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Building Enablers for Smarter Cities

Pekka Koponen Forum Virium Helsinki

11/26/10 © Forum Virium Helsinki

LEARNING

SMART CITY

WELLBEING

MEDIA

Forum Virium Helsinki Five project areas

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Focus on •  business models •  interoperability •  open interfaces •  usability

Follow  the  vehicles  and  their  routes  online  on  the  map.    The  posi6on  of  the  trams  is  updated  once  per  second.  Open  interface  to  the  posi6oning  service.  

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Journey Planner and My Departures in Mobile

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Stop Map Helsinki ReittiGPS

OKODE Mobicity

Helsinki Regional Transport Authority (HSL) data •  Open interfaces. Free, requires registration. •  Journey Planner, Timetables, Bus stop locations, Live vehicle data

Minun lähdöt

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- Hubi.fi pilot in 2009, part of a 2 year VTT research project Ubiquitous Helsinki - Commercial service Tässä.fi launched in spring 2010 by VTT spin-off company Adfore Oy (VTT = Technical Research Centre of Finland)

Hubi.fi, Ubiquitous Helsinki -project

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tässä.fi, Adfore Oy

Tapahtumatiedot

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•  Digital Tourist Card •  City Loyalty Card

•  Based on public transportation card •  Works with NFC phones in the future

Smart Urban Spaces, NFC/RFID-pilots

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Smart Urban Spaces -project

ITEA2 Project Duration: 3 years, 2009-2012 Countries: 3 (Finland, France, Spain) Partners: 25, SMEs, corporations, research organisations, cities (10 cities, Helsinki and Oulu from Finland)

•  European-wide effort to introduce interoperable e-city services based on latest mobile technologies and ubiquitous mobile computing techniques •  Services and interoperability characteristics will be prototyped and validated over a first kernel of European cities •  Pilots related to transport, events in the city, tourism, schools and daycare

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City SDK for Developers •  “Service  Development  Kit”  for  the  city  

•  SoAware  Developer  Kit,  but  also  guidelines,  tested  and  approved  processes  

•  Whatever  is  needed  to  make  developers  life  easier  and  development  cycle  faster  •  Ci6es  need  a  healthy  developer  ecosystem  (like  tech  companies,  eg.  Apple,  Nokia)  

•  “App  Store”  for  the  City  

Enablers,  common  elements  for  the  services,  eg:  

•  Open  data  &  APIs  •  Iden6ty  management,  Secure  authen6ca6on  (light  <-­‐>  strong)  

•  Common  rules  &  prac6ces  for  privacy  issues  

•  Loca6on,  Context  •  Links  to  social  media  plaUorms  

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Thank you!

Pekka Koponen Forum Virium Helsinki

pekka.koponen@forumvirium.fi