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Internet-Enabled Services for the Cities across Europe
At a glance
Project overview.......................page 2
Project status............................page 4
Rovereto Pilot...........................page 7
Past events.............................page 10
Future events..........................page 11
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Project overview
At a glance
Title:
Internet-Enabled Services for the
CITIES across Europe
Instrument:
Pilot Type B - CIP-ICT-PSP-2012-6
Total Cost: 4,200,002 €
EC Contribution: 2,100,000 €
Duration: 3 years
Start Date: 1 March 2013
Consortium:
13 partners from 5 countries
Project Coordinator:
Mr Jorge Pérez Velasco
[email protected]
Key Words:
Smart cities, open-platform, super
prosumer, user-centred services,
open appication marketplace
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IES Cities: A novel and practical
way of building the digital identity
of a City
Why internet-enabled services in “Smart” cities now and not before? Cities need to be
sustainable, offering the best possible services to the citizen in a resource-efficient manner and leveraging the cities’ current sensor
and data infrastructures and citizens’ devices
(smartphones); thus improving the overall quality of life of their citizens and the environment.
So far, the Cities’ business model was based
on the income obtained from taxes and councils’ land sale. However, this model is not valid
any longer. Cities must make a better use of
their deployed infrastructure whilst leveraging
from the increasing IT savvy citizens who consider ICT technology as a facility to enhance
their daily activities within the city.
The IES Cities project was born as a means
to address the above challenges. It adapts
and integrates technical components and tools in the areas of Linked Data management,
service prosuming and social data mining
obtained in earlier projects. IES Cities aims
to validate Internet-enabled services consumed by citizens in the form of mobile urban
apps that are based on an open platform
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where the information is obtained from Open
Government Data and enriched through citizens’ contributions. By enabling a city-wide
ecosystem of urban apps that exploit the city
knowledge made public by the councils and
enriched by their citizenships an open innovation system is established where companies,
citizens and councils interact and collaborate
towards achieving a Smarter City, i.e. a city
that actually addresses and meets the needs
of the actual citizens.
IES Cities provides the tools to facilitate the
use of an open technological platform in dif-
ferent cities across Europe, allowing the citizens to produce and consume internet-based services based on their own and external
data related to the cities. By using this platform, citizens are no longer mere consumers
of information - they are ‘prosumers’ - that is
providers, producers and consumers of information from their smartphone’s apps.
IES Cities is unique as no project has dedicated so much to considering the impact that
users can have on improving the open data
on which services are usually based.
PROJECT PARTNERS
1. Fundación Tecnalia Research and Innovation (ES)
8. Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza (ES)
2. University of Deusto. Deustotech (ES)
9. Ayuntamiento de Majadahonda (ES)
3. Bristol City Council (UK)
10. Geko Navsat S.L. (ES)
4. Knowle West Media Centre (UK)
11. EUROHELP Consulting S.L (ES)
5. Toshiba Europe Research Labs (UK)
12. Amis d.o.o. (SI)
6. Comune di Rovereto (IT)
13. Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik
Berlin (DE)
7. Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IT)
Table 1. Project partners
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Project status, Technical
point of view
IES CITIES will give place to a fully validated
urban apps enabling platform. Such platform,
assembling and integrating results obtained
by consortium partners at earlier projects in
the domains of Linked Data, Social Data Mining and Service Prosuming through mobile
devices, will be available for any council willing to promote their citizens’ and companies’
open innovation, so that they can give place
to a urban apps ecosystem that exploits both
city’s provided data, through open data repositories and wireless sensor networks, and
user-generated data provided by the citizens
themselves by interacting with their city by
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means of IES CITIES apps.
Proofs of concept of diverse nature IES CITIES apps are planned to be trialled in 4 different European cities, namely Zaragoza, Bristol, Rovereto and Majadahonda. Across four
small / medium sized cities in three European
countries, the aim is to assess across 4 different European cities, medium and small size
ones in three different countries, the economic and social impact of enabling Smarter Cities through user-driven urban apps.
