{"id":2359,"date":"2015-09-10T17:08:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/?page_id=2359"},"modified":"2018-07-24T16:58:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T15:58:43","slug":"smart-cities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/research\/smart-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Initiative on Smart Cities &#038; Mobility [2013-18]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5149\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5149\" class=\" wp-image-5149\" src=\"http:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/files\/2018\/07\/city_color_square-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/files\/2018\/07\/city_color_square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/files\/2018\/07\/city_color_square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/files\/2018\/07\/city_color_square-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/files\/2018\/07\/city_color_square-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/files\/2018\/07\/city_color_square-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/files\/2018\/07\/city_color_square.jpg 1768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Elenabsl &#8211; Fotolia<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The smart city vision raises the prospect that cities will become more sustainable environments, ultimately enhancing the citizens\u2019 well being. There is the additional promise of enabling radically new ways of living in, regulating, operating and managing cities, through the increasing active involvement of citizens by ways of crowdsourcing\/sensing and social networking. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">From the more technical perspective, smart cities are fascinating, yet challenging systems of systems for the digital science and technologies due to the key characteristics of connected cities and especially their scale. Moreover, the vision of what smart cities should be about is evolving at a fast pace in close concert with the latest technology trends and especially mobile social networking, the IoT, open data as well as big data. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">From 2013 to 2018, Inria with <a href=\"http:\/\/citris-uc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CITRIS and the Banatao Institute<\/a> and its partners at University of California Berkeley have engaged into research collaboration on smart cities, leveraging their related initiatives in the area among which the CityLab@Inria Project Lab &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/citylab.inria.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/citylab.inria.fr\/<\/a> &#8211; at Inria and the <a href=\"http:\/\/citris-uc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CITRIS and the Banatao Institute<\/a> core initiatives in the areas of Connected Communities and of Sustainable Infrastructures. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The overall objective is to develop novel systems to improve urban life and mobility by integrating sensors, social media and citizen engagement. These will ultimately result into solutions that create actionable intelligence for policymakers, entrepreneurs and advocacy organizations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>The Collaboration has been focused on 3 research themes:<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #266d83; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Future Trends in Urban Mobility UrbanCivics:<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attention is urgently needed in traffic management to alleviate the congestion that leads to negative effects on economy and health. Active collaboration on that topic has been ongoing as part of the Associate Teams <a href=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/2016\/03\/17\/comfort\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COMFORT<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/2016\/12\/13\/focus-on-oreste\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORESTE<\/a> and in cooperation with ITS \u2013 The Institute of Transportation Studies &#8211; at University of California Berkeley.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #266d83; font-size: 14pt;\">Democratizing Urban Data:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unprecedented democratization of urban data fueled by open data channels, social networks and crowd sourcing enables not only the monitoring of the activities of the city but also the assessment of their nuisances based on their impact on the citizens, thereby prompting social and political actions. However, the comprehensive integration of urban data sources for the purpose of sustainability remains largely unexplored. Our project studies urban data systems allowing the collection and further aggregation of heterogeneous urban data sources toward understanding but also prompting solutions to urban nuisance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #266d83; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>AppCivist: Engaging Citizens:<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AppCivist joins forces of CityLab@Inria and the Social Apps Lab at <a style=\"text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/citris-uc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CITRIS and the Banatao Institute<\/a><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> at University of California Berkeley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AppCivist seeks to build a middleware platform for democratic assembly and collective action that lets users (and especially social activists) make their own applications, called Assemblies, with modular components. The components support a wide range of civic engagement practices such as proposal making, deliberation, versioning, voting, alerting, networking, and mapping. When assembled, they help people engage issues and places in their city.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Related articles<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/2017\/05\/05\/appcivist-wins-chancellors-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CITRIS-Inria APPCIVIST project wins \u201cChancellor\u2019s award for public service\u201d in collaboration with the city of Vallejo<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/2016\/06\/16\/smart-city-techmeeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Takeaways from the Smart City TechMeeting organized in San Francisco<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/bis2016-day-2-full-day-working-session-on-smart-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BIS\u20192016 \u2013 Day 2 \u2013 Full day working session on \u201cSmart Cities\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/2016\/01\/20\/activities-toward-smarter-inclusive-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Launch of 2 transatlantic activities toward smarter inclusive cities, supported by EIT Digital<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/2015\/03\/13\/appcivist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Towards better means for democratic assembly and collective action: the AppCivist Project<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/2014\/02\/27\/citris-inria-and-prime-new-partnership-on-smart-cities-research-and-open-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CITRIS-Inria-PRIME: Partnership on Smart Cities Research and Open Innovation<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/project.inria.fr\/siliconvalley\/2013\/03\/21\/the-smart-city-inria-and-citris-chosen-by-the-cities-of-paris-and-san-francisco-to-conduct-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Smart City : Inria and CITRIS chosen by the cities of Paris and San Francisco to conduct research.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smart city vision raises the prospect that cities will become more sustainable environments, ultimately enhancing the citizens\u2019 well being. There is the additional promise of enabling radically new ways of living in, regulating, operating and managing cities, through the increasing active involvement of citizens by ways of crowdsourcing\/sensing and social networking. 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