PADOVA SMART CITY:
Monitoring
System Development and Complex Data Analysis for Advanced Integrated Applications
Project summary
Project Responsibles:
Luciano Gamberini, DPG & HIT, University of Padova
Alberto Corò, Comune di Padova
Scientific Coordinator:
A. Cenedese, DEI & HIT, University of Padova
Research Fellow:
Marco Michielan, HIT, University of Padova
Partnership:
Comune di Padova
Description:
“Smart Cities pursue sustainability, livability, and social equity through technological and design innovation” (MIT research group): with this aim in mind we believe that urban analytics is a key step to understand our space and to realize smart services.
Specifically designed cyber-physical systems are used in conjunction with standard monitoring stations to sense and provide multilevel, heterogeneous and pervasive information. This information is put in relation through the time and geo-localization of the data and the physical communication and transportation networks of the city, acting like a biological nervous system.
Data-driven analysis highlights the behaviors that emerge from the interplay of human related activities and the natural phenomena.
Financing:
The Padova Smart City project has received funding from Comune di Padova.
Start Date:
February 2014
Duration:
15 months
How to turn dumb data into smart services?
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in the analysis phase to allow the interpretation of the data, the definition of metrics and the generation of information
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in the synthesis phase, to ease the decision process that define city policies
Three areas of investigation are considered:
- Environmental monitoring (from pollution to public lighting)
- Public service control (e.g. bike sharing)
- Human related behavior analysis (e.g. traffic monitoring)
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The Bike Sharing model
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to optimize the initial service condition in order to reduce user discomfort (i.e. maximize QoS)
- to design efficient control procedures to act continuously and regulate the free dynamics, based on the maximization of the QoS or on the minimization of the control cost
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