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This year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC2018), which took place in the city of Barcelona, featured more than 2,400 companies that showcased products and services at the cutting edge of innovation. Key areas, such as 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), content and media, policy and regulation, and blockchain, focused the activity over theRead more

Smart cities are on the rise globally, with estimations of urban populations set to rise to 5.2 billion by 2050. Smart cities therefore evolve in a number of key areas to improve the quality of life for their inhabitants. Environment, safety, utilities, buildings and transportation all contribute to the level of smartness a city canRead more

Smart cities are made up of many different components. Data, technology, digital expertise, and innovative solutions all work together to produce services and an ecosystem that improve the lives of individuals. But, ultimately, cities are social constructions and so the communities living in them have the power to shape the ecosystem. As social constructs doRead more

QROWD is an EU funded project that delivers big data integration, human-driven solutions and innovative transport solutions for smart cities and smart mobility. Recent advances in data-sharing, smartphones, 4G connectivity, GPS and the Internet of Things (IoT) have led to an explosion of ‘intelligent mobility’, an industry that is predicted to be worth £900bn perRead more

The QROWD project offers local government and transportation businesses innovative solutions to improve mobility, reduce traffic congestion and make navigation safer and more efficient. To achieve this, QROWD integrates different sources of data to maximise the value of “Big Data” in planning and managing urban traffic and mobility. The project works with a range ofRead more

Tomás Pariente Lobo, Head of the Data Intelligence Lab at Atos Research & Innovation, presented QROWD in the networking session on Data Sharing and Data Integration, organized by the BDVA and the Data Pitch project.Read more

Last week the QROWD team met Prof. Alessandro Bozzon from Delft University of Technology, to learn about his experiences in using crowdsourcing in smart city contexts.Read more

Our partner Trento has been ranked as the first smart medium size city in Italy in 2017. Trento ranks fifth among Italian metropolitan cities, according to the official national smart city ranking announced within the iCityLab2017.Read more

Our partner Comune di Trento participated in Fa la cosa giusta fair presenting the Trento Smart City project as a means to improve the services offered to citizens and firms, and introduced QROWD as an example of innovation to improve the citizens’ quality of life.Read more

http://www.comune.trento.it/Aree-tematiche/Smart-city/News/Concorso-di-idee-per-nuovi-servizi-digitali-utili-a-migliorare-i-servizi-di-trasporto-e-mobilita-a-Trento-progetto-Qrowd http://www.comune.trento.it/Aree-tematiche/Smart-city/News/Concorso-di-idee-per-nuovi-servizi-digitali-utili-a-migliorare-i-servizi-di-trasporto-e-mobilita-a-Trento-progetto-Qrowd The ideas competition is organised by the Municipality of Trento with the aim to incentivize a continuous engagement of citizens and stakeholders in the various activities, as a first step towards delivering new digitalized transportation and mobility services and enhancing the quality of those already available.Read more