iNUIT – Internet of Things for Urban Innovation

This growth raises major challenges in relation to individual and public mobility, physical security of persons and infrastructures, resource and waste management, urban development and the life quality of citizens. The objective of this research program is to provide responses to these challenges based on the possibilities of the newest information and communication technologies.
From Smart Events to Smart Cities
Cities being extremely rich and complex spaces, the first phase of iNUIT is dedicated to Smart Events. Big events, such as music festivals, sport events or political summits provide many of the characteristics and challenges of entire cities, but concentrated in space and time.
In particular, transportation and mobility, physical security, resource and waste management, as well as the urban planning are city-related issues that present themselves on a smaller scale during big events and are therefore more easily observable and measurable.
The Internet of Things
The principal objective of this 3-year research program is to establish a technological «spine» of this new urban space, based on the paradigm of the Internet of Things (IoT). It equally aims at advancing the state of the art of this technology, which still raises many challenges. Most importantly, it is the issues related to security, trust and privacy must be taken into consideration. The goal is to find equilibrium between the need to provide useful information to decision-makers and citizens and the minimization of the intrusion in the private life of individuals.
Goals
Vision de la période 2007-2020
CrowdVision
This project aims to provide information regarding the movement and behaviour of crowds present at large events such as concerts, open markets, etc. Using this information, the organizers of such...ArchSensor
The objective of this project is to propose a generic hardware and software platform aimed at monitoring the environment thanks to mobile and distributed heterogeneous sensors.NetCrowd
The goal of this project is to develop the IoT networking infrastructure for crowd monitoring. It thus constitutes one of the essential building blocks in the iNUIT architecture. The project is...IoTSec
Security is an essential element for wide adoption of IoT and its applications. Currently, security for IoT is fragmented, lacking a more general and systematic approach. The main goal of this...SmartCrowd
The SmartCrowd project aims at monitoring crowds’ movements in real time using data collected from the smartphones’ sensors (e.g., GPS, accelerometers, etc.). The goal is to recognize and predict...CITaTiON
The goal of this project is to design and implement cloud computing middleware to collect, store and process data coming in from various types of physical and logical sensors: cameras, Facebook,...
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