Smart Cities: The Role of CNR. Learn more about CNR Smart City Project in collaboration with Smart Service Cooperation Lab. One year after the presentation of CNR Smart Cities Project, new technologies and innovative solutions are still demonstrating that Smart Cities are more viable than ever. Our contribution in the MOBILITY area has been to implement a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) for traffic and parking monitoring.

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Smart Cities: The Role of CNR
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23 June 2015

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AGENDA
• CNR SMART CITIES PROJECT
• SMART SERVICES COOPERATION LAB
• SERVICES
– CULTURAL HERITAGE
– DIGITAL SIGNAGE
– URBAN METABOLISM
– MOBILITY
• SMART CITIES
– CNR: SMART CITIES TEST PLANT
– SMART CITIES TEST PLANT – EXTENSION TO BOLOGNA
• SMART CITIES MOBILE LAB

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CNR SMART CITIES PROJECT

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CNR SMART CITIES PROJECT
• The project «Renewable Energy and ICT for Sustainability» of CNR aims at testing
innovative solutions to make cities environmentally and energetically sustainable
• On 4 July 2013 a public selection of 3 Italian Municipalities was called
• The goal was to find municipalities that were ready to be transformed into «Smart Cities»,
through: digital advertising for citizens and tourists, automated management of city
parking slots, mobility and traffic monitoring, energy management and balance, public
lighting remote control and management…
• Winner Municipalities:
– Agordo -> Category: Municipality with less than 7.000 inhabitants
– Riccione -> Category: Municipality with a high touristic impact
– Siracusa -> Category: Historical center that has an “A” zone, according to D.M. 1444/1968
• In addition, CNR Smart Cities Test Plant extension to Municipality of Bologna

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SMART SERVICES COOPERATION LAB
• Centre of Excellence about Smart Services, was born in 2009 in Bologna, as an agreement
between Ministry of Public Administration and Innovation, National Research Council and
Telecom Italia (www.cooperationlab.it)
• Solutions already implemented:
– Smart Inclusion
– Smart Town
– Smart Building (AUSL Ferrara, 10 hospitals out of 11)
– Smart Riviera (Cesenatico)
– Smart Green Grid (UE Project AlpEnergy at Lorenzago di Cadore)
– Smart Maintenance

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SERVICES

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CULTURAL HERITAGE

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WELCOME TO SIRACUSA
>> FROM HOME >>INTO THE CITY OF SIRACUSA
INSTALLATION OF LTE SMALL CELLS IN AREAS WITH LANDSCAPE RESTRICTIONS
WEB SITE WWW.WELCOMETOSIRACUSA.IT
MOBILE APP
INTERACTIVE PUBLIC
DISPLAYS
NUVOLA IT SELF DATA CENTER

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WELCOME TO SIRACUSA
WEBSITE PREPARING THE TOURIST TO VISIT THE CITY
PRESENTATION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
WHOLE PROJECT
INTERACTIVE GALLERY AND MAP WITH POINT
OF INTEREST HIGHLIGHTING AND ACCESS TO
MULTIMEDIA CONTENT
USAGE STATISTICS

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MOBILE APP THAT GUIDES THE TOURIST
TO VISIT THE ANCIENT CITY OF
SIRACUSA THROUGH ACCESS TO
MULTIMEDIA CONTENT LINKED TO THE
CLOSEST POI:
• images
• text
• short 3D movies,
• panoramic reconstruction of original
buildings
• aerial views
«Welcome To Siracusa» MOBILE APP

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DIGITAL SIGNAGE

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WELCOME TO SIRACUSA
DIGITAL SIGNAGE
• FOCUS ON NEAREST HISTORICAL SITE
• INTERACTIVE MAP OF MAIN TOURIST ATTRACTIONS
• USEFUL PHONE NUMBERS
• WEATHER FORECAST
• ENVIRONMENTAL DATA
• E-POSTCARD
• …
DIGITAL SIGNAGE
6INTERACTIVE DISPLAYS
TO WELCOME TOURISTS
THROUGH A SERIES OF APPLICATIONS:
USAGE STATISTICS:
• MOST USED APPLICATIONS ON THIS DEVICE
• SENT POSTCARDS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS INTERACTIONS

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DIGITAL SIGNAGE
>> MUNICIPALITY OF BOLOGNA
- Content arranged by Municipality
of Bologna under supervision of
Cooperation Lab
Multimedia Interactive Displays:
- n. 2 indoor
- n. 3 outdoor

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DIGITAL SIGNAGE
>> EXPO MILANO 2015
- ExpoCard 2015 Application:
digital postcard creation and
delivery (selfie with Expo
mascots) from public displays
installed on site.
- Release date: July 2015

