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Building Enablers for
Smarter Cities
Pekka Koponen
Forum Virium Helsinki

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LEARNING
SMART CITY
WELLBEING
MEDIA
Forum Virium Helsinki
Five project areas
INNOVATIONCOMMUNITIES

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Focus on
• business models
• interoperability
• open interfaces
• usability

5. Follow
the
vehicles
and
their
routes
online
on
the
map.
The
posi6on
of
the
trams
is
updated
once
per
second.
Open
interface
to
the
posi6oning
service.

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Journey Planner and My Departures in Mobile

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Stop Map Helsinki ReittiGPS
OKODE
Mobicity
Helsinki Regional Transport Authority (HSL) data
• Open interfaces. Free, requires registration.
• Journey Planner, Timetables, Bus stop locations, Live
vehicle data
Minun lähdöt

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- Hubi.fi pilot in 2009, part of a 2 year VTT research project Ubiquitous Helsinki
- Commercial service Tässä.fi launched in spring 2010 by VTT spin-off company
Adfore Oy (VTT = Technical Research Centre of Finland)
Hubi.fi, Ubiquitous Helsinki -project

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tässä.fi, Adfore Oy
Tapahtumatiedot

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• Digital Tourist Card
• City Loyalty Card
• Based on public transportation card
• Works with NFC phones in the future
Smart Urban Spaces, NFC/RFID-pilots

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Smart Urban Spaces -project
ITEA2 Project
Duration: 3 years, 2009-2012
Countries: 3 (Finland, France, Spain)
Partners: 25, SMEs, corporations, research organisations,
cities (10 cities, Helsinki and Oulu from Finland)
• European-wide effort to introduce interoperable e-city
services based on latest mobile technologies and ubiquitous
mobile computing techniques
• Services and interoperability characteristics will be
prototyped and validated over a first kernel of European
cities
• Pilots related to transport, events in the city, tourism,
schools and daycare

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City SDK for Developers
• “Service
Development
Kit”
for
the
city
• SoAware
Developer
Kit,
but
also
guidelines,
tested
and
approved
processes
• Whatever
is
needed
to
make
developers
life
easier
and
development
cycle
faster
• Ci6es
need
a
healthy
developer
ecosystem
(like
tech
companies,
eg.
Apple,
Nokia)
• “App
Store”
for
the
City
Enablers,
common
elements
for
the
services,
eg:
• Open
data
&
APIs
• Iden6ty
management,
Secure
authen6ca6on
(light
<-­‐>
strong)
• Common
rules
&
prac6ces
for
privacy
issues
• Loca6on,
Context
• Links
to
social
media
plaUorms

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Thank you!
Pekka Koponen
Forum Virium Helsinki
pekka.koponen@forumvirium.fi