[Ica-osgeo-labs] ESA Conference - OpenCitySmart - The Open Platform for Smart Cities

Tue May 19 23:31:36 PDT 2015

Thanks everyone who contributed ideas for this (Patrick, Brandt, Maria, Charlie, Sven, Jim, Chris).Please let me know if i missed anyone.  We will submit the abstract for this to ESA conference after my meeting with Charlie later today to discuss any other updates/changes.Thanks.

Suchith
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From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Maria Antonia Brovelli [maria.brovelli at polimi.it]
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Cc: 'Jim Miller'; Pierre.Philippe.Mathieu at esa.int; 'MELICK Brandt'; 'Giuseppe Conti'
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Sustainable City 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS

Great! Thanks Patrick!

Maria

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Da: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org <ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov>
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Cc: 'Jim Miller'; Pierre.Philippe.Mathieu at esa.int; 'MELICK Brandt'; 'Giuseppe Conti'
Oggetto: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Sustainable City 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS

With Brandt’s edits, for the City of Springfield Oregon, it now reads

OpenCitySmart - The Open Platform for Smart Cities

The world is shrinking, actually we are getting larger in it, and the cities have to absorb today’s exponential increase in population. World population since the ‘second industrial’ revolution after 1850s has grown from 1 billion to almost 8 billion today. In 1950 at a mere 2.5 billion, we were almost evenly distributed between rural and urban. Today, in the developed world, approximately 80% of the population lives in cities.

This is creating very difficult conditions for sustainability, much more simply managing basic city services. We must learn to be more efficient along with being more effective. To most wisely achieve this goal, we need a more collective approach to problem-solving. Many, if not most of the challenges facing the cities of today are quite similar in nature, if not identical, from infrastructure management to essential public services. Why must each city solve these problems alone? If the cities of the world were to share solutions with each other, they could each focus on different parts of the problem and thereby only bear the burden for a small fraction of the load. And by working together we may come to better appreciate what we share in common as well as experience the joy being able to help each other.

We propose to establish a unifying, open virtual globe, OpenCitySmart, with an API for functionalities. Based on existing open solutions, we will seed this global platform with an initial suite of functionalities that include tools for managing a renewable power grid, wind and solar, based on the success stories of municipalities in northern Italy. We will include functionalities for managing input of LiDAR data and infrastructure such as water and sewer. This will be in concert with municipalities around the world, including, Springfield, Oregon USA, Como Italy and Melbourne Australia.

-Patrick

From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 10:55 AM
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Cc: 'Jim Miller'; 'MELICK Brandt'; 'Giuseppe Conti'
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Sustainable City 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS

With Sven’s edits it now reads:

(Charlie, who is responsible for submitting this?)

OpenCitySmart - The Open Platform for Smart Cities

The world is shrinking, actually we are getting larger in it, and the cities have to absorb today’s exponential increase in population. World population since the ‘second industrial’ revolution after 1850s has grown from 1 billion to almost 8 billion today. In 1950 at a mere 2.5 billion, we were almost evenly distributed between rural and urban. Today, in the developed world, approximately 80% of the population lives in cities.

This is creating very difficult conditions for sustainability, much more simply managing basic city services. We must learn to be more efficient along with being more effective. To most wisely achieve this goal, we need a more collective approach to problem-solving. Many, if not most of the challenges facing the cities of today are quite similar in nature, if not identical, from infrastructure management to essential public services. Why must each city solve these problems alone? If the cities of the world were to share solutions with each other, they could each focus on different parts of the problem and thereby only bear the burden for a small fraction of the load. And by working together we may come to better appreciate what we share in common as well as experience the joy being able to help each other.

We propose to establish a unifying, open virtual globe, OpenCitySmart, with an API for functionalities. Based on existing open solutions, we will seed this global platform with an initial suite of functionalities that include tools for managing a renewable power grid, wind and solar, based on the success stories of municipalities in northern Italy. We will include functionalities for managing input of LiDAR data and infrastructure such as water and sewer. This will be in concert with the City of Springfield Oregon, who has made significant advances in these areas.

-Patrick

From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Sven Schade
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 12:56 AM
To: 'Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)'; 'Charles Schweik'; 'Suchith Anand'
Cc: 'Jim Miller'; 'MELICK Brandt'; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; 'Giuseppe Conti'
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Sustainable City 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS

Hi all,

Great idea to submit a joint paper!

Given that many others are working on smart city solutions (take IBM as a prominent example [1]), and we come with a certain set of experiences into this, the statement “We propose to establish a single, open source, virtual globe platform, CitySmart, with an open API for functionalities (the menu system)” might push us into a corner where others may see this as yet another solution or a competitor (see e.g. CitySDK [2]). I would prefer a phrasing (and approach) that plays with the central aims of openness, useful for everybody and worldwide applicability. Could we change the statement into something like this: “We propose to establish a unifying, open virtual globe, OpenCitySmart, with an API for functionalities. Based on existing open solutions, we will seed this global platform” (still resulting in a total of 299 words)?

Best,

Sven

[1] http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/

[2] http://www.citysdk.eu/

Sustainable City 2016, Alicante, Spain, 12 - 14 July 2016

http://www.wessex.ac.uk/16-conferences/sustainable-city-2016/page-4.html

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Final acceptance will be based on the full-length paper, which if accepted for publication, must be presented at the conference.

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Subject: Sustainable City 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS

To colleagues in our "Urban Science/City Analytics/Smart City" group (especially in Europe) [1]:

It would be good to have a paper on some component of our group's emerging efforts to the conference below...

 -- Charlie

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics

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