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URBAN METABOLISM

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URBAN METABOLISM
THE PROJECT
Low cost monitoring of city areas using a distributed network of sensors,
SensorBoxes, measuring most important environmental parameters.
A SensorBox is a board, based on open-hardware Arduino platform, equipped
with low cost sensors that measure (adding a geolocation tag):
• Temperature/Humidity
• COx
• Ox
• VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds)
Goal: to have a general picture of city health and discover where anomalies are,
in order to plan a more in depth measure campaign with more precise sensors.
Result: time and cost savings

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URBAN METABOLISM
AN EXAMPLE: SIRACUSA
• SensorBox distribution on the territory. Es:
displays, bikes, buses ...
• Collection of geo-tagged environmental
parameters
• Data visualization of URBAN METHABOLISM
on interactive map
SensorBox

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MOBILITY

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MOBILITY
VIDEO ANALYSIS
Functions
• REAL TIME alarms, 24/7 availability of service, unmanned operations
• PREVENTION of anomalies, with proactive analysis
• CROSS-CORRELATION of events, with real time metadata
• REAL TIME data visualization on dedicated web front end
Compare of two technologies:
• on board video analysis (Bosch)
• video analysis hosted on dedicated server (IBM I.V.A.)

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MOBILITY
PARKING WSN
Network elements:
• Parking sensor
• Repeater
• Coordinator
Municipality of Bologna
n. 16 Parking Sensors
Municipality of Bologna
Coordinator
Sensor

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MOBILITY
TRAFFIC WSN
Network elements:
• Traffic sensor
• Coordinator
Municipality of Bologna
n. 8 Traffic Sensors

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MUNICIPALITY OF BOLOGNA – Traffic and Parking Monitoring
Technologies:
• Magnetic Loops (pre-existent)
• Wireless Sensor Network
• Centralized Video Analysis
• On Board Video Analysis
GOAL: benchmarking analysis and data comparison of single
technologies.
Benchmarking results will guide the design choices of next scenarios
(example: Smart Cities - B.I.M. PIAVE BELLUNO).
MOBILITY

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MUNICIPALITY OF BOLOGNA – Data Comparison on traffic
MOBILITY

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CNR: SMART CITIES TEST PLANT

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SMART CITIES TEST PLANT - CNR
• It is a test plant located inside the CNR Research Area of Bologna,
with the goal of developing and testing services and solutions
before application on the field
• It could be similar to a small area of a city, because it has public
lighting, roads, parking slots
• Officially open on 22 January 2013 by former General Director of
Italian Digital Agency - Mr. Agostino Ragosa
• It features:
– Multimedia display for digital signage
– IP cameras for surveillance, traffic and parking monitoring
– Wireless sensors for parking monitoring
– Wireless Radio Bridge @ 2,4 and 5 GHz
– Public lighting network with 84 remote controlled lamp posts (PLC
technology)
• CNR Smart Cities Test Plant is linked through Dark Fiber (F.O. G 652)
with Telecom Italia Data Center at Roveri Industrial Area (Bologna)

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INSTALLATION DETAILS

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CNR SCTP –
EXTENSION TO BOLOGNA

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OVERVIEW
SERVICES MOBILITY
INTERVENTION
ZONES
VIA FIORAVANTI
PIAZZA LIBER PARADISUS
ENERGY

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INSTALLATION DETAILS
AREA OF INTERVENTION
Traffic and Parking Sensors
(Pole 6)
Parking monitoring camera

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PLANNED ACTIVITIES
FORESEEN OPENING: SEPTEMBER 2015

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OVERVIEW
SERVICES
INTERVENTION
ZONES
HISTORICAL CENTER
VIA M. POLO, VIA DALL’ARCA
URBAN METABOLISM
CULTURAL HERITAGE
MOBILITY

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CULTURAL HERITAGE
INDOOR multimedia displays OUTDOOR multimedia displays

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URBAN METABOLISM
UM Smart Station
on site high precision
measurement station
for Urban
Metabolism
EQ Smart Bus (n.
12)
Acquired
parameters:
• Air Temperature
• Relative Humidity
• CO2
• CO
• O3
• NO2
• VOC (volatile
organic
compounds)
ENVIRONMENTAL
QUALITY

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Environmental Quality Smart Bike

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Environmental Quality Smart Bike

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MOBILITYVia M. Polo and Via Dall’Arca
Historical
City
Center

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SMART CITIES MOBILE LAB

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SMART CITIES MOBILE LAB 1/2
Prototype of a three wheeled electric bike, equipped as a mobile lab
Foreseen on the road test (preview): July 2015
Acquired parameters:
• Air temperature
• Relative Humidity
• Air Speed and Flow direction
• CO2
• CO
• O3
• NO2
• VOC (volatile organic compounds)
• C6H6

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SMART CITIES MOBILE LAB 2/2
Prototype of a three wheeled electric bike, equipped as a mobile lab

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THANKS
ANY QUESTIONS?

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Contacts
Lorenzo Tomasi
lorenzo.tomasi@isof.cnr.it
office: +39 051 6399759
lorenzo.tomasi@cooperationlab.it
office: +39 051 6075352