BigClouT Big data meeting Cloud and IoT for empowering the citizen clout in smart cities

EU-JAPAN COLLABORATION FOR BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATIONS IN SMART CITIES

Urban Technology Alliance offering European and Japanese Smart City Testbeds

The first objective of this webinar is to present the Urban Technology Alliance (UTA), a global alliance of smart city testbeds involving European and Japanaese cities and technological stakeholders. In addition, this webinar will be an opportunity to give a presentation of some of the ongoing smart city experiments within the UTA city testbeds. 

The webinar is targeted to EU companies and organisations seeking a testing environment for their IoT and smart city related solutions.

Registration deadline: 25/02/2019

In 40 minutes from your desk, discover:

• What the Urban Technology is about and how to be part of it
• What are the smart city deployment project examples in Europe and in Japan
• What are the reusable assets from those projects 

Programme:

• Introduction
• Expert’s presentation
• Q&A Session
• Conclusion

Speakers: 

Dr Levent Gurgen, R&D Project Manager at Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA): Dr. Levent GURGEN is R&D project manager in CEA-LETI. He has been involved in several EU-Japan collaborative projects on IoT and smart cities such as ClouT (http://clout-project.eu/), FESTIVAL (http://www.festival-project.eu/) and M-SEC (https://www.msecproject.eu/) projects. He is currently coordinating the EU-Japan BigClouT project (http://bigclout.eu/) on smart cities. He is also coordinating the building phase of the Urban Technology Alliance, an international association aiming at building a global network of city scale testbeds for validating smart city solutions.
Dr. Jin Nakazawa, associate professor in Keio University: Dr Nakazawa is currently working on 2 European-Japanese collaborative projects on Internet of Things. He leads a broad range of research aiming at making cities smarter with the power of information. His lab in Keio aims at building a large-scale sensing system, a data dissemination platform, intelligent data analysis techniques, and a number of applied system including health, environment, traffic, and wellbeing.

Organiser: EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation - Brussels Office 

Please go to the EU Business in Japan website, to register for this webinar.

If you are already a member of the EU Business in Japan website, please log in and then go to the webinar link - If you are not yet a member, you will first have to register as a member via:http://www.eubusinessinjapan.eu/user/register and then when your registration request is confirmed, please log in and go to the 'Events' section of the website and register to the webinar.

Launch of Urban Technology Alliance

UTA provides a worldwide testing environment for your smart city solutions, neutral smart city guidance and networking opportunities with cities in Europe, Asia and North America.

NTT R&D Forum 2018 Autumn

The forum contributes through lectures and exhibits that detail NTT R&D latest achievements in a straightforward, easy-to-understand way.

UrbIoT

Urban spaces are man-made microcosms where a number of entities interact with each other to offer citizens a variety of services, for instance, buildings and infrastructure, transportation, utility, public safety, healthcare or education. The interplay between this multitude of connecting entities creates a complex system with dynamic human, material, and digital flows. By 2050 the world’s urban population is expected to grow by 72%. This steep growth creates an unprecedented urge for understanding cities to enable planning for the future societal, economic and environmental well-being of their citizens. The increasing deployments of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and the rise of the so-called‚ Sensored Cities‚ are opening up new avenues of research opportunities towards that future. Although, there have been a number of deployments of diverse IoT systems in the urban space, our understanding of these systems and their implications has just scratched the surface.

The Urb-IoT conference aims to explore these dynamics within the scope of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the new science of cities. Urb-IoT 2018 is the 3rd edition of this conference, after two successful events in Rome (2014) and Tokyo (2016). In 2018, UrbIoT is a co-located conference to Smart City Summit 360°, providing even more opportunities for networking and exchange of novel ideas on smart cities.

Third International Workshop on Software Engineering for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems

As the Internet of Things becomes part of our every day lives, forming a complex system that spans across digital, physical and social boundaries, there are significant challenges to engineering the software that forms the core of these cyber-physical-social systems. These include:

• Dynamic composition and evolution of systems of systems

• Ensuring security, privacy and trust

• Enabling M2M, M2P and P2P collaboration (M=machine; P=person)

• Knowledge representation and reasoning techniques

• Human factors relating to the design, construction and use of CPSSs

• Transparency engineering for CPSSs

• CPSSs for Smart-City/Home/Building

• Dependable Machine-learning based Systems

• Adaptive systems

• Analytical methods for design and construction of CPSSs

The workshop brings together a community of software engineers whose work relates to the above challenges, with the aim of exploring potential research directions and collaborations.

