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1. Future Cities Project
João Barros, 27th of January 2014
Daniel Moura| September, 2015

2. 1. Form inter-disciplinary teams

3. 2. Build world-class city-scale testbeds

4. 3. Work closely with end users from day one

5. 4. Share data

6. 5. Work with Industry Partners
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Companies
Institutional Support

7. 6. Bring the results out to the world.

8. Success Equation
Research
Question
Business
Case
User
Benefit
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Political
Will
Researchers
Companies
End Users
Authorities

9. Cloud

10. Connected
Vehicles

11.  Experimental testbed deployedin
Porto, Portugal
 465 taxi cabs with GPS computers
 3G connectionto the central
 IEEE 802.11p connection between
vehicles
Connected
Vehicles

12.  402 buses (86% of the fleet)
 GPS
 3G + Wi-Fi + IEEE 802.11p
 > 70 Road Side Units (RSUs)
 Connected to the internet
Connected
Vehicles

13. Startups
• Veniam
– Vehicular comm
– Wi-Fi in vehicles
– Data collection
• Geolink
– Operations Optimisation of Fleets

14. Connected Buses

15. Bus Net: free WiFi
• July’s stats
– 228K sessions
– 52K users
– 2.6 TB
– 42K hours

16. Mobility Analysis

17. Mobility Analysis

18. Before
After
Mobility Analysis

19. WiFi & Mobility

20. Passenger Flow
http://vimeo.com/danielcmoura

21. Passenger Flow

22. Sensing the City
 Meteorology
 Air quality
 Noise
 Trash
 Pedestrian
Density

23. Deployments
Covered
zones
– Industrial
– Park
– Traffic
– Touristic
– Waterside
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24. Garbage
67% of the containers are more than 10 consecutive seconds per day within 50 meters range of a bus

25. Water meters
53% of the meters are more than 10 consecutive seconds per day within 50 meters range of a bus

27. SenseMyCity

29. 813 electronic devices with
sensing and communication capability

30. YEAR 1
Recruitteam
Build Ecosystem
Acquire equipment
Deploy testbed
Cloud
A €2.3m investment in Porto Living Lab

31. Largest Vehicular Network in the World

32. SenseMyCity App
is in the hands of the end users.
Algorithms
Mobility pattern
Route similarity
Fuel consumption
Wi-Fi coverage

33. 700+ end users

34. Promoting university collaboration
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35. Promoting university collaboration
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Transforming research into products

36. Building bridges for the future
Business
Interests
Research
Interests
Political
Interests
User
Interests

37. Porto – Our Living Lab for Future Cities