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Citizen Sensing for Smarter Cities IBM Research – Brazil Smarter Human Systems Group

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Citizen Participation

Community Engagement

Social Networks Inclusion

Involvement and Feedback

What makes a city smarter? People in the centre

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Proof-of-Concept Projects in Citizen Sensing Research

#4 Smarter Board Community Social Networking

#3 Smarter City Companion Solution to guide People in City and

Corporations

#1 Smarter Citizen Sensing A new kind of participatory Social Network

for City and Corporations

#2 Breadcrumb Collect and transmit data from device’s

sensors in configurable intervals

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How to promote Citizen Participation in Smarter Cities? Solution for Instrumenting People to be part of City Administration

(i) Select Citizens select what type of

urban event they want to report

(ii) Collect The Mobile Application provides a reporting interface containing picture, location, classification,

and annotation.

(ii) Report and analyse The report is uploaded to the server and then submitted to a series of Analytics components

that will be able to derive relevant data from the citizens’ reports.

IBM Smarter Citizen Sensor

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How to classify and understand social behavior in participatory sensing? How to track and manage the flow of people and goods in a city? How to engage citizens in city affairs How to improve services provided by city administration and commerce?

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IBM BreadCrumb

Mobile App application to collect and transmit data from device’s sensors in configurable intervals

Plot observations

Send data to cloud server

Location, altitude, orientation, acceleration, battery, temperature, other…

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IBM Smarter City Companion

Helping People to Navigate and Interact with Commerce in the City.

Creating Intelligent Navigation Systems How to recommend trajectories to PwD, tourists and consumers? How to create social network of citizen recommendations of places to visit? How to apply navigation technology to boost commerce (and life) in specific areas?

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Creating a Community Social Network How to promote community engagement in public places? How to engage citizens in community affairs How to improve services provided by city administration and commerce? How to analyze patterns and trends in community communication?

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For more information, please contact….

Fernando Koch, Ph.D. Research Scientist IBM Research Brazil fernandokoch@br.ibm.com http://researcher.ibm.com/person/br-fernandokoch

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