Smart city Expo in Barcelona

Since 2011, Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) has been an unmissable event combining the latest solutions and technologies, and inspirational keynotes on improving life in cities. In 2018, the event intends to reflect on what makes a city livable, what happens when "gentrification" changes the whole social character of a neighborhood, and how sharing can transform the way it operates so that it can become more sustainable, resilient, inclusive and, of course, smarter with a focus on people.

http://www.smartcityexpo.com/en/the-event/about-2018-edition

High Level Forum In Grenoble

An international Forum devoted to  » Leading Innovation Ecosystems  » and  managed by the Grenoble Innovation Campus GIANT (Grenoble Innovation for Advanced New Technologies)

The High Level Forum was initiated in 2012 by CEA Tech which is the Technology Research Unit of  CEA (the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission)  and is now managed by the Innovation Campus GIANT of Grenoble (France).

This annual event is attended by an international community of High Level Executives – Decision and Policy makers, all deeply engaged in the management or promotion of Innovation, from the worlds of  education, research, industry, business and public authorities.

Since its birth, the High Level Forum has got the participation of 32 campuses from around the world (Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Middle-East)  which are internationally recognized as leaders in Innovation; it has now earned an increasing recognition as a truly remarkable international event devoted to Innovation

The main objectives of the High level Forum are  :

• To share policies, strategies and experiences about innovation management and promotion between leading campuses
• To encourage and strengthen collaboration between the world’s most powerful innovation ecosystems
• To develop common initiatives for maximizing the social and economic benefits of the innovation programs from the participating campuses

http://hlf-giant-grenoble.org/

IEEE SCI (Smart City Innovation)

The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Smart City Innovations (IEEE SCI 2018) will include a highly selective program of technical papers, accompanied by workshops, demos, panel discussions and keynote speeches. We welcome high quality papers that describe original and unpublished research addressing the real issues, challenges and needs in building smart cities for now and future. The IEEE SCI 2018 focuses on Smart City Services and Infrastructures.

http://www.smart-world.org/2018/sci/

Smart city projects in Shiyogama city

Smart City Summit in Taipei

The Taipei Smart City Summit & Expo is an annual B2B oriented exhibition that is focused on one-stop IoT solutions tailored to the needs of the client. It is the most comprehensive IoT and smart city trade show in the Asia-Pacific, and also one that is strategically located in a hi-tech environment with a history of contributions in the world of technology.

https://www.roc-taiwan.org/be_en/post/5086.html

IoT Asia 2018

For the past 4 years, IoT Asia has been at the forefront of bringing global collaboration and partnership opportunities to governments, businesses and communities in Asia. IoT Asia is an award winning stage that brings together technology heads, design architects, solution architects, engineers, academic institutions, investors and start-ups to assess the latest trends and partnership models in Asia.

http://www.internetofthingsasia.com/

IEICE SIG-SC in Tokyo

The 80th National Convention of IPSJ

http://www.ipsj.or.jp/event/taikai/80/index.html

User Interfaces for Spatial and Temporal Data Analysis (UISTDA 2018)

This workshop aims at sharing latest progress and developments, current challenges and potential applications for exploiting large amounts of spatial and temporal data. One practical application example to mention are specialized route navigation and suggestion systems for pedestrians, cyclists, tourists, or minorities such as elder people, pregnant, disabled people, etc. To generate route suggestions and explore potential suggested routes users need effective systems and user interfaces.

http://sociocom.jp/~event/uistda2018/

10th International Joint NII-LIP6 Workshop  on Multi-Agent and Distributed Systems 

This year's focused topics are self-adaptation and smart cities. Invited speakers will also present current trends in related multi-agent and distributed systems domains.

http://www-desir.lip6.fr/~sma-site/workshopNii/workshopNii2018/index.html

Eclipse IoT Days Grenoble

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_IoT_Day_Grenoble_2018

IEEE Big Data 2017 Workshop on “First International Workshop on Big Data in Smart Cities and Smart Buildings (BDSmart) -Technologies, Management and Quality-”

This workshop aims to provide a platform for discussing approaches, models, results and case studies or experience reports addressing a broad range of issues related to Big Data in Smart Cities and Smart Buildings. Although this workshop can only provide a first platform for discussions and propositions, it can build a foundation for further empirical research to understand Big Data quality and its implications for Smart Cities and Smart Buildings.

hub:raum IoT Academy Athens

ICCS represented by Dr. Antonis Litke and George Palaiokrassas, demonstrated BigClouT project, its results and achievements in hub:raum IoT Academy Athens.

It was an event organized by hub:raum (the incubator of Deutsche Telekom) and supported by Cosmote, organized in Athens in OTEAcademy on 23th of November 2017. It’s goal was to bring together IoT companies, startups, universities, students, hardware geeks and every IoT creator to share knowledge, experience and visions about technological and business opportunities of the Internet of Things.

