By Nigel Davies (Lancaster University) at the Internet of Cars Symposium, 24 Sept 2014, held at University of Southampton, UK.

1. The
Smart
Streets
Hub:
An
Internet
of
Things
Approach
to
Highways
Maintenance
Nigel
Davies

2. h?p://www.smartstreetshub.com

3. What
Is
the
Smart
Streets
Project
?
An Internet of Things demonstrator project run by InTouch and funded by the
Technology Strategy Board
Key Partners Include:

4. Video

5. Example
Problems
Problem
-­‐
Rain
water
washes
griLng
salt
off
the
roads,
councils
don't
know
which
areas
need
re
salQng
and
there
is
no
measure
of
the
impact
on
the
environment.
Problem
-­‐
High
temperatures
soRen
tarmac
so
vehicle
use
causes
ruLng
in
the
road
surface.
Problem
-­‐
Potholes
causing
accidents
and
damage
to
property
which
the
council
have
to
pay
out
in
claims
-­‐
someQmes
spurious
claims
Problem
-­‐
Public
not
knowing
when
is
the
best
Qme
to
travel
to
avoid
traffic,
could
any
of
the
informaQon
we
collect
aid
in
this?
Problem
-­‐
Public
oRen
know
of
Crash/incident
hotspots
(regular
incidents
on
stretches
of
roads)
and
this
is
not
fed
back
to
council
or
currently
unable
to
be
proven.
Problem
-­‐
Badly
designed
roads
needing
constant
maintenance
when
oRen
re
design
or
re
surfacing
would
be
more
economical
Problem
-­‐
Asset
lifeQme/
maintenance
is
difficult
to
manage
and
predict
Problem
-­‐
vehicle
weights
causing
weaknesses
to
the
road
surfaces

6. The
Smart
Streets
Hub

7. Trusted
Data

8. Hackathon
•
12
Teams
took
place
•
8
teams
at
the
main
Hackathon
locaQon
•
4
remote
entrants
connected
by
live
24h
video
feeds
into
a
hangout
•
2
Swiss
•
1
German
•
1
domesQc:
Southampton
•
Total
parQcipaQon:
•
Remote
InternaQonal:
13
(8
Swiss,
5
German)
UK:
4
•
UK
parQcipaQng
at
Lancaster:
17
compeQng
and
9
internal

9. Hackathon
•
Industry
experts
provided
case
studies
and
expert
advice
•
The
Hackathon
created
a
buzz
around
the
Smart
Streets
hub
with
over
384,500
requests
to
the
Smart
Streets
hub
asking
for
8.62
GB
of
data
during
the
2
days.
•
Teams
kept
coding
through
the
night
!
•
FantasQc
feedback
from
parQcipants
on
the
day
•
Judging
panel
including
academics,
industry,
local
authoriQes
and
parliament.

10. Example
ApplicaQons
Apps
Tech
Grouping
roadworks
for
HM
Informed
decision
making
Data
viz
of
area
10
Pothole
detecQon
Visual
interface
builder
Crowd
sourced
repairs
Crowd
sourced
monitoring
Journey
planning
with
polluQon
SpaQal
queries
across
hubs
Journey
planning
with
repairs
Cyclist
traffic
info
and
planning
Traffic
info
with
weather
Contractors Consumers

11. Sample
Research
Challenge:
The
Role
of
PredicQon
for
Future
IoT

12. Sample
Research
Challenge:
The
Role
of
PredicQon
for
Future
IoT

13. Closing
Remarks
• Highways
maintenance
represents
an
important
and
challenging
domain
for
the
IoT.
• The
SmartStreets
hub
provides
a
wide
range
of
capabiliQes
that
enables
highways
maintenance
operaQves
to
share
IoT
data.
• Work
on
SmartStreets
is
conQnuing
through
the
HyperCat
consorQum.
• IoT
research
is
exploring
new
areas
including
new
capabiliQes
around
predicQon.