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i-City, testing ground for a
wireless society
testing ground for a wireless society
i-City is the largest research lab for mobile
applications in the world
Together with users, different companies are building mobile applications for the future. IT-companies as well as others.i-City is the largest testing ground for mobile applications in the world. i-City turns Hasselt and Leuven into one big lab. By doing this, i-City can already develop the applications of tomorrow on a large scale, and test them in lifelike situations.
aim mobile internet platform
Maintain broadband leading position
Test platform for mobile applications
Allow non-PC users to consume internet based services
Service roaming: operator independent availability of service
Incubator function for new companies
Attract competence centres to Flanders
examples from a mobile future
VoIP. i-City’s telephony platform provides a unique mobile VoIP service. Your PDA is allocated a telephone number and can be reached from throughout the world.
Parking application. Look for vacant parking places via your handheld. Once you’ve found a place, you can reserve it too .
Heart monitoring. Medical equipment, linked to a handheld or PDA, ensures that heart patients are monitored constantly while at the same time remaining mobile. If a heart patient becomes ill, the PDA automatically warns the hospital.
Crèche. Using these applications parents can take a peek at their baby or toddler in the day nursery. Their loved ones appear on the PDA’s screen via the webcam.
the i-City components
components of the living lab
Infrastructure: hotspots
Software platform
Testusers and mobile devices
infrastructure: hotspots
Area: Hasselt and Leuven
Aim: Complete city covered by public wireless high-speed Internet
Timing:
2006: 300 Access Points per City aiming to reach 80% of its inhabitants/visitors
2008: a full 100% wireless coverage
Rollout
Hasselt 2005-2006
Leuven 2006
The user decides what information he wants
i-City is a trusted party making a secure walled garden in an insecure internet
i-City guarantees the users’ privacy
Access to
users
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Location retrieval
User P
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Perso
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Permission based
End-User services
Me-centric
profileØ retrieve user location
Ø add / delete user profile
Ø manage subscriptions
Ø accept payments
Ø storage service for
application data
Ø preferences of user
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Uniform Look & Feel User defined portal layout
Presentation Layer
software platform
CSP platform: built in services
Online TV IM Mobile Blogging LBS Photo Album
Mail Local News Forums Info VoIP
test users
Various usergroups are defined
– 4.000 citizens with wireless PDA/XDA/smartphone to be allocated
– 4.200 students with wireless laptops active
-, - and - userprograms
– -users: 120 actively collaborating tech-savvy users
– -users: 4.000 users with sponsored device
– -users: enthusiastic users with own device
mobile devices
Pocket PC = your office in your pocket
Consumers don’t need an office,they don’t want to sync with a PC
PDA needs to become a connecteddevice like a mobile: turn it on, itworks
Naked PDA is too difficult to turninto a fun and useful tool
i-City bridges the gap with an ownRuntime Environment (Mercator)
founding members
member structure
The strength of i-City lies in its members:
Cross-fertilisation
Knowledge access
Members of i-City can Realise ideas for mobile applications
Test ideas for mobile applications
Step in at different levels and membership categories
Be part of the different i-City advisory bodies
Take part in a wide range of ‘wireless’-oriented activities
advisory board
6 (co-)founding members + all BoardMembers + 4 diamond partners + 8 platinum partners + honorary members
High level: Nominative representation
Expert backbone
Tasks Formally ratify decisions and ideas of workgroups
Advice on government policies
Touchstone on mobile data communication
4 plenary advisory boardmeetings / year
Start 2006
Advisory Board
Food &Retail
Leisure & Tourism
Education Mobility Healthcare e-GovFinance& Legal
Network& Security
Research
ReportsResearch
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Advisory Board
Food &
Retail
Leisure &
TourismEducation Mobility Healthcare e-Gov
Finance
& Legal
Network
& Security
Research
ReportsResearch
Reports
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work groups
8 workgroups with different angle
In touch with the needs for wireless applications
Companies, organisations, alphas, academics and other organisations take part
Participate in inventing and optimising mobile applications, ideas and services
Bottom-up information from a user point-of-view, that can lead to concrete applications
Food &
Retail
Leisure &
TourismEducation Mobility Healthcare e-Gov
Finance
& Legal
Network
& Security
Input Output
Non-Members & Members:Outer sectors
i-City + academics+
specialists
Part 2:
product development
Process
Bridge
between in-
and output
Facilitate
execution
of ideas
Part 1:
obtain ideas
Members
alpha profile
People
with ideas about wireless applications
who see the advantage of a wireless city
who do not only dream ideas, but realise them
with an ICT background who see the wireless future…
… or people who don’t know much about software, but from their background have ideas for wireless city projects
Strong selection process
Campaign to stimulate innovation
1.500 candidates, out of which >100 selected
Inactive members regularly removed
alpha organisation
alpha process
Alfa Workgroups
knowledge
Research, knowledge and know-how are vital for i-City:
Knowledge needs to be shared (cluster)
Knowledge needs to be accumulated (research)
Knowledge needs to be made concrete (spin offs)
Knowledge needs to be put across (education)
academic world
Embedding of knowledge through
the development of a Master after Master at the university
a strategic collaboration with the innovationcentre of the GOM (IWT) and the ICT-fund LRM
involving universities (KUL, VUB, UG, UH) and colleges (PHL, Xios, …), also through joint projects, and research institutes (IBBT, IWT, IMEC, FMV, EDM, …)
Brokerage in March 2006 together with IBBT
the i-City organisation
2001 2002 2003 2004
09/01: laptopproject Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg (PHL)
10/01: Sinfilo makes PHL wireless
02/02: Sinfilo gets help from Siemens
Telenet takes over Sinfilo: 10/03
03/02: Hasselt interested in wireless
09/02: Voka introduces Hasselt on Microsoft conf. Rome
05/02: Grote Markt Hasselt wireless
Felmish Goverment approves support: 06/04
IBBT gets to know i-City: 01-02/04
Start Consortium: + Fujitsu Siemens + Concentra: 12/03
Founding non profit ass. i-City: 07/04
Start development: 10/04
i-City history