More than 450 participants could find answers to difficult questions, which startups and IoT companies have faced, get informed of difficulties, problems and challenges in the field of IoT (development, production, sales, scaling etc.) and how companies, startup and universities dealt with them. Representatives from Technical Universities, City Councils, and other important Partners spoke about their experiences in supporting the development of the Internet of Things in their countries through various programs and other activities.

BigClouT booth attracted the interest of more than 20 people mainly from the greek ΙοΤ industry. ICCS team had the chance to talk with many stakeholders in the IoT area and has hold short demonstrations on the project results achieved so far. Dissemination material has been spread and many visitors enjoyed the BigClouT comic book (more than 20 comic books have been given out).

Additional information and the program of the event as well could be found here: www.iotathens.splashthat.com

Smart City Expo

Smart City Expo World Congress is committed to leveraging the implementation and follow-up of all global agendas at local and national level. The event aims to be the place to collectivize urban power, to increase the strength of cities, to identify business opportunities, to establish partnerships and contribute to enacting common policies. A place to share research, best practices and potential common solutions, achieved through effective collaboration.

As the leading event for cities, It gives to cities a powerful global voice as well as an innovative platform for common urban action. The event is the meeting point for governments, companies, entrepreneurs and research centers, where cities meet other cities, showcase their projects and find new solutions, and where companies make business. It has turned out to be an exceptional networking platform to connect people working in and with cities around the world who are tackling similar challenges and generating opportunities for action.

Mt. Tsukuba Momiji Festival

The HukuRepo smartphone application was available for the Mt. Tsukuba Momiji Festival. The application collects the problems of foreign visitors to Tsukuba to help solve the city's problems.

44th Fujisawa citizen Festival

The Lokemon-Location Monster smartphone application was available for the 44th Fujisawa citizen Festival. The application allows the gathering of real-time information on the city from citizens.

EclipseCon Europe

EclipseCon Europe is designed to create opportunities for the Eclipse community to learn, explore, share, and collaborate on the latest ideas and information about Eclipse and its member companies.

EU-Japan cooperation (panel at CEATEC 2017)

CEATEC JAPAN looks to a future society suffused with information, ushering in a new industrial revolution driven by data. This international event brings together the people, the ideas and the technologies that will realize this future. Visitors will benefit from new business opportunities and exchange information on the latest trends and developments. CEATEC JAPAN offers innovative new solutions to the issues facing society, contributing to progress at the community level and to improved lifestyles at the individual level.

Global City Teams Challenge

The Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) program is a collaborative platform for the development of smart cities and communities, led by National Institute of Standards and Technology, a bureau of U.S. Department of Commerce, in partnership with other U.S. federal agencies including National Science Foundation, International Trade Administration, and National Telecommunications and Information Administration. It enables local governments, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, technologists, and corporations from all over the world to form project teams, or “action clusters,” and “SuperClusters,” to work on groundbreaking Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) applications within the city and community environment.

High Performance Services Computing and Internet Technologies (SerCo 2017) In conjunction with the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017)

This workshop invites research communities from a diverse set of scientific areas such as cloud, distributed, parallel and high-performance computing to publish their work and share opinions about applications, challenges and viable solutions to the potential new systems emerging from the need to deal with data intensive application tasks within a SOA framework. 
 

The 2nd International Workshop on Models@run.time for Self-aware Computing Systems in conjunction with ICAC2017

The workshop take place on July 17-21 at ICAC 2017, Columbus, Ohio, USA. It focuses on the self-aware computing systems as an area of application for models@run.time. 

2017 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017)

Georgios Palaiokrassas is presenting ICCS work related to BigClouT at “The 2017 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017)”. HPCS took place on 17-21 July 2017 in Genoa, Italy. ICCS presented the paper entitled “Recommendation service for big data applications in smart cities” and a demo about a recommendation service based on graph databases which is applied in the context of smart cities and leverages the potential of big data.

4th IEEE International COMPSAC Workshop on Big Data Management for the Internet of Things

The goal of this workshop is to share and discuss the most advanced researches and development studies in the area of "Big Data Management for the Internet of Things." The workshop gathers researchers, engineers and practitioners from academia and industry who are working in this research domain. It focuses on new technical proposals and practical experiences with widely sharing the research issues that we must solve in this research domain.

EclipseCon France

EclipseCon France is all about community. Contributors, adopters, extenders, service providers, consumers, business people, and researchers gather to share their expertise and learn from each other. EclipseCon provides networking that lead to synergies in the community and opportunities to give and receive help on specific technical issues as well as business opportunities.

