Smart Governance

The Smart City App Hack (SCAH) brings together a global network of smart cities facing similar challenges and a common vision: to turn citizens into solutions builders, empowering them to make apps and businesses that will make for a better city. Engaged communities have found inspiration in five main themes: urban mobility, energy & emissions, shopping & retail, culture & tourism, and the collaborative city. A global, diverse team of experts has helped participants to build their app over the course of 6 months: from idea to finished product.

The goal of this project is to make a platform for collecting new types of urban and social mobility records available to the researchers of the IMU community, to deepen their research and validate their hypotheses and models. Many communities seek to improve their understanding of urban mobility behaviours: scientific communities (sociologists, philosophers, geographers, economists, urban planners, logisticians and computer programmers), territorial communities, transportation organisation agencies, businesses, etc. However, these records comprise sensitive personal data.

Berlin is not only one of the most attractive business hubs in Germany; it is also a laboratory for efficient infrastructure, informational networking, sustainable mobility, creativity and combining high productivity with high quality of life. Smart City is the integrated approach to all the future topics with which we, as a city, will be dealing with in the decades to come. It is about anticipating trends and developments in all areas that affect life in a big city.

mCity acts as a system of systems for monitoring, controlling and optimizing all smart city domains in a single dashboard with minimal training or support. Its best of breed approach utilizes existing systems and sensors without the need for expensive forklifts. Comprising modular building blocks that easily integrate to new sensors and systems from any vendor, mCity quickly adapts to the city's ever-changing reality.

SynchroniCity is funded under Europe’s Horizon 2020 programme and connects 34 partners, 8 European Cities and 11 countries over four continents. This project was created to help cities simplify the adoption of new services that tackle urban challenges using Internet of Things (IoT) and data technologies. SynchroniCity will create a harmonised market place for IoT enabled and urban data services.

At Future Cities Catapult, we are working on the Hyper Connected Data Rich City project to create the governance, financial and policy instruments required to deliver a programme of city scale commercial demonstrators in the UK. This would allow new innovative products and services to be tested at scale, based on transformative digital technologies like next generation telecoms technology. It will enable UK companies to prove the business cases for highly innovative new products and services.

DECODE is an experimental project to develop practical alternatives to how we use the internet today - four European pilots will show the wider social value that comes with individuals being given the power to take control of their personal data and given the means to share their data differently.
DECODE will explore how to build a data-centric digital economy where data that is generated and gathered by citizens, the Internet of Things (IoT), and sensor networks is available for broader communal use, with appropriate privacy protections.

For the past few years the municipality of Eindhoven has been working hard to open up its data to the public. By doing this we aim to increase transparency of our work to citizens and businesses, increase the efficiency of our services, create economic value through reuse of data. The municipality of Eindhoven works together with different organizations and stakeholders in the city, to stimulate more data usage. The open data portal was modified in February 2017 and we worked hard to improve the existing functionalities. However, we are always open for improvement and suggestions.

The FORTE® GeoMeter®600 spatial data collection system is a 100% Hungarian innovation that has already been introduced at CeBit. Smart gathering of information is essential to operate smart cities. With the FORTE GeoMeter 600, all the public buildings, locations and dimensions of the settlement are recorded with 360 ° panoramic images. With a single automatic survey, the local government gets up-to-date data assets that are now indispensable for modern urban management and settlement development.

The FORTE®MAP 8.1 Geospatial System of Intermap Ltd. fully supports municipal administration and decision-making processes. In the city of Dunakeszi, a unique solution has been introduced:  with a unique survey, the full virtual print of the city can be accessed by administrators, any public space position can get a full panoramic view, in spatial panoramas, the spatial position of public objects can be determined by pointing out and displayed in the GIS, measurements can be made on the panorama images.