title: Co-Creating the Cities of the Future.
abstract: In recent years, the evolution of urban environments, jointly with the progress of the Information and Communication sector, have enabled the rapid adoption of new solutions that contribute to the growth in popularity of Smart Cities. Currently, the majority of the world population lives in cities encouraging different stakeholders within these innovative ecosystems to seek new solutions guaranteeing the sustainability and efficiency of such complex environments. In this work, it is discussed how the experimentation with IoT technologies and other data sources form the cities can be utilized to co-create in the OrganiCity project, where key actors like citizens, researchers and other stakeholders shape smart city services and applications in a collaborative fashion. Furthermore, a novel architecture is proposed that enables this organic growth of the future cities, facilitating the experimentation that tailors the adoption of new technologies and services for a better quality of life, as well as agile and dynamic mechanisms for managing cities. In this work, the different components and enablers of the OrganiCity platform are presented and discussed in detail and include, among others, a portal to manage the experiment life cycle, an Urban Data Observatory to explore data assets, and an annotations component to indicate quality of data, with a particular focus on the city-scale opportunistic data collection service operating as an alternative to traditional communications.
authors.affiliation: Communications Department, University of Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain. veronica@tlmat.unican.es.
authors.forename: Verónica
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez
authors.affiliation: INTEL Labs Europe, London SW7 2AZ, UK. evangelos.theodoridis@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Evangelos
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Theodoridis
authors.affiliation: Computer Technology Institute and Press, "Diophantus", Patras 26504, Greece. mylonasg@cti.gr.
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mylonas
authors.affiliation: Department Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. fengrui.shi14@imperial.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Fengrui
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: INTEL Labs Europe, London SW7 2AZ, UK. evangelos.theodoridis@intel.com.
authors.forename: Usman
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Adeel
authors.affiliation: Communications Department, University of Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain. ldiez@tlmat.unican.es.
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Diez
authors.affiliation: Computer Technology Institute and Press, "Diophantus", Patras 26504, Greece. amaxilat@cti.gr.
authors.forename: Dimitrios
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Amaxilatis
authors.affiliation: Communications Department, University of Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain. jchoque@tlmat.unican.es.
authors.forename: Johnny
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Choque
authors.affiliation: Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), Barcelona 08005, Spain. guillem@iaac.net.
authors.forename: Guillem
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Camprodom
authors.affiliation: Department Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. jamm@imperial.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McCann
authors.affiliation: Communications Department, University of Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain. luis@tlmat.unican.es.
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Muñoz
keywords: IoT; OrganiCity; co-creation; data observatory; experimentation; opportunistic communications; platform; smart cities; social innovation; tools