The main challenges for the first year of the
project are, on the one hand, to establish the
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BRISTOL
MAJADAHONDA
ROVERETO
ZARAGOZA
IES Cities App Store (IES Cities Player)
MyBristol
Democratree
Majadahonda
Healty City
Majadahonda
Sports Network
Assisted Living &
Majadahonda
Smart Office
Monte del Pilar
Community Dashboard
Majadahonda
Leisure & Events
Esplora Rovereto
Viaggia Rovereto
Complaints &
Suggestions
Collaborative Maps
(DIY Maps)
Real-time Viability
ZGZ Apps
Rovereto Cycling Map
ZGZ Rutas
Table 2. List of identified apps that will be deployed in the mentioned cities.
foundations of the project mainly working on
the design and definition of the IES Cities platform, including its architecture and the services to be validated in each pilot city. During
the second half of the first year, we will focus
on the adaptation and implementation of the
main components of the IES Cities platform
as well as the preparation and launching of
the engagement campaigns in order to gather
the critical mass of users for the pilots.
So far, since the beginning of the project, 1st
March 2013, progress has been achieved,
adjusted to project planning, mainly in WP1 –
Definition of the scenarios and platform design and WP6 – Dissemination, IPR and exploitation of the results.
The following set of the deliverables have already been completed and submitted to the
European Commission:
• D1.1 User Requirements
• D1.2 Scenarios and Services
• D1.3 IES Cities Platform Architecture v1
• D6.1.1 Dissemination Plan v1
• D6.2 Factsheet, Logo and Presentation v1
• D6.5 IES Cities Website
IES Cities EU Project
• D6.6 Social Network Profiles
• D7.1.1 Consortium Operating Procedures
v1
From a technical point of view, the deliverables completed have allowed us to:
• Understand better the needs of the different user collectives that will make use of
the IES CITIES platform, namely citizens,
councils and developers, and the apps developed on top of it.
• Define a list of IES CITIES apps (services)
on which the different city trials will be based.
• Specify the software architecture of the
IES CITIES solution, both its client and
server-side,
integrating
contributions
achieved through the participation of consortium partners in earlier projects, in the
domains of Linked Data, Social Data Mining, and Service Prosuming through mobile devices.
• Give place to the dissemination plan and
generate the first dissemination artefacts,
e.g. Factsheet, Logo and Presentation,
website and creation and population of social network site profiles.
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First IES Cities apps for
Majadahonda and Zaragoza
1. Zaragoza complaints and suggestions.
The service will allow Zaragoza´s citizens
to send complaints and suggestions about
public services, as well as report problems
detected in the public space. This will be
done via the mobile phone and it will be
possible to include the geographical coordinates of the incident and a photograph.
The city council, in return, will inform the
citizens about the status of the incident
(fixed, on going or pending).
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2. Majadahonda leisure and events.
The service allows users to obtain information of the leisure and cultural offer of
the city, both private and public, filtered
by their preferences. The user gets all the
information of the selected event (date,
time, price, geolocation, availability, type
of target user, etc.). In addition, the service
sends alerts to registered users which fit
their profile.
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Rovereto Pilot
Our first focus is on the Pilot Site of Rovereto. The main objective of this
pilot is to deploy at a full-scale the “smart city” concept (through the development, adoption, integration, deployment and validation of advanced
ICT solutions), focusing in giving an added value to the mobility and transport systems in Rovereto and its surrounding area. The partners involved in this Pilot are the Municipality of Rovereto and Fondazione Bruno
Kessler.
The Municipality of Rovereto is the public
authority that represents the town community
of a medium-small city, of about 39.000 inhabitants, situated in the north-east of Italy, in the
Region Trentino-Alto Adige, specifically in the
Lagarina Valley. To provide the services and
satisfy the needs for a community of this size,
The Municipality employs almost 500 people,
structured in various Offices and Departments
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that cover most of the cultural, social, technical and administrative requirements of the
community.
Given the peculiarity of this area then, both in
the geographical and political aspects (geographically, Trentino-Alto Adige consists prevalently in mountains and small valleys, and
politically is one of the five Italian regions with
a special, more independent administration,
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and the only one with autonomous provinces) Rovereto, as the second most important
centre in the province of Trento, is particularly sensible to policies aimed at promoting a
smart territory investing in research and innovation.
Special needs
Rovereto is gaining attention national-wise as
a green city, due to its sensibility to policies
aimed at exploiting the opportunities provided
by the green economy with particular relevance to the valorisation of the ICT-technologies.
In this framework the Municipality is very active in the implementation of integrated innovative measures focused on the fight against
climate change. A first institutional step has
been the signature of the Covenant of Mayors
and the adhesion to the “Technological District on Energy and Environment”, a technological district recognized by M.I.U.R. aiming at
developing and researching new technologies
for sustainable building on the territory.
