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One of the most innovative products that the QROWD project offers is that of the Virtual City Explorer (VCE). VCE is a crowdsourced solution for mobility infrastructure maps. Crowdsource users identify city features of interest, such as bike racks, and tag the information by adding photographs and answering some basic questions. This information is thenRead more

Giacomo Fioroni, Head of the Smart City Office of our QROWD partner, The Municipality of Trento, will deliver a talk at the Expo World Congress in Barcelona within the Solution talks: Digitalization of transport & amp, ITS. Giacomo’s talk will focus on the innovation brought about by the QROWD project in the computation of theRead more

We are pleased to announce QROWD’s webinar on November 6th from 12:00 to 13:00 as part of a series of webinars hosted by the BDVe project, related to technologies and business insights that show results of EU projects funded under topics related to the Big Data Value PPP (http://www.big-data-value.eu/). During the webinar, our coordinator, ElenaRead more

The third QROWDLab is taking place in the city of Trento from 9 to 19 October as one of the smart city project activities organized by the municipality. The laboratory is aimed at citizens who want to contribute to the collection of mobility data and involves the use of a special app, the i-Log, developedRead more

TrentoSmartCityLabs are a set of events dedicated to the dissemination of the smart services & mobile applications available for the citizens of Trento. The format is quite informal: members from the municipality literally go out around the city, both in the main streets and corners, and they talk to people and hand out informative flyers,Read more

On September 4th QROWD participated as a panelist in the workshop on IoT Open Data Access to advance mobility in European cities, organized by the EC, ERTICO and AIOTI in Brussels. Mr. Pearse O’Donohue, DG Connect Director for Future Networks, delivered the keynote speech, setting the ground for an active discussion among the workshop participants.Read more

Included following the scientific publications that acknowledge the QROWD project to September 2018, together with the links that allow access to them.Read more

Smart ticketing is not a new concept. Most people are aware of digital tickets such as Oyster and Navigo which emerged in the early 2000’s. However, e-ticketing has now reached a new milestone. Contactless bank cards now offer a comparable service, making transport easier to access than ever. This has, in recent years, become anRead more

The conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP2018) was recently held in Zurich, Switzerland. The conference is unique for its interdisciplinary focus, where themes range from Artificial Intelligence (AI), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), to crowdsourcing and digital humanities. At this conference QROWD were thrilled to present some of their original and insightful findings in smartRead more

Blockchain is a buzzword that has been thrown around enthusiastically for the previous year. Surprisingly, many people don’t seem to know how extensive its applications can be, or the extent of its potential in years to come. So, let’s take a look at what blockchain actually means, and understand how it relates to developments withRead more