The 2017 conference program includes technical sessions on current topics pertinent to the Eclipse developer and the Eclipse Working Group communities, such as Modeling, Embedded Systems, Data Analytics and Data Science, Internet of Things, DevOps, and more, as well as sessions that demonstrate Eclipse-based tools in action.

IoT Week 2017 hackathon

Discover sensinact , a BigClouT asset, at the IoT Week 2017 hackathon.

IoT week

The IoT Week gives the floor to high level speakers on IoT-related hot topics. The event presents the latest developments and trends in IoT research and innovation by highlighting emerging technologies, solutions and trends in the IoT landscape and societal challenges (such as personal data protection and end-user adoption).

6th Asian Workshop on Advanced Software Engineering (AWASE17)

AWASE aims at providing a forum for researchers and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, advances, experience and concerns in the generative approach to software development, as well as to promote the interaction between participators.

Bigclout will be at IoT Asia 2017!

IoT Asia provide insights for 4,500 attendees across the entire IoT value chain, addressing the interests of technology solution providers and enablers as well as end-user and potential IoT technology adopters across multiple industries.

BigClouT at the French-Japanese Innovation Year Forum in Osaka

On the 6th and 7th December 2016, Osaka will welcome the French-Japanese Innovation Year Forum for 2 days of exhibitions and seminars.

The French and Japanese territories will be highlighted as innovation boost throughout the presence of companies and local authorities in the developpement of local ecosystems. Will be present several french local authorities as well as companies, researchers, clusters, start-ups and japanese big companies. This Forum aims at strengthening the big potential of the french-japanese parntership.

For this occassion, BigClouT will be represented by the CEA and Grenoble Alpes Métropoles for the EU side.

Smart City Expo - Barcelona - 17-19 November 2016

CEA-Leti and Grenoble-Alpes Métropole BigClouT partners will have a common booth in Smart City Expo 2016, November 15-17, Barcelona, including SMEs associations from Grenoble area.

Eclipsecon Europe 2016, OSGi for European and Japanese Smart Cities

CEA attends the conference held in Germany on 25th to 27th October 2017.

To learn more about EclipseCon Europe:

EclipseCon is all about community. Contributors, adopters, extenders, service providers, consumers and business and research organizations gather to share their expertise and learn from each other. EclipseCon delivers networking opportunities that lead to synergies in the community, as well as opportunities to give and receive help on specific technical issues or to generate business opportunities. https://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2016/event/619

BigClouT & IoT Planet 2016 in Grenoble

BigClouT was represented thanks to the participation of our BigClouT partners CEA & Grenoble Alpes Métropole in the IoT Planet  Trade Show 2016 held in Grenoble the 25th to 27th October 2016.  The IoT planet Trade Show provides all IoT actors with a platform for networking and business. Co-location with Semicon Europa is a unique opportunity to visit and meet the full electronic value chain. 3 full days of exhibitions and forum for professionals and consumers; more than 7000 visitors expected !

IoT Planet attracts media representatives from major publications around the world !

For more information: http://www.iot-planet.org/

IoT Week 2016 in Korea

BigClouT project members participated in the IoT Week in Korea.

More information here: http://www.iotweek.kr/2016/eng/main.asp

"To experience various IoT companies’ product/services, as IoT is a core technology for Intelligence Information Society and Industry 4.0, and for the purpose of business promotion with consumers and market opening, IoT Week Korea will be held from October 10 to 14, with a total of 12 events. "

EU-Japan R&D symposium on topics for the 4th EU-JP coordinated call

NTTE (BigClouT Japanese coordinator) presented BigClouT and participated in the workshop to discuss next topics for the H2020 ICT Work programme calls for EU-Japan coordinated calls.

ClouT project end - BigClouT project starts !

ClouT project (April 1st 2013 - June 30th 2016) had been jointly funded by the European Commission and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan.

• ClouT, which stands for Cloud of Things, offers a virtualization framework to provide a uniform way of representing various city data sources such as IoT devices, legacy devices, social networks, mobile applications and World Wide Web. ClouT platform allows secure access to real-time data as well as historical data with easy-to use tools targeting municipalities, citizens, service developers and application integrators to create, deploy and manage smart city applications.
• The project has developed several smart city applications using the developed platform and tools and deployed them in 4 pilot cities of the project: Santander, Genova, Fujisawa and Mitaka. Applications such as environmental monitoring, context aware coupons,  city dashboards, citizen safety and elderly care social networks have been validated via field trials involving real end-users.

BigClouT proposal has been selected among the 13 proposal received for H2020 EUJ-02-2016 call. The BigClouT project started officially on 1st July 2016 and will leverage ClouT project results.