Vienna, Austria
12-13 June, 2023
#FIWARESummit
From Data
to Value
OPEN SOURCE
OPEN STANDARDS
OPEN COMMUNITY
Urban Sense
The data collaboration story of
three cities

Data is key to be able to build
relevant future applications, as is
making this data available through
a smart city data platform
Technologies such as IoT
can help make life more
sustainable and more
qualitative
Challenges Technologies Data
Cities & Municipalities are facing
lots of big challenges, such as
climate change, an aging population,
mobility, ….
Urban Sense I Smart City Data platform
Why build a Smart City Data Platform?
Smart City Data Platform – making maximum use of your city data

– Need for a data platform for new flemish projects, strategic Smart City
goals & SDG’s
– 3 cities combine efforts for a joint frame agreement
– Other cities can still join
– Key requirements:
• Cost sharing
• Enabling ecosystem collaboration
• Scalable & Secure
Start

Quadruple helix

THE PLATFORM

DATA INTERACTION
DATA COLLECTION
CONNECTIVITY
PHYSICAL SERVICES
Onboarding
datastreams
Digitizing the
physical world
securily manage
and use data
App development
NEW SERVICES
DATA -> INSIGHTS -> ACTIONS -> OUTCOME
Physical City
Network
Urban IOT Dataplatform
Urban Digital Twin
Azure
A.I.
Urban Sense
Capacity

7
Key Principles
Scalability
Cost sharing mechanisms
City ownership
Security
Open standards,
interoperability & shared
data (models & applications)
Ecosystem
Urban
Sense

Container Computation Unit - CCU

Basic financial elements
Common costs
shared according
to fair distribution
key
City specific
applications are
allocated to each
city individually
Benefits of scale:
more cities
more applications
more data
Low setup cost

EXAMPLE USE CASES

Case - RainBrain City - Roeselare
Use Cases

Case - VLOED City - Bruges
Use Cases

Nuissance (harmonica
index)
Human voice -
shouting
Transport
road –
Passenger
car
Testing real-time nudges
Use Cases

SCWE WINNER
Enabling technologies

Thank you!
Gert De Tant
CEO at Sirus NV
Email: gert.detant@sirus.be
Phone: +32473982775
linkedin.com/in/gdetant/
Verlorenbroodstraat 122, 9820 Merelbeke

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