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QROWD at the Smart City Expo World Congress Between November 19th and 21st, the Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) took place in Barcelona where more than 400 international in urban development, technology and mobility convened to share insights and learn best practices for a more sustainable urban world. This represents a new and excitingRead more

QROWD is a pioneering initiative exploiting the potential of cross-sectoral Big Data integration and analysis to improve transportation and mobility across European cities. It aims to make transport smarter by leveraging the human factor: smarter transport, smarter cities. To do this, QROWD and project partners – such as TomTom and ATOS – have together developedRead more

First accomplished demo of the Touristic Network app! A first draft of the Touristic Network app, developed in QROWD, was successfully presented during the Demo Day on the 8th of July in the TomTom’s office in Berlin. The Demo Day is a site-event organized every three months. At the beginning of the event, every prototype’sRead more

Since September 2018 the Municipality of Trento organized a series of informal meetings with its citizens in the main squares, high schools and in each neighborhood of the city. The “Trento Smart City Labs” are intended to illustrate the smart services that are or will be available in Trento and have successfully reached out toRead more

Feeling inspired? So are the QROWD project partners in their recent hackathon! Last October TomTom, one of the QROWD project partners, organised their biggest ever hackathon. “What the Hack” took place for the fourth year running in Berlin, and featured more than 500 participants. During the event, 39 competing challenges were designed to solve realRead more

Last month QROWD was delighted to be able to showcase our project at the Southampton Science and Engineering festival. Hosted at the University of Southampton, the event aims to engage with members of the public about a range of new projects, developments and innovation. With over 7,000 visitors exploring and experiencing the event, QROWD wereRead more

Clicking on the links below you can find recent publications supported by work done in the QROWD project, updated to March 2019.Read more

QROWD has released new deliverables, which can be consulted on Downloads page http://qrowd-project.trackglobe.es/downloads/ These are: 4 – i-Log http://qrowd-project.trackglobe.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/D2.4-iLog-1.pdf The mobile application and its deployment basis The i-Log is a mobile application that has been developed by the university of Trento to obtain information about citizens’ modal split by collecting their mobile data and askingRead 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

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