HOP Ubiquitous - Smart Destination

City Terms: Smart Destinations

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What is Smart Destinations?

Smart Destinations are defined as a tourist places that deploy a technological infrastructure using a smart system that collects information about the tourist activity analyzing and understanding acts in real time to evolve the interaction between visitors and tourist environment, focusing both in people as in the economic, social and cultural development

This concept was coined in the Millennium Development (MDG) plan of United Nations which handles the promotion of responsible, sustainable and accessible tourism for the society, within the 2030 objectives of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) .

Discover the five keys of Smart Destinations and know more about our Smart Destination project that is being developed in Ceutí (Spain).

 

A women discovering Smart Destinations in the map to visit them and has a great tourist experience

 

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HOP Ubiquitous - City Terms APIs

City Terms: API

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What is an API?

An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of methods for communication between different software components that exchange functions and procedures.

APIs can provide the set of information needed to build an application. Normally, all APIs are accompanied by tutorials, manuals and best practice rules to simplify implementation of an interface and make it easier to use by other software, allowing access and exchange of information that permit one application makes use of other remaining independent. APIs are the only way to provide secure access for software developers to work with external programs and services, being a key piece in the development of collaborative digital environments.

All HOP Ubiquitous products have open APIs to contribute to the development of collaborative software.

City Terms APIs Smart City IoT HOP Ubiquitous

 

 

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HOP Ubiquitous - Internet of Things

City Terms: IoT

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What is Internet of Things (IoT)?

This term was introduced by Kevin Ashton in 1999 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to refer to the number of objects and people that are interconnected on the network. Since then, the number of IoT devices has increased and it is estimated that at 2020 there will be about 200 billion devices connected, placing the Internet of Things as the next big step in the technology industry.HOP Ubiquitous - Internet of Things

 

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HOP Ubiquitous - Smart Spot Features

City Terms: Physical Web

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What is Physical Web?

Physical Web Features

 

 

“The Physical Web is an effort to extend the core superpower of the web –the URL- to everyday physical objects”. Scott Jenson.

Thanks to hardware devices called Beacons, Physical Web creates a communication channel that connects the physical and virtual worlds using the Bluetooth Low Energy connection to send “push” notifications to nearby Smartphones that are in their range of action. This connection does not need any tracker native app, only with Google Chrome installed and with bluetooth switched on every user can interact with digital content directly in this physical point.

 

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HOP Ubiquitous - Smart City

City Terms: Smart City

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In this section of the blog we are going to launch short definitions to describe terms about the new smart tendencies. HOP team invite you to write all the questions that arise, we will reply you as soon as possible.

What is a Smart City?

“A Smart and Sustainable City is an innovative city that takes advantage of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and other means to improve the quality of life, efficiency of functionality, urban services and competitiveness, while ensuring that it meets the economic, social, environmental and cultural requirements of present and future generations.” (CEPE y UIT)

HOP Ubiquitous Smart City

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HOP Ubiquitous - Smart Spot Features

Sustainable city to become Smart City

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“We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go”

Terri Swearingen

More and more municipalities need to monitor a large number of variables to optimize resources and provide a good service to citizens. What is the objective? Improve management through cost reduction, offer more efficient services and reduce the environmental footprint; But also to act in other areas, such as the control of air and noise pollution, citizen participation and smart tourism. In conclusion become a Smart City.

With the integration of new information and communication technologies into socio-economic, political and environmental-related plans, collaboration between cities and administrations is promoted. For this reason, the use of new systems of monitoring allows to know the energy expenditure, being able to focus efforts and finding out where to act. The Smart Spot, in addition to monitor the energy expenditure, favor the communication with the citizen, allowing the participation and generating other type of cultural and business opportunities.

Smart Spots are able to establish defined urban functions and promote the degree of participation among citizens, governments and the private sector. This contributes to ensuring informed participation to create shared knowledge for urban governance purposes and to provide a platform that provides a simple way to view evolution and interpret data.

In this way, technology has become a fundamental tool. And is that, thanks to it is possible to predict measure and control the energy consumption of all agents that are part of a Smart City.