Relevant experience
The city of Rovereto has started a transition
from a manufacture industrial productivity system to knowledge-based one by exploiting
the opportunities provided by the green economy with particular relevance to the valorisation of the ICT technologies.
In this framework the Municipality is going to
implement integrated innovative measures
focused on the fight against climate change.
In this framework an important initiative promoted by the Municipality is the “Notte Verde” - “Green Night” held in June. The initiative
is organised during the Economy Festival of
Trento and Rovereto attended by more than
100.000 people coming from many different
cities in the country. The programme of the
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Green Night is focused on the green economy
and sustainability. The edition 2013 was an
important opportunity to involve people and
make awareness on the IES-CITIES project.
According to the Europe 2020 Strategy, the
Municipality is strongly committed to the energy-efficiency field (i.e. with the building of a
new school complex with LEED silver certification); and the renewable energy sector
thanks to the promotion of the F.I.R.E. Project,
which is a consortium between public authorities and local entrepreneurs that aims at promoting the use of renewable energies to supply the Industrial Area of Rovereto with new
installations of PV roofs. In addiction Rovereto is associated partner in the framework of an
European project – EIE Integrated Initiatives
Programme.
One of the most important challenges in terms
of CO2 reduction that the Municipality of Rovereto has to face is the car mobility. To this
respect, the Municipality is going to implement the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan and
to promote a smart mobility using information
and communication technologies.
Fondazione Bruno Kessler is a private
non-profit research centre working for the public interest established by the government of
Autonomous Province of Trento in Italy. FBK
conducts interdisciplinary research in Information Technologies as well as in other areas
of sciences and technologies and of humanities. FBK employs 350 researchers, graduates, and post-doc students. FBK has generated 14 spin-offs, start-ups and joint-ventures,
has developed a broad network of domestic
and international alliances and strategic partnerships, hosted international congresses,
conferences and symposia.
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FBK is part of Trento-RISE (www.trentorise.
eu), association that connects the major actors in ICT research, education and business
in the Trento region, and core partner of the
EIT-ICT Labs KIC (www.eitictlabs.eu). Through T-RISE, FBK is bringing into the project the
capabilities of the whole innovation system of
the Province of Trento.
The most relevant contribution and expertise
brought by FBK to the IES-Cities project is
in the area of Service Oriented Applications
(SOA) and eGovernment (EGOV). SOA (soa.
fbk.eu) has a recognized leading position in
the fields of Service Oriented Computing and
Internet of Services, both in terms of research and technology transfer activities. EGOV
(egovernment.fbk.eu) aims at transferring research results to PA and citizens and at developing a global strategy for Trento in the
area of interoperability and eGovernment.
SOA is also coordinating innovation projects
SmartCampus (smartcampus.trentorise.eu),
IES Cities EU Project
aiming at piloting solutions for participatory
service delivery in the University campus, and
eTerritory, aiming at experimenting with the
delivery of flexible, adaptable mobility services to citizens.
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April 10-11, 2013
The IES Cities Kick Off meeting was held at TECNALIA
premises in Madrid.
June 26, 2013
The First Quarter Meeting of the IES-Cities project
was held in Berlin on 26th and 27th June 2013. The meeting
will focused on tasks within WP1 and WP2, and devoted time
to review the work done in tasks within WP6 and WP7.
September 2-3, 2013
Digital Cities of the Future conference was held in
Trento and offered an opportunity for sharing best practices
and launching new collaborations in the area of digital cities,
and in particular of Intelligent Services for the digital cities. It
was co-organized by Trento RISE, by the Italian National Association of Municalities (ANCI), by the Association of Trento
Municipalities (Consorzio dei Comuni Trentini) and by the Italian node of the EIT ICT Labs. The event saw the participation
of representatives of municipalities, industries, and research
from Trento, Italy and Europe.
September 2-6, 2013
Summer School on Intelligent Services for the Digital
Cities bringing students, researchers, industrial partners as
well as municipalities together to explore and experiment on
novel technologies for digital cities. The Summer School is
promoted by Trento RISE, DFKI, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Luleå
University of Technology, Aalto University, University of Bologna and Siemens, as part of the “Digital Cities of the Future”
programme of the EIT ICT Labs.
September 14, 2013
For a whole week, the city of Rovereto promotes the European Mobility Week. The event, driven by the European
Commission, intends to encourage the use of transport means
alternative to the personal car. Transfers by foot, bike or public transport are in fact different modalities for a sustainable
mobility that, besides reducing gas emissions, noise pollution
and traffic congestions, might play a key role for the physical
and mental well being of citizens.
