Real Time Rome is the MIT SENSEable City Lab’s contribution to the 2006 Venice Biennale, directed by professor Richard Burdett. The project aggregated data from cell phones (obtained using Telecom Italia's innovative Lochness platform), buses and taxis in Rome to better understand urban dynamics in real time. By revealing the pulse of the city, the project aims to show how technology can help individuals make more informed decisions about their environment.
New smart city or "ubiquitous city" built from scratch on 600 hectares of reclaimed land along Incheon's waterfront, 65 kilometres southwest of Seoul Embodies two avant-garde concepts: (1) the Aerotropolis, and (2) the Ubiquitous City (U-City). The largest private real estate development in the world’s history Songdo’s urban model bears several distinct features: its ubiquitous computing allows it to micro-manage numerous aspects of the city such as energy consumption and traffic; and the city can "interact" with citizens at the individual level.
Loadsensing is a wireless system that allows the monitoring of large structures, with the aim to detect and prevent possible risks and to ensure an optimal use. The system collects data from a wireless sensors network and sends it to a database, triggering alarms when necessary. It was installed to monitor the Olympic Arena Palau Sant Jordi, in Barcelona. The solution allowed engineers to know in real time the weight and stress supported by every beam, so every event can be developed optimally without being exposed to any risk.
Copenhagen Super Bikeways are a network of bikeways under development in the periphery of Copenhagen, Denmark. A collaboration between Copenhagen Municipality and 18 surrounding municipalities in Greater Copenhagen. The objective is to facilitate and increase commuting by bicycle.
Smart motorways and expressways: Over the coming years, a national spine of smart motorways will add more than 400 miles of extra capacity to our highways. And we’ll introduce a new standard for A roads, known as ‘expressways’: with modernised junctions, refuge areas and specialist technology to quickly detect incidents and get traffic moving again. Unblocking bottlenecks: We’ll tackle congestion hotspots across the country, ranging from improving the A14, to progressing plans for a new lower Thames crossing. Safer roads: Our roads are already some of the safest in the world.
A lot has been written about intelligent highways since the eighties. However, until now the focus of innovation was on the car. Heijmans and Studio Roosegaarde tackle this issue on a large scale by innovating the road deck with designs such as ‘Glow-in-the-dark Lining’, ‘Dynamic Paint’, ‘Interactive Light’ and ‘Electric Priority Lane’. Together they want to make the road sustainable and interactive through means of smart lighting, harvesting energy, and traffic signs that adapt to the road situation.
In association with Estates Gazette and supported by Deloitte Real Estate and the Mayor of London, this NLA developed interactive map outlines development activity across the capital. The website currently features over 800 projects, acting as a resource for viewing all major developments in London. It features recently completed projects through to proposed future developments, and gives the ability to filter the status of the building, sector and area.
PICO - Tool Project for Innovative Communication and Design. Stakeholders still lack insights in the big picture about opportunities in residential areas to save energy and produce energy sustainably. It is unclear for municipalities, residents and other stakeholders which solutions are preferable, and what the costs and benefits amount to. However, this insight helps the coordination of policy; it makes residents and investors more aware and helps them focus on the future benefits of solutions, while reducing uncertainties.
A collaborative model and open standard for civic issue tracking. Open311 is meant to facilitate an international effort to build open interoperable systems that allow citizens to more directly interact with their cities. Open311 is a form of technology that provides open channels of communication for issues that concern public space and public services. Primarily, Open311 refers to a standardized protocol for location-based collaborative issue-tracking.
It consists in developing a mobile application that integrates all the city services, making them available to the citizen. Through structured databases, we get to make available to the City Councils its services app, while proposing to all the city shops and businesses to announce its offer through a web platform that facilitates the self-management of their contents.