In addition the Smart Spot is able to measure the noise level with the aim of creating more sustainable cities. Our auditory threshold ranges from 75db (A) to 125db (A), the noise pollution we are exposed to every day can cause serious health problems, such as hearing trauma, causing hearing loss; elevation of auditory threshold and other disorders not intimately related to the auditory system such as stress, insomnia, depressive symptoms, lack of concentration and effects on memory; Disorders that significantly affect our standard of living and are important to control. It is imperative to monitor the noise threshold of the atmosphere to focus actions and protect our health, optimizing resources and improving the standard of living of citizens.

These technological solutions make it possible to optimize energy consumption. Through the sensor network of Ubiquitous HOP we obtain the necessary information to realize calculations of the optimal consumption in each moment of the process of a Smart City. With this information the current situation is known, a history is built and it allows establishing predictive patterns with which to know the forecast of demand in the future, adapting the energy consumption and thus saving energy.

The main objective is to develop solutions that facilitate and reinforce the measures taken by the municipalities against climate change. That’s why we build applications that show real-time energy consumption and air and noise pollution. Looking for a more sustainable and technological growth.

HOP Ubiquitous is part of the specialized agency of the United Nations for information and communication technologies, ITU. The UN’s sustainability strategies fall within the Millennium Development Goals (SDG). The purpose of this project is to implement ICTs in a total of 17 goals in search of the sustainability of cities, the SDG plan goes from digitization of education, air quality sensitization, awareness of the inhabitants for the conservation of Ecosystems and air quality monitoring; Among many other sustainable measures for the digitization and implementation of ICTs by improving the quality of life of citizens. The ITU “is committed to connecting the entire world population – wherever it lives and whatever means it may have”

HOP Ubiquitous is completely committed to this social and economic change of the cities, so Antonio Jara (CEO HOP Ubiquitous) is an expert of the Focus Group on Data Processing and Management to support IoT and Smart Cities & Communities. Technology helps improve the quality of life of citizens both economically and socially. Betting on ICT is betting on health.

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HOP Ubiquitous - Smart Cities

Smart Cities are the issue on our agenda.

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The key parts of any Smart City are: citizen participation, smart tourism and monitoring towards sustainability.

Cities are complex systems in which different social and economic aspects intervene. Social changes have brought a transformation in the way of consumption and therefore in the way of organizations relation with public.

The rise of the Internet and more specifically the rise of social networks transformed the way in which relationships with publics are managed. (Manifesto Cluetrain) The market shifted from being one-way to becoming a conversation. A much more educated and informed public, which through ICT has access to infinite contents and knowledge.

Society demands more participative conversations, in which the companies are clear and care about the importance absolute transparency towards the audiences, both internal and external.

Co-creation is revolutionizing the way organizations relate to their audiences. But, how would it run to reach citizens effectively?

 

Smart Cities are the issue on our agenda.

It is extremely important that audiences feel heard and understood, and that their contributions do not fall on deaf ears. It is also essential that the collaboration tools are accessible, interesting, fun, dynamic and do not provoke boredom or disinterest of the public.

Within this business there are many companies that develop applications for co-creation or develop programs of citizen participation, but the biggest difficulty is to get really valid data.

It is essential for the survival of any city council to transmit a transparent image and provide an environment open to dialogue.

Most of these companies use data sources of their own creation, with a small part of the population; Others ,to ensure the participation of the public, offer gifts or discounts in exchange for that participation, but are those results really legitimate? To what extent do these answers correspond to the reality of the general needs? Are these answers really justified? All of these questions need to be thoroughly analyzed when implementing citizen participation programs, as these solutions create mutually beneficial ideas that can be used to a great extent. Because in the processes of co-creation the ideas of the public are fed by the organizations; generating a mutual collaboration between the two parties to achieve a more fruitful outcome for all.

Our co-creation tool, Siidi is a dynamic widget that uses new technologies to contextualize information and to invite to participation at the right time and place. Besides that, with the use of this tool the data will not be lost, as they are presented comfortably in a dashboard for its use.