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OSMIT 2013: the annual conference of the Italian Community of Open Street Map was in Rovereto (TN) this year.
October 4, 2013
The Second Quarter Meeting of the IES Cities
project held in Bristol (U.K).
October 16-17, 2013
SMART City Exhibition is the new exhibition arising from
the partnership between FORUM PA and Bologna Fiere. A
three day exhibition, from 16th to 18th October 2013 at Fiera
di Bologna, characterised by meetings, workshops and much
more. This initiative was a must, particularly as politics for
smart cities is a national and European priority.
October 16-18, 2013
http://www.smartcityexhibition.it/en/event-overview
In its third edition, Smart City Expo World Congress will consolidate its role as world summit on smart cities. The important presence of cities from the five continents will be reinforced this year with meetings of various organisations that work
on promoting and consolidating smart cities, such as the Red
Española de Ciudades Inteligentes/Spanish Network of
Smart Cities (Reci), which will hold its board meeting at the
event organised by Fira de Barcelona.
The meeting will be attended by the mayors of 25 Reci cities:
Alicante, Barcelona, Burgos, Cáceres, Castellón de la Plana,
Córdoba, A Coruña, Guadalajara, Huesca, Logroño, Lugo,
Madrid, Malaga, Murcia, Palencia, Pamplona, Rivas Vaciamadrid, Sabadell, Salamanca, Santander, Segovia, Valencia,
Valladolid, Vitoria, Zaragoza, as well as municipal executives
who are participating in the five groups working on social innovation, energy, environment, urban mobility and economy
and government.
The Spanish Network of Smart Cities consists of 41 cities. Its
aim is to exchange experiences and to work on the development of a model of city management that is sustainable and
also improves citizens’ quality of life. In order to achieve this,
November 19, 2013
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November 19, 2013
the association promotes the automatic and efficient management of urban infrastructures and services, the reduction in
public spending and improved service quality.
Maria Hornos
93 233 21 68
[email protected]
November 19, 2013
The Smart City Expo World Congress 2013 is to be
held in Barcelona, 19-21 Nov 2013. More information is available at http://www.smartcityexpo.com
The IES Cities consortium have submitted the IES Cities
Project into the Smart Cities Awards Open 2013 call:
Dear Mr. Pérez Velasco,
Your proposal titled IES Cities has been successfully submitted to
the World Smart Cities Awards 2013 on the 02/10/2013 10:56:40.
If you have any queries or suggestions, please contact smartcity.
[email protected]
If you are interested in commercial opportunities to enhance your
company’s profile at Smart City Expo World Congress, please contact [email protected]
If you wish to receive the Smart City Expo World Congress newsletter register here.
For any further information on the Smart City Expo World Congress
click here. Many thanks for your interest and participation.
Our kindest regards from Barcelona,
Smart City Expo World Congress Secretariat
December 3, 2013
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At a time when improving the efficiency of public services
could not be more important, our National Future Cities
Conference will provide an opportunity for delegates to
come together to examine latest developments in establishing
cities fit for the future and embrace the benefits that smart
technology could provide for urban areas.
http://www.insidegovernment.co.uk/event-details/smart-cities/199
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The Smart Metering UK & Europe Summit 2014,
now in its 5th sensational year, is Europe’s leading gathering
for Smart Metering and Utilities professionals from around the
world. Held in the luxurious surroundings of London’s ETC Venue St. Paul’s, this 2 day conference, exhibition and awards
ceremony will play host to the key decision makers in the UK
and Europe’s Utilities and Smart Metering sectors looking to
network, discuss and engage on the key topics and developments affecting Europe’s Energy future.
http://www.smuksummit.com
January 30, 2014
Smart Future to Cities 2014: over 80 international case
studies from government, energy, healthcare, transport, retail and building control defined the working business models
which are creating future Cities successes for citizens and
enterprises alike; fully integrated, strategically-designed development programs with measurable results.
http://smarttofuture.com
April 29, 2014
Highlighting how embracing new developments in technology
can save money and deliver genuine benefits to businesses,
cities & communities on an on-going basis.
Hear from business & public sector leaders on the opportunities for innovation & sustainable growth for future cities &
business at the Smart Business Conference
http://www.ecotechnologyshow.co.uk
June 26, 2014
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