Kalasatama Smart City district of Helsinki is an experimental innovation platform to co-create smart urban infrastructure and services. This centrally located old harbour area is developed flexibly and through piloting, in close co-operation with residents, companies, city officials and other stakeholders. The vision of Kalasatama is to become so resource-wise that residents will gain an extra hour of own time every day.
The Leak Notification Program is a new initiative that allows New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to proactively alert customers to potential water leaks on their property. The program gives customers the opportunity to sign up online to receive email notifications when their water use increases significantly over a period of several days, enabling homeowners to quickly respond to potential leaks and fix them before they become a serious billing problem.
PetaJakarta.org is a research project led by the SMART Infrastructure Facility, in collaboration with the Jakarta Emergency Management Agency (BPBD DKI Jakarta) and Twitter Inc. The Joint Pilot Study for the project was operationally active from December 2014 to March 2015, and PetaJakarta 2.0 launched in December 2015. During this time, the project enabled Jakarta’s citizens to report the locations of flood events using social media network Twitter, thereby contributing to a publicly-accessible real-time map of flood conditions at PetaJakarta.org.
Walking is the most sustainable way to get around a city. It is also the most efficient and equitable way to use city space. Yet today, most major cities are designed far less for those walking than for motorised transport. Digital technologies offer people a way to campaign for city streets built for them, not just cars. In most cities, street signs are aimed at drivers, and often don't show those on foot the quickest way to a destination in a city. Walk [Your City] in the US produces signs that explain how long it will take to walk between popular destinations.
The Seniortab is a device, which helps seniors to easily access the online world. Like everyone else, they should be able to communicate, inform themselves and entertain themselves on the internet. About 800 000 persons above 65 are not yet online in Austria, and for those who are, it is getting harder and harder. Therefor a user-friendly and application was developed and rounded out with an intuitive interface. The application is specifically designed for elderly people: it is easy to handle and you can shut down the app with just one click.
Wheelmap is a map for finding wheelchair accessible places. The map works similiar to Wikipedia: anyone can contribute and mark public places around the world according to their wheelchair accessibility. The criteria for marking places is based on a simple traffic light system: Green = Fully wheelchair accessible, Yellow = Partly wheelchair accessible, Red = Not wheelchair accessible, Grey=Unknown. Places that are not yet marked according to their wheelchair accessibility have a grey marker. They can be marked by anybody quickly and easily.
T-Systems Hungary is currently developing a technology solution package based on aerial photography used in agriculture as part of its 'Drone as a Service' project. This aims to offer data and information gained from remote sensing as management support for farmers. A pilot project of the program looked at hatching rates of a 100 hectar rapeseed field. The technical concept includes drone-recorded images uploaded to a cloud database, where their pre-processing includes quasi-automatic image corrections, assembly and positioning on a map.
Fall Safety App for Pros alerts people in case of a fall on the job. In the event of a fall the Fall Safety App alerts your emergency contacts and tells them your location. Monitoring: The Fall Safety App monitors your phone for sudden movements that indicate a fall while running in the background. The app also monitors whether or not your phone is connected to the internet. Alarms: Two different sounds are used as alarms. The first sound is a warning sound. It lets you know you have 30 seconds before the fall alarm sounds.
Accident Alert can detect advanced free falls. With the built-in accelerometer and with powerful and scientific algorithms, this tool can make differences between false falls and real free falls. Accident Alert uses the built-in gps service of the iphone to localize your position in case the application detected a free fall. When a free fall is detected, an email is sent to the people you entered. You can choose between email or sms. You can choose different sound alarms.
Helping the hearing impaired make phone calls: T-City improved the communications possibilities for deaf or hearing-impaired people in public areas with Telephony for the Hearing Impaired. The partners of this project are TeSS, the sign language interpreting service, and the “Deutsche Gesellschaft der Hörgeschädigten-Selbsthilfe und Fachverbände” (German Society for the Hearing Impaired). The terminals have an integrated screen, a special camera as well as access to TeSS.