This platform removes existing barriers between the organization and citizens, for example:

  1. It gets rid of institutional barriers that are rooted in extreme bureaucracy and complex structures, making participants easily accessible and involved in the management of the city.
  2. Eliminates problems related to the lack of economic and educational resources, everyone with access to a Smart Phone or Tablet can access the platform.
  3. The psychological barriers are eliminated, giving the citizen confidence in the process and in the measures taken by the organization at the level of local decision-making. Absolute transparency is provided to the process.
  4. It also eliminates problems related to civil engagement, since participation occurs comfortably from your own device anywhere in the city.

Siidi is fully automated; all the information collected is projected in comfortable graphs or sector diagrams, allowing a simple and reliable analysis. Siidi is managed remotely through a management platform; where you can change information whenever you want, it can be turned on or off, can give general communications, among many other features.

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Know Physical Web

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Just as the web has changed the way we see the world, we take it a step further. This new communication channel puts physical objects in contact with websites for users access through their Smart Phone.

This tool streamlines the way we communicate, allows us access for all, also contextualizes the information in the specific physical place, at the moment that user wishes.

 

 

 

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HOP Ubiquitous - Select 4 Cities

International Global Competition to join in Smart Cities cluster.

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Select 4 Cities - International Global Competition to join in Smart Cities cluster

 

Hop Ubiquitous, along with 9 other companies and consortiums, have been worldwide selected for the development of an IoE (Internet of Everything) project focused on the cities of Helsinki, Copenhagen and Antwerp.

Intelligent Cities are booming and there is an increasing in those who want to join the benefits of new technologies and IoE with the aim of improving citizens quality of life. It is time for three European cities: Helsinki, Copenhagen and Antwerp. They have decided to become Smart Cities and look for the organization which best knows how to focus on its needs.

However, as can be expected, the more market, the more competition. For that reason, Selec4cities has deployed an election system of worldwide companies to choose those that best fit to the needs of these cities. It is a competition which has 3 phases to find that company or consortium and to design fake rolex and develop an IoE platform for smart urban innovation. In the first phase, 57 organizations have been presented with 28 proposals ..

First call of this global competition has finished and 10 companies have been chosen; among them is HOP Ubiquitous that has presented its candidacy based on the platform of innovation “Homard”. It is an IoE platform able to manage Intelligent Cities remotely. Homard is part of a larger project called Harmonie which unite Homard, Fiware (it is an independent community, in which Hop Ubiquitous is a “gold member“, that is committed to “build an ecosystem of APIs and open source for the development of intelligent applications”) and other platforms. Homard is focused on three use cases: health, measuring air quality such as emission of gases, noise, temperature and humidity, energy consumption and mobility.

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Smart Destination Tourist in Ceutí.

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HOP Ubiquitous - Smart POIOur Smart Destination Tourist project in Ceutí is already underway and we are very excited! Tourism is a key element for the economy of any place, but it is also a sector which is changing constantly because of it needs keeping updated to meet the needs of the public. That’s why, is imperative to include new technologies in the tourist experience.

Intelligent tourism is the order of the day so both HOP Ubiquitous and the City of Ceutí are developing the Smart Destination Tourist project in Ceutí. This project will turn the town into an Intelligent Tourist Destination (DTI) equipped with the latest technologies. It will be deployed by the end of this year and it would consist of 16 smart interaction points. They will be very easy to use and all kind of users will be able to access content with their Smart Phones without installing any application.

To give a new and funny vision, citizens of Ceuti are expected to become local ambassadors through co-creating with content. We will begin with the youngest, the students of 4th, 5th, and 6th CEIP Diego Martinez Rico Ceutí. They will tell us the greatest secrets of their cultural heritage in the way they deem appropriate, from a theatrical performance, to an interview with their elders. You must remember that videos cannot last more than a minute and they should be recorded with grace, entertainment and history. We will see smart tourist points through the eyes of new generations, adding personality and emotion to the tourist experience.

 

How does it work?

Using this tool is simple and comfortable; and any user will have access to it through their personal Smart Phones. It is not necessary to download any native application, you just should be near a smart tourist spot which will be properly signposted. A notification will appear on your Smart Phone with an invitation to the web where all the content is located. Furthermore, Smart Destination Tourist will mark a route according to your preferences through a system of recommendations. Amazing! Isn’t it?

It promises to be a complete, fresh, funny and different tourist experience.

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