[Ica-osgeo-labs] Launch of OpenCitySmart - The Open Platform for Smart Cities

[Darshana Rawal]

Dear All,

Its a wonderful thinks in the field of smart cities.  Thanks Chris Pettit
and Patrick Hogan


with best regards

Darshana Rawal

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> Thanks to the excellent work and efforts of Chris Pettit and Patrick Hogan
> who lead the "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics thematic [1],
> and with the release of 'CitySmart' What if? planning support system from
> AURIN [2][3] , we will use the European Space Agency's EO Science 2.0
> conference [4] at ESRIN to launch and build collaborations for our
> "OpenCitySmart - The Open Platform for Smart Cities". The conference will
> present precursor activities in EO Open Science and Innovation and develop
> a Roadmap preparing for future ESA scientific exploitation activities.
>
>
> ========================================================
>
> OpenCitySmart - The Open Platform for Smart Cities
>
> Patrick Hogan , Brandt Melick, Maria Antonia Brovelli, Charles Schweik,
> Jim Miller, Sven Schade, Chris Pettit, Suchith Anand
>
>
> 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 . This
> will be in concert with municipalities around the
> world, including, Springfield, Oregon USA, Como Italy and Melbourne
> Australia.
>
> =====================================================
>
> Myself and Geo4All colleagues  look forward to see many of you at ESRIN
> for this. We will have an interactive demo ready by then to help build
> ideas for future research collaborations.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics
> [2] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-July/001894.html
> [3] http://aurin.org.au/projects/portal-and-infrastructure/what-if/
> [4] http://www.eoscience20.org
> [5] http://www.geoforall.org
>
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