Entrepreneurship Strategies and Business Opportunities in Future Cities - Daniel Moura

Future Cities Project

João Barros, 27th of January 2014 Daniel Moura| September, 2015

1. Form inter-disciplinary teams

2. Build world-class city-scale testbeds

3. Work closely with end users from day one

4. Share data

5. Work with Industry Partners

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Companies

Institutional Support

6. Bring the results out to the world.

Success Equation

Research Question

Business Case

User Benefit

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Will

Researchers

Companies

End Users

Authorities

Cloud

Connected Vehicles

Experimental testbed deployed in

Porto, Portugal

465 taxi cabs with GPS computers

3G connection to the central

IEEE 802.11p connection between

vehicles

Connected Vehicles

402 buses (86% of the fleet)

GPS

3G + Wi-Fi + IEEE 802.11p

> 70 Road Side Units (RSUs)

Connected to the internet

Connected Vehicles

Startups

• Veniam

– Vehicular comm

– Wi-Fi in vehicles

– Data collection

• Geolink

– Operations Optimisation of Fleets

Connected Buses

Bus Net: free WiFi

• July’s stats

– 228K sessions

– 52K users

– 2.6 TB

– 42K hours

Mobility Analysis

Mobility Analysis

Before

After

Mobility Analysis

WiFi & Mobility

Passenger Flow

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Passenger Flow

Sensing the City

Meteorology

Air quality

Noise

Trash

Pedestrian

Density

Deployments

Covered

zones – Industrial

– Park

– Traffic

– Touristic

– Waterside

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Garbage

67% of the containers are more than 10 consecutive seconds per day within 50 meters range of a bus

Water meters

53% of the meters are more than 10 consecutive seconds per day within 50 meters range of a bus

SenseMyCity

813 electronic devices with

sensing and communication capability

YEAR 1 Recruit team Build Ecosystem

Acquire equipment Deploy testbed

Cloud

A €2.3m investment in Porto Living Lab

Largest Vehicular Network in the World

SenseMyCity App is in the hands of the end users. Algorithms Mobility pattern Route similarity Fuel consumption Wi-Fi coverage

700+ end users

Promoting university collaboration

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Promoting university collaboration

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Transforming research into products

Building bridges for the future

Business Interests

Research Interests

Political Interests

User Interests

Porto – Our Living Lab for Future Cities