detected. Sky (22%), road (21.8%), buildings (19,6%) and vegetation (13,4%) the most present structures.
Perception Poll allowed to weight the contribution of all objects and structures to the perception of safety of thousands of bicycle riders. More than 17 000 votes from 26 different countries were collected.
From the analysis of these images and the respective safety scores obtained from Perception Poll, CycleAI was able to statistically correlate cyclist’s safety perception with specific objects and structures. Significant positive correlations between trains, buses, cars (strongest) and low safety scores were found. On the other hand, bicycles and people (strongest) tend to be associated with the highest safety scores. Additionally, a neural network was trained with the capacity to predict a safety score for a road image with 70% accuracy.
Future directions include increasing the availability and resolution of GSV images. Train YOLOv5 and NVIDIA with datasets containing a higher number of categories relevant for road safety. Define a safety metric to weight and combine (at a road level) detected objects or segmented structures. Finally, to process street view images or video in real-time would allow to better capture the dynamics of road safety (video). In CycleAI, we are compromised in holistically tackling these issues.
Dashbike – Safetycam for cyclists. Sensorbox for your smart city Dashfactory aims to make cycling safe, and to digitize the planning of cycling infrastructure. Dashfactory, based in Jena and Leipzig, currently employs 10 people. The consumer product Dashbike addresses the B2C market, while the digital planning of bike infrastructure addresses B2B and B2G.
Dashbike is the first and long awaited dashcam for cyclists with distance measurement, GPS, Gyroscop, daytime running lights, and many other sensors. Dashtrack is an innovative, unique and fast scaleable data platform to digitise cycling across Europe with Dashbike to make cycling safer. We record all relevant (cycling) traffic data of cyclists on a daily basis, including processing and analysis.
Dashbike data can be simply implemented in your city dashboard. Telling you on daily basis about critical spots, frequented routes, accidents, road conditions, and many things more.
London's first truly green shared e-bike; making cycling second nature and creating a greener and more sustainable future for our cities! Sustainability has reached a tipping point, consumers are increasingly embracing social causes, seeking products, services and brands that align with their values. We aim to encourage this – Human Forest’s vision is a future of free mobility that protects the environment. We want to make sustainable mobility accessible for all Londoners by being the most affordable shared e-bike in the market. During our trial, we created a community of engaged users who readily associate us with sustainability and we believe this will only continue to grow as consumers have become more aware of the value of sustainable and noise-reducing transportation modes after experiencing them during multiple lockdowns.
Sustainable mobility helps people to make a daily contribution to reducing their footprint. Sometimes climate change feels overwhelming and this is something people can do on a daily basis to help the planet by reducing their footprint, decreasing road congestion and improving air quality.
Micro-mobility will therefore emerge as a leading option for riders who want to protect the environment whilst encouraging a healthy and active lifestyle.
How to Analyse & Clean the Air Pollution Kien Mou is a multifunctional device that cleans the air in the cities. As it provides several services in one device it is sustainable, cheap and available to any city of the world. We are making an exhaustive diagnosis of the local air pollution with Real-time monitoring systems with a patented e-breathing technology (Oizom systems), we design the reactive compound of each Kien Mou based on the air pollution patterns in each hotspot to be efficient and solve the problem, we offer a complete solution. Kien Mou final product will be launched this summer.
Can cameras help cities and citizen’s without invading their privacy? Despite the advancements in both camera and computer vision technology, cities and industry struggle to adopt these even for non-surveillance purposes. One of the main reasons for this is the lack of acceptance by citizens, staff, and worker counsels due to privacy concerns!
NATIX gives cameras brains and makes them GDPR compliant. Connect an off-the-shelf AI processors Edge Computers) to any camera, install our software on them, and let the AI detect the event of your choice. Upon detection, a notification with annonymized footage is sent to our dashboard or any client of your choice.
Improving energy and operational efficiencies in buildings. NorthQ is a leading-edge PropTech company that delivers a wide range of building and energy management solutions for the real estate sector.
