Multi-layered Approach to Public Asset Utilization in Smart Cities

There is a wide range of assets in urban environments: public spaces, buildings, concentrations of demography, utilities, history, movement of people and objects and so on. These assets carry significant value for all those interacting with them but the nature and manifestation of the value depends on the context and the use case.

The nature of value associated with the same asset depends on the nature of the interaction: occupancy for a realtor, history for a tourist, compliance for the Code Enforcement employee and so on – all built around the same digital twin of the host city.

Following proper authorization, head mounted displays or handheld devices can unlock the value contained in an asset, guiding and enhancing the interactions of a user with a city and its inhabitants.

This research topic also includes architecting a multipurpose Digital Twin of a set of assets, associating them with various layers of value and examining modalities of consumption from a human factors perspective.

Stakeholders

Elected and professional urban leaders: Mayors, CIOs and CISOs of urban infrastructure, Independent Software Vendors, geospatial infrastructure providers, points of interest publishers

Possible Methodologies

This research will require scanning and associating data with urban assets and developing methodologies to test different use cases and scenarios. User satisfaction and productivity studies in field trials will contribute to development of best practices for specific industries.

Research Program

This topic is a good fit with most topics focused on Smart Cities and long-range outdoor positioning.

Miscellaneous Notes

The UN has published reports about urbanization and the challenges it raises for those managing urban data.

Keywords

Public asset management, public services, scanning, smart cities, urbanization, intelligent buildings, urban growth, town and country planning, urban planning, digital twin, smart cities, street lighting

Research Agenda Categories

Technology, Business

Expected Impact Timeframe

Long

Related Publications

Using the words in this topic description and Natural Language Processing analysis of publications in the AREA FindAR database, the references below have the highest number of matches with this topic:

• Chen, K., Gonsalves, K., Guaralda, M., Turkay, S., & Kerr, J. (2019). Towards a Typology for Playable Digital Interventions in Urban Public. 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct).
• Innocent, T. (2018). Play about Place. Proceedings of the 4th Media Architecture Biennale Conference.
• Lee, L.-H. (2020). Invited Talk: Emerging Role of Digital Assistant in Augmented Reality Driven Human-City Interaction. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops).
• Nijholt, A. (2017). Humans as Avatars in Smart and Playable Cities. 2017 International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW).
• Zhang, L., Chen, S., Dong, H., & El Saddik, A. (2018). Visualizing Toronto City Data with HoloLens: Using Augmented Reality for a City Model. IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 7(3), 73-80.

More publications can be explored using the AREA FindAR research tool.

Author

Peter Orban

Last Published (yyyy-mm-dd)

2021-08-31

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