Joint Doctorate in Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities
Short Description
GEOTEC is one of three partners organising the Joint Doctorate “Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities (GEO-C)”, funded under the EU Marie Curie International Training Networks (ITN) program, European Joint Doctorates (EJD). GEO-C aims to contribute methods and tools to realise smart and open cities, in which all groups of society can participate on all levels and benefit in many ways. Complementary strands of research in GEO-C (participation, data analysis & fusion, services) will lead to an improved understanding of how to build open cities and will produce a prototypical open city toolkit. With a budget of over 3’5 million EURO, Geo-C provides 15 Phd students (5 in Spain, 5 in Portugal, 5 in Germany) the opportunity to do research and advance the state of the art in smart and open cities.
GEOTEC’s contribution
The main contribution is the Open City Toolkit (OCT), that it is envisioned as an integrated, open source software empowering citizens, providing them with analytical tools and citizen-centric services in the context of a smart city. It is incorporating the results of the various research lines within the GEO-C phd students. It is designed to keep all the resulting resources (i.e., data, processes, services, guidelines, standards, ontologies, and models) along with utilities, tools and applications that make use of these resources
Publications
Khoi, Ngo Manh; Rodríguez-Pupo, Luis Enrique; Casteleyn, Sven Citizense – A generic user-oriented participatory sensing framework Inproceedings In: 2017 International Conference on selected topics in Mobile and Wireless Networking. Avignon, France, 17-19 May 2017, IEEE, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-5090-4977-6/17. @inproceedings{Khoi2017, title = {Citizense – A generic user-oriented participatory sensing framework}, author = {Ngo Manh Khoi and Luis Enrique Rodríguez-Pupo and Sven Casteleyn}, doi = {10.1109/MoWNet.2017.8045954}, isbn = {978-1-5090-4977-6/17}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-09-21}, booktitle = {2017 International Conference on selected topics in Mobile and Wireless Networking. Avignon, France, 17-19 May 2017}, publisher = {IEEE}, abstract = {Participatory sensing has been emerging as an economical and practical way to collect and share information on the surrounding environment. The information includes both physical data produced by embedded sensors in the smart device and the observation and reasoning from human participants. However, most of the existing participatory sensing applications lack multi-functional capabilities; they are designed to collect one single or limited types of information. In this paper, we first identify the most important requirements of a multi-purpose participatory sensing application, based on a comprehensive literature review. We then propose a generic participatory sensing framework — Citizense — that emphasizes ease of use, and allows the creation, execution of context-aware, multi-purpose participatory sensing campaigns, and analysis of the results. We discuss the architecture, design and prototype implementation, and compare it against the earlier identified requirements.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } Participatory sensing has been emerging as an economical and practical way to collect and share information on the surrounding environment. The information includes both physical data produced by embedded sensors in the smart device and the observation and reasoning from human participants. However, most of the existing participatory sensing applications lack multi-functional capabilities; they are designed to collect one single or limited types of information. In this paper, we first identify the most important requirements of a multi-purpose participatory sensing application, based on a comprehensive literature review. We then propose a generic participatory sensing framework — Citizense — that emphasizes ease of use, and allows the creation, execution of context-aware, multi-purpose participatory sensing campaigns, and analysis of the results. We discuss the architecture, design and prototype implementation, and compare it against the earlier identified requirements. |
Páez, Fernando Benítez; Trilles-Oliver, Sergio; Huerta-Guijarro, Joaquín City data 3.0 - A generic initiative to promote and assess the reuse of geographic information in cities - early steps Inproceedings In: Kommers, P; (Eds.), Rodrigues L (Ed.): Proceedings of the International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings 2017 - Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems. IADIS, pp. 221-225, 2017. @inproceedings{benitezm2017citydata, title = {City data 3.0 - A generic initiative to promote and assess the reuse of geographic information in cities - early steps}, author = { Fernando Benítez Páez and Sergio Trilles-Oliver and Joaquín Huerta-Guijarro}, editor = {P. Kommers and L Rodrigues (Eds.)}, url = {http://geo-c.eu/pubs/2017_BenitezIADIS.pdf}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-07-01}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings 2017 - Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems. IADIS}, pages = {221-225}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } |
Technical contact: Sergi Trilles (strilles@uji.es)
IP: Joaquín Huerta (huerta@uji.es)
Website: http://geo-c.eu/