With in-house developed hardware, software and cloud products, NorthQ covers all the steps needed for the reduction of energy waste, CO2 emissions and operational inefficiency across any number of properties.
With this ability to provide a 360°solution that follows the explicit needs of our customers, we continuously work towards transforming building data into valuable insights that drive savings.
SmartBot Parking: Stop penalising. Stop polluting. Start moving. An innovative automated management and control on street parking solution.
Upperbloom: transforming balconies into powerful green impact-makers. Get to know Upperbloom, the first plant service specifically designed for balconies and rooftops, and see how this Amsterdam-based startup is empowering city-dwellers to discover the surprising effects of plants in their daily life.
Energies from a Variable Nature: Passive Variable Geometry turbines for Urban Wind generation. Close to the ground and water surface, near the cities where energy is needed, natural flows become irregular and conventional turbines work poorly, because they are Fixed Geometry designed for ideal and constant flows. Our Passive Variable Geometry concept of energy conversion offers a solution: adapting to the forms of Nature to maximize energy harvesting. Simple mechanics completely driven by natural dynamics: Energies from a Variable Nature, in both Wind and Water.
Our rotors are poised to benefit both customers – corporate energy managers and end-users for our Wind Business Unit, river/port authorities and coastal/island communities for our Water Business Units, followed by Energy providers – and the environment, by significantly reducing CO2 emissions.
We are not “creating energy”: in a word, the success of our wind & hydrokinetic project is having the means to deliver Reliability to the renewable energy distributed generation market, which up to now is heavily inhibited by the variability of the natural fluid resources close to where we all live. In other words such reliability is a Circular Economy chance to harvest urban wind energy that is otherwise lost.
Developing our new technology, we have accepted the challenge of consistently increase the efficiency of machines that work with fluid sources, wind and water, where today the variability of natural resources weighs heavily on energy production. The “know-how” of a technology cannot be said to be consolidated unless it is nourished by its complement of “know-why”, which corresponds to the most authoritative scientific validation by all stakeholders: economic, social and environmental. This is how we like to work!
A housing platform creating a win-win situation for young & elderly people In many European cities, rents have increased tremendously in the last 10 years. Particularly young adults like students are affected by this development. In Austria for example, students spend twice as much money for housing as the average Austrian. At the same time many people above 65 are in the following situation: They have more living space than they need, they consider housing costs as a financial burden or need support in their every-day lives or are feeling lonely. To bring young and elderly people together for their mutual benefit, we developed the housing platform “Wohnbuddy.com”. Until now, we have been operating in Vienna, but with our new platform we want to expand to university cities outside Austria.
XnextⓇ, advanced inspection technology for zero-defect production & recycling The constantly growing global population and the increasing size of cities require us to find new sustainable development models, but above all new technologies that can help us manage the problem of proper waste disposal.
Some of the two biggest sources of pollution are plastics and the intensive consumption of artificial lighting, with the consequent problem of disposing of light bulbs and lighting systems once they reach the end of their life.
Real-time inspection systems designed by XnextⓇ will be able to help in the disposal process, raising the quality standards of recycling processes even higher.
This will be possible because XSpectra, the technology at the heart of the system, enables multi-spectral X-ray analysis to be carried out, making it possible to make a chemical and physical analysis of the materials to be disposed of.
As far as plastics are concerned, we know that they are made up of different polymers and that plastics made up of different polymers have to be disposed of separately, and this sorting process is time-consuming and requires machinery that very often performs summary analyses. By placing an XnextⓇ inspection system on the sorting line, a complete analysis of the polymer composition of the pallets can be obtained in a short time, eliminating from a particular line certain plastics that would prevent the correct recycling of the material in question.
In the area of artificial lighting, we have been working on the smartLED project for years. The aim of this project is to consciously dispose of light bulbs and their contents. We know that inside light bulbs there are materials that are harmful and damaging to the environment and to human beings. In order to avoid the dispersion of these substances, it would be easy to pass the bulbs through a new generation inspection system and thus determine the type of bulb and the chemical composition of the substances present in it and proceed with proper disposal.
Choosing XnextⓇ’s real-time inspection systems will be an important step towards achieving new quality standards, guaranteeing better waste disposal processes, and concretely helping global economies in the ecological transition process.
XnextⓇ, advanced inspection technology for zero-defect production & recycling The constantly growing global population and the increasing size of cities require us to find new sustainable development models, but above all new technologies that can help us manage the problem of proper waste disposal.
Some of the two biggest sources of pollution are plastics and the intensive consumption of artificial lighting, with the consequent problem of disposing of light bulbs and lighting systems once they reach the end of their life.
Real-time inspection systems designed by XnextⓇ will be able to help in the disposal process, raising the quality standards of recycling processes even higher.
This will be possible because XSpectra, the technology at the heart of the system, enables multi-spectral X-ray analysis to be carried out, making it possible to make a chemical and physical analysis of the materials to be disposed of.
As far as plastics are concerned, we know that they are made up of different polymers and that plastics made up of different polymers have to be disposed of separately, and this sorting process is time-consuming and requires machinery that very often performs summary analyses. By placing an XnextⓇ inspection system on the sorting line, a complete analysis of the polymer composition of the pallets can be obtained in a short time, eliminating from a particular line certain plastics that would prevent the correct recycling of the material in question.
In the area of artificial lighting, we have been working on the smartLED project for years. The aim of this project is to consciously dispose of light bulbs and their contents. We know that inside light bulbs there are materials that are harmful and damaging to the environment and to human beings. In order to avoid the dispersion of these substances, it would be easy to pass the bulbs through a new generation inspection system and thus determine the type of bulb and the chemical composition of the substances present in it and proceed with proper disposal.
Choosing XnextⓇ’s real-time inspection systems will be an important step towards achieving new quality standards, guaranteeing better waste disposal processes, and concretely helping global economies in the ecological transition process.
Dashbike – Safetycam for cyclists. Sensorbox for your smart city Dashfactory aims to make cycling safe, and to digitize the planning of cycling infrastructure. Dashfactory, based in Jena and Leipzig, currently employs 10 people. The consumer product Dashbike addresses the B2C market, while the digital planning of bike infrastructure addresses B2B and B2G.
Dashbike is the first and long awaited dashcam for cyclists with distance measurement, GPS, Gyroscop, daytime running lights, and many other sensors. Dashtrack is an innovative, unique and fast scaleable data platform to digitise cycling across Europe with Dashbike to make cycling safer. We record all relevant (cycling) traffic data of cyclists on a daily basis, including processing and analysis.
Dashbike data can be simply implemented in your city dashboard. Telling you on daily basis about critical spots, frequented routes, accidents, road conditions, and many things more.
SWIRL Further information will appear here soon.
Proximi.io Further information will appear here soon.
Neobility Neobility are focused on urban mobility solutions to support the multimodal and sustainable mobility infrastructure of the cities of tomorrow, where car ownership is not necessary anymore. UrbanAir is our product, working as a single mobility entrypoint to facilitate access to shared mobility operators as one integrated layer, offering all options in one place to consumers with a focus on sustainability. Based on this we also provide local administrations with real-time insight on mobility data in their city to better supervise and create infrastructure solutions.
Jozef Stefan Institute Further information will appear here soon.
Mobile Green Solutions Shaping Rural Regions into Smart Cities Further information will appear here soon.
Cyclefi Further information will appear here soon.
Microwave Reactor APSU developed a microwave reactor to decontaminate the sewage sludge and obtain fertilizers and clean energy as a result.
The process is continuous in a sealed chamber, without external contact, so the odor is
eliminated and a fertilizer without pathogens is obtained, by the treatment produces gases with the potential to be catalyzed and converted into energy.
The technology is simple with low energy consumption.
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