1. VivaCity
An Open Data Platform for the
Smart City
Marco Montanari
@ingmmo
marco.montanari@gmail.com

2. Smart city

3. sensors
• Sensors
• Probes
• Sensing elements

4. -house-

5. Why OD for SC?
Knowledge
is power.
F. Bacon

6. SC

7. Sim City 1

8. Evolution of data representation

9. Smart city
BUT…

10. Big data?

11. BROAD DATA!
(or APIs, obviously)

12. Space
Time
Time
Space

13. How?

14. VivaCity
Created during DjangoDash 2012
(48 hour coding competition)

15. PostDoc
Semanticizer
Data-
container
VivaCity

16. Process
CSV
Normalized
SHP Models Semantics Data
API
Raw Data Semanticizer UI

17. Model manager (PostDoc)

18. Semanticizer (yes, I’m sorry for the name)

19. UI

20. So what now?
• The project is on GitHub, so Fork it and
contribute!
• The project has a development installation up
and running at http://vivacity.citizennerd.net

21. The plan
• I’m an engineer  HELP with the UI!! 
• Extend the model-manager to expose RDF
data
• Create more input methods
• More apps using more normalized models!!!

22. Wut? Apps?
• WiFiShare – user-driven wifi analysis and collection tool, started
with the open data from Bologna – to be released for Android soon
• BikeRack – Where’s the nearest bike rack? Started with the data
from Chicago and Baltimore – To be released for Android and WinPhone7
soon

23. Thanks!
• Marco Montanari
• Marco.montanari@gmail.com
• @ingmmo
• http://vivacity.citizennerd.net