Monthly Archives: January 2013

People Mobility Through Cities’ Eyes

THE VISIBLE CITIES This project consists in a system to use cameras to collect data and comprehend the metabolic dynamics on people’s movement and enhance geo-position tools. It aims to be implemented on Smart Citizen platform as an urban tool to identify the where amount of people, but also, to be as useful as an [...]

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Mapping more things to the Internet of Things!

Adding more options and functionalities to SmartCitizen will ensure its being used by a larger number of citizens. In addition to censored data, I am interested in enabling a layer of physical objects to the platform. I am proposing the use of RFID technology. Below are some examples of projects where we can use tagged [...]

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midterm presentation. Community layers

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Overview of existing IoT devices and platfroms

We collected our research in a minisite: http://www.iaac.net/iot-research/.

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Quick tutorial: displaying events in Barcelona on a map

In my search for easy to use mapping tools I decided to test CartoDB. This is a quick tutorial for importing this week’s event calendar from the City of Barcelona’s Open Data Portal into CartoDB. Here is the result: The data is in XML (which is not supported by CartoDB) and contains